#35 - Chapter 35: Ancient Ice Dragon
“This feeling… *hiss* ~ So cold!”
Lin Changqing immediately bared his teeth from the cold as he entered the Dragon Blood Martial Pool, feeling as if he had jumped into an icy cavern in a frozen wasteland.
Moreover, it was the kind of extreme arctic cold. One must know that he was already at the Fifth Bone Forging stage, and his physical strength was unmatched by ordinary people.
Yet, even so, he couldn't withstand the cold upon entering this pool, which showed just how low the temperature was.
“So cold, so cold…” Lin Changqing shivered all over, and even his hair gradually formed icy strands.
Moreover, he felt colder and colder. Looking down, he saw the red blood in the Dragon Blood Martial Pool slowly turning into an ice-colored liquid.
This ice-colored liquid enveloped his body and skin, entering through his pores.
This sensation was like countless ice knives stabbing into his skin. He only felt extreme cold. There was no pain, because he was already numb from the cold!
“This ice-colored liquid is greatly beneficial to my body!”
While gritting his teeth and enduring the cold, Lin Changqing's eyes flashed with joy. He felt that as the ice-colored liquid poured in, his body seemed to be strengthening.
This ice-colored liquid was transforming his body.
His left shoulder bone was constantly heating up, and it seemed that runes were about to be outlined on it.
“Persist!” Lin Changqing gritted his teeth, endured the extreme cold, and began to use the Dragon Demon Body Refining Technique to slowly absorb these ice-colored liquids.
The plaque said that the longer one persisted in the Dragon Blood Martial Pool, the greater the benefits one would receive. He had to persist!
“Dragon Demon Body Refining Technique!”
As Lin Changqing performed the Dragon Demon Body Refining Technique, whether it was an illusion or not, he faintly saw a true dragon with blue scales and white whiskers slowly devouring an ice-colored true dragon.
This was the first level of the Dragon Blood Martial Pool, the Ice Dragon Barrier.
The Ice Dragon Barrier's dragon blood was created by the Mountain and Sea Sect using the blood of a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Dragon and placing it inside to temper the martial artist's body with extreme cold.
There were several more barriers behind, Fire Dragon, Earth Dragon…
However, generally speaking, there were not many who could persist in the first barrier, the Ice Dragon Barrier.
Ordinary people could only withstand it for twenty to thirty minutes before their physical strength gave out.
Time passed little by little. After twenty minutes, Lin Changqing was already frozen to the point of losing consciousness. At this moment, he only had one thought.
Quickly escape this pool, otherwise, staying here any longer would lead to freezing to death.
But as soon as this thought arose, he immediately suppressed it!
“I can't leave. This Dragon Blood Martial Pool is too helpful for the physical body. I must persist!”
Lin Changqing glanced at his left shoulder. One-third of the runes on his left shoulder bone had already been outlined.
“Persist a little longer!”
Lin Changqing became ruthless. He accelerated the activation of the Dragon Demon Body Refining Technique, quickly absorbing the surrounding ice-colored liquid.
Gurgle, gurgle!
From a distance, those ice-colored liquids were like ice-colored small dragons drilling into Lin Changqing's body, and some black impurities were discharged from his flesh.
Although he was enduring extreme cold and pain, his physical body was also becoming stronger and stronger!
Twenty minutes later, half of Lin Changqing's body was already frozen. Half of the runes on his left shoulder bone had been outlined.
Forty minutes later, the ice-colored liquid in the entire Dragon Blood Martial Pool was boiling, like a large furnace burning.
But in contrast, Lin Changqing, sitting in the center of the pool, had become an ice man!
If Lin Changqing didn't have a faint rise and fall of breath, he would have looked like a corpse frozen in ice, his face blue!
“Almost there, almost there…”
Lin Changqing breathed out. He had no sensation in his whole body. The only thing he could feel was his left shoulder bone.
At this moment, ninety-nine percent of the runes on his left shoulder bone had been outlined!
From a distance, the rune looked like a text from the ancient era, and also like an ice-colored true dragon!
This rune was only short of one “dot” to be completed, or rather, only short of adding the eyes to the Ice Dragon.
The runes on the left shoulder bone could be outlined!
Another half an hour passed. The ice-colored liquid in the Dragon Blood Martial Pool completely boiled, and at this moment, a picture suddenly appeared behind Lin Changqing, a true dragon with blue scales and white whiskers completely swallowed an ice-colored true dragon!
At this moment, on the runes on his left shoulder bone, a “dot” fell. This “dot” was like a painter drawing an ice-colored true dragon. This ice-colored true dragon was lifeless, lacking eyes.
As this dot fell, the ice-colored true dragon had eyes and also had spirit!
“Roar!”
As if from a vast world of ice and snow of hundreds of millions of years, an ancient ice dragon stretching for thousands of feet arrived with a blizzard! Appeared behind Lin Changqing!
Lin Changqing suddenly opened his eyes! The runes on his left shoulder bone were completed, like an ice-colored true dragon swimming on his left shoulder bone.
The sixth bone has been forged!
“I seem to have mastered the power of ice…”
Lin Changqing gently reached out and waved his hand, and the ice that had frozen him split apart. Then, with a gentle wave of his hand, these ice blocks merged in his palm to form a small ice-colored dragon.
The ice that made him feel extremely cold before, he didn't feel anything now.
Now, the ice-colored liquid in this pool had a warm feeling for him instead.
“This bone forging is different from the others. It is indeed something left by the Mountain and Sea Sect…”
Lin Changqing waved his hand again, and the water elements in the entire cave air condensed, and then transformed into ice. Before long, a small snowstorm fell in the cave!
“It's really magical. Now I can manipulate the ice elements between heaven and earth with my physical body alone.”
Lin Changqing's eyes were fiery. He felt that with the help of the Dragon Blood Martial Pool, perhaps he was not an ordinary bone forger. His physical body seemed to have undergone some kind of evolution, as if he had stolen the Ice Dragon's ability to manipulate ice elements!
“I heard that some large sects have mastered some secret methods. After the sect disciples temper their physical bodies, they can allow people's physical bodies to undergo some kind of evolution and master some kind of heaven and earth elemental power, which can be called an elemental body.”
“I can now perhaps also be called an Ice Dragon Elemental Body.”
Lin Changqing felt that this Dragon Blood Martial Pool was perhaps the greatest opportunity he had obtained in entering the secret realm.
Perhaps it was not inferior to the Nine-Pattern Golden Pill opportunity obtained by Mo Tian.
Gurgle, gurgle!
The ice-colored liquid in the Dragon Blood Martial Pool began to boil again, and slowly changed color.
Before long, the entire pool turned fiery red, like fiery true dragons swimming in the pool.
Lin Changqing again felt the ultimate heat!
“Well done!” This heat made Lin Changchun's skin dry and cracked, as hot and painful as oil burning on his body, but Lin Changqing was not surprised but delighted!
He had tasted the sweetness from the ice-colored liquid just now.
He was looking forward to what elemental power he could gain after enduring this fiery red liquid.
“Fiery red liquid, it should be the fire element…” Lin Changqing muttered to himself, and he began to use the Dragon Demon Body Refining Technique to absorb the fiery red liquid little by little.
Behind him, a true dragon with blue scales and white whiskers was fighting a Taikoo Fire Dragon.
Moreover, this blue-scaled and white-bearded true dragon was different from before. At this moment, ice-white dragon patterns appeared on the body of this blue-scaled and white-bearded true dragon.
This represented that Lin Changqing had passed the first level, the Ice Dragon Barrier, and obtained the ability of the Taikoo Ice Dragon to control ice elements.
[You have begun to pass the second level in the Dragon Blood Martial Pool, the Fire Dragon Barrier.]
[The Fire Dragon Barrier is where the Mountain and Sea Sect puts the dragon blood of the Ten Thousand Year Fire Dragon into it to temper the physical bodies of the sect disciples.]
[In this level, the human body will be subjected to the feeling of being burned by hundreds of millions of flames, and it is difficult to pass. The difficulty is greater than the first level, the Ice Dragon Barrier.]
