Chapter 140 Heavenly Fire

  The two men stood three kilometers away, gazing at the glacier that had cracked open, their faces heavy with emotion.

  There were also dozens of scattered warriors nearby. Like Shi Yan and the others, they had been forced to retreat under the threat of the four major forces.

  Human nature is greedy, knowing that they may gain nothing, these people are still unwilling to leave, with a hint of luck, thinking that they are different from others, perhaps they can gain the secret of the glacier.

  "Rumble!"

  The glacier's explosive sound grew more intense, and that one block was truly a landslide, the nearby volcanoes erupted again, spewing out magma.

  The earth cracked open even more ravines, deep and bottomless, and in some of them, glaciers were faintly visible.

  In that vast land deep down, it seems to be all perennial glaciers, with volcanoes densely packed around, yet there are glaciers penetrating deep into the earth, which is indeed extremely bizarre.

  Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan stood here, gazing into the distance, watching the powerful warriors of the four major forces continue to bombard that glacier.

  A white wave pattern, centered on a glacier, radiates outward in a ring shape.

  The icy aura with a hint of white ripples has increased by several dozen times!

  The earth shook, under the cover of that icy air, as if all hands were frozen, and the shaking sound gradually stopped.

  Magma in the valley, under the diffusion of icy cold air, actually emitted strands of cold air.

  A strange wave, carrying a shocking chill, passed through the air, even making a cracking sound. Some ancient trees that had been knocked down by the earthquake were covered in glittering white ice crystals, and the ground was also sparkling with frost.

  With glaciers at its center, this world rapidly freezes, and waves of frost continually spread out to cover the entire continent of Tundra.

  "Not good!"

  Xia Xinyan's face was shocked, "This cold air is too heavy, it's almost as strong as the extreme ice flame martial soul of Beiming Shuang! The cold air comes from the glacier, but I don't know what's hidden inside that glacier", "Ka ka ka! Ka ka ka!"

  The glacier cracked open completely.

  Only to see blocks of ice cracking from the glacier, those ice blocks shrouded in a faint white light, quickly forming a kind of leopard-like shape of strange ice crystal monster.

  The ice crystal beast is three to five meters long, with a body made of frost and ice. Under the sunlight, it shines brightly, full of power.

  It only took a short while, and hundreds of such ice crystal monsters condensed into shape. These ice crystal monsters had no signs of life on their bodies, but they were all radiant with a dazzling light. As soon as they condensed into shape, they immediately pounced on the living people nearby.

  The icy aura on Bing Xing's body was dozens of times thicker than that of the Ice Crystal Wave Pattern!

  Every ice beast is cold and stern, as long as the crystal ice beast passes through the area, the air seems to be frozen, emitting a strange hissing sound.

  Glaciers continue to tear apart.

  More ice crystal beasts flew out of those glaciers, shining with cold light, and began to slaughter the warriors of the four major forces.

  Many gullies also began to emit crystal light, and soon thousands of ice crystal demon beasts flew out from those gullies.

  As if the magma in the gorge has been frozen, many gorges have crystal light emerging from them, and it seems that there are also glaciers present.

  The glacier cracked open completely.

  Tens of thousands of ice crystal beasts, densely packed and photographed, like locusts, with the glacier as the center, spreading in all directions.

  Shi Yan looked stunned.

  "Where did these ice beasts come from? On them, there is only a strong chill, but not a thread of life force, what's going on?"

  "Run! There are too many ice beasts, we can't hold them back. These ice beasts have extremely strong cold energy on their bodies, hurry up and leave!" Xia Xinyan released her spiritual power, sensed it for a moment, and her face suddenly changed.

  "Ah!"

  Some powerful warriors from a distant force were surrounded by the Ice Beast, and various attacks landed on the Ice Beast's body, but they couldn't cut off its body.

  The warriors surrounded were torn into pieces by the ice beasts, their deaths extremely tragic.

  Dongfang Qian, Chen Shi, Gu Jian Ge and others were also extremely disheveled, at this time they couldn't care less about exploring the mysteries within the glacier. The major forces split into four factions, hastily retreating from the glacier, fleeing extremely quickly.

  Shi Yan saw that even the powerful experts of the four major forces were retreating in a panic, and he didn't dare hesitate either. He hastily retreated with Xia Xinyan together.

  The Ice Beast Leopard is generally agile and extremely fast, running across the ice crystal wilderness at a speed that surpasses many martial artists.

  Next to Shiyan, those warriors who also stayed in the glacier for three thousand meters were extremely terrified, screaming and desperately running for their lives.

  "Xuán Bīng Shòu! It's Xuán Bīng Shòu! I've seen their appearance in an ancient book, this is a Xuán Bīng Shòu controlled by the Xuán Bīng Hán Yàn technique!"

  In the distance, an old warrior, with a look of shock on his face, was shouting loudly like a madman.

  This old man only had the cultivation of the Threefold Heaven of the Hundred Calamities, but he was shouting loudly. He got closer and closer to the ice beast, and soon he was submerged by it.

  A shrill and mournful cry came from the area where the old man was located.

  Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat, his face turned gloomy and he hastily retreated.

  Xia Xinyan's slender body trembled violently as soon as she heard the words "Xuan Bing Beast". A hint of extreme horror flashed in her eyes, and she exclaimed: "Shi Yan, come with me quickly!"

  Shi Yan didn't dare hesitate and hastily leaned towards Xia Xinyan.

  "Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

  Several figures suddenly flashed across the sky.

  Shi Yan looked up and saw that the several Heaven Rank strongmen from the four major forces were holding onto the gatekeeper, desperately flying towards the outside of the Door to the Island.

  Gu Jian Ge's body was radiating rainbow light, being held by a high-ranking expert from the Eastern family with one hand, looking down at him.

  Shi Yan let out a cold snort and immediately lowered his head, quickly catching up with Xia Xinyan.

  At a distance of four thousand five hundred meters from the glacier, Xia Xinyan suddenly stopped her movement, and the emerald ring on her finger flashed once. A silver cone emerged.

  Xia Xinyan's essence was like lightning, crazily pouring into that cone.

  The drill bit shone brightly and suddenly drilled into the body of the dead volcano, shattering rocks and sending debris flying.

  Before long, a stone cave was dug out of the body of the dead volcano.

  Xia Xinyan rushed in, hastily waving at Shi Yan, "Quickly come in". Shi Yan looked back and saw the countless Ice Crystal Beasts surging towards them like a tide, many warriors were overwhelmed by the beasts, their torn flesh and blood blurry.

  Dozens of ice beasts, without a hint of life, with thick cold air on their bodies, are rushing towards this side. Shi Yan's heart was chilled and he didn't dare to hesitate, one head rushed in.

  Xia Xinyan grasped the silver cone, carving deeper into the stone behind her. With a gentle hand, she lifted up block after block of intact split stones and said, "Help me seal the entrance!"

  Shi Yan didn't say a word, went forward and picked up the boulder-sized rocks on the ground one by one, moving them to the entrance of the cave.

  Two people worked together to move dozens of large and small rocks out of the stone cave and firmly blocked the entrance.

  The entrance was pitch black without a single ray of light, but Shi Yan and the others didn't dare to stop under Xia Xinyan's urging. Shi Yan continued to move the rocks.

  In just a few minutes, the two of them dug into the cave and blocked the entrance with over a hundred rocks, sealing off the thirty-meter-long tunnel tightly.

  "Rumble, rumble, rumble!"

  One after another loud crashing sounds came from the entrance of the cave.

  The ice beast arrived at the entrance of the cave and was ramming into the rocks, with repeated violent impacts, attempting to blast the entrance open.

  However, from the entrance of the cave to the two people's rock, there were no less than three hundred boulders, each with a stone bench on top. With so many rocks blocking the way, even if the Ice Beast had an extremely powerful impact force, it would be difficult for it to truly blast open the entrance of the cave.

  The ice beast did not give up immediately and continued to bombard the cave for a long time, and the rumbling sound at the entrance of the cave gradually subsided.

  "It's finally safe", Xia Xinyan wiped the sweat from her forehead, took off the veil on her face, and there was also sparkling sweat on her delicate cheeks.

  Inside the sealed stone cave, it was pitch black and couldn't see five fingers. However, Xia Xinyan entered for a short while and took out a piece of illuminating stone, so in the stone cave, the two people's line of sight was not obstructed.

  Xia Xinyan put away the cone, took a deep breath and sat down on the ground, wryly smiling: "This time it was really close." "Xuanbing beast? That old man said before he died that these monsters were Xuanbing beasts. I saw you looked surprised, do you know what Xuanbing beasts are?" Shi Yan asked, sitting beside her with furrowed brows.

  Xia Xinyan nodded slowly, her expression solemn. "I finally know why there are glaciers on the volcanic island of Monro Island." "Why?"

  "There is a mysterious ice flame in the glacier", "Mysterious ice flame?" Shi Yan's face was puzzled, "This mysterious ice flame is so formidable?"

  "Heavenly Fire!" Xia Xinyan took a deep breath. "You must have heard of the three types of flames, Heaven, Earth and Man?"

  "Human Fire is something that people are born with, it's a type of Martial Soul. The extreme cold flame Martial Soul of the North Ming family is also a type of Human Fire. Earth Fire is the flames from the bottom of volcanoes that have been burning for thousands of years, its power is astonishing but it doesn't have life, it can be used to refine pills and temper martial skills, it's extremely terrifying. Heaven Fire is the flames that existed since the beginning of heaven and earth, Heaven Fire has the greatest power, it possesses life consciousness, it's a life miracle in this world. It's said that Heaven Fire is much more powerful than Human Fire and Earth Fire, possessing an extremely frightening flame power, right?" Shi Yan asked.

  "Uh-huh," Xia Xinyan nodded and explained, "The three fires of heaven, earth, and man are the most powerful. The fire of heaven is the most terrifying, followed by the fire of the earth, and then the fire of man. The one sealed within the ice canyon should be the Xuanbing Han Yan, one of the heavenly fires, which is the purest cold flame in the world, possessing life. Wherever the Xuanbing Han Yan is, there will be a boundless ice canyon, with an extremely dense cold air."

  "Xuanbing Han Yan?" Shi Yan was shocked. "Why would this Xuanbing Han Yan appear here?"

  "It's been sealed," Xia Xinyan said after a moment of contemplation. "According to legend, those with great divine powers in the divine realm can merge heavenly fire into their soul, possessing earth-shaking divine abilities. However, merging heavenly fire into one's soul requires not only divine cultivation but also extremely rare materials, and first, they must capture the heavenly fire. The hardships involved are not something that can be explained to outsiders."

  "Has anyone merged with heavenly fire?"

  "In the countless legends of the endless sea, there have been numerous strong individuals who attempted to collect heavenly fire and merge it into their soul, but almost all of them failed and were counterattacked by the heavenly fire, resulting in their divine soul being destroyed. Once heavenly fire is merged into one's soul, the recognition sea possesses the power of heavenly fire, making it nearly invincible at the same level. The recognition sea cannot be broken."

  "If a martial artist who has reached the first heaven of the divine realm merges heavenly fire into their soul, even those in the second or third heavens will not be their match and might even be instantly killed!"

  "Instantly killed?"

  "Yes, exactly," Xia Xinyan said with a serious expression. "According to legend, after merging with heavenly fire, the recognition sea will undergo a strange transformation! What kind of transformation it is, no one knows, but the divine recognition released by the recognition sea is extremely terrifying and can directly burn away the opponent's recognition sea, making it easy to destroy their soul!"

  "Has anyone really merged with heavenly fire?"

  "Yes," Xia Xinyan said. "In the history of the endless sea, there seem to have been two individuals who merged with heavenly fire. One was in the divine realm, and the other was in the true god realm. They were invincible, and no martial artist at the same level could be their match. They dominated their respective realms!"

  "Xuanbing Han Yan has been sealed within the ice canyon of the Fire Mountain. Is it because someone used the mountain's flames to suppress it and attempted to merge with it?" Shi Yan asked loudly.

  "Hmm, but it seems that person failed to merge," Xia Xinyan nodded.