"These blocks of ice are formed by the Ten Thousand Years Cold Qi exhaled by the Ten Thousand Year Ice Silkworms, not easy to melt!"
At this moment, True Monarch Zijing looked at the numerous ice blocks in front and felt a headache.
"Leave this matter to me!"
Zhang Jian spoke with a smile.
After all, he wielded several special flames, including the Celestial Divine Flame and Celestial Purity Fire.
The Celestial Purity Fire possesses immense power.
When this mature Divine Flame erupts fully, its power even surpasses his Golden Crow True Flame.
Of course, this doesn't mean the power of the Golden Crow True Flame is weak; rather, the true fire each strong individual controls is closely related to their Dao practice.
For those High-Tier Immortals, even an ordinary wisp of flame can easily ignite the starry sky.
Zhang Jian stepped forward, raising his hand as a blazing red light leaped out.
Under his urging, the Celestial Purity Fire transformed into a giant Vermilion Bird Firebird, enveloping the entire Ice Palace.
A torrid wave rolled over, causing the expressions of several Primordial Spirit Masters to change instantly.
Under this fire wave, they felt their own Primordial Spirit Magical Power collapsing, accompanied by a hint of fire poison, scorching through their internal organs.
Under the divine power of this terrifying flame, the Ice Palace in front of them quickly dissolved.
Hundreds of feet of ice crystals melted rapidly.
In an instant, it advanced dozens of kilometers.
A moment later, a dense Demon Qi flowed out from within, transforming into countless icy spikes, aiming at everyone.
"It's revealed!"
Seeing this scene, Zhang Jian's eyes gleamed as an invisible force erupted around him.
That was the secret technique of manipulating time from the Nine-Turns Wishing Wheel Sutra.
This secret technique bloomed, and countless icy spikes before them stagnated in mid-air.
Soon after, the Taiyin Refining Form Divine Light and Golden Crow Fission Divine Light intertwined, spawning Yin and Yang Qi, instantly dissolving the icy spikes.
With a casual wave of his hand, thick and intangible Yin and Yang Qi flowed from Zhang Jian's palm, merging into the surrounding Ice Palace. They watched as chunks of solid ice dissolved within the Yin and Yang Qi, revealing in front of them several chubby spiritual insects covered in cold aura.
These were Ice Silkworms, wholly jade-like, with small cicada wings on their backs and unique starlight spots deep in their brows.
They appeared naive and adorable, still struggling.
"Seven-star Ice Silkworms!"
Looking at these Ice Silkworm spiritual insects, each only five or six feet long, Siming Master glanced and instantly beamed with joy.
Seeing everyone's gaze, Siming Master quickly explained.
"Uncle-masters, Junior Brother Zhang, the Seven-star Ice Silkworm is an exotic variant amongst Ice Silkworms, named for the seven starlight spots deep in their brows. They are an exceedingly rare species among Ice Silkworms!
Their excreted Seven-star Ice Silkworm Silk ranks as High-Tier among Ice Attribute Spiritual Materials and is quite renowned!"
A glance revealed there were indeed more than a dozen Seven-star Ice Silkworms before them.
Beside them, Pursuing Star True Monarch said, "Junior Sister, you are proficient in Beast Exorcism, so you should collect them, and we can share equally!"
Seeing no objections, Siming Master stepped forward. The cyan-golden jar above her head opened once more, spurting a cyan-golden light that engulfed the dozen Ice Silkworms entirely.
Siming Master appeared delighted.
The cyan-golden jar above her head was an Exotic Treasure known as the Jar of Ten Thousand Spirits, an Ancient Spiritual Treasure capable of swallowing all things and converting them into spiritual essences, also suitable for storing living beings.
A moment later, she casually swiped, producing several crystal-clear jade boxes and distributed them to the other five, each receiving three or four portions.
"Junior Brother Zhang melted these Ten Thousand Years Profound Ice and subdued the Ice Silkworm's cold aura, earning the larger share of four portions; this Fellow Daoist Taiyin did not contribute, so a single portion should suffice?"
Looking at the four jade boxes in front of him, Zhang Jian noticed that the most precious Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm was in one of the boxes. He simply smiled and waved his hand, putting them away.
Even Taiyin Fairy was slightly surprised at receiving a portion; she didn't expect to be included.
She promptly stashed her share.
The other four Primordial Spirit Great Cultivators each took three portions, happily storing the Ice Silkworms away.
The four were extremely satisfied.
Just then, Zhang Jian's voice unexpectedly came through: "There are a few big ones ahead, let me handle them!"
"Hmm?"
They reacted as the Ice Palace suddenly quaked, the earth trembled, a terrifying Demon Qi mingled with an extremely chilling force swept toward them.
The magnificent Demon Qi eruption made their expressions change.
Such terrifying Demon Qi was unheard of.
The surroundings of the Ice Palace mysteriously turned upside down, countless clouds spawned, but the terrifying cold current just about to hit them dissipated into nothingness.
"Roar!!"
From the depths of the cloud sea ahead came a deep, angry roar, though more filled with anger and unwillingness.
"Spatial Immortal Technique!"
At this, the Primordial Spirit Great Cultivators observed the surrounding changes, their expressions altered.
They were no strangers to Spatial Immortal Techniques, and the likes of Pursuing Star True Monarch was among the adept, specializing in tearing space and employing spatial tactics to restrain opponents.
Yet such a method that silently reshaped the heavens and earth was unheard of.
If Zhang Jian hadn't actively manifested the spatial anomaly before them, they wouldn't have realized the spatial laws around them had already been covered and replaced.
A moment later, countless cold air dispersed, and a dozen or so massive seven-star ice silkworms appeared amidst the clouds and mist.
These ice silkworms were noticeably larger than the previous ones, with many of them being over a yard long, entirely white like jade, their bodies enveloped in the glimmer of ice soul.
Among them, four or five even had dragon scales resembling ice crystals all over their bodies, suggesting an age exceeding ten thousand years.
Especially the leader of them, an ice silkworm king towering at over ten yards, its body thick with dragon scales, and ice-crystal dragon horns growing from its head, surrounded by a vast ocean of demon qi flowing around it.
It was now struggling desperately, releasing countless streams of cold, attempting to freeze the sea of clouds and break through the surrounding spatial confinement, but all efforts were in vain.
The huge ice silkworm body was transformed and confined continuously by space, quickly becoming disoriented.
Seeing this, Siming Master was shocked, finding it hard to believe her eyes.
"The cultivation level of this ice silkworm king has actually reached such a state, it even grew dragon horns, never heard of an ice silkworm being able to transform into a dragon?"
At this moment, her eyes were filled with a fervent zeal.
Other primordial spirit great cultivators also showed changes in their expressions.
Pursuing Star True Monarch glanced over, with a hint of relief in his eyes: "These ice silkworms likely don't understand any cultivation techniques, knowing only the simple breathing of sun and moon spiritual mechanism, and Earth's cold vein qi, hence naively choosing the path of dragon transformation. If they had comprehended a cultivation method, that seven-star ice silkworm king should have already attained immortality!"
Upon hearing this, Siming Master suddenly understood, and she said.
"What Master Uncle says is very true, ice silkworms are generally lazy by nature, timid and gentle, not aggressive, they prefer sleeping even if they live long, spending most of their time sleeping!"
She previously also noticed that these ice silkworms seemed not to know other magic, only inhaling and exhaling ice soul pill qi, controlling some lifebound elemental techniques of the ice silkworm race, the whole group seeming rather clumsy.
Everyone's expressions relaxed at that moment, but soon their faces broke into smiles they could not conceal.
These dozen ice silkworms were clearly all over ten thousand years old or close to it, each one extremely valuable.
Zhang Jian's gaze fell on the largest ice silkworm king over ten yards tall, which at that time was about to spit out its hard-cultivated primordial pill as a last-ditch struggle. His expression was calm, yet there was a trace of a smile in his eyes.
Indeed, a starving horse gets fat eating night grass.
This ice silkworm king, once subdued, with a bit of nurturing could easily add a national guardian divine beast to the Great Xia Dynasty.
Zhang Jian also did not give this ice silkworm king further opportunity to struggle or resist, the Map of the Country and People tightened suddenly, and in an instant, a dozen ice silkworms transformed into a nine-colored dao map where sun, moon, and star river surged, heaven and earth purity and turbidity churned.
Within the nine-colored dao map, heaven and earth sun and moon reversed, and in a moment this ice silkworm king was completely enveloped by starlight and sealed.
The dao map swiftly landed on Zhang Jian's palm.
Zhang Jian flexed his fingers to grab, and among them, five of the seven-star ice silkworms bearing dragon scales appeared in his hand.
These five ice silkworms had already been subdued by him using the Starlight Soul-Binding Technique.
Reducing their size to only palm-sized, each one was plump and meaty.
"Two Master Uncles, Senior Sister, I've taken the other ice silkworms, these five ice silkworms of ten-thousand-year rank, each of you take one!"
Five beams of light fell into the hands of the other five, Zhang Jian didn't leave out Fellow Daoist Taiyin.
These dozen seven-star ice silkworms he subdued alone, others didn't lend a hand actually, had he chosen to keep them all, others would have had no objections.
But as the saying goes, those present share the spoils.
Especially since they're fellow disciples, Zhang Jian showed no stinginess, giving each of them a ten-thousand-year ice silkworm.
Seeing this, everyone exchanged a glance, nodding immediately, and took the ice silkworms before them.
Linghe Master laughed, "Junior Brother, we, these senior sisters of yours, owe you this time!"
The other primordial spirit cultivators also nodded slightly, everyone wore smiles on their faces.
This time subduing these ten-thousand-year ice silkworms, Zhang Jian didn't need anyone's assistance at all!
Getting a ten-thousand-year ice silkworm each, they were all very satisfied.
Taiyin Fairy looked at the ice silkworm in her hand, and immediately took out a space jade box from her sleeve, storing the ice silkworm away, a smile graced her beautiful face.
The cultivators from the Tongshan Dao Lineage did not monopolize, which made her heart a little more at ease.
Since these primordial spirit cultivators didn't seize her share, she could disclose some secret locations she knew, maybe not take the lion's share, but she wouldn't leave empty-handed.
Zhang Jian proposed further.
"I just found out there are some ice attribute spirit grass, spirit medicine, as well as some spiritual ore growing in this Profound Cold Earth Vein, everyone search around, there should be more gains!"
Everyone nodded.
They each transformed into streams of light, flying toward the passages in all directions of the Ice Palace, Zhang Jian relying on the authority of the earth had already discovered many spirit grass and spirit medicine locations.
Among them were many that were ten-thousand-year level exotic treasures, treasure medicine.
These ice attribute spirit grass, spirit medicine when refined into spiritual pills are greatly beneficial for Empress Bai's cultivation.
But the greatest benefit of this trip was still these ice silkworms; ice silkworm spiritual pills, and ice soul divine pills are immensely valuable, whether for refining a second primordial spirit, aiding alchemy, or nurturing spirit veins, they are top-level spiritual objects.
Not long afterward, everyone gathered again in the Ice Palace.
All of them had cheerful expressions, clearly having made ample gains.
After looting the Ice Palace, everyone transformed into light, leaving the earth's crust.
Upon emerging from the earth's aperture, everyone immediately concealed their aura.
From a distance, they all saw a mass of demon wind heading toward the void, flying over their heads.
"Enemies really meet on a narrow path!"
Seeing this thick demon wind, Pursuing Star True Monarch wore a cold smile.
"The demon god of Celestial Wolf Mansion?"
Zhang Jian also spotted this, and he chuckled upon seeing it.
"Since we've come across them, let's follow and see, if there's a chance, we'll avenge Brother Wulei by settling the score for his broken arm!"