Chapter 532: Chapter 532
What is "Moon Toad True Blood," Zhouyang didn’t know.
But he knew what True Blood was.
It is well known that Demon Beasts usually refer to Tier Seven Demon Beasts as "True Spirits," Tier Eight Demon Beasts as "True Saints," and Tier Nine Demon Beasts as "Saint Ancestors."
And True Blood is the Spirit Blood of Tier Seven and above rank Demon Beasts.
The Exotic Ice Toad engaged in Magical Combat with the blue-dressed Beigong Bai Feng certainly couldn’t be a Tier Seven Demon Beast; otherwise, Beigong Bai Feng would have been swallowed whole long ago.
So when Jiang Fengxian said she wants a share of the "Moon Toad True Blood," there is only one truth.
That Exotic Ice Toad is a descendant of a certain Tier Seven Demon Beast, and its bloodline is relatively pure.
Only through some Secret Techniques can cultivators extract Tier Seven Demon Beast’s True Blood from the corpse of a descendant with such a pure bloodline.
The power of Demon Beasts comes from their bloodline; the stronger the bloodline, the higher the starting point at birth, and the higher the limit they can achieve.
To the same type of Demon Beast, Tier Seven Demon Beast’s True Blood can improve qualification, bloodline rank, and strength.
To cultivators, this True Blood is also an essential item for cultivating Divine Techniques and refining certain special Spirit Pills, highly sought after by High-Tier Cultivators as soon as it appears, prompting fierce bidding.
Zhouyang also did not know what Jiang Fengxian wanted the "Moon Toad True Blood" for, but after hearing Jiang Fengxian’s words, he immediately echoed, "Fengxian’s intentions are Zhou’s intentions!"
Even as he spoke these words, his eyes couldn’t help but glance at the "Ice Crystal Snow Lotus" that Beigong Bai Feng mentioned.
On the blue Ice Lake, a white giant lotus was blooming alone.
The lotus was large enough to accommodate two or three people standing, with petals crystal clear like white jade, emitting a piercing coldness.
On the lotus platform surrounded by sixteen petals, thirty-six white lotus seeds the size of chicken eggs were evenly distributed, exuding an enticing fragrance.
This is the "Ice Crystal Snow Lotus," a very rare Tier Five Spiritual Object.
To be honest, if not for Jiang Fengxian’s prior words, Zhouyang would surely have chosen this "Ice Crystal Snow Lotus."
But now, he could only follow suit to satisfy Jiang Fengxian first.
"I didn’t expect this fellow Daoist to also know about [Moon Toad True Blood]!" ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel※fire.net
"Alright, since fellow Daoist is also wise, I won’t deceive in the presence of true people. If extra True Blood is extracted after killing this Exotic Ice Toad, I can share some with two fellow daoists. But if it’s not enough, I’ll still present the [Ice Crystal Snow Lotus] to the two fellow daoists. What do you think?"
Beigong Bai Feng’s expression sank, with some hesitant suspicion in her gaze at Jiang Fengxian, seemingly surprised that Jiang Fengxian could identify the origins of that Exotic Ice Toad. After her expression changed slightly, with a little pondering, she agreed to Jiang Fengxian’s request.
"No problem, just follow Fellow Daoist Beigong’s words."
Jiang Fengxian nodded slightly and directly agreed.
Then she waved her jade hand, immediately casting a Magical Artifact into the battlefield.
With Jiang Fengxian and Zhouyang as reinforcements, Beigong Bai Feng, who was originally matched evenly against the Exotic Ice Toad, instantly gained the upper hand.
The Exotic Ice Toad, upon seeing reinforcements for its enemies, showed anger and worry in its blue-white eyes in a human-like manner.
Being a descendant of a Tier Seven Demon Beast, its Spiritual Wisdom was certainly not low; it could see the situation was overwhelmingly unfavorable.
However, it had guarded the "Ice Crystal Snow Lotus" for thousands of years, and now that its lotus seeds were finally ripe, how could it easily give up this Spiritual Object at such a critical juncture?
No choice but to fight desperately.
A sharp, piercing frog croak sounded, the Exotic Ice Toad opened its large mouth and suddenly spewed out its Demon Pill, painstakingly cultivated over a millennium.
The fist-sized white Demon Pill, upon emerging from the Exotic Ice Toad’s mouth, emitted a dense white ice light forming an ice light Protective Shield around the Exotic Ice Toad’s body, making it immovable under the attacks from Beigong Bai Feng, Zhouyang, and Jiang Fengxian.
And within the ice light Protective Shield, the Exotic Ice Toad suddenly closed its eyes, breathing in and out through its slightly open mouth with thunderous rumblings, seemingly preparing some powerful move.
Seeing this scene, Zhouyang and the others increased their offensive while also secretly preparing to withdraw if the situation turned unfavorable.
Not long after, before Zhouyang and the others broke through the ice light Protective Shield created by the Exotic Ice Toad by consuming the Demon Pill’s Primordial Qi, it had already completed its energy preparation, ready to unleash its trump card.
Inside the ice light protective shield, the exotic ice toad suddenly opened its eyes, and a pair of silver-white crescent moons emerged from its blue-white eyes.
Then its frog body unexpectedly stood upright, its forelimbs opening wide in a gesture of embracing the moon to the sky, letting out a long, resonant croak.
Instantly, a peculiar scene unfolded.
In the originally clear and transparent sky over the ice lake, a silver-white crescent moon suddenly emerged, creating the strange celestial phenomenon of "the moon rising over the lake."
However, the three people on the lake’s surface, Yuan, Xuan, and Zhouyang, saw this spectacle and turned pale, stopping their attack to focus all their magical power on defense.
Their response proved to be very correct.
When the croaking sound rang out, the silver-white crescent moon suddenly split into three, transforming into three silver-white moon blades flying towards the three of them.
Zhouyang shouted loudly, decisively activating the power of the "Qianyang Treasure Pearl," deploying the "Qianyang Celestial Fire Shield" divine technique to protect himself while simultaneously circulating the "Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique," forming a layer of azure-gold dragon scale armor on his body.
Almost completed just as he finished this, the silver-white moon blade came crashing down onto his head.
In an instant, a monstrously fierce force of extreme cold shattered and extinguished Zhouyang’s outer flame shield, then froze the middle defense "Profound Turtle Shield," and finally landed on Zhouyang, whose body was covered with dragon scales, freezing his entire being into a silver-white ice sculpture.
The same situation happened simultaneously to Jiang Fengxian.
Only the sound of a "plop" was heard as both Zhouyang and Jiang Fengxian, transformed into silver-white ice sculptures, plunged into the blue ice lake, sinking to the bottom.
The only one who remained intact on the scene was Beigong Bai Feng, who was well-prepared.
She seemed to have anticipated this move from the exotic ice toad and seemed to have long prepared the treasure to counter it.
As the silver-white moon blade struck towards her, she lifted her hand, suddenly taking out a palm-sized white jade toad treasure.
Then the overwhelmingly powerful silver-white moon blade seemed to be like a swallow returning home, turning into a pool of moonlight absorbed directly by the white jade toad.
Seeing Zhouyang and Jiang Fengxian turned into ice sculptures sinking to the lake bottom, a flash of mocking disdain crossed her face, and she sarcastically murmured to herself, "Just with you two juniors, you want to covet the [Moon Toad True Blood]? If it wasn’t for fearing that you’d benefit, I alone could easily handle this [Moon Shadow Ice Toad]; why would I need your assistance?"
"But it’s just as well now, with you helping to share the burden of the [Moon Shadow Ice Toad] using the [Taiyin Moon Toad] True Blood’s true spirit talent divine techniques, I didn’t need to waste my essence blood on secret techniques to ward off the calamity, and I can still get your relics—truly killing two birds with one stone!"
After muttering to herself, her gaze shifted towards the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad," already weakened after unleashing its trump card. With a wave of her jade hand, she released a powerful silver long blade magical artifact, slicing towards the ice toad.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad" let out a croak full of unwillingness before its head was struck down by a single slice from Beigong Bai Feng, dead beyond any doubt.
After slaying the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad," Beigong Bai Feng first performed the "Soul Extraction Technique" to extract the demon soul and collected it into a jade bottle. She was not in a hurry to harvest the "Ice Crystal Snow Lotus," but instead condensed water into ice to form a large chunk of floating ice on the lake surface, placing the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad’s" corpse onto the ice while carving array spirit patterns with its spirit blood on the ice surface.
Moments later, as the floating ice was covered with densely packed blood-colored spirit patterns, Beigong Bai Feng suddenly tossed the white jade toad that had absorbed the power of the silver-white moon blade into the air, casting a series of spells onto the white jade toad to activate another function of this secret treasure.
Instantly, gentle silver-white moonlight dispersed from the white jade toad, falling onto the massive "Moon Shadow Ice Toad’s" corpse, as large as an elephant.
A bizarre scene unfolded immediately.
Under the illumination of the silver-white moonlight, the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad’s" blood-flowing body rapidly began to shrink and wither, seemingly drained of all its essence.
Half an hour later, the colossal corpse of the "Moon Shadow Ice Toad," along with the demon pill within, turned into a burst of white dust, disappearing on the floating ice, leaving behind only the white jade toad magical artifact that Beigong Bai Feng had summoned, along with a human head-sized mass of silver-white "Moon Toad True Blood."
The mass of silver-white "Moon Toad True Blood" hovered in mid-air, sometimes transforming into a silver-white moon toad with an eye resembling a full moon, and at other times becoming a mass of silver-white true blood, extraordinarily mystical.
Beigong Bai Feng watched this scene, her eyes full of infatuation and fervor.
"Eight hundred years of preparation, eight hundred years of waiting, this great opportunity ultimately falls into the hands of me, Beigong Bai Feng!"
"With this mass of [Moon Toad True Blood] in hand, even if I can’t win the [Holy Infant Fruit] inside the [Holy Infant Valley] next, when I return to the sect, I can retreat for a hundred years and cultivate the sect’s secret transmission [Moon Toad True Form], boosting my Refining Pill and Forming Infant success rate by thirty percent and gaining a top-tier great divine technique!"
Looking feverishly at that mass of "Moon Toad True Blood," she murmured to herself, unable to hide the extremely excited smile on her face.
Yet at that moment, an unexpected event occurred.
Suddenly, from the blue ice lake below, a figure covered in azure-gold dragon scales burst out from underwater. Before Beigong Bai Feng could react, it grabbed the airborne white jade toad and the mass of silver-white "Moon Toad True Blood" in its two hands.
"Hahahaha, many thanks to Fellow Daoist Beigong for assisting in refining the [Moon Toad True Blood]; Zhou certain is deeply grateful, deeply grateful!"