Chapter 439: Shang Xia: Yes! I'm gonna breakthrough. *Forgetting to collect the extermination origins from before* : No you're not. Shang Xia: Watch me

As the Crimson Soul Tablet absorbed the world origin, the crack on the third face of the tablet restored itself quickly.

The crack closed up rapidly, it didn’t take long for only a little portion of it to be left on the third surface. Throughout the entire process, Shang Xia patiently observed what happened. He tried to pour his divine sense into the tablet to feel its changes.

The Crimson Soul Tablet resisted his divine sense during the process of its restoration, but Shang Xia didn’t plan on giving up. No one knew how long had passed, but the Crimson Soul Tablet seemed to be done. Shang Xia’s eyes snapped open only to realize that the gray cloud was nowhere to be seen.

After absorbing the huge cloud of world origin, the crack on the third surface of the Crimson Soul Tablet extended down less than a third of the way through.

Shang Xia estimated that in order to fully restore the third surface, he would need a similarly large amount of world origin.

After fixing the third face, there were two more to go…

He also discovered that even if he managed to absorb all the world origin he found on the Yuxi Peak, fully restoring the Crimson Soul Tablet wasn’t going to be possible.

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Shaking his head slightly, he chose to continue ascending the mountain.

Without stopping for any random herbs, Shang Xia’s moved really quickly. He reached the snow-covered peak in a short while.

A bone-chilling wind tore through the air as it slammed against his body. At his current level, one could say that he wouldn’t feel the cold even if he ran around buck-naked in the winter. However, the piercing wind that was racing across the land caused him to shiver involuntarily.

One could only imagine how cold it was at the top of the Yuxi Peak. At the moment, the top of the Yuxi Peak was like a world of snow and frost.

When Shang Xia arrived close to the top of the Yuxi Peak, he discovered a dark gray ice boulder that was half the size of an adult male before him.

“This looks like world origin sealed in ice… Actually, the world origin itself might have frozen over to create this huge ice boulder…” Shang Xia thought to himself. His thoughts didn’t stop him from approaching the ice boulder. As he walked forward, he extended his divine sense to look at the source of the shockingly cold wind only to realize that he had been looking at it the whole time.

World origin wouldn’t be able to cause such a cold wind to form… As such, there could only be one explanation.

Examining the ice boulder even closer, Shang Xia discovered a strand of extermination origin trapped within.

As he continued to close the distance between himself and the ice boulder, a strong gust of wind tore through the air. He felt a thin layer of frost forming on the surface of his skin and he quickly shattered it with his inner qi before forcing himself onwards.

As the frosty winds grew stronger and stronger, Shang Xia circulated his inner qi rapidly in order to prevent the chill from entering his body. Fortunately, the speed at which he was approaching the ice boulder wasn’t affected.

Extending his divine sense to the best of his abilities, Shang Xia discovered that the frightening gale didn’t exist anywhere else. It seemed to be concentrated on him and him alone.

“Damn it! It’s targeting me specifically!” Shang Xia cursed inwardly. He didn’t know why he was the target of the winds specifically, but something seemed to click in his mind. Could there be another Spirit of the Winter contained in the block of ice?

After all, he knew that only something sentient like the Spirit of Winter would be able to do something like that.

Shang Xia groaned silently after his realization. If he knew that he would be able to obtain a Spirit of Winter on the Yuxi Peak, his grandfather, Shang Bo, wouldn’t have had to look for one. In order to get a Spirit of Winter for him back then, Shang Xia even suspected that his grandfather used a lot of favors in order to obtain the treasure.

Well, hindsight was perfect. There was no point worrying about the matter now and Shang Xia wondered if the Winter Extermination Origin contained in the ice boulder was complete.

As previously mentioned, the bone-chilling wind might be strong, but they couldn’t stop Shang Xia for long. He quickly approached the ice boulder and reached out to lay his hands on its surface.

The moment he came into contact with it, he felt an icy cold sensation rushing through his body. It was so cold that he felt his blood stop moving.

Shang Xia wasn’t shocked by the sudden change. He simply started to circulate his inner qi to expel the cold air in his body. At the same time, he released his suppression of the Crimson Soul Tablet in his sea of consciousness as it devoured the world origin trapped in the block of ice.

The ice started to melt at a frightening rate and as the third face of Shang Xia’s Crimson Soul Tablet started to restore itself, the ice boulder had shrunken to two-thirds its original size.

At that instant, a frosty extermination origin emerged from the massive block of ice. It seemed to fuse with the world origin that Shang Xia had been absorbing as it shot straight for his body.

If Shang Xia were to remove his hand from the ice boulder, he would definitely suffer some backlash by stopping the healing process of the Crimson Soul Tablet. However, he couldn’t allow the extermination origin to fuse with the world origin either! The moment it did, it would be absorbed by the Crimson Soul Tablet and his chances of a breakthrough would be seriously affected.

There was no way Shang Xia would allow such a thing to happen, but luckily for him, he made his preparations.

As the extermination origin rushed towards his hand, Shang Xia popped open the cork of his Spirit Extermination Gourd with his other hand.

From his experience, an empty Spirit Extermination Gourd would be able to hold 3 strands of extermination origins in total. There should be no problems containing the Winter Extermination Origin!

It was a shame that things went wrong this time. The extermination origin seemed to be controlled by something as it refused to enter the Spirit Extermination Gourd. It continued to charge straight for Shang Xia.

Instead of panicking about the extermination origin fusing with the world origin he was absorbing, Shang Xia seemed to have turned extraordinarily calm. The Spirit Extermination Gourd disappeared as he took out a small wine bottle.

The intricately carved jade bottle held Shang Xia’s advancement medicine, the Four Seasons Samsara Wine!

Shang Xia didn’t hesitate to remove the seal of the wine bottle before pouring its contents into his mouth.

As the warm liquid flowered into his belly, Shang Xia felt warmth spreading through his body. A strange sensation started to rise from his dantian and before Shang Xia could fully savor the flavor of the wine, he felt lightheaded as his body felt like it was starting to boil.

The sensation didn’t last for too long as it was quickly overwhelmed by a freezing sensation.

The difference in temperature caused beads of cold sweat to form on Shang Xia’s forehead.

When he downed his advancement medicine earlier, the sensation he was feeling wasn’t limited to his physical body. His soul was undergoing the same thing!

That was when Shang Xia understood that entering the Martial Extermination Realm didn’t just consist of a physical transformation. However, just as the realization struck him, the freezing sensation became a hundredfold worse. It seemed to freeze his soul completely.

Fortunately, Shang Xia understood what was happening a second before it did and he didn’t fall into a state of panic. Instead, he started to wait for the next change calmly.

Everything went as expected. It didn’t take long for the wave of frost to disappear. His body and soul started heating up eventually and the cycle continued.

The transition of hot and cold in his body was similar to the procession of the seasons, and Shang Xia experienced it in an instant. Shang Xia barely had time to blink after ingesting his advancement medicine when a single cycle passed.

Having gone through that, Shang Xia quickly managed to calm down. Spreading out his divine sense the best he could, he discovered some disturbances coming from the middle and the foot of the mountain.

Not being bothered by them, Shang Xia turned his attention to the space around him. He discovered that there was also a disturbance somewhere close by and understood that the changes were caused by his imminent breakthrough.

According to the instructions on the Crimson Soul Tablet, Shang Xia needed to refine the Four Seasons Extermination Origins the moment he ingested his advancement medicine. He barely managed to absorb the Winter Extermination Origin in time, and he had the Autumn Extermination Origin somewhere on him. However, the Hundred Flower Essence Extermination Origin and Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin were still somewhere below. How was he supposed to refine all four of them at once?!

The thought barely entered his mind when a chilly sensation started to fill his body once again.

This time, it wasn’t because of his advancement medicine. Instead, it was because the Winter Extermination Origin had entered his body through his palm. The effects of his advancement medicine only returned after the extermination origin entered his body. With the Winter Extermination Origin in his body, Shang Xia’s inner qi started to transform within his dantian.

As the process continued, the chilly sensation in his body disappeared and was replaced by the warmth of spring.

Shang Xia realized that if he didn’t refine the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin, he might actually fail his breakthrough! That would actually be the least of his problems as without the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin, the Winter Extermination Origin would be left unchecked in his body. When that happened, his extermination origins would enter a state of disequilibrium. It might not be as deadly as martial dippers being in a state of disequilibrium, but it was possible his dantian would be damaged.

In a desperate attempt, Shang Xia waved his sleeve to summon the Jade River Sword.

Rousing the Winter Extermination Origin that had just entered his body, Shang Xia sliced the space before him to create a path in the void to the broken pavilion under the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin.

Reaching out quickly, the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin flew over to Shang Xia and entered his body. It started to resonate with the warm feeling spreading through his veins.

It didn’t end there. Summer came after Spring, and as the sensation in his body grew hotter and hotter, Shang Xia sliced the space before him open again to appear above the lake that contained the Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin. Gesturing once, the Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin turned into a streak of light that was sucked into his body.