23 Chapter 23: Ice Secret Realm, Ten Thousand Years Immortal Grass

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Before leaving, Shui Wuya glanced around at Huo Yuhao.

In the original story, Huo Yuhao would reach level 20 eight months later and then go to the extreme north to obtain his second martial soul. But that was because the Martial Soul Department didn't pay much attention to Huo Yuhao, and he didn't have much focus. That's why he went to the extreme north alone.

This time, what excuse would Huo Yuhao use?

Although curious, Shui Wuya wouldn't linger too much on such matters.

Just as he left the academy gates, Shui Wuya was stopped by Ma Xiaotao.

"Do you need help with your fourth soul ring?" Ma Xiaotao asked with concern.

"If I need help, I'll ask the dean. You just relax, Xiaotao," Shui Wuya rolled his eyes. "If you help, and your Evil Fire erupts again, I'll have to put in extra effort to deal with it. Who will be helping whom then?"

Ma Xiaotao blushed, a rare sight, feeling embarrassed. Although it had been a long time, with Shui Wuya's help, her Evil Fire hadn't erupted again, and she no longer had these concerns on ordinary days.

But the problem of the Evil Fire hadn't been fundamentally resolved.

As long as she engaged in intense battles, the Evil Fire would erupt.

She had tried once before. A month ago, when she sparred with someone else and exerted too much force, the Evil Fire erupted uncontrollably, and she couldn't tell friend from foe.

That time, Shui Wuya was in class, and by the time he arrived, it was almost exhausting to control Ma Xiaotao using his soul power.

Shui Wuya's words reminded Ma Xiaotao of what happened a month ago.

"In that case, be careful yourself," Ma Xiaotao said, handing Shui Wuya a small package. "Inside are some commonly used elixirs, including detoxifying agents and soul power recovery medicines."

"When you're away from home, you'll always need these."

Shui Wuya smiled knowingly and accepted the items. "Thanks, Xiaotao."

With his current speed, it would take him six or seven days to reach the secret realm. There were also many soul beasts around the secret realm, so these medicines might come in handy.

However, they wouldn't be of much use.

With the Extreme Ice Technique, the layers of cold energy circulated, nourishing his soul power layer by layer, almost ensuring that his soul power would never deplete.

In the sky, Elder Lao and Mu Lao watched Shui Wuya depart.

Elder Lao took a bite of chicken leg and chewed slowly. "Are you really not going to follow him? There's been no news from the Extreme Family for so many years. It's possible they've even perished, isn't it?"

"Xuanzi, you're still too reckless." Mu Lao's reminder made Xuan Lao feel astonished.

The so-called Extreme Family seemed even more mysterious than he had imagined.

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The Ice Secret Realm wasn't far from the extreme north, so Shui Wuya's direction coincided with Huo Yuhao's.

Shui Wuya traveled faster, and after six days, he could already see the vast expanse of ice and snow in the distance.

With each passing day, the temperature changed significantly.

Arriving here, in the towns he passed through, everyone was dressed in thick coats, but Shui Wuya felt like he had returned home.

In fact, he had gotten a recommendation letter from the lord of this town when he first crossed over.

Today, he didn't go to see what the lord meant. After all, there was limited vacation time, and he had a lot to do after entering the secret realm.

The journey wasn't boring. During breaks, he could even chat with Shui Bing'er from ten thousand years ago.

Referring to the map in his hand, he walked through the snowy landscape and spent a day searching before arriving at a valley.

In the center of the valley, there was a small path. It was a frozen river, covered with snow, which had become a path.

Walking on the path, Shui Wuya soon saw a gap the size of a person on the ice surface.

Carefully approaching the cave entrance, Shui Wuya crouched down and extended his hand into the opening.

Gently shaking it a few times, the water surface was disturbed by his movement, and with that shake, he saw beneath the water, a darkness that seemed bottomless.

Although it was a small cave entrance, if someone fell in, they would never come back up.

And beneath this water surface lay the entrance to the Ice Secret Realm.

Prepared, Shui Wuya let his martial soul possess him. The moment he jumped into the water, the cold froze all the water within a hundred meters, including himself within the ice layer.

However, with his control over Extreme Ice, he could swim in the ice as if it were water.

The ice beneath him disappeared automatically, and the ice that disappeared appeared behind him after he went down.

In this way, without needing to hold his breath, he effortlessly reached the bottom.

After passing through a U-shaped bend, he appeared in an underground cave.

The cave was illuminated by luminous moss, lighting up the cave.

After walking forward for several hundred meters, he saw a bright light ahead.

It was an environment constructed to mimic the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, or rather, it couldn't even be called a mimicry.

Approaching, Shui Wuya was shocked to find that it was almost exactly the same as the real Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes!

"Could Shui Bing'er really create such a secret realm?" Shui Wuya walked slowly forward and reached the center of the pool. Overhead was a transparent ice layer through which he could see the sky outside.

However, when he entered, he distinctly remembered that there was no place like this above.

He had just mentioned it casually to Shui Bing'er from ten thousand years ago, and he couldn't imagine that she could create such a secret realm.

The Ice Secret Realm was also a very secretive existence in the family's history, and his memory didn't contain much more credible information about it.

Compared to the shock the environment brought him, the immortal grass around him became unimportant.

"Here they come!"

"The one destined by the Ice God!"

Just as Shui Wuya was dazed, the voices of children appeared in his ears.

"Who's there?"

Shui Wuya turned his head, searching in the direction of the voice, but he didn't find any children. Instead, he saw a strange plant rooted in the icy blue pool.

"It's me, me, me. My name is Octagon," the voice appeared directly in Shui Wuya's ears.

(End of chapter.)