As soon as the skin-and-bones skeleton's threatening voice fell, everyone dared not hesitate and began to consume the dishes in front of them.
Next to Li Shuang's icy dish, a bone spoon was thoughtfully placed.
Li Shuang picked up the spoon and slowly scooped up a spoonful of frost.
It looked like pure ice, but Li Shuang's eyes flickered slightly, and a faint bloody hue seemed to seep through the ice.
The Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace also provided information.
"Extreme Domain Frigid Ice Soul: This ice originates from the Ice and Snow Hell in the extreme north. It can not only freeze the physical body but also the soul. The ice contains the sap of the Blood Guiding Flower, and consuming it will destabilize the soul."
"Cultivators below the Integration Stage who consume this item have a nine-out-of-ten chance of death. However, if an ice-attribute cultivator consumes it, there is a slim chance it can temper the spiritual root and help it break through."
Li Shuang pondered calmly.
One reason she allowed the purple light to change the dishes was that, despite being a hundred value points short, this Frigid Ice Soul actually had the potential to help ice-attribute cultivators temper their spiritual roots.
Although the probability of the spiritual root breaking through was very low, it was still a probability.
Li Shuang decided not to convert this dish into value points for now; she wanted to try it herself.
Half a year ago.
She established her foundation in the Langya Secret Realm, using a nine-petal lotus seed as a miraculous item to forge her foundation.
The nine-petal lotus seed had various wondrous uses.
One of them was to subtly temper the spiritual root.
Previously.
Li Shuang's spiritual root level was that of a peerless spiritual root.
Under the effect of the nine-petal lotus seed, her spiritual root aptitude had been continuously increasing.
Now, half a year had passed.
She always felt that she was only one step away from the legendary Supreme Spiritual Root.
If she could use the effect of this Frigid Ice Marrow to break through to the Supreme Spiritual Root!
That would be far more cost-effective than converting it into value points.
Li Shuang had previously asked the Smelting Furnace, and if the Smelting Furnace were to directly help her improve her spiritual root, the value points required would be an astronomical figure, an astronomical figure that she couldn't afford even if she exhausted all her assets.
This showed.
The gap between a peerless spiritual root and a supreme spiritual root was truly like a chasm.
This Extreme Domain Frigid Ice Soul was extremely rare; it wasn't even recorded in the Catalog of Miraculous Items that Li Shuang had exchanged for. Before encountering this item, she didn't know that it actually had a chance to help spiritual roots transform.
Because the probability of a breakthrough was not high, in fact, it was almost zero, the value points of the Frigid Ice Soul were not very high.
Thus.
Even if these Frigid Ice Souls in front of her couldn't help her spiritual root achieve a breakthrough, in the future, she could continuously exchange for this item from the Smelting Furnace to try again.
For Li Shuang, as long as a probability existed, no matter how slim, there would always be a day when it could be achieved.
That was for later; the most important thing now was to try it first.
What if she was lucky, and just this little bit of Frigid Ice Soul helped her break through?
Li Shuang didn't hesitate and took the first bite.
Extreme cold erupted in her mouth.
The originally radiant lotus platform froze at this moment, layers of frost surged up, and the lotus platform was even covered with a layer of solid ice!
Li Shuang's heart tightened.
This Frigid Ice Soul was truly perilous; her soul was instantly frozen. If she didn't react appropriately.
In just a few breaths, her soul would shatter into dregs like ice!
Li Shuang wanted to react, but the effect of the Blood Guiding Flower activated, making her feel dizzy and unable to make any decisions.
No, this won't do.
With her last shred of consciousness, Li Shuang accelerated the effect of the Grand Forgetfulness Art.
As her spiritual power circulated, her mind slowly became clear.
Li Shuang's expression was calm. She transformed her spiritual power into sword qi and directly struck the green lotus covered in frost.
Immense pain erupted at this moment, and beads of sweat faintly appeared on Li Shuang's forehead, but the sword qi came one after another, showing no sign of stopping.
Soon.
The frost broke open.
Li Shuang looked closely.
A part of the originally green lotus platform had actually turned into a crystal-clear color.
Li Shuang's pupils suddenly constricted.
She tried to use her spiritual power again, and the purity of her spiritual power had actually further strengthened.
Her green lotus was undergoing a transformation.
Not only that.
Spiritual root objects are usually invisible.
But at this moment.
In the center of the blooming green lotus, Li Shuang vaguely saw the phantom of a spiritual root.
What made her frown slightly was.
Cracks had appeared on the originally crystal-clear spiritual root.
This...
Was the spiritual root going to shatter?
Li Shuang suddenly realized something.
"Eating too slowly, too slowly. You'd better hurry up, otherwise..." The skin-and-bones skeleton was grinning menacingly.
Skin-and-bones skeleton: Hehe.
Then, he saw Li Shuang eagerly pick up the entire plate and pour all the Frigid Ice Soul into her mouth.
Skin-and-bones skeleton: Not hehe!
The skin-and-bones skeleton stared intently at Li Shuang. What was this human doing again!
All the Frigid Ice Soul entered her body in one go.
But.
It wasn't enough.
This was still not enough.
"Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace, exchange for Frigid Ice Soul, and place it directly into my sea of consciousness," Li Shuang commanded.
The consumed Frigid Ice Soul and the Frigid Ice Soul Li Shuang exchanged for piled up in her sea of consciousness, forming a heavy ice mountain that completely pressed down on the green lotus.
The green lotus had somewhat gotten used to this level of cold.
When Li Shuang once again used sword qi to melt the ice, a small portion of the green lotus had already become crystal clear, and the bone-like cracks on the spiritual root had increased.
"Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace, continue to exchange!" Li Shuang commanded without hesitation.
Soon, an even larger ice mountain pressed down than before.
Li Shuang once again wielded her sword qi.
Using the sharpest sword qi to cut through the coldest ice mountain.
Her soul's green lotus underwent transformation again and again during this process.
If it were anyone else.
During this sword qi ice-melting, their soul would probably have already collapsed.
But Li Shuang's soul was, after all, different from ordinary people. She not only endured but also used this strange method to forcibly advance the various changes in her sea of consciousness.
Who knows how long passed.
The green lotus completely transformed into a crystal-clear appearance, and her spiritual root, at this very moment.
*Bang!*
Completely shattered!
With her spiritual root shattered, a brilliant smile appeared on Li Shuang's lips.
It worked!
Between a peerless spiritual root and a supreme spiritual root, there was an insurmountable chasm.
That was a gap that ordinary people could not cross.
To break through.
One must first destroy and then establish.
Only by destroying the old can the new be created.
Upon this ice lotus, a new spiritual root was slowly forming.
While Li Shuang was striving to reach the Supreme Spiritual Root, the situation outside was quite spectacular.
The purple light happily consumed the most "harmless" marrow.
At first, there was no reaction, and he was about to thank Yilan properly.
But the next moment, countless white parasitic worms suddenly appeared in his blood.
The purple light desperately tried to get rid of them.
However, it was useless!
In just a few breaths, his blood was densely packed with white parasitic worms.
These white parasitic worms absorbed all his blood, then his soul, and everything he had.
Only then did the purple light realize something was wrong.
He subconsciously glanced at Yilan, but Yilan had already unashamedly moved to sit with the meat mountain and the little girl.
"You... you tricked me..." The purple light's eyes widened.