The Empire III - Fallen Stars and the Spirit Stone Root

This Chapter has 1221 words and the longest Name till now!

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Shi Changmao took out the letter again, it had a map that used the fallen Stars under the Ice. Different to what one would think, the name Frozen Ocean was not just something pompous a random bureaucrat had thought up no, the whole Territory was an gigantic Ocean forty thousand years ago but the inhabitants of the ocean, the Star Guiders, insulted the Ice Empress by not greeting her the right way and as a punishment she decided to freeze the whole Ocean so that the Star Guiders cannot continue to use the Star's Power!

But luckily an unparalleled Genius was born after 9 Generations of Suffering and, while having no talent for the Stars, managed to design a device that could pull Stars out of the Sky through the Ice and all the way to the Ocean Floor! After having done that 666 times an accident occurred and the Star that was brought down exploded, devasting everything near it! The power was so strong one could notice it everywhere within the Green Lightning Dynasty! And with this all the ones knowing how to make the device were killed. Today the Star Guiders try to find out how the devices work and hope for the arrival of the next great Genius to bring them out of their misery. (that's 200 words of not that important info but its WORLDBUILDING!!!1!!1!!!1!; also it's not a plot hole that the Fallen Stars managed to pierce the Ice Empress's Ice! (okay, at first it was but there will be an explenation))

Changmao manipulated his Qi and began digging through the Snow, he dug two full days till he reached the Ice burrowed below all the Snow. It did not look like normal Ice but more like glass as it was so pure. He tried to penetrate it using his Qi, but it didn't even leave a scratch, the Ice was after made by an Emperor Realm Cultivator! Seeing that it didn't work he looked down and infused his right eye with all his Qi. It began to glow, and his vision with it increased by dozens of magnitudes (?). Blood flew out of it and after 8 seconds he had to close it again. But these 8 seconds was all he needed to spot the Fallen Stars below him. He got an Idea of his position and began to fly towards the Spirit Stone Roots location.

A few weeks and 3 holes to the Ice later, Changmao reached the place the Spirit Stone Root should appear. It was a gigantic crater, one of the places where a Star had Fallen and shattered the Ice. But this place was special as the Ice of the other craters had regenerated within a few days after the impact. Something had prevented the Ice from regenerating and the Star Guiders from exiting. He spread out his Qi and tried to find the cause, but after 4 hours he gave up and decided to go down into the crater.

He descended deeper and deeper down the crater and the temperature dropped more and more, but the Qi density increased largely. It was a perfect environment to cultivate Ice based techniques, why didn't Sects use this place?

Finally, he reached the edge of the Ice where the Ocean water was, he looked around and he saw hundreds of thousands of reflections, cracks spread out for tens of kilometers in the Ice and the blue light of the Fallen Star shone upwards. Out of curiosity he put his hand into the Water, and to his shock it was not cold at all! No, it was Spiritual Water of the best Quality he had ever seen! He did not notice it at first as all other Spiritual Water he had come across glowed slightly.

Changmao then tried to fuse his Qi into the Spiritual Water, he finally understood why no one was here and why the Ice didn't grow any further. This Spiritual Water prevented Qi from moving through it! And as the Ice was made by the Ice Empress' Qi it was also stopped by the masses of Spiritual Water. This water was a dead trap to Qi cultivators! No wonder the Sects didn't claim the area!

He went up the Crater again and went inside his comfortable Ring, but he left a few strands of Qi outside to notify him of any changes, like the ones by the appearing of a Treasure like the Spirt Stone Root.

Time passed and the fated day arrived, Changmao looked outside and saw how the clouds rotated and the Sun shone through the storms eye. The cursed Spiritual Water also showed strange signs, it glowed red! And all the Qi in the area converged at one point. Then a beam descended down from the heavens! It was so powerful Changmao thought the moment he touched it he would be erased from existence! It's might dwarfed even the Domain Expansion Realm Cultivator that was at the Territory border!

The Reddish Spiritual Water evaporated, and a Red mist began covering the crater. A few minutes later the beam finally stopped. The whole area was devoid of Qi, all of it focused on the place the beam descended.

Overjoyed Shi Changmao left his Ring and tried to fly, when he noticed that the Red mist prevented his Qi usage! He was just like a slightly stronger mortal now! However, that didn't stop him from running to the crater edge, jumping into the Spiritual Water, and swimming towards the Spirit Stone Root! 'I have to be fast; it will not be long till some powerful Cultivators arrive!' He was certain that such an event was seen everywhere within the Frozen Ocean Territory.

He swam and swam, the Reddish Spiritual Water gave him a strange feeling, he felt like he was back at home with his parents. He wanted to stop swimming and embrace the Water. Tears formed on his eyes when he remembered what had happened to them. Changmao slowed down and took a piece of cloth out of his Ring, then he used it to cover his mouth and nose. After this he swam at the same place for a few minutes till he had calmed down again. 'To think this Red Spiritual Water would influence my mind!'

Then he reached the place the beam descended down. He saw a Purple Stone, it was just the size of a fist, but it excluded such a strong Qi and Aura! Changmao tried to grasp it, but to his surprise there was a repelling force! He had to use all of his mortal Strength to put only a single finger on it! But this was all he needed, and the Stone got transferred into his Spatial Ring. Powerful thunder was heard from the Heavens!

He was exhausted but also happy, he had a Spirit Stone Root! After resting a bit, he swam back to the craters edge. He would have to walk all the way up as his Qi was still negated by the Red mist, and that would probably take multiple hours. But Changmao had a genius idea: He would just hide in his Ring till the mist dispersed! And so, he made a small hole in the Snow using his hands and put the Ring inside, then he entered it. He had seen other treasures that had formed during the beams descend, but they were of no importance to him. He remembered his Grandfather saying, "Don't take more than you need, otherwise karma will bite you back!"

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Look out for instant karma! Its even worse!