Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad?”

Although Yun Xiao is just a cultivator at the middle stage of the Meridian Introduction Realm from the Hidden Dragon Continent, do not forget that his soul is that of the former Long Xiao Battle God from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, whose insights are probably much broader than those of Fu Du.

So, merely at first sight of the Cold Ice Toad, the Soul’s Eye of Yun Xiao recognized it as a rare ”Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad,” rarely seen even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud.

The Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, according to legend, can only be found in extremely cold and gloomy places, and its most significant characteristic is the extremely formidable Ice Cold Poison. Even a slight touch to its body can instantly freeze a cultivator into a human-shaped ice sculpture, stopping the flow of blood inside the body in an instant.

Yun Xiao also realized why this secret room was so cold. It was due to the chilling air emitted by such an extremely cold creature, the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, and such chilling air could hardly be endured by anyone other than a Poison Vein Master like Fu Du.

What Yun Xiao could not figure out was how a Spirit Vein Realm cultivator like Fu Du, even being a low-level Meridian Refining Master, could easily capture such a powerful Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad?

”Ah? This ice cabinet also seems to be no ordinary item!”

While Yun Xiao was puzzled, he finally noticed something. It turned out that the translucent ice cabinet housing the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad was also a rare artifact from the Hidden Dragon Continent, inherently possessing the chilling attribute, perfect for storing the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

Fu Du shrank his neck, gazing at the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad inside the ice cabinet, a fiery glint flashing through his eyes. Honestly, he didn’t even know the name of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad. It was by sheer coincidence that he used this ice cabinet to capture it, but he never dared to refine it for his own use.

A cultivator reaching the Spirit Vein Realm inherently obtains another well-known ability, that is, refining Meridian Spirits. Especially for someone like Fu Du, a Poison Vein Master with high ambition, ordinary items are unworthy of his effort for refinement.

The Meridian Spirits that Fu Du wanted to refine had to be immensely powerful and also possess intense poison. Throughout these years, he had been searching endlessly, but found nothing substantial, except the Meridian Spirit he used during the ritual at the Medicine Merchant Pavilion was merely a compromise.

However, by chance, Fu Du captured this Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad. This creature not only had an extremely strong Ice Cold Power but also possessed the rare Ice Cold Poison, exactly the kind of Meridian Spirit he dreamt of.

Unfortunately, after obtaining the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, Fu Du dared not refine it because even before he could get close to it, the blood and Meridian Qi in his body began to freeze.

Fu Du had previously captured a cultivator at the Meridian Rushing Realm to test the potent poison of the Ice Toad. However, as soon as the person’s finger touched the Ice Toad, he was frozen into a human-shaped ice sculpture and died without even being able to react.

From this incident, Fu Du also clearly recognized that even though he was a cultivator in the Spirit Vein Realm and a low-rank Meridian Refiner, he could not easily refine the Ice Toad.

Throughout these years, Fu Du has been looking for a method until he encountered Yun Xiao outside the Shang Family Snake Nest, the abnormal youth who miraculously survived his Five Poison Palm.

After over half a month of experiments, Fu Du confirmed that Yun Xiao indeed possessed Immunity to Hundred Poisons. Using such a unique being to counterbalance some of the Ice Cold Poison from the Ice Toad and then refining it as his Meridian Spirit, wouldn’t that kill two birds with one stone?

Fu Du was extremely excited within, thinking that once he refined this Ice Cold Toad as his Meridian Spirit, he would undoubtedly gain the upper hand in battles against cultivators of similar power.

Fu Du even pondered, after refining the Ice Toad, not only would the Medical Pulse lineage be unable to compete with him, possibly even the current Sect Master of the Jade Pot Sect wouldn’t be his match.

These ambitions filled Fu Du with impatience, and he immediately pulled Yun Xiao forward a few steps. A surge of Meridian Qi was cast out, flipping open the lid of the ice cabinet directly.

”Old bastard, you are not going to die well!”

Realizing what Fu Du was planning to do, the soul in Yun Xiao’s mind couldn’t help but curse loudly. Compared to Fu Du, perhaps he understood even more about the toxicity of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

Although previously Yun Xiao wanted Fu Du to deploy more potent poison to exhaust the energy of the golden beetle, now that the poison turned into the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, he realized that this time, he might truly be in grave danger.

The Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad is an extremely rare and potent poisonous creature even on the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud; even those who reached the Holy Rank Third Realm and encountered this Ice Cold Poison couldn’t handle it.

Although the golden beetle was miraculous, Yun Xiao didn’t think it could withstand the toxicity of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad. This time, he probably would really be killed by Fu Du, the old fox.

How could Fu Du, who was outside, possibly know the true thoughts in Yun Xiao’s heart? And even if he knew, he wouldn’t care the least. Is there anything more important than refining this Ice Toad for himself?

No matter if Yun Xiao is dead or alive, as long as some of the energy within the Ice Toad is depleted to a level that Fu Du can refine, then his purpose this time would be considered a success.

Fu Du knew that the so-called severe poisons he used previously, even all combined, were probably less than one-tenth as potent as the Ice Toad’s poison. The chances of Yun Xiao being able to resolve it were absolutely no more than ten percent.

With thoughts swirling in his mind, Fu Du took out a small wooden stick from his Waist Storage and propped up Yun Xiao’s right arm, heading towards the ice box.

It seems Fu Du still harbors some fear towards the Ice Toad’s poison, not daring to touch it directly, even with Yun Xiao as a medium, he didn’t dare to take the risk.

Under Fu Du’s guidance, Yun Xiao’s right hand finally reached into the ice box, and at that moment, the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad seemed startled, its entire body stepping backwards.

But in the next moment, as if the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad hadn’t eaten in many years, it jumped forward after stepping back, and bit onto the middle finger of Yun Xiao’s right hand.

Crack! Crack!

When the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad clamped onto Yun Xiao’s right middle finger, Fu Du immediately threw away the wooden stick and clearly saw from Yun Xiao’s right middle finger, a layer of sparkling ice flowers spreading rapidly.

This was the Ice Cold Poison of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad; whether dead or alive, anything that touched any part of its body would instantly freeze into ice.

Unless it was something like this sparkling ice box made of ice cold material, maybe they could coexist. Unfortunately, Yun Xiao did not possess the Cold attribute, and with his low Meridian Qi, in just a few breaths, his entire right arm had turned into a crystal ice arm.

Seeing this scene, Fu Du involuntarily stepped back again, and as time passed for about half an incense stick, Yun Xiao, standing before the ice box, had his entire body devoid of any natural color, completely covered in crystal ice, looking extremely bizarre and eerie.

”Damn it!”

Deep within Yun Xiao’s mind, his soul, feeling the slowing of all his circulatory blood under the extreme Ice Cold Poison, couldn’t help but curse again; unfortunately, this voice of the soul, Fu Du could not hear at all.

At the same time, the previously sluggish golden bug inside Yun Xiao’s body became cautious this moment, seeing its on-guard appearance, for some reason, Yun Xiao unexpectedly felt a bit of anticipation.

To be honest, with Yun Xiao’s own body, even the severe poisons Fu Du previously inflicted on him were unbearable. If not for this golden bug devouring all those poisons, he would have probably died half a month ago.

Thus at this moment, all of Yun Xiao’s hopes were pinned on this golden bug, hoping it could once again devour all the Ice Cold Poisons, perhaps then there might be a glimmer of survival.

Unfortunately, the greater Yun Xiao’s soul’s hopes, the greater his disappointment. In just a moment, he felt all his blood frozen, even his entire vein system faintly tended to freeze into ice veins.

As Yun Xiao’s consciousness grew increasingly blurred, and time passed for about half an hour, at some point, he finally lost consciousness, not knowing if even his soul had been frozen by the Ice Cold Poison of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

However, outside, Fu Du was completely unaware of what was happening inside Yun Xiao’s body, the thin figure still standing in front of the ice box, with the Ice Toad still biting Yun Xiao’s right middle finger.

This standoff continued day and night, and it proved that the poison of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad was indeed much stronger than those used by Fu Du before, and this time far exceeded any previous poisons.

Bang!

When a slight moment arrived the next day, a slight crackling sound finally transmitted, followed by Yun Xiao’s ice sculpture-like body tilting slightly and heavily falling onto the ground.

It is worth mentioning that the seemingly fragile ice sculpture, along with Yun Xiao’s body when it hit the ground, didn’t shatter, but rather bounced upright a few times and slid to a corner of the secret room.

”Dead?”

Fu Du glanced at Yun Xiao’s ice sculpture body and, unable to sense any sign of life from the latter, finally confirmed this fact, sighing, ”It seems you, boy, although immune to a hundred poisons, ultimately could not withstand the Ice Toad’s ice poison!”

As his murmurs subsided, Fu Du’s vision shifted from Yun Xiao’s body to inside the ice box.

There, a crystal-clear Three-legged Ice Toad seemed to have fallen into a sleep due to some energy consumption, this scene watched by Fu Du deeply stirred both shock and joy within him, secretly thinking this plan, might indeed be successful.