Chapter 56 Moving the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well
Before they could even recover from their shock...
"Crack—!!!"
The second bolt of lightning followed immediately! This one was thicker than the first, its color shifting from silver to deep purple, and the energy it contained was even more terrifying!
The Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda rose to meet it once more!
"Boom—!!!"
After the lightning faded, the pagoda still stood tall. Moreover—the pagoda’s body underwent another change.
Yet another brand-new floor was slowly condensing!
The Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda!
The vortex slowly stopped spinning, and the dark clouds began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within just a few breaths, the sky regained its clarity, as if that terrifying Heavenly Tribulation had never appeared.
Coming and going in a flash, the Heavenly Tribulation seemed as if it were just going through the motions.
All that remained in the valley was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, suspended in the air, its entire body flowing with nine-colored brilliance and exuding a sacred, majestic aura.
The Ice Empress and the Snow Empress stared blankly at this scene, their minds going completely blank.
A Marital Spirit... really underwent a tribulation?
This had exceeded their knowledge of hundreds of thousands of years.
However, the anomaly was still continuing.
The evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda did not immediately return to Jiang Bai’s body.
It hovered in mid-air, the nine-colored light on its body flowing faster and faster, and a massive, slowly rotating golden vortex appeared at the base of the pagoda.
The moment the vortex formed, an indescribable, terrifying suction—as if it wanted to devour heaven and earth—erupted!
"What?!"
The Ice Empress cried out in surprise.
She felt her body being pulled uncontrollably by that suction, flying toward the golden vortex!
The Snow Empress’s expression also changed slightly. She released her Soul Power in an attempt to resist, but the suction was too bizarre, as if it were acting directly on space itself; even her Soul Power was being devoured bit by bit!
It wasn’t just them.
The entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including the milky white and vermilion spring water, all the surrounding Immortal Plants and spiritual plants, the jagged rocks, and the soft soil, were all enveloped by this terrifying suction, trembling violently.
"What on earth is this?!" The Ice Empress gripped the Snow Empress’s arm tightly.
The Snow Empress didn’t speak, only releasing her Soul Power with all her might, trying to protect them both.
But the suction grew stronger and stronger, to the point where even she began to feel powerless to resist.
"Boom—!!!"
The golden vortex suddenly expanded, completely devouring the entire valley!
The Ice Empress only felt her vision go dark as a wave of dizziness hit her, making the World spin.
It felt as if the entire space was being violently twisted, compressed, and then stuffed into some narrow passage.
After an unknown amount of time, the dizziness gradually faded.
The Ice Empress slowly opened her eyes.
Then, she froze.
Before her was no longer that misty valley, but a World—one so vast it was hard to imagine.
In the azure sky, the sun hung high, casting down warm light.
Beneath her feet was soft grass; in the distance were continuous forests, rolling mountains, and calm lakes—she could even see an ice field and a steaming volcano!
The air was filled with pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, its concentration no less than that of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
What shocked her even more was that she sensed familiar auras in several different areas of this World.
Jiang Bai’s several dragon beasts were all lying quietly not far away, their bodies emitting a faint glow, seemingly absorbing medicinal herbs.
And not far from them, that milky white and vermilion spring water was flowing quietly.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had actually been moved in entirely?!
The Ice Empress recovered from her shock and turned to look at the Snow Empress beside her.
Even the Snow Empress wore a rare, dazed expression at this moment.
Her ice-blue eyes swept across this vast World, and an unbelievable guess surfaced in her mind.
"This place—" the Snow Empress’s voice was somewhat dry from shock, "should be the Spatial World inside Jiang Bai’s Spirit."
"What?!" the Ice Empress cried out in disbelief, "A space inside a Spirit? How could it be this large?! This is practically a—a—?"
The Snow Empress didn’t answer. She didn’t know the answer either.
But everything before her eyes was confirming her suspicion.
After Jiang Bai’s Spirit evolved and devoured the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, its internal space must have also undergone an earth-shaking transformation.
From a single-floor dormitory that could only accommodate spirit rings and Spirit Beasts for rest, it had evolved into a complete, large space.
And it could even accommodate "outsiders."
The Ice Empress and the Snow Empress looked at each other, both seeing the same shock, bewilderment, and a trace of—inexplicable excitement in each other’s eyes.
"Xue’er, do you feel it? The ice-attribute energy here—it’s so pure! And not just the ice attribute, the energy of other attributes is also balanced to an incredible degree!"
The Ice Empress said excitedly.
The Snow Empress nodded slowly.
After the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was sucked into this space, its original extreme opposing energies of ice and fire were "reconciled" by some power.
That natural sense of conflict between the two energies had vanished, replaced by a balance of harmonious coexistence.
Not only that, the unique energy field emitted by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was no longer limited to nourishing plant-type Spirit Beasts.
That reconciled ice and fire energy was like a gentle tide, slowly nourishing all the living beings in this space.
However, they didn’t know this was the conversion effect of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda; they simply thought it was inherent to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
A glint of light flashed deep within the Snow Empress’s ice-blue eyes.
If one also added the acceleration effect that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda itself bestowed upon the Spirit Beasts within it—
The Ice Empress had clearly thought of this as well. She flew to the Snow Empress’s side, her golden vertical pupils full of cunning laughter: "Xue’er, it looks like we’ve hit the jackpot. This Jiang Bai is practically a walking Paradise!"
The Snow Empress gave a soft "mm," her gaze looking toward the distant reaches of this World.
Forests, grasslands, mountains, lakes, ice fields, volcanoes—various terrains were arranged in an orderly fashion, forming a miniature, self-sufficient ecosystem.
Outside, in the real World.
Deep within the Sunset Forest, the inverted cone-shaped valley that originally held the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well now only had a bottomless, massive pit remaining.
At the edge of the pit, Jiang Bai slowly opened his eyes.
The golden light gradually faded from the depths of his pupils, replaced by clarity.
The medicinal effects of the qiluo tulip had been completely absorbed.
Jiang Bai could clearly feel that his Soul Power Rank had reached Rank 48.
After absorbing his spirit ring a while ago, he was at Rank 43; the qiluo tulip had increased it by 5 Ranks.
The evolution from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had broken the quality limit of his Spirit, making his future growth potential limitless.
He stretched his limbs with satisfaction and was about to get up to check on the condition of the four dragon beasts when his gaze swept forward.
He froze.
Jiang Bai blinked in disbelief, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and opened them again.
The scene before him—hadn’t changed.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well that should have been there, that strange pool of interwoven milky white and vermilion, the rising mist, the lush Immortal Plants and spiritual plants all around—everything had vanished.