Light Cultivation
Eps. 41 — Ice Gate
The tree branch that Jian Chen brought as illumination was useless as the longer he stepped into the cave.
The air inside was much colder and as cold as this was usually in the ice plains that Jian Chen had visited in his previous life.
Feeling the fire being slammed soon would be extinguished Jian Chen was forced to use his elemental ability which was the light element.
It had been two more years since Jian Chen had repeated his life and all that time he had not used the power of his light element. You could say this was the first time Jian Chen had used it in this second life.
Jian Chen poured out a deep force on his palm then turned it into an energy, the energy was gathered in Jian Chen's hand and slowly there was a sphere of light created and collected on his palm.
The circles shortly turned into larger balls of light, Jian Chen created a ball of light in his hand and the ball was quite illuminating around him.
Not just one but created 3 other balls of light floating around his body. The ball of light was golden like a small sun.
Half a kilometer passed entering the cave, Jian Chen guessed it was true that this cold temperature was due to the presence of ice. That answer is increasingly evident when looking at stalactites and stalagmites formed from ice.
“This cave is not just any cave? Why is there an ice cave in the middle of the Lonely Forest like this.”.
The profound energy that Jian Chen exuded throughout his body became useless as his temperature was now already below zero degrees.
Jian Chen created more balls of light to warm his body, fortunately this worked more effectively.
With such an extreme cold temperature Jian Chen was sure that no swordsman could afford to go to this cave even those who were already in the high ground. If not for his light element Jian Chen would not have been strong either and perhaps he would have died of cold.
Jian Chen finally arrived at the end of the cave, his eyes slightly widened as he met a large gate all made of ice.
The existence of this ice gate shows that there are people who have made it at once there is a room in the ice gate.
Jian Chen pushed the gate with his strength but the result failed because the gate was like fused due to freezing. Jian Chen then poured a deep energy into his fist, intending to destroy the gate.
Jian Chen's fist was currently swung using light elements as well, so his fist looked golden in color. When Jian Chen's fist of light hit the hard of the gate instantly generated a great explosive force.
Jian Chen's light fist could indeed cause an explosion if it was hit by his attack yet the explosion was harmless to him.
Jian Chen thought with such an attack it was enough to make the gate hollow or at least damaged but the reality felt far away looking at the ice gate which turned out to be fine.
The ice gate only created a small crack as a result of Jian Chen's punch.
Jian Chen narrowed his eyes, at least if the strength of his fist had no effect, the explosive force of the light blow was enough to make his ice melt slightly.
Jian Chen this time drained his profound energy even more and dealt a pounding blow to the ice gate.
Jian Chen's punch of light was much stronger and his explosive power was harder than before so the cave shook with the resulting bang.
After unleashing a punch almost 20 times, the ice gate still looked solid and the difference was only a small crack from it. It turned out that Jian Chen's streak of fists had only a minor impact on the gate.
According to Jian Chen, this ice gate had existed for 500 years and this was what made the ice so hard.
“My ability now is too small compared to my past life, maybe I who used to be able to break this ice easily.”.
Jian Chen's estimation he could destroy this ice gate when it was already in the realm of the Golden Light God, perhaps back then he could see what the contents of this ice gate were.
At least he had found something from the Lonely Forest, only to strengthen himself and then return later.
Jian Chen turned back again to the mouth of the cave earlier, he found the rain had already subsided with the clear sky. Jian Chen then continued on his way to meet his faction.
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In the middle of the hill where Jian Chen was searching for the Two Swords faction, the masked group had regrouped and this time the numbers were far more than before.
The masked group that had met Jian Chen earlier were not in good condition upon returning, some of them were injured and even fainted.
The masked leader before was even more severe than his subordinates, this was because the masked leader had failed to carry out his mission so he was punished by the original leader, Liu Zhan.
As Yun Mei had said before the masked group was the Gold Dragon faction in disguise.
Liu Zhan was the leader of the Golden Dragon faction while in this competition, and he was also the mastermind of the action of the masked group.
As a result of these failures Liu Zhan gave a harsh punishment as a reward for the failure of their mission that should have killed the leader of the Night Flower Faction.
“Basic useless, didn't I send a lot of troops for this mission then why did you guys fail!?” Liu Zhan clenched his teeth, making the subordinate even more lowered and frightened.
“Why not answer, huh-! can't hear? If you are still silent like this I do not hesitate to cut off your ears one by one!”
Those who were kneeling were increasingly trembling until one of them finally opened their voice.
“K-Chairman, we have indeed managed to poison the members of the Night Flower faction and corner its leader. But when we were about to kill him there was a young man who appeared.”.
The man answered it stammeringly but kept explaining it to the end. Liu Zhan heard it furrowed his brows as it turned out that his army was defeated by a single person.
“He has a high skill in the science of kicks, catching arrows and throwing them back on target.” Liu Zhan stroked his chin, and, he did not expect any academy students to have such high skills.
If it were Liu Yanyi, even the number 1 student of the academy could not do such a thing.
“What was surprising from all of his attacks was that he was able to dispel our fire element techniques all in one swing of the sword. We are also quite certain that the technique is a Niu clan sword technique.”.
“Klan Niu? You mean the Moon Sword Technique?” liu Zhan asked in surprise.