Ling Tian was overjoyed to discover the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul within the cave beneath the volcano.
According to the knowledge passed down in his mind, Ling Tian learned that this Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul was born at the bottom of the ocean, ten thousand meters deep.
There, sunlight never reached, the temperature was extremely low, even close to zero degrees, and in some places, the seawater would even freeze.
These frozen masses, in addition to seawater, also condensed a large amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy stored at the seabed, along with some precious minerals.
These sea ice blocks, accumulating bit by bit in the deep sea, slowly grew larger. Coupled with the terrifying pressure at the bottom of the ten-thousand-meter deep ocean, after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, they would eventually become the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul!
If the Fire Spirit Essence Ling Tian had obtained on the island some time ago was a treasure for fire-attribute cultivators, then this Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul was a supreme treasure for cultivating ice-attribute techniques!
However, Ling Tian was puzzled as to why such a large Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul would appear here, beneath a volcano. He calmed himself, pondered carefully, and combined with the topography of Hell Paradise Island, Ling Tian finally found the answer!
It turned out that the deep sea below was a plate boundary with a deep trench, where the water depth exceeded ten thousand meters.
The Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul was formed in such an environment. After countless years, it had developed into such a surprisingly large Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
Later, geological activity was frequent at the plate boundary, and volcanoes erupted. A large amount of seabed magma surged to the sea surface, and this Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul, originally lying on the seabed, was also carried to the sea surface by the magma!
The Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul continuously released a large amount of cold air, which accelerated the solidification process of the magma, thus forming Hell Paradise Island.
Under normal circumstances, with the amount of magma erupted from the volcano beneath Hell Paradise Island, even with the cooling effect of seawater, it would be difficult to form such a large habitable area.
However, due to the presence of this massive Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul, the magma was rapidly condensed. Furthermore, this Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul also isolated the conduction of underground heat, allowing the surface to gain a relatively stable region!
Looking at such a large piece of Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul, Ling Tian felt his legs were rooted to the spot. He decided that no matter what, he had to dig off a piece and take it with him.
This item, whether given to Wang Bingxia or Aurora for cultivation, or used for forging weapons or refining magical artifacts, was an excellent material!
If he really missed this opportunity, he didn't know where he would find such treasures again.
So, Ling Tian began to ponder how to take away such a large piece of Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
Ling Tian first tried to absorb it directly with the Spirit Realm Key. Although it had some effect, it only absorbed some of the edge scraps. The main body of the entire Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul had exceeded the volume that the Spirit Realm Key could currently absorb.
Next, Ling Tian took out a large number of fire talismans. He wanted to try melting a part of this Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul with the fire talismans, then breaking it into small pieces, and finally collecting it with the Spirit Realm space.
However, after hitting one spot with over a dozen fire talismans, these talismans, under the effect of the cold ice, dimmed and quickly extinguished. The places that were hit seemed to show no change.
Ling Tian scratched his head in frustration, then he took out a few earthquake talismans.
This type of talisman, when activated, could continuously release high-frequency vibrations. These high-frequency vibrations were like ultrasonic pulverizers; even the most solid basalt would be shattered by these high-frequency vibrations.
Ling Tian directly slapped the talisman onto the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul. However, Ling Tian miscalculated. He used an entire book of earthquake talismans, shaking the entire underground space almost to collapse, but the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul remained intact.
This was not surprising. The Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul, having endured the environment of low temperature and high pressure at the bottom of the sea for tens of thousands of years, had an extremely dense internal structure. It was too idealistic to break it with vibrations.
A thought flashed through Ling Tian's mind, and he entered the Spirit Realm space. After an unknown amount of time pondering, Ling Tian suddenly had an idea.
So he immediately went to the warehouse and found all the remaining materials from when he forged the Scarlet Flame Treasure Sword.
Next, Ling Tian used the Burning Heaven Cauldron to refine these materials, and then used his spiritual power to control the anvil and pestle to forge an iron cone about one meter long and as thick as a rolling pin!
Holding the iron cone, Ling Tian could feel the scorching energy emanating from it. Ling Tian was very satisfied with this creation.
With a flash of thought, he exited the Spirit Realm space and headed straight for the giant Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul with the iron cone.
He found a protruding part of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul, and then, holding the end of the iron cone, Ling Tian directly thrust the iron cone into the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
The Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul did not move at all; the iron cone did not even leave a single white mark on it!
At this moment, Ling Tian moved. He channeled all of his fire-attribute true essence through the iron cone to its tip.
Not only that, but Ling Tian also opened the Burning Heaven Cauldron. A monstrous heat wave flew out from the cauldron and was also conducted to the tip along the iron cone.
He even channeled his Samadhi True Fire along the iron cone. Ling Tian was truly desperate!
Almost at the same instant, the entire iron cone suddenly turned red all over, as if melted by high temperature. Ling Tian could feel that the tip of the iron cone was piercing the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul bit by bit!
This process lasted for more than ten minutes. The iron cone pierced half a meter deep into the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul before it could no longer advance.
So Ling Tian withdrew the iron cone. Beside the hole that the iron cone had just pierced, his true essence began to flow, and he forcefully stabbed the iron cone into the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
This method consumed a great deal for Ling Tian. He had almost exhausted all the true essence in his body, yet he had only managed to poke four closely spaced holes, each about half a meter deep, into the ice surface.
Helpless, Ling Tian could only return to the Spirit Realm space and sit cross-legged to recover his true essence.
After his true essence was completely restored, Ling Tian picked up the iron cone again and started drilling holes in the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
In this way, after several hours, Ling Tian had drilled more than ten holes in this piece of Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul!
And these ten-odd holes happened to surround a large chunk of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
This time, Ling Tian took out a few more earthquake talismans and stuck them onto the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul.
This time, due to the insertion of the steel cone, the originally extremely dense Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul actually loosened under the high-frequency vibration.
Ling Tian continuously applied talismans. After only more than ten minutes, Ling Tian heard the giant Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul making cracking sounds.
"Boom!"