556: Sky Frost Monster Mantis, Spirit Vein (2-in-1)

The vast ocean was dotted with numerous white glows.

The weather on Lanling Island was harsher than on other islands.

Here, any island with a slightly higher peak would be covered in snow.

Lin Shiming landed in front of a camel-shaped snow peak.

This snow peak, also known as Double Hump Island, was a gateway island located outside the Lanling Archipelago.

It served a similar purpose to the Lin family's Nine Peaks Island.

Beyond Double Hump Island lay an ice plain, which was also the territory of Yao Beasts.

Spirit Medicine was scarce there, but underwater Spirit Beasts were abundant.

Cultivators here either possessed an Ice Spiritual Root or a Water Spiritual Root; Fire Spiritual Root Cultivators were extremely rare.

Hunting deep-sea Yao Beasts was somewhat challenging for those fire-attributed Cultivators.

They held no advantage in terms of timing or terrain.

Lin Shiming briefly swept Double Hump Island with his Divine Sense, then followed the Jade Slip, bypassed it, and disappeared into the vast sea mist.

Soon, he arrived at a long, strip-shaped island.

"This should be it!" Lin Shiming checked the terrain, then released Wang Jiao.

"Wang Jiao, guard the area beneath the island!" Lin Shiming instructed.

This fifth-rank Golden Core Demon King Mantis belonged to the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis species; it didn't have many wings, but it could dive into the sea.

Lin Shiming's Golden Wings Mantis had five pairs of golden wings and one pair of frost wings.

Lin Shiming intended to strengthen precisely that pair of frost wings.

Being of the same origin, it would be easier to advance.

"Master, rest assured, roar!" Wang Jiao was incredibly excited. It had been a long time since he had explored new sea areas, and he was already impatient. If not for Lin Shiming's Soul Restraining Seal controlling him, he would have already leaped into the seabed to search for new Spirit Stone Mines.

For him, eating was the most important thing, and eating better stones was even more crucial.

Wang Jiao dived into the seabed, but Lin Shiming still wasn't at ease. He took out a set of fifth-rank Formation Plates and began to slowly set them up.

He had exchanged these Formation Plates for the seven wounds shield.

Named the Hunyuan Six-in-One Formation, the entire Formation consisted of six Formation bases and one Formation Plate. Each Formation base was considered a Medium Grade fifth-rank Material.

If applied to a Spiritual Vein, it could even withstand a Late Golden Core Stage Cultivator for a while.

However, since it was now utilizing the Spiritual Qi of the Formation Plate, its power was somewhat diminished.

But it was still capable of preventing the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis Golden Core Demon King from escaping.

As Lin Shiming began to set up the Formation Plates, although he did so extremely discreetly, he soon felt the surrounding temperature suddenly drop, and it seemed as if goose-feather snow began to fall from the sky.

These snowflakes fell into the sea, quickly disappearing without a trace.

When they landed on the island, they also melted quickly.

But the Spiritual Qi in the air became moist, a point that naturally alerted Lin Shiming.

He waved the Formation Plate in his hand, and in an instant, the six Formation Plates began to converge.

In the air, countless Spirit Light appeared, forming a Spirit Light shield that trapped more than half of the seabed!

However, just at this moment, a cold light flashed.

A razor-sharp snow blade had already cut off one of the Formation bases, leaving only five.

The Formation had clearly converged, yet it was forcibly broken.

This was the first time Lin Shiming had witnessed such a thing.

But his eyes narrowed slightly.

He was extremely interested in this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis.

Clearly, the latter's recent snowfall was merely to facilitate his water escape technique, or rather, snow escape.

His speed was simply too fast; even Lin Shiming found it hard to keep up.

However, for Lin Shiming, if this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis thought he had victory in his grasp, he might be disappointed.

He flipped his hand, and a Heaven Trapping Bowl appeared, directly covering the island.

Lin Shiming didn't even need to cover the entire island; covering the snow-covered area was sufficient.

As expected, the next moment, countless white glows appeared in the Spirit Light of the entire Heaven Trapping Bowl.

"You're courting death, Human Race!" the Mantis roared in anger.

Clearly, he hadn't expected Lin Shiming to possess a Magic Treasure that could restrict space.

The narrower the space, the more disadvantageous it was for the Mantis.

His strength lay in speed.

And under the Heaven Trapping Bowl, Lin Shiming finally saw the figure of the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis clearly.

He was still in a semi-human form, with three pairs of frost wings on his back, while his body was humanoid. His hands were not hands, but two chilling frost blades.

Of course, what surprised Lin Shiming the most was that this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis possessed many Magic Treasures all over his body.

At his waist were two silver rings, and on his feet were two pairs of blue boots.

On the wings on his back, there was also a faint layer of feather-like gauze!

"Your Excellency, you've certainly calculated well, tricking many of our Human Race Golden Core Demon Kings, haven't you!" Lin Shiming couldn't help but say.

Seeing the Heavenly Frost Golden Core Demon King in this state, how could he not understand that this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis probably usually created various rumors of fortuitous encounters and hidden treasures.

Otherwise, he wouldn't possess so many Magic Treasures.

Moreover, he had four or five Storage Pouches at his waist, seemingly imitating Human Race Cultivators.

As for the one who sold him the information, he probably had met this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis once and escaped from his grasp.

He exchanged information with him; although there was some concealment, the information was at least correct.

However, this Golden Core Demon King's strength was not just that of a Middle Stage fifth-rank Golden Core Demon King, but had reached the Late Stage fifth-rank Golden Core Demon King level.

"You Human Race are also like this. This king is merely treating others as they treat him!" the Mantis retorted coldly.

And he once again transformed into a white light!

Even with the Heaven Trapping Bowl covering him, the speed of this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis was still terrifying.

Lin Shiming couldn't help but narrow his eyes. This time, he flipped his hand again, revealing a transparent bottle-shaped Magic Treasure!

It was the Void Bottle!

The Void Bottle directly sucked towards the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis!

The space of the Void Bottle and the Heaven Trapping Bowl were somewhat similar.

Soon, the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis was sucked into it, and the latter remained disdainful at this moment.

After all, in his opinion, the Heaven Trapping Bowl and the Void Bottle were the same.

He only needed to kill Lin Shiming, as Lin Shiming still couldn't do anything about his speed.

Just then, Lin Shiming sneered, and within the Void Bottle, starlight flashed.

Ten Void Star Sands began to shine brightly.

These sands contained terrifying spiritual power, constantly moving within the Void Bottle's space.

There was no pattern, yet they were incredibly terrifying.

With ten Star Sands present, the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis's speed no longer held an advantage. The silver rings at his waist began to disappear.

The next moment, they bound towards Lin Shiming. At the same time, the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis, with another fierce slash of white light, caused several Star Sands to emit piercing screeches.

For a moment, the Void Bottle couldn't contain him.

This was enough to show the powerful strength of the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis.

Lin Shiming waved his hand again, and this time, a dark small tower appeared.

The small tower spun once, and in an instant, countless Spirit Beast shadows surged out, rushing towards the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis.

At this moment, the latter's eyes showed a hint of fear. Of course, he wasn't afraid of the Ten Thousand Beast shadows, but rather the Ten Thousand Beast Tower itself.

He felt as if his Divine Soul was about to be sucked in.

That kind of fear emanated from his Divine Soul.

A white light flashed, and that blade light was simply too sharp, and it also contained an extremely powerful Saber Intent.

Lin Shiming even felt that there were some aspects he could learn from for his own sword techniques.

The Ten Thousand Beast Tower still couldn't stop the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis.

Lin Shiming held the Taiyi Sword Grass, and with one sword strike, he sent the two silver ring Magic Treasures flying.

But the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis was already upon him.

"Human, didn't your elders tell you that when you know it's a trap, you should run immediately!"

"Indeed, I should run, but you... you're not qualified enough!" Lin Shiming's lips curved slightly.

Then, the Heaven Trapping Bowl and the Leaping Void Disc in the sky simultaneously amplified their power. In addition, the outer Formation had, at some unknown point, been successfully gathered by Lin Shiming again.

For a Cultivator setting up a Formation, except for the Formation Plate which couldn't be prepared in duplicate, all other Formation bases were in duplicate.

Lin Shiming was naturally the same!

With the Formation trapping him, and the combined amplification of the three, a Leaping Void Disc appeared in Lin Shiming's hand.

His figure vanished from his original spot, reappearing behind the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis's neck.

Boom!

A punch imbued with absolute fury struck down, and the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis's body instantly exploded by more than half!

This Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis, like the Golden Wings Mantis, clearly had weaker defenses.

He was far inferior to the Red-haired Demon Queen and Wang Jiao.

This was also something the latter lost after gaining extreme speed.

"Fellow Daoist, spare my life, I have a Soul Splitting Fruit tree, and a secret method for watering and ripening it..." The Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis still had some breath left.

From his corpse, an Inner Core emerged.

This Inner Core was the Inner Core of a Golden Core Demon King; as long as he wasn't dead, he could Cultivate a terrifying Physical Body anew.

"No need to worry, Lin will naturally find it himself!" Lin Shiming pressed his hands together, and the Heaven Trapping Bowl fell, covering the Heavenly Frost Golden Core Demon King's Golden Core.

He could no longer break free.

He had time and hints, so there was no need to worry about passing by a treasure mountain without taking its treasures.

Instead, he was more concerned about the Golden Core Demon King escaping, as his water escape technique was too fast.

The next moment, Lin Shiming summoned the Ten Thousand Beast Tower again, sucking fiercely at the Golden Core.

In an instant, a snow-white frost mantis beast shadow was sucked into the Ten Thousand Beast Tower.

And the spiritual luster of that Golden Core gradually dimmed.

For Golden Wings's advancement, Divine Soul was naturally not needed; its Physical Body and Golden Core were the best tonics.

Moreover, even if other Immortal Masters collected a Golden Core Demon King's Golden Core, they would erase the Divine Soul immediately, as a Divine Soul might still possess counter-measures.

Lin Shiming collected the frost mantis's corpse.

Wang Jiao also ran out, looking a bit dejected in his eyes, and even more fearful of Lin Shiming.

Clearly, not being able to act made him somewhat displeased.

Lin Shiming, however, didn't feel anything. Wang Jiao was originally his backup plan; if this Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis, with his terrifying speed, had escaped, that would have been a regrettable matter.

Lin Shiming then removed the thin feather-like gauze from the mantis's wings. This gauze turned out to be a High Grade fifth-rank Magic Treasure, the Cold Snow Spirit Gauze!

The effect of the Spirit Gauze was also very simple and obvious: it increased speed. For Lin Shiming, it was also of considerable use.

He was also a Body Cultivator; with this Cold Snow Spirit Gauze, his speed could be significantly faster.

However, this appearance wasn't very suitable.

After hesitating for a while, he put away the gauze garment, intending to return to Shuangmu Island and have Real Person Jiuxiao modify it further.

As for giving it to Lin Shitao, he was not in a hurry yet.

Even if she broke through to the Golden Core, she wouldn't be able to use a High Grade fifth-rank Magic Treasure.

Among the remaining Magic Treasures, there were also the Spirit Boots and two silver ring Magic Treasures.

These two Magic Treasures were both Low Grade fifth-rank Magic Treasures, appearing less powerful.

But Lin Shiming collected them one by one.

The boots could be given to Lin Shijie later.

According to the current trend, Lin Shijie would be the fastest to Break through to the Golden Core.

Lin Shiming collected the mantis Materials and went to the island.

"You can wander around as you please!" Lin Shiming knew Wang Jiao was desperate, so he simply let him roam around.

It was even better if he found something; if not, it didn't matter, as the Lanling Archipelago would be the Lin family's territory in the future. At this moment, it was fine to treat it as patrolling the territory.

Moreover, Wang Jiao was a fifth-rank Early Stage Golden Core Demon King and had already undergone tribulation. Now, at least a Late Stage fifth-rank Golden Core Demon King would be needed to kill him.

And by that time, he would certainly have reacted.

Lin Shiming walked onto the island, and at this moment, the System prompt sounded as expected.

"Please proceed to the center of the island. You will receive a Soul Splitting Fruit tree, plus a mutated fifth-rank Spiritual Vein with an ice attribute!"

Lin Shiming was not surprised by the Soul Splitting Fruit tree, as it was also his goal for this trip.

But the mutated pure Spiritual Vein with an ice attribute greatly surprised him.

However, this surprise quickly turned into joy.

He had brought the Taicang Spirit Seeking Disk with him on this trip.

Now was a good time to move the Spiritual Vein as well.

Lin Shiming went onto the island, which was entirely an ice plain.

There were also some other Yao Beasts on the island, including a group of monkeys.

These monkeys were all snow apes, clearly food raised by the Heavenly Frost Demonic Mantis.

Snow apes could neither fly nor escape by water, so they could only remain on the island, becoming food.

Lin Shiming had no interest in these snow apes, as they were only second or third-rank beast groups, and he headed directly for the very center.

Above the snow peak, there was even more ice and snow here.

And on top of the ice and snow, there was a valley at this moment. This valley, however, was exceptionally vibrant with life.

The tree in the middle was five zhang tall, and its canopy perfectly covered the entire valley. Yet, it only bore one unripe Spirit Fruit.

That was precisely the Soul Splitting Fruit.

But one should not assume that an unripe Spirit Fruit was about to mature.

The cycle of this Soul Splitting Fruit was extremely long; even if it looked close to maturity.

In fact, it still needed fifty or sixty years!

For other Cultivators, this might mean waiting, but Lin Shiming didn't need to.

He possessed the Thousand Wood Spirit Body, which allowed him to infuse Qian Mu True Essence, greatly benefiting Spirit Plants. Furthermore, he had the Minor Divine Ability of Revival Light.

He could hasten its ripening.

However, his current Minor Divine Ability was in a cooldown period and required five years of waiting.

Lin Shiming quickly released Old Wood, asking him to help transplant the Soul Splitting Fruit tree!

Old Wood's transplanting technique was clearly more exquisite; the spiritual luster of the Spirit Fruit on the Soul Splitting Fruit tree showed no change at all.

After transplanting the Spirit Fruit tree, Old Wood bowed to Lin Shiming and entered the Grotto-Heaven.

Beneath the Soul Splitting Fruit tree, there was also a huge nest, which was precisely the nest of the Heavenly Demonic Frost Wolf.

In his perception, the Spiritual Qi within was surging out from the nest.

He walked into the nest, where it was even colder.

This made Lin Shiming's eyes light up.

There might be cold jade here.

But very quickly, he realized he had thought too much; there was indeed spiritual jade here, but it wasn't cold jade.

Nor was it the Profound Jade Cold Marrow he was looking for.

Lin Shiming took out the Taicang Spirit Seeking Disk and also came to the center of the nest.

The cold Qi here, like mist, rose from the ground.

Inside were countless profound ice Formations.

Lin Shiming activated the Taicang Spirit Seeking Disk and collected the Spiritual Vein.

And in his mind, Wang Jiao's happy thoughts came through.

Clearly, what he hadn't expected was that Wang Jiao seemed to have truly found something...