Chapter 229

Chapter 229: Supreme Ice Spiritual Root

Yi Lan did not bother to explain. With a faint look of disgust, she shifted to sit even farther from Zi Guang.

He finally understood, but it was too late.

Countless White Gu Worms burst from his seven orifices. In an instant, it was over.

Zi Guang’s soul was wiped out.

Even the White Gu Worms vanished into thin air.

The spot where Zi Guang had stood was empty, leaving not a trace.

With Zi Guang dead, Yi Lan and Rou Shan spoke freely.

Yi Lan put on a fawning smile toward Rou Shan and the little girl as she said: “Two Lords, Zi Guang is dead. Only the newcomer is left. That newcomer… probably cannot hold on for long.”

As she spoke, Yi Lan looked toward Li Shuang.

She frowned a little.

A biting cold rolled from Li Shuang’s side now. Frost layered her face and body; she was like a statue of ice.

By all common reason, she should have failed to endure this cold already.

To her surprise, the breath of life had not faded from that Li.

But Yi Lan soon relaxed and smiled as she said: “That Li has an ice spiritual root, and this Soulfrost Ice is also ice?attribute. So she is lasting a bit longer than we expected. But that’s all. Her life force is paper thin now. It won’t be long before her soul turns into ice shards.”

Li Shuang sat cross?legged. Her chest barely rose, her breath was shallow and light. She truly looked close to death.

The little girl glanced at Yi Lan and gave a firm order: “You, go check.”

Yi Lan’s face twitched, but she did not dare show a hint of defiance.

The dish she had eaten tonight was also fiercely poisonous. She had made some preparations, but she had not had time to fully suppress the poison.

Left to herself, she would focus on the poison and let that Li die on her own.

But the little girl had spoken…

Yi Lan had no choice.

The little girl’s identity was such that Yi Lan absolutely could not defy her.

Gritting her teeth, Yi Lan struggled to walk toward Li Shuang.

As soon as she stepped within ten meters, the cold stabbed into her like thousands of ice spikes. She lost control and dropped to her knees, unable to move another step.

The little girl stood slowly and murmured: “Interesting.”

She tried approaching Li Shuang herself. She did a bit better than Yi Lan and got closer, but when she reached five meters, she could not take another step.

Yi Lan could not help Dao-Questioning as she called out: “Lord, what is going on!”

The little girl gave her a look. Her childish voice carried an aged tone as she said: “Are you questioning me?”

Yi Lan jumped and bowed her head to the floor: “Spare me, Lord. I meant no such thing.”

The little girl snorted and said without expression: “We wait. Whatever is happening with that Li, next comes the eighth dish, doesn’t it?”

A cold light flashed in her eyes.

One main dish.

One cup of wine.

Five dishes.

That made seven.

But there had been eight dishes on the table from the start.

Next…

The last dish.

Rou Shan said in a low voice: “If that Li dies, fine. But if she endures, we cannot let her leave alive. What happened between me and Yi Lan must never spread.”

They did more than cooperate in Gluttony Hell.

Yi Lan, a genius disciple from a Righteous Path sect, had been deep undercover for years, sending the Devil Path many critical secrets.

A piece that useful needed to stay hidden.

Zi Guang was a fool; Yi Lan had him under her thumb. If he had somehow survived, she could have kept controlling him.

But that Li was different.

She was a newcomer, yet full of strange qualities. The safest way was to make her vanish in Gluttony Hell.

Yi Lan smiled and said: “Of course. We are three and she is one. She won’t think she can fight three at once?”

“We wait,” the little girl said, stepping outside the rim of frost with no change in her face: “Restore yourselves as much as you can.”

Rou Shan and Yi Lan agreed.

The three of them sat to regulate their breathing, and the place fell silent.

Listening to the sounds outside, Li Shuang’s eyes grew a little colder.

The three had dropped their masks.

Once she left this state, they would attack her at once.

There was Rou Shan from the Genius Ranking, a mysterious little girl, and Yi Lan, who was not on the Genius Ranking but was not far from it.

[Can I stand up to all three of them together?]

Li Shuang looked calmly at the Lotus in her sea of consciousness.

After her spiritual root shattered, it had started anew under the nourishment of the Azure Lotus.

But it was not enough.

To make it grow to completion, she still needed many rare treasures.

Otherwise, she would stop at a sprout. To wait for the Supreme Spiritual Root to fully mature might take who knew how many years.

But there was one bit of good news:

[Right now, I am rich.]

The Supreme Spiritual Root had already formed. From here it only needed growth, and the Value Points needed were far less than before.

She did the math.

To grow the Supreme Spiritual Root to full, she would need about half her wealth.

She had the resources sent by Yan Zhong He, plus many treasures exchanged with sect Contribution Points. She was a small rich lady by any measure.

She had thought these resources would last her a good while.

But when she truly started using them, she found that even this much was not enough.

Still, was it worth spending half her wealth for a Supreme Spiritual Root?

This was no question at all. It was worth it.

Even a master at the Tribulation Crossing Stage, upon learning there was a way to evolve a spiritual root to the Supreme Realm, would pay any price without hesitation.

Li Shuang took a deep breath and stopped hesitating.

Before, she had not needed to rush.

But now the three had torn off their disguises, and she needed to add some cards to her hand.

Pushing to a Supreme Spiritual Root could not wait.

Silently she said, “Furnace, grow the Supreme Spiritual Root to full.”

In an instant, the items in her storage bag were drawn into the Furnace.

When the equivalent value had been taken, a strange power spread from the Furnace.

The budding Supreme Spiritual Root drank in that sweet rain of power and began to grow.

The Human Skin Skeleton narrowed his eyes, looking oddly toward Li Shuang’s direction as he muttered: “Hm?”