Moreover, Pei Tu was locked and couldn’t rush out to kill him by herself. This Ice Tiger had no such restrictions and might eliminate him in a matter of minutes, so Li Xiu was naturally reluctant to provoke it rashly.
"Since that’s the case, we can only wait until it leaves," Qingyi thought for a mont and said.
"Well, let’s just wait and see." Li Xiu didn’t mind; they had been in the Land of Nine Dragons Profound Ice for about ten days, and there were still around twenty days left before the trial competition, so they weren’t in a rush to leave.
Even if they were eager to leave, they couldn’t risk their lives.
The trial competition could continue without him, but if he lost his life, everything would be over.
Li Xiu and Qingyi decided to wait out the Ice Tiger just as Qingyi suggested, seeing that previous Trial Takers hadn’t encountered the Ice Tiger spirit on the Ice Platform, indicating it shouldn’t stay here indefinitely and would eventually leave.
As days passed, the Ice Tiger showed no sign of leaving. With boredom setting in, Li Xiu entertained the idea of going back to check on Pei Tu.
After all, Pei Tu was confined on an ice column within the deep pit, and its Light of Truth was seemingly restrained, being exceptionally powerful inside the pit but significantly weaker outside.
As long as Li Xiu stayed outside the pit’s range, Pei Tu would find it exceedingly difficult to kill him.
Qingyi continued keeping watch over the Ice Tiger as Li Xiu went alone to the deep pit. From afar, he noticed nurous broken ice columns inside the pit, and the number of surviving Ice Demon Spirits had dwindled; Pei Tu was still entwined around the column, chained.
It appeared unhard, proving that the terrifying, uncontrolled aura hadn’t injured it.
Li Xiu examined the chains binding Pei Tu from a distance and discovered they seed to be carved from jade rather than tal.
"Who’s free enough to craft a jade chain to bind Pei Tu? What are they trying to achieve by locking Pei Tu here?" After observing for a while without finding any answers, Li Xiu slowly approached the edge of the pit.
Getting closer to the pit, Li Xiu took out the Nine Dragon Lamp and channeled Light Energy into it, casting its light onto Pei Tu on the ice column.
Under the illumination, Pei Tu emitted a crimson glow akin to Blood Crystal.
Pei Tu awoke, furious upon seeing Li Xiu, and once again radiated the Light of Truth, but it couldn’t escape, so the remaining small Ice Demon Spirits rushed out instead, screeching as they charged at Li Xiu, scattering ice lights everywhere, seeming as if to tear him apart.
"You can’t get out, and you can’t even release Spirit Casting, so what’s all the rage about? Today, I’ll use your offspring as snacks." Li Xiu summoned Blood Linglong to shield him.
After Blood Linglong appeared, Li Xiu commanded, "Smash them all for ."
Unexpectedly, Blood Linglong gestured with his hand, and instead of the Blood-colored Great Hamr Li Xiu had seen before, a blood-colored Spirit Casting Umbrella appeared.
The blood-colored umbrella opened, covering Blood Linglong and Li Xiu, blocking the ice breath and ice light striking against it. Amazingly, the umbrella held firm, repelling all ice lights.
Regardless of how violently the exterior ice breath and ice lights clashed, the blood-colored umbrella remained immovable; over a hundred Ice Demon Spirits bombarded it for over ten minutes without breaching its defense.
"Wow, Blood Linglong actually has this trick!" Li Xiu was a bit surprised, vaguely guessing it’s part of Blood Linglong’s Seven Weapons skill.
Considering the Blood-colored Great Hamr, Blood Linglong had only showcased two weapons so far; the nature of the remaining five was unknown.
It seed that Blood Linglong was quite intelligent, choosing weapons based on opponents rather than following Li Xiu’s orders for weapon selection.
Seeing other weapons would likely depend on encountering suitable opponents.
The small demon spirits couldn’t penetrate Blood Linglong’s Blood Umbrella, and Pei Tu’s influence outside the pit was limited, leaving Li Xiu to freely observe using the Nine Dragon Lamp.
As he expected, the small Ice Demon Spirits lacked red lines; Pei Tu, like the Great Turtle, was entirely crimson, rich with Dragon Bloodline.
However, Li Xiu couldn’t find any traces of bloodline convergence despite observing Pei Tu through and through.
"Could it be these hybrids lack points of bloodline convergence?" Li Xiu began doubting his previous assessnt.
The Glacial Crystal Worm did possess points of bloodline convergence due to its pure bloodline, but these mixed breeds potentially lacked the existence of Reverse Scales.
Li Xiu considered this for a while, suddenly recalling what Qingyi had told him.
It’s said that Pei Tu, the dragon child, should have an image of holding a ring in its mouth, yet Li Xiu didn’t see such a ring inside its mouth.
"Could its Reverse Scale be inside its mouth?" Li Xiu directed the light onto Pei Tu’s face, which was entirely Blood Red, without any peculiarities.
Perhaps blinded by the beam or consud by fury, Pei Tu roared at Li Xiu.
The Nine Dragon Lamp’s light beam in Li Xiu’s hand shot straight into Pei Tu’s mouth, revealing a strange, shimring symbol on the roof of its mouth.
Li Xiu had seen that symbolic pattern on Qingyi’s Unbreakable Cold Ice Shield before.
Gazing at the pattern, Li Xiu’s heart stirred: "No way... are these symbols actually points of bloodline convergence, the location of their Reverse Scales?"
Previously, during the Great Turtle’s outburst of Light of Truth, the Light Talisman seed to emit the strongest Light of Truth, so this theory hadn’t crossed his mind.
In retrospect, the special features of both the Great Turtle and Pei Tu were precisely these Light Talismans.
"The strongest point being the most deadly weakness... that’s such a nuisance!" Li Xiu felt a bit disappointed.
If the Light Talismans were indeed Reverse Scales, he would need to break through the opponent’s Light of Truth head-on to hit these talismans—a capability he honestly didn’t possess.
"Is there any way to bypass the Light of Truth and hit the Light Talismans?" Li Xiu pondered silently while staring at the enraged Pei Tu.
User Comments
0 comments from readers