78: Chapter 78 Cold Spirit Grass

No one expected that the cold pond where the hanling grass grew would actually be inhabited by such a powerful First Order Late Stage demon beast. Its strength required everyone to join forces just to barely contend with it.

Chen Jianyue was burning with anxiety. Looking at his injured companions, he forcefully suppressed his inner worry, defending while shouting loudly, "Everyone hold steady, don't let your formation fall into disarray!"

The Ice Scale Crocodile became even more rampant after succeeding with one strike. After circling above the cold pond, it swooped down again, its massive body bringing with it a bone-chilling wind.

Chen Jianmo and Chen Jianxiu exchanged glances. The two of them tacitly cast earth-attribute Spells, building a solid earth wall in front of everyone.

The Ice Scale Crocodile crashed violently into the earth wall. Cracks instantly appeared on the wall, but at least it temporarily blocked this strike.

Taking advantage of the moment the Ice Scale Crocodile was blocked by the earth wall, Chen Jianyue quickly circulated his spiritual power. The spiritual sword in his hand burst with light, and he shouted loudly, "Demon Breaking Sword Art!"

Streaks of fierce sword shadows shot towards the Ice Scale Crocodile like raindrops.

The ice scales on the Ice Scale Crocodile's body were struck by the sword shadows, sending out sparks, but it only trembled slightly and did not suffer any substantial heavy injuries.

The Ice Scale Crocodile became enraged and embarrassed. It submerged into the cold pond again. This time, the water temperature in the cold pond dropped sharply, and the surrounding air seemed to freeze.

Chen Jiancang inwardly cried out that it was bad. He sensed that the Ice Scale Crocodile's attack this time was likely even more powerful than before.

Suddenly, the surface of the cold pond quickly froze, forming a thick layer of ice. Immediately after, cracks appeared on the ice layer, and the Ice Scale Crocodile actually controlled huge ice blocks to smash towards everyone.

The ice blocks were like massive rocks, carrying a whistling wind, determined to smash everyone into a pulp.

Chen Jianyue made a decisive move. He injected his spiritual power into his spiritual sword without reservation, unleashing his ultimate secret technique, "Demon Breaking Sword Domain".

Instantly, with Chen Jianyue at the center, a massive sword domain spread out. The spiritual sword within the domain transformed into countless tiny sword blades, shooting towards the incoming ice blocks.

The sword blades collided with the ice blocks, emitting a series of explosions, and the ice blocks were shattered one after another.

However, the Ice Scale Crocodile's attack did not end there.

It leaped out from the ice layer. The ice scales on its body flickered with a strange light. It opened its large mouth, and an extremely cold aura condensed within its mouth.

Chen Jianyue's expression changed drastically. He knew this was the Ice Scale Crocodile's ultimate kill technique — Extreme Cold Breath.

Chen Jiancang quickly shouted, "Everyone cast defensive Spells together and resist with all your might!"

Hearing this, everyone unleashed their strongest defensive Spells. For a moment, various lights intertwined, forming a massive defensive barrier.

The Extreme Cold Breath sprayed onto the defensive barrier. The barrier instantly became covered in frost and began to show cracks.

Everyone gritted their teeth, desperately circulating their spiritual power to maintain the barrier.

Chen Jianyue also joined the defensive team. His spiritual sword emitted a powerful light, continuously repairing the cracks on the barrier.

Just as everyone was about to collapse, Chen Jiancang took out several High Grade First Order Fire Cloud Talismans from his storage bag and activated them towards the Ice Scale Crocodile.

In just an instant, fire waves surged. The Ice Scale Crocodile's bone-chilling ice breath gradually receded under the assault of fire.

Seeing its ultimate kill technique blocked, a hint of fear appeared in the Ice Scale Crocodile's eyes.

Chen Jianyue seized this opportunity. He shouted loudly, "Everyone attack together, this is its weak point!"

Hearing this, everyone withdrew their defensive Spells and concentrated their firepower towards the Ice Scale Crocodile.

Chen Jianyue's spiritual sword transformed into a dazzling beam of light, piercing directly towards the Ice Scale Crocodile's heart.

Chen Jianmo cast fire-attribute Spells. Flames, like fire dragons, coiled around the Ice Scale Crocodile's body.

The members of the Law Enforcement Hall also cast their respective Spells. For a moment, the Ice Scale Crocodile was submerged in various Spells.

Under everyone's combined attack, the Ice Scale Crocodile finally couldn't hold on. It let out a tragic roar, and its massive body fell heavily into the cold pond, splashing up huge waves.

Everyone looked at the Ice Scale Crocodile lying in the cold pond and breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Jianyue's face was tired, but his eyes revealed a hint of determination.

He said, "Everyone, let's rest for a while and recover our spiritual power. We still need to harvest the hanling grass."

Everyone nodded in agreement and began to sit cross-legged on the ground, circulating their spiritual power to recover their strength.

After resting for a moment, everyone's gaze once again turned towards the massive ice block by the cold pond.

Chen Jiancang cautiously approached the ice block. He cast a Spell to melt a layer of ice on the surface of the ice block. Finally, the stalk of hanling grass appeared before everyone's eyes.

The hanling grass emitted a faint blue light.

Chen Jiancang's finger gently touched the leaves of the hanling grass. A trace of coolness penetrated his heart.

[Type] hanling grass

[Grade] Second Order Spiritual Plant

[Maturity] 100%

[Uses] Cold in nature, it can balance the disordered spiritual power within a cultivator's body, especially suitable for fire-attribute spiritual power cultivators, and can alleviate the spiritual power heat caused by excessive cultivation.

It is commonly used to refine the Heart Calming Pill, which pacifies spiritual power agitation, the Spirit Purifying Pill, which enhances spiritual power purity, and the Spirit Rhinoceros Pill, which strengthens spiritual power perception. It can also be used as an ingredient for spiritual meals to nourish the spiritual body of cultivators who practice for a long time.

[Cultivation Method] Select Ice Soul Earth from extremely cold regions, mix it with powder ground from thousand-year profound ice fragments, then drip in Nine Nether Cold Spring water. Stir evenly and let it sit for seven days.

Place the hanling grass seeds in it and soak for five days. During this time, nourish them daily with Ice Soul Cold Qi. It requires half a year to mature.

"What a pity, none of these spiritual herbs have spiritual seeds. I really don't know how they grow."

Chen Jiancang inspected the hanling grass but did not find any spiritual seeds, sighing with regret.

If he could collect spiritual seeds, he could plant them himself in the future.

There were dozens of stalks of Cold Star Grass here, but only four were mature enough to be used for medicine and Alchemy. Chen Jiancang carefully harvested these four stalks of hanling grass, sealed them in a jade bottle, and carefully stored them away.

At this moment, Chen Jianyue looked at the Ice Scale Crocodile's corpse in the cold pond with a heavy gaze and said loudly, "Since this Ice Scale Crocodile is dead, the Materials on its body are of great use to us. We can't just waste them like this."

Everyone work together and salvage it."

Everyone nodded in agreement and immediately began to cast their respective Spells.

Chen Jianmo and Chen Jianxiu's palms flew, and they once again cast earth-attribute Spells.

In an instant, thick earth vines condensed by the edge of the cold pond. The earth vines, like agile ropes, rapidly coiled towards the Ice Scale Crocodile's corpse.

Chen Jianyue chanted incantations and also cast water-attribute Spells. Water currents surged, assisting the earth vines in slowly dragging the Ice Scale Crocodile's massive corpse towards the shore.

Everyone worked together, and after a strenuous effort, the Ice Scale Crocodile's mountain-like body was finally dragged ashore.

This demon beast was extremely large, over two zhang long.

Its entire body was covered in hard ice scales. Each ice scale shimmered with a chilling cold light, like incomparably sharp blades, making people feel awe.

Its teeth were sharp like awls, and its claws were hard as steel. One look was enough to know it was extremely lethal when alive.

Chen Jianyue walked forward and carefully observed the Ice Scale Crocodile's corpse for a while, then said, "This Ice Scale Crocodile is a First Order Late Stage demon beast. The quality of the Materials on its body should not be poor."

Everyone be careful, and let's prepare to start harvesting."

After speaking, Chen Jianyue took out a set of professional harvesting tools from his storage bag. With skilled and cautious movements, he first walked to the Ice Scale Crocodile's head.

The knife in Chen Jianyue's hand accurately cut off the Ice Scale Crocodile's two eyes.

This pair of eyes presented a deep blue color, as if containing endless icy power, subtly emitting a faint cold aura.

"The eyes of this Ice Scale Crocodile are rare good things. They can play a crucial role when refining some ice-attribute pills or Magical Artifacts."

As Chen Jianyue spoke, he placed the eyes into a specially made jade bottle and then carefully sealed it.

Chen Jianmo and Chen Jianxiu were responsible for cutting the ice scales from the Ice Scale Crocodile's body.

They circulated their spiritual power, infusing it into the knives in their hands, making the knives incredibly sharp.

However, even so, cutting the ice scales still took a lot of effort.

Every ice scale was extraordinarily hard, as if indestructible.

However, once successfully cut off, these ice scales could be used to forge defensive Magical Artifacts or as rune Materials, greatly increasing the power of Spells.

At the same time, Chen Jianyue focused on extracting the Ice Scale Crocodile's inner core.

First Order Late Stage demon beasts have already begun to condense inner cores, and inner cores contain their essence demon power.

He carefully cut an opening along the Ice Scale Crocodile's abdomen, then concentrated fully on searching for the location of the inner core.

Finally, deep within the Ice Scale Crocodile's abdominal cavity, an inner core emitting an icy aura appeared before his eyes.

This inner core presented a light blue color, with mysterious patterns flowing on its surface, like a brilliant gem, breathtakingly beautiful.

Chen Jianyue took out the inner core, quickly wrapped it with spiritual power, and then placed it into an exquisite brocade box.

This inner core could not only be used to enhance one's own spiritual power but was also an extremely valuable trading item.

The members of the Law Enforcement Hall were not idle either. They had clear divisions of labor; some collected the Ice Scale Crocodile's scales, while others collected its blood.

The Ice Scale Crocodile's blood presented a deep blue color and was highly corrosive, but at the same time, it was an important material for refining some special pills.

After a busy period, everyone finally finished collecting all the useful Materials from the Ice Scale Crocodile's body.

Chen Jianyue looked at the collected Materials and nodded with satisfaction. He then turned to look at Jiancang Pill Master and said, "Jiancang Pill Master, I observed that the Spirit Talismans you used during the battle just now were all High Grade First Order Spirit Talismans. Your losses must be quite significant."

Please accept these Materials as compensation for your losses."

Hearing this, Chen Jiancang waved his hand repeatedly, "Forget it. Everyone contributed. You should distribute the Materials among everyone."