Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1829: Chapter 585: Late-stage Xianyang, Playing Mind Games_2

But here, he could summon his Bone Golden Body at will, completely unaffected by the space. Considering that the Dark Realm was a space specially provided for Spiritual Life to survive, and that the Bone Appearance was itself a vessel for the soul, this didn’t seem all that strange.

The stability of the Bone Golden Body meant he could devote himself entirely to the process of absorbing Medicinal Power, without being affected by any external environment; secondly, such a stable space ensured that not a trace of Medicinal Power would leak out and be wasted; and finally, this space itself had an extremely strong nourishing effect on the Bone Appearance. As for where this effect came from, he wasn’t clear yet, but he had already tested it before: as long as he summoned the Bone Golden Body, without Cultivation, without taking any Dan Medicine, doing nothing at all, the growth efficiency of the Golden Body was still higher than when he cultivated in the Ice Abyss;

On the other hand, there was also the effect of those soul bodies!

Xia Hong’s eyes flickered slightly. He reached into the Yellow Mustard Bag and fumbled around for a while, then quickly took out a silver-made box. He opened it, and inside lay a thirty-centimeter-tall Green Jade Sculpture.

The sculpture had six arms and a green face, fanged mouth, scarlet pupils, and its uppermost pair of arms held a white long spear aloft. It was exactly the Six-armed Green-faced Evil Demon he had obtained after beheading Yang Zhun.

Xia Hong directly took the Evil Demon sculpture out of the box, held it in his hand, and asked aloud, “Back then you said ‘Infinite Soul Refining’—what did you mean by that?”

A box made of silver, of course, was nowhere near enough to confine it. The Green-faced Evil Demon had stayed obediently in the box mainly because the outside of the box was coated with a layer of Solidified Fire Oil, and also because Xia Hong had always carried it on his person, so it could only behave itself inside.

The Green-faced Evil Demon’s injuries were clearly very severe and had never recovered. Even now that it had come out, it still maintained the form of a sculpture. Hearing Xia Hong’s question, it immediately replied, “When a human breaks through the Tribulation Body Fifth Turn and attains a Golden Body with all five organs, they can use the Golden Body as a base to shape a soul body, condense a Venerable Appearance, and to condense a Venerable Appearance Golden Body requires two powerful media: one is Gold, the other is soul bodies. Gold from the Ice Abyss is hard to find, and soul bodies are absolutely nonexistent. But the Dark Realm is different… hmm?”

The Six-armed Green-faced Evil Demon that had been answering suddenly seemed to sense something; its voice halted abruptly, and the originally exquisite and still Green Jade Sculpture rapidly revived, turning into a miniature living Evil Demon.

Once its six arms revived, it sensed the change in the surrounding environment. It immediately raised its head to look at the sky. Its expression froze in an instant, then it turned back to Xia Hong with a look like it had seen a ghost, its pupils trembling as it said, “My lord has entered the Dark Realm, and even brought his flesh body with him…”

Combined with what that Scattered Spirit had said earlier, Xia Hong was not surprised by the shock on the six-armed face.

According to that Scattered Spirit, any entity with a physical body in the Dark Realm would be at least Demon General Level. He was just a mere Ice Abyss human, yet he had come to the Dark Realm with his flesh body; this was obviously against common sense.

But Xia Hong had no mood to clear up its confusion at this moment. He directly pressed on in a deep voice, “Why are there no soul bodies in the Ice Abyss? Aren’t soul bodies just the souls of humans after death? You Deceitful Monsters are actually Spiritual Life of the Dark Realm. You go to the Ice Abyss and kill people everywhere—isn’t that just to collect soul bodies?”

The moment the Six-armed appeared in the Dark Realm, its originally withered state recovered quite a bit. Just from this alone, Xia Hong could basically infer that Deceitful Monsters like Six-armed, who caused trouble everywhere in the Ice Abyss, had obviously all come out from the Dark Realm.

He just didn’t know exactly how they descended to the lower world!

Xia Hong raised his head to look upward. Behind that dark-blue light curtain was, in all likelihood, the Ice Abyss World. So the two spaces corresponded vertically up and down; he just didn’t know how these Deceitful Monsters crossed over.

“What my lord said is correct, but soul bodies are also divided into different types. The soul bodies of Ice Abyss humans are called Human Souls. Because Human Souls are mostly newly born and extremely weak, we usually call them Life Souls. Life Souls are a great tonic for us Deceitful Monsters, but have no use at all for humans;

The Dark Realm is different. This space has an extremely ancient inheritance. The soul bodies within it have all survived from archaic times until now, and there are also soul bodies from the past that keep reviving. Even the weakest of these soul bodies is enough to crush Ice Abyss humans. Such soul bodies are called Dead Souls. The amount of soul-body energy needed to condense a Venerable Appearance is extremely vast. If you used Life Souls, I fear that even hundreds of billions, trillions of living beings wouldn’t be enough to nurture a single Venerable Realm expert…”

Xia Hong had just fought with those Scattered Spirits. Hearing this, he nodded slightly, then waited for Six-armed to continue.

“My lord has already noticed that some of the Deceitful Monsters in the Ice Abyss are actually soul bodies from the Dark Realm that have smuggled themselves over. They…”

“How did they smuggle themselves over?”

Xia Hong couldn’t help feeling anxious; this concerned how he could escape the Dark Realm and return to the Ice Abyss World.

A trace of confusion flashed across Six-armed’s eyes. It was currently curious about how Xia Hong had brought his flesh body over, but seeing the man’s darkening expression, it immediately shut its mouth. After thinking for a moment, it answered:

“There are usually two methods of smuggling over. One doesn’t depend on strength at all and relies purely on luck to find a space fissure that connects the Dark Realm and the Ice Abyss; the other relies on pure strength: find a dome, tear open space, and go straight across. This method requires Demon General Level strength, and the risk is extremely high, because every dome has a massive colony of Soul-devouring Worms entrenched there. Once they discover you, it’s basically certain death.”

“What is a dome?”

Hearing Xia Hong’s question, Six-armed pointed toward the summit of Qi Mountain on the eastern side and replied, “It’s a sky region similar to the summit of Qi Mountain, the area closest to the Ice Abyss World. Places like this aren’t rare in the Dark Realm.”

“Which method did you use to go down to the Ice Abyss? Don’t lie to me!”

Xia Hong’s final sentence carried an obvious warning.

He remembered clearly that when this Six-armed Evil Demon was begging for mercy, it had said it knew how to reach the Dark Realm. Combined with its answers just now, many things weren’t hard to deduce.

Six-armed’s expression stiffened slightly; it was clearly struggling inside. But when it looked up and saw the killing intent gradually rising in Xia Hong’s eyes, it hurriedly spoke, “This lowly one does indeed know the location of a space fissure, but that place is at least ten thousand kilometers from Qi Mountain, my lord simply can’t get there… ah…”

Before Six-armed could finish, Xia Hong silently activated the Soul Suppressing Tripod within his body.

A flame instantly rose from his palm, and the Six-armed, which he was holding, was the first to suffer, being burned by the tripod’s fire until it howled in agony.

“Spare me, spare me, this lowly one truly doesn’t know!”

“My lord, spare me, spare me! This lowly one really doesn’t know…”

“Spare me, spare me…”

“I remember, this lowly one remembers now. This place is the Mist Swamp Forest. To the west there’s a White Bone Mountain, and in the cave residence of White Bone Mountain’s master, Lady Yulou, there is a space rift that leads back to the Ice Abyss.”

Seeing that half of its body had been burned away and the flames were about to spread to its head, Six-armed, in its pain and terror, finally couldn’t hold out any longer and gave an answer that Xia Hong could be somewhat satisfied with.

Xia Hong’s gaze was dark as he looked at Six-armed, the killing intent in his pupils not diminishing in the slightest.

This idiot had recognized Qi Mountain at a glance just now, exposing that it was very familiar with the surrounding region. How could Xia Hong possibly believe its nonsense?

What “over ten thousand kilometers from here”? In his view, that was eighty percent a lie!

Bringing up Lady Yulou on purpose was clearly an attempt to borrow someone else’s knife to kill him. How could Xia Hong fail to see through such a cheap trick?

The problem was, he couldn’t just ignore Xiahou Yong and Jiang Yiqing, so he really did have to make a trip to White Bone Mountain. And Six-armed just happened to say that there was also a space rift in Lady Yulou’s cave residence at White Bone Mountain. Wasn’t that perfect!

But being plotted against by Six-armed like this left Xia Hong more than a little annoyed. After making up his mind, he asked in a deep voice, posing his final question.

“What did you mean earlier by ‘Taixu Yehuo’?”

Back when Six-armed begged for mercy, it had said a lot—things like going to the Dark Realm, Infinite Soul Refining, achieving Supreme Venerable Appearance, and so on. None of those were the reason Xia Hong spared its life.

The real reason he had held back from killing it all this time was that it had recognized the Holy Tripod’s fire at a glance.

Taixu Yehuo!

These four words, Xia Hong had kept in his heart all along.