coobybook Chapter 191 Obtaining the Power of the High Heavens
Chapter 191 Obtaining the Power of the High Heavens
Ye Lan and the Tiger Fang team agreed to meet in Qingquan Town.
Xu Ning specially took Ye Lan with him for half a day to teleport, and they actually arrived at Qingquan Town ahead of the Tiger Fang Squad.
Xu Ning left all the goods he had taken from the Fools to Ye Lan, and before leaving, he specially brought out a small jar of immortal wine from the cave.
"Although Tiger's injuries are not fatal, he will need to recuperate for a while. On the way back, give him a small cup of this wine each time. This wine will make him very drunk, which will reduce the pain of the long journey."
"You can drink too, it's good for your health, but please don't drink too much. If you all get drunk, it's no joke."
After settling Yelan in, Xu Ning used the teleportation anchor to leave, but instead of returning to Mondstadt, he went back to Dragonspine Mountain.
Xu Ning appeared at the old palace in the Snow Burial Capital. He took a deep breath and turned his gaze to the huge block of ice that he had walked across with Ye Lan last time.
When Xu Ning got closer and examined it carefully, he realized that the spot was originally a tree.
A huge tree so thick that even twenty people holding hands might not be able to encircle it.
Now, it's as if a huge block of ice pierced the core of this tree from the sky; the entire tree is completely dead, leaving only a huge block of ice encased in the tree's remains.
Xu Ning also found the object that had glowed that day.
Opening up a piece of tree debris in front of you reveals a shard radiating silver light encased within solid ice.
"This fragment should be the Frostfire Nail—the 'heavenly power' that Kanria mobilized countless ruin guards to obtain back then."
Xu Ning stood to the side, pondered for a moment, and then reached out and tapped his wine gourd.
"Qingyi, come out and see God."
As soon as Qingyi emerged from the gourd, she shivered and turned to crawl back inside.
Xu Ning reached out and grabbed her slender nape. "Why are you running?"
The woman in green said angrily, "Why did you come back to this wretched place again? I told you last time that I can't help but hibernate in this cold weather. Let me go now."
Xu Ning turned the woman in blue toward the fragment and asked, "See this fragment? It's a treasure that fell from the sky. Do you want to get your hands on it?"
The woman in green's eyes lit up when she saw the fragments, but then she curled her lip and said, "Why are you doing this?"
Xu Ning laughed and said, "Look how big this ice is, even from such a small piece! If we take it away, we can have chilled juice in the summer!"
Qingyi looked at Xu Ning incredulously. "Are you serious?"
Xu Ning shrugged and said, "Anyway, having more treasures is not bad. It's just that there's a big guy on the mountaintop that should be able to sense this fragment. If we suddenly pry the fragment out, it might fly up the mountain and start playing tag with that big guy."
The woman in green nodded and asked, "So?"
Xu Ning shook the wine gourd in his hand and asked the man in green, "If I could catch it the moment it appeared and transfer it to the Dust Concealment Cave, would it still fly out of the sky? What damage would it cause to the cave?"
Upon hearing Xu Ning's words, Qingyi exclaimed with delight, "That's right, that's how it should be! How come I didn't think of that? Logically speaking, this Dust Concealment Cave is actually a separate space. Once this fragment enters, it won't be able to sense the summons of the great pillar, so it can be easily captured."
When Xu Ning heard Qingyi say this, he knew that the matter was feasible.
"Even though I know the chances are slim, I still can't help but want to give it a try."
Xu Ning poured some of the liquor onto the solid ice, then snapped his fingers and started burning the fragments.
The liquor burned at a very high temperature, melting the surrounding snow almost instantly.
However, the most crucial piece of ice showed no signs of melting.
"It seems we still need to find the Crimson Stone to break this ice block."
Xu Ning quickly got to work around the solid ice.
At this moment, on a cliff in the snow-covered mountains, stood a young man with silver hair, blue eyes, and skin as white as ice and snow. He stared intently at Xu Ning running around below, as if talking to himself, yet also as if asking a question.
"Does this person know what he's doing?"
After running around the solid ice for a long time, Xu Ning put the gourd down and went into the Dust-Hidden Cave to warm up his somewhat frozen body.
"Alright, I've memorized the locations of the several Crimson Stones outside. I'll bring it in as quickly as possible in a bit, so you'd better prepare a place to put it in advance."
Qingyi waved her hand, "Don't worry, anything that enters my space is something I can handle."
As Xu Ning was about to leave, Qingyi added, "Do not touch it directly with your hands. First, wrap it in the wine, then quickly throw it into the cave."
Xu Ning knew in his heart that Qingyi must know many secrets about this world.
However, since she didn't say anything, I didn't need to ask any further questions. At least she wouldn't deliberately try to harm me.
Picking up the silver sword beside the stove, Xu Ning ran straight for a deep red stone after leaving the cave.
Amidst these snow-capped mountains, the crimson color of the Deep Crimson Stone stands out like a red lantern in the snow.
Moreover, no matter how heavy the snowfall, not a single snowflake can stay on these stones; they almost all melt as soon as they touch them.
Xu Ning had just touched it; this stone seemed to maintain a constant, intense heat, and it wouldn't freeze even in this icy landscape.
However, the Crimson Stone itself was not very hard. Xu Ning walked up to it and, with almost no effort, cleaved the red stone in two with a single sword strike.
Almost the instant the stone shattered, a crimson aura enveloped the sword, leaving only a thin layer of stone shell on the ground.
Xu Ning dared not linger. He drew his sword and rushed to the giant ice, forcefully slashing at the location of the fragment.
As the sword struck, Xu Ning realized that he barely needed to exert any force, because almost the instant the sword touched the ice, the blood energy attached itself to the ice, melting away some of the ice around the shard.
His own slashes didn't actually have much effect; it was mainly the blood energy that melted the ice.
Despite the new discovery, Xu Ning dared not linger. He quickly slashed at the Crimson Stone and then brought his blood energy back to melt the solid ice.
In a short while, the solid ice melted away completely, and the silvery fragments inside were gradually revealed.
When the final burst of blood energy was injected, Xu Ning had placed the Dust Concealment Gourd next to the solid ice beforehand, at the very moment the blood energy was injected.
Xu Ning waved his left hand, and a large ball of wine enveloped the fragment.
The wine has an extremely low freezing point.
According to Xu Ning's senses, the temperature on this snow mountain is only around minus 10 or 20 degrees Celsius. If he wanted his wine to freeze, it would have to be at least minus 50 or 60 degrees Celsius.
However, in reality, after his wine came into contact with the shard, it solidified almost instantly and turned into solid ice.
Xu Ning dared not delay any longer. He once again waved out a ball of wine to coat the outer layer, then grabbed the ice ball that had begun to rise and flashed into the Dust Concealment Cave.
"Dump it immediately!"
Xu Ning didn't even wait for Qingyi to shout before throwing the ice hockey puck.
Even so, a thin layer of frost formed on his boxing gloves, but it slowly melted away after the puck left his hand.
Qingyi remotely manipulated the ice ball, moving it to the foot of a cliff far from Jiuquan.
Xu Ning and Xu Ning exchanged a glance, and both saw the joy in each other's eyes.
Looking at the ice puck floating in mid-air, the two of them thought to themselves in unison, "We've obtained the power that belongs only to the heavens."