allendalepharm Chapter 32 The Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire!
Chapter 32 The Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire!
Chapter 32 The Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire!
With the white dragon leading the way, the Yin-Yang diagram and the Green Leaf Sword, which had been dormant for a long time, finally began to resonate faintly.
[Ah, finally there's a response!]
It seems the distance was too great before, and the sensory connection was too weak.
Feeling the pulsation emanating from the two treasures, Zhang Qingxuan understood—the energy levels of the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King had indeed reached an incredible level.
About half an incense stick later, the view suddenly opened up before me.
Bai Jiao led Zhang Qingxuan to the top of a valley shrouded in a light mist.
Looking down, a strange spring can be vaguely seen at the bottom of the valley. On one side, it is shrouded in cold air and the water is frozen into frost, while on the other side, it is steaming hot and looks like lava. The two completely different atmospheres of ice and fire intertwine and flow here, yet they are unusually harmonious.
"Found it, the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire." Zhang Qingxuan's spirits lifted.
This is the legendary land of creation, where the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King perished, and their primordial powers intertwined and merged, evolving over tens of thousands of years.
The rare and exotic plants that grow there are treasures that are hard to find elsewhere.
"Let's go down."
Zhang Qingxuan didn't linger. With a sway, he drifted down to the valley floor like a falling leaf. The white dragon roared, its undulating body swaying in the air as it followed closely behind.
The view from the bottom of the valley became clearer.
Around the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, various exotic flowers and plants grow, some blooming like flames, while others are as crystal clear as ice sculptures.
The air is filled with extremely rich cosmic energy, where the energies of ice and fire merge to form a unique and pure energy field.
However, just as Zhang Qingxuan and the white dragon landed—
A cold, venomous gaze, like that of a poisonous snake, fixed its gaze upon them.
At the same time, Zhang Qingxuan also felt a very brief pause in the surrounding space-time.
That was not an illusion, but rather a powerful innate ability that influenced local spacetime, forcibly severing his connection with the surrounding world for a fleeting moment.
In that instant, a hazy ray of light shot out from a hidden crevice in the valley!
Where the light passed, the air condensed, and several falling leaves instantly petrified in mid-air before shattering into powder.
The light's target was Zhang Qingxuan and Bai Jiao, who had just landed.
[A sneak attack? Too hasty.]
Zhang Qingxuan sneered inwardly, and with a surge of mental power, the feeling of time and space stagnation was forcibly broken.
He raised his hand and waved it, and a golden light shield suddenly unfolded, firmly protecting himself and the white dragon within it.
The petrifying rays struck the golden shield and immediately melted away like ice and snow meeting fire, leaving not a trace.
Zhang Qingxuan's gaze was like lightning, shooting straight at the source of the light.
It was a crevice shrouded in shadow, barely noticeable to ordinary people, but under his mental scan, nothing could hide.
Deep within the rock crevice, a pair of vertical pupils slowly opened. The pupils were an eerie dark gold, filled with resentment, greed, and a hint of incredulous horror.
"Hiss—!"
Queen Medusa let out a threatening hiss, her dark golden vertical pupils fixed on Zhang Qingxuan.
"Hiss!" (Humans—leave this place—this is my territory—)
"Your territory?" Zhang Qingxuan asked with a half-smile. "When did this land, created by heaven and earth, become the private property of a beast like you?"
"Hiss—!" (Human, don't push your luck!)
Queen Medusa's mind was filled with rage.
"Hiss—!" (I have guarded this place for many years, and this treasure land already belongs to me! If you know what's good for you, leave at once, otherwise...)
"Otherwise what?" Zhang Qingxuan took a step forward, his tone calm yet exuding an undeniable authority.
Queen Medusa's snakes hair danced wildly, revealing the intense turmoil within her heart.
It had used all its strength in that attack, yet it couldn't even shake the opponent's protective golden light.
The strength of this human soul master is unfathomable.
After a brief moment of deliberation, Queen Medusa made her decision.
"Hiss—!" (Human, I would gladly give you this precious land)
Its voice carried a hint of concession.
"Hiss—!" (If you let me leave, all the rare and exotic plants here are yours.)
It slowly retreated, but its dark golden vertical pupils remained locked on Zhang Qingxuan, clearly not having completely given up its vigilance and ready to either launch a sudden attack or flee at any moment.
"Give it to me?" Zhang Qingxuan chuckled and shook his head.
"Even if I kill you, this place will still be mine. Besides..."
Zhang Qingxuan opened his Heavenly Eye and his gaze swept over Queen Medusa, where a dense and persistent aura of bloodlust lingered.
"You have committed countless murders. Now that I have witnessed this, it is your time to meet your doom."
Queen Medusa was both shocked and furious; she had not expected this human to be so decisive.
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Qingxuan had already raised his right hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.
"Palm Thunder!"
He simply uttered three words.
A powerful bolt of lightning, imbued with an aura of judgment, shot out from Zhang Qingxuan's hand and hurtled toward Queen Medusa!
The lightning bolt was incredibly fast, exceeding even Queen Medusa's reaction speed.
It only managed to coil its snake hair to protect its vitals before the terrifying lightning struck.
"Hiss—!!!"
A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the valley.
Amidst the blazing white lightning, Queen Medusa's enormous body writhed wildly, her gray-black scales shattering piece by piece under the thunder, revealing charred flesh that emitted a pungent, burnt smell.
In just three breaths, the lightning dissipated.
Only a charred snake corpse remained on the spot; most of its body had been reduced to ashes by the lightning, leaving only its head and a small part of its remains.
A deep black spirit ring slowly rose from the corpse.
"What a pity, such a fine ten-thousand-year soul ring." Zhang Qingxuan shook his head slightly.
With his current level of cultivation, ordinary spirit rings are no longer of much use, but this spirit ring of the 70,000-year-old Medusa Queen is enough to drive any spirit saint crazy in the outside world.
His gaze fell on the snake's head, where faint, pure energy fluctuations emanated.
"really..."
With a thought, the golden light rope emerged like a serpent from its hole, probing into the charred remains.
A moment later, the golden rope retracted, carrying something with it.
It was a palm-sized bone, crystal clear and jade-like, shaped like a part of a skull, with faint spiritual fluctuations flowing across its surface, occasionally flashing with dark golden light.
"The head bone also comes with the ability to petrify; its quality is quite good."
As Zhang Qingxuan played with the soul bone in his hand, he could feel the powerful energy contained within it.
Queen Medusa's innate ability, petrification, is mostly concentrated in this bone.
He suddenly turned his head and looked at the white dragon beside him.
At this moment, the white dragon was trembling and curled up behind a boulder, with only half of its head showing, its vertical pupils filled with fear.
Seeing Zhang Qingxuan looking at it, its scales bristled, and it let out a rapid, aggrieved growl: "Roar—! Roar roar! (I'm with you, you can't kill me!)"
"Roar—! (I can't condense that kind of bone either, don't even think about doing anything with me!)"
Seeing the fierce white dragon that had dared to attack him not long ago now looking as frightened as a startled little beast, Zhang Qingxuan couldn't help but chuckle: "Don't worry, since you're following my lead, I won't mistreat you, much less take your life. This soul bone is good, but it's not good enough for me."
His voice was calm, yet it carried a convincing power.
Upon hearing this, the fear in Bai Jiao's vertical pupils subsided slightly, but he still cautiously maintained his distance, not daring to get too close.
After calming the white dragon, Zhang Qingxuan began to carefully examine this Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.
Within a ten-zhang radius of the spring, the energy of ice and fire reached a strange balance.
On the left grows a strange, ice-blue herb with leaves sculpted like crystal, radiating a strong chill; on the right is a fiery red Ganoderma lucidum with flowing, magma-like patterns on its surface.
Further away, there are various exotic flowers and fruits, all of which are rare medicinal herbs that have long since disappeared from the outside world.
"Eight-pointed ice grass, fiery apricot blossoms, longing gaze through autumn waters, wondrous chrysanthemum reaching the heavens..."
Zhang Qingxuan examined each herb carefully, his eyes gleaming with wonder. Any one of these celestial herbs, if it fell into the outside world, would be enough to cause a bloodbath.
He strolled around the spring, feeling the rich vitality and pure energy beneath his feet with every step.
The energy concentration here is at least ten times that of the outside world, and the fusion of ice and fire energies creates a unique cultivation environment that has remarkable effects on tempering the physical body and nourishing the soul.