Chapter 719 - 717: I Didn’t Do Anything, It Came on Its Own
"Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation?"
"Hahaha, what a joke—he wants to forge a Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation? Mere wishful thinking."
Qin Qian was taken aback, then burst into a contemptuous laugh.
Even Liou Xueyan only possesses a Seventh Grade Immortal Foundation, yet Xu Yang dares to crave a Ninth Grade?
Does he even know how difficult it is to attain the Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation?
Let alone in Black and White Xing Heaven—even if it were in All-Heavens of Jiuyue, throughout millions of years of history, those with the Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation are few indeed, countable on one hand.
Roar!
Rumble!!
At the mountain’s summit, the dragon’s roar soared into the sky, earth-shaking thunder rolled without cease.
Qin Qian’s face changed dramatically: "It’s the Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon! Damn, the Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon has been provoked by that bastard."
"Xu Yang, get your ass down here!"
Qin Qian roared furiously at Xu Yang.
Yet Xu Yang did not spare Qin Qian a single glance, his gaze locked firmly on the summit. Within him, the power of the Twelfth Grade Immortal Foundation stirred silently, an invisible aura surging forth, endlessly luring the Immortal Dragon Marrow.
The Immortal Dragon Marrow is the essence of the Cold Vein, a Spiritual Object imbued with astonishing sentience.
Cultivators wish to devour it, but if given the chance, it likewise seeks to swallow the cultivator.
In this very moment—
Within its perceptions, whether Liou Xueyan or the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map, none compared to the allure of Xu Yang.
He was like a resplendent, dazzling star, eclipsing all other light here; fierce and brilliant, he shone incomparably bright!
"Damn, stop!"
Liou Xueyan wailed in grief and fury, frantically wielding the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map to suppress the dragon.
Yet the massive Ice and Snow Dragon thrashed and struggled like a thing gone mad.
Streams of innate immortal markings broke out from its body, transformed into arcs of chilling light, just like the cold-vein patterns beneath ancient glaciers. Wherever these passed, immortal seals crumbled incessantly.
Roar!
The Ice and Snow Dragon slammed violently against the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map, shaking it without end, twisting it terribly.
Liou Xueyan vomited blood, her face deathly pale, shock filling her as she realized that even the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map failed to suppress the Immortal Dragon Marrow.
"The Immortal Dragon Marrow has gone berserk."
"All because of him..."
Why? Just why?
Liou Xueyan swept her gaze toward Xu Yang outside the mountain, unable to comprehend—how did he provoke the Immortal Dragon Marrow, evoking such an overwhelming reaction from it?
In the next instant—
Liou Xueyan herself went utterly mad. Whatever happened, she could not let the Immortal Dragon Marrow escape. Reflecting her immortal foundation, lotus radiance wreathed like mist, weaving a vast net of heaven and earth, which, together with the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map, pressed down in one grand strike.
Boom!
The Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon rampaged wildly, heaven and earth quaking as it invoked the might of the Cold Vein beneath the glacier. Like thunder and lightning, it tore open a fissure in their seal.
Pfft!
Liou Xueyan let out a miserable shriek, the Immortal Puppet Map was blasted back.
The Immortal Dragon soared skyward, surpassing the summit, lunging straight for Xu Yang.
The colossal dragon-shadow bathed in silvery immortal light, spanning a thousand zhang as all below stared wide-eyed, lost in a trance.
In that moment, the glacier surged, the Cold Vein trembled.
The whole world seemed to quake and sway at the Immortal Dragon’s ascent.
Tidal waves soared into the heavens, bitter cold pierced to the marrow!
Xu Yang gazed greedily at the onrushing Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon; in its pair of cold, sentient eyes he saw, too, an overwhelming greed.
"So then, who will devour whom? You’ll know once you’re closer."
Xu Yang licked his lips, wantonly unleashing his immortal foundation’s might.
Roar!
The Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon pounced ferociously, maw agape, and swallowed Xu Yang in a single gulp.
At the summit, Liou Xueyan surged to her feet, fixing her gaze upon the scene, a flicker of hope still dancing in her eyes.
"With his strength, there’s no way he could withstand the onslaught of the Immortal Dragon Marrow—the Marrow shall still be mine."
Yet now, only with utter recklessness could she hope to suppress and devour the Immortal Dragon Marrow herself.
"All of you, leave this place immediately!"
Ignoring her wounds, Liou Xueyan leapt into the air, shouting fiercely at all below.
Ji Hong and the others exchanged looks of worry at Xu Yang, then retreated as swiftly as lightning.
Liou Xueyan tread the void toward Xu Yang.
"Xu Yang, you almost ruined my great fortune!"
"If you survive, I will make you regret it!"
She gnashed her teeth, her eyes brimming with ice-cold malice, the air about her exuding the chill of an age-old glacier.
Roar!
A heartrending scream suddenly pierced the air.
Liou Xueyan’s whole body flinched, turned rigid as stone, staring dumbstruck ahead.
All below stared as if they’d seen a ghost, eyes round as saucers.
"How can this be?"
The Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon that engulfed Xu Yang suddenly howled in pain, convulsing madly, struggling desperately to escape.
But its massive body was held fast by an irresistible force.
In the midst of struggle, it became absorbed, bit by bit, into Xu Yang’s form.
This scene, with its immeasurable impact, utterly stunned everyone present.
Even outside, the mighty of Ice and Snow Immortal Palace all rose to their feet, struck speechless with shock.
The Fourth Elder swallowed hard, body trembling with excitement: "Could this youth truly have achieved a Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation?"
That is Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation!
With this alone, once Xu Yang enters the Upper Sect, Black Fire Immortal Mountain will receive incredible rewards and resources from the Upper Sect; even these Golden Immortal elders will benefit greatly.
Yet even at this juncture, the Fourth Elder could scarcely believe his own eyes.
Is it truly the Ninth Grade Immortal Foundation?
Boom!
Within the scene, thunderous roars erupted, waves surged as if to the heavens.
Xu Yang spread his arms, entirely unafraid of the cold that gnawed at heaven and earth, surging wildly—causing the dragon’s sorrowsome cries to fade, that mountainous body disappearing into him at a staggering pace.
In several blinks of an eye, a third of the dragon’s shimmering form was already gone!
"Stop!"
"Xu Yang, stop at once!"
"Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon Marrow belongs to my Ice and Snow Immortal Palace and to me—it is my miraculous opportunity. If you dare seize it, you will die!"
Liou Xueyan’s eyes nearly split, her shriek looming over the world, as if declaring a decree to the universe.
But Xu Yang spared no heed for Liou Xueyan now.
The terrifying power of the Immortal Dragon Marrow filled him with unprecedented satisfaction.
His immortal foundation swelled, brilliant and radiant, illuminating the Dantian’s void with dazzling light. Veins of immortal essence boiled up like surging clouds of dawn.
All of this overflowed from his Dantian, and immortal meridians condensed before his very eyes—like bridges interlinking the hundred joints within, connecting and swiftly expanding the immortal foundation’s might.
An aura of terrifying power he forcibly suppressed within.
If unleashed, it would be simply too astonishing!
His body trembled uncontrollably—pain mingled with delight.
The force of the Immortal Dragon Marrow far exceeded his current threshold.
Truly fearsome.
But it was also a stroke of miraculous fortune.
Liou Xueyan could not bear it any longer, all vestige of celestial elegance vanished as she charged at Xu Yang in madness, wielding the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map in a crushing blow.
Xu Yang growled deep in his heart, unleashing his immortal foundation, and yanked the Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon’s remaining external form into himself. His immortal foundation sent a ripple, immediately and utterly suppressing it.
The Celestial Refining Divine Tripod engulfed all within.
Boom!
Xu Yang fixed his gaze on Liou Xueyan—as tyrannical might burst from within him, unstoppable, forcing the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map to recoil, driving even Liou Xueyan herself to dodge away across the sky on instinct.
"Hiss! Heavens, he actually forced Liou Xueyan to retreat!"
Ji Hong gasped sharply.
All those gathered stood dumb as wooden chickens.
This scene—it was even more astonishing than the one before.
With nothing but his physical body, to wrestle the Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon and remain unscathed, then devour it whole and still stand towering and unmoved, without a ripple!
This alone shocked the world—Golden Immortals left speechless.
His fury burst forth like sky-consuming fire, repelling both the Ice Extreme Immortal Puppet Map and Liou Xueyan—a veritable portrait of a god among men!
Xu Yang gazed at Liou Xueyan and said quietly, "Miss Liou, all have seen—never did I step onto the summit, not a single pace; it was the Ice and Snow Immortal Dragon Marrow that came to me of its own accord."