Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 1008: Iceheart Fruit

As Fang Bai’s figure disappeared among the Ice Peaks, Huang Miao and the four others found a suitable spot to conceal themselves, settled in to lie low, and patiently awaited Fang Bai’s return.

Liu Qingqing pressed her hands together in prayer, silently wishing for Fang Bai’s safe and uneventful journey.

Fang Bai moved swiftly like lightning, rapidly gliding through the air, and quickly arrived at the base of the Ice Peaks.

The closer he got to the Ice Peaks, the lower the temperature dropped, reaching a point at the base of the nearest Ice Peak that even Heaven Level Martial Artists could not withstand.

Looking up at the nearly vertical Ice Peak that stretched skyward, it appeared to pierce the heavens, seemingly insurmountable.

The sunlight shining on the thick ice and snow covering the surface of the Ice Peak reflected a blinding white light, making it difficult to keep one’s eyes open.

Possibly due to the extremely low temperatures, no vegetation could be seen on the Ice Peaks at a glance, but when Fang Bai’s Divine Sense spread out, it detected faint fluctuations of Spiritual Medicine’s Essence Energy at heights unreachable by the naked eye.

"It seems that this region of the Ice Peaks must harbor quite a few Spiritual Medicines, otherwise the Gigantopithecus Thunderape and the Golden Scaled Rhinoceros wouldn’t be guarding this place. Moreover, for mid-level Spirit Beasts to guard them, they must be at least mid-grade Spiritual Medicines."

In his previous life, Fang Bai would not have even glanced at mid-grade Spiritual Medicines of over five hundred years, but in the True Martial Realm, where Cultivation Resources were scarce, obtaining a few mid-grade Spiritual Medicines was already a rare opportunity.

Fang Bai understood this well, and since his strength was far from what it had been in his past life, he needed to start over step by step; mid-grade Spiritual Medicines were indeed very useful to him.

Fang Bai took a deep breath as Fire Primordial Qi began to circulate within his body, and the frigid temperatures far beyond the endurance limits of a Heaven Level Martial Artist were kept at bay by a layer of Fire Attribute Qi Shield formed around him.

With a light tap of his feet on the ground, Fang Bai’s figure shot into the air, beginning to ascend toward the summit of the Ice Peak in front of him.

After leaping up several meters into the air, Fang Bai stimulated the Wind Essence Qi within the Qi Sea of his Dantian to circulate, and like a kite, he continued to rise, carried by the wind’s current.

It wasn’t until he had soared to a height of a hundred meters that Fang Bai stepped on a protrusion of the Ice Peak to use it as a leverage to climb even higher.

Continuing this cycle, after several breaths, Fang Bai’s figure had already vanished into the clouds that lingered around the middle of the Ice Peak.

Passing through the thin layer of clouds, the mountain wind suddenly turned wild, and the temperature dropped significantly; the Ice Peak became steeper, and the ice and snow covering its surface were thicker and slicker.

The thin cloud layer seemed to separate the Ice Peak into two different worlds.

Below the thin mist, whether it was the temperature or the steepness of the Ice Peak, Desolate Level Martial Artists could conquer it using their own strength.

Above the thin mist, the harsh environment was unimaginably severe, and even Desolate Level Martial Artists could not cope or endure.

The strongest Martial Artist of Bitao Martial Academy was only at the Desolate Level Realm, so it was no wonder that the Ice Peak region had always been regarded as a Forbidden Zone of Life by the Martial Academy, daring not to intrude.

However, this extremely harsh environment couldn’t stop Fang Bai’s ascent.

Fang Bai possessed a Chaos True Body, with an extremely strong physical constitution, which alone was enough to withstand the bitterly cold temperatures, and he didn’t even need to circulate True Yuan to fend off the cold.

At that moment, if one looked toward the Ice Peak from a distance, they would notice Fang Bai, clothed in blue, soaring upward like a bird aiming for the sky, his speed surpassing that of the White-Headed Eagles threading through the peaks.

Those White-Headed Eagles, which were highly aggressive Spirit Beasts, would likely launch a collective attack on any other Martial Artist attempting to climb the Ice Peak.

However, Fang Bai, wanting to avoid disturbance from the White-Headed Eagles while climbing, no longer concealed his power. He released his full Martial Artist Aura, which was comparable to that of a Vast Level Expert. This formidable pressure caused the eagles to scatter in alarm, not daring to approach.

Dozens of breaths later, with a long howl, Fang Bai finally landed on the summit of the nearly ten-thousand-meter-high Ice Peak.

At the summit, a vast and resonant celestial wind howled past, sweeping along snowflakes and hail. Martial Artists slightly weaker in strength could not possibly maintain their footing.

The summit spanned several dozen yards and the terrain was uneven, with various sizes and shapes of ice stones standing tall. freeweɓnovel~cѳm

Common sense dictated that the climate at the peak should be harsh, unable to support even a blade of grass, yet the moment Fang Bai landed, he immediately spotted a Spiritual Medicine growing tenaciously within a crevice between the ice stones.

That plant was not the usual green of ordinary vegetation but seemed like it had been carved from ice and snow, its body immaculately white without any flaw. If one didn’t look carefully, or if it hadn’t released a wisp of Water Element Qi, its existence would be quite difficult to notice.

"Iceheart Fruit!"

Fang Bai’s gaze fell upon the plant, and his eyes suddenly lit up with excitement.

The Iceheart Fruit was a type of Spiritual Medicine that grew in extremely cold places, a kind of Water System medicine. It was named for its fruit’s shape, which resembled the human heart.

Fang Bai was excited because this particular Iceheart Fruit was not only a medium-grade Spiritual Medicine but had also reached an age of over eight hundred years, making it superior among its kind.

For Fang Bai, who was in urgent need of Cultivation Resources, the older the medicine, the better the effects, naturally.

"There truly are treasures on this Ice Peak! There are eighteen Ice Peaks in total. If each one has an Iceheart Fruit, then that would really be hitting the jackpot!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Fang Bai walked over to the Iceheart Fruit, crouched down to examine it for a moment, then carefully reached out to pluck it from the crevice.

Upon touching the Iceheart Fruit, a bone-chilling stream of cold instantly spread from Fang Bai’s palm to his entire body.

Having grown here for over eight hundred years, the Iceheart Fruit had absorbed the extreme coldness of Essence Energy for all those years. The accumulation of such intense cold, refined over centuries, was stored within the fruit, several times colder than the surrounding air temperature.

Fortunately, Fang Bai’s physical constitution was exceptional, his flesh robust, combined with his formidable strength and abundant Essence Energy, he was not harmed by the chilling Qi invading from the Iceheart Fruit.

Otherwise, if it were a Martial Artist slightly weaker than Fang Bai or without Fang Bai’s formidable physique, even if they weren’t immediately frozen and their blood coagulated by the frosty Qi of the Iceheart Fruit—resulting in death on the spot—they would be frozen stiff, unable to recover for a good while.

Instead of using his True Yuan to combat or expel the invasive bone-penetrating chill, Fang Bai used his Cultivation Technique to guide this coldness through the meridians within his body, expanding and toughening his channels.

Having "digested" the chilling Qi that entered his body, Fang Bai temporarily stowed the Iceheart Fruit into his Spatial Ring and then leaped down from this Ice Peak, climbing toward the next...

Within half a day, Fang Bai successively reached the summits of all eighteen Ice Peaks, and to his delight, found that each peak indeed possessed an Iceheart Fruit plant, and every fruit was over five hundred years old.