Chapter 526 - 317: Subduing the Giant Spirit Guard! Obtaining the Underground Palace Core!

After a brief contemplation.

Boom!

The Golden Light Dragon Slayer Saber in his hand struck fiercely, causing the Cold Pool to tremble.

Whether it’s blazing flames or eerie cold fire, as long as it’s a treasure, it shouldn’t be missed.

The mirrored smooth surface of the Cold Pool began to crack.

Through the cracks, more terrifying cold air overflowed.

Touch the stone tablet, the stone tablet cracks.

Touch the black fog, the black fog remains still.

Anything that comes into contact with the cold air in the cracks is instantly frozen.

Only within a three-meter range of the {Book and Painting Realm}, the cold air doesn’t invade.

In a few steps, Chu Ming walked to the crack in the Cold Pool, separating his Primordial Consciousness to investigate.

The Primordial Consciousness could only enter five meters before it could go no further, appearing to freeze.

"Five meters..."

Chu Ming roughly understood why the Underground Palace suppresses Primordial Consciousness so strongly. It must be caused by the so-called Cold Pool Nether Flame within the Cold Pool.

He crouched down, looking at the crack in the Cold Pool like an ice cave.

After a few moments, his body moved, enveloped in Qi Rhythm White Light, and he stepped in.

The {Book and Painting Realm} naturally restrains cold evil things, though the Cold Pool is cold, it couldn’t harm Chu Ming in the slightest.

Slipping down the crack for quite some time, the space suddenly opened up.

Beneath the Cold Pool, there was a hidden new world, everywhere he looked was an icy ice cave.

Under the ice cave, the cold air solidifies into an eerie blue gas, drifting in the space, making the entire ice cave glow with a ghostly blue light.

Looking along the eerie blue cold air, far away, a point of eerie blue light seemed to be the source.

"Cold Abyss Nether Flame?"

Flying down, Chu Ming saw the source of the cold air.

A blossoming eerie blue flame, a spot of Nether Fire, a thousand miles of eerie light, this was the first feeling the eerie blue flame gave him.

The Cold Abyss Nether Flame is a flame, but indeed different from blazing fires that are scorching.

Relying on the {Book and Painting Realm}, Chu Ming approached the Cold Abyss Nether Flame, feeling the temperature of the Nether Fire.

Yin-cold and eerie, touching it feels bone-chilling.

Without the Qi Rhythm White Light, he felt that his soul might freeze.

Somewhat disappointed, it wasn’t blazing fire, so it shouldn’t assist in artifact refining, melting materials.

Thinking this, he flipped his hand and took out a piece of Tier Three Primordial Artifact Material.

Touching the Nether Fire, it instantly froze.

Indeed, it can only freeze, not melt...

Huh?

"That’s not right!"

Just when Chu Ming concluded, the Primordial Consciousness detected a strange change within the Tier Three Primordial Artifact Material.

Unlike high-temperature material melting, the Cold Abyss Nether Fire-frozen material displayed microscopic structural fracture.

This microscopic structural fracture seemed the opposite of high-temperature melting, yet had a marvelous similarity.

Chu Ming moved his heart thought, retrieving the material, and lightly tapped it with his finger.

Crack crack...

Initially, the material showed cracks.

Then.

Bang!

There was a low burst, the material turned into dust.

Chu Ming’s eyes instantly brightened, he swung his hand to take out the melting furnace used for artifact refining, sending in the dust, igniting the furnace fire.

Just in a moment.

The dust was melted, extracted, formed, inscribed with primordial pattern, all in one go.

A sharp short sword exuding a cold aura flew out of the furnace.

"Simpler than directly using blazing fire for melting, more thorough extraction, forming is more handy..."

"The refined Primordial Artifact also carries a hint of cold aura of the Cold Abyss Nether Flame..."

Though the Cold Abyss Nether Flame cannot melt, it can transform high-tier materials into a state that can use ordinary blazing fire for melting!

Thinking of this, Chu Ming swung his hand again, taking out the two Tier Five Primordial Artifact Materials obtained earlier.

The two great Tier Five materials, the high temperature of Fire Separation Feather couldn’t melt them, but upon touching the Cold Abyssal Flame, they froze instantly.

Immediately, their internal structure changed inch by inch.

Once the internal structure of both Tier Five materials completely transformed, Chu Ming repeated the technique, retrieving the two, tapping them into powder, and sending into the furnace.

The Tier Five materials that Fire Separation Feather couldn’t melt were successfully melted after being tapped into powder.

More thorough, quicker melting...

Extraction... refinement... inscription... shaping...

Bang bang bang!

Crack crack crack!

Just as it was about to form, the furnace cracked, the furnace let out low roars.

Using Nether Fire successfully solved the high-tier material melting issue, but the furnace’s endurance problem remained.

This furnace, couldn’t endure the refining of Tier Five Primordial Artifact.

"What a pity..."

Chu Ming gently shook his head, a trace of helplessness flashing across his face.

He took out the unformed Tier Five materials, once again freezing them with the Nether Fire, then shattered them into powder and stored them away.

"We’ll try refining after finding a high-tier furnace."

Thinking this, he looked back at the Cold Abyss Nether Flame.

The prowess of this flame has been demonstrated, he must obtain it.

But... it doesn’t seem easy to obtain.

The Cold Abyss Nether Flame freezes everything; he couldn’t think of anything capable of containing this flame.

"Don’t know if the Golden Plate Space can withstand it..."

The Storage Space has certain stability, surpassing stability, the space collapses, the Storage Treasure gets damaged as well.

On him, the most mysterious was the Gold Plate, followed by the Jade Ring obtained from Yan Huan, then the miscellaneous Storage Treasures.

Chu Ming took out a bracelet-like Storage Treasure, using Qi Rhythm White Light to capture a wisp of Nether Fire, trying to send it into Storage Space.

Crack—

The bracelet froze and shattered.

After a pause, he took out a violet silk, also a Storage Treasure.

Rustle...

The violet silk shattered.

Destroying two Storage Treasures in a row, Chu Ming wasn’t heartbroken and continued by taking out a third Storage Treasure.

As expected, it was frozen and destroyed by the Nether Fire.

Things should not go beyond three, especially concerning Storage Treasures.

Chu Ming no longer tried. Besides the Jade Ring and Gold Plate, he didn’t have many Storage Treasures left, similar in quality to the first three, trying further was meaningless.

He looked at the Jade Ring and Gold Plate, feeling somewhat hesitant.