Elder Jiu Shen raised a hand and tapped out, causing a ripple in the void that extended into the distance. "There's no danger. Let's go."
The two stepped onto the wasteland, and the pulling force of the Fatesand in Lu Yin's chest grew stronger and stronger.
He knew that he was very close to his destination.
A few hours later, Elder Jiu Shen was surprised. "There's someone here!"
Lu Yin looked over and saw a white figure walking further away. It was a woman.
Lu Yin stared at her back. Why did she seem so familiar?
Up ahead, Bai Shui was excited to see the Frigid Immortal Pond. The ancestors' records had been right; they had finally found it.
Suddenly, she stopped and slowly turned around, only to see two figures in the distance. She was stunned. How could this be?
How could there be people here?
Were there people like her who hadn't explored the mountains or looked for opportunities, and had instead come straight for the Frigid Immortal Pond?
Hmm?
Bai Shui's eyes narrowed when she saw Lu Yin. It was him?
Lu Yin and Elder Jiu Shen approached Bai Shui and stopped not too far away. "It's you?"
Bai Shui bowed slowly. "Alliance Master Lu, long time no see." She glanced at Elder Jiu Shen but didn't pay him much attention. Elder Jiu Shen had a youthful appearance, and if one didn't know him well, it would be easy to overlook him. Even with Bai Shui's strength, she couldn't sense his strength.
"You're called Bai Shui?" Lu Yin hesitated.
Bai Shui smiled. "It's my honor that Alliance Master Lu remembers me. Thank you for saving me when the Daynight clan tried to kill me."
Lu Yin looked at Bai Shui. "Why are you here?"
Bai Shui's eyes flashed, and she hesitated for a moment before replying, "I'm looking for the Frigid Immortal Pond."
Lu Yin was taken aback. The Frigid Immortal Pond?
He knew that the Frigid Immortal Sect had a battle technique called Immortal Shows the Way, which required one to cultivate with the Frigid Immortal Pond. In the Astral Tree Realm, Immortal Shows the Way was very famous.
Bai Shui was from the Bai family, which was the main family of the Frigid Immortal Sect. If Lu Yin wasn't wrong, she was a descendant of the Bai family, so it wasn't surprising that she knew about the Frigid Immortal Pond.
"You know Immortal Shows the Way?" Lu Yin asked.
Bai Shui was surprised. "You know about Immortal Shows the Way?"
Lu Yin smiled. "I know as much as you do."
Bai Shui's eyes flickered, and the way she looked at Lu Yin changed. There was now more caution and apprehension in her eyes, but she hid it well.
"Since we've met, let's go together," Lu Yin said.
Bai Shui nodded and followed behind Elder Jiu Shen and Lu Yin.
The Frigid Immortal Pond was not far from them. They could vaguely see it from Bai Shui's position. Soon, the three of them arrived at the Frigid Immortal Pond.
Lu Yin's impression of the Frigid Celestial Pond was that it had an ethereal aura, and one could tell at a glance that it was something out of this world. However, the one in front of him left him dumbfounded. "This is the Frigid Celestial Pond?"
Bai Shui En snorted.
In front of him was an icy pond with a radius of dozens of meters. The water was muddy, as if it was filled with mud. Not to mention the Icy Celestial Pond, even a normal hot spring or a fish pond would look better than this. The only thing that was related to the Icy Celestial Pond was that the water was bone-chilling, and not just any ordinary bone-chilling cold.
Bai Shui squatted down and dipped his hand into the water, then pulled it back as if he had been electrocuted. "That's right, this is the Frigid Immortal Pond."
Lu Yin and Elder Jiu Shen looked at each other, then squatted down and reached their hands into the water.
With his physical strength, even the coldest water in the Frigid Immortal Pond wouldn't affect him. He couldn't figure out how this pond could be the Frigid Immortal Sect's most valuable treasure.
Bai Shaohong had visualized the Frigid Immortal Pond back then.
"How much do you know about the Frigid Immortal Pond?" Lu Yin asked.
Bai Shui's eyes flashed, but he didn't hesitate. "The Frigid Immortal Pond is a must-have item for Immortal Shows the Way. Regardless of whether it's recorded in ancient texts or passed down by our ancestors, the Frigid Immortal Pond's greatest use is to cultivate Immortal Shows the Way."
Lu Yin looked at Bai Shui with a deep gaze.
Bai Shui panicked under Lu Yin's gaze and looked at the Frigid Immortal Pond again. "However, only a few people know that the Frigid Immortal Pond's true use is to freeze life force."
"Freeze life force?"
Lu Yin was surprised. That didn't seem like a very powerful ability. Many cultivators in the universe could freeze life force to slow down the passage of time. The one that left the deepest impression on him was the Royal Frost Continent, where a Humble Soldier had been frozen.
"Freezing life force is very common, but Alliance Master Lu, have you heard that it can be cultivated?" Bai Shui asked.
Lu Yin raised an eyebrow. "Freezing life force can be cultivated?"
Elder Jiu Shen looked at Bai Shui in surprise. "I'm curious as well. If life force is frozen, how can it be cultivated?"
Bai Shui glanced at Elder Jiu Shen and whispered, "The Frigid Immortal Pond has such an effect. As long as you stay in the pond or soak in its water, your life force can be frozen and you can cultivate without any hindrance. However, freezing life force slows down the passage of time. If a person can live for thousands of years with their life force frozen, then they can only live for a few dozen years in the Frigid Immortal Pond. Under normal circumstances, a normal person wouldn't be able to live for more than a few hundred years, but they can live ten times longer under normal circumstances."
"And this ten times longer time can be cultivated."
Lu Yin was surprised and raised his hand, gathering some of the pond's water. "So it can be used like that."
"Not only that," Bai Shui continued without hiding anything. "Aside from freezing life force, the Frigid Immortal Pond water can also freeze astralsources that leak out when cultivating battle techniques. As long as it's not intentionally leaked, it can be frozen to prevent the Astral Source Universe from sensing it."
"You know about the Astral Source Universe?"
Elder Jiu Shen asked, "Frozen astralsources?
That's impossible. There's no way to store astralsources. "
Lu Yin stared at Bai Shui. There was a way to store astralsources, and that was through the Mother Tree. The Mother Tree took root in the universe and absorbed astralsources, turning them into astralliquid that was then stolen by the Four Cardinal Scales. However, there was no way to collect astralliquid in the Fifth Mainland.
Bai Shui replied, "It's not stored, it's just frozen and then naturally dissipated. It won't attract the attention of the Astral Source Universe."
Elder Jiu Shen relaxed. "That's more like it. If the Frigid Immortal Sect could store astralsources in ice, then they would have created too many Emissaries. They wouldn't have been defeated by the Sixth Mainland, and they wouldn't have escaped."
Lu Yin looked at the Frigid Immortal Pond water and felt its bone-chilling coldness. He suddenly thought of something and asked, "You said that soaking in the Frigid Immortal Pond water can freeze life force to cultivate, right?"
Bai Shui nodded.
Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "That means we can take the Frigid Immortal Pond water away."
Elder Jiu Shen straightened his back and stared at Bai Shui with a burning gaze.
Bai Shui's heart sank under their stares. "Yes, we can."
Lu Yin and Elder Jiu Shen looked at each other and then searched their cosmic rings. There was no reason for them to risk their lives in the Frigid Immortal Sect's ruins and return empty-handed.
Elder Jiu Shen wasn't a pedantic person, but he wasn't as smart as Lu Yin. When Lu Yin mentioned this, he moved even faster than Lu Yin and took out a bottle made of some unknown material. He poured out the liquid and began to fill it with the Frigid Immortal Pond water.
Lu Yin felt awkward, as he didn't have any bottles.
Bai Shui blinked. "Um, if you want to collect the Frigid Immortal Pond water, you have to use a special bottle from the Frigid Immortal Sect. Otherwise, it'll turn into ordinary water."
Elder Jiu Shen was speechless. "Why didn't you say so earlier?" He didn't stop and continued to fill the bottle. Whatever, there definitely wasn't a special bottle, and he didn't want to look for one. He'd just take some back and try it out.
After cultivating for so many years, he'd deeply understood that everything had its own destiny and couldn't be forced. Another principle was that what was in one's grasp was one's own.
Lu Yin and Bai Shui quietly watched Elder Jiu Shen fill the pond with water.
Elder Jiu Shen looked up at Lu Yin and frowned. Something wasn't right. Based on his understanding of this kid, there was no way he wouldn't take advantage of the situation.
"What are you thinking, kid?" he asked.
Bai Shui also looked at Lu Yin curiously.
Lu Yin smiled. "Is it done, Elder?"
Elder Jiu Shen raised a brow and subconsciously put the bottle back into his cosmic ring. "I won't give you the bottle. Think of something yourself."
Lu Yin pursed his lips. "The girl already said that it's useless."
"Still, I won't give you the bottle. Think of something yourself." Elder Jiu Shen rolled his eyes.
Lu Yin coughed. "Actually, I wasn't planning on storing the pond water."
Bai Shui and Elder Jiu Shen didn't believe him.
Lu Yin coughed again and felt a little embarrassed. "Actually, the environment of Mount Supreme isn't very good, and it's missing a spring."
Elder Jiu Shen was stunned, and Bai Shui's mouth fell open. "You want to take it all?"
Lu Yin also felt a little embarrassed. The three of them had discovered the pond, and Bai Shui had even told him how to use it. It wasn't very nice of him to take it all. "Actually, you could have told me if you wanted to use it, and I could have shared it with you."
"Kid, you're too shameless! You want to take the entire Frozen Celestial Pond?" Elder Jiu Shen cried out.
Lu Yin was helpless. "There's no other way. There's no bottle. What else can we do?
If we stay here, we'll be discovered by others. I reckon that there are quite a few peerless experts here. If he takes some and you take some, there won't be enough water to go around. Most importantly, I'm taking it away to benefit my own people, such as my fellow disciples from the Celestial Sect. "
Only an idiot would believe you, Elder Jiu Shen thought to himself. However, he did not stop Lu Yin from leaving, as it was a good thing that Lu Yin had taken him away. Even though the Great Eastern Alliance had defeated the Daynight clan and seemed to have taken over the Frigid Immortal Sect's ruins, in reality, it was impossible for Lu Yin to monopolize the Frigid Immortal Sect's ruins.
If Lu Yin wanted to take the Frozen Immortal Pond, he would have to share some with the Sirius Sect. It was better than nothing.
Bai Shui's expression turned ugly, as Lu Yin wanted to take it all away.
"The Frozen Immortal Pond can't be used here," Bai Shui tried to stop Lu Yin.
Lu Yin waved a hand. "We'll see if it can be used. It's better than leaving it here. It's only this big, and it's enough for a few people to soak in. If a fight breaks out later, it won't be good if someone dies. I'll take it with me. Even if I can't use it, it'll be nice to leave it on Mount Supreme as a decoration." He then took out Mount Supreme, intending to take the entire pond away.
Bai Shui looked at the pond helplessly, but he couldn't stop Lu Yin.