Chapter 983: Spirituality of the North

Shang Xia might be interested in the Frost Wave, but after stealing the Heaven Supporting Jade Pillar, he understood that he would be in danger as long as he remained in the Spirit Abundance World.

He had a strange premonition that there were True Immortals waiting outside the heavenly screen for him to reveal himself.

The moment he rushed out, he would most likely have to face the projections of more than a couple of True Immortals.

Shang Xia might be confident in his abilities, but there was no need to mess with them if he could help it.

The Frost Wave would prove to be a good opportunity for Shang Xia once it drew their attention away. Originally, his plan was to use the chance when they were distracted by the Frost Wave to leave the Spirit Abundance World.

However, there seemed to be a change of plans as when the Frost Wave arrived for real, Shang Xia felt the world origin of a foreign world through the Crimson Soul Tablet.

Is the cause of the Frost Wave another world as the rumors say?!

However... If that was the case, how could the world avoid being detected by the Spirit Abundance World for thousands of years or possibly longer?

Unless... The world that caused the Frost Wave is of an even higher level than the Spirit Abundance World... If that is truly the case...

Shang Xia felt that if that were true, it would be a true cause for concern. The Spirit Abundance World would be under threat of invasion at any moment! How could they deploy such a huge portion of their fighting force to invade the Azure Oddity World?

Even though he didn’t understand what their reasoning was, curiosity was burning in his heart. It seemed to be compelling him to learn the truth of the matter.

Despite his conflicting emotions, his sense of reasoning and desire to live suppressed the curiosity he was feeling. He decided that no matter what happened during the Frost Wave, he still didn’t have the qualifications to interfere in matters when True Immortals were involved.

At the shore leading to the Ice Ocean, Shang Xia waited for another day. The Frost Wave that started at the northernmost point finally arrived and even with his cultivation base, he had to circulate his energy to resist the frosty qi. He felt that the foreign world origin became much stronger than before as he fought against the frosty qi. Because of its presence, the Crimson Soul Tablet became a lot more excited.

If Shang Xia was merely curious about the foreign world origin before, the feeling became several times stronger because of the Crimson Soul Tablet. It started to tremble violently in his sea of consciousness and seemed to be sending him some sort of message that it needed to be nourished by the strange world origin.

One had to know that even though the Frost Wave was powerful and affected the growth of many strange spiritual treasures and herbs, the world origin hidden in it wasn’t too noticeable. Shang Xia only felt its presence because of the Crimson Soul Tablet.

Examining the Crimson Soul Tablet, Shang Xia noticed that it seemed a lot more excited than when it absorbed the world origin of the Spirit Abundance World. From its reaction, the world origin contained in the Frost Wave might be of even higher quality than the world origin of the Spirit Abundance World!

A bold guess formed in Shang Xia’s mind. The Spirit Abundance World stood at the peak of Spirit Worlds, and the foreign world origin to be of an even higher quality...

Could it originate from the legendary ‘Essence World’ that is said to be above Spirit Worlds?

Did the Spirit Abundance World really find an Essence World?!

With doubts in his heart, Shang Xia decided to stick to his plan despite the strong reaction from the Crimson Soul Tablet. He chose to leave the Spirit Abundance World and meet up with Huang Yu before deciding on their next course of action.

When Shang Xia arrived at the heavenly screen and was ready to pierce a hole in it to escape, a sea of resplendent light emerged from the north before turning into streaks of light that spread in all directions.

The Crimson Soul Tablet shook violently in his sea of consciousness, but it was ruthlessly suppressed by Shang Xia.

Unwilling to give up, the Crimson Soul Tablet threw out a final piece of information before it was suppressed by Shang Xia.

Spirituality of the North!

His actions stopped abruptly and he no longer tried to tear a hole in the heavenly screen. He turned to stare in the direction of the light.

Isn’t this... Isn’t this just the aurora borealis?!

Thinking back to his advancement formula, Shang Xia recalled that the Four Extremity Spirituality didn’t say anything about it being a physical object. Anything that could contain one of the spiritualities would probably do!

Rank four, or rank five spiritual treasures could contain one of the spiritualities, but so could a blade of grass or a random pebble along the street!

As he thought about it, 2 streaks of light disappeared. It was possible they had been retrieved by other experts.

There were 3 other streaks of light in total, and one of them didn’t seem too far away from Shang Xia.

With conflicting emotions, Shang Xia eventually chose to stay. He wanted to obtain the Spirituality of the North that was contained in the aurora borealis! He understood that the spirituality of the four extremities needed to be from the same world and it might be difficult to obtain the other extremities from the Spirit Abundance World, but that didn’t matter at the moment!

Faint five colored light flashed behind him as it stained the clouds around him a brilliant shine as he disappeared from his original position.

Hundreds of miles from where he left, the Ice Ocean that was beneath his feet had been frozen to a single giant block of ice. However, as the aurora borealis passed through the area, a portion of the ice became a lot thinner and the layers beneath seemed to be stained with its color.

Shang Xia’s figure appeared above the block of ice as he scanned his surroundings. He wore an expression of disbelief as it seemed as though he had seen something completely out of the ordinary.

Realizing that something was wrong, Shang Xia shielded his soul with his divine will. He snapped out of his daze the next second.

“Illusion...” Shang Xia stared at the dreamy light that had disappeared into the distance and sighed.

It was no wonder only 2 streaks of light had been obtained earlier. The light seemed like it had the power to confuse Martial Dipper Realm experts!

If even someone like him had fallen for the illusion, there was no need to mention other Martial Dipper Realm experts. Unless a Martial Void Realm True Immortal personally took action...

Thinking back to what happened when the aurora borealis emerged... Shang Xia felt that it was an opportunity the True Immortals might have intentionally left for the Martial Dipper Realm experts of the Spirit Abundance World.

Whatever it was, Shang Xia was sure that the aurora borealis was a rank five treasure. As it contained the spirituality of the North, its illusory effects were enhanced. If he wasn’t able to quickly retrieve the aurora borealis, True Immortals would probably set their sights on it.

No longer concerned with hiding himself, a five colored light appeared beneath his feet and his figure disappeared into the void. A moment later, a divine will arrived as a soft glow disappeared from the surface of the ice below.

“Hm... There seems to be something else other than the illusory effect. It managed to avoid our detection for so long... It’s no wonder the juniors were confused and were unable to get their hands on it. However... What’s the matter with the remnant inner qi in this place? Someone managed to resist the effects of its illusion and even managed to chase after one of them! It’s just... Why does this remnant energy feel so familiar?! No... I mean repulsive?”

Shang Xia passed through space thrice by using his Five Element Dipper Qi and finally caught up to one of the streaks of light.

After resisting the illusion he was put under, obtaining the aurora borealis became much easier.

With brilliant rays of his Five Element Qi forming a massive ball to trap the streak of light, it failed to escape no matter how hard it struggled.

The next second, a loud chuckle rang through the skies as a powerful divine soul descended. “Hehe... Look who it is! Isn’t this a surprise? If not for the fact that someone had such a unique five colored inner qi, I would have thought that my Spirit Abundance World managed to nurture a powerful expert at the peak of the Martial Dipper Realm!”

Facing the strong suppression from the divine soul, Shang Xia not only didn’t restrain his five colored inner qi. Instead, he released it with even greater might to force the void before him open and resist the pressure put on him.

With a calm expression, he faced the source of the pressure and a name quickly popped up in his mind. “Azure Island... Zhao Wuhen?”

A shocked cry came from the divine soul that arrived. “You... You actually recognized me?! Brat from the Spirit Luxuriant World, looks like you’re pretty courageous. You even dare to infiltrate my world. You...”

Zhao Wuhen seems to have recognized me, but he doesn’t seem to know what happened in the Heavenly Lake Elysium!

The next second, Shang Xia realized that Zhao Wuhen wouldn’t be speaking to him and wasting time for no reason. He pushed the Five Element Space around him to the extreme before opening a spatial tunnel beneath his feet.

“Brat from the Spirit Luxuriant World, do you think you can escape now that you’re here?” The powerful divine soul emerged and fused with the region of space around Shang Xia before freezing the entire region in an attempt to stop Shang Xia from escaping. However, no matter how he tried to twist space or cause spatial ripples, the region of five colored space that was created wasn’t affected. A spatial tunnel was created before Shang Xia stepped into it to arrive at the heavenly screen.

Breaking through the heavenly screen, he quickly passed through it to arrive at the sea of stars outside.

Everything happened too quickly and Shang Xia didn’t expect that his identity would be revealed!

Zhao Wuhen, who took part in the invasion of the Spirit Luxuriant World back then, was injured by Li Jidao who worked together with Shang Xia. Some might say that Shang Xia’s involvement was a coincidence, but it was an undeniable fact that Zhao Wuhen was screwed over by them.

Because of his injuries, he was unable to take part in the expedition against the Azure Oddity World!

After passing through the heavenly screen, Shang Xia quickly cleared his mind of all random thoughts. The only thing he should be thinking of now was how he should escape from a True Immortal!