578: Ningjin Fruit Tree, Ice Pagoda Heritage (two-in-one please order)

Above the snowy mountain, as Lin Houshou spoke, the Ice Bird finally showed emotion.

"Can you really take me out?"

Its trembling words made Lin Houshou pause, then he was overjoyed.

"Of course, our Family not only has Purple Mansion Cultivators, but also more powerful Golden Core True Persons, and even Nascent Soul True Lord battle strength!"

"Taking you out of this Secret Realm is naturally simple!" Lin Houshou said.

The Ice Bird finally nodded.

At the same time, Lin Houshou began to condense the Soul Restraining Seal.

Once this soul contract is formed, its binding power is no less than that of a Spirit Beast raised from a young age.

Moreover, because of its intelligence, it can accomplish even more.

The only thing needed is to continue nurturing the Ice Bird, as there is a fear that sometimes it might act perfunctorily while following orders.

Lin Houshou was confident about this point, as it was highly probable that this Ice Bird would Breakthrough to the Immortal Master realm, and they could certainly leverage this aspect.

A drop of essence blood condensed, also dispersing a portion of Lin Houshou's Divine Soul, and the next moment, it flew towards the Ice Bird.

The Ice Bird's eyes still showed some fear, and it tried to dodge, but the next moment, Lin Houshou looked over, his eyes glaring fiercely, and at the same time, he unleashed the Soul Splitting Blade, causing the Ice Bird to let out a sharp cry.

The Soul Restraining Seal also entered its Physical Body, quickly taking shape and extracting a smaller Demon Soul, which then entered Lin Houshou's mind.

"Alright, Shimo, Shiyi, you can let go!" Lin Houshou felt the Soul Restraining Seal form and breathed a sigh of relief.

This Spirit Beast was quite difficult to deal with; any one of them facing it alone would be extremely dangerous.

After the soul restraint, he discovered just how formidable this Ice Bird was.

Since its birth, this Ice Bird had appeared on the Great Cold Mountain.

It had devoured all the Yao Beasts here, which was why there was only this one Ice Bird in the vicinity.

Moreover, this Ice Bird had also discovered the advantages of the Formation; it would hide on the steps, ambushing the Yao Beasts that came when the Spirit Medicine of the Great Cold Mountain ripened.

This time, if not for Lin Houshou's warning, Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi might have fallen into the Ice Bird's trap.

"Let's go, this way. It knows the loophole in this Formation!" Lin Houshou did not dismantle the Formation; leaving it here would only consume some Spiritual Qi, but for them, it might be useful at a critical moment.

The three people and several Spirit Beasts exited the Formation and climbed up one side of the snowy mountain.

The loophole in this Formation was equivalent to the Formation's life gate, which the Ice Bird had figured out by observing other Spirit Beasts' experiments.

So, the group also followed that life gate.

Soon, they reached the stone monument of the Great Cold Mountain.

Looking at the stone monument, Lin Shimo and Lin Houshou felt even more strongly.

Both bowed slightly, and Lin Shiyi, seeing this, quickly followed suit.

If nothing unexpected happened, this Secret Realm would still place most of its treasures here to train the Family's Cultivators, because if the Lin Family members wanted to Breakthrough their limits, this place would be equivalent to a Secret Realm Immortal Cave for the Family.

They could Breakthrough themselves.

For example, Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi, once things were settled and they had complete control over the Great Cold Mountain's Formation and Legacy, could challenge themselves.

Preparing for the Golden Core Breakthrough.

The group crossed the stone path and soon reached three forks in the road.

This was equivalent to the former Sect mountain of the Taihan Sect.

According to what Lin Houshou learned from the Ice Bird's Divine Soul.

This Great Cold Mountain was divided into two parts.

One part was the Disciple Heaven, one of the three passages.

This was where all the Taihan Sect Cultivators' Immortal Caves were located, and the remaining two passages: one connected to the Sect's Council Great Hall, named Zixiao Heaven!

The last passage was Spirit Realm Heaven.

Spirit Realm Heaven, as its name suggests, was a Secret Realm with Spirit Herb Gardens, Alchemy rooms, Artifact Refining Rooms, and so on.

And in the Spirit Herb Garden, there were also three fruit trees that the Ice Bird loved to eat the most.

"Let's go directly to the Spirit Herb Garden. There are no treasures in Disciple Heaven and Zixiao Heaven!" Lin Houshou said.

The three of them resolutely chose the Spirit Realm Heaven on the left.

As they walked further along the path, everyone also saw a different scenery on this Great Cold Mountain.

They were also looking forward to what was different about the Spirit Herb Garden on this snowy mountain.

Soon, the first thing to appear was a third-tier Spirit Herb Garden.

Inside were various ice-attribute Spirit Medicine, such as Ice Heart Flowers, Cold Ice Grass, Water Shadow Lotuses... many water-attribute treasures, which made Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi a bit worried.

After all, neither of them primarily cultivated water-attribute Cultivation Techniques.

Fortunately, after passing the first Spirit Herb Garden, the second Spirit Herb Garden had a Formation like a peach blossom Secret Realm.

What appeared before them was clearly a forest of blooming flowers, completely different from the previous Spirit Herb Garden, which only contained water and ice-attribute Spirit Plants.

All kinds of Spirit Medicine were here, and most importantly, there were many Spirit Flowers with abundant treasure light.

"Those are Fourth-tier Heavenly Fire Ganoderma, Fourth-tier White Jade Lotuses, and Fourth-tier Heavenly Kui Seeds..." Lin Shiyi also seemed very excited at this moment. Their harvest this time was considerable. So many Fourth-tier Spirit Medicine were enough to deepen their Family's foundation in the Purple Mansion aspect.

Many of the Spirit Medicine could also be used for his own Body Cultivation.

"Everyone, collect the ripe Spirit Medicine. Leave the unripe ones here!" Unlike the previous third-tier Spirit Herb Garden, which Lin Houshou intuitively bypassed.

The Spirit Medicine here still needed to be harvested.

It was also considered a reward for Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi.

When developing such a Secret Realm, especially the first entry, Cultivators could keep 50%.

After all, they would bear some risks, and the remaining 50% would go to the Family.

However, once the Secret Realm entered its second phase, Family members could only keep 20% of their harvest, with the remaining 80% going to the Family.

Therefore, all three of them could be said to be seizing the opportunity.

Of course, seizing the opportunity was one thing; those that hadn't reached the Alchemy-grade age would still not be collected.

They were the high-ranking members of the Family, and they needed to set a good example in this regard.

After spending half an hour collecting all the Spirit Medicine according to special secret methods, the smiles on their faces became even brighter.

They then continued further inside.

Inside, there was indeed a third Spirit Herb Garden.

This Spirit Herb Garden was much smaller and enclosed by a wall, requiring them to cross a Formation.

This Formation, being unguarded for many years, had been exploited by the Ice Bird, which had smashed a section of the wall, allowing entry at any time.

The three entered and saw only a few Spirit Plants inside this Spirit Herb Garden.

But these few plants instantly made their eyes light up.

Especially the three Spirit Trees among them.

"These are Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees!" Lin Houshou was the first to speak. When he went to the East Sea, Lin Houshou was also there, and he had seen what a Gold Core Forming Fruit Tree looked like.

Moreover, on one of the Spirit Trees, there were three unripe fruits.

The other two had bloomed Spirit Flowers.

They also observed in detail that there was one fruit that seemed to have been eaten, leaving only a section of the Spiritual Root, emitting Spirit Light.

"The Ice Bird ate it!" Lin Houshou said, feeling a great pang of regret.

From the information in the Soul Restraining Seal, he knew that the Ice Bird had eaten that unripe ningjin fruit out of boredom.

And, before this, it had already eaten two!

It was just a pity that its Cultivation remained stagnant here.

Lin Houshou didn't explain, but instead began to set up another layer of Formation on the surface of the existing Formation!

Then he began to transplant them!

"These three Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees should be placed on Thousand Wood Peak; we'll transplant them!" While it's generally better to leave these Spirit Fruit Trees in the Secret Realm, for the Lin Family, Lin Shiming has a Thousand Wood Spirit Body, capable of catalyzing Spirit Plants.

Therefore, transplanting them is better, as it can help the Lin Family obtain more Core Formation Pills.

Allowing more Cultivators to prepare for the Golden Core Breakthrough.

Lin Houshou was under immense pressure transplanting these Spirit Fruit Trees, as they were Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees. Even if a few roots were damaged, the value would be enormous.

Fortunately, the Lin Family had rich experience in transplant Plant transplantation techniques, so Lin Houshou was very confident in this regard.

While Lin Houshou was looking at the Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees, Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi looked at a five-thousand-year-old Red Heart Wood next to them!

This Red Heart Wood had also reached the fifth-tier category.

Moreover, it was larger and better for medicinal use.

Besides the Fifth-tier Red Heart Wood, there were only a few Fourth-tier High Grade Heavenly Soul Grasses left.

This Heavenly Soul Grass filled both Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi with immense joy.

This Heavenly Soul Grass had only one purpose: to strengthen a Cultivator's Physical Body.

For Body Cultivators, the temptation was immense.

Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi were both Body Cultivators, so naturally, everything was divided according to the Family's rules.

After dividing the Spirit Medicine, Lin Houshou also finished transplanting the Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees.

At this moment, his face was beaming with joy.

Now the Lin Family had four Gold Core Forming Fruit Trees, which could definitely rival Coral Island.

This way, in the next hundred years, the Lin Family was confident of producing three to four more Golden Core True Persons.

These Golden Core True Persons were not Purple Mansion Cultivators who could appear at will; the probability of failure was still extremely high.

"Let's go, continue forward. Ahead, there's still a tower!"

"Inside is the Cultivation Technique Tower!" Lin Houshou continued.

The Lin Family must also acquire these Cultivation Techniques, and since this was an ancient Sect, its secret methods would be highly valuable for reference and challenging for the Lin Family.

The three of them had all gained a considerable harvest by now.

Passing through this Spirit Herb Garden required walking a bit further up the mountain.

But for Cultivators, it wasn't far.

Soon, an ice tower appeared in the sight of the three.

The ice tower emitted a large amount of cold Qi.

"This is?" Lin Houshou hesitated for a moment after seeing the ice tower, because Lin Houshou had seen the appearance of this ice tower in the Tai Bai Sword Palace.

That treasure pavilion also looked like this.

However, that treasure pavilion was full of treasure light, while this ice tower was full of profound ice.

As for the design, it also had six doors.

The Ice Bird had never entered this door. It had let some other Spirit Beasts go in.

But none of them came out.

Lin Houshou, however, clearly knew that this was the structure of a life-and-death opposing door!

As for entering in the correct direction, that was the life door, and entering in the wrong direction was the death door!

"This door has the structure of a life-and-death door..." Lin Houshou began to explain.

This also made Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi alert again and again.

They hadn't expected that this Secret Realm would still have dangers here.

"Second Uncle, you're still amazing!" Lin Shiyi couldn't help but praise.

"No, don't praise me for these things, Shiming said them!" Lin Houshou shook his head repeatedly.

But he still arranged for two Spirit Beasts to enter in opposite directions.

The two Spirit Beasts quickly came out, and the ice tower shook for a while.

The next moment, a line of Spirit Characters began to appear.

This scene also made the three people and several Spirit Beasts feel very surprised, even the Ice Bird was like this.

After all, it had never seen these Spirit Characters before.

It also felt that Lin Houshou was extraordinary.

He even knew such Formations, and he was curious what kind of Genius Lin Shiming was.

But the Spirit Characters also made the group pause again.

"Three hundred-year-old third-tier Yao Beast, no potential, one step of Yellow Rank High Grade Cultivation Technique!" As this scene appeared, everyone was stunned.

This ice tower didn't allow them to choose their own Cultivation Technique, but rather the tower assigned it!

This scene also made them even more surprised; this was not the case with the Legacy Tower of the Tai Bai Sword Palace.

"This Cultivation Technique is interesting; it seems to be based on talent!" Lin Houshou said with a wry smile.

Their three talents were not considered good; they all relied on resources.

Lin Houshou, needless to say, was almost three hundred years old, Purple Mansion Late Stage, with Three Spiritual Roots.

Lin Shimo was over two hundred years old, Purple Mansion Late Stage, with Four Spiritual Roots.

Lin Shiyi was over two hundred years old, Mid Purple Mansion Realm, with Three Spiritual Roots.

"My second brother and I will try first!" Lin Shimo also spoke up.

He wanted to see if this tower's talent test was accurate!

As Lin Shiyi and Lin Shimo walked in, the next moment, Spirit Light appeared again.

This time, the Spirit Light appeared for a longer time, clearly, judging a Purple Mansion Cultivator required more time.

Lin Houshou watched in surprise, and he was also a little expectant.

Soon, two lines of Spirit Characters appeared.

"Four Spiritual Roots, Purple Mansion Late Stage, two hundred thirty-five years old, High Grade talent, rewarded with Profound Rank Top Grade Cultivation Technique, Azure Cold Body Forging Scripture!"

This Cultivation Technique also greatly increased Lin Houshou's interest. Although it wasn't an Earth Rank Cultivation Technique, it was the most precious Profound Rank Top Grade Body Forging Cultivation Technique, absolutely suitable for Lin Shimo himself!

"Three Spiritual Roots, Mid Purple Mansion Realm, two hundred thirty-eight years old, Upper Middle Grade talent, rewarded with Profound Rank Top Grade Cultivation Technique, Heavenly Fire Body Forging Scripture!"

It was also a Body Forging Cultivation Technique, which made Lin Houshou happy again.

However, at this moment, he was no longer looking forward to his own Cultivation Technique!

He was looking forward to what kind of Cultivation Techniques the Family's geniuses would obtain here!

Lin Shimo and Lin Shiyi quickly walked out. Lin Shimo was fine, but Lin Shiyi was a bit disheartened; he only got Upper Middle Grade talent.

This meant that the tower was a comprehensive evaluation, judging strength, age, and Cultivation, but it seemed to pay less attention to Spiritual Roots!

Lin Houshou then entered with the Red-haired Demon Monkey!

This time, Lin Houshou became Upper Middle Grade talent, while the Red-haired Demon Monkey was High Grade talent.

Both received a Profound Rank Cultivation Technique, and clearly, to obtain an Earth Rank Cultivation Technique, one needed Top Grade talent!

This time, the group's attitude towards this Cultivation Technique was not as strong; they were more eager to know who in the Family had this talent!

"First, set up the Formation and wait for the Family!" Lin Houshou said.

This Secret Realm was different from other Secret Realms; the Lin Family would definitely focus on developing it, and it could even be compared to the small Secret Realm on the Lin Family's retreat path.

The possibility of the Lin Family relocating this Taihan Sect Legacy was small, and since it was located on Cold Turtle Island, the Lin Family could secretly exert its strength in the Tengmu Islands in the future and continue to develop!

"Elder Lin, I also want to... try!" At this moment, the Ice Bird also spoke weakly.

Elder Lin was what Lin Houshou asked the Ice Bird to call him; calling him master made him uncomfortable, and the Ice Bird also seemed to have a slight aversion.

At this moment, they still needed to adapt to each other.

"Alright, then you and Thunder Child go in and try!" Lin Houshou nodded.