"Master, look!" Qiong Qi returned to the mountaintop and handed the bone to Yong Xing.
Yong Xing took the bone, looked at it, and said, "This is a human bone tempered by the Phoenix Golden Fla."
"Then it must be Vermilion Bird’s master who has taken the Fire Spirit Pearl. If she is the reincarnation of the Creator God, then by finding Vermilion Bird, we can know who the reincarnated Creator God is!" Qiong Qi said.
"Leave this matter to you to handle. Take Taotie and the others with you, and you must resolve her before the Creator God returns!" Yong Xing handed the shinbone to Qiong Qi, instructing firmly.
"Yes, Master!"
"Additionally, pay attention to the whereabouts of the other Spiritual Pearls, as she will definitely go looking for them!"
"Yes!"
Afterwards, the two disappeared from Lamari Fla Mountain, with their somber and ruthless gazes being the last thing visible before their disappearance.
In the Nine Heavens Mysterious Realm, atop Ice Snow Mountain.
Qie Yue was swinging a net with the Fire Spirit Pearl tossing within it, casually strolling to the mountaintop ice spring.
"I told you before not to do things you’d regret, and now look at you, just wash up nicely here in the bath!" Qie Yue threw the Fire Spirit Pearl into the ice spring, sitting by the side and shivering from the cold, "It’s all your fault, making forget to ask Nian Hua for a Berserk Pill!"
Qie Yue forcefully pressed the Fire Spirit Pearl under water, and whenever it surfaced, he poked it back down with a stick.
Zi Xiao had sealed the Fire Spirit Pearl’s power, and now it was like at on a chopping board, helplessly being pressed down in the ice spring by Qie Yue.
This ice spring, like the Lamari Mountain, boasts a history of over a million years. In fact, the existence of this ice spring predates even the history of the Lamari Mountain. The Nine Heavens Mysterious Realm was created by the Creator God with the Ice Snow Mountain already in existent. Lamari Fla Mountain only ford after the Creator God passed away, and after the Fire Spirit Pearl arrived there. However, it’s because of the Fire Spirit Pearl that the Fla Mountain is so formidable!
The temperature of the ice spring is very low, its waters possess a bone-chilling cold. Typically, even those above the rank of Divine Venerable cannot withstand the spring for more than three days, and even on the brink, the temperature is unbearable.
For the Fire Spirit Pearl, the temperature of this ice spring would rely have been a ans to cool down, but that was before it was sealed. Now it is just an ordinary spirit stone, almost frozen solid in the waters of the ice spring.
Qie Yue jabbed at the Fire Spirit Pearl with resentnt, muttering, "I’ll teach you to bully Dugu Qianye like that! I’ll teach you to thwart us! I poke! I poke! I poke you vigorously!"
The once domineering Fire Spirit Pearl now had no ability to fight back and could only let Qie Yue keep pressing it underwater. Luckily, it didn’t need to breathe, otherwise, it would have surely been drowned!
After spending a day by the ice spring, Qie Yue fished out the Fire Spirit Pearl, which by now had lost its previous brilliant luster and turned sowhat dark red.
"Hmm, still slls nasty. Seems like I didn’t wash you clean earlier. Let’s continue then!" Qie Yue sniffed the Fire Spirit Pearl, waving his hand as he spoke.
After soaking for the better part of another day, Qie Yue threw his stick aside and said, "You’re still not clean, and I’m about to freeze to death! No, I must think of sothing!"
Qie Yue made his way around Ice Snow Mountain, found a large stone, and then he tied the stone and the Fire Spirit Pearl together with a thread. When the stone sank to the bottom of the spring, the Fire Spirit Pearl hung just below the water surface. Patting his hands, he looked at his work with satisfaction and said, "That should do it! You take your ti and have a nice soak here while I go back to get so Berserk Pills from Nian Hua to co find you!"
And so, the pearl was forsaken in the icy spring. By the ti Qie Yue leisurely went back to fetch the Berserk Pills and arrived at the spring, taking breaks now and then, the Fire Spirit Pearl had turned into a frostbitten stone!
"Whoa, dressed in white now, are we?!" Qie Yue chuckled as he saw the layer of ice that had ford on the Fire Spirit Pearl, adding, "Looking like this, you should be almost done with your bath. I’ll take you back first, and if Zi Xiao thinks you’re not clean enough, we can always co back. Ah, I really am a kind soul!" With those words, he took the Fire Spirit Pearl back with him.
At this point, the Fire Spirit Pearl had already frozen to the point of losing consciousness; otherwise, it definitely would have given Qie Yue a big icy stare!
anwhile, back at the palace, Zi Xiao had been silent ever since Qie Yue left, and the atmosphere was a bit tense due to concern over Dugu Qianye’s injuries. Eventually, unable to sit still, Zi Xiao went to the doorway to watch Nian Hua administer dicine to Dugu Qianye.
Dugu Qianye’s brows were tightly furrowed, and had her complexion been visible, it surely would have been ashen.
Nian Hua applied ointnt all over Dugu Qianye’s body and then wrapped her up in gauze like a white zongzi, leaving only her features uncovered.
"My Lord, the bandaging is complete. I will co again tomorrow." Nian Hua stood up, gathered his things into a dicine box, then stored the box in his Space Ring and gave a word to Zi Xiao before departing.
Zi Xiao approached Dugu Qianye’s bedside, wanting to touch her face, but he stopped halfway. Seeing her condition, he feared that he might cause her more pain!
"This is the first ti you have suffered such grievous injuries in front of , and it will be the last!" Zi Xiao said, gazing at her closed eyes. His voice was clear, but his words weighed heavily.
He thought he could give her a peaceful life, to keep her from harm, but little did he expect that one day, he would face sothing even more sorrowful, heartbreaking, and despairing...
The next day, Nian Hua ca early to Zi Xiao’s sleeping chamber. Upon entering the room, he found Zi Xiao still sitting motionless by the bed, staring at her just like the day before.
"My Lord, no matter how hard you stare, you won’t be able to see a flower on her face!" Nian Hua joked as he took out the dicine box and placed it on a chair he moved beside the bed.
Seeing that Nian Hua was taking out scissors and gauze again, Zi Xiao stood up to make room, asking, "Do we have to do it again today?"
"Of course, we do!" Nian Hua replied. "But it’s not the whole body this ti; we only need to tend to the feet and hands today." He then removed the gauze from Dugu Qianye’s right hand, checked its condition, and shook his head.
"How is it?" Zi Xiao inquired.
"It’s not healing well," Nian Hua sighed. "With regular wounds, once my pills are taken and Baihua Cream is applied, a day’s ti should at least lead to scabbing, if not new flesh. But as you can see, there’s almost no difference in the palms of her hands compared to yesterday."
Zi Xiao looked and saw it was indeed so, asking with concern, "Is there no other way?"
"There is a way, but I lack the main ingredient to make the elixir," Nian Hua stated.
"What do you need? I will send people to look for it imdiately," Zi Xiao offered.
"I need Tianhua," declared Nian Hua, "the ’Venerable’ among dicinal ingredients, a rare treasure among heaven and earth, capable of regrowing severed limbs and bridging flesh and bone. And ’one day, one Tianhua’ ans there’s only one Tianhua under the entire sky. My Lord, finding Tianhua is crucial to healing the wounds on her hands and feet. But that material is hard to find; you must instruct them to urgently start searching. If too much ti passes, I fear her feet might..."
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