Sovereign to Immortality

The two sides were less than a hundred feet apart from each other. However, due to the raging storm and snowstorm, neither of them could see each other's faces clearly. Even if they wanted to probe with their Spiritual Awareness, it was destroyed by the surging Spiritual Energy fluctuations.    

    

Yang Junshan fought a giant bear alone with equal strength. After getting used to the berserk attacks of the bear, he realized that this giant bear was just a few methods, but it was beginning to take the initiative.    

    

On the other side, the giant bear was bigger and more violent than the one Yang Junshan was facing. However, the two of them worked together, and the anger that was suppressed by the two beasts scattered onto this giant bear, making it howl again and again.    

    

After fighting for a while, the human cultivator side had already gained the upper hand. The giant bear that was fighting Yang Junshan was now completely suppressed by him, while the other giant bear was already scarred by the combined attacks of the two. Its entire body was covered in a layer of blood-red fur, looking extremely long and terrifying, but the truth was that this giant bear's skin was rough and thick, so these injuries were only superficial wounds to it.    

    

As a result, even with the bear cub's corpse here, they did not dare to stay any longer. The smaller giant bear raised its head and let out two roars, and the two giant bears actually dove into the cold storm without even turning its head back. In the blink of an eye, their traces were concealed by the snowstorm.    

    

One of the two cultivators was about to catch up when he heard from the other cultivator that had teamed up with him, "Fellow Liu, where are you staying? We can't handle these two giant bears in such a short time, but the commotion is not small, and now that we have entered the depths of the ice plains, we have seen many cultivators from different places. I'm afraid that others have already been alerted, and if it was a critical time for us to fight, someone would jump out and take advantage of it …"    

    

That person stopped after hearing what he said, he even looked towards Yang Junshan and said: "Brother Jingyuan is right, but I am Meng Lang. Anyway, these two beasts have already run away, we will go to their lair to collect the treasures first."    

    

Their eyes met, and just as they were about to walk towards the direction of the cultivators, they heard a voice come from there. "Are the two in front of us Taoist Master Liu Qiu of the Spring Gazing Sect and the Pure Yuan Master of the Black Scaled Sect?"    

    

The two of them stopped at the same time. The Pure Yuan Priestess said with surprise, "Who is up ahead? This one is indeed from the Xuan Yuan Sect."    

    

"Hehe, have the two of you forgotten your old friends from the Ice Crystal Jade Spring?"    

    

The wind and snow surged in front of the two. A blurry shadow passed through the snow and wind and arrived in front of them. It turned out to be a tall and sturdy young man of about twenty years of age with a rather rugged appearance.    

    

The moment the two saw this, they immediately understood. The Pure Yuan Spirit said with a smile, "So it's Fellow Yang. I just don't know if we should call you Fellow Yang Xi Shan from Liangzhou or Fellow Yang Junshan from Yuzhou."    

    

Liu Qiu also laughed, "I heard that after Fellow has left the Coldjade mountain range, you were chased all the way by the combined forces of Qi Min and Zhang Mo Feng, but you couldn't do anything about it, and in the end, you even managed to retreat, which is quite admirable for all of us. This time, Fellow has stepped on the reputation of the Snow Wind Sword Sect's Successor Disciple, but from now on, Fellow should be extremely careful when meeting people from the Snow Wind Sword Sect."    

    

Yang Junshan was a little embarrassed after having his identity exposed by the Pure Yuan Grandmaster, and after hearing the reminder from Liu Qiu, he forced a smile and said: "I am Yuzhou's Yang Junshan, previously only because of a grudge with the Snow Wind Sword Sect. I was forced to conceal my identity, please forgive me."    

    

After a pause, Yang Junshan clasped his hands at Liu Qiu and said, "Thank you for your reminder, Daoist Master Liu. I was lucky to escape from the pursuit of Qi Min and Zhang Mofeng."    

    

The Pure Yuan Spirit laughed, "This is human nature. If we were to go down to Yuzhou to travel, I'm afraid that you would only speak a bit of the truth when you face strangers. However, did you come all the way from Liangzhou to the icy plains?"    

    

Yang Junshan thought that since he had already arrived at the ice plains, there was no need to hide his purpose of coming here. He admitted it generously, "He came for the Dual Polarity Origin of the Polar Aurora."    

    

Sighing, he said, "Brother Yang, I presume that you also know my identity. The Primary Magnetic Force in the Icy Plains has always been controlled by the four major sects of the Liangzhou City, so if anyone else wanted to collect the Primary Magnetic Force, they could only pick up what the four major sects left behind. If this matter happened in the past, it wouldn't count as much, but with Brother Pure Yuan's and I's face, I would be able to squeeze a portion of it out of the sect for you, Brother Yang. But today, something unexpected happened."    

    

In fact, Yang Junshan had already heard a lot of secrets from the Snow Wind Sword Sect's Successor Disciple Han, but he remained calm and maintained his composure. He wanted to hear what the two of them had said in order to confirm what he had heard.    

    

He said, "I don't know where it came from, but after this wave of cold waves broke out, a large number of cultivators of the Mortal Realm appeared in the northern ice plains. These cultivators are clearly not from the Liang Prefecture, but they are from the foreign lands, and there are even many alien cultivators mixed in.    

    

In the past, this ice field was controlled by the four major sects of the Liangzhou, and now, many cultivators of the real world are pouring in. These people come from various sects of the outer region, and their background strength is not weaker than our Mystical Scale Sect or Wangchun Sect, so this time, under the joint pressure, other than the Snow Wind Sword Sect, the other three sects are in a difficult position. Even the Snow Wind Sword Sect has given in great benefits to compromise with the other forces.    

    

Yang Junshan nodded to himself. It seemed that before Senior Martial Brother Han died, he vomited a lot of work, similar to what the two had said.    

    

Upon seeing Yang Junshan remain silent and forget about him, Daoist Master Liu Qiu smiled and said, "Let's just stand here and talk about this, but forget about the treasures in the ice bear's lair. Let's first collect them to avoid being taken advantage of by other people."    

    

The Pure Yuan Spirit also said, "Yes, it is. And this little bear, even though it is underage, is also a descendant of a dire beast, and its skin can at least be made into a mid-tier magic clothing. This flesh and blood bear's palm is also a treasure used to strengthen the body.    

    

Daoist Master Liu Qiu sighed, "It's a pity that this luck is so amazing. If only normal beasts had immortal spirits, then this savage beast and wild beast are a hundred times stronger than wild beasts. However, they don't have any immortal spirits in their bodies."    

    

Both of them were experienced people. They skinned a little bear and only took a few useful things. Yang Junshan didn't kill this little bear. Although they wanted to give him two bear paws, they were politely rejected by Yang Junshan.    

    

The two of them had allowed Yang Junshan the Frost Essence Stone inside the ice bear's den. The three of them rushed towards the place where they had found their den, and they were now seventy to eighty feet away from where they had just fought with the two giant bears.    

    

Yang Junshan could not help but ask, "If there really is a treasure like the Ice Origin Stone, does it mean that every ice bear's lair has such a treasure?"    

    

Hearing this, the two of them laughed. Liu Qiu said, "Of course not, it's just that my luck this time is extremely good. I expected that two giant bears would help me find these, but who would have thought that all three of us would be lucky."    

    

While they were talking, the three had already arrived in front of the Ice Bear's nest. Unexpectedly, the Pure Yuan Spirit's complexion changed and said, "Not good, someone came by and someone beat us to the punch!"    

    

Hearing this, Daoist Master Liu Qiu immediately rushed into the ice cave, and immediately let out an angry roar. Yang Junshan followed behind the Pure Yuan Spirit into the ice cave, only to see that the huge ice cave was filled with ice moss. The ice moss had been pressed down extremely flat, and in many places there were even enormous scratches, exposing the ice underneath.    

    

However, today the ice cave was empty, and the ice origin energy stones mentioned by the two of them were nowhere to be found. Even the scattered ice jade, profound ice stone and other spirit materials that were mentioned by Daoist Master Liu Qiu earlier were gone, leaving behind only Daoist Master Liu Qiu and Daoist Master Jing Yuan who were standing in the ice cave fuming with anger.    

    

"Someone must have taken advantage of the time during our battle with the ice bear when the blizzard covered our line of sight. This cold wave had disturbed our Spiritual Awareness and the great battle earlier had left us with no time to think about anything else, which was why someone took the opportunity to take away the treasure within the ice cave."    

    

"The newcomers only took the Essence Stones in the ice cave, but they didn't stay behind to try and take advantage of us fighting the ice bears. It can be seen that there aren't many people and they don't have complete confidence in defeating the three of us, so it can be seen that there are at most one or two people who steal the treasures."    

    

"Furthermore, the person who stole the treasure is undoubtedly from the outside world."    

    

"That's right. Only the people from the foreign lands do not know the methods of the cultivators from the other continents. Hehe, I thought that we would not be able to find your tracks this way. It must be known that the cultivators from the Liangzhou are the ones who are occupying the ice plains."    

    

Yang Junshan heard the two talk and deduced that there was a way to track them down. He couldn't help but ask, "Are you two after the person who stole the treasure?"    

    

Adept Liu was puzzled. "Naturally, don't tell me that after a round of fighting, we've already been betrothed to someone else?"    

    

Daoist Master Jingyuan also said, "Fellow Yang, you must not know how precious that origin energy stone is. I hope that you can lend us two a hand. At that time, Fellow Yang will know that this trip will not be in vain!"    

    

Yang Junshan hesitated for a moment before nodding his head in agreement. The two of them were overjoyed, they had seen Yang Junshan's strength before, with him, it would be of great help. Liu Qiu did not say a word, and immediately cast a secret technique on the ice cave, summoning a white bird, and circled it twice, and then chirped as she flew out of the ice cave, the three of them quickly following him.    

    

Noticing Yang Junshan's confusion, the Pure Yuan Spirit explained, "This bird is called Snowflake. After being controlled by a secret technique, it can be used to track and find out how rich the source energy of the Origin Energy Stone is. As long as that person is not far away, the Snowflake will definitely find him."    

    

The three of them left the cave and chased after the snow gulls for a few kilometers. From a distance, they could see two cultivators running across the ice plains.    

    

Daoist Master Liu Qiu and the Pure Yuan Spirit shouted and chased after them from the left and right. Seeing this, Yang Junshan also followed and the three people blocked the two rushing from different directions.    

    

However, one of the cultivators that was surrounded shouted loudly: "Who are you two, daring to stop my Spirit Apostle Sect!"