Chapter 2141: Glazed Ice
The Great Priest shifted his gaze toward the Yuan Huang and transmitted a question: "Emperor, colorless and flawless, utterly pure and clean—only Glazed Ice."
"But Glazed Ice has long since departed forever, and can never reappear. Is my judgment in error?"
The Great Priest was questioning a knowledge that far surpassed the imagination of the contemporary world.
The Yuan Huang responded: "This woman possesses both the Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body and the Snow Ice Glazed Heart. Moreover, the Nine-Xuan has matured, the Glazed Heart has blossomed, giving rise to the Exquisite Mystic Realm and Glazed Ice."
The Great Priest remained silent for a long while, then said slowly: "This woman... why?"
"Unknown, and there is no need to know."
Faced with the world-shaking and age-defying phenomenon surrounding Shen Wuyi, the Yuan Huang's reply carried an incomprehensible indifference.
The Great Priest asked no further.
A causeless person...
A thought surfaced, but was then faintly erased by the Yuan Huang, returning to indifference.
More and more people became aware of the strange icy radiance around Shen Wuyi.
As the light continuously refracted, they finally recognized it as a barrier that enveloped and protected Shen Wuyi, emitting a very faint icy breath. Yet there was no familiar icy luster—only colorless, formless transparency.
"Ice?" Meng Jianxi asked with deep confusion. "None of the profound arts in the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom involve ice manipulation. And... when ice breath is released, it shines with varying degrees of blue profound light. How could it be completely transparent?"
Meng Kongchan did not answer, for he too had never seen such ice breath, nor could he fathom how such a thin ice barrier could withstand Dian Jiuzhi's Great Wilderness Force.
Yun Che gazed upward, his brows furrowed for a long time.
Ice... was this the Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon she cultivated?
No, not at all.
And why was the ice breath colorless?
Naturally occurring ice in the world was indeed colorless, but ice profound force condensed from profound energy released a blue icy radiance—this was basic knowledge known to all profound practitioners.
As the one most adept at wielding ice profound force in the present age, Yun Che naturally knew this best. The term "icy blue" in profound Dao cognition was itself derived from the radiance of ice profound force.
Neither what he had seen or heard, nor any records, had ever mentioned the existence of colorless profound ice.
"Pale White Flame... Glazed Ice..."
In the depths of Yun Che's sea of soul, a faint, slow murmur suddenly came.
Yun Che steadied his mind and asked, "What... was that you just mentioned?"
Li Suo organized the memory fragments that had just been stirred, and spoke with an unusually slow, soft voice: "When the Ancestral God created the world, He left behind Three Calamities and Three Blessings."
"One of the Three Calamities was the most intense fire—Pale White Flame. One of the Three Blessings was the purest water—Glazed Ice."
The Three Calamities and Three Blessings—this was a concept Yun Che had never heard of, nor did it exist in any known records. Its existence was simply too ancient, so ancient that the Divine and Demon races had not yet fully taken shape.
"The most intense fire among the Three Calamities could burn through the void and sever divine bodies. Its flame was pale white; to touch it was to be reduced to ashes. This calamity was finally extinguished by Ni Xuan, leaving only a single indestructible core."
"Ni Xuan attempted to master it but failed. He had no choice but to use the most extreme elemental creation divine power to break it apart, turning it into three fragments. These three fragments were bestowed by Ni Xuan upon the three beast clans, and their names were: Vermilion Bird, Phoenix, and Golden Crow."
Yun Che was deeply moved... Vermilion Bird, Phoenix, Golden Crow—these were precisely the three supreme fire clans renowned throughout the Divine Era.
No wonder these three clans held Ni Xuan in such high regard.
"And in the world's original balance of cause and effect, corresponding to the most intense calamity was the purest blessing—Glazed Ice."
"Glazed Ice is the purest, cleanest, colorless, and flawless. It was the purest substance the Ancestral God bestowed upon the world at creation, capable of reflecting and purifying all filth and defilement in the world."
"The source of Glazed Ice is the Glazed Divine Breath that drifts through the world. It could bless a newborn female body, giving rise to a Snow Ice Glazed Heart. As she grew, she could condense Glazed Ice."
"A woman of Glazed like this would have a heart that could sense good and evil, eyes that could see truth and falsehood, and a body, soul, and breath that were flawless and pure. Heaven's Dao would draw near, willing to grant its protection. Profound force would draw near, unable to bear wounding her. Evil would draw near, breeding shame and guilt..."
"But..." Li Suo's tone shifted slightly, carrying regret. "This blessing of the Ancestral God departed the world forever before even the most intense calamity."
"Why?"
Li Suo said slowly, "When the gods created life, the world teemed with myriad beings. Yet it also suddenly gave rise to endless evil thoughts, greed, desires, and slaughter, turning into filthy dust that layered and wrapped around heaven and earth."
"These unforeseen defilements and filth of the Ancestral God gradually polluted the world's aura. The Glazed Divine Breath that had filled the world was also corrupted and decayed, gradually dissipating into extinction, leaving only scattered wisps hidden deep within the original Primordial Chaos energy."
"Once the world became a turbid world, it could never return to its former state. Those blessed by the divine breath who gave birth to Snow Ice Glazed Hearts would occasionally appear, but they could no longer condense Glazed Ice, so there were no true Glazed Women. And these women, growing up in a turbid world, would eventually even lose their Snow Ice Glazed Heart as layers of dust accumulated, becoming ordinary women."
Yun Che listened quietly until Li Suo's voice ceased, then asked, "You mean... the colorless ice she is using right now is Glazed Ice?"
Li Suo replied, "Its color, form, and breath match my knowledge, but there is also a great sense of incongruity."
"Incongruity in what?"
"The ice may be Glazed Ice, but her aura does not belong to a Glazed Woman at all."
Yun Che could not fully understand this answer. He asked urgently, "She indeed possesses the only Snow Ice Glazed Heart in the world. But didn't you say that Glazed Ice could never reappear?"
"No matter how filthy the world was back then, it couldn't be more polluted than the Abyss."
Li Suo was silent, searching through the memory fragments that had recently awakened and were still blurry. Then, she actually gave Yun Che a fairly clear answer:
"Perhaps there is another possibility."
"The Ancestral Holy Breath on her... and the fact that she is a causeless person."
Yun Che: "What is... causeless?"
Li Suo replied, "She is not an ordinary existence. Beyond the Four Creation Gods and Four Demon Emperors, she is the ninth living being personally created by the Ancestral God. The creation of the Creation Gods and Demon Emperors had their causes, and she too had hers."
Yun Che's heartstrings trembled uncontrollably for several breaths.
"The Divine Realm and the Abyss are two separate worlds. When she fell into the Abyss, the causal bond between you was completely severed. Coupled with the loss of her memory, her existence... had no preceding cause."
"She became an extremely pure, causeless person—a being that should not exist within the concepts and laws of the world."
"Perhaps it is precisely this purity that transcends concepts and laws that allowed her Snow Ice Glazed Heart to blossom, condensing into Glazed Ice."
This was Li Suo's conjecture, and also the only possibility she could find by gathering all her current creation-level divine cognition.
On the battlefield, voices of shock and doubt filled the air, yet no one uttered the name "Glazed Ice." For this concept did not exist in the knowledge of the Six Divine Kingdoms.
Dian Jiuzhi looked up at the black immortal figure above. The moment his gaze met hers, that inexplicable feeling of shame and inferiority surged again, flooding his mind like a tide. He could only quickly look away, forcibly suppressing the distracting thoughts. The silver radiance that had just settled once again blazed, condensing into a silver giant bow in his hand.
The bowstring was drawn into a full moon. When released, countless silver light arrows shot through the sky, like a river of stars pouring down, covering the entire battlefield with not a single inch of dead angle.
Shen Wuyi's posture did not move. The Heartless Sword swung out faintly, like a cloud brushing a sleeve... This time, everyone saw it clearly: a layer of colorless ice crystals coated the sword body, refracting crystalline, piercing cold light.
Just as everyone expected her to use the Exquisite Mystic Realm to retreat with all her might, she instead met the overwhelming silver light arrows head-on with her ice-covered sword.
Ding!
The ice crystal collided with the first light arrow, but instead of the roaring explosion of the Great Wilderness Divine Vein, it produced a crisp sound like jade striking jade.
The icy radiance flickered. That originally violent silver light arrow, aimed directly at Shen Wuyi's heart, actually deviated from its trajectory, howling past her side and striking the barrier at the edge of the battlefield, where it finally burst into a devastating explosion of profound light.
Dian Luohou's eyes bulged like brass bells... He had never been one to hide his emotions, and now his shock was clearly evident on every inch of his face.
He had cultivated the Ultimate Senluo Divine Power and labored over the Senluo All-Phenomena Art for twenty thousand years, yet he had never known that the overwhelmingly domineering Senluo Divine Power could be so... docile!?
A second light arrow followed closely, also colliding with the ice-covered sword. Another flicker of ice crystal, another soft chime, and the second light arrow likewise bent its trajectory, flying out at an angle.
Then a third, a fourth... the tenth... the hundredth...
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding...
Her figure was like an immortal, her sword dance graceful and flowing. Silver radiance and icy luster intertwined and shone, covering her with a layer of beautiful, dreamlike, immortal-like radiance, gradually dyeing the many shocked gazes with a dazed, enchanting fascination.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—
The last light arrows all struck the barrier, unleashing a sky-filling silver light of annihilation, clearly reflecting Shen Wuyi's dustless garments and her unruffled immortal countenance.
Dian Jiuzhi's hands still maintained their previous posture. He did not attack again even after all the silver radiance had faded.
Everything today was too illusory and absurd: successive shocks, successive collapses of cognition... The turmoil in his heart could no longer be calmed by reason.
"Is this... some kind of... sorcery?"
A Senluo elder murmured. Given his strength and status, even he uttered the word "sorcery," showing just how extreme his inner shock was.
But Shen Wuyi gave Dian Jiuzhi no time to recover. Her long sword carved through the void, inscribing a foot-wide profound mark in the air. A heart-piercing aura rapidly spread as the mark took shape.
"Purifying Divine Seal!" Meng Jianxi called out softly.
Yun Che had long known of the Purifying Divine Seal. It was the strongest and most core profound art of the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom. As one progressed, one could condense seven profound seals: Reality-Breaking, Calamity-Crossing, Dust-Washing, Heart-Cleansing, Soul-Silencing, Time-Retracing, and the Shen Wu World-Purifying Seal that could only be formed after achieving the rank of Divine Venerable.
"Shen Wuqing couldn't even qualify to cultivate the Purifying Divine Seal until his death. Shen Wuyi has been at it for only twenty years, and yet... tsk!"
Saying this, Meng Jianxi inhaled a faint breath of cold air. "But compared to that Exquisite Mystic Realm and this strange ice, this is nothing. I just wonder, what level has she cultivated to?"
"Wait! Her Purifying Divine Seal is... colorless!?"
The profound mark Shen Wuyi inscribed was initially red in color, but as the icy radiance flickered, the red gradually faded. When it fully formed, it glowed with a translucent icy luster, so pure it contained not a single trace of impurity.
The Heartless Sword swept out, and the glazed profound seal flew down toward Dian Jiuzhi... Most recognized it at a glance as the first seal of the Purifying Divine Seal—the Reality-Breaking Seal—yet it was vastly different from what they knew.
Had the colorless icy radiance completely masked the originally powerful Divine Nothingness Force?
The ice crystal profound seal emitted the aura of the Divine Annihilation Realm, Level Six, posing no threat to Dian Jiuzhi. But with the previous "lesson" in mind, he neither dodged nor avoided, simply ignoring it. He divided his Great Wilderness Force: two parts to guard his body, eight parts ready to release. As he raised his arm, the silver radiance transformed into a thousand-foot-long whip. The moment it lashed out, it could stir a storm ten thousand feet high.
The storm of annihilation would completely engulf the entire battlefield. He urgently wanted to know: this time, how would Shen Wuyi evade?
The ice crystal profound seal moved extremely fast. As it approached, it was only slightly slowed by Dian Jiuzhi's aura before heavily striking him—a blow he had completely ignored.
Dian Jiuzhi's protective force flared, but the moment it blazed, it suddenly dimmed by more than half.
Bang!
The ice seal exploded. Dian Jiuzhi's movements abruptly stiffened, and his expression changed dramatically.
A bone-piercing chill exploded on his right chest, then directly invaded his body, like billions of icy needles stabbing into his flesh and meridians. His right arm went numb in an instant, and nearly half of his surging profound force was sealed off.
The long whip formed of silver radiance did not lash out. Dian Jiuzhi slowly lowered his head, staring blankly at his right chest... His protective profound light still glowed faintly, having never been breached.
In a moment of stunned stupefaction, a cold air rained down upon him. The second seal of the Purifying Divine Seal—the Calamity-Crossing Seal—descended with double the might of the previous one, along with its icy radiance, straight toward his head.
"Heaven's Dao drawing near, willing to grant its protection. Profound force drawing near, unable to bear wounding her. Evil drawing near, breeding shame and guilt..."
Li Suo's words just now rang through Yun Che's sea of soul.
And right now, he was watching with his own eyes how, beneath the Glazed Ice, whether destructive or defensive, all profound force exhibited an incredibly strange "docility."
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