Chapter 43: Su Lingxi Falls into a Trap
For the next month, Su Lingxi took Luo Chuxue’s advice and seriously cultivated in the cultivation room, spending over a hundred high-grade spiritual crystals.
In one month, Su Lingxi’s strength reached the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. To put it bluntly, this was a cultivation level purely built up with spiritual crystals.
The Ice Heart Art also reached the third level. In this way, the Ice Heart Art available for cultivation in the outer court was completed.
This also saved a lot of points. Ever since she had spent points to cultivate the first level from Xiao Bai, her own cultivation talent had slowly begun to show.
These past few days, Xiao Yun had also been asking Su Lingxi where that girl Su Yuebai had gone.
Su Lingxi could only say that Su Yuebai had gone out for training and would not be back for a while.
Only then did Xiao Yun give up.
Su Lingxi sank her qi into her dantian and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. She slowly opened her eyes, her next goal already in mind.
“Xiao Bai, let’s go to the Glacial Snow Domain!”
“There’s a pool in the Ice Eagle Beast King’s cave. I’ve already reached the Golden Core realm, so I’m qualified to enter the pool and search for treasure.”
To be on the safe side, she had even broken through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. She had spent so many spiritual crystals just for this treasure.
This time, the treasure would definitely be hers.
Su Lingxi chuckled, and her figure disappeared, heading towards the cave in her memory at an extremely fast speed.
This was her third time coming to this cave, and she still remembered the route very clearly. Before leaving, she had reported to Luo Chuxue, saying that she was going down the mountain to Cold Moon City to buy some things.
Luo Chuxue had wanted to go with Su Lingxi, but she had been politely refused.
The reason was very simple. Being so inseparable in the sect would probably have a bad influence. And Su Lingxi hadn’t told her that she was still a girl.
This made her very tormented. She didn’t want to lie to her senior sister, but she hadn’t found a suitable opportunity to explain everything.
Forget it, I’ll take it one step at a time.
Su Lingxi didn’t use the disguise technique this time. After all, outside of the Snowfall Sect, no one knew her as a girl.
And to avoid unnecessary trouble, she changed into the Snowfall Sect’s robe, which could also show her identity outside.
She went down the mountain and spent a few mid-grade spiritual crystals to rent an ice eagle beast that could be used as a substitute for human flight.
This type of ice eagle beast only had a second-tier cultivation, but in a state of extreme speed, it could reach the flight speed of a human Golden Core realm cultivator.
The Ice Eagle Beast King she had encountered before was the ancestor of these tamed ice eagle beasts. Thinking about it, it was quite a coincidence.
The strength of an ice eagle beast was not judged by its size. The spiritual beast Su Lingxi had rented was four major realms different from the previous Ice Eagle Beast King, but its size was only one circle smaller than the sixth-tier Ice Eagle Beast King.
Su Lingxi slapped the ice eagle beast’s butt, and it immediately let out a sharp cry, its huge wings carrying its body into the air.
Su Lingxi used her spiritual energy to cover her body and block out the cold, and she fell asleep directly on the ice eagle beast.
After about two days’ journey, she arrived at her destination. Su Lingxi fed the ice eagle beast some food and let it go back.
Stepping into this land of ice and snow again, Su Lingxi had changed a lot from the previous two times.
The improvement in her cultivation and the breakthrough in the Ice Heart Art made her able to handle some sudden dangers with ease.
Su Lingxi quickly flew into the cave in her memory. The warm spring water and the sunlight shining down from above, everything looked so peaceful.
Su Lingxi quickly took off her clothes, leaving only her undergarments, and was about to enter the water.
There was no longer any psychological shame about her body in her eyes. Instead, it was replaced by a desire for the unknown treasure.
With a splash, she jumped into the water. Only after entering the pool did Su Lingxi discover that it was surprisingly bottomless.
The surroundings were a pale blue from the sunlight penetrating the water surface. Looking down, it was a bottomless black abyss.
Fortunately, Su Lingxi didn’t have thalassophobia. At this time, the cultivation of the Golden Core realm was demonstrated.
She quickly circulated her spiritual energy and dived down, while asking Xiao Bai in her consciousness.
“Where’s that treasure you mentioned? I’ve been diving for ten minutes, and I still can’t see the bottom.”
Not only that, but there wasn’t even a single fish in this pool.
Xiao Bai was silent for a moment and then said, “I have some bad news. I can’t sense the treasure’s aura anymore…”
“What!”
This reminder from Xiao Bai almost made Su Lingxi turn her back in anger. She choked on a few mouthfuls of pool water before she stopped.
“I don’t believe it. I’ve already come all this way. I have to find it!”
Su Lingxi quickly dived down. She wouldn’t give up until she saw something. She dived for more than ten minutes.
Suddenly, a faint, almost imperceptible light appeared in the black abyss ahead. This light was as dazzling as a meteor streaking across the night sky.
Her heart leaped with joy, and she increased her diving speed.
This time, she finally saw the light clearly, and at the same time, she had reached the bottom of the lake.
They were plants that could be called deep-sea corals, and next to them were some large and small shells that emitted a faint light.
But the largest of these shells had already opened their mouths, and they were empty.
Su Lingxi’s gaze did not linger on these shells that were no longer of any use. Her gaze was drawn to some of the smaller shells.
Xiao Bai guessed what she was going to do and immediately reminded her, “I guess this is Ice Spirit Divine Marrow, a unique treasure that only grows in the Glacial Snow Domain. It’s of great benefit to those who cultivate the ice attribute, comparable to an eighth-tier pill.”
“But it generally grows at the bottom of the water under a thousand-year-old ice layer, its aura concealed by natural shells, making it extremely difficult to pick.”
“I don’t know what kind of opportunity that Ice Eagle Beast King had to obtain such a treasure, but in the end, its cultivation was low and its vision was short-sighted. It actually only moved it to a small pool.”
As Xiao Bai spoke, she sighed and looked at these small shells. “This is also Ice Spirit Divine Marrow that is currently gestating, but I don’t recommend you pick it. If an immature treasure is taken, it will permanently damage the roots of this land and the nourishment of the spiritual energy.”
Su Lingxi understood. To ensure sustainable development, she couldn’t touch these small ones.
“Sigh, another wasted trip!”
Su Lingxi was about to cry, a huge sense of loss welling up in her heart.
“Hey, don’t be sad. It’s probably just that a powerful expert sensed the aura and took it away in advance. Treasure hunting is a matter of extremely low probability.”
Xiao Bai was telling the truth, but she was still very sad.
Su Lingxi looked at these shells reluctantly, then turned and left.
Coming out of the water again, Su Lingxi gasped for air. Fortunately, the temperature near the water surface was high, otherwise she would have frozen to death.
She simply wiped her hair and put on her clothes one by one. Suddenly, she felt that she had stepped on something hard.
“Hey, isn’t this the treasure I deliberately left behind?”
Only then did Su Lingxi discover that the treasure spiritual artifact she had deliberately left behind had actually changed its position.
Su Lingxi picked up this spiritual artifact. Its quality was not high, but its appearance was very strange.
“Maybe the previous powerful expert didn’t care for it and just threw it here.”
Su Lingxi found a reason to explain it to herself. But since she hadn’t gotten what she wanted this time, she might as well pack up these Yellow-grade weapons and take them back.
Even a mosquito’s leg is still meat.
Su Lingxi picked this one up and found that there was another spiritual artifact not far ahead. With the idea of getting them all, Su Lingxi ran over without thinking.
Then another one appeared not far away… and so on. Su Lingxi didn’t know how long she had been walking in the depths of the cave.
When Su Lingxi picked up the tenth one, she felt that something was wrong.
“Why does this feel so much like bait…”
As she spoke, the cup-shaped spiritual artifact in front of Su Lingxi suddenly sprayed a strange, pungent yellow mist.
As the yellow mist was inhaled into her body, Su Lingxi only felt her head spin.
“It’s over… I think… I’ve been tricked…”
Su Lingxi fell to the ground. In a daze, she heard some hurried footsteps.
“Aiyo, the one who took the bait this time is actually a pretty little sister,” the leader was a woman, who was talking to the two men next to her.
“Boss, if you like her, we’ll take her back to warm your bed!”
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