Devil's Jewel

While they kept walking, Jean glanced at Xia Qingyue, who was in front of him. Even though they were officially husband and wife, their level of relationship barely reached the acquaintances level.

The funny thing was that Xia Qingyue won't talk in any of the futures he rwmwmbered to have seen…

Obviously, he can change that, since he can control fate, he could easily make Xia Qingyue become much more vivid in an instant, but what's the point of her becoming a wife if she is treated as a doll?

The only reason they still have some sort of connection was because of their fathers' wishes for the marriage many years ago, otherwise he would have divorced her as soon as Xiao Yulong asked it.

And now, she still didn't say anything about the divorce… If he was the one to ask for it just because he didn't liked this marriage that much, he would just be a great asshole.

So he stood silent for the entire way until they reached the Frozen End Divine Hall. "We are here." Xia Qingyue said.

Jean looked in front of him, gazing at a large ice crystal gate that emitted dense mist.

Xia Qingyue extended a palm, pressing it atop the ice crystal gate. A blue light flickered in the center of her palm, and after that, the originally tightly closed ice crystal gate silently opened. At the other side there was an especially spacious great hall. 

But the walls and bricks of this great hall were actually not made of cold ice, rather, they were made up of a deep blue-green stone.

"This hall is called the Frozen End Divine Hall, it is the place where our Frozen Cloud ancestor cultivated, and also the place where our Frozen Cloud ancestor departed the mortal realm." Xia Qingyue then entered inside the hall.

Jean looked around, observing the hall. It was wide and empty, the floor, walls, and ceiling were all made of uniformly placed bluestone. The color of these bluestone were deep yet translucent, they slightly reflected light, and resembled dark jade. But apart from this, the entire great hall was completely empty, not even a seat or light stand was anywhere in sight.

A ring-like budge that was 3 meters wide was built at the far right side of the room. The color was no different from the hall so one could overlook it at first glance.

"What's that?" Jean pointed to that. Xia Qingyue raised an eyebrow and asked. "You could see the future, shouldn't you know?"

"First of all, that isn't how it works, if you already started to think to something, it can't be changed to something else just like that. Also, I can't remember that many futures forever, my brain would explode."

Xia Qingyue took a moment to collect her informations in her mind and explained. "That is the profound escape formation that the Frozen Cloud ancestor had left behind. If the sect encounters an incident and is at the end of its ropes, one could use Frozen Cloud Arts to awaken this profound formation. 

This profound formation contains a space splitting power, and after this formation has been set in motion, it could send someone to an unpredictable region. However, it could only transfer 1 person, and once this formation has been activated, it requires 100 years of time to absorb enough power so it could once again split space."

"Oh?" Jean was suddenly interested on it, before he remembered something. "It's time to reveal the profound formula to learn the Frozen End Divine Arts…"

Xia Qingyue raised her arms and a blue radiance shined from her palms. The bluestone wall in front of them reflected rows of azure blue writing.

Xia Qingyue lowered her arms, and the blue light in her hands faded, as the words on the wall also completely faded away. She said in a soft voice. 

"Only when using the illumination of the light from Frozen Cloud Arts would the inscription of the Frozen End Divine Arts appear. If one was not a Frozen Cloud disciple, even if they came here, they would not be able to obtain the Frozen End Divine Art's profound formula."

Jean sighed, this will be a small problem for him, but she should be able to solve it with Deathdealing, lowering the "Lethal Dosage" of the inscriptions to the minimum so he could also read them thanks to the natural cold air around this room.

"If you wish so, I can hold it active until you will be able to memorize it." Xia Qingyue suggested, but Jean shook his head.

"I can do it alone, you don't need to help me. I will be alright in a few days." At those words, Xia Qingyue raised an eyebrow. She just said that one needs the Frozen Cloud Arts to learn them and he didn't need them? Did he become stupid with time?

However, she held inside those thoughts and said. "Alright then, I will take my leave, if you need something just ask me, you should be able to sense where I am at your level."

Jean nodded and sat there, while Xia Qingyue took her leave. When the doors closed, Jean let out a sigh, letting the cold air in his lungs coming out.

He glanced at the wall and then at the watch.

[18:10]

[1/12/1997]

[A: "Almighty]

"I will just wait… 1, 2, 3, 4… 4 days."

"You're going to use Deathdealing on it?" Jasmine asked, and Jean nodded. "Yes."

"...Why did you want to learn that profound art? Would you be alright just with the Phoenix Flames? If you try to learn an ice profound art, there might be some adverse effects on the Phoenix Flames, or on the Frozen End Divine Arts themselves."

"Power is power, if I can use it with safety, I will even accept Darkness Profound Arts in me. I want to be peerless so no one would be able to go against me and my loved ones. Then, I think I can do it without any problem… 

No, I am confident that I can use them at the same time, too. I am holding the profound veins of the Evil God, there should be a reason he is called Creation God, right? I don't believe that he won't be able to use both of them at the same time. 

I understand if it was something like light and dark profound energy, which could be completely adverse against each other no matter what, but nothing is impossible."

Jasmine could only sigh, this guy's ambitions went outside the charts…

She is still wondering how did he not become a Demonic Cultivator yet.

And then she gazed at something beside her. "Is this why you didn't destroy the Devil's Jewel?"

Jean once used Knowledge on the item, finding some interesting informations.

Devil's Jewel: Main ability, absorbs profound energy and lifeforce, giving it to the one who made a contract with it.

Secondary ability, Reaper's Welcome, a profound art that comes with it.

It is an item created from a nameless True Devil to fight against the True Gods in the ancient era, but the time needed to charge it with energy was too much.

At the beginning, Jean had an half-idea to absorb it with Almighty, but Jasmine warned him to not do it because the Darkness Profound Energy will twist his mind, so he didn't do it.