Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 126: The Fifth Trial

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The ice flame continued to go further and further while Ye Chen followed behind swiftly without putting too much effort in.

Watching him like this, Li Mei and others could only sigh once again, realizing how weak they were compared to him.

As for other disciples, they didn't even dare to compare themselves, as they understood it would only hurt their ego.

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"It's recovering!" Ye Chen spoke with surprise as he saw the ice flame growing from five inches tall to six inches tall within just a few seconds.

He knew that ice flame can recover on its own; however, what was surprising was that it was recovering without any need for fire-related natural treasures.

Furthermore, the speed of recovery was swift; at this rate, it could even recover fully within just a few twenty minutes.

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But there was no free lunch in this world, as the red fire from the staircase seemed to be angered by the actions of ice flame and started to attack.

Witnessing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but frown as he understood the fire from the staircase was also a natural flame, furthermore, Earth-grade, the same as his ice flame.

This wouldn't have been a problem if his ice flame had recovered to its peak but clearly that was not the case here so the chances of the ice flame getting devoured by another earth-grade flame were high.

As for stopping this from happening?

No matter how strong Ye Chen was, there were some things he couldn't do, such as fighting against a peak earth-grade flame, which had the ability to kill core-formation and even nascent soul cultivators.

Nevertheless, he remained calm and took a close look at his ice flame, which did not display any intentions of escape even after knowing it was fighting with an earth-grade flame.

Ye Chen knew the iceflame valued its life more than anything so it certainly wouldn't throw itself into a tiger's mouth, which meant it had some tricks, and he was right about it.

Shing!

As soon as the red fire attacked, the ice-flame shined faintly, summoning strange ancient red characters that were the precise copy of what Ye Chen had on his spiritual root.

However, there was no powerful aura or mysteriousness to the characters; clearly, it was just a fake replica made by the ice flame. Nevertheless, when the red fire saw this, it hesitated and decided to retreat, letting the ice flame do whatever it wanted.

Watching this, Ye Chen's mouth twitched a little and he wondered what these strange characters were that could even make an earth-grade flame retreat. But there was no way he could come with answers, as he had only half of it.

'Looks like I need to knock on the door of the Mu family soon,' he decided and took a close look at the red fire.

Even now he couldn't figure out what kind of fire it was, as it never revealed its true nature. If not for the fact it attacked the ice flame, he would treat it as a special type of fire that the old man had brought from somewhere else.

The world was wide after all and there were many strange things so reaching a conclusion on just a few facts was hard, even if he had a heaven-defying myriad book that contained all of the information about natural flames.

Swoosh!

Just as Ye Chen was examining the red flame, Li Mei and others started to climb the steps of fire.

They all saw Ye Chen stopping in the middle and examining the fire, but no one could figure out why he was doing this, as the fire, which rose up to his half of the body, blocked the view of the ice flame.

Not to mention the ice flame was small and with the towering fire from both sides of the staircase, it was hard to notice anything unless they focused their attention on him, which was impossible while doing this trial.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Suddenly Ye Chen once again started to ascend rapidly but this didn't attract any attention as everyone was busy with their own difficulties.

"Sister Lan Ming, why are you all having it so easy?" Wang Yiyi inquired tearfully as she once again saw everyone ascending without too much effort.

Well, how could she not complain, especially after seeing the thirteen-year-old Lin Xian'er climbing up in front of her without too much trouble?

Of course, Wang Yiyi also didn't face any serious challenges; nevertheless, she wasn't having it as easy as others.

"Yiyi, if you should focus on ascending rather than bickering with useless people, it would help you for good," Lan Ming didn't show any mercy and scolded her harshly.

Who knows when but Zhu Dong had caught up with them and started to anger Wang Yiyi and others.

Others didn't care about him, but Wang Yiyi and Fatty Li Zhenyuan weren't patient enough and started to curse at him. Which resulted in having a hard time as they would be distracted for a second or two.

Lan Ming didn't care about the fatty, as he had the bad mouth and was just mainly bickering because Wang Yiyi was at a disadvantage.

"Haha, little girl, she is calling you useless too!" Zhu Dong didn't miss the opportunity and started to fan the flames.

Hearing this, Wang Yiyi gritted her teeth in hatred but decided not to respond, as she understood no matter what she said, he would deny it and use it against her.

Seeing her reaction, Lan Ming nodded silently and secretly gestured to everyone to be aware of Zhu Dong's tricks.

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Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Ye Chen finally climbed up to the four hundredth step, where the red fire was more than one hundred centimeters tall. Nevertheless, this still didn't affect him, as this heat could be withstood by any Qi-refining cultivator.

Of course, they had to use some spiritual Qi to cast a protective shield, unlike him, who was walking freely.

"You are not done yet?" Ye Chen couldn't help but inquire as he saw ice flame unwilling to return back to his dantian.

Although the earth-grade flame did allow it to do whatever it wanted, the ice flame was, after all, not a full fire-type flame, so it could only recover a certain amount. Furthermore, it didn't dare to be excessive, as it knew it was just bluffing.

Nevertheless, it was now seven and a half inches tall and had recovered about thirty-five percent of its power, which meant it had regained fifteen percent of its strength in this short amount of time.

"Well, do what you want then," Ye Chen shook his head, knowing there must be something more beneficial to it, so he didn't force it to go back and stepped on the four hundred and first step.

WHOOSH!

The next moment a cold breeze brushed past his cheeks and towering walls of ice appeared on both sides of the staircase, which continued up to the five hundredth step. After this, ice appeared on the step he was on with a height of one and a half centimeters.

However, this ice was not a solid one but a virtual one.

Seeing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but think of something but before he could even confirm it, the ice flame rushed forward, absorbing the ice elemental Qi from the surrounding area, which had similar properties to the previous fire trial.

"This must be a 'Glacier Seed,' and Earth-grade at that," Ye Chen spoke with a faint sigh after knowing what it could be.

Just like natural flames, glacier seeds also existed and had different properties such as crimson, yin, prismatic, etc.

However, they were rarer and didn't have too much of a use unless someone wanted to grow certain herbs that required extremely low temperatures.

Of course it could be used in battle, in certain forging environments, and even in a few alchemy recipes.

However, unless someone cultivated ice or yin elemental Qi, there was no way to control this glacier seed in fights or anything else.

Ye Chen certainly didn't have any problems with this, as he had every elemental Qi but he wasn't confident about refining it, as the death rates for glacier seeds were higher than natural flame, not to mention it was likely to be earth-grade, which was even more dangerous.

"Well, at least I know that old man is rich," he decided to think positively and started to ascend the fifth trial of ice.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

With his strength, there was nothing stopping him and strangely enough, even his ice-flame didn't have any trouble. The glacier seed didn't even seem to bother about it absorbing ice elemental Qi.

It was probably because of the bluffing trick it had pulled off and also it didn't dare to try absorbing too much, clearly knowing only death might await if it overdid it.

Nevertheless, it has now recovered fifty percent of its power and is ten inches tall.

After this, it didn't cause trouble and returned inside Ye Chen's dantian.