Nine Yang Sword Saint

Chapter 68: The Other Side of the Unfreezing Pond

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

“Senior, please don’t play this kind of trick,” Yang Dingtian said slowly. “I can still live if I don’t tell you, but once I tell you, I’ll be dead.”

The senior instantly sneered and said, “You’re not that stupid.”

“Boom!” The senior pinched the two remaining gold demon nuclei, causing them to burst.

Yang Dingtian went through much hardship to sneak into the territory of the Northwest Qin family and also risked his life for those three demon nuclei. Yet, they were instantly destroyed by the senior. Yang Dingtian’s heart suddenly burst into endless anger.

“In fact, no matter what you say, I will destroy your demon nuclei.” The senior said, “I have failed countless times throughout my life, so I really like to see others fail as well. Haha...”

The senior made a weird and distorted smile.

“Whoosh!” Then, leaving behind an afterimage, the senior arrived directly in front of Yang Dingtian from hundreds of meters away.

“Flame feather? The feather of the Xuan Tian Magic Phoenix?” The senior looked at the flame feather in Yang Dingtian’s hand with his eyes brightened and said, “How could you use this feather of the Goddess Beast of Heaven and Earth that is of the same rank as the devil scale to kill low ranking beasts? It’s too cruel to such a treasure. This treasure is mine now. It’s perfect for forging my sword.”

Then, the Senior immediately snatched the Flame feather from Yang Dingtian’s hand, took it in his hands covetously, and did not show the slightest guilt in snatching the things of a junior.

“Let’s talk now. Tell me the chant of the Xuan Energy Soul Eating Technique.” The senior said, “If you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you.”

“Oh, wait for a moment,” the senior suddenly said. “There are still two ice-type demon nuclei here. You killed three cold snakes in total.”

Then, the senior opened his palm.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh.....” Instantly, the two corpses of the cold snakes were sucked into his hands.

“It is most likely that there are only these three ice-type beasts within ten thousand miles. If I destroy them, you won’t be able to get a single ice demon nucleus.” The senior laughed and said, “You must have thought that I’d threaten you to tell me the chant with these two ice demon nuclei right?”

Yang Dingtian ignored him.

“Haha, I won’t do that. I’ll destroy your last hope now!” Then, he clenched his fist, and the two the cold snakes along with their demon nuclei instantly turned into ashes.

“The feeling of taking away someone’s hope is too good.” The senior closed his eyes and said, “Why it is that I am the only one who keeps failing? I was disappointed, and I want others to be in despair too. Haha....”

Then, the senior burst into laughter.

After he finished laughing, he directly took away Yang Dingtian’s Bloody Black Gold, held it in his hands, and said, “Although it’s only one piece, it’s better than nothing, and I’m a step closer to forging my sword soul Goddess Sword.”

“Alright, tell me the chant and the formation or you will definitely die,” the senior said calmly.

Yang Dingtian said, “Do I not have to die after I tell you the chant and formation?”

“You will also die but more comfortably.” The senior said, “If you don’t tell me, you’ll die horribly. For example, I’ll first castrate you so that you are no longer a man. How is it? Painful right...?”

Yang Dingtian had no doubt that he would do it. This senior standing in front of him was a psychopath, a distorted psychopath.

Seeing how Yang Dingtian was so quiet, the senior brandished the flame feather towards Yang Dingtian’s hips while laughing evilly.

“If I’m not mistaken, you are Zhao Wuji from the Horror Mountain Village,” Yang Dingtian said suddenly.

The senior was a little stunned but then said coldly, “How did you know? I have been hiding away from the world for many years.”

How did Yang Dingtian know? Of course, it was the Dongfang Niemie inside him who told him.

The Horror Mountain Village was once a hegemony. It was good but also evil and wasn’t listed on the world’s sect list. However, its influence was not small, but when Zhao Wuji’s generation arrived, he had invited their enemy to slaughter those opposing him in the Mountain Village in order to obtain the Village Head position. Then, they faced a crusade from Cloud Sky City, which forced them to rely on the Northwest Qin Family, completely turning Horror Mountain Village into the vassal of the Northwest Qin Family.

But, since about a decade ago when he’d failed to cultivate the sword soul, he had completely disappeared from the world and was now surprisingly found here.

“You are actually not interested in my formation or chant as it is not very useful to you. But you’re forcing me just to torture me,” Yang Dingtian said. “Even if I were to tell you the chant and formation, you would still castrate me and torture me.”

The senior was a little shocked before smiling. “It seems like you know me very well, so why don’t you accept your destiny? Who asked you to meet me here?”

Yang Dingtian continued, “You are only so psychopathic because you’ve failed countless times to cultivate the sword soul, and many of your treasure swords of the sword soul have also been destroyed. One of them even had the essence of flaming veins.”

The senior’s expression changed. He let out a cold laugh and revealed his teeth. “What else do you know? Tell me...”

“The reason you are here is due to the possibility that there is a Bloody Black Gold mine beneath this unfreezing pond. There may be dozens of pieces, and you wanted to get them to forge your sword soul treasure sword,” Yang Dingtian concluded.

The senior began to look at Yang Dingtian seriously and asked, “How did you know that there might be a Bloody Black Gold mine here. Which beastmaster told you?”

“It doesn’t matter, Mr. Zhao Wuji,” Yang Dingtian said. “The key is that you couldn’t find the entrance to the underground mine. You knew that the entrance is beneath the unfreezing pond, but even if you are an Eight-Star-Honorable-Master-level elite, you wouldn’t be able to stay in there for long. Although your cultivation is very strong, your Yang Xuan Veins are less than rank eight, and it would be difficult to resist the chills of the unfreezing water.”

Zhao Wuji stared coldly at Yang Dingtian. “You are saying this just to make me angry and to torture you more cruelly?”

“Of course not,” Yang Dingtian said. “In order to survive, I might be able to help you find the entrance to the mine that you couldn’t find.”

“You? An enlightener?” Zhao Wuji asked.

“Yes, I’m an enlightener,” Yang Dingtian said. “Because my Yang Xuan Veins are five to six ranks higher than yours.....”

“Absurd...” Zhao Wuji laughed aloud. “It has been centuries since the last person with Ninth rank Xuan Veins appeared. What are you?”

Yang Dingtian showed a disdainful smile and jumped directly into the unfreezing pond, enduring the cold. “Facts are better than eloquence. The power of talent is sometimes better than decades of hard work, and I have the most outstanding talent in the world.”

Looking at Yang Dingtian swim in the unfreezing pool, Zhao Wuji’s eyes flashed with incomparable shock and jealousy. He smiled coldly. “So what? Why would you be so kind as to find Bloody Black Gold for me when you know that I’ll kill you once you find it?”

“Let’s talk about it later. I’m just trying to live longer,” Yang Dingtian said calmly. “I am about to find the entrance. Are you coming?”

After he said that, Yang Dingtian swam into the depths of the unfreezing pond. Zhao Wuji’s expression changed, and he jumped into the unfreezing pond as well.

Enduring the extremely cold, Yang Dingtian swam nonstop towards the bottom, swimming deeper and deeper.

The lower he went, the lower the temperature. Originally, he could hold on for 15 minutes on the surface, but at the moment, he could no longer endure the cold here.

His Nine Yang Xuan Veins desperately released energy to withstand the cold, but this heat energy was getting weaker and weaker. The surroundings became colder and colder while Yang Dingtian’s body became weaker and weaker.

Zhao Wuji followed closely behind Yang Dingtian, and he has also almost reached his limit. Although the cultivation of his Xuan energy was many times Yang Dingtian’s, his Xuan Veins were much weaker than the latter’s. As a result, his ability to resist the cold in the unfreezing pond was more or less equal to Yang Dingtian’s.

Dived twenty meters deep!

Thirty meters!

Forty meters!

Fifty meters!

Eighty meters!

It should have exceeded negative one hundred degrees Celsius here. It’s the lowest temperature Yang Dingtian has ever encountered.

Yang Dingtian really could no longer withstand the cold. His entire body had become completely numb and stiff, and he couldn’t feel his limbs anymore. Even his heartbeat had slowed.

At this moment, his life was in danger, but the bottom of the unfreezing pond had yet to be seen. This was the moment when Yang Dingtian was supposed to return to the surface, or he could be frozen to death here.

However, if he were to return to the surface, Zhao Wuji would definitely kill him as he would see that Yang Dingtian was no longer useful.

“Fight towards the end.” Yang Dingtian clenched his teeth, closed his eyes, and continued to dive madly towards the bottom.

Zhao Wuji had completely reached his limit and was shocked to see that Yang Dingtian continued to dive madly. He wondered if this unlucky enlightener was trying to die.

Fearing that Yang Dingtian would flee, he had the heart to catch up. But, he had completely reached his limit, and at the moment, the ice-cold water had already sealed away his Yang Xuan energy. His limbs were numb. His heartbeat was slower, and he would die in the water if he couldn’t return to the surface in time.

Zhao Wuji had been cultivating the sword soul for decades. His frequent failures caused his personality to become distorted. He had abandoned the world for dozens of years to fully focus on cultivating the sword soul. He had been here for a month since he found out from a beastmaster about the existence of unfreezing water in this abandoned ore mine. He was here just for the Bloody Black Gold mine that might be hidden beneath the unfreezing pond.

During this month, he had dived dozens of times. It wasn’t that he couldn’t find the entrance but rather that there was only one entrance that could only be reached if he went even lower. But, it got narrower and narrower as one dove deeper. The entire unfreezing pond resembled the shape of a funnel. The reason he had failed so many times was because he could only dive around eighty meters deep at most. He would die if he were to go deeper.

He thought of countless ways, took countless pills, wore countless kinds of armor, but the deepest he could go was still eighty meters. According to his estimates, this unfreezing pond was over two hundred meters deep, and he couldn’t even go halfway down towards the bottom.

Looking at Yang Dingtian who was diving deeper and deeper in front of him, looking at how his body had already turned blue, Zhao Wuji eventually gave up on the thought to chase him, thinking that he still had a lot of time and that he doesn’t have to risk freezing to death in this unfreezing water.

“Go, go, lucky you. Being frozen to death is much better than being tortured to death by me. At least you’d have a complete corpse,” Zhao Wuji thought as he turned back to return to the surface.

Yang Dingtian dove deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper.

Eighty-five meters!

Ninety meters!

He could no longer feel his entire body. There was no chance of survival even if he were to give up now and try to return to the surface.

At this moment, the volume of his surroundings was merely half of the surface. It was getting narrower the deeper he went. The estimated depth of this pond was two hundred meters, but he hadn’t even reached the halfway point, and Yang Dingtian could, at most, go a dozen meters deeper.

Ninety-five meters!

Yang Dingtian’s soul had been frozen. He didn’t even know the temperature anymore, which was actually negative a hundred and fifty-six degrees Celsius.

Ninety-nine meters!

Yang Dingtian lost all consciousness!

Boom!

With his final determination, he moved forward with his last remaining spirit and hit something. It felt like something broke.

Then, his body flipped over and floated up rapidly.

His body that was completely sealed by the cold gradually regained its warmth. Motionlessly, his body floated up nonstop, and the surrounding water grew warmer and warmer.

In the end, Yang Dingtian completely regained his consciousness and felt himself floating upwards. The volume of the surrounding area was growing larger and larger. The distance from the surface grew closer and closer while the light became brighter and brighter.

“Oh...” Yang Dingtian broke through the surface of the water.