The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave that the Skydream Iceworm encountered back then contained a large amount of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. That thing was an absolute great tonic for ice-attribute soul beasts, a true heavenly material and earthly treasure, on the same level as Huo Yuhao's Gold of Life.
However, the Ice Empress did not find any trace of Ice Pith God Crystals there.
A Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave is actually formed by profound ice being buried deep underground for over ten thousand years, gradually developing under immense pressure. Although it is named "Ten-Thousand-Year," in reality, ten thousand years is just the starting point. It must go through hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years, and a fortunate coincidence, for it to possibly form.
"This Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave is accompanied by so many Ice Pith God Crystals, so its own energy has been dispersed a great deal. It's hard to say how much Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow it can produce. I just sensed it. The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow is not here; it should be in that well. It feels like the scale of this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave is not much smaller than the one Tianmeng encountered back then. If there is Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, it will be of great benefit to the three of us and you yourself." The Ice Empress added.
Speaking of this, a wistful look appeared on the Ice Empress's face again. How she wished she had encountered this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave before meeting Huo Yuhao! If that were the case, everything would be different...
The Skydream Iceworm quickly spoke to comfort her, "Alright, my lovely Bingbing, don't overthink it. To be honest, to encounter a heavenly material and earthly treasure of the level of a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, one must first have great luck. I'm not afraid you won't like to hear it, but whether it's you or the Snow Empress, neither of you has this kind of luck. You are all benefiting from Yuhao's glow to be able to come here. If you hadn't chosen to fuse with Yuhao back then, you would never have encountered such a good thing in your life. So, don't trouble yourself."
After hearing the Skydream Iceworm's words, neither the Ice Empress nor the Snow Empress got angry. Instead, they nodded seriously and smiled, "That's right! We are indeed troubling ourselves. Let's not talk about this. Yuhao, since we've encountered such a good thing, we must not let it go. We must effectively use the resources here."
Huo Yuhao also smiled and said, "Although the value of the Ice Pith God Crystal itself is not as high as the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, it is also a rare good thing. It is the hardest and also the most flexible ice-attribute metal. Although it looks like a crystal, it already has the malleability of metal and is a top-grade rare metal. As for how to use it, I think the production of my Douluo Continent's first suit of Battle Armor can be put on the agenda."
"Battle Armor? Oh, right. I almost forgot about that Ice Pith War God Armor in your memory." The Skydream Iceworm and the Snow Empress had memories of the original timeline and reacted at once.
With Battle Armor, which only appeared in large numbers during the Dragon King Legend era, Huo Yuhao's combat power would undoubtedly rise to another level. Moreover, the Ice Pith God Crystal was a naturally god-level quasi-metal, so Huo Yuhao wouldn't even have to bother learning forging.
As for the production of that suit of Battle Armor, he believed that a certain big shot in the Sun Moon Empire would give corresponding advice and help.
The father of Sun Moon soul tools—Kong Deming.
In the original timeline, Huo Gua's Ice Pith War God Armor was created by Xuan Ziwen, combining the latest research on humanoid soul tools. And Kong Deming, as Xuan Ziwen's teacher, might be able to take the completion of this suit of Battle Armor a step further.
As for the matter of mining the Ice Pith God Crystals, Huo Yuhao already had a countermeasure based on the operations in his memory.
Huo Yuhao placed his hand on the Ice Pith God Crystal beside him. The Ice Pith God Crystal was not cold; it seemed as if all the coldness was contained within it. He could clearly feel that when his soul power was injected into the Ice Pith God Crystal before him, an affinity was indeed generated within it.
Although it was a metal, it seemed to have emotions, producing a very affectionate emotional fluctuation towards his soul power. Then, Huo Yuhao felt the Ice Pith God Crystal in his hand actually soften a little. He clenched his five fingers and pulled back hard, and a large piece of Ice Pith God Crystal was pulled off by him.
When this piece of Ice Pith God Crystal left the cave and landed in his hand, it immediately released a faint, deep blue light, as if it were alive.
The reason why the Ice Pith God Crystal was called a god crystal was because it had already evolved to a state where it possessed a certain amount of life force. Animals and plants have life. When minerals and metals reach a certain quality, they will also nurture a certain life aura and emotion.
It was just that it was much more difficult for them to reach this state compared to plants and animals. There was only one way to mine the Ice Pith God Crystal, and that was to rely on Ultimate Ice soul power. Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress could all do this.
The Ice Empress quickly reminded, "Under the infusion of Ultimate Ice soul power, you need to try to communicate with the life aura within it. This life aura is called an Ice Spirit in our Extreme North. Although you can pick it now, you can only make it serve you after you have fully communicated with it. Although there are many Ice Pith God Crystals here, not many can truly nurture an Ice Spirit. The remaining Ice Pith God Crystals can also be picked by your Ultimate Ice soul power, but without an Ice Spirit, they lack a soul. You're lucky. The piece in your hand is one that has nurtured an Ice Spirit."
Regardless of whether it could nurture an Ice Spirit, the Ice Pith God Crystal was a rare good thing.
Huo Yuhao recalled the memories he had brought with him. It was better to take them away quickly, preferably without leaving any behind. It wasn't about draining the pond to catch all the fish, but because the outside temperature was far from enough to maintain the current state of this place.
The current Huo Yuhao could already feel that the ice spring below had entered a period of decline. Perhaps in a few hundred years, the temperature here would not be enough to maintain the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave. At that time, everything here would gradually be depleted and disappear.
A light flashed in his eyes, and a soft layer of icy jade-green light was released from his body. It was precisely the Snow Dance Ultimate Ice Domain, formed by the fusion of the domains of the two great ice and snow empresses, the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress.
The Snow Dance Ultimate Ice Domain contained a vast amount of Ultimate Ice soul power and instantly enveloped the entire cave. Immediately, all the Ice Pith God Crystals in the cave began to light up. Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress worked together and began to mine without any politeness.
Without Ultimate Ice soul power, one would have to pay a huge price to dig a small piece of Ice Pith God Crystal. Even an Ultimate Douluo couldn't stay in this ultra-low temperature environment for a long time, and it was also impossible to communicate with the Ice Spirit. But it was much easier for Huo Yuhao to pick these Ice Pith God Crystals.
Piece after piece of Ice Pith God Crystal was continuously pulled off the cave walls by the two of them. Not only did they maintain their integrity, but the picking was also effortless. Without the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress's reminder, Huo Yuhao would also distinguish whether an Ice Pith God Crystal had nurtured an Ice Spirit while picking, separating the ones with Ice Spirits from the ones without, and then putting them into his otherworldly space.
The Ice Pith God Crystal was very peculiar. It contained an incomparably vast amount of ice-attribute energy, but its surface was not cold, feeling only a little lower than the temperature of ordinary metal. However, as long as soul power was infused into it, it could immediately trigger the Ultimate Ice heaven and earth origin energy inside. Without Ultimate Ice soul power to control it, this heaven and earth origin energy would erupt with a tyrannical force.
The reason why this cave was so cold was because of the occasional instability within the Ice Pith God Crystals, which led to the leakage of Ultimate Ice heaven and earth origin energy, forming the Earth Dragon Gate's Cold Spring. Who knows how many years these Ice Pith God Crystals had been nurtured here. The accumulated coldness had turned the cave into a place of absolute death.
This Cold Spring had a nourishing effect on soul masters, but the Ultimate Ice heaven and earth origin energy within it was a potent poison to ordinary soul masters. Without the Ultimate Ice attribute, it was simply impossible to withstand this coldness, which would accumulate in the body as a cold poison.
This was even more so for Earth Dragon martial soul soul masters. Although most of the Earth Dragon Gate's soul masters' martial souls belonged to the dragon race, a considerable portion belonged to the reptile race. There was no concept of dinosaurs on this continent, but in Huo Yuhao's previous life's memory, dinosaurs had died out in large numbers under the outbreak of a cold wave.
The younger Nan Qiūqiū was one thing, but Nan Shuishui, who had supported the Earth Dragon Gate for who knows how many years, was different.
While moving the Ice Pith God Crystals, Huo Yuhao noticed that this Earth Dragon Gate master's face was frighteningly pale.
When those pieces of Ice Pith God Crystal disappeared into Huo Yuhao's otherworldly space, the temperature in the cave began to rise significantly. A layer of crystals was left on the surrounding stone walls, looking like large grains of ice slag. They were also very hard, but they were far from comparable to the Ice Pith God Crystals.
After completing the resource transfer, Huo Yuhao finally took the opportunity to move Nan Shuishui out. The latter's condition could even be described as extremely weak.
"The cold poison in her body has erupted." The Snow Empress was knowledgeable and saw Nan Shuishui's current condition at a glance.
Huo Yuhao smiled bitterly. Originally, it should have been just him and the Snow Empress coming down. This master of the Earth Dragon Gate, in order to leave a good impression on him, had personally led the way and dived down.
"What do we do now?" Huo Yuhao guessed that the cold poison in her body was probably triggered by the cold current when the cave door was opened.
"I can't do anything." The Snow Empress shook her head. "I am an ice and snow spirit nurtured by heaven and earth. I only have this one attribute of Ultimate Ice and Snow. If I were to resolve the cold poison for her, she would die even faster."
"Me too..." Huo Yuhao looked troubled. If he were to act to draw out the cold poison in Nan Shuishui's body, he would inevitably have to switch to his Death God martial soul and then activate his Ultimate Ice soul power to expel the cold poison from Nan Shuishui's body. As the Snow Empress said, not to mention whether it could be expelled, just the Ultimate Ice touching her would cause her to quickly die from the outbreak of the cold poison.
The Snow Empress and the Ice Empress looked at me, then I looked at you. They both showed a helpless expression. As for the Skydream Iceworm, that guy simply played dead in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea.
"How about I give her a quick end." The Ice Empress hesitated for a moment, then said coldly.