Chapter 77: The Ice God's Castle

  "You little thief, you stole the Ice God Clan's Ice Casting Chart! You traveled thousands of miles to the Ice God's territory and yet you don't even know what you're doing here?! Are you trying to infuriate me to death?!"

  Su Dong said helplessly, spreading his arms: "I really don't know what heritage you're talking about. Besides, this Ice Casting Diagram wasn't something I snatched from your clan members, but rather from a very despicable explorer."

  Su Dong took the robbery for granted, which made Huan Yu somewhat unacceptable. He said in a low voice: "It's impossible, the Zhū Bīng Tú is left to the younger generation of the Ice God tribe. Such a precious thing, there is no reason why they would give it to others."

  "One strange thing after another, I was summoned out with excitement, thinking that the descendant of the Ice God clan had arrived, but when I looked, it turned out to be you! And you can even open this road leading to the Casting Ice God Fortress!? This is really weird!"

  Hesitating for a moment, Huan Yu said somewhat dejectedly: "In those years, the Ice God sensed that he would encounter disaster, so he dispersed his people, closed the Ice Seal City and the Casting Ice God Fortress, and stayed here alone, waiting for the disaster to arrive."

  "The Ice God left behind the Ice Sculpture and me, in order to give hope to his own people, hoping that one day someone from the clan would be able to inherit his legacy, return here, and pass on everything of the Ice God."

  "So I've been waiting here, waiting and waiting, for who knows how many eras, but it turns out that the descendant of the Ice God clan didn't come, instead you did!"

  "The Ice God said that only those who are qualified to inherit his mantle can summon me and activate the mechanism, returning to the Ice God's Castle. So I was thinking that although you're not a descendant of the Ice God's clan, you also meet the conditions. I was preparing to take you to the Ice God's Castle, but it turns out you don't even know why you came here!"

  "Do you know how sad I am?!"

  Su Dong was speechless. This phantom rain was indeed a sentimental person. He had unintentionally touched his sore spot, and although Su Dong couldn't see him, he seemed to be on the verge of tears from the sound of his voice...

  "After some thought, Su Dong said: 'How do you know I'm not a descendant of the Ice God tribe? Maybe it's because the years are long gone and the bloodline is sparse.'"

  Su Dong had always been suspicious of his father Su Qi Nian's background, with a face that looked like it belonged to someone rich and noble, yet he was only a teacher in the humble city of Hansheng. Su Dong instinctively felt that Su Qi Nian seemed to be hiding something.

  If Su Qiannian is a descendant of the Ice God tribe, then everything can be explained. Why he could live in a place with such a gloomy atmosphere for many years without being harmed and why he has such an excellent facial appearance.

  "Impossible, how could you be a descendant of the Ice God clan? The Ice God clan has a millennium-old trait, all with white hair! Moreover, this inheritance is exclusive, as long as there is a hint of Ice God clan bloodline, it must be white-haired, without exception."

  "Look at you, your hair is as black as something."

  Su Dong was taken aback and asked in confusion: "That's strange, I'm not the descendant of the Ice God tribe, how can I open this Ice God Castle?"

  "Ghostly Rain Path: 'Who knows, with a head of black hair and using the Ice Spirit clan's unique ice spiritual power... where in the world is there another freak like you?!'"

  "Ice Spirit Power?" Su Dong's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood.

  All things in the world have spirits, Qimen absorbs all kinds of spiritual energy from the world and then utilizes it!

  Su Dong is a Qimen successor, using a hybrid spiritual power! So the ice spiritual power is naturally within Su Dong's absorption range!

  The spiritual power of ice is precisely what brings out the illusory rain and opens the key to the Ice God's Fortress!

  At the thought of this, Su Dong couldn't help but get excited. He forced himself to calm down and said: "I indeed used the power of Ice Spirit, not only that, I also used Fire Spirit, Water Spirit, Heaven and Earth Spirit, Dark Spirit, and Yellow Spring Spirit."

  "But this is limited to me personally, the outside world has already become a realm of star spiritual power, and everyone only uses this kind of spiritual power."

  "Fantasy Rain exclaimed: "Why is it like this? Has the Star God already unified the world!? In my memory, this continent was very rich and colorful, with various spiritual powers competing with each other, and various professions all having their own strengths."

  Su Dong shook his head, "What you said is all in the past. The current continent only has one kind of spiritual power, that is the star's spiritual power. There is only one noblest profession, that is the astrologer. Even the casting master and the spiritual farmer now use the star's spiritual power."

  "Are you using the Star Spirit's power for everything? Wouldn't that make the world a cookie-cutter place? From what I know, the Star Spirit's power is strong, but it's too sharp and lacks depth!"

  "Take the case of armor craftsmen, for example. The best way to forge a battle-worthy suit of armor and weapons is to have multiple system craftsmen work together. Only then can the resulting spiritual armor withstand multiple types of spiritual attacks, and only then will the blade contain multiple attributes during combat."

  "There are also the respected Ling Nong masters, if the spiritual grains they cultivate only have one type of star spiritual power, how can others eat them?"

  Su Dong couldn't help but burst out laughing and said, "Honorable Ling Nong? Are you kidding me? To be honest with you, I'm from the Ling Nong clan myself, and no one has ever addressed me in such a respectful manner before."

  "Unexpectedly, you're so young and yet a descendant of Shennong! Forgive me, forgive me!"

  Su Dong frowned and said: "Are you intentionally teasing me? Who doesn't know that Ling Nong's status is low?"

  "It's impossible!" Huan Yu said resolutely: "Spirit farming is one of the most respected professions on the continent. Not to mention me, even if Ice God saw you, he would have to show great respect. Although various spiritual powers can be obtained from nature, spirit medicine and higher-level elixirs can only be created by spirit farmers!"

  Su Dongdao said, "You're outdated, warriors no longer obtain spiritual power from the Spiritual Valley, but rather through astrology, directly extracting star spiritual power from the stars. Even spiritual medicine has been replaced by treatment masters who use star spiritual power."

  "What about the elixir?" asked Huan Yu.

  Su Dong said: "I haven't heard much about Dan medicine, I suppose there's a way to substitute it."

  "Really, it's been too long since I've been stuck in this place. The world has actually become like this... In my time..."

  The legendary rain can't help but lament again, mourning the decline of the mainland.

  Su Dong still managed to glean some useful information from Huan Yu's words. In the past, the mainland was a world of five flowers and eight doors, but for some reason it later became unified under one rule.

  After some thought, Su Dong said: "The inheritors you mentioned may not have become extinct, perhaps they all ran to the south and hid behind the Wall of Gods."

  Heaving a sigh, Huan Yu said: "If there's an opportunity, I must go to the Wall of Gods to take a look. What exactly is the reason that led to the separation of the northern and southern continents? Now you head down along the outer corridor, the Ice God Castle is very vast, we still have a long way to go."

  Su Dong was very excited, although there were many twists and turns, but inheritance wasn't a bad thing, as long as he could get his hands on it, it was a good thing!

  "How many people used to live in the Ice and Snow God's castle? It must have taken a lot of effort to build such a massive fortress?" Su Dong asked curiously after walking for a long time without seeing an end.

  "The upper ice-sealed city is where the clan people live, with a population of about one million. The lower layer of Ice God's castle is the private space of the Ice God himself, and only he lives here." said Huan Yu Dao.

  Su Dong exclaimed incredulously: "A super castle over 10,000 meters high, and it's for one person!?"

  "Is there something strange? The Ice God has this qualification, but now this Ice God Castle is already yours."

  "I'm not used to living in such a big place alone. The small courtyard of the Ice Castle is more suitable for me."

  "Right now you might think that way, but once you see the precious legacy left behind by Lord Icicle, you won't think so. You'll probably be chased away, and even then, you won't leave."

  Having arrived at the bottommost layer of the Ice Forge Castle, Su Dong looked up and saw that this building was like a deep well, with a depth exceeding 10,000 meters!

  The location of the well is icy, shining with a faint white light, standing so deep underground, looking like the stars in the sky, it's really too exaggerated!

  Su Dong pushed open the door and walked into the first floor of the Zhongbing Divine Castle, only to see a large room with some huge machinery scattered around.

  "First, we need to determine your spiritual power value and composition. Let's use the No. 3 testing device." Xiang Yu said after some thought.

  Each of the huge machines had a number on it, Su Dong found the No. 3 machine that Huan Yu mentioned and walked over, asking in his mouth: "I don't know how powerful Bing Shen is, what kind of martial skills did he leave behind?"

  "Martial arts?" Huan Yu smiled and said: "The Ice God has never been famous for his martial arts, he is a casting master, what he left behind are naturally the inheritances of the casting system, as well as music."

  The No. 3 mechanical and martial arts hall's spiritual power testing instrument is almost the same, only much larger in size.

  Su Dong followed Huan Yu's instructions and threw a punch at the target. Soon, various data were measured.

  "One punch can produce two hundred and fourteen kilograms, enough to meet the second-level standard of Lingwu, your combat talent is very good." Huan Yu said lightly.

  The spiritual power index is not difficult to obtain, but other data still need to wait for some time.

  After a while, different colors began to appear on the side of the machine, more and more, as if they couldn't stop.

  "Impossible!?! Full spiritual power?! How is this possible?!" Yunyu exclaimed in shock.

  PS: I've been updating continuously for several days, and my head is a bit dizzy. Today, I'll update twice temporarily, and resume three updates starting tomorrow.