After several consecutive impacts, the Ice Wind Boa, which had still not succeeded, gradually lost its patience.

  After the school of fish barely avoided its engulfment, the Ice Wind Python suddenly let out a massive jet of white cold air, about a foot in diameter and over ten feet long, mixed with more than a dozen ice cones several inches long, shooting towards the school of fish.

  The white cold air had a very low temperature, and once it was sprayed out, the surrounding lake water actually froze into ice blocks. In an instant, a more than one zhang long and one chi thick ice pillar was formed.

  The ice knife fish, sprayed by the cold air, became very slow in movement, and before it could escape, it was frozen into the ice pillar. The school of fish was also scattered by the giant python's dozens of ice cones, fleeing in all directions.

  The remaining ice knife fish wanted to gather together, but the Ice Wind Python sprayed out another wave of cold air, and dozens of ice knife fish were frozen again.

  After several such occurrences, there were hardly any ice knife fish left, and they could no longer gather in groups, each scattering and fleeing separately.

  The Ice Wind Boa did not continue its pursuit, but instead swallowed all the ice knife fish in the ice pillar into its belly, emitting a hissing sound with great satisfaction.

  Zhao Di secretly praised the strange effect, unexpectedly discovering that the cold air sprayed by Bingfeng Mang not only had an extremely low temperature but also had a strange effect of slowing down the opponent's movements! If used in battle to coordinate with attacking the enemy, it would definitely make the opponent defenseless.

  One person and one python, continued to explore the depths of this strange lake, except for encountering a few groups of ice knife fish, which allowed the Ice Wind Python to feast, there were no other gains. Moreover, the spiritual energy here was also very thin and ordinary, it didn't seem like a place that could produce something as precious as the Nine Cold Mystic Water.

  After more than half a day without any discovery, Zhao Di ordered Bingfeng to return to the top of the ice layer, and the latter reluctantly went upstream.

  Zhao Di did not return by the original route, but instead went straight up to the bottom of the ice layer. He took out two small swords, extreme treasure artifacts, and cut open a circle in the ice layer. Then, with one strike from the Ice Wind Python, he smashed the ice block out of the ice surface, revealing an exit. One person and one python then burst out from it.

  Although Zhao Di gained nothing, the Ice Wind Python seemed to have improved its cultivation after devouring a large number of ice knife fish. It's not obvious for the time being, presumably it will be clear after the Ice Wind Python fully digests and absorbs the icy spiritual energy inside the ice knife fish.

  These ice blade fish are ice-attributed demon beasts, and for a giant python with an ice spirit root, they are a great tonic.

  At this time, he had been in the Xuanhan realm for quite some time, but the surroundings were always gray and hazy, as if there was no distinction between day and night here.

  Zhao Di continued to let Bing Feng lead the way, searching elsewhere.

  Bingfengmang carried Zhao Di, flying close to the ground at a height of several zhang, occasionally stretching out its several-chi-long tongue to detect subtle and imperceptible changes in the surrounding environment.

  Half an hour later, three monks appeared in Zhao Di's line of sight and gradually approached.

  All three of them were wearing black robes with a white belt around their waists. Two of them had reached the later stage of foundation building, while the other was at the middle stage of foundation building. They all looked very young, in their twenties or thirties.

  Three people were obviously cultivators of the same sect, searching for treasures in a small valley. However, what made Zhao curious was that among the three, the one with the lowest cultivation base, a Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivator, seemed to be the leader of the group. He walked leisurely in the icy valley with his hands behind his back, while the two young Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators were diligently searching around, occasionally taking out their magic tools to smash and cut open thick layers of ice to see if there were any signs of treasures.

  Bingfeng Bo carried Zhao Di and flew over from a distance of about 200-300 meters away from the three people.

  These three people also discovered the young monk in purple clothes early, and the two late-stage foundation-building youths looked at Zhao Di and then ignored him. The mid-term foundation-building monk stared tightly at the giant python under Zhao Di's feet.

  It was roughly during the middle period of foundation building that the secret sound transmission of the Foundation Building cultivators said something, and the two young people in the late stage of foundation building stopped searching and flew out with a black air, blocking Zhao Di's way.

  Zhao Di's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he said calmly, "Several fellow daoists from the Inverse Heaven Alliance are not searching for treasures, but instead blocking my path. What is the meaning of this?"

  The two young men in the late stage of foundation building did not respond, but the ugly-looking middle-stage foundation-building cultivator with a broad nose and upturned face spoke up: "Your giant python spirit beast is quite good, sell it to me, just name your price in spirit stones!" As he spoke, the young man with a broad nose kept staring at the giant python under Zhao Di's feet, revealing a greedy and delighted expression. As for Zhao Di, he didn't even give him a glance.

  Zhao Di heard this and let out a cold hum in his heart, still speaking in a calm tone: "Not to mention that the spiritual beast has already completed its recognition of its master and cannot be transferred to another Daoist friend, even if it could be transferred, I would not do so."

  A young man in the late Jomon period, with his lips slightly open and closed, is apparently whispering to the broad-nosed youth.

  The latter nodded, and only then did he lift his gaze from the Ice Wind Python, glanced at Zhao Di, and opened his mouth to laugh: "You'll follow me for a few days, let me play with this python for a while."

  The young man with a wide nose originally looked very strange. When he smiled, his sparse and prominent big mouth and buck teeth made him even uglier.

  Although cultivators may not all have extraordinary and otherworldly appearances, Zhao Di had truly never seen anyone like the person in front of him before.

  Its appearance is nothing more than that, but what it says makes Zhao Di feel even more absurd and laughable.

  "I'm used to being lazy and don't like traveling with others!" Zhao Di replied helplessly.

  "What's the hurry, I haven't even stated my conditions yet! For these few days, just follow me and I'll reward you with a thousand spirit stones per day! How about that, is it enough for you to earn in a year?" The ugly young man said with a wave of his hand.

  "I don't like traveling with others, even if you offer me more spirit stones, I won't agree!" Zhao Di said coldly, intentionally revealing a hint of annoyance in his tone to prevent the other party from continuing to waste his time.

  "Two thousand spirit stones a day! That should be enough, right?" The young man with a broad nose said with a mocking expression.

  Zhao's eyebrows furrowed, and this broad-nosed young man was clearly not quite right in the head! He looked at the two late-stage foundation-building youths behind the broad-nosed youth, and indeed, both of them showed a helpless and slightly apologetic expression.

  Zhao Di decisively stopped wasting words and ordered the Ice Wind Python to change direction, rapidly flying away. Immediately after, the shouting voice of the broad-nosed youth was heard from behind:

  "Don't go! 3,000 spiritual stones a day! 5,000 spiritual stones! 5,000 spiritual stones a day! Hey, don't go! You dare not listen to my words?! You two, quickly go and intercept him, hurry up, what are you standing there for?!"

  These two young men, who were in the later stages of their foundation building, found some excuse to decline and never chased after Zhao Di. The young man with a broad nose, although he was used to being a young master, could also see that Zhao Di's foundation building was at its peak, and he didn't dare to chase after him alone. Moreover, the speed of the Ice Wind Python's flight was extremely fast, and it wasn't easy to catch up with it either.

  Soon after, Zhao Di disappeared from the sight of these three people.

  It's inexplicable that so much time was wasted on such a muddle-headed guy, and he also had to walk quite a distance. Zhao Di could only shake his head in frustration.

  If it weren't for the fact that judging from their techniques, they were obviously evil cultivators from Xuanzhou Immortal Island, and there were three of them, he wouldn't have even bothered to waste his breath, and would have definitely given this young master a hard time, or even killed him on the spot.

  Such a luxurious young master, his storage bag must have many treasures! Spirit stones and artifacts are nothing to him, but some extraordinary and powerful techniques can't be exchanged for spirit stones. With this young man's own abilities, he naturally couldn't afford such a high price to "hire" Zhao Di, so he must have a remarkable background, probably as the direct descendant of some demon king's family head. If his guess is correct, the possibility that the other party possesses some powerful techniques is still very high.

  Zhao Di Zheng was guessing the other's origin, when he suddenly saw two monks fighting in a piece on a mountain slope.

  Is it that the two of them discovered some treasure at the same time and are fighting over it? Otherwise, in just seven short days, all the cultivators would have gone to search for the treasure. Who would waste their time dueling with others? Even if they were sworn enemies, most likely they would just glare at each other angrily and tacitly not make a move.

  Zhao Di slowly flew closer, roughly seeing the situation of the two people fighting. They were a male and female cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, among whom the female cultivator gave him a rather familiar feeling, and immediately made him think of someone, unable to help but exclaim: "It's her! She actually came here too!"

  (Second update!)