Chapter 820
Extreme Cold Weapon Spirit! The Battle Begins
Time is indeed running out.
The Heavenly Pride Assessment Secret Realm opens once and lasts for three hours.
Now there is only half an hour left.
Normally, by this point, the fifth round of the competition will have begun, and the final winner will be the prodigy of this round.
However, Zhang Lingshan was still trying to comprehend the spiritual essence of ice.
If we wait for him to come out before the competition, there might not be enough time.
But if we don't wait for him to come out and let him compete last, wouldn't he be getting a free advantage?
Because those who competed in advance all expended energy, he, due to his slower comprehension speed, did not need to expend energy.
This is not fair!
Therefore, seeing that Zhang Lingshan was still comprehending, Wen Wanyu, Liu Rui, and Su Sheng did not move.
But it's not good to just let time pass by without doing anything.
at last.
Wen Wanyu broke the silence, saying, "Who knows when Li Xuanbing will succeed in comprehending this? If the time comes and we haven't determined a prodigy, wouldn't we have wasted this opportunity?"
Su Sheng said, "What's the rush? At worst, we can still have a competition to determine the most outstanding talents after we get out."
"This is different."
Wen Wanyu said, "After the competition ends, the winner will stay to receive an extra reward, while the others will be sent away. If you wait until you're outside to compete, you'll miss out on that reward."
"There's such a rule? How come I didn't know?" Su Sheng asked in surprise.
Liu Rui said, "There is indeed such a rule. Otherwise, why do you think the difference between everyone is not that big during the genius assessment, but after becoming geniuses, their strength increases dramatically? The reason lies in this final reward."
"I see. Then what are we waiting for? Let's start the competition. Li Xuanbing didn't comprehend the Frost Spirit, which means he's already eliminated. We don't need to worry about him."
Su Sheng called out urgently.
He wasn't in a hurry at all before because he didn't know the secret, but now that he does, he's more anxious than anyone else.
Wen Wanyu shook her head and said, "Elimination is not up to you. As long as Li Xuanbing is still here, he is not eliminated unless you drive him away."
"Do you think I'm stupid? Even if Li Xuanbing doesn't become a prodigy, he's still a true disciple of the sect's main peak. Do you think I'd like to offend people by driving him away?"
Su Sheng couldn't help but roll his eyes.
He may be muscular, but that doesn't mean being muscular makes you an idiot.
Liu Rui said, "If this won't work and that won't work, I have a suggestion. If Li Xuanbing still can't comprehend it in a quarter of an hour, let's wake him up together."
"This……"
Su Sheng hesitated.
This is also something that will offend people. Although it was brought up by Liu Rui, and everyone woke up Li Xuanbing together, it means that the three of them offended someone together, which is better than offending someone alone.
but.
If someone is contemplating something and you interrupt them, especially if they are at a crucial moment, it's not just about offending them; it's about cutting off their path to enlightenment.
The understanding of the essence of ice is extremely important for the future development of the Ice Spirit Sect disciples.
You dared to interrupt something like this? You're too ruthless.
Wen Wanyu also frowned.
Seeing this, Liu Rui smiled slightly and said, "I have already made the proposal. If everyone disagrees, then let's all wait and see."
Wen Wanyu and Su Sheng remained silent.
Inside the council chamber.
Di Jun couldn't help but say, "Chen Miao, your disciple is indeed decisive and unique."
"It was just a last resort. In critical moments, someone always has to step up and be the bad guy. My disciple was only thinking about preventing the final reward of the prodigy assessment from being wasted. I believe everyone can understand him."
Chen Miao said calmly.
Tie Zhengge said, "But Li Xuanbing is no ordinary person. If he is interrupted at a critical moment, it would be cutting off his path, and the enmity would be immense."
Chen Miao said, "So I think they're just talking and don't really dare to do anything. But if we keep waiting like this, will the rewards for this assessment really be wasted in the end? I think the sect leader should make a decision on this matter."
All eyes immediately turned to Shen Zhixin.
Shen Zhixin said in a deep voice, "I do have the ability to send a message to them. If Li Xuanbing still fails after two quarters of an hour, let the other three begin their contest. But do not interrupt Li Xuanbing. After the winner is decided, if Li Xuanbing still fails, I will expel him from the secret realm. What do you think of this?"
"So good."
Chen Miao was the first to agree.
Although the sect leader still favored Li Xuanbing, judging from Li Xuanbing's abilities in the first three trials, his extraordinary talent certainly deserved such favoritism.
After all, Li Xuanbing was a promising talent for their Ice Spirit Sect. Forcibly interrupting his training before the time was up was indeed a great loss for their sect.
"The sect leader's method is the best. It doesn't delay either side, everyone has a chance, and there's no interference between them."
Chang Songqing hurriedly flattered him.
Since none of his disciples participated in the assessment this time, he naturally had to stand in the same trench as the sect leader and show his support with both hands and feet.
Seeing this, Di Jun and Tie Zhengge nodded in unison and said, "We will follow the sect leader's arrangements."
then.
Shen Zhixin's voice suddenly rang out in the sky above the secret realm.
After hearing Shen Zhixin's arrangement, Wen Wanyu, Liu Rui, and Su Sheng exchanged glances, their understanding unspoken.
Everyone thinks the sect leader is biased, but he is biased, so what can you do?
Is this Li Xuanbing really worth the sect leader's favoritism?
The three watched with detached indifference, waiting to see what would happen.
'Sounds can be heard emanating from this secret realm; is it the sect leader's private little world?'
Zhang Lingshan was startled from his meditation by Shen Zhixin's voice, and was secretly surprised. Even a Celestial King has his own small world?
It should be impossible.
It's likely that this is the Ice Spirit Sect's own little world, and Shen Zhixin only has temporary control over it.
However, none of this had anything to do with Zhang Lingshan. He was just surprised and made this guess out of curiosity the moment he was awakened.
Soon, Zhang Lingshan regained his composure and began to ponder what he should do with his icy spirituality.
While he was pondering, he separated a portion of his divine consciousness and let it seep out from the halo to observe the results of Wen Wanyu and the other two's comprehension.
Because all three of them needed to prepare for the final battle of the fifth level, each of them was making the most of their time to familiarize themselves with their insights so that they could use them skillfully in the upcoming battles.
This gave Zhang Lingshan a good opportunity to observe and learn from others.
'This protective magic orb of Wen Wanyu seems quite agile and intelligent, reacting extremely quickly. Even though Wen Wanyu didn't sense my divine sense, this protective magic orb was still able to react swiftly.'
Zhang Lingshan was surprised.
Of course, this was only because his divine sense was testing the waters, deliberately slowing down and slowly circling and studying the surrounding area.
If a real battle were to break out, and his divine consciousness were to rapidly approach, Wen Wanyu's current protective magic orb would be far from being able to fight against his divine consciousness.
'The protective magic orb, though clever and swift, is useless to me; I don't need protection at all. The ice armor that Liu Rui comprehended, however, can protect my entire body—that's interesting. Although it's also useless to me, but…'
Zhang Lingshan pondered to himself, and suddenly an idea came to him.
The ice armor was indeed useless to her, but the ice form that Liu Rui had comprehended was quite interesting.
If you didn't know that Liu Rui was inside the armor, the entire armor itself would look like a warrior.
That's it. Zhang Lingshan made up his mind; he would create an ice sculpture warrior.
By fusing Ji Buyi's ice sculpting technique with Liu Rui's icy armor, a brand new ice sculpture warrior is created.
The outline is simple; just follow Liu Rui's ice armor. It doesn't need to be too complicated.
The internal structure is also very simple; it simply mimics Zhang Lingshan's own bones, blood vessels, and muscles.
When it comes to blood vessels, Zhang Lingshan thought of Ji Buyi's ice sculpting technique, which involved injecting a portion of water spiritual energy into the ice sculpture to act as blood vessels, thus making the ice sculpture instantly flexible and versatile.
However, Ji Buyi himself is not a water-type spiritual root. His water spiritual energy is actually ice spiritual energy that he weakened using some kind of secret method.
This counterfeit water spirit energy is naturally inferior to Zhang Lingshan's genuine water spirit energy.
and so.
Zhang Lingshan only needs to make the ice sculpture warrior well, and then infuse it with his own water-based spiritual energy to make it more flexible.
This is merely one form of change.
Because in addition to water-based spiritual energy, Zhang Lingshan can also infuse fire-based spiritual energy and lightning-based spiritual energy.
Each infusion of spiritual energy brings about a change.
Injecting two or three kinds of spiritual energy together creates another change.
According to the principle of permutation and combination, one type of spiritual energy infusion results in ten variations, two types in forty-five variations, three types in one hundred and twenty variations, four types in…
Too much.
It's incredibly unpredictable.
Zhang Lingshan was overjoyed. It seemed that his comprehension this time was correct, because no other powerful method could match his peerless genius status.
Now we know how to make ice sculptures, but what about the spirit?
Zhang Lingshan never quite understood the meaning of the icy spirituality, but he suddenly grasped a principle.
That's because other people have no better way, so they try every means to comprehend the so-called ice spirituality.
But ultimately, this spirituality is still related to one's own soul power and divine consciousness.
After all, isn't the essence of spirituality simply the power of the soul?
What Zhang Lingshan has in abundance is soul power.
A casual swipe of the Soul Tree yields a vast amount of soul power; all one needs to allocate a small portion to the Ice Sculpture Warrior or something, and all problems will be easily solved.
It is even more outstanding, more flexible, and more spiritual than the so-called ice spirituality comprehended by Ji Buyi, Wen Wanyu, Liu Rui, and others!
Then.
I'm not going to say anything more.
Come forth, my ice warrior.
Zhang Lingshan waved his hands and drew ice talismans.
The Frost Talisman is one of the best ways to utilize Frost Spiritual Energy, allowing Zhang Lingshan to activate his own Frost Spiritual Energy more quickly and saving a lot of time.
Without the Frost Talisman, even if Zhang Lingshan activated it at full power, it would take at least several seconds to create a three-meter-tall Frost Warrior. Not to mention that this was only the first time he activated it, it could take more than ten seconds.
But with the Frost Talisman, it only took a few blinks of an eye.
Wow!
A massive ice warrior rose from the ground, and Zhang Lingshan sat right on its head.
Just then, the light circle also believed that Zhang Lingshan had successfully comprehended the comprehension, and it dissipated just in time.
To everyone's astonishment, a three-meter-tall ice warrior suddenly appeared.
'Is it also a spirit of the Frost Armored Soldier?'
Liu Rui's eyes narrowed. It turned out that she had the same understanding as Liu Rui. It seemed that the next battle would be a contest of true skill between them.
Wen Wanyu frowned slightly. It was already difficult to deal with Liu Rui's Frost Armor Soldier Spirit, but Li Xuanbing had actually comprehended the Frost Armor Soldier Spirit as well.
However, despite both being Frost Armored Soldiers, it took much longer to comprehend the spirit, which suggests that its comprehension is not as good as Liu Rui's.
"What is this? It doesn't seem like a Frost Armored Soldier Spirit. It's a bit strange."
Su Sheng frowned slightly.
Although he didn't comprehend the spirit of the Frost Armor Soldier, he did manage to comprehend the helmet.
In terms of understanding the details of the Cold Armored Soldier Spirit, he was actually stronger than Liu Rui, who had grasped the whole picture.
At that moment, he immediately realized that Zhang Lingshan's spirit was different from the Cold Armor Soldier Spirit, and was somewhat strange.
Most importantly, when Su Sheng raised his head to the top, he saw Zhang Lingshan sitting on top of the Frost Warrior and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Li Xuanbing, what is this? It's not the Frost Armor Warrior Spirit! The Frost Armor Warrior Spirit can't leave the body, how could you get on his head?"
"The spirit of the Frost Armored Soldiers?"
Zhang Lingshan leaped onto the ground and asked, "What is the Frost Armor Spirit?"
Su Sheng said, "Don't you know what the Frost Armor Spirit is? What Liu Rui comprehended is the Frost Armor Spirit, which is like armor that protects itself. In battle, the Frost Spirit will change unpredictably according to the enemy's methods. In critical moments, it can even send its master away and choose to self-destruct and die."
At this point, he couldn't help but add, "But yours is different. This wasn't a critical moment, and you didn't self-destruct; you just left your body like that. What is yours?"
"Frosty Armored Spirit, what a great name!"
Zhang Lingshan seemed completely unconcerned about what Su Sheng said, only interested in the name, and said, "Mine is called Extreme Cold Soldier Spirit! Not bad, not bad."
He seemed extremely satisfied with the name he had chosen.
It just so happens that what I comprehended from the ice coffin was the Extreme Cold Ice Talisman. Once I have mastered the Extreme Cold Ice Talisman, I can send it into the Extreme Cold Ice Spirit. Wouldn't that be even more heaven-defying?
Therefore, my understanding of this extreme cold weapon spirit was entirely preordained by fate; everything was just right.
"Extreme Cold Weapon Spirit?"
Su Sheng was taken aback, then said, "Could I touch it and see how cold it is? I dare to call it extremely cold."
"Feel free to touch."
Zhang Lingshan smiled generously.
He had previously used his divine sense to touch the comprehension results of the others, so it was only reasonable and appropriate for him to let the others touch them now, as it was a matter of reciprocity.
"However, it must be very troublesome to condense such a large piece of ice spirit. In actual combat, just condensing it will be a problem."
Su Sheng commented.
Liu Rui and Wen Wanyu nodded together.
"Therefore, during the fifth round of the competition, no one may summon their Ice Spirit in advance, otherwise it will be considered cheating."
Liu Rui immediately replied.
"I second that."
"I second that as well."
Wen Wanyu and Su Sheng hurriedly followed suit.
Zhang Lingshan smiled slightly and said, "That's natural."
Upon hearing Zhang Lingshan's agreement, Liu Rui and the other two breathed a sigh of relief.
They have the sect leader as their backer, so even if they disagree, the three of them can only feel unhappy but there's nothing they can do.
Fortunately, the other party was reasonably decent and not a scoundrel.
So, in the upcoming competition, the three of them still have a chance!
"Time is almost up, so let's move on to the fifth level without further ado."
Liu Rui immediately replied. (End of Chapter)