Immortal Creation.

Chapter 707 Thawing
Xue Shuyu Xie was still sensible and took the initiative to greet her.

In contrast, Xue Cai Nu Hui remained motionless, staring blankly at Ning Zhuo.

Just to be on the safe side, Ning Zhuo's life was hanging by a thread above the heads of the two mechanical puppets.

He examined them and determined that both were in a spiritually advanced stage.

Ning Zhu pondered: "Is it because the physical forms of Floating Ice Jade Hand and Weather Ball Ice Crystal Snow are too small, making it difficult for their spirituality to grow?"

Ning Zhuo secretly guessed.

His understanding of spirituality mostly comes from the animistic view.

Although this book is extremely valuable, it is not very extensive, and its content is limited to the explanation of the hierarchy of spirituality.

"Perhaps we should start with the Myriad Manifestations Sect and see if they have any methods for nourishing spiritual energy?"

Ning Zhuo secretly memorized this point.

This is the benefit of joining a top-tier sect. Many things that can't be bought on the market are available here.

Of course, the Book Pavilion should also have knowledge about spirituality. But Ning Zhuo is not a member of the pavilion, and as a customer, the price he would have to pay to acquire jade slips of this level would be much higher.

Besides, we are currently in the Myriad Manifestations Sect, not in the Complete Book Pavilion.

After a while.

Inside the cultivation room, Xue Cai Nu Hui and Xue Shu Yu Xie stood facing each other, with a huge block of ice placed between the two puppets.

Inside the ice block was a mecha resembling an ape, which was none other than the Heavy Armored Blood Ape - Great Victory.

"Let's begin." Ning Zhuo stood further away, arms crossed, watching from the sidelines.

Xue Shuyu Xie was the first to make a move.

The ice dragon head on her shoulder armor gleamed with a cold light as it slammed into the ice block in the middle of the field.

Countless azure light patterns rapidly emerged from the ice block, spreading everywhere and forming hexagonal shapes within it.

The hexagons are pieced together to form a three-dimensional grid.

Ning Zhuo knew that the more grids there were, the deeper Xue Shuyu Xie's control over the ice.

The hexagonal grid is merely a facade; the true source of power lies in Xue Shuyu Xie's innate talent—the Snow Soul Ice Spirit!
This talent makes the possessor's soul extraordinary. Even without soul cultivation, the soul can leave the body and gain control over a certain amount of icy power.

If the soul is injured, it can use ice and snow to accelerate the self-healing of the soul injury.

The downside is that the soul's foundation will become increasingly stronger, thus suppressing the physical body. In the early stages, this could lead to chronic frostbite. This gap between the soul and the physical body will become increasingly significant as the cultivator's cultivation level increases.

In the later stages, the cultivator's physical body would freeze to death, leaving only his soul.

Once a cultivator possesses the innate talent of Snow Soul and Ice Spirit, they will eventually become a ghost cultivator.

This is a mediocre talent.

The ice that had frozen the heavily armored Blood Ape Great Victory was mostly permeated by the hexagonal grid.

But soon, Xue Shuyu's power reached its limit—just as the hexagonal grid was about to approach the Heavy Blood Ape Dasheng, it came to an abrupt halt. No matter how much he urged his talent, he could not touch Yuan Dasheng's body.

Xue Shuyu·Xie began the next move.

The azure three-dimensional mesh brightened dramatically under the infusion of magic.

Boom, boom...

With a series of cracking sounds, the ice covered by the grid began to crack. Then, countless ice shards, like billions of tiny diamonds, fluttered and scattered.

The ice blocks that had frozen the Heavy Armored Blood Ape's Great Victory were being rapidly reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After Xue Shuyu and Xie had gone all out, only a thin layer of ice remained that had frozen Yuan Dasheng.

However, this level is where the difficulty increases dramatically. No matter how Xue Shuyu Xie tries, it remains unmoved and unaffected.

Seeing this, Ning Zhuo decisively ordered Xue Cai Nu Hui to join the attack.

Three pairs of jade arms suddenly unfolded, and the graceful female body slowly floated up. The naturally gifted, ice-cold jade hands began to work, and the three-colored enamel armor emitted a dazzling brilliance.

The two machines worked together and immediately achieved a breakthrough.

A thin layer of ice covered Yuan Dasheng's body, like snow melting rapidly under the scorching sun.

The dark, yin energy scattered everywhere, but Ning Zhuo took action and collected it all, preventing it from interfering with the subsequent thawing and rescue work.

The interior of the Heavy Armored Blood Ape's Great Victory mecha was also frozen, filled with ice.

These ice cubes were darker in color, clearly containing more yin energy.

Even with their combined efforts, Xue Shuyu·Xie and Xue Cainu·Hui could only dissolve about 30% of the ice block.

The remaining 70% remain firmly in place, quite stubbornly.

Supernatural power—life hangs by a thread!
Ning Zhuo's eyes lit up, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

Unlike before, the life hanging by a thread could finally be connected to Yuan Dasheng's spirit.

His spirit was shrunken and frozen, and no matter how Ning Zhuo called out to him, there was no response.

As for using human lives to pull it out, that's out of the question.

Ning Zhuo sighed softly.

This is already the limit.

To achieve this level is already quite impressive.

After all, both mechanical puppets were only made of Golden Core level materials, and their combat strength was indeed insufficient to deal with a Nascent Soul level expert in a life-or-death battle.

Fortunately, this situation was within Ning Zhuo's expectations.

He then ordered Xue Cai Nu Hui to continue using her Ice Jade Hand technique.

This time, however, instead of thawing the frozen jade hands, ice cubes were added.

The new ice blocks froze the heavily armored Blood Ape, Dasheng, almost restoring him to his previous state. But this time, these ice blocks harbored a hidden vitality, constantly bringing life and nourishment to Dasheng's spirit.

Ning Zhuo carefully observed Yuan Dasheng's life hanging by a thread and confirmed that Yuan Dasheng's spiritual ability could be barely maintained, which slightly eased his worries.

"Ice-like hands and snow-like soul are both natural talents, which are the prototypes of supernatural powers."

"Even with these two talented individuals working together, they cannot completely thaw the situation; they must find another way."

Ning Zhuo had already come up with quite a few solutions at this time.

For example, by using Nascent Soul level materials to construct new mechanical bodies, they could unleash Nascent Soul level combat power. This should solve Yuan Dasheng's problem.

However, Ning Zhuo's skill in mechanical arts did not reach that level.

Ning Zhuo has the methods, but his lack of ability is his Achilles' heel.

Ning Zhuo then took out the Shadow Blade Night Tiger and had the two mechanical puppets try to solve the problem.

This attempt was far less successful than Yuan Dasheng's.

The main issue is with Shadow Blade Night Tiger, which is different from Heavy Armor Blood Ape Great Victory. The latter was frozen, while the former was covered in dust.

Even if Ning Zhuo's life hangs by a thread and falls on the Shadow Blade Night Tiger, he cannot connect with its spirit.

In the end, Ning Zhuo had no choice but to order Xue Cai Nu Hui to freeze You Ying Feng Ren Ye Hu into ice as well.

"Hopefully, this sealing will also provide support for Meng Yehu's spirituality!"

Ning Zhu put away Yuan Dasheng and Meng Yehu and continued his cultivation.

Aside from his physical body, he was constantly studying the Demon-Stained Blood Tendon Technique. Currently, among his three dantian, the lower dantian (the Sea of ​​Essence) was lagging behind, progressing the slowest. Controlling Xue Cai Nu Hui and Xue Shu Yu Xie had also become one of Ning Zhuo's training projects.

Ning Zhuo discovered that by manipulating these puppets, he could help the spirits within them to more skillfully control their bodies.

At the same time, through these experiences, Ning Zhuo can also gain a better understanding of mechanical puppets, laying a practical foundation for the next round of improvements.

Ning Zhuo also didn't forget about making money.

He was starting to panic because he didn't have enough spirit stones in his reserves.

As for how to make money, Ning Zhuo certainly had many methods. He chose the fastest one—massively selling Ghost Dao Golden Pills!
However, he did not choose to make a move at the Myriad Manifestations Sect.

This is too ostentatious! It would also easily expose Ning Zhuo's strength, causing others to overestimate and overestimate it.

After all, the Myriad Manifestations Sect has a Nascent Soul level expert in charge.

Ning Zhuo chose to give away his Ghost Dao Golden Core to his old friends.

For example, Zhu Xuanji and Wanyaomen of Nandou Kingdom, and Mu Shangjiangjunfu and Sanjiangying of Liangzhu Kingdom. As for Baizhixian City, it is not within the scope of the transfer.

"Although it is far away, it is secluded."

"Although I am tied up with other matters at the Myriad Manifestations Sect, I can have people from the Southern Bean Kingdom and the Two Pearl Kingdoms come over to trade!"

For such a large transaction, having old friends play the role of traveling merchants is perfectly reasonable!
"We'll trade with the Nan Dou royal family and the Wan Yao Sect, and bring Ling Yin Liu along as well."

"So much time has passed, this spiritual plant should be fully grown by now, right?"

Nandou Kingdom.

Zhu Xuanji was working on official business at his desk.

There was a knock on the door.

"Go in." Zhu Xuanji didn't lift his eyelids, still writing something.

The subordinate knelt on the ground, his voice hoarse and grinding like gravel beneath his mask: "Reporting to my lord, the ambush was successful. Of the seven attackers, six were dead and one was wounded. After interrogating the prisoners, it was confirmed that they were cultivators from the Soul Devouring Sect."

As he spoke, his subordinate presented him with a waist token representing his identity and a jade slip.

Zhu Xuanji then slowly raised his head, reached out and summoned a suction force that pulled the evidence—the waist pendant and the jade slip—to the table.

Zhu Xuanji didn't look at the waist token, but instead picked up the jade slip and infused it with a portion of his divine sense.

The jade slip contained footage of the ambush.

In an unnamed canyon, crossbow bolts rained down, tearing through the night and catching the Soul Devouring Sect cultivators completely off guard. Three were seriously injured after the first wave of attacks.

The cultivators of the Soul Devouring Sect, their black robes billowing, retaliated like a swarm of bats.

Ning Jiufan took the lead, guiding the disguised Divine Arrest Bureau cultivators into battle. Thanks to their thorough preparation, not a single one died, and they completely defeated the Soul Devouring Sect's cultivator squad.

“The Soul Devouring Sect…” Zhu Xuanji tapped the table with his finger, still harboring doubts.

He has been closely monitoring the Ning family of Huoshixian City.

On one hand, the Ning family, the royal family of Nandou Kingdom, and the Wanyao Sect are in a secret alliance. On the other hand, if Zhu Xuanji does not want Huoshi Immortal City and Lava Immortal Palace to fall into the hands of the Meng family, he must rely on the Ning family to counter the Meng family's aggressive momentum.

Because of his close monitoring, Zhu Xuanji had previously discovered that someone had secretly infiltrated the Ning family and Ning Zhuo to gather intelligence.

Zhu Xuanji initially held back, then secretly investigated and discovered that the force investigating the Ning family and Ning Zhuo's information was the Soul Devouring Sect, one of the super powers.

"Han Ming and Qi Bai were both defeated by Ning Zhuo... but these alone are not enough to make the Soul Devouring Sect go to such lengths, are they?"

"This time, the team of cultivators who are going to harm the Ning family includes five Golden Core cultivators."

"Since they are trying to find out about Ning Zhuo, I'm afraid he is our chosen one, and has brought even greater losses to the Soul Devouring Sect!"

Zhu Xuanji thought of Ning Zhuo and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "That brat, he's already gone, and he still won't stop making me clean up his mess."

"Fortunately, he has already arrived at the White Paper Immortal City, which is still separated from our country by the Northern Wind Kingdom and the Two Zhu Kingdoms."

The intelligence channels of a cultivation kingdom are naturally extremely extensive.

It's not surprising that the intelligence network of the Southern Bean Kingdom has reached the damp, dark swamps.

Otherwise, Zhu Xuanji wouldn't have given Ning Zhuo guidance in the first place—telling him to find the Mourning Musician in the White Paper Immortal City.

"You brat, you owe me a favor this time." Zhu Xuanji thought to himself, and suddenly sneezed.

A sense of foreboding arose in his heart.

"Sigh, why am I thinking about him? I should just stop thinking about him."

“The one destined for disaster… should be kept at a distance, the farther the safer.”

"Someone from the Soul Devouring Sect must have been nearby; they're doomed!"

Soul Devouring Sect.

The area around the altar of bones was shrouded in a misty, swirling fog.

Feixin hovered around the outer edge of the soul mist, not daring to venture deeper.

On the altar, Tian Shuang and Di Gui sensed the flying message and slowly withdrew their attacks. Both soul cultivators looked utterly exhausted.

Tian Shuang waved her sleeve, causing the soul mist to open a blank path.

Feixin flew along this temporary passage and suddenly arrived in front of the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts.

The two men probed the message with their divine senses, and their expressions immediately darkened.

"What?! A team of five Golden Core cultivators and two Foundation Establishment elites has been completely wiped out?!"

"How can this be?"

The two were astonished; this situation was completely unexpected.

They suffered a great loss at the hands of Ning Zhuo in the Battle of Qianfenglin between the two countries.

The Heavenly and Earthly Demons missed the second major battle. After regrouping, they began their revenge.

But Ning Zhuo had already left the two countries by then.

Because it used the "Ten Thousand Miles Dragon" technique to traverse the void, the two ghosts of heaven and earth lost track of it just as they were about to begin.

For some time afterward, they actively searched for intelligence and issued missions within the Soul Devouring Sect to involve others in the search.

Unfortunately, the Twin Ghosts of Heaven and Earth never found Ning Zhuo.

This really worried Tian Shuang!
In the previous battle, Tian Shuang suffered a great loss. Not only did she give almost all of her wealth to Ning Zhuo, but she also lost face in front of her old partner, Di Gui.

What if we can't find Ning Zhuo?
After discussing it, the two ghosts came up with a plan. They would return to the main gate of the Soul Devouring Sect and use the White Bone Altar there to perform divination on the Frost Demon Mask.

Once Ning Zhuo uses the Heavenly Frost Ghost Mask, the divination will take effect, thus revealing his exact location.

The two ghosts, one representing heaven and one representing earth, guarded the altar of bones, taking turns presiding over the ceremony, maintaining it almost day and night, at a great cost.

But there was still no news from Tian Shuang Guimian.

"This is impossible!"

"The Heavenly Frost Ghost Face possesses Nascent Soul level combat power. Surely that brat Ning Zhuo can't just keep it under wraps all the time?"

With this in mind, the two managed to maintain the relationship for over a month, exhausting themselves to the point of near death.

Unable to hold out any longer, the two decided to offer a large reward and issue a mission to have fellow cultivators attack the Ning family, forcing Ning Zhuo to reveal himself.

Little did they know that the Ning family was backed by the royal family of the Nandou Kingdom.

The cultivator squad they had placed their hopes on was completely wiped out!
(End of this chapter)