Chapter 448: Chapter 166: Life Extinguishing Association! Riyue Hong Xiang! _2

The cold in this canyon, let alone ordinary people, even martial artists, and even those who had just entered the Qi-Blood Realm would find their limbs stiffened, their Qi and Blood congealed, frozen to death alive!

This place indeed isn’t meant for ordinary martial artists, they wouldn’t even have the ability to survive!

“Ice crystals all around… and scattered fragments, as if the entrance to this canyon was originally covered with ice crystals, like it has been forcibly carved open, was it the work of people from the East Cloud Sect?”

Su Changkong mused to himself.

Su Changkong saw that the inside of the canyon was covered with a layer of ice crystals. It was unclear whether they had formed naturally or due to some other influence, but thick ice crystals covered both the ground and the walls of the canyon.

“Crack!”

Su Changkong picked up a fragment of ice crystal, squeezed it hard with his five fingers, and the crystal showed no reaction until he exerted more force, then the ice crystal shattered in his grip.

“So hard! These ice crystals are as hard as iron!” Su Changkong couldn’t help but feel astonished; this place was extraordinary!

Reining in his emotions, Su Changkong cautiously proceeded forward, guarding against any potential dangers.

The path inside the canyon sloped downwards as if leading into the bowels of the earth, and after traveling for seven or eight li, Su Changkong felt as if he had entered beneath the mountain of Snow Abyss Mountain.

“Clang, clang, clang!”

“These ice crystals are too damn hard; we’ve been chiseling away for almost three days now, I’m exhausted!”

And faintly, Su Changkong heard a series of crisp collision noises, as well as a helpless voice.

“It’s people from the East Cloud Sect!”

From a distance, Su Changkong glimpsed the scene ahead.

There were four people standing in front of an ice crystal barrier, and one of them, a man in green clothing, held a sparkling, cold longsword. He brandished his sword with dazzling brilliance, chopping and carving, making ice chips from the obstructive ice crystals in front of him fly all around.

The road in this place was covered with ice crystals. To advance, they had no choice but to carve out a path for themselves, and these ice crystals were as hard as iron blocks. Even these Innate Martial Artists from the East Cloud Sect were finding it difficult to proceed, continuously breaking through the ice crystals to forge a path forward.

“Someone’s coming!”

The four men in the distance also noticed Su Changkong and looked over together, their expressions varied.

The martial artist who had overcome Elder Liu’s blockade would not be weak.

“Young man, this place is dangerous, you still have time to turn back!”

One of the four, a stern-looking man with a knife at his waist, eyed Su Changkong from afar and said.

“Seniors, I just want to obtain a whiff of Innate Qi. If there are other treasures, I will not compete for them,” Su Changkong said very politely.

All four were strong members of the East Cloud Sect, each exuding a powerful presence, especially one of them—a white-haired man with a transcendent aura—gave Su Changkong a sense of immeasurability, even the Spiritual Energy flowing around his body was unlike that of ordinary people, indicating that this man had reached the level where he could utilize nature’s spiritual energy to a certain extent!

The most common among Innate Martial Artists are those that have just entered the Innate Realm and condensed the Human Flower.

These Innate Martial Artists refine the Spiritual Energy through their Heavenly Pulse to strengthen their physique, and may not be much stronger than those in the Qi-Blood Realm in other aspects. Of course, their physiques refined by Spiritual Energy alone, without utilizing any Martial Arts Skills or True Qi, are enough to crush ninety percent of those at the peak of the Qi-Blood Realm!

People like Zheng Feisha, Li Hongwu and even the Monster Warrior Shan Weizhao at the Innate level all belong to this category!

They could feel and refine nature’s spiritual energy to strengthen themselves but couldn’t use unrefined Spiritual Energy to fight their enemies.

Hence, Su Changkong could battle across tiers, and even kill Shan Weizhao who had an Immortal Body.

However, upon reaching the Two-Flower Stage and condensing the Earth Flower, the Essence Qi of the Three Secrets of the Human Body would grow significantly stronger than ordinary people. At this step, one could almost make use of the Spiritual Energy from the outside world.

Of course, it’s not necessary to reach the Two-Flower Stage to achieve this. Some exceptionally talented individuals, like Su Changkong, could sense nature’s Spiritual Energy before entering the Innate Realm by practicing the Guiding Technique, integrating it with their Martial Arts.

Among the four from the East Cloud Sect, excluding the other three, at least the white-haired man was definitely a master who could utilize outside Nature’s Spiritual Energy in combat!

Such experts among Innate Martial Artists were counted as elites.

Su Changkong could kill Shan Weizhao because Shan did not know how to use nature’s Spiritual Energy, but against this white-haired man, Su Changkong definitely had no chance. The man’s Cultivation Realm was far beyond his, and he also seemed to be able to use Nature’s Spiritual Energy, which was beyond Su Changkong’s capacity to deal with.

Therefore, as soon as Su Changkong saw the man’s gaze turn towards him, he was very tactful in stating his purpose directly, clarifying that he did not covet what they wanted but was simply after a whiff of Innate Qi, to avoid arousing their hostility.

“Hmm? You need Innate Qi? Are you not an Innate Martial Artist?”

Upon hearing Su Changkong’s words, one of the grey-clothed middle-aged men among the four East Cloud Sect martial artists spoke with a slight surprise.

This young man dressed in black seemed no older than thirty. His eager desire for Innate Qi mostly suggested that he was not an Innate Martial Artist.

“Yes.” Su Changkong hesitated for a moment before admitting to this.

The four exchanged glances, and the white-haired man with an ethereal presence, upon hearing this, was slightly surprised: “Not yet Innate… yet you were able to enter this canyon despite Elder Liu’s blockade, you’re quite impressive.”

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