It wouldn't do to have someone come to your house with gifts, and you can't even spare a glance, right?
"I reckon he wants to use this opportunity to leverage the Body Secret Technique to break through to Soul Saint..."
A Soul Saint in their teens!
Beiming Abyss and Celestial Star weren't very clear about Su Yu's age, but it didn't stop Celestial Star from making a rough judgment after meeting Su Yu.
"I've heard that the Heir to the Essence Sect is set, it's Long Aotian, an unparalleled talent, even engaged to the Celestial Soul Royal Family, and yet there's a more monstrous talent hiding here."
Beiming Abyss pondered the current situation.
If the Essence Sect is this powerful, then the official power of the Celestial Soul is even stronger.
Is this to be developed over time to counter the Sun and Moon Empire?
For now, let's continue to observe for a while.
...
The arrival of Celestial Star didn't disrupt the schedule of the Kuangyun Guard Team.
On the third day of reaching Northern Town, the Guard Team members set off, headed for Frost Town.
The Land of the Far North, where snow falls perpetually.
The ground is a vast expanse of white, and the bitter cold wind never ceases.
Subzero temperatures of minus ten degrees are just the norm; the night can directly freeze a person to death, even Soul Masters are not exempt.
Most of the Guard Team is no more than Grand Soul Masters, struggling immensely in this land of the far north.
Yet they relish it as sweet.
In this cold environment, personal potential is pushed to the maximum, with cultivation efficiency of Soul Power at an unprecedented high.
This is their assurance for advancement.
With the prepared soul-guided heaters, they are not frozen to death, stopping cultivation before freezing to recover with the heater, repeating the cycle, using the harsh cold to accelerate soul power cultivation.
Members peeled off one by one along the way, halting at certain places.
Those were their limit zones, beyond which they couldn't endure.
They'd persist in cultivation for a while before returning to Northern Town.
Reaching the Soul Sect level, soul power naturally protects the body, enhancing a Soul Master's physique more noticeably too.
It's barely enough to fend off this terrifying cold.
"Xiaosu, back when I broke through to Soul Sect, it was Old Kuang's idea to have me make a trip to Frost Town. Then, I had to rely on a heating device to barely reach Frost Town, where I cultivated for a month to finally break through to Level 40."
Zou Yun was nostalgic about the past experience.
He had saved Feng Kuang casually, not knowing his true identity at the time.
Stuck at the bottleneck of Level 40, it was Feng Kuang who directed his path, leading him to the far north to challenge his limits, and he truly broke through.
Since then, Zou Yun has made an annual trip to the Northern Territory.
Gaining one level in three to four months and another in the remaining eight to nine months of the year.
Now, he's nearly Level 45.
The path of cultivation is indeed arduous.
Had it not been for a fortuitous encounter where Su Yu killed an Evil Soul Master with some money, his first Soul Ring wouldn't have absorbed the four-hundred-year-old Star Spirit Vine, elevating his Martial Soul quality to the maximum.
Further advancement of a top-grade Martial Soul is infinitely arduous at each step.
Conversely, a low-grade Martial Soul absorbing a four-hundred-year Soul Ring most compatible with itself can defy fate.
The Star Spirit Vine was top-grade.
Su Yu feels he overstepped in absorption back then.
The so-called four hundred years is just statistical data; not all Martial Souls or Soul Masters have constitutions at the same standard.
Maybe his constitution reached it, but Su Yu's Martial Soul might not have been of the corresponding standard.
Since then, each ring Su Yu absorbed was above his level, choosing life attribute Soul Beasts highly compatible with him, evolving the ordinary Blue Silver Grass to its current Extreme Martial Soul.
His path is irreproducible.
Because according to Elder Yi, Su Yu's Martial Soul inherently possesses significant mutation factors, facilitating enhancement.
The ceiling was significantly lifted due to his soul, naturally removing many constraints.
Nonetheless, Su Yu dares to claim his theory holds no flaw.
A top-grade Martial Soul might idle away, waiting for an Immortal Grass or transcendental opportunity to advance further, but for the general low-level Martial Soul, digging into one's fundamental attributes is undoubtedly the correct path.
This is the optimal solution.
"Boss Zou, your Martial Soul is the mutant Phoenix Bird with an ice attribute. I think you should consider absorbing a top-grade ice attribute Soul Beast Soul Ring for your fifth Soul Ring."
A top-grade Soul Beast is the best to boost one's Martial Soul potential.
With Feng Kuang's assistance, Zou Yun has the qualification, which is why Su Yu proposes this.
His theory is comprehensive, but with a prerequisite.
That is the difficulty in acquisition.
The optimal solution when conditions permit.
And not the most universally adaptable solution.
Absorbing within one's level may yield slower growth, but it's certainly effective.
Zou Yun nodded, indicating he'd consider it when the opportunity arises.
He's not yet broken through to Soul King and doesn't yet have the right to consider such advanced matters.
Feng Kuang took note of Su Yu's suggestion.
A ten-thousand-year top-grade ice attribute Soul Ring...
With current strength, it should still be manageable.
...
It took five full days for the Guard Team to finally reach Frost Town.
Many had fallen behind along the way, halting halfway.
Maybe with a heating device, one could barely reach Frost Town, but it wasn't suitable for cultivation here.
The top Soul Venerables, two brothers at Level 36 and Level 37, accompanied Zou Yun, Feng Kuang, and Su Yu to Frost Town.
They rented a small courtyard, and the two Soul Venerables slipped inside to start cultivating.
They were at their limits; aside from cultivation, they constantly battled the cold with heating devices, or else they might truly get frostbitten.
Zou Yun had cultivated a bit of resistance, barely breaking free from dependence on the heater with the soul power protection of a Soul Sect.
Feng Kuang and Su Yu seemed utterly unaffected by the cold.
"Xiaosu, you're not even a bit cold? Does this place benefit your cultivation?"
Zou Yun marveled at Su Yu, wearing only a thin layer without any soul power fluctuation.
During the five days on the road, Su Yu had insights.
After consuming Blazing Jelly and Ice Crystal within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, his Ice and Fire Alchemy Body grants water and fire immunity.
Even the low temperature of Frost Town has a negligible effect on him.
Yet, the environment here is undeniably beneficial for cultivation.
Ice attribute primordial energy flows into the body, inherently stimulating the circulation of soul power.
And perhaps, when Frost Town was initially chosen, they considered this; the concentration of ice attribute primordial energy here is exceptionally rich.
Despite sufficient cold resistance, the cultivation efficiency here is still high.
"This place is good for my cultivation too."
Zou Yun sighed with relief.
If it were useless for Su Yu, bringing him would only be a pain.
"Boss Zou, you go ahead and cultivate."
Zou Yun didn't delay much longer; although he could initially resist the cold, Frost Town wasn't a place to linger for him either.
Four months would be the limit, or his body might genuinely freeze and suffer adverse effects.
Su Yu also entered the state of cultivation.
"My Martial Soul is already ice immune, but ordinary Blue Silver Grass isn't."
The cold doesn't stimulate him enough, so he resorts to completing it through a mimic environment.
Frost Town is an ideal mimic environment for ice attribute Soul Masters, and it serves Su Yu's mimic cultivation needs.
A long time ago, Su Yu developed the Martial Soul Activation Technique using the mimic environment.
Later, he evolved this cultivation method into the "activate" rune.
Now, in this icy world, Su Yu linked the mimic cultivation of surrounding ice attribute Soul Masters to this Dharma Gate, aiming to further perfect it.
"Blue Silver Grass, unafraid of severe cold."
No matter the freezing cold, I will grow tenaciously.
Around Su Yu, in the frozen soil, shoots of Blue Silver Grass revived with vitality, breaking through the ice.
Su Yu grasped this realm, integrating it into the Martial Soul Activation Technique.
With the Martial Soul unaffected, let the ordinary Blue Silver Grass manifest will, thus awakening the will of one's Martial Soul.
Using the virtual mimic constructed by the Martial Soul Activation Technique, reinforcing Martial Soul cultivation through realm.
If mimic cultivation is excavating the best active state originally present in the Martial Soul.
Then Su Yu, at this moment, uses realm stimulation to elevate this state.
The Observation Technique, success!