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Li Jinzhi sat as still as a mountain and ignored him.

He knew that Ye Cheng was hiding something from him. It was about his identity, bloodline, and hatred.

If he did not make things clear, there might be a gap between them forever.

If it was someone else, he would not care whether it was a gap or a natural chasm.

However, Ye Yu couldn't do that. Ye Yu was someone he treated as a comrade and someone he could trust.

Therefore, it was useless to act cute. He had to make things clear.

He shook his head with his chubby paws and peeked at Li Jinzhi through the gaps between his paws. "Hmm?

Jingzhi!

You're alright?! "He sounded surprised.

"Yes." He ignored him.

"You've changed so much. How long have I been sleeping?" His eyes darted around as he looked around.

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The room fell silent. Li Jinzhi opened his eyes and stared at the Little Dragon on the ground. The warm yellow light shone on his pupils, making them look like tiny stars.

The Little Dragon raised his head. His eyes were filled with Li Jinzhi. There was a hint of panic in his eyes.

"You remember?" Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows.

"Yes." He nodded.

"Is there anything you want to say?" He narrowed his eyes. His long eyelashes drooped down, casting a shadow that covered the emotions in his eyes.

"I'm Ye Cheng." The Little Dragon lowered his head and clasped his paws together.

"Then how did you become like this?" Li Jinzhi narrowed his eyes and asked again after getting the answer he wanted.

"You know it too."

Ye Cheng's voice was very soft. He lowered his head and confessed, "I was thrown into the Heart Infant Lake by Hu Sisi. At that time, I had not entered the Dao. After falling into the ice lake, I lost consciousness before I reached the bottom of the lake. After that, my consciousness was imprisoned in my sea of consciousness. However, I could clearly sense what happened to my body."

Li Jinzhi heard him talk about this experience. He felt bitter and guilty. His fingers clenched into fists.

"His body seems to have been thrown into a furnace. His bones and blood were all burned away, and in the end, he was forcefully pieced together like this."

Ye Cheng paused and stared intently at Li Jinzhi with his beady eyes. He said in a low voice, "Someone even forced something that doesn't belong to me."

Li Jinzhi's mouth was full of bitterness. He opened his mouth and said dryly, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Say?" Ye Cheng chuckled softly. "Say what?

What should he say?

Saying that I've become something that's neither human nor demon?

Or should I say that I slaughtered all 126 members of your Li Family for personal revenge? "

After saying this, his body bent even more. "If I didn't say anything, perhaps you would still accept me. But now …"

He stole a glance at Li Jinzhi's expression, only to see him frowning as if deep in thought. Ye Cheng twisted his body, turned his head, and slowly walked towards the wall of the cave. He squatted in the corner with his back facing him.

Li Jinzhi saw his actions and frowned even more. "Where are you going?"

"You don't want me anymore." Li Jinzhi's eyes lit up, and his voice sounded even more pitiful.

"Come back. Tell me clearly what you mean by neither human nor demon." Li Jinzhi pulled him over and straightened him. His gaze slowly moved down between his legs, but he didn't see his penis.

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"What are you doing!"

Ye Cheng tried to clamp his legs together, but he couldn't move. For a moment, the scales on his cheeks flushed red. "That's not what I mean!

Jingzhi, what are you thinking! "

An awkward expression flashed across Li Jinzhi's face. He touched his nose and let go of Ye Cheng's legs. "What does that mean?"

"It means what it means!

I've just become half-human!

Something that's not a demon! "

The base of the scales was red. Ye Cheng struggled to get down. His eyes wandered as he explained, "As for the male part, the flood dragon's thing will hide under the scales on its abdomen when it's useless."

Li Jinzhi, who had just finished acting like a hooligan, immediately asked without any guilt, "Aren't you a demon now?

Also, what was stuffed into your body that didn't belong to you? "

"At the bottom of the Heart Infant Lake, there's the remains of an ancient flood dragon. Since I have the bloodline of the Ice Dragon, I obtained the inherited cultivation technique from the skeleton."

Ye Cheng's face was full of pain. "However, the price was also great. My body has been reconstructed. Even maintaining a human form requires a lot of spiritual power.

My brain was also forcefully stuffed with emotions that didn't belong to me. It's a bone-deep hatred, a hatred for the Ice Phoenix. "

Li Jinzhi was stunned. "Hatred?"

"The inherited memories mentioned two ancient bloodlines in the Northern Frozen Realm."

Green Bean stared at Li Jinzhi with its beady eyes. "There's an endless hatred. The last two bloodline inheritances ended with the Ice Phoenix devouring the demon core and the Ice Dragon dying." After hesitating for a while, he asked, "Jingzhi, you've also awakened your bloodline, right?"

"Yes." Li Jinzhi chuckled, but his eyes were fixed on Ye Cheng. "I've indeed awakened my bloodline." So what? You're going to be my enemy and fight to the death?

"Then do you know that consuming my demon core can transform your bloodline?"

Ye Cheng's pitch-black eyes were filled with nervousness and curiosity. He opened his mouth and spat out a white pearl. There were faint golden patterns on the surface of the pearl. As it spun, it emitted a scorching heat. "This is my demon core. If you eat it, the Ice Phoenix bloodline will evolve into a Divine Phoenix. It will undergo nirvana once every thousand years and will be immortal," he said in a low, slightly hoarse voice that was intoxicating and bewitching.

Li Jinzhi pursed his lips and told him his plan. "There's no need. Even if I only have the Ice Phoenix bloodline, I'm confident that I can use my own strength to climb to the top. Ordinary demon cultivators and human cultivators can also climb to the top and obtain eternal life. Why can't I?"

With every sentence he said, Ye Cheng's eyes brightened. But in the end, the light in his eyes disappeared. "But I killed your family. Are you still willing?"

"No."

Li Jinzhi interrupted Ye Yu. Seeing Ye Yu's eyes darken in an instant, he laughed and said, "Those who schemed and plotted against me are not my family. Compared to them, you are more like my family." He rubbed Ye Yu's head.

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His mung bean eyes suddenly widened. The Little Dragon suddenly jumped into Li Jinzhi's palm and rubbed his little head intimately. His eyes were full of joy.

It was indeed convenient to be small. Ye Cheng was satisfied with his body size for the first time.

"However, the hatred between you and the Li family isn't as simple as Hu Sisi, right?"

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows and asked. Feeling the stiffness in his palm, he was even more certain of the answer he had long guessed.

"Li Zongmu is my biological father."

Ye Cheng said softly, "I'm not very clear about the love and hate entanglement between him and my mother, but my mother never mentions this person when she's normal. She only scolds him while stabbing me when she's crazy." Hidden in the dark, his eyes were dark and unclear. His head gently rubbed Li Jinzhi's fingers. He was attached to this person's warmth. He was the one who pulled him out of the purgatory of the human world. Didn't he also treat him as family?

Li Jinzhi's heart ached. When he read it in the past, through the thin text, he only felt that the villain Ye Cheng was a cultivation maniac. In order to obtain power, he disregarded human lives. In order to achieve his goals, he was unscrupulous and cold-blooded to the extreme.

However, he saw the scar on his arm with his own eyes. He heard with his own ears that he had suffered in the past. He personally experienced his downfall and sloppiness.

However, he suddenly felt that with that kind of experience, Ye Cheng in the original work should have changed into a cold-blooded and cold-blooded person, and should have changed into a desire for power.

However, the current Ye Cheng did not go to that extreme. Thinking of his behavior just now, his heart softened.

Was it because of him?

His sudden appearance and unintentional behavior changed the other party's state of mind. Although he still went through what he should have gone through, he became a variable in the trajectory of the other party's life. Perhaps, he was also the other party's only restraint.

"Later, because the demon core was with you, my strength was greatly reduced and I couldn't maintain my human form. I happened to be hit by Moksha who was passing by." Ye Cheng's eyes flashed with a haze. "The pain that that person inflicted on the two of us will be returned a hundredfold in the future."

Demon core?

Li Jinzhi was stunned. After thinking for a while, he understood. That Little Dragon with dim eyes and no spiritual aura must be the clone that the other party created with the demon core.

"What's your cultivation level now?"

Although most of the people who were able to kill more than a hundred people of the Li family were mortals, there were Foundation Establishment stage elders among them.

If he could kill these people with a cultivation level of Qi Refinement stage eight, then the villain's golden finger would be thicker than his.

These days, wasn't the villain's treatment a little too generous?

"It's only equivalent to a human cultivation level of Qi Refinement stage ten."

Ye Cheng whispered, "At the beginning, there was a large wave of demon power that I inherited, but I was eager for revenge." He realized that when he spoke in this tone, Li Jinzhi would pat his head.

"It's also a good thing to end the karma. Wasting some spiritual power is a waste, we can just cultivate it back in the future.

However, our current situation is a little bad. "Li Jinzhi slowly recounted what he had seen, heard, and guessed after waking up. In the end, he smiled bitterly and said," The maze has been open for three months. Five days have passed before we met the Moksha. We were unconscious for a few days. If the two of us are still in the ice cave waters, then it won't be long before the maze closes. I'm afraid the two of us will have to face each other day and night for fifty years. "

Ye Cheng was stunned. His eyes flashed with ecstasy, but his tone was extremely worried. "We don't know how deep this place is now. There's the giant octopus and the tiger-striped sea rabbit above us. Our cultivation levels are only at Qi Refinement stage. I'm afraid three months won't be enough."

"Indeed."

Li Jinzhi didn't look worried. "So what if we can't get out? Fortune and misfortune depend on each other. The ice spiritual energy here is rich. The two of us can treat this place as a paradise. Cultivators have no time in meditation. Fifty years is just the blink of an eye."

The war between immortals and demons was about to break out. The Northern Arctic Domain would be in chaos. With their cultivation levels, they would be cannon fodder. It was better to hide here and focus on cultivating.

Moreover, they would have enough time to search for the opportunities at the bottom of the sea.

"Only a level-seven demon spirit can steadily transform. It's equivalent to a human being's Yuanying stage. If I go out like this, there will be chaos when I'm discovered. It's not necessarily a bad thing to hide here and increase my strength."

Ye Cheng sighed. "It's funny that as a human, I've become half-human and half-demon. I have to cultivate to transform into a human."

"What a coincidence. I've just obtained a cultivation technique. I need to cultivate the Demon Dao in human form."

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows. "If you want to evolve into a Divine Dragon, now is the best time. My cultivation level is only at the first level of Qi Refinement."

"Ice Dragon can transform into mist and control the laws of time. There's nothing bad about that. Why evolve into a Divine Dragon?"

He stared at Li Jinzhi with his beady eyes. "I'm not a useless and greedy person who only knows how to rely on my bloodline. Besides, you're my family."

He wanted to monopolize all of the warmth.

Li Jinzhi was satisfied. He patted Ye Cheng's head and said, "Time is of the essence. The two of us need to hurry up and cultivate."

Ye Cheng jumped to the ground and sat cross-legged. The demon core floated in front of him. "Let's begin. Didn't you say that there are many strange places at the bottom of the sea? I'll accompany you to explore this place when I've achieved initial success."

A faint light flashed across his dark eyes. "Okay."

He had been alone for so long and had been abandoned so many times. Only this person would stubbornly say, "I'm here." "I'll accompany you." "You still have me."

Li Jinzhi curled his lips and closed his eyes. He gradually emptied his thoughts and returned his consciousness to the air. He allowed the technique to operate and the spiritual energy to enter his body. After a cycle, his dantian was finally filled to the brim.

The technique did not stop. He overflowed the accumulated spiritual energy out of his body and then burst it into all the bones in his body. With his previous experience, Li Jinzhi's movements were smooth and fluid.

The pure spiritual energy slowly refined his bones. Finally, there was a soft sound. Li Jinzhi's bones were preliminarily refined.

Then, he had to transform his blood and meridians.

Because his blood vessels were too thin right now, and the Ice Phoenix bloodline was extremely cold and abnormally violent, if he rashly introduced the bloodline accumulated in his dantian into these blood vessels, the tragic scene of his body exploding and dying was absolutely imaginable.

The meridians had to be able to withstand the absorption of the Ice Seed of Extreme Yin in the future. If the meridians were frozen and turned into popsicles as soon as the Ice Seed was introduced into the body, it would be a big joke.

When Li Jinzhi opened his eyes again, he did not know how much time had passed. Ye Cheng, who was beside him, still had his eyes closed. However, his body size was bigger than before. He had changed from a pair of chopsticks to a rolling pin.

The original appearance of the stone walls could no longer be seen. Thick Ice Crystals were attached to them. Perhaps it was because they had been condensed for too long, the Ice Crystals had become extremely smooth. Li Jinzhi quietly looked at the young man's reflection.

His originally jade-white skin had become colder. At first glance, it gave people the illusion that there were shallow Ice Crystals attached to his skin. His faint eyes reduced the presence of his peach blossom eyes. The combination of his sharp nose and thin lips also gave people an extremely cold feeling.

If you ignored his slightly white hair and eyebrows, Li Jinzhi was still very satisfied with the changes caused by the technique.

However, why was the side effect of prematurely aging not mentioned earlier?!

Li Jinzhi pulled his scattered hair behind his back. He was speechless. His originally black hair had all faded. Although it was still shiny, it still made him feel confused.

Perhaps the Ice Phoenix was white, and his hair was just fading normally?

According to the steps of the technique, the next step was to find the Ice Seed of Extreme Yin and fuse it with the blood of the Ice Phoenix in the body to form the foundation of the Monster Core.

Using the coldest Ice Seed as the Monster Core's ice seed, and then using other secondary Ice Seeds to further refine the bones, the Ice Phoenix's Jade Coiling Ice Bones would be condensed to Dacheng.

Initially, the whole body's bones would be equivalent to a Qi Refining Stage cultivator advancing to the Ice Seed of Extreme Yin. After refining a hundred main bones, one would be able to fight against a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator. After condensing the Monster Core, one would have the power to fight against a Golden Elixir Stage cultivator. After condensing the Phoenix Spirit from the Monster Core, one would have the confidence to fight against a Yuanying Stage cultivator.

If one cultivated the Nirvana Three Revolutions Technique, one would be able to transform into the Ice Phoenix's original body and use the Ice Phoenix's innate magical power, the power of space.

He didn't know about the other settings, but the most interesting setting of this book was the power of space, because Li Jinzhi was attracted to this book by the title "Lord of a Realm".

Li Jinzhi secretly decided that if he really became the Lord of a Realm in the future, he would make Ye Cheng the Realm Guardian General. At that time, if there was a fight, he could use his law of time.

Li Jinzhi's plan was very good, but he never thought that there would only be two people in his Realm in the future.

His Realm Guardian General was very responsible, and the law of time was also used on the Realm Lord. This was a story for later, so let's not talk about it for now.

Ye Cheng didn't wake up, and Li Jinzhi didn't make a sound either. After slowly closing his eyes, he entered meditation and began to organize his memories, the past, the future, and the present. The more he recalled, the more peaceful and relaxed his state of mind became.

Although he was the protagonist after transmigrating, he was down-to-earth. He didn't try to reach the sky in a single step, nor did he deliberately look for the opportunities in the book. After that, he embarked on the path of demon cultivation. He walked against the Dao and faced many difficulties, but he never flinched.

Whether he was a human or a demon, he would not regret it if he maintained his original heart when he entered the Dao.

The more he meditated, the longer Li Jinzhi's breath became. After throwing away distracting thoughts and worries, his heart of cultivation became more determined, and his heart of gains and losses became lighter. When he opened his eyes again, his light-colored pupils were like an ancient well without any ripples. They were neither sad nor happy, but unusually firm.

When he looked down, he found that Ye Cheng was staring at him with his eyes wide open. After a long while, he smiled. "Your cultivation has reached a bottleneck. Go out?"

"Yes."

Li Jinzhi pondered for a moment and also felt that it was useless to continue meditating. He nodded and said, "It's time to go explore."

The mysteries accumulated in the bottom of his heart always had to be solved. What exactly was waiting for them in the depths of the sea?

Li Jinzhi stood up and was about to turn into a beam of light and fly out, but he heard Ye Cheng say, "Carry me and fly. It's not convenient for me to fly with my body size."

He stretched out two claws toward Ye Cheng. He was much bigger than before, and the ice white scales on his body had turned black from the roots. It seemed that he was about to transform.

After lifting Ye Cheng, he wanted to stuff him into his lapel like before, but Ye Cheng's body was too big, and it didn't look good in his lapel. Li Jinzhi placed Ye Cheng on his shoulder and reminded him, "Be careful not to fall."

"Yes."

After saying that, Ye Cheng crouched down. His front claws tightly hooked the collar of the robe, and his back claws pinched the collar. However, his tail quietly curled around the back of Li Jinzhi's neck.

The beam of light flew out, and the iceberg gradually became smaller and farther away behind him. Li Jinzhi wasn't looking in a random direction. He found that the ice spiritual energy at the bottom of the sea flowed from left to right.

And he wanted to go to the source of this spiritual energy and find the reason why the sea ice spiritual energy was so strong.

Generally speaking, for there to be such rich ice spiritual energy, it was either a high-level Dharma treasure or the birth of an extremely cold Heavenly Treasure.

But no matter what it was, it would be of great benefit to cultivators like him and Ye Cheng, who had ice attribute spiritual energy.

Li Jinzhi's mind was full of twists and turns. He had already flown thousands of miles away. The sea was vast and boundless. Li Jinzhi released his Divine Sense, but he suddenly noticed that something was wrong. He withdrew his flying light and looked at it with a solemn face.

"Something's not right." Ye Cheng got down from Ye Cheng's body, and his face was also full of vigilance.

"You noticed it too?"

Li Jinzhi looked around the environment again. A few meters below, there was an endless oceanic trench. The trench was surrounded by ice-white crystals, and the middle of the trench was so deep that he couldn't see the bottom.

"The sea beasts from before have disappeared here." Ye Cheng quickly sniffed and said very quickly, "The ice spiritual energy below is abnormally rich."

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Rich ice spiritual energy?

Could it be that his perception just now was wrong?

The source of the spiritual energy wasn't the sea on the left, but here?

He extended his divine perception to the left and also felt a rich spiritual energy. Obviously, he was heading in the right direction. The source of the ice spiritual energy in the sea had not yet arrived.

Li Jinzhi only hesitated for a moment. After turning his head to look at Ye Cheng, he saw the interest in the other's eyes. At the same time, he turned into a beam of light and shot down into the oceanic trench. After entering, he felt unusually comfortable.

This oceanic trench was very deep, and the mouth was slightly curved, forming a natural moat that naturally blocked the spiritual energy. After entering, he found that the spiritual energy here was extremely hot, but when he sensed it carefully, he found that it was of the ice attribute.

Li Jinzhi's heart flashed with surprise, and an incredible idea popped up in his mind. Then, he used his divine perception to explore thousands of meters, but there was no end. However, he could feel that the deeper he went, the richer the spiritual energy.

What exactly was down there?

"Go down?"

Ye Cheng's eyes were filled with excitement. The spiritual energy below made him excited. Because he was a cultivator of the extreme Yang ice spiritual energy, even ordinary ice spiritual energy had never made him feel so carefree.

"Go down."

Li Jinzhi smiled. The extreme Yang ice spiritual energy was rare. If he could use it, he might be able to turn back into a human immediately. "Do you think there will be another Ice Dragon down there?"

"Impossible."

Ye Cheng answered very quickly, almost blurting out, "You don't have the inherited memory, so you don't know. Although the Ice Dragon and Ice Phoenix are not branches of the Divine Dragon and Phoenix, they are unique creatures. If the previous one is still alive in the world, it is impossible to give birth to a second one."

"Why?"

Li Jinzhi was stunned in the beam of light and asked with a strange expression. However, before Ye Cheng answered, he suddenly realized that the power of space and the law of time were overflowing due to the sudden increase in the number of Ice Dragon and Ice Phoenix, wouldn't the world be in chaos?

"But you said that the previous Ice Dragon died, and the Ice Phoenix successfully swallowed the Ice Dragon's monster core and transformed into a fire phoenix." Li Jinzhi asked hesitantly, "Could it be that something went wrong in the middle?"

"Maybe it encountered a strong enemy later?"

Ye Cheng answered vaguely. In fact, even he himself was not very clear about this question. Logically speaking, if it successfully transformed into a fire phoenix, it only needed to experience a thousand years of nirvana, and it could be reborn without any major mistakes.

It was the same even if it was injured to the point of death by a strong enemy.

But the other party was dead?

Could it be that something went wrong in the process of swallowing the monster core, causing it to fail to transform and sublimate?

"Have you ever thought about it."

Li Jinzhi in the ice-white beam of light slowly said in a flat tone, "Have you ever thought that this is a scam?"

Ye Cheng was stunned and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"A scam that has been going on for countless years."

Li Jinzhi's face flashed with mockery. "Every time the Ice Dragon and Ice Phoenix awakens their bloodlines, they will get a tempting path, a path that will open the prelude of their endless battle."

"You mean …" Ye Cheng was stunned and frowned tightly. The two of them were now thousands of meters into the trench.

"It seems that one of them will survive, but it has been going on for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Why do the Ice Dragon and Ice Phoenix still awaken their bloodlines in pairs?" Li Jinzhi paused and asked, "Have you ever thought about where the one who survived before went?"

"That's right. If the battle continues for hundreds of years, and one of them dies, why do the Ice Dragon and Ice Phoenix always awaken in pairs?!"

Ye Cheng followed Li Jinzhi's train of thought. "If one dies and the other survives, this is the only outcome of the battle. The Divine Dragon can be reborn in blood, and the Divine Bird can be reborn from nirvana. As long as these bloodlines are awakened, they won't die easily. But why? Why do they always appear in pairs?"

"Control the number."

Li Jinzhi's furrowed eyebrows gradually loosened, and his eyes suddenly became clear. "With the great path of immortality as the bait, and greed as the guide, the people who had awakened their bloodline were led to believe that this was the only right path. Since then, the curtains of the Ice Flood Dragons and Ice Phoenixes had been raised."

"The power of space and the law of time."

Ye Cheng's voice also became low. "Racial talents that are not allowed in the world, but they can't erase the two species. They can only tell a big lie. Then what about those who succeed in killing the other side?"

Li Jinzhi was still confused about this. In the original work, the deceptive ending was that the villain Ye Cheng entered the cave and forcibly seized the bloodline of the original male protagonist.

It was fine if he didn't think about it, but if he and Ye Cheng were put in the same situation, Li Jinzhi felt terrible.

Li Jinzhi decisively stopped thinking and looked at Ye Cheng. "If they awaken at the same time, they might be destroyed at the same time."

Ye Cheng's eyes flashed. "So you're saying that the truth behind the big lie is that the two of them are actually connected in life and death, and their fates are connected?"

"I'm just guessing." Li Jinzhi smiled faintly. "Why don't you try killing me and see what you'll do?"

Ye Cheng's figure suddenly paused, and his soybean-sized eyes slowly became serious. "I've said it before. You're the most important person to me. I won't allow myself to harm you, and I won't allow you to test me like this again." After saying that, he sped up and shot downwards, leaving Li Jinzhi alone floating in the same place.

Li Jinzhi opened his mouth, but in the end, he only twitched the corners of his mouth dryly. He was indeed testing the other party just now, to see if the other party would harm him.

His sense of security was extremely low. It seemed that only by confirming again and again like this could he be sure that the Ye Cheng in front of him was not affected by the so-called bullsh * t inherited memories.

Li Jinzhi sighed softly and sped downwards. Soon, he saw Ye Cheng, who was moving slowly.

Li Jinzhi's heart relaxed slightly, and he gradually felt warm. He reached out and held the other party in his hand. "I'm sorry. I'm just not sure how much you've been affected by the hatred in the inherited memories."

"The hatred in the inherited memories only tells me that there's such a thing."

Ye Cheng paused and chuckled softly. "I can tell which part is mine, and which part is just their memories. It's fine as long as they don't mix with each other."

"Okay." Li Jinzhi wanted to say something else, but he realized that the spiritual energy in the surroundings had suddenly become denser.

At the bottom of the pitch-black water, the icy white spiritual energy that was tinged with red condensed into a light pink jelly. It was incompatible with the seawater, so it floated faintly like this.

"There must be something down there."

Li Jinzhi took a deep breath of the floating spiritual liquid and said softly, "Only a huge spiritual ore belt can form such dense spiritual energy."

"Spiritual ore belt?" Ye Cheng was stunned. He frowned and asked, "Is it the kind of spiritual ore belt that I know of?"

"Yes."

Li Jinzhi's eyes sparkled. He kept recalling the records of spiritual ore belts in his mind. A hundred-year-old spiritual ore belt would be formed by large clouds around the mountain. A thousand-year-old spiritual ore belt would form dense cloud dew. A ten-thousand-year-old spiritual ore belt would form dense cloud dew. A ten-thousand-year-old spiritual ore belt would form dense cloud frost.

No matter how good his composure was, when he thought of the opportunity he would encounter later, his heart burned with passion. He pulled Ye Cheng and flew downwards. The lower they went, the thicker the cloud frost became.

"I want to pack these up." Ye Cheng was placed on Li Jinzhi's shoulder. He seized the time to breathe in the spiritual energy.

"These are all small things. Let's get the things inside first. It's not too late to talk about the things outside." Li Jinzhi stood on the wall of a trench with red mountain rocks. He condensed an ice-white long blade with one hand.

As soon as the long blade touched the dark red mountain rocks, it was quickly scraped away as if it was cutting through tofu. The object inside was exposed, and scorching heat poured out.

The seawater that intersected with this object began to boil quickly. The thick cloud frost did not have high temperature, but the boiling seawater seemed to have ignited it. The high temperature spread, and for a moment, the entire trench was shrouded in high temperature. Li Jinzhi was pushed back by the high temperature. Fortunately, he was not boiled into a human jerky. He quickly condensed an extremely low temperature shield on the surface of his body. He breathed a sigh of relief. He faintly felt that the blood in his body was boiling.

Ye Cheng did not seem to be afraid of the high temperature here. He quickly turned around in the water. The scales on his body seemed to have opened slightly because of the comfort. Finally, he circled around in a circle and stopped in front of the mountain that Li Jinzhi had cut open.

The layer of soil was scraped away, revealing an ice-white transparent crystal. There were even dark red threads flowing quickly in it.

Ye Cheng swung one of his claws and grabbed the seemingly hard crystal. The flowing dark red threads could not escape before they were forcefully pulled apart and imprisoned.

Ye Cheng pinched the crystal. His nose quickly closed a few times, then he turned around and handed it to Li Jinzhi. "I'll dig it out. You keep it."

Li Jinzhi tilted his head and looked at the boiling seawater and the exposed crystal. His discomfort overcame the shame of being lazy. He nodded and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you."

Ye Cheng's eyes lit up. "It's not difficult. The spiritual energy environment here is very suitable for me." He turned around and continued to work, waving his claws together.

Li Jinzhi stood behind him. He took out a Illuminating Pearl and carefully observed the spirit stone in his hand. He saw that the color was pure and dense. There was a faint dark red light flowing and struggling in it.

"Middle-grade spirit stone."

Li Jinzhi put away the spirit stone. He looked up and found that Ye Cheng had already crawled into the hole. The spirit stones that were dug out had piled up into a hole. At a rough glance, the fist-sized spirit stones were actually all middle-grade. And this was only the outermost layer of the ore. If he went to the core area, would he encounter spirit stones?

Low-grade spirit stones only contained thin spiritual energy. Middle-grade spirit stones could see shallow souls. High-grade spirit stones could produce spiritual beings without intelligence. And supreme-grade spirit stones contained spiritual beings with intelligence.

They could escape on their own.

The spirit stones that were commonly circulated in the market were mostly low-grade and middle-grade spirit stones. High-grade spirit stones were very rare. Moreover, they contained spiritual beings without intelligence. They were quite ornamental and collectible. Generally, cultivators who obtained them would rather keep them than exchange them. Therefore, the value of high-grade spirit stones was extremely high.

As for supreme-grade spirit stones, because they contained spiritual beings with intelligence, they could escape and hide on their own. They were really priceless. In the black market, the price was even sky-high.

However, Li Jinzhi thought that selling supreme-grade spirit stones at the price of low-grade spirit stones was like exchanging a diamond for a pile of scrap iron.

Unless someone's brain was damaged, no one would be willing to exchange.

Li Jinzhi followed the other party and put all the spirit stones on the ground into the storage bag. When he saw Ye Cheng's speed, he frowned. "You're too slow. Watch me."

As soon as his voice fell, dozens of icy white cold blades condensed in the boiling water. As they spun, layers of cold ice mist spread out.

The icy white long blades paused and then suddenly flashed into the crystal. Li Jinzhi manipulated his transcendence energy and flipped it with one hand. Several cracking sounds were heard.

The ores on both sides of the body were cut into dozens of square bricks of the same length and fell together.

"It's not like you're using it to build houses. Why are you cutting it so neatly?" Ye Cheng glared.

"I'm not showing you the shape. I'm showing you the speed."

As soon as his voice fell, the ice blades circled and danced again. Another wave of square bricks. "As for the shape, it's all up to you."

He stared at Ye Cheng's claws with disdain. "Otherwise, with your speed, I'm afraid we'll have to stay here for several years."

Ye Cheng was silent. His cheeks puffed up slightly. He turned around in a huff and waved his four claws together. His speed was several times faster than before, leaving only a few afterimages.

Li Jinzhi's eyes flashed with a smile. It seemed that with the other party around, even the most boring thing became interesting.

However, Ye Cheng's performance in front of him really couldn't be linked with the image of a cold demon cultivator who slaughtered his whole family.

Perhaps the other party didn't disguise himself with indifference in front of him.

The two of them dug hundreds of meters into the ground. The spirit stones piled up almost half of the storage bag. Fortunately, Ye Cheng's storage bag had a larger capacity. If it was Li Jinzhi's storage bag that collapsed earlier, it would have been stuffed to the brim.

Li Jinzhi turned his head and stopped in his tracks. He transmitted his voice to Ye Cheng, who was in front of him. "Be careful. High-grade spirit stones have appeared here. Don't be careless and destroy the unintelligent spiritual objects inside."

Ye Cheng flew back slowly. He lay on Li Jinzhi's shoulder and rubbed his cheek. "I absorbed too much Extreme Yang Ice Spirit Qi just now. The Demon Core's spirit qi can't bear it. I'm afraid I'm going to advance to the fifth level."

Li Jinzhi's face turned serious. He placed the other party on the ground and sat cross-legged. "I'll guard you."

"Above the fourth level, every advancement will trigger a phenomenon of heaven and earth. Will the phenomenon of advancing to the fifth level alarm the sea beasts in the sea?"