It was a quiet world, a frozen land that existed in the darkness. There was no forceful wind pushing them forward, neither was there any tremors that would make people feel uneasy.
This place was filled with dead silence.
The ice sculptures and ice mountains turned into an eternal and unchanging scene in this frozen land … except for a gigantic turtle that had its eyes wide open and was glaring at an ice mountain. It was breathing harshly, and its gaze was filled with hate. If its gaze could kill, then Su Ming, who was in the ice mountain, would have definitely died several times over.
Su Ming smiled wryly. Besides that, he simply could not express the gloom in his heart.
He did not expect that the turtle would still hold a grudge against him after fifteen years. It had actually laid there and stared at the ice mountain for fifteen years … until two hours ago, the turtle saw Su Ming.
The moment he appeared in this place, Su Ming saw the turtle and froze. The turtle's eyes shone with a powerful light as it stared at him.
The man and turtle stared at each other with the ice mountain between them. Su Ming had a deep impression of this turtle in the past. Its strength was still fresh in his mind. His current level of cultivation might be different from before, but he could tell just how strong this turtle was even more clearly.
This was a strength that surpassed that of an End Shaman. Based on Su Ming's analysis, it might be equivalent to Life Cultivation!
Su Ming fell into pensive silence for a moment before he lifted his right hand slowly. Yet the instant he did so, the turtle lifted its head and let out a roar at him. Its roar seeped through the ice, causing Su Ming's ears to buzz and a sharp pain to shoot through him.
A glint appeared in his eyes, but he did not stop moving his right hand. Instead, he continued lifting his right hand and pushed it forward. Immediately, the layer of ice before him let out cracking sounds and cracks appeared.
When the turtle saw that its roar did not have any effect in intimidating Su Ming, it lifted its tail with a low growl and whipped it towards the ice mountain. With a whoosh, just as its tail was about to touch the ice mountain, it swiftly pulled it back and continued roaring in frustration.
Su Ming let out a sigh of relief in his heart. He remembered that this beast had been unwilling to destroy the ice mountain in the past. Now that he tested it, it was indeed still the same.
'If worst comes to worst, I'll just not go out!' Su Ming gritted his teeth and no longer bothered himself with the turtle glaring at him from beyond the ice mountain. Instead, he lifted his hand and parted the layer of ice around him, opening up a spot where he could sit down and meditate. It was also a spot that could accommodate some of his items.
'I wonder where the door leading to the Land of South Morning has sunk. I won't be able to go back within a short period of time. By the looks of it, this Catastrophe of the Eastern Wastelands won't end without a few years.
'Oh well, since the turtle is outside, I won't be able to go out either. I might as well isolate myself here for a few years. Besides, I still have some items that I need to refine and activate …' In the midst of his silence, Su Ming looked at his surroundings. The ice mountain was not big, and it was not convenient for him to make the ice mountain too thin. Because of that, it was incredibly inconvenient.
Su Ming lowered his head and fell into deep thought. After a moment, a glint appeared in his eyes and he looked at the surface of the ice beneath him.
'If I can't go out, then I can dig a tunnel and open up a cave abode that belongs to me under this ice …' A brilliant glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his head and cast a glance at the turtle staring at him, then lifted his right hand and hurled a punch at the ground beneath his feet. With his power in the past, he could not open up the ice that was too deep, but the current Su Ming was no longer the past.
The instant his fist landed, cracks immediately appeared on the layer of ice. The turtle outside was clearly momentarily stunned, then its roars became even louder. It swung its tail back and forth, as if Su Ming's actions had ignited an even greater rage within it.
Su Ming did not bother himself with the turtle outside. After throwing a dozen something punches, the layer of ice under his feet shattered, and his body immediately sank down. As booming sounds continued echoing in the air, a simple cave abode sealed in ice under the ice mountain and right under the turtle was opened up by Su Ming.
The cave abode was still very crude and could only be considered to be a big cave. Su Ming stood in the cave and looked at the turtle roaring at him with its head lowered through the ice. He smiled faintly and started busying himself around the area.
Before long, the cave abode became slightly bigger. Once it turned into an empty space, Su Ming sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes, immersing himself in meditation. He spread his divine sense outwards, seeming as if he was not paying attention to the turtle, but if the turtle showed any signs of breaking through the layer of ice, Su Ming would immediately notice it.
Time trickled by. A month later, Su Ming opened his eyes and lifted his head to look at the turtle. During this month, he had been getting along very well with the turtle …
Besides glaring at him, the turtle did not do anything else.
Su Ming averted his gaze. At that moment, his injuries had recovered. It did not matter whether it was the power of his Berserker Bones or his other attributes, they had all reached their peak. In silence, he lifted his right hand and flipped it over. Immediately, the medicinal cauldron appeared with a bang on the ice before him. Waves of medicinal fragrance instantly spread out and filled the entire cave abode in the glacier. In fact, some of the fragrance even seeped through the ice.
Almost at the instant the medicinal fragrance spread out, Su Ming sensed something, and the small snake flew out from his storage bag. It stared at the medicinal cauldron and hissed at Su Ming.
At the same time, the turtle on the glacier also widened its eyes. For the first time, its gaze moved away from Su Ming and fell on the medicinal cauldron.
As he looked at the medicinal cauldron before him, Su Ming was filled with emotions. He had obtained this cauldron during the auction and it had been with him for many years. It had also been nourished for fifteen years, and in the end, the power of the world had also swiftly surged into it. At that moment, it was finally activated, and the medicinal pill that remained in the cauldron regained its medicinal properties, turning it from an incomplete product to an almost complete one.
'This medicinal fragrance doesn't seem like the fragrance of a medicinal pill that has been completely refined. There's too much of it spreading out. It's clear that it can't reach completion in the end, but this is the best it can do.' Su Ming shook his head, stood up, and went to the side of the medicinal cauldron.
He focused his attention on it for a moment, then lifted his right hand resolutely and pressed it against the medicinal cauldron. With it, the medicinal cauldron shuddered, and the lid let out banging sounds. A large amount of white smoke spread out from within the cauldron, and in an instant, the medicinal fragrance became even thicker, causing the small snake to hiss excitedly. The turtle on the ice also stood up and widened its eyes to look at the medicinal cauldron with a curious look on its face.
As the white smoke spread out, a frown gradually appeared on Su Ming's face. This was not a good sign. The medicinal fragrance before the lid was opened could still be explained by the fact that it was still lingering in the air, but now that he had opened the lid, such a thick medicinal fragrance could only mean that the medicinal pill inside had melted and had not turned into stone!
As the white smoke spread out, the lid of the cauldron was slowly lifted a few breaths later. Once it was completely opened, the insides of the cauldron were revealed. When Su Ming looked inside, his pupils shrank.
There was only one medicinal pill in the cauldron, but there was a small puddle of black liquid around the medicinal pill. The thick medicinal fragrance came from that black liquid.
Su Ming fell into a moment of pensive silence before he brought out two small bottles. He first brought out the only complete medicinal pill and held it in his hand to look at it, but it was difficult for him to recognize the effects of the medicinal pill.
He did not drink it recklessly. Instead, he placed it in a small bottle, then used another small bottle to pour the black liquid into it. The small snake immediately hissed and wrapped itself around Su Ming's arm. It lifted its head and looked at the small bottle, then at Su Ming, looking as if it wanted to take a bite of the black liquid.
"This pill is at least something from several hundreds or thousands of years ago. We don't know the specific effects, and you still dare to eat it?" Su Ming patted the small snake's lifted head and his gaze naturally fell on the layer of ice. He widened his eyes and looked at the turtle in the small bottle curiously.
A smile appeared on Su Ming's lips. With the small bottle in hand, he returned to the ice mountain from which he had come. He lifted his right hand and jabbed the ice mountain with a finger. Instantly, a crack appeared, and once it pierced through the ice mountain, it turned into a small hole!
The turtle roared and turned around to stare at Su Ming.
Su Ming first shook the medicinal bottle in his hand before the turtle through the ice mountain, then poured out a drop and flicked it through the small hole. That drop of black medicinal liquid instantly appeared before the turtle and floated there, unmoving.
The turtle hesitated for a moment. It first took a few sniffs, and an intoxicated look appeared on its face. It did not see that Su Ming was staring at it intently. The small snake on Su Ming's arm was also looking over with slight nervousness. Clearly, it knew its master's goal.
The turtle seemed to be rather hesitant, but in the end, it let out two puffs of air from its nose and turned its head away in disdain, no longer looking at the black liquid that was letting out the medicinal fragrance.
Su Ming averted his gaze and no longer looked at it. He returned to his cave abode under the ice and cast a few scrutinizing glances at the medicinal bottle before putting it away. Since the turtle did not want to eat it and he could not see its effects for the time being, then he could only search for its effects outside once he left this place.
The small snake looked at Su Ming putting away the medicinal bottle with great reluctance. The medicinal fragrance was incredibly attractive to it, but Su Ming did not want to give it to it, so there was nothing it could do.
Su Ming no longer thought about the ancient medicine. He sat down cross-legged and patted his storage bag. Immediately, a flash of purple light appeared. That purple light instantly caught the turtle's attention.
However, Su Ming no longer paid any attention to the turtle, which was clearly curious about everything. He looked at the purple armor before him and fell into deep thought.
He had obtained this armor from the only person left in the Candle Dragon's body. It was also this person who had spoken about the third God of Berserkers.
'This is definitely not the Armor of Bone Sacrifice. This should be the Armor of the Divine General in the Berserker Soul Realm … and it's not an illusion like the one I obtained. This is the real Armor of the Divine General!' Su Ming stared at the purple armor, and as his eyes sparkled, he bit the tip of his tongue and coughed out a mouthful of Berserker Blood. The moment his blood touched the armor, it immediately fused into it. Immediately, the purple armor shone brightly, but very soon, it became dull once again.
Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever, as if he had known this would happen a long time ago. A pensive look appeared in his eyes, and after some time, he opened his mouth and sucked in a breath in the direction of the armor. Immediately, the armor turned into a ray of purple light and shrank rapidly before Su Ming swallowed it.
He closed his eyes and golden light shone within his body. The power of his Berserker Bones circulated through his entire body and enveloped the purple armor, seeping into it inch by inch, intending to refine it by force and turn it into his own armor!
Ever since he obtained this armor, he did not have much time to do this. However, he had plenty of time under the ice, so he made up his mind to turn this armor into his own.
At the same time Su Ming closed his eyes to refine the armor, the turtle on the ice turned its head around and cast a sideways glance at the black liquid floating by its side. There was a look of disdain on its face, but before long, it looked at it once again. After struggling for a moment, it opened its mouth and swallowed the black liquid in the midst of its hesitation.
It even licked its lips …
'Where's the rice? Where's the wine? Where's the monthly ticket? Please, please! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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