Chapter 991: Icebound Thousand Miles

Martial artists who comprehended fire attribute dao patterns wouldn’t be burned to death; those who comprehended water attribute dao pattern wouldn’t be drowned to death. Similarly, those who comprehended the icy snow dao pattern wouldn’t be afraid of cold, and this cold air would be naturally neutralized. If Jiang Yi wasn’t afraid of this cold air, he would be able to use the soul swords in his soul spirit sea to destroy the bizarre energy that gushed into his soul spirit sea!

It was 15 minutes of life and death. Jiang Yi had completely ignored the outside situation and didn’t bother about the attacks in his soul spirit, too. He had forgotten everything and forced himself to immerse in the cold air that had enveloped his entire body.

Gradually, he had unknowingly entered the Union of Heaven and Man state. He felt as though he had become a small fish in the Ice Sea and was surrounded by boundless ice mountains and chilling snow. He felt extremely cold, and he felt as though he was forsaken by the world.

Cold!

This was a kind of very ordinary sensation. It was one of the few simplest senses that belong to a human.

Cold, hot, pain… itch.

When the temperature was low, it would naturally be cold. When it was too cold, life wouldn’t be able to continue sustaining. The cold was the natural enemy of life, and in order to resist the cold, humans would wear thick clothing, warm themselves by the fire, and many other ways.

“Could the icy snow dao pattern be the dao of the cold? The question is what kind of sensation was the cold? How am I going to feel this dao of the cold?”

Jiang Yi was thinking with the speed that was 100 times faster than normal. He was carefully sensing the cold that came from the chilling air through his body and soul spirit while putting in his full concentration to comprehend, deduce, and verify. He repeatedly denied, deduced, and overthrew his ideas.

As time ticked by, the dust that floated in the air had already settled down, all the shards of rocks of the mountain that Jiang Yi had also stopped rolling and sliding down. Jiang Yi’s entire body had been buried by the shattered rocks, and his entire body was frozen like a corpse of ice. His body was still profusely bleeding but were all solidified by the chilling air. His breathing had gotten extremely frail, and his soul spirit was constantly getting attacked until the brink of collapse.

“What a waste of a prodigy!”

Fifth Eldress let out a slight sigh and knitted her brows. At this moment, she was asking herself if she was overly emotionless. She had forcefully destroyed a generational prodigy. Jiang Yi was only 23 years old now, and if he managed to survive until her age, he would definitely crush her effortlessly!

That was wrong!

At the Stupa Mountain, Jiang Yi had incinerated five DemiG.o.ds. She was only a Five-Star expert, and although she was half a foot into the DemiG.o.d Realm—if Jiang Yi had attacked her, she should be killed easily.

Fifth Eldress didn’t know that Jiang Yi couldn’t activate the Smelting Divine Furnace anymore, and she thought that Jiang Yi was doing this for the sake of Su Ruoxue. He didn’t hesitate to use his life as a price, and he didn’t hesitate to be destroyed by her. When thinking about this, her heart had felt even more discomfort.

She was indeed already 40 years of age and had been alone for her life. The Heaven Hidden Sect didn’t have any woman that was married, and if anyone dared to fall in love or gotten into an illicit s.e.xual relations.h.i.+p with a man, they would be executed if discovered. This was the sect rule.

Hence, Fifth Eldress had never tasted the feeling of ‘being loved’ and ‘loving someone’. It was also because of this that she was moved by Jiang Yi’s infatuation. If anyone else dared to say they were going to destroy the Heaven Hidden Sect, she would have sent a message into the sect; and a group of DemiG.o.ds would immediately emerge to kill that person!

“Sigh, this is fate. Jiang Yi… apologies!”

Fifth Eldress ultimately didn’t help Jiang Yi. She withdrew her divine senses and prepared to teleport back to the Heaven Hidden Sect. Everyone had their own fate, and didn’t she have her own fate, too? After entering the Heaven Hidden Sect, she was destined to live a lifetime in solitary.

“Activate the teleportation array!”

Fifteen minutes was up. Jiang Yi’s soul spirit was about to crumble, and he had stopped breathing, too. In the Fifth Eldress’ opinion, Jiang Yi was definitely going to die. Heaven Monarchs who got struck by her dao pattern would certainly die. Jiang Yi might have some unusual abilities and treasures, but his essence force realm was only at the fourth stage of Heaven Monarch Realm. This was an unchangeable fact.

Chi! Chi!

As the teleportation array gradually lit up, Fifth Eldress closed her eyes and let out another sigh, revealing a trace of guilt on her face.

Just at this moment—!

The heaven and earth essence force in the radius of ten miles suddenly moved and flocked over to mountain peak where Jiang Yi was in a frenzy. At the same time, the wind and clouds in the Nine Heavens above had moved, and a star had lit up. A divine light broke through the sky which was extremely radiant, illuminating Fifth Eldress’ astonished expression.

Buzz!

The teleportation array had already activated, but Fifth Eldress felt her body getting bound by powerful energy and was about to teleport. She didn’t know what happened, but she instinctively stayed behind and exclaimed. “Heaven and earth anomaly, the divine power of stars. Could it be a five-star dao pattern?”

“Five-star dao pattern?”

The gray-haired old woman and others had eyes that contracted. High-grade dao patterns were very hard to fuse and comprehending it directly was even more difficult. Directly comprehending a dao pattern above the five-star rank was something that had never happened for thousands of years.

Of course… everyone present didn’t believe that Jiang Yi had directly comprehended this five-star dao pattern. They a.s.sumed that he had already comprehended half of it and had simply fused it together right now.

Despite the case, everyone was extremely shaken in their hearts. They were in admiration because Jiang Yi was able to activate his hidden potential at the crucial moment of life and death to ultimately make a breakthrough. If they were in the same situation, they would have obediently submitted to death. Who would disregard everything and even cast away life and death to fully concentrate on comprehending a dao pattern?

“Eh? Jiang Yi had comprehended an icy snow type dao pattern?”

The gray-haired old woman couldn’t help, but she bewildered when she swept with her divine senses. She noticed that all the chilling air in Jiang Yi’s body had vanished, and the frost on his body had melted. Jiang Yi had never appeared in the snow region, and in a normal situation, a person not from the snow region would seldom comprehend an icy snow type dao pattern. Could Jiang Yi have comprehended this dao pattern after arriving in the snow region?

Chi! Chi!

The power of star had embedded into Jiang Yi’s soul spirit sea, and many of them were envious when they saw it. This power of star was a great thing and had many wonderful usages. However, as compared to the power of stars, a dao pattern that was five-stars and beyond was even more precious. If one wanted to become an expert—to become a DemiG.o.d and stand on the pinnacle, one would have to comprehend and fuse a dao pattern which was five-stars or above.

DemiG.o.ds were far superior to Heaven Monarchs. There were plenty of peak-stage Heaven Monarchs that had forcefully reached their level by comprehending countless low-grade dao patterns. Such peak-stage Heaven Monarchs would have a pitifully weak combat strength and would never have any hopes to break through to the DemiG.o.d Realm and reach the pinnacle in their entire life.

Buzz!

The teleportation array lit up again, and the Fifth Eldress had teleported back which alerted everyone. The Fifth Eldress’ divine senses immediately scanned at Jiang Yi, but her divine senses didn’t lock on Jiang Yi. She had noticed the abnormal movements of the surrounding wind and snow. Countless wind and snow were converging towards this place, and a surge of chilling air gushed over and instantly enveloped everyone.

“Icebound Thousand Miles!”

An extremely elated voice roared and echoed. When his voice echoed, the surrounding mountains were turned into a sparkling and translucent color. Everything in a radius of ten miles had been frozen; even the spatial zone felt as though it had been frozen.

“Uh…”

Fifth Eldress’ lips moved and wanted to say something, but her body was completely frozen at the next moment. The gray-haired old woman and others were in worse states as they had been turned into ice sculptures!

Bang!

Two breaths later, the ice on Fifth Eldress’ body had burst open. Her body constantly flashed as she struck out palm strikes around the Heaven Hidden Sect’s disciples and shattered all the ice on their bodies. At the same time, she shot a wisp of essence force towards everyone and looked at the frozen surroundings before taking two cold breaths and muttered, “This is indeed the five-star dao pattern, Icebound Thousand Miles. This Jiang Yi is too insane and actually comprehended this ice attribute dao pattern. I have been fusing it for more than ten years and am still unable to completely fuse it. What a pity that he is a man. Otherwise, he can be recruited into the sect, and the Heaven Hidden Sect might become the no.1 concealed great sect.”

Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+

In the distant mountain peak, a figure that was drenched in blood had flown out. Jiang Yi scanned across the appalled faces of the Fifth Eldress and all the Heaven Hidden Sect’s disciples. He then let out delighted laughter and said, “Fifth Eldress! I, Jiang Yi, have survived! I survived! Hahaha!”