Chapter 3299
Chapter 3299
Having these thoughts, Saul was silent for a few seconds. The expression on his face changed but finally, he calmed down. He cupped his hands to Fade and said, "I lost. Thank you for your mercy, Brother Chen."
Fade shook his head and said, "It's not me who saved you, but you yourself."
"If you hadn't held back in your second strike just now and instead continued to slash down on me, then you would be dead by now."
Hearing this, Saul's heart sank. He once again cupped his hands towards Fade and said, "Brother Chen, I owe you a favor. After the final contest, please feel free to ask me if you need any help at all."
Fade nodded slightly and his impression towards Saul had improved.
Although Saul was a bit rude and unreasonable, he still had a good personality overall. He was just a bit obsessed with martial arts.
Compared with people like Tyreece and Lucian who played sneaky tricks in the dark, Fade was more comfortable with people like Saul. That was why he showed mercy and did not use any methods that would kill him.
However, this scene made Masie frown and say, "Mr. Goo did give orders and said that no one is allowed to kill in the Frost Valley."
"You don't have to act all nice and cool! Hmph!"
Somehow, when Masie saw Fade pretending to be an expert, she felt like exposing him.
Hearing her words, Fade turned his head to look at Masie and said lightly, "Cayson is dead already."Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.
After that, Fade shook his head slightly and left.
Masie was stunned. Looking at Fade's back as he disappeared rapidly, she couldn't believe his words.
"Cayson is dead? Is, is it true?"
"But how did he know?"
"Could it be that he was the one who killed him? But..."
In the outside world, Ashwin saw this scene through the water mirror. He shook his head slightly and whispered to himself, "It seems that Masie should go to the battlefield and gain some experience."
"She won't be able to grow up without experiencing the real life-and-death battles!"
After leaving Masie and Saul, Fade continued to move forward and search with the help of the aura of the Ice Soul Pearl.
Finally, Fade reached the shore of an ice lake.
The ice lake was in the center of the Frost Valley, surrounded by a forest of snow.
However, the lake was sparkling, and it didn't look like the water was frozen.
However, if someone had thought that the temperature of the lake was very high and rashly jumped into it, they would realize that they had been deceived.
This seemingly sparkling lake water was actually even colder than the snow on the shore.
Fade casually broke a tree branch and threw it into the lake.
In an instant, the tree branch froze into a block of ice. Then, the ice did not float to the top, but instead sank to the bottom of the lake.
Seeing this, Fade raised his eyebrows, "This lake is somewhat special."
"But judging from the Ice Soul Pearl's aura, the Eternal Ice Core should be at the bottom of this lake."
After checking the surroundings, Fade shook his head gently and said, "I guess there's no other way but to dive into the water and find out."
Without any hesitation, Fade activated his positive energy to protect his body and jumped directly into the water.
Although he had prepared himself already, he still felt a bone- chilling coldness when he jumped in as the feeling prated through his body and rushed towards his limbs and bones.
Fade felt that he was going to become frozen at any second.
Therefore, Fade hurriedly activated his positive energy to resist the surrounding permeating chill.
With the help of the Ice Soul Pearl's aura, Fade headed towards the center of the lake step by step.
The closer he got to the middle, the colder the water became.
A stream of coldness seemed to solidify into ice daggers and was stabbing towards him.
Fade felt that his positive energy which helped to protect him might be prated by the chilliness if it had stopped even more a moment.
However, the closer he got to the center of the lake, the stronger the ice essence of the Eternal Ice Core became.
Just like that, Fade continued to activate his positive energy. He resisted the chilliness and headed towards the center of the lake step by step. After walking for about 700 meters, Fade felt that his positive energy was almost unable to withstand the chill anymore.
At that moment, he was less than 300 meters away from the center of the lake.
Therefore, Fade gritted his teeth and activated the fire essence of the Yuan Seal World Tree. Immediately, a warm current rushed inside his body, resisted the coldness of the surrounding lake water, and made Fade feel much better.
Seizing the opportunity, Fade quickly marched forward for nearly 200 meters.
With only 100 meters left, the coldness grew stronger, and the effect of the fire essence gradually weakened.
Fade gritted his teeth and activated the wood essence to maintain his body's vitality.
The wood essence and the Yuan Seal World Tree were very compatible with each other. Moreover, Fade had also managed to gain a lot of the wood essence, so he was able to withstand the invasion of the cold.
"It works!"
Fade was delighted and prepared to finish the last 100 meters so that he could finally gain the Eternal Ice Core.
However, at that moment, Fade suddenly felt a chill coming towards him.
He was so alert that he turned over to one side.
Almost at the same time, a black shadow whizzed past Fade's shoulder.
The black shadow moved at a very fast speed. It was so silent in the lake and made no sound at all.
After rushing out of the water, the black shadow quickly condensed and became a sharp ice arrow that was as long as an index finger.
The ice arrow sent out a chill feeling as it aimed towards a towering tree on the shore.
The huge tree instantly froze into ice. Then, with a series of crackling sounds, it shattered into countless pieces of ice, which floated into the air and then fell down.
"This ice arrow is so powerful!"
Seeing this, Fade could not help sighing with emotions.
At that time, he felt another three chills coming in his direction again.
He quickly controlled his body and turned to avoid them.
The two ice arrows brushed past Fade's body and flew out of the lake again.
But there was another one flying towards Fade's thigh, making it impossible for him to avoid it.
Seeing that he could not dodge, Fade formed a sword filled with positive energy with his right hand and swung it down.
"Hu!"
Fade felt that his virtual sword had
hit the ice arrow, but there was no sound or feeling of it being hit. Instead, he felt as if he had attacked towards a mass of air which made him feel powerless.
Fade noticed that the ice arrow he had hit broke into two parts and then quickly disappeared into the surrounding lake water, leaving no trace at all.
"This... this is not an ice arrow, but a water arrow!"
Fade thought of something and finally understood what was going on.
These whistling attacks were
actually water arrows that were
originated from the condensation of
the lake water. Since they were
merged with the lake water, there was almost no sound and movement, making it impossible to defend.
That was also why Fade felt that he had hit a mass of air when he attacked the water arrow earlier.
It was because he was in the water himself and when he had hit the water arrows, he naturally felt the same way.
And because the temperature of the lake water was much lower than the outside, these water arrows quickly condensed into ice arrows after rushing out of the lake and held such great power.
After understanding the principle of the water arrows, Fade quickly calmed down.
He activated the ice essence of the Yuan Seal and expanded it, causing the temperature of the surrounding lake water to reduce even lower.
That way, those water arrows, which were silent before, would immediately begin to condense into ice arrows when they approach Fade. Then, they would cause a much larger movement and Fade could easily dodge them and attack.
After slashing through more than ten ice arrows, the attack stopped.
Fade lowered his head and looked at the bottom of the lake.
Then, he saw a huge black shadow floating from the bottom of the lake.
As he got closer and closer, Fade could see the appearance of the shadow clearly.
The black shadow was actually a strange fish that was more than ten meters long. It was covered with ice blue scales and had two huge and prominent eyes, looking like lanterns.
However, its mouth was very small, like a tiny hole.
This strange fish was the one who fired the water arrows by squeezing the lake water with its mouth.
Moreover, although the strange fish's body was huge, its tail was very strong. It swam quickly in the lake water and was very agile.
"This is a vicious beast!"
For a moment, Fade was unable to identify what kind of vicious beast it was. However, he could determine that this it's level was not lower than the eighth stage of the Soul Refine Realm.
The strange fish seemed to have noticed that its water arrows had no effect towards Fade. It stared at Fade with it's pair of lanterns looking eyes, flapped its tail, and attacked him directly.
The strange fish was like a huge tank moving in a very fast speed, charging towards Fade and sending a huge sense of oppression.
However, Fade was very fast as well. As he released the ice essence to slow down its speed, he dodged sideways to avoid the frontal attack from the
strange fish.
"Peng!"
Fade dodged the frontal attack and stabbed the strange fish's body with his sword.
However, the virtual sword in his hand hit its blue-colored scales and then cracked directly.
There was only a little white dot left on the scales of the strange fish after his attack.
"What a strong defense!"
Fade couldn't help sighing with emotion.
The strange fish's attack became even more fierce especially after being hit and it continuously attacked Fade.
At the same time, the water arrows did not stop as well. Each arrow was released at a rapid speed.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Fade continued to dodge, slash and attack while dodging the strange fish's attacks again and again.
This strange fish didn't cause any harm to him. At the same time, Fade didn't bring any harm to it as well.
However, after this series of attacks.
Fade felt that he had consumed too much of his positive energy and his body was showing signs of fatigue.
On the other hand, since the strange fish was in the lake, it was rather relaxed as it didn't consume much of its energy.
"This strange fish wants to make use of this lake to continuously exhaust and finally wear me down."
After having these thoughts, Fade no longer wants to fight with it. He blocked another wave of its attacks and soared into the air, wanting to rush out
of the lake and leave.
However, as soon as he got out of the water, Fade felt an invisible pressure falling from the sky as it pushed him back into the water.
"I can't soar into the air! "
Fade didn't have time to think about the reason behind this. He fell back into the lake and began to swim towards the shore.
The strange fish seemed as though
it didn't want to make things difficult for Fade. After chasing for a distance, it realized that it couldn't catch up with him, so it patted its tail
and dived back into the lake
After climbing up from the shore, Fade observed the calm lake and it looked as if nothing had happened.