191: Chapter 191 The Conflict Escalates, the Dispute Over the Ice Heart Spring

"Future Group Forbidden Ground? Isn't this the D01 Wilderness Zone?!"

Fang Zhuo was stunned. Wasn't it you who attacked first? He was clearly just countering and acting in self-defense!

Seeing Rolinsa, who was being unreasonable and aggressive, already slashing at him with her blade.

Fang Zhuo's mind reacted instantly.

This biting cold wind wasn't caused by some Cosmic Martial Artist cultivating at all, but rather a treasure being gestated... Looking at the momentum, it definitely wasn't a treasure of the ordinary Flying Sky level!

"How bold!"

Fang Zhuo drew his blade from its sheath.

Facing the heavy slash coming from Rolinsa, he didn't dodge or evade, but instead backhanded a slash of his own.

Amidst the sounds of thunder and fire, a fiery red blade shadow loomed over the sky and rushed forward, almost swallowing Rolinsa whole.

"What?"

Rolinsa's face turned deathly pale.

The eighth level of Thunder Fire Blade!

The fleeting life fluctuation on Fang Zhuo was as deep and heavy as the ocean; how could he be a newly promoted Flying Martial Artist?

How is this possible!

'Clang!'

Rolinsa's combat blade snapped in response, and Fang Zhuo's blade, with unstoppable momentum, slashed heavily onto her body.

"Pfft—!"

A mouthful of blood sprayed out, and Rolinsa flew backward, her face as pale as paper. A gruesome wound on her chest revealed ghastly white bone.

"I'll give you a lesson this time."

Fang Zhuo glanced indifferently at Rolinsa, who was coughing up blood on the ground: "Next time, not even the Future Group will be able to protect you!"

"You... cough, you can't go in...!"

Rolinsa struggled to get up and shouted.

But seeing Fang Zhuo turn back and glare coldly, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. Instantly, she didn't dare to make another sound, only able to watch helplessly as Fang Zhuo entered the canyon.

Damn it!

Rolinsa used her blood-stained hand to dial the headquarters on her wristband.

"Hello? Rolinsa?"

A rough voice came from the phone.

"It's me. I'm in the D01 Wilderness Zone, near the Twin Canyons, coordinates... I've discovered a Universe-level treasure land, Ice Heart Spring. Send people quickly; Starry Sky Group has already sent someone, and I've been injured by them."

"What? Ice Heart Spring? And someone from Starry Sky Group injured you?"

The rough voice on the phone sounded both shocked and furious.

"Those bastards from Starry Sky Group are truly too rampant. You should take cover first and wait. Our group's people will be there immediately!"

...

Inside the canyon.

A figure flew rapidly between the two mountains.

"This cold wind... it's getting colder!" Fang Zhuo felt the wind blowing continuously from the depths of the canyon, and the stinging pain all over his body became increasingly obvious.

It was like a guide, quickly leading him to his destination.

Passing through the path embraced by high mountains on both sides, Fang Zhuo's view suddenly opened up. In the middle of a wetland, there was a spring eye gurgling with crystal-clear water.

The cold wind seemed to rise from the spring water, raging and sweeping through the wetland.

And fifty meters from the spring eye stood a somewhat familiar figure.

"Anthony?"

Fang Zhuo recognized him.

The man he had defeated at the Ocean Gathering. His Martial Aspect, 'Golden Cicada', was very special, and his Divine Ability, 'Golden Body', possessed two characteristics.

This guy, a Transcendent Martial Artist, how could he appear here?

The D01 Wilderness Zone was a region where King-level Exotic Beasts appeared.

"Fang Zhuo?"

Anthony sensed someone coming and turned around abruptly. His pupils shrank instantly as his gaze fell on the combat blade in Fang Zhuo's hand, the blood on it still slowly dripping.

This... where is my teacher?

How could my teacher let Fang Zhuo in?

The blood on Fang Zhuo's blade... and he was flying!

Anthony's brain seemed to crash, and then it pieced together a possibility that made him both shocked and furious: Fang Zhuo had broken through to become a Flying Martial Artist and had injured his teacher outside the canyon?!

"Where is my teacher?"

"Your teacher?"

Fang Zhuo realized, "Rolinsa is your teacher? She attacked me outside the canyon, and I was just acting in self-defense."

"You killed her?!"

Anthony clenched his fists, his whole body trembling. Even if his girlfriend had been killed, he felt he wouldn't be this angry.

Rolinsa was his teacher, his lover, and the most important person in his heart.

He placed Rolinsa's safety first. As for why Fang Zhuo had such combat power, Anthony had no mind to think about it.

"I'm not some homicidal maniac," Fang Zhuo said indifferently. "She's not dead; go find her outside the canyon yourself."

Rolinsa had held back when she first attacked, but her subsequent all-out assault was because she had confirmed that he was a Flying Martial Artist.

Now that he knew the relationship between Anthony and Rolinsa, Fang Zhuo could understand why Rolinsa had attacked him.

It was with the intention of venting anger for her student.

Not dead!

Anthony took a deep breath, and his complexion instantly returned to normal. He strode away, running wildly toward the outside of the canyon. He threw everything before him—the Ice Heart Spring, the Universe-level treasure land—to the back of his mind.

"This spring water... such dense source power. Hiss, it's cold, so cold!"

Fang Zhuo strode toward the Ice Heart Spring.

The cold wind hitting his body seemed to have the effect of tempering his body and mind? Hmm, it seemed his Mental Energy was also being trained?!

Standing by the spring eye, the gurgling spring water submerged Fang Zhuo's calves. The bone-chilling cold became even more intense, and his mind felt a dense stinging pain.

Something's not right...

This spring eye is not a Flying Sky-level treasure land, but rather... Universe-level! It probably has miraculous effects on tempering a Martial Artist's Mental Energy!

"I must report this to the group!"

Fang Zhuo made a decision instantly and used his tactical wristband to transmit the news back to the group headquarters.

If he had discovered this Universe-level treasure land alone, he would naturally keep quiet and monopolize it for cultivation.

But now that Rolinsa and Anthony of the Future Group had already discovered it first, given his own strength, it was impossible for him to monopolize it anymore.

Especially Rolinsa; she would definitely call for people.

Hiss~ It's really cold!

While Fang Zhuo was thinking, he felt his feet becoming a bit numb. He didn't dare to stay in the spring water any longer and instantly flew into the air.

He waited silently for this Ice Heart Spring to truly take shape.

Fang Zhuo was not worried about the matter blowing up. Even if his group and the Future Group broke out into a major war over this, it would definitely be suppressed by Cosmic Martial Artists.

Regardless of which side the spring eye ultimately belonged to, with the Civilization Assessment imminent, he would definitely be able to make use of it himself.

...

Outside the canyon.

In less than ten minutes, several Martial Artists wearing Future Group combat uniforms flew through the air. Each of their faces was struggling to suppress excitement and anger.

"Rolinsa, how are you?"

The person in the lead was a white-skinned Martial Artist. He saw Rolinsa being supported by Anthony, with a gruesome wound on her chest where her beating heart could almost be seen.

If not for the powerful vitality of a Flying Martial Artist, this injury would be life-threatening for a Transcendent Martial Artist if not treated in time.

"I'm not dead."

Rolinsa's face was deathly pale.

"Who injured you? Minister Chu Jiang?"

The leading white Martial Artist suppressed his anger.

If it were Minister Chu Jiang of the Starry Sky Group's Supervision Department, he really wouldn't be a match, even with several other department managers in tow.

"No, Minister Reid, it was Fang Zhuo."

Rolinsa said through gritted teeth: "He is inside the canyon. The Ice Heart Spring is about to take shape. You must go in quickly; don't let him take advantage of it."