Chapter 52: The "Great Sage" Under the Iceberg

  A few rays of morning sunlight fell into this quiet and secluded valley.

  Deep in the canyon, you can occasionally see some colors of the rainbow, and the beautiful light and shadow are projected onto the moss-covered mountain wall.

  These colorful colors naturally attracted the attention of many low-level demon beasts in the valley.

  "Goo... goo..." A fiery red bird with flame-like feathers discovered these colorful glows.

  Huoyu bird is a third-order demon beast with a violent temper, and sometimes it will even take the initiative to attack some human cultivators flying in the sky.

  The bird had a bit of spirituality and was curious about the seven-colored light reflected from the depths of the valley, so it flew deeper into the gorge following the colorful light.

  Before long, it finally discovered the huge culprit hidden deep in the valley.

  It was a small iceberg tens of meters high, the entire body made up of semi-transparent ice crystals. The surrounding area within tens of meters had frost condensed on it, and the biting cold air spread throughout this area.

  Every time sunlight shines on this iceberg, it refracts into colorful light spots, which attracts the attention of the fire-feathered bird.

  Facing such an iceberg, the firebird did not have any fear psychology, it flapped its wings and flew towards the ice crystal mountain.

  When it flew within dozens of meters of this iceberg, it suddenly felt that kind of bone-penetrating chill.

  However, the Firebird itself is a magical beast that masters fire-based techniques, not only its physical body is strong, but also has some resistance to these icy cold temperatures.

  In the distance, the Firebird seemed to be enveloped in a flame, and the cold air around it could not pose any threat to it.

  It soon flew to the side of this iceberg, curiously looking at the iceberg that could emit seven colors, trying to get close to it.

  After repeated probing, it felt that this huge object seemed to have no life and could not launch an attack. The Huo Yu bird landed safely on the iceberg.

  At this moment, a sudden change occurred. The Firebird had just landed on the iceberg when a white light flashed and it became motionless, soon turning into a lifelike ice sculpture.

  The eyes of Bingyao Huoyu Niao still showed a look of shock and fear.

  Before long, the ice sculpture transformed from Huoyu also became a part of this iceberg, indistinguishable from one another.

  Those demonic beasts that also give birth to curiosity, if they only approach the iceberg, there is no great impact. Once they touch this iceberg, they will immediately turn into an ice sculpture and then merge into the interior of the iceberg, becoming a part of it.

  As time passed, the surrounding demons also developed a sense of awe for this iceberg and no longer dared to approach it.

  No one noticed that at the bottom of this small iceberg was also a human monk pressed down.

  It was strange that the young monk did not turn into an ice sculpture, his face was even slightly rosy, and his heartbeat was more stable.

  This young man who was pressed by the entire iceberg at the bottom of several meters is Zhang Heng, who fell from a height of 10,000 meters yesterday.

  Due to the extreme abnormality of his physical body, and also because he had cast a floating spell at that critical moment, although he fell from such a high place, he did not suffer any fatal injuries.

  And at this moment, the greatest threat to him was the small iceberg that pressed on his body.

  This ice mountain made entirely of crystal ice is naturally the giant snow lotus that Luo Lingxue risked her life to send out.

  At first, ice crystals as large as houses fell from the sky and severely injured Zhang Heng.

  This is nothing, the most deadly thing is that this ice crystal snow lotus will soon begin to grow rapidly and become a small iceberg in no time.

  Zhang Heng felt that this iceberg seemed to have a continuously growing trend.

  When this iceberg grows to a thousand meters high, Zhang Heng will be fortunate enough to enjoy the same treatment as Qitian Dasheng, with the former being pressed by the iceberg and the latter being suppressed by Wuzhi Mountain.

  "When will I become a great saint too?" A thought flashed through Zhang Heng's mind.

  But Zhang Heng knew that he didn't have the skills of Sun Wukong, and if he really had to wait for this iceberg to grow to that extent, he would have been crushed to death long ago. Although his physical body was very strong, he hadn't reached the level of a Diamond Indestructible Body yet.

  At every moment, a white light was emitted from the iceberg, trying to invade Zhang Heng's body and turn him into an ice sculpture, becoming part of the iceberg.

  Zhang Heng would certainly not let that happen, his divine consciousness had discovered several demon beasts being turned into ice sculptures, from then on becoming a part of the iceberg.

  A faint layer of silver light enveloped Zhang Heng's body, like a thin transparent silver membrane.

  No matter how hard this white light tried, it couldn't invade Zhang Heng's body in the slightest.

  This layer of silver light is the protective power hidden in Zhang Heng's body, and when Zhang Heng was about to turn into an ice sculpture, this silver light moved again, firmly protecting Zhang Heng.

  So far, Zhang Heng's life is not in danger, but that doesn't mean he can stay here for long.

  First, he has suffered severe internal and external injuries. Secondly, without the mountain growing to a gigantic peak, the layer of silver light protecting Zhang Heng will gradually be depleted, at which point he will no longer be able to escape his fate of being turned into an ice sculpture.

  He gritted his teeth and silently cursed Luo Ningxue, never expecting that this woman could unleash such a powerful secret technique.

  According to Zhang Heng's estimation, the power of this secret technique far surpasses the third-level magic that Zhao Rui had cast earlier and is almost comparable to a fourth-level spell.

  The fourth-order spell has entered the category of intermediate spells, and only cultivators in the foundation-building period can cast such powerful spells.

  Zhang Heng knew that the top priority was to recover from his injuries and then try to break through this iceberg.

  However, Zhang Heng's injuries were not light, and due to his exceptionally strong physique, it was even harder for him to recover from the same amount of damage than an ordinary cultivator.

  The Lianyulinqi in the body is still rotating non-stop, but it doesn't help much with its own injuries.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng finally understood an aspect where the Deviant Body Technique was not proficient in.

  The greatest effect of abnormal power is still reflected in defense, followed by attack power, and then speed, while the last one belongs to recovery ability.

  This recovery ability refers to the speed at which yuanqi recovers and the speed of self-healing from injuries.

  Once the vital energy is severely damaged or seriously injured, the recovery speed is no better than that of ordinary Qigong.

  In other words, in terms of attack, defense, and speed, the mutant skill is completely against the sky level, making the practitioner's destructive power and survival ability super strong, but in terms of recovery ability, the mutant skill is not much different from other skills, and there is no advantage.

  "Sighing, Zhang Heng couldn't help but curse: 'Damn it, when can I recover from my injuries? By then, I'll have turned into an ice sculpture.'"

  At this moment, Zhang Heng suddenly felt a familiar spiritual fluctuation.

  This spiritual power comes from the storage bag, no need to think, this fluctuation must be from Ning Xuefeng's transformation into that many Snow Lotus.

  Zhang Heng realized that there must be some unknown relationship between Luo Ningxue and Ning Xuerong, perhaps Luo Ningxue was also a Snow Lotus in essence.

  As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Heng's heart moved involuntarily - could it be that Xue Lian was able to help him?

  At this moment, a snow lotus suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Heng, which was the multiple snow lotus transformed by Ning Xue Rong.

  Zhang Heng was startled, wasn't Xue Lian supposed to be in the storage bag? How did she come out.

  This snow lotus lay in front of Zhang Heng, and surprisingly did not turn into an ice sculpture, but instead emitted a soft white light from its body, blending with the icy cold white light inside the iceberg.

  The surrounding white light carrying icy air was slowly absorbed into the body by the snow lotus, but the speed was not fast. The continuous and endless white mist-like light overflowed from the ice mountain and flowed towards this small snow lotus.

  After half a time, the entire iceberg only slightly reduced in size, for the entire iceberg, it was just a drop in the bucket.

  "Zhang Heng sighed: 'Ning Shimei, can't you hurry up a bit? How long are we going to have to wait?'"

  Xue Lian's action of absorbing white light suddenly stopped, she "looked" at Zhang Heng, the clean and crystal-like flower petals trembled up and down, and then another wave of spiritual fluctuations was sent to Zhang Heng.

  "What do you want to do?" Zhang Heng looked at this snow lotus with a puzzled expression.