Zhou Xuan, trembling, took the crystal and pressed it against the blood. He stared intently, his eyes wide, for a moment. The blood quickly solidified in the air, but the crystal remained unchanged. Zhou Xuan was stunned!
How exactly do you guide the ice inside out of this thing?
Zhou Xuan was both stunned and angry for a while, then angrily slammed the crystal onto the floor. The crystal bounced up with a "crack" but did not break.
It seems that this crystal is not the kind of crystal we usually see, because crystal can be broken, but this thing cannot be broken.
Zhou Xuan then found a hammer and other tools to smash it, and used a hacksaw to saw it. He worked tirelessly for a long time, panting heavily, but still couldn't break the crystal. Finally, exhausted, he sat on the bed, staring at the crystal, panting!
How exactly can I break this thing?
At this point, Zhou Xuan wasn't even thinking about how to draw the ice back, but rather how to break the crystal and destroy it!
Despite being panting and angry, Zhou Xuan calmed down after a while, examining the crystal and slowly considering other methods.
He still couldn't come up with a solution. Zhou Xuan sighed, thinking that he probably couldn't get the ice energy back. He had gained it by chance, and lost it by chance as well. Perhaps this was fate. However, relying on this ice energy he had obtained by chance, he had gained unimaginable wealth and won the heart of a beauty like Fu Ying. Thinking about it, even without the ice energy ability, he had still come out ahead!
Perhaps nothing in this world is ever perfect. Isn't it said that no one is perfect? Then it's not surprising that my icy aura disappeared!
People experience joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, just as the moon waxes and wanes. When there are many good things, bad things will naturally follow. Fortunately, I only lost my ice-energy ability. I did not lose my wealth or my loved ones. I had been thinking about what I would do if I lost my ability one day.
What I didn't expect was that this day would come so suddenly, and I never expected it at all. Because my ice energy was rapidly improving, after obtaining this piece of gold-wrapped water, I thought it might be another source of energy. But I never expected that the energy in this gold-wrapped water would be so fierce and unimaginably vast. Instead of absorbing it, I was completely drained by it!
After sighing for a while, having no other options, Zhou Xuan simply sat on the bed and began meditating, practicing his breathing.
All the breathing energy he had cultivated in the past was absorbed along with the icy energy from the pill, because internal energy combined with icy energy to form a new energy. After being absorbed, Zhou Xuan's internal energy, which he had cultivated for many years, also disappeared completely.
After practicing for half an hour, there was no reaction in his body. In the past, when Zhou Xuan practiced, there would be a stream of heat flowing through his body along with his thoughts, but now that stream of heat was gone.
However, Zhou Xuan started practicing this breathing technique when he was very young. He practiced it for several years without any flow of energy appearing in his body. But after practicing this breathing technique, his body became much stronger. He could now climb mountains as easily as walking on flat ground. It was almost five years later, when he finally started practicing, that he began to experience noticeable flow of energy in his body.
Therefore, with this experience, Zhou Xuan was not too discouraged and continued to practice the internal energy breathing method slowly, because after practicing the breathing method, the restlessness in his heart would calm down and his temperament would become calm.
Zhou Xuan mainly wanted to shake off his regret, and gradually he became somewhat absorbed in the practice. He didn't even know how long he had been practicing, and he didn't think about any other worries. He was focused solely on practicing the breathing technique.
There seemed to be a faint current of energy. Although it was faint, it was not like before when it was completely imperceptible. Now, there was a noticeable current of energy, which circulated through the body with the mind, and then flowed to the spot on the left wrist where the icy energy of the pill had stayed.
At this moment, Zhou Xuan was not thinking about anything else. He simply naturally circulated the energy in his left wrist again. The icy movement he had made before naturally flowed out from his left fingers. He never expected that he was holding the crystal in his left hand.
The crystal, which was indestructible by hammers and hacksaws, seemed to stir and pulsate upon contact with that faint aura!
Of course, this was just Zhou Xuan's perception. To outsiders, it would simply appear as if Zhou Xuan was sitting quietly, holding a crystal, and sleeping.
The faint aura immediately permeated the crystal upon contact, and one could immediately sense the vast, ocean-like pure ice energy, churning and surging like an overwhelming force.
Zhou Xuan was startled, realizing that the ice energy he had been swallowed up was due to the backlash from this enormous energy, which caused him to lose his ice energy. Was he going to have to go through what happened yesterday again? In his panic, Zhou Xuan thought of withdrawing the airflow, but at the same time he realized that this faint airflow had not been swallowed up by the enormous ice energy in the crystal!
This was rather strange, but as long as he wasn't being swallowed, Zhou Xuan wasn't in a hurry. He let the faint flow of energy sense the energy within the crystal, and eventually, Zhou Xuan understood that perhaps the flow of energy was different from the ice energy, which was why he wasn't attracted and swallowed.
This might be the reason. Zhou Xuan let the airflow come into contact with and feel the ice energy. The two energies are different. It's like throwing a grain of rice into a large glass bottle. It floats and drifts. Although it is turbulent and unstable, it will never be swallowed up.
Amidst this strange sensation, Zhou Xuan allowed the airflow to flow freely within the crystalline ice energy. He was quite puzzled; the crystal, to the naked eye, appeared to be only an inch square. How could such a small object contain such a vast ocean?
Of course, this is just a feeling, something you can't see. Perhaps a feeling is just a thought. People say that thoughts are boundless, and imagination is boundless. Maybe it's just an imagination.
In his senses, Zhou Xuan suddenly noticed a swirling airflow, and he felt that this airflow was very familiar to him. After trying to sense it, he suddenly realized what it was!
So this swirling airflow was actually the icy energy from his own pill!
After the icy energy from the pill was absorbed into the crystal energy, it was not devoured or melted away, nor did it become part of it. Instead, it was like an extremely spinning vortex, slowly and gradually devouring the energy in the crystal!
The reason the icy energy from the pill was absorbed by the crystal energy is because both originated from the same source and are the same type of energy. However, the crystal energy is obviously much larger, so the icy energy within Zhou Xuan's body was absorbed back. But because the icy energy from Zhou Xuan's pill wasn't pure icy energy, but a new energy combined with his own internal energy, the icy energy couldn't dissolve the icy energy from the pill. Instead, the icy energy from the pill was slowly devouring the icy energy from the crystal!
Actually, it wasn't slow; in fact, it was quite fast. However, the energy within the crystal was enormous, thousands or even tens of thousands of times greater than the energy in the huge golden stone that Zhou Xuan absorbed in the American sinkhole!
The sheer magnitude of this energy is beyond what Shuai Xuan could even imagine!
Zhou Xuan was extremely excited upon touching the icy energy of his pill, yet it seemed almost unrecognizable. At the core of the pill, the golden-yellow pill appeared to have swelled several times its original size, noticeably larger than before. It had previously resembled a small bead, but now it was like a large goose egg!
The swollen pill's icy energy, upon smelling the airflow that Zhou Xuan had infused, immediately rushed over, as if it had encountered a relative. It followed the airflow back with extreme familiarity!
Before Zhou Xuan could prepare or even imagine it, the icy energy from the pill rushed back to his left wrist along the energy channel, and then quickly circulated in his body's meridians as usual.
Zhou Xuan groaned in pain. It felt like an adult forcibly stuffing their large hands and legs into a baby's clothes. But the Danwan Ice Qi was not polite. It forcefully pulled into his body, just like a large car forcibly widening a narrow road that could only be used by bicycles!
After circulating through all the meridians in Zhou Xuan's body, the icy energy from the pill returned to his left wrist and remained there.
At this moment, Zhou Xuan finally couldn't hold back any longer and spat out a mouthful of blood. He threw the crystal away!
Zhou Xuan then collapsed onto the bed and fainted.
It turned out that after the ice energy in the pill was absorbed by the crystal yesterday, it had been rotating inside the crystal, absorbing energy from within it. Over the course of a day and a night, the energy increased tenfold. Now that it had suddenly turned back, Zhou Xuan could not bear it!
If Zhou Xuan were to practice slowly on his own, allowing the icy energy to develop, it would be like a small child growing up. As their body grows, their energy naturally increases, and they can naturally withstand it. But Zhou Xuan's icy energy is different!
This was a pill of icy energy that had suddenly increased more than tenfold in size, and Zhou Xuan's meridians and internal capacity naturally couldn't withstand it. It was like a bucket of water. If Zhou Xuan's body were a bucket, its normal capacity would only be about half full, but if ten buckets of water were suddenly poured into it, the bucket would burst and the water would overflow. It's the same principle.
Fortunately, Zhou Xuan's icy energy from his pill wasn't pure ice energy, but rather energy combined with his internal energy. Therefore, when the icy energy returned to Zhou Xuan's body, it flowed through the meridians he used during his internal energy cultivation, creating a massive energy flow that forcibly expanded his meridians. Although Zhou Xuan suffered severe internal injuries and damaged meridians, it was like a road had already been paved; all that was needed was to gradually repair it. With proper repair, a large vehicle could pass through.
In fact, Zhou Xuan's body is just like the shape of the road. The road that can only pass bicycles is suddenly widened into a road for large vehicles. However, the road network has been expanded, but the road surface is not good. It is very bad and needs to be repaired slowly. However, the road is finally a main road. No matter how bad it is, it can still allow large vehicles to pass.
This was Zhou Xuan's stroke of luck amidst misfortune. If he had never practiced internal energy before, there would have been no new energy mutated and combined with ice energy. In that case, Zhou Xuan's meridians would not have been able to withstand the impact of the crystal's enormous energy.
If the icy energy were to return to normal in the face of today's situation, it would only cause Zhou Xuan to suddenly explode and die, rather than just be injured.
Zhou Xuan, injured, threw the crystal away. If the energy in the crystal were still slowly being channeled into his dantian at this moment, he would still explode. But now, only his meridians are damaged. As long as time passes and his body recovers, his ice energy will repair the injury. Similarly, his abilities have increased more than tenfold. But he doesn't know exactly how much he has reached, because in extreme pain, Zhou Xuan has already coughed up blood and fainted.
When Zhou Xuan woke up again, he found himself not at home, but in a hospital ward.