492: The origin of fire, thaw!

Lu Hao made no unnecessary movements; with a wave of his hand, a massive, ten-zhang-tall, wide, and high, ten-thousand-year-old Black Ice, emanating a faint blue cold light and faintly revealing a silver-white Spirit Deer silhouette within, crashed down onto the open space in the center of the bamboo forest!

Boom!

The moment the Black Ice mountain landed, an extreme chill, as if from the Nine Netherworlds, erupted like an invisible shockwave!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Inside the bamboo forest, the surrounding temperature plummeted at an inconceivable speed!

The ground, the bamboo, the houses, the surface of all objects exposed to the cold instantly condensed a several-inch-thick layer of faint blue ice crystals!

The water vapor diffused in the air froze directly into fine ice particles, rustling down!

The terrifying cold wave, like a living thing, spread wildly in all directions, freezing everything in its path!

Yin Xiaotong, Su Lin Yun, and Lan Xiaoying, whose Cultivation had not reached the Yang Solid Realm, also let out a trembling cry, and their Physical Body was visibly covered with a layer of white frost!

"Master... it's so cold..."

"Ah... I'm going to freeze to death..."

The few of them wailed incessantly; this cold Qi was simply too intense, like maggots clinging to bones, drilling into their very bones, and their Cultivation was simply unable to resist it.

Mu Siyuan, Dugu Litian, and the Demonic Thought could still resist, but they also felt incredibly cold.

If this cold Qi was not stopped, the entire Wuji Pavilion would likely become a desolate land.

Lu Hao frowned, reacting extremely quickly.

He pressed his left hand down, and a vast, pure, fiery golden flame Origin power, containing the power of incineration, transformed into a golden magma torrent, gushing out from his palm!

Buzz—!

This was the third stage of the Fire Origin! Its power had touched the edge of the Dao; once unleashed, burning mountains and boiling seas were mere trifles!

The fiery golden flame magma, under Lu Hao's control, was very docile, without a trace of violence.

In an instant, it transformed into a giant, translucent flame furnace, completely enveloping the Black Ice mountain, which was emitting terrifying cold Qi!

The surrounding temperature also quickly returned to its original level. Lu Hao waved his hand again, and all things eroded by the cold Qi returned to their original state, including the bamboo frozen into ice sculptures.

Lu Hao turned his head to look at the people behind him, scratched his head apologetically, and said with a chuckle:

"Hehehe, uh... I'm sorry, my Physical Body is too strong, I didn't feel the cold, and I suddenly forgot about this, I'm so sorry... It's fine, just consider it Body Refining."

When Yin Xiaotong heard Lu Hao's words, she walked to the side with a smile:

"Thank you, Master, for helping your disciple with Body Refining! After the baptism of that chill, I feel that my Physical Body has improved a lot! Master, you are too kind!"

"Go, go, go, stop chattering here. Either go cook for me, or go Cultivate in the Hunyuan Pagoda. Master has important business to attend to now!"

"Alright, Master, then I'll go Cultivate!"

Lan Xiaoying, who was on the side, immediately grabbed Yin Xiaotong's hand and laughed with ill intent:

"What Cultivation? Come cook with me!"

"Ah! Little Cherry, you are so cruel, you won't even let me Cultivate. I promised Master I would achieve Immortal Ascension, and you are hindering my promise with Master!"

"Bullshit! You often slacked off in the Hunyuan Pagoda before, I saw it!"

"Oh, you... you said you wouldn't tell Master!"

Lu Hao looked at the two of them, a slight smile appearing on his lips, then he waved his hand, and everyone left.

...

The bamboo forest became quiet, with only Lu Hao remaining, melting the ten-thousand-year-old Black Ice.

Hiss...

Extreme cold and extreme heat, two completely opposite forces, engaged in the most intense collision in the center of the bamboo forest!

Piercing energy annihilation sounds constantly hissed, and a large amount of white mist rose, only to be instantly evaporated by the high temperature of the Fire Origin!

At the edge where ice and fire met, even space was violently twisting and fluctuating, occasionally revealing a void space.

If not for Lu Hao's precise control, the terrifying aftershocks of this collision alone would have been enough to flatten the entire Wuji Pavilion!

Lu Hao maintained the flame furnace, carefully melting the ten-thousand-year-old Black Ice by activating the Fire Origin, while his thoughts drifted.

"The third stage of the Fire Origin... one more step and it will be the Dao of Fire..."

He felt the surging flame power flowing within his body and murmured:

"The Cultivation returned by the System is still not enough... I've only comprehended over thirty Dao now..."

Thinking of the boast he made to the System back in Danling State, Lu Hao's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

At that time, when his Cultivation Broke through, going directly from Mahayana to Ascension Perfection, Lu Hao had asked the System about Immortal Ascension.

The System had said at the time that with his current level of Cultivation return, he could probably comprehend one Dao a year, and achieve Immortal Ascension in three thousand years. At that time, he was quite shocked to hear three thousand years, and he boasted that he would achieve Immortal Ascension within three years!

But the thing is... almost a year has passed, and the returned Cultivation has increased quite a bit, but he has only comprehended over thirty Dao...

Thinking of this, Lu Hao couldn't help but sigh, and silently said:

"One year... only over thirty Dao, the Three Thousand Dao are truly distant... Immortal Ascension... is even more distant..."

A faint sadness of a slacker being slapped by reality welled up in his heart:

"The path to Immortal Ascension is still too long, it's more comfortable to lie down... why not just lie flat... anyway, there aren't many people in the Lower Realm who can threaten me."

As soon as this thought appeared, Lu Hao shuddered:

"Bah, bah, bah, there are still so many experts outside, if I don't work hard to improve, I won't even know how I died!"

"If all my disciples could achieve Immortal Ascension now, how wonderful would that be..."

Just as Lu Hao was controlling the Fire Origin to melt the ice and his mind was wandering, lamenting the "difficulty of Cultivation," the scene within the flame furnace was also undergoing drastic changes.

The fiery golden Origin fire was layer by layer, extremely slowly and evenly melting the hard Black Ice.

The ice water had not yet dripped before it was directly evaporated by the terrifying high temperature. The Black Ice mountain shrank at a visible speed.

Time passed, and when the last layer of Black Ice turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated in the flames, the Spirit Deer's body, which had been sealed in ice for a hundred thousand years, finally fully revealed itself!

Its silver-white fur, illuminated by the firelight, once again glowed with a warm, jade-like luster, and its massive ice crystal antlers shimmered with a dreamlike halo.