Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao
Chapter 1532 - 56: Holy Spirit Cold Ice
There, as if a separate domain had formed, completely isolated.
Zhou Yan stared at that place for a long time, but ultimately gave up on it.
He had neither the ability nor the strength to enter.
In such circumstances, even though Zhou Yan felt some reluctance, he had stabilized his spirit, and then transformed into flames, leaving this Land of Heavenly Fire.
Returning to the original Primordial Magnetic Pole Light Land, Zhou Yan continued onward. After traversing through the Nine Layers of Heavenly Fire Land, he soon entered a very mystical and fantastical world once again.
The previous Holy Spirit Land was a Land of Heavenly Fire, full of Purple Flame.
And this time, Zhou Yan had entered the Cold Ice Land.
Everywhere were glaciers.
The coldness between heaven and earth was such that it could freeze everything, even the Eternal Holy Spirit.
Suddenly departing from the Heavenly Fire Land and unpreparedly entering this place, Zhou Yan was suddenly invaded by the cold, his whole body turning into an ice sculpture almost instantly, nearly sealing the Eternal Pseudo Saint Spirit in ice.
It was only because the fierce flame element on Zhou Yan’s Thunder Flame Seal hadn’t disappeared that this dangerous outburst wasn’t so intense.
In such conditions, Zhou Yan was incredibly vigilant in his heart.
The peculiarity and danger of the Holy Spirit Land were indeed far beyond imagination.
Zhou Yan, protected himself with the origin of the Heavenly Fire, gradually resolved his entire body’s frozen state, and after a long time, Zhou Yan gradually collected all the force of the fire element’s original rules, then started to unfold the arts of form and meaning transformation, combining his various King Immortal principles, transforming into the origin element of cold ice.
The cold ice element is different from the water element.
This difference is very apparent in the Holy Spirit Land, so Zhou Yan did not transform into the water element, but directly into the ice element.
Among the form and meaning transformations, Zhou Yan experienced something similar to what he had in the flames, entering a state of spiritual emptiness, departing from his soul body, derivating the ice element as an Eternal Pseudo Saint Spirit, and soaring through the heavens.
It was as if losing gravity, floating in the void.
Zhou Yan quietly danced within this heaven and earth, converging with the endless origin of cold ice power towards the depths afar.
With some of the experience from the Land of Heavenly Fire, Zhou Yan proceeded in almost the same manner, and the process was very smooth.
However, in terms of difficulty, it was much more challenging than the Land of Heavenly Fire.
In the Land of Heavenly Fire, Zhou Yan himself possessed the Silent Annihilation Purple Flame Power, so the pressure for the first five layers wasn’t great.
But with the power of cold ice, Zhou Yan was not adept, so even in the first layer of the Cold Ice Holy Spirit Land, he found it quite difficult.
Transforming into the Eternal Spirit, and after fusing with the rest of the cold origin, Zhou Yan progressively advanced through these layers, finding it increasingly challenging.
And every time he delved deeper, Zhou Yan could feel the state of the Pseudo Saint Spirit that was unable to transform starting to undergo a transformation.
The deeper he went, the better the transformation effects became.
Through analysis, Zhou Yan already knew that this was the effect of the aggregation of such a pure origin rule.
The origin rules of the Holy Spirit Land were the most basic rules of origin, which, after gathering and absorbing cultivation, were even more beneficial than the origin of the Life Ancient Tree.
Realizing this, Zhou Yan wanted to delve deeper into the Cold Ice Land, but the process would inevitably become more and more difficult and potentially carry great risks.
Reflecting on this, Zhou Yan wasn’t in a hurry. He began comprehending the origin rules of the cold ice element little by little from the basics.
This process was akin to understanding the original element rules on the Town Domain Demon Origin Sky Road.
These, for Zhou Yan, were no longer difficult.
Therefore, as Zhou Yan began to delve deeper into comprehending the rules of the cold ice element’s origin, he gradually became able to withstand the cold ice power of this land.
In such conditions, gradually, Zhou Yan discovered that he seemed to have found a corresponding way to deal with Mu Qingyan, the Lord of Cold Ice’s cold ice power.
As Zhou Yan pondered, delving into the analysis step by step, the benefits of his strong intelligence gradually emerged, and the Thunder Flame Sword Shape Seal on Zhou Yan began to gather the element of cold ice, in addition to the flame element, which was naturally refined bit by bit into the seal.
This was the mark of the King Dao, and with the Pseudo Saint Spirit, this situation would become more apparent, while a True Holy Spirit’s King’s Rule would imprint into the mark on the brow.
The mark imprinted by a Pseudo Saint Spirit is about one ten-thousandth of the comprehension and refinement of the created rules.
The closer a Pseudo Saint Spirit is to a True Holy Spirit, the closer this condensation effect is to being one hundred percent.
Zhou Yan was in a state of Pseudo Saint Spirit, but the cold ice element he comprehended was one hundred percent imprinted into the mark on his brow.
Thus, on that sword-shaped mark, besides the initial Thunder Flame, it now began to show the vast cold ice elements.
Reaching this step, Zhou Yan’s realm naturally advanced into the second layer of the Eternal Nine Rules. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
And with this crossing, Zhou Yan directly penetrated through three layers of the cold ice rule land’s space, entering the seventh level of the Cold Ice Land!
This speed was even a bit faster than in the Land of Heavenly Fire.
Moreover, because the king’s mark within the brow now contained the cold ice rule, Zhou Yan no longer had as much difficulty facing the cold ice power. Thus, through form and meaning transformation, Zhou Yan transformed into the cold ice origin rule, like a tragic white light, beginning to immerge into the deepest level of the nine-layered domain of the Cold Ice Land.
This process was somewhat difficult and precarious, but it was all accomplished without incident.
While immersed in this, Zhou Yan had profound and wonderful insights. However, upon entering the nine-layered Cold Ice Domain Land, in its core deep space, in the endless expanse of tragic white light, Zhou Yan once again encountered a very familiar woman.
If it weren’t for the fact that this woman’s aura had obviously matured a bit, Zhou Yan might have almost mistaken her!
This time, the woman was not Yanyan, but Yanyan’s mother, Mu Qingyan!
It was Mu Qingyan, the Lord of Ice and Snow!
But like Yanyan, Mu Qingyan was immersed in the core depths of this nine-layered Cold Ice Land, refining and devouring the powerful cold ice origin rule, continuously enhancing her combat power.
Moreover, the speed and ability of her devouring and refining were simply astonishing to Zhou Yan!
The speed, the ability, the aura that was demonstrated—everything left Zhou Yan astonished and shocked!
Zhou Yan, having reached his current realm, could almost instantly defeat an ordinary half-step Monarch Realm Pseudo Saint Spirit!
With Zhou Yan’s soul strength of a hundred million times and the foundation of nine kinds of King Immortal principles, it was effortless for Zhou Yan to achieve this!
Yet when facing this cold and terrifying Mu Qingyan in the depths of the Cold Ice Domain, Zhou Yan felt he was not a match for her in a single encounter.
This Mu Qingyan—Zhou Yan did not know if she was the real Mu Qingyan or a fake, but this Mu Qingyan was vastly more powerful than the Lord of Ice and Snow Mu Qingyan he had met before.
That Mu Qingyan would almost be destroyed instantly in front of this one!
This contrast, this feeling, was so intense!
It was like the difference between Yanyan beside the Lord of Ice and Snow Mu Qingyan and the Yanyan in the Land of Heavenly Fire—it was too obvious!
Zhou Yan was deeply vigilant in his heart, sensing that he might have noticed something different, perhaps seeing something out of the ordinary.
Therefore, Zhou Yan took a deep breath and suddenly flew close to Mu Qingyan, saying, "Qingyan, is it you? I am Zhou Yan, Thunder Flame Monarch Lee Yi."
Zhou Yan spoke gently, his tone incomparably gentle.
Moreover, as Zhou Yan spoke, his words were filled with genuine emotion, revealing all his feelings for Mu Qingyan.
However, Mu Qingyan seemed not to hear Zhou Yan’s words at all, remaining indifferent.
Zhou Yan wanted to speak again, but at that moment, like Yanyan in the Land of Heavenly Fire before, a glance from Mu Qingyan swept over. That gaze was terrifyingly ruthless and cold, filled with chilling killing intent and cruel will that made one’s heart palpitate.
Such a gaze caused Zhou Yan’s heart to tremble, his pupils to constrict, and he lost the urge to speak further.
In his heart, from beginning to end, there was an indescribable fear.
Though Zhou Yan would often act emotionally in many matters nowadays, the one thing he wouldn’t feel was fear!
Yet now, under Mu Qingyan’s sweeping gaze, Zhou Yan trembled all over, feeling an inexplicable sense of dread!
Zhou Yan took a deep breath, wisely retreated several steps, and did not entangle with Mu Qingyan any further.
After giving Zhou Yan a cold and piercing look, Mu Qingyan, like a beam of light, swept over the core area of this Cold Ice region’s void, flying far away. This scene, much like Yanyan, autonomously sealed a core area of Holy Spirit Land, ignoring Zhou Yan and not allowing him to approach that sealed space.
Zhou Yan was somewhat dumbfounded.
This scene was almost a repetition of the one in the Land of Heavenly Fire.
And in this area, Zhou Yan’s cultivation efficiency was precisely the same as in the previous place, with the only difference being that here, the transformation being cultivated was the power of cold ice.