Chapter 55: The Ice Condensing Dao Body

After Senior Brother Wan left, some of the farming Immortal Masters felt a bit inferior, envying and feeling inferior at the same time.

Others were lofty, arrogant geniuses, while they were just mediocre talents who could only farm, even in the Great Immortal Refinement World!

Immortal Master Liu loudly said, "Fellow Daoists, don't lose heart! Although we don't have the talent of geniuses, we have reached this point through hard work! Are we inferior to them? No! Where there's a will, there's a way. We have become Immortal Masters through hard work and can go to the Great Immortal Refinement World. I believe we will find our own Immortal Edges!"

The other farming Immortal Masters also shouted loudly, "Ambition breaks the sky, ascending to the Immortal Refinement!"

This was the exhortation on the Ascension Tower of the Nine Provinces Academy, used to motivate themselves.

With renewed confidence, Immortal Master Liu said, "Let's continue working."

Senior Brother Wan had taken all the best-quality spirit rice, leaving only the inferior spirit rice for Immortal Master Liu and the others to collect. After harvesting, the stalks of the spirit rice also needed to be cut down, chopped up, and sprinkled with a white powder.

This white powder was called Transformation Powder, made from the leaves of a low-grade spirit tree. Within an hour, the Transformation Powder would rot the stalks of the spirit rice, turning them into nutrients for the next batch of spirit rice.

These tasks were carried out by the Immortal Masters, and Ding Hao could not help.

After a while, Immortal Master Liu called out, "Ding Hao, we don't have much Transformation Powder left. Go to the old pharmacist on the back mountain and get some more."

"Sure thing," Ding Hao replied, running towards the back mountain.

The back mountain was not far from the spirit fields. In a mountain hollow was a small courtyard. The owner of the courtyard was a Pill Master, known as White-Eyebrow Pharmacist, an old man with white eyebrows.

Ding Hao and Big Yellow ran over. As soon as they reached the courtyard, Ding Hao smelled a fragrant aroma, a mix of flower and herb scents. He stood at the door and knocked, "Old Pharmacist, Immortal Master Liu sent me to get some Transformation Powder."

"What's all the noise? Don't you know I'm busy?" The door of the small courtyard opened, and a young maid of about ten years old came out.

The young maid, with two buns on her head, looked at Ding Hao and asked, "What do you want?"

Ding Hao said, "Immortal Master Liu sent me to get some Transformation Powder from the old pharmacist."

The young maid frowned, "Why is a Fifth Stage先天 coming to farm spirit fields?"

"Helping others is a joy. I'm not a farming Immortal Master, just helping out," Ding Hao boasted, "Little sister, quickly give me the Transformation Powder, they're waiting for it."

The young maid, acting like a little adult, said, "What little sister? I'm at Sixth Stage先天, call me Little Senior Sister."

Ding Hao found it amusing and corrected himself, "Little Senior Sister, I greet you."

The young maid was satisfied and said, "Come in with me."

Following the young maid into the courtyard, Ding Hao discovered that it was actually a small medicinal garden! Various herbs were planted in the garden, and when some matured, they emitted a fragrant aroma. Ding Hao looked around and found that although there were many spirit herbs, they were all of low grade.

In the center of the garden were two tile-roofed houses. The middle one was the main house, and the side one was a side room. As Ding Hao approached, he felt a strong coldness, as if he were in an ice cellar. This coldness was not ordinary, but it penetrated the body and bones.

"These are not ordinary coldness, but spirit coldness!"

Spirit coldness was different from ordinary coldness. Ordinary coldness could be resisted by先天 strongers. However, spirit coldness was similar to spirit fire, caused by spiritual energy, and could harm Immortal Masters!

"What's going on?" Ding Hao asked, sensing the coldness coming from the side room.

"It's a girl with an Ice Condensing Dao Body, her Ice Condensing Constitution is having a major outbreak," the young maid explained casually.

"Oh," Ding Hao nodded.

There were ninety-nine types of Dao Bodies in the world, and the Ice Condensing Dao Body was one of them. This was a type of talent for cultivation, but some Dao Bodies had periodic outbreaks. The Ice Condensing Constitution would release intense ice-cold energy from the body, causing unbearable pain, and even freezing oneself to death. It was said that when a Divine Body had an outbreak, it could even cause an explosion, as if the talent was too extraordinary and provoked the envy of heaven.

Entering the main house, Ding Hao felt the coldness intensify, as if he were standing in an ice cellar. The young maid was constantly rubbing her hands and stomping her feet. However, Ding Hao, with a thought, sent all the spirit coldness entering his body through his meridians into the Star Absorption Stone.

This way, he no longer felt the cold and sat there calmly.

"Wait a moment, I'll get the Transformation Powder," the young maid rubbed her hands and went to the side room to search. Soon, she came out with a small bag and threw it to Ding Hao, "Here, take it and use it quickly."

"Thank you, Little Senior Sister."

Ding Hao took the black bag and left. As he walked to the main house's entrance, he heard a woman's painful moan from the side room, "Little maid, has your grandfather come back yet?"

"Your companion went to find him, he should be here soon," the young maid quickly ran into the side room. In a moment, she ran out again, shivering, "It's freezing! So powerful! So powerful!"

Ding Hao noticed that the young maid had a light frost on her body after entering. He thought for a moment and asked, "Little Senior Sister, can I help?"

The young maid glared at him, "At Fifth Stage先天, what can you do? The only way to deal with a constitution outbreak is to take suppressive pills. Even Immortal Masters can't do anything. You'd better take the Transformation Powder and go!"

Ding Hao said, "How do you know if I can help without trying? Let me go in and see."

The young maid quickly stopped him, suspiciously, "Do you want to get close to Miss Ye? Miss Ye Wen is a top-grade Immortal Root in Yunzhou, not just anyone can have designs on her!"

Ding Hao scoffed, "Little Senior Sister, you're young but have many thoughts. Look, I'm not afraid of this coldness."

"Indeed," the young maid looked at him again, surprised, "I can't even handle it at Sixth Stage先天, but you're at Fifth Stage先天 and seem unaffected? Alright, I'll take you in, but I must warn you, Miss Ye Wen is a genius in Yunzhou. If you do anything improper, don't blame me if you die."

Ding Hao proudly said, "Little Senior Sister, I'm also a genius! My name is Ding Hao, the Hao in '浩然正气' (magnificent righteousness), a genuine genius from Wuzhou!"

"You're also a genius?" The young maid didn't believe it but still led Ding Hao into the side room.

Inside, they came to a back room with a bed. The curtains were drawn, and a graceful figure lay on the bed. Through the curtains, one could see the girl lying on her side, with a delicate shoulder and a slender waist and hips that formed a beautiful curve.

"Miss Ye Wen, how are you?" The coldness was already very strong here, and the young maid's teeth were chattering.

"Has he come?" Miss Ye Wen seemed to have frozen into a block of ice. Her consciousness was already a bit unclear, her eyes tightly closed, and she could only ask, "Has he come? It's so cold!"

"My grandfather hasn't come yet, but I found someone..." The young maid looked back at Ding Hao and saw that he was still unaffected. She became more convinced that Ding Hao could cure Ye Wen and quickly said, "I'll leave her to you!"

Then she shivered again, saying, "It's too cold," and quickly fled.

As soon as she left, Ding Hao lifted the curtains and sat by the bed. He found that the girl was indeed very beautiful. She had a delicate head and neck, a oval face, and snow-white skin. Her eyes were closed, and her long lashes covered them. Perhaps because of her Ice Condensing Dao Body, her skin was like a piece of ice jade, smooth and transparent, without a single flaw.

"Wow, really impressive!" Ding Hao swallowed. Of course, what attracted him most about the girl was the coldness continuously emanating from her body, which Ding Hao could absorb with the Star Absorption Stone!

"It's hard to imagine that a person's body can emit so much Ice Condensing coldness. This must be the value of a Dao Body," Ding Hao reached out and grabbed the girl's hand, feeling it was cool and smooth. He couldn't help but think, "Top-notch!"

Although his thoughts were a bit unscrupulous, Ding Hao didn't do anything improper. The girl's ice-jade-like hand had a strong coldness surging over.

"Strong!" Ding Hao was startled, but the stronger the coldness, the more he could absorb.

Star Absorption Magic Technique, Absorb!

The Star Absorption Stone seemed to open its mouth, absorbing all the coldness released by the girl, no matter how much there was! Ding Hao thought, "Pleasant! How cold must the impurities formed by this coldness be?"

At this moment, the courtyard gate opened, and a tall girl and an old man with white eyebrows walked in.

"Old Pharmacist, hurry, Ye Wen's Ice Condensing Constitution has flared up again. Sigh, the Ice Condensing Dao Body is both her fortune and her misfortune!" The tall girl led the old man into the house.

The old man put down his medicine basket and scolded, "Miss Chai, didn't I tell you before that if she doesn't have pills to suppress her Ice Condensing Constitution, you should come to me early? Now that you've waited until now, I have to start the furnace to refine pills. How can I be in time?"

Miss Chai's face turned red from the scolding, "It's Ye Wen's fault. She always says it's fine, and she probably didn't expect this outbreak to be so severe."

The old pharmacist said, "Of course it's severe. In the past, it was suppressed by pills. Now, one outbreak is equivalent to the total suppression from before!"

Miss Chai's face turned pale, "Old Pharmacist, you must save her. Ye Wen is my future sister-in-law, and the Chai family will be grateful to you!"

The old pharmacist said, "Where is she? Let me see."

Seeing them return, the young maid came over, "Grandpa, it's fine. A young man came to get the Transformation Powder. He said he could cure her, so I let him in. I felt outside that the coldness seemed to have decreased..."

Before the young maid could finish, Miss Chai suddenly shouted, "Nonsense! How could you let a man be alone in there? Can you take responsibility if something happens?" Then she kicked open the door and rushed in like a gust of wind.

Miss Chai walked in and indeed saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old man sitting by the bed, holding Ye Wen's hands.