97: Chapter 97 Tempering the Body with Ice and Fire

Subsequently, the pressure belonging to a 700,000-year-old Spirit Beast was fully released, locking onto every single Immortal Plant present.

Mu Qingci looked down at the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Plant from on high, his tone icy: "I know you are a 100,000-year-old Spirit Beast. Even though I haven't reached a bottleneck, that doesn't mean I cannot absorb your Spirit Bone."

Immortal Plants are things that become fewer with every one used. If possible, Mu Qingci really didn't want to kill indiscriminately; saying those words was merely to scare Youyou.

However, Mu Qingci's control over his killing intent was extremely precise. His Ultimate Darkness Soul Power, carrying his Mental Energy, coiled around Youyou's heart.

Endless fear surged into its heart, causing Youyou's enormous flower body to begin trembling.

It was as if the youth standing before it was not a human, but a demon king returned from hell.

Under Mu Qingci's feet, his fifth ten-thousand-year spirit ring lit up.

The all-attribute amplification boosted Mu Qingci's aura to a higher level, making him appear even more terrifying in Youyou's eyes.

A curve formed at the corner of Mu Qingci's mouth, and a devil's whisper echoed in Youyou's ears: "Hand over the Qiluo Pill, otherwise, I will use the sword in my hand to alive, bit by bit, cut every single one of your petals from your body."

Mu Qingci's voice was calm, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

Yet, hearing these words, to Youyou, they became the most terrifying words it had ever heard in its life.

Anyone who heard such a threat would surely feel afraid.

Youyou's flower body was already trembling like chaff: "I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you!"

From the very center of its enormous petals, a cherry-sized, pale purple bead that looked as if it were made of amethyst flew out.

The Qiluo Pill.

It radiated a pale purple halo, looking extraordinary at a glance.

The Qiluo Pill, when held in the mouth, could neutralize all poisons in the world, achieving true immunity to all poisons.

Mu Qingci unceremoniously stowed the Qiluo Pill away.

After losing the Qiluo Pill, Youyou's spirit was clearly much more listless.

"Don't play dumb with me, hand over the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record!"

Mu Qingci once again placed his sword against Youyou's petals and said viciously.

Youyou felt like dying at this moment; the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record was something Tang San had personally given to it. If it were snatched away just like this, Tang San would certainly not let it off.

"I beg you, brother, anything else is fine, but the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record really won't work. You might as well just kill me, it's death either way!"

Seeing Youyou so resolute, Mu Qingci did not continue to be forceful: "Who said I was going to take it away? Just lend it to me to read, and I'll return it to you after I'm done."

"Really?"

Regarding this human before it who released killing intent at the drop of a hat, Youyou still didn't trust him much.

But just as its suspicion emerged, a wave of killing intent locked onto it again: "Do you think you still have the qualifications to doubt me? Besides, if I kill you, I can still get it all the same."

Facing Mu Qingci's terrifying killing intent, the spineless Youyou ultimately compromised.

A small booklet with a blue cover flew out from the center of its flower.

Mu Qingci took it in his hand and began to read it seriously.

The Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, the Medicine Chapter and the Poison Chapter.

Mu Qingci possessed a powerful Mental Energy that allowed him to never forget what he saw; after casually browsing through it, he memorized all the content.

He threw it aside, returning the booklet to Youyou.

Originally, there were still some Immortal Plants he didn't recognize, and he could only identify those with obvious characteristics that appeared in the original work; now, he knew all of them.

He walked over to the Blazing Apricot that had attacked him earlier and pointed his sword directly at it.

"Hand over the Blazing Gum."

Mu Qingci didn't have any superfluous words and stated his goal directly.

"Don't even think about it! My things will absolutely not be given to you, an outsider!"

The Blazing Apricot's resistance was within Mu Qingci's expectations.

A flash of cold light passed, and Mu Qingci had already completed a slash.

"Ah!!!"

Accompanied by a scream from the Blazing Apricot, half of one of its petals fell to the ground.

"I don't want to say it a second time."

Mu Qingci's words were like the voice of a demon, shattering the Blazing Apricot's psychological defenses.

Looking at the Hades Sword gleaming with cold light in the opponent's hand, the Blazing Apricot dared not resist anymore.

Petals could grow back if lost, but if one's life was lost, where could it grow back?

A lump of golden-red gelatinous substance, the size of a fist, appeared in front of Mu Qingci.

Blazing Gum.

The essence accumulated by the Blazing Apricot over ten thousand years.

After losing the Blazing Gum, the Blazing Apricot also became listless, as if its body had been hollowed out.

Subsequently, following the description in the Medicine Chapter of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record in his mind, Mu Qingci sought out the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

That was an ice-blue herb with eight pyramidal leaves, which was indeed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Mu Qingci looked at it and reached out his hand.

After witnessing Mu Qingci's thunderous methods, including the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, all the other Immortal Plants had the same unanimous thought in their hearts: "Must absolutely not anger this demon god!"

Therefore, when Mu Qingci reached out his hand toward it, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had already resigned itself to its fate.

An ice-blue crystal, the size of a palm with eight corners, appeared in front of Mu Qingci; it was the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, also the essence accumulated by the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass over ten thousand years, a rare treasure.

After obtaining these two treasures, Mu Qingci first stopped his scavenging and walked to the front of the Snow Empress and Bi Ji. "Two seniors, I am about to undergo a cultivation session and hope that you two can protect me."

The Snow Empress nodded: "Rest assured, with me here, they won't be pulling any small tricks."

The Snow Empress's powerful 700,000-year Mental Energy locked onto every Immortal Plant present, making them dare not act rashly.

Bi Ji sent out a gentle green light that merged into Mu Qingci's body: "This is my Soul Power; if you get injured, it might be of use."

"Thank you, two seniors."

Having made preparations, Mu Qingci walked toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He took out the Blazing Gum and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, removed half of each, and kept the rest on his body, as they might be useful later.

Looking at the Blazing Gum and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal in his hand, without the slightest hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed both of them.

Subsequently, Mu Qingci leaped, jumping into the very center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the place where ice and fire merged.

The Snow Empress and Bi Ji originally intended to intervene, but considering it was Mu Qingci's own choice, they did not interfere too much.

As for those Immortal Plants, they were gloating, because in their view, jumping into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was no different from going to one's death.

The medicinal power of the Blazing Gum and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal was successfully stimulated under the impact of the ice and fire spring water.

Instantly, a song of ice and fire rang out within Mu Qingci's body.

The ultimate ice and fire force rampaged within Mu Qingci's body.

The terrifying energy made him truly feel what it meant to experience the dual heavens of ice and fire.

His meridians, under the rapid freezing of the ice and the scorching of the fire, became incomparably fragile, as if they would shatter with the slightest touch.

Endless pain enveloped Mu Qingci, and his skin surfaced with both ice-blue and fire-red colors, as if he would shatter at any moment.