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Lin Yitang quickly took a few steps back and instructed Ju Zi, "Ju Zi, come with me!"

"I'll hold it off for now, you find a chance to injure it!"

Orange nodded, transformed into its true form, and flew up, its entire body engulfed in blazing phoenix flames.

Without hesitation, Lin Yitang unleashed the power of rising tide, summoning the long-lost Duan Sui technique, and began to fight the cold beast.

This cold beast is at least as strong as the elite disciples of the three major sects, which is comparable to Gu Yueying and others.

Furthermore, demonic beasts of the same cultivation level are inherently stronger than humans, possessing immense power and formidable physiques. Even if she consumed the Five Cauldrons Begonia, she wouldn't be able to defeat the Frost Beast in the short term. She could only hold out for a while by raising the water level slightly, relying on the little phoenix to find an opportunity.

With a whoosh, Duan Sui parried the claws and fangs of the icy beast, briefly maintaining a stalemate. When the azure spirit fire lunged at her, she repelled it with a powerful lightning strike.

This demonic beast's divine beast bloodline is probably not its own; it merely inherited something, and its control over the spiritual fire isn't very high. However, it is still a divine beast's inheritance, making it very difficult for Lin Yitang to fight, and the little phoenix also struggled to find a breakthrough.

She gritted her teeth and had no choice but to deliberately create an opening, pretending to be shocked and exposing her shoulder.

The cold beasts weren't very intelligent either; they would bite at any opening they saw.

Seeing this, the little phoenix also rushed up.

The instant the little phoenix struck the cold beast with its phoenix fire and beak, the cold beast also bit Lin Yitang's arm! The cold beast roared in pain and opened its mouth. Lin Yitang's eyes narrowed, and she drained all the spiritual energy in her body, unleashing a strike that severed the void.

The little phoenix delivered another blow, finally defeating the cold beast completely and leaving it lying on the ground, unable to get up.

However, Lin Yitang's left shoulder was also a bloody mess at this moment, and its shape was no longer visible.

She quickly drank Fan Niannian's healing medicine, which slightly stopped the bleeding.

However, these few bottles of Fan Niannian's potions were obtained a few months ago. At that time, Fan Niannian had not yet broken through to the Golden Core stage. She had only created potions that could heal injuries caused by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, and their effect on Golden Core stage cultivators was minimal.

Not to mention the injuries caused by a sixth-tier peak demon beast with divine beast inheritance.

After drinking the potion, her wound still showed no signs of healing. The spiritual energy of the cyan spirit fire covering it, along with the powerful coldness it contained, hindered the medicine's effectiveness from penetrating.

Lin Yitang leaned against the stone wall, somewhat anxious.

Suddenly, she remembered something and took out the lotus leaves and seeds of Lingyunhe. If she remembered correctly, the lotus leaves and seeds of Lingyunhe seemed to be holy medicines for healing, with restorative effects.

Wrap the wound with a lotus leaf, then swallow a lotus seed. Sure enough, the wound visibly healed and quickly returned to normal.

This delighted Lin Yitang; the healing effect was truly powerful, worthy of being a rare and precious material that could help one break through to the Golden Core stage! Whether it was the lotus flower, the lotus leaf, or the lotus seedpod, they were all treasures.

After resting cross-legged for a while and using the Five Tripods of Tang to restore her spiritual energy, Lin Yitang then looked at the corpse of the Frost Beast.

Once the Frost Beast died, it reverted to its true form, becoming just an ordinary demon beast whose bloodline had been activated by some unknown force.

Upon dissecting the beast's carcass, a demon core was found lying inside.

This demon core is extraordinary. It's clearly not from a cold beast; it looks more like... the demon core of some kind of divine beast!

The azure spiritual fire was emanating from this demon core, indicating that even though the divine beast's original body was dead, the demon core it left behind still contained such powerful energy.

It truly lives up to its reputation as a divine beast, not weaker than a god.

Based on the swirling, flowing patterns on the demon core, it can be determined that this should also be a Phoenix demon core, most likely belonging to the Azure Phoenix.

In that case, this demon core can be given to Ju Zi as a treasure for advancement.

I never expected that Orange would receive a treasure that would allow it to advance its level as soon as it woke up. It truly lives up to its reputation as a divine beast that brings good fortune!

Lin Yitang couldn't help but suspect that the current reversal of fortune between Ye Qiuli and herself was likely related to the orange, because those who had contracted with divine beasts would have extremely strong luck.

Having stolen Ye Qiuli's divine beast once, his own luck was gradually becoming able to rival hers.

However, the orange cannot eat this demon core yet. It has just advanced two levels and its cultivation is not yet stable. Advancing as a divine beast is not easy. Even if it consumes a demon core, it cannot immediately advance to the seventh level.

After all, Ju Zi is currently at the late Golden Core stage according to human cultivation levels. She doesn't know what treasures and conditions are needed to advance from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, nor does she know the process involved.

They had no choice but to preserve the Golden Elixir as an accumulation of treasures needed for Ju Zi to attain enlightenment.

After collecting the corpse of the frost beast, Lin Yitang looked at the place where the beast had appeared. The blue flames were no longer rising from the ground, but a sunken hole was emitting a rich spiritual energy, indicating that there were still treasures below.

Lin Yitang jumped down from the cave entrance and used the luminous pearl to startle everyone.

What's underneath... is actually a small spirit stone mine!

As everyone knows, the northern ice plains are not entirely devoid of spiritual energy; there are occasional places with spiritual veins. However, no one expected that there would be such a valuable thing as a spirit stone mine.

I estimated that there were probably tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones and several hundred mid-grade spirit stones.

From this perspective, the scale isn't actually that large. However, the guardian beast is only an ordinary late-stage Golden Core demon beast, so the small size of the spirit stone mine is understandable. If the demon beast hadn't consumed the demon core of the divine beast Azure Phoenix, it wouldn't be so powerful.

The truly good spirit stone mines are basically guarded by half-Nascent Soul or even Nascent Soul stage demon beasts.

After clearing out the spirit stone mine, Lin Yitang suddenly had a bold idea.

The northern ice plains have many spirit stone mines, so there must be other places with spirit stone mines besides here.

If she were to explore it... she might be able to find the locations of many spirit stone mines?

This idea is growing stronger.

She didn't want those spirit stone mines; after all, fighting a late-stage Golden Core cultivator was already exhausting enough, and she couldn't possibly fight other, even more powerful demonic beasts continuously.

Every spirit stone mine is bound to be guarded by a powerful demon, so it's not unreasonable for her to just acquire the location, right?

Since Senior Sister Su Qianqian obtained information from the surface, it's understandable that she would try to obtain information from underground.

True to her word, she immediately took the orange and used earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to escape underground) to explore the surrounding underground. At the same time, she activated her magic hairpin to the maximum extent to completely conceal her aura.

It's important to know that the underground is also very dangerous, no safer than the surface, and in fact, even more terrifying.

Many powerful demonic beasts love to hide underground. Once you enter their lair or invade their territory, you will die without a burial place.

Lin Yitang also concentrated highly and was extremely careful, which is why she explored many places.

During this time, they encountered countless powerful hibernating snake demons, bear demons, rat demons, insect demons, and demonic plant demons.

These slumbering demonic beasts underground are all quite powerful, mostly at the mid-to-late stage of the Golden Core realm. Lin Yitang was almost discovered several times, but fortunately, she activated her magic hairpin and used the Swiftness Talisman, Invisibility Talisman, Teleportation Talisman, and Golden Bell Talisman several times.

She only regretted that she wasn't at the Nascent Soul stage; otherwise, she wouldn't be afraid of any of these demons at all. In fact, if she even revealed a hint of Nascent Soul stage aura, all the Golden Core demons within a radius of tens of thousands of miles would flee in terror, daring not to contend with her.

However, it's impossible for Nascent Soul cultivators to appear here. Firstly, they wouldn't even consider these spirit stone mines, and secondly, Nascent Soul cultivators from other sects wouldn't tolerate other sects' Nascent Soul cultivators appearing near their territory, or even plundering spirit stone mines.

Therefore, the struggle for spirit stone mines has always been the responsibility of the Golden Core cultivators and elite disciples of each sect. Nascent Soul cultivators are generally required to remain in their sects to exert a deterrent effect.