265: Chapter 265 Forced Refining, Snow Ape Protector

"So cold... husband, I'm so cold..."

Ji Luanxi's voice was as faint as a mosquito's hum, and her entire being had completely curled up into a small ball of ice.

Terrifying cold air erupted from within her body, and ice-blue Spiritual Qi visibly overflowed, freezing the surrounding Void Realm with cracking sounds. Her long eyelashes were now covered in thick frost, her lips had turned a frightening dark blue, and her delicate body could not stop shivering violently.

"Sister Lianxi!"

Seeing this, Chang Xiyue's cool face was filled with anxiety. Without thinking twice, she directly reached out her jade hand, wanting to help Ji Luanxi up from the ground.

"Don't touch her!" Su Xuanchen shouted sternly to stop her.

But it was already too late.

The moment Chang Xiyue's slender fingers touched the hem of Ji Luanxi's clothes, an overbearing and peerless extreme cold Origin instantly spread up from her fingertips!

"Hiss!"

Chang Xiyue let out a sharp intake of breath. Her fair jade hand was actually completely frozen in the blink of an eye, covered by a layer of indestructible Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice! If she hadn't reacted extremely quickly and frantically circulated the mana in her body to forcibly cut off the erosion of the cold air, her entire arm would likely have been ruined on the spot.

Su Xuanchen's face was gloomy to the extreme.

With a flash of golden light beneath his feet, he appeared directly behind Ji Luanxi in an instant, as if teleporting.

The Nine Tribulations Secret Codex within his body surged into operation, and extremely dazzling Nine Tribulations Immortal Light erupted from his palms, acting like a warm and absolute defensive shield that tightly enveloped Ji Luanxi's small body.

Nourished by the immortal light, the pained expression on Ji Luanxi's face finally showed an extremely slight relief.

While stabilizing the rampaging cold air inside her, Su Xuanchen swept his gaze like a knife toward the Ice Spirit Snow Ape King, who was nearby and trembling with fear.

"You just said she ate five?" Su Xuanchen's voice was cold enough to freeze.

The Snow Ape King's massive body shuddered violently. It pointed at Ji Luanxi's storage ring with an extremely aggrieved expression, its raspy voice carrying a sob: "Great Immortal, I miscounted just now! This Great Lady didn't just leave five pits on the ground; she still had half a fruit in her mouth and swallowed it out of fear just now! And... and while she was on that tree, she plucked at least seven or eight more and stuffed them straight into her mouth!"

Hearing this, Gu Hongchen, who was standing nearby, felt her eyes nearly pop out of her head.

"Seven or eight?!" Gu Hongchen's voice cracked with fear, and her scalp went numb. "This is ice spirit jade fruit! Even those Great Emperor Realm experts who specialize in ice-attribute Cultivation Techniques can only eat three at most at one time! She's a mere Supreme Realm, yet she ate seven or eight in one go?! This is simply seeking death!"

Su Xuanchen's mouth twitched uncontrollably upon hearing this.

Looking at Ji Luanxi, who was still shivering in his arms, he was both angry and pained for her.

"You gluttonous snake of a girl, if you keep eating like this, you'll turn into an eternal ice sculpture in no time!" Su Xuanchen teased irritably, though his tone betrayed unmistakable protectiveness and doting.

Teasing aside, Su Xuanchen did not hesitate in his actions.

His palms suddenly shifted through hand seals, and the power of the Chaos Immortal Bone within his body was fully activated. A stream of extremely refined Immortal Spirit Fire, controlled to the ultimate degree, flowed continuously from his palms into Ji Luanxi's body.

This Immortal Spirit Fire was peerlessly domineering, yet under Su Xuanchen's control, it was incredibly gentle. The fire delved deep into Ji Luanxi's entire body, firmly resisting the extreme cold Origin that was rampaging and trying to freeze her Meridians, and even began to forcibly refine it.

"Focus your mind! Don't you dare play dead on me!"

Su Xuanchen shouted in a deep voice, his words resonating like a great bell deep within Ji Luanxi's Divine Soul.

"Although this extreme cold Origin is domineering, for you, as long as you endure it, it is absolutely a rare Heaven-Defying Opportunity! Circulate your Cultivation Technique with all your might and refine all this spiritual power for me!"

Hearing Su Xuanchen's command, Ji Luanxi gritted her teeth with great difficulty. Enduring the intense pain of the world of ice and fire within her Meridians, she began to frantically circulate her Cultivation Technique, coordinating with Su Xuanchen's Immortal Spirit Fire to refine that terrifyingly massive spiritual power bit by bit.

Watching this scene from the side, the Ice Spirit Snow Ape King's giant crimson pupils were completely wide with shock, and its jaw nearly hit the ground.

Its ferocious ape face was written with stunned disbelief and extreme incredulity.

"This... how is this possible!" the Snow Ape King roared inwardly, feeling that the common sense it had held for countless epochs was being completely overturned.

One must know that the Ice Spirit Snow Ape clan was naturally close to the Law of extreme cold, and their Physical Bodies were exceptionally powerful. Yet even as a half-step True Immortal Rank King, it only dared to cautiously consume one ice spirit jade fruit a year!

And after consuming it, it still had to endure immense pain to slowly refine it.

Yet this human man before it was using such a domineering and brutal manner to forcibly help someone refine the Origin of seven or eight jade fruits with immortal fire! Such methods were even more inconceivable than those of the legendary Immortal Kings!

Just as the Snow Ape King was shocked beyond compare...

"Ugh!"

Chang Xiyue and Gu Hongchen, standing behind, let out suppressed groans almost simultaneously.

The two women's faces instantly turned pale, and a faint layer of frost began to spread over their bodies.

As it turned out, both of them had also consumed an ice spirit jade fruit earlier. Now, the terrifying icy spiritual power contained within the jade fruits had finally broken out completely within their bodies, surging wildly like horses that had broken their reins.

Gu Hongchen gritted her silver teeth, her spiritual power surging: "The medicinal power of this fruit is too domineering; we must go into seclusion to refine it immediately, otherwise our Meridians will be completely frostbitten!"

Chang Xiyue's brows were also tightly knit. She glanced at Su Xuanchen, who was fully focused on helping Ji Luanxi refine, and knew that she absolutely could not disturb him at this moment.

The Ice Spirit Snow Ape King keenly noticed the situation of the two women.

This was a great Opportunity for it to show off!

"Aunt Xiyue! Miss Hongchen! Please refine in peace!" the Snow Ape King roared sycophantically, its massive body moving to stand before the two women. "This little monkey will have his subordinates act as your Protector! If anyone dares to come within half a step, I'll tear them apart alive!"

With that, it suddenly turned its head and let out a series of urgent roars at the dozens of bruised and swollen Ice Spirit Snow Apes around them.

Those Great Saint Realm snow apes immediately came scrambling over, surrounding Chang Xiyue and Gu Hongchen in layer upon layer to protect them, forming an airtight wall of flesh.

Seeing this, Chang Xiyue and Gu Hongchen no longer hesitated.

Feeling reassured, the two set up a defensive barrier to isolate their auras and sat cross-legged on the ice, closing their eyes to begin fighting the surging icy spiritual power within them with all their might.

In the Extreme Cold Ice Domain, the cold wind continued to rage, but this particular area fell into an extremely eerie silence.

Half a day passed in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!"

An extremely powerful surge of spiritual power, carrying an aura of ultimate cold, suddenly soared into the sky from within the defensive barrier!

Gu Hongchen's tightly closed eyes snapped open, and a brilliant light shot out from her beautiful eyes.

She was the first to complete the refining!

Gu Hongchen let out a long turbid breath containing ice shards, checking her internal condition with great surprise.

The Spirit Sea that had been dried up from resisting the cold wind was now not only completely replenished but had even expanded by a whole circle! Her True Immortal Realm cultivation, which had been stagnated for a long time, had actually made significant progress during this half-day of refining!

What shocked her even more was that she found she no longer felt the slightest discomfort from the raging cold air in this Extreme Cold Ice Domain!

That ice spirit jade fruit had significantly increased her ice attribute resistance. Now, when the cold wind blew against her body, it didn't feel bone-chilling; instead, it provided a very comfortable sense of coolness.

"As expected of an Ancient Immortal Medicine, such miraculous effects are simply Heaven-Defying!" Gu Hongchen could not help but exclaim in admiration.

She stood up and scanned her surroundings.

She saw that outside the barrier, the dozens of massive Ice Spirit Snow Apes were sitting in a large circle like loyal Door Gods. Each one stared with large eyes like bronze bells, alertly watching for the slightest movement in the surroundings.

On the other side, Su Xuanchen was still using Immortal Spirit Fire to help Ji Luanxi refine, and Chang Xiyue's eyes were still closed, surrounded by frost.

Looking at this group of giant apes that had once been fierce and malevolent but were now meekly sitting in a circle acting as Protectors, Gu Hongchen couldn't help but find it somewhat amusing.

This scene was truly quite out of place.

She shook her head, then her figure shifted as she leapt out of the defensive barrier, efficiently taking over the work of the Protector.

"Alright, you all can step back. Leave this to me," Gu Hongchen commanded the group of snow apes calmly, holding the biluo emperor sword.

Seeing this, the Ice Spirit Snow Ape King immediately dismissed its subordinates with great respect, yet it remained by Chang Xiyue's side.