At this moment, even though his Bloodline Evolution Level had fully unlocked, it didn’t push Wang Wu’s life tier straight to the top. It could have, in theory—but clearly, his current Bloodline Evolution Level was still far from enough.

So all it could show for now was an absurdly vigorous Life Force—the so‑called super tonic...

This was also why earlier, when he let the Vast Sea Cold Qi Ice Seal him, Wang Wu hadn’t been particularly worried. Even if they really burned through his ten billion Life Value, he still wouldn’t die on the spot; his Life Evolution Level would jump out to be overdrawn instead. As long as he still had enough Spiritual Qi on hand, it would be anyone’s guess who’d be the final victor.

Including right now, he could also use his Life Evolution Level to resist the Vast Sea Cold Qi and refresh a new layer of Cold Resistance.

He was honestly very tempted.

But reason kept Wang Wu from doing it.

To grind Vast Sea Cold Qi, he would have to oppose Vast Sea Cold Qi.

Given that this Cold Realm housed cold beasts on par with Daluo, their control over cold Qi should be as fine and precise as a strand of hair, as all‑encompassing as a spiderweb.

Under those conditions, even a single wisp of cold Qi going missing would immediately alarm that strongest cold beast—no question.

At this point, the situation was no longer something brute resistance could resolve.

He had to wait for the perfect moment.

So he didn’t grind Cold Resistance at all, didn’t resist, and instead plucked out a single strand of fur at this moment—this was a Venerable fur representing his most exuberant Life Force, able to replicate ninety‑nine percent of his First Sequence strength...

Next, Wang Wu injected one billion points of Spiritual Qi into it as registration capital, then activated it.

And at the instant of activation, he also used the body‑swapping art of "substituting the plum tree for the peach, stealing heaven and changing the sun," hiding his true body inside the Venerable Hao Mao Monarch.

He directly threw all the Vast Sea Cold Qi debt onto Hao Mao Monarch.

Yes, this was nesting dolls.

Having regained a free body, Wang Wu seized the time to rapidly circulate the First Sequence Five Elements Puppy Array, restoring the Life Force he’d lost, then plucked another Venerable fur, repeating the same process to continue swapping bodies and stealing heaven and changing the sun.

Forming a second defensive barrier.

Then he just kept on nesting dolls!

So by the time a Cangming clansman finally found Wang Wu, this war spoil, he had already plucked a hundred and twenty‑eight Venerable furs, burned through twelve-point-eight billion points of Spiritual Qi, and set up a hundred and twenty‑eight layered barriers, nesting dolls a hundred and twenty‑eight times.

This time, even Level 36 Vast Sea Cold Qi could forget about piercing through.

"Record: one Dust Cold Qi Pearl, Grade unknown."

At this moment, the Cangming clansman outside grabbed the cold crystal that contained Wang Wu. Even though Wang Wu had transformed into dust, the constant penetration of Vast Sea Cold Qi would still form a crystal.

And from the amount of crystallization, they could basically calculate how much heat and how much moisture he had, and naturally see how much strength he possessed.

Wang Wu knew this part, so he understood he had absolutely zero chance of bluffing his way through.

Right then, a higher‑ranking Cangming clansman immediately stepped forward, took the cold crystal, placed it on a special white Jade Plate, then activated some kind of structure. In an instant, from above, a beam of jade‑white cold light similar to Yin and Yang Qi, but definitely not Yin and Yang Qi, shone down with perfect precision.

No, not shone—pierced.

Because this was, in fact, Vast Sea Cold Qi of at least Level 40, pure and refined.

In a split second, this so‑called ultimate Venerable‑class Vast Sea Cold Qi pierced one defensive barrier after another that Wang Wu had set, ultimately punching through ninety‑nine layers in a single breath before stopping.

In truth, this ultimate Venerable Vast Sea Cold Qi could have kept going, but the Cangming clansman turned it off—just like a Mortal security check that only scans up to the limit of its cognition. Nobody would go beyond that limit; it wouldn’t fit common‑sense logic, and it would wreck cost control.

Right? There was more than one Dust Cold Qi Pearl like Wang Wu; there were millions of pieces of war spoils. Who would be a Prophet and give special attention to some random Dust Cold Qi Pearl?

"Level 27! Inside is a Bear Race male Taiyi, strength roughly at Tier Seven, can be used for Alchemy."

That concluded the appraisal.

Wang Wu’s cold crystal was immediately sorted and stored; Cangming clansmen would naturally come to seal it up. Next might be auction, possibly sale, or maybe a bulk disposal?

But whatever happened, Wang Wu had successfully weathered one calamity.

Judging by these Cangming clansmen’s reactions, they didn’t seem particularly excited about capturing a Taiyi Ninth Tier True Immortal. One of them even muttered, "It’s been so long since we last hunted a Human Race Taiyi, especially Human women—now those are top grade."

Another Cangming clansman beside him sighed, "I prefer Cyan Dragon Taiyi; that flavor is something else, especially after twenty‑eight freezing procedures are applied. As for Bear Race Taiyi, they’re still best used for Alchemy..."

Soon, Wang Wu was transferred to another area where many similar war spoils were piled up, apparently all considered offcuts reserved for Alchemy.

But it seemed the Alchemy hadn’t started yet. Instead, streams of pure Vast Sea Cold Qi were wantonly sweeping through, apparently as a preemptive safeguard.

"Alchemy?"

Wang Wu pondered, calculated, observed, and soon had a rough idea in his heart.

Without hesitation, he recalled the twenty‑nine Venerable furs that hadn’t been pierced, re‑evolving them back into Life Force. The next instant, his formidable bloodline, in concert with the First Sequence Five Elements Puppy Array, launched an assault on that supreme cold Qi that had frozen and penetrated ninety‑nine layers.

Yes—Wang Wu had basically exploited a bug!

He hadn’t resisted earlier because he hadn’t passed the inspection yet; every wisp of Vast Sea Cold Qi he opposed, absorbed, or consumed would have been detected.

It was all traceable.

But now he had already finished the inspection and was currently in the safe zone, waiting for Alchemy.

And when it comes to so-called Alchemy, of course there’s always a chance of quality issues, right? Because what you’re going to refine this time isn’t the cold Qi you’re familiar with, but external Spiritual Qi.

When it comes to what you’re good at, I’ve got nothing to say.

But once it gets to what you’re not good at, if I still sit there doing nothing, now that would be the real joke!

In other words, in the next phase, the Cangming Clan will no longer be able to precisely track every wisp of cold Qi.

Because for Alchemy, it definitely has to be based on Azure Sea Cold Qi.

A bit of consumption is perfectly normal, isn’t it?

The offense and defense have switched!

However miserable Wang Wu had been before, that’s how vicious he was now.

That pure Azure Sea Cold Qi, representing the ultimate Venerable extreme, turned into little white lambs, completely unable to resist.

In an instant Wang Wu broke through ten layers in a row, freeing ten Venerable furs; the Azure Sea Cold Qi that had been Ice Sealed and Frozen there was absorbed by him—half stayed in the First Sequence to grind Azure Sea Resistance, and the other half was sent to the Third Sequence, handed over to the Creation Ice Spirit Pill for refinement.

These were his two sources for obtaining Azure Sea Resistance.

One Innate and one Acquired, complementing each other perfectly.

But this Venerable ultimate Azure Sea Cold Qi was really fierce and hard to handle—rampant and overbearing, difficult to suppress.

With Wang Wu’s current strength, he could only stop at ten layers and couldn’t push any further.

And this Azure Sea Cold Qi was running riot inside him like a huge commotion in the Celestial Palace—pressing down here, popping up there—Wang Wu had to use every trick he had, deploying the Three Calamities Evolution, the Tier Five kitten array, and all kinds of trump cards just to barely suppress it.

Among all this, the First Sequence took the path of trading injury for injury.

The Third Sequence took the path of the Maximal Common Denominator Pill.

Not easy at all; his Maximal Common Denominator Pill had been gathering dust for forty to fifty thousand years, and he never expected it would actually come in handy.

All in all, the battle was intense.

Inside the First Sequence, that half of the Venerable ultimate cold Qi froze his bloodline Qi Blood over and over, with countless casualties, but his Life Force kept flowing endlessly—just sending it up to be frostbitten, frozen to death, then Self-Healed; once you’re healed, you become a part of me.

So far, everything seemed to be going smoothly.

Inside the Third Sequence, it was a Spirit Pill Realm world war plus a four-calamity chaos war.

Inside the Maximal Common Denominator Pill, it was no longer just Spiritual Qi, but the Four Calamities: Yin Fire, Evil Wind, Yang Thunder, plus Cold.

That’s right, as Wang Wu named it, this Azure Sea Cold Qi definitely had what it takes to be the Fourth Calamity.

He strongly suspected that the reason the Cultivation Realm never had a Fourth Calamity was simply because they couldn’t handle it.

The dual-front war like this lasted for about ten minutes, and Wang Wu won a sweeping victory.

The First Sequence successfully ground out Cold Resistance; based on the details, Wang Wu temporarily set a resistance cap of 10,000 points, and his current Cold Resistance was about 100/10000.

He also burned 1,000 years of Shou for this.

It was, to put it mildly, a bit rough.

A bit harder than when he’d ground out the Three Calamities back then.

In contrast, the Third Sequence was much more at ease, because with the Maximal Common Denominator Pill, it was basically a proxy war—Wang Wu’s Immortal Body didn’t have to step onto the battlefield at all.

This was also the difference between Innate and Acquired.

And likewise where his advantage lay.

After winning the first war, without taking a break, Wang Wu immediately started the second.

Because he didn’t know when these Cangming Clan would start Alchemy; he had to escape before that. As for hiding inside the Cangming Clan’s Alchemy Furnace—that was impossible, he wouldn’t take that risk.

This time, Wang Wu went all out in one breath, charging forward and blasting through fifteen layers in a single go; the Cold Resistance he’d just ground out now kicked in.

However, in terms of allocation, he could no longer split it in half.

The First Sequence only got six layers’ worth of cold Qi; the remaining nine were all guided into the Third Sequence and handed over to the Maximal Common Denominator Pill to handle.

No helping it—while the power of Innate bloodline Qi Blood had all sorts of advantages, it was still the flesh facing the enemy, and the efficiency was a bit worse.

But the Maximal Common Denominator Pill was truly wild without end, with a kind of madness of "the more the merrier."

And in fact, that’s exactly how it was—the Maximal Common Denominator Pill in the Third Sequence was simply the best battlefield for the Three Calamities to beat the Cold senseless.

Even with nine layers of cold Qi joining in, they still couldn’t gain the upper hand; after a "kuang-kuang-kuang" round of beating, they turned into a gentle little daughter-in-law.

Meanwhile, the bloodline Qi Blood in the First Sequence was still fighting bitterly.

Wang Wu simply stopped counting on the First Sequence and continued with the Third Sequence instead, with the Second Sequence’s kitten array doing logistics support. He’d previously gotten 100 trillion points of Spiritual Qi, so his ammunition was fully stocked—if he didn’t go on a massive killing spree now, then when?