A thread of scorching heat burst forth around Zhang Chen, and in the next moment, the ice-sealed Zhang Chen finally came back to life. His eyes glanced at the icy world before him, revealing a hint of horror: "Such a powerful ice cold power, I couldn’t even resist with my thoughts, I was directly frozen."
"Kid, this is the remnant power of an ancient existence. It’s a blessing from heaven that you weren’t directly frozen to death." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon replied.
Zhang Chen ignored the words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon and instead inquired about the direction of the world’s center: "Which direction is the world’s center?"
The Great Freedom Celestial Demon sensed briefly and pointed in a direction: "It’s in that direction! If you were to transform into that Vampire Bat, it would take you at least a hundred years of flying to reach it."
"A hundred years? Are you joking? Is the spiritual world that vast?" Zhang Chen’s eyes showed a hint of doubt; was this old thing trying to fool him?
"Your Vampire Bat has hibernation habits. The reason you don’t need to hibernate in the outside world is because your Bloodline Power is much stronger than the external winter. But within the Third Heaven, where blizzards converge containing the Rule Power of Ancient Gods, your bloodline is far inferior. If you transform into the Vampire Bat state, your Bloodline Power will be influenced by the cold air between heaven and earth, significantly weakening your strength to less than one-tenth. My prediction of you taking a hundred years to fly to the world’s center is already an overestimation of your speed." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon replied.
Zhang Chen’s brows furrowed upon hearing this: "So, I need to find another way to travel? Or perhaps level up my Blood Control Technique to combat the Rule Power of heaven and earth?"
"Theoretically, yes." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon replied.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen fell silent for a while, contemplating and deducing in his heart: "This place, being the Third Heaven, should have countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures buried. If I can use the Devouring Power to consume them, I might be able to quickly level up my Skill."
Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the ice-sealed ice world. The towering vegetation was covered and wrapped by the ice; inside, they appeared lush and vibrant as if still alive.
"Don’t think about these plants. Under such Power of Extreme Cold, all vegetation would have been instantly frozen to powder, and their vitality is already frozen. If you want to find some Creation, you might as well look at those frozen beings. Those beings may be dead, but their flesh is still preserved. There should still be remnants of Creation within their bodies. Consuming them would be exceedingly beneficial to you." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said to Zhang Chen.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen glanced at the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, activated the Authority of Wood Element to sense the vegetation enveloped in ice. His eyes then showed disappointment; those plants were indeed frozen to death.
"First, find the frozen bodies of those beings. Any life form frozen in the Third Heaven is no ordinary life form." Zhang Chen’s eyes showed a hint of anticipation as he began to walk through the ice world. It didn’t take long for him to see a frozen Great Demon amidst the falling snow.
That Great Demon had a lobster’s head, but a human body’s lower half, holding a steel fork, looking fierce and ferocious, seemingly roaring at the sky.
"There’s life here." Zhang Chen’s eyes showed a hint of joy upon seeing that lobster. As he gradually approached and turned past a large tree ahead, his eyes brightened. Previously, his view was blocked by the tree. As he got closer, the field of view expanded, and behind the shrimp soldier, he saw tens of thousands of shrimp soldiers frozen in an advancing stance amidst the ice and snow.
"These are Sea Race shrimp soldiers. How are they frozen here?" Zhang Chen looked at the seemingly innumerable frozen shrimp soldiers, as if seeing countless dense points.
"In the Thirty-Three Heavens, there must have been a great upheaval. Looking at these shrimp soldiers’ expressions, it seems they came from the sea, intending to wage war on some unknown great enemy. Yet before they even got close, they were frozen by the aftermath of the power from the Upper Realm." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon circled around the shrimp soldiers and said to Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen nodded, agreeing with the Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s deduction. His eyes scanned the shrimp soldiers, then he struck out with a palm, intending to shatter the ice and expose the shrimp soldiers’ flesh for him to devour. But to his surprise, the ice was as immovable as a mountain, showing no signs of damage.
"Kid, these shrimp soldiers are at least seventh-tier beings, yet they were instantly ice-sealed. They couldn’t break the ice before their death. Do you think your strength surpasses these shrimp soldiers?" the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said beside him.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen said nothing, his eyes fixed on the ice before him, his face calm. Even if he couldn’t break the ice, so what? He still had the proboscis of the Innate Mosquito.
"I know you’re thinking you have the proboscis of the Innate Mosquito, right?" the Great Freedom Celestial Demon seemed to know Zhang Chen’s thoughts, saying with a smirk beside him.
Hearing the Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s words, Zhang Chen felt a chilling premonition rising in his heart. Swiftly, he summoned the proboscis of the Innate Mosquito, but to his dismay, in this ice and snow world, the proboscis entered a dormant state, immovable no matter how Zhang Chen tried to drive it.
"Kid, you might think the Innate Mosquito is mighty, but in front of that existence who used Divine Techniques to ice-seal the entire Thirty-Three Heavens, it’s nothing more than a mosquito they could swat at will. The gap between them is as vast as that between an ordinary person and an ordinary mosquito! The Rule Power left by that Sacred Divine Techniques has become the Law operating the Thirty-Three Heavens. Mosquitoes can’t escape the hibernation trait in winter, so this Skill of yours is essentially useless." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said.
Zhang Chen thought of the Water Control Technique, considering whether he could control the ice before him using it.
However, as Zhang Chen activated the Water Control Technique, his face darkened the next moment, as the Water Essence Qi of heaven and earth was as heavy as Mount Tai, utterly immovable.
Zhang Chen had a rough idea in his heart; it seemed that his Authority over Water Control Technique was inferior to the mysterious Law Authority of Heaven and Earth, so he couldn’t manipulate the frozen moisture in the air.
The moisture in the entire air was like steel, and Zhang Chen couldn’t move it at all.
Just looking at the Great Freedom Celestial Demon with a ’watching the fun’ expression, Zhang Chen felt defiant.
"I still have the Ba Snake Space! As long as I consume it into the Ba Snake Space, I can take it back and slowly digest it," Zhang Chen said.
The Great Freedom Celestial Demon shook his head: "Everything within Heaven and Earth is frozen into a whole; unless you have the ability to ice-seal the entire world, otherwise..."
Upon hearing the words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, Zhang Chen’s face grew more somber. Although the other’s words were unfinished, he understood the meaning behind the ’otherwise’.
"I also have the Sun Charcoal Fire!" Zhang Chen added.
Although the Sun Charcoal Fire was a ninth-level skill, its power far exceeded that of ninth-level skills. As long as charcoal was piled up, it was enough to melt ice.
"The Sun Charcoal Fire contains the power of the Sun True Flame, accumulating it would indeed be enough to melt ice, but this move is like an ordinary person holding a piece of coal to melt a lump of ice in the icy world; the difficulty is imaginable. Although the Sun Charcoal Fire can melt the ice in front of you, the amount of Sun Charcoal Fire you can summon is too little." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon said, "To melt an animal out, who knows how many years it will take."
"According to what you said, I might as well just give up directly; why waste time here?" Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, with an unfriendly look in his eyes.
Seeing Zhang Chen about to get agitated, the Great Freedom Celestial Demon quickly said: "What I mean is, let’s not waste time on these little things; let’s directly look for the origin of the ice-sealed Heaven and Earth. As long as we grasp that origin, the ice of the entire Third Heaven will instantly melt. By then, all the things, all the material, will be yours!"
"There’s some logic in that. Can you confirm the source of the Power of Extreme Cold?" Zhang Chen asked.
The Great Freedom Celestial Demon nodded: "The source is about three thousand miles from here; if you can travel a hundred miles a day, we would need about a month to get there."
"Traveling a hundred miles a day is not difficult!" Zhang Chen looked at the vast white world, completely covered by ice, and thought about skis. If he assembled a pair of skis, wouldn’t the speed increase significantly?
Using skis to travel a hundred miles a day shouldn’t be difficult.
But this place is covered with ice and snow; where should I find the materials to make skis?
Having no choice, Zhang Chen could only use his own heat to melt the ice and snow. After the ice and snow melted, it was controlled by Zhang Chen’s Water Control Technique, gradually transforming into the shape of a sled.
As the ice and snow melted bit by bit, Zhang Chen transformed a bit by bit, and after three full hours, Zhang Chen finally formed a sled made entirely of ice and snow.
But at this moment, Zhang Chen noticed something wrong, as he felt a trace of cold air invading through the scorching heat, beginning to attack his soul, making his soul feel a chill.
"Quick, go back! Your charcoal fire must be suppressed by the cold ice Qi, so the strength of the charcoal fire becomes weaker, and the resistance becomes weaker too. We must return," the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said.
Zhang Chen stood in the icy world, not returning directly, instead raising his eyes to the ice and snow world in front of him, pondering whether he could extract some skill from the ice and snow world, so he could obtain the power to resist the ice rule.
"If the ice and snow world yields a skill, I might have a chance to gain the power to resist ice seal, or even directly grasp the power capable of ice-sealing everything." Zhang Chen’s eyes revealed a hint of contemplation: "I wonder if my Golden Scissors can cut open this ice and snow world, or cut open the ice in front of me."
"Kid, what are you thinking?" the Great Freedom Celestial Demon asked.
"Thinking about some things," Zhang Chen replied.