Dragon's Origin

Would Wang Sheng allow the various families' petty calculations to succeed? Obviously not.

If it were some commercial or territorial advantage, Wang Sheng certainly wouldn't care at all. However, if this advantage was built on tormenting the girl in his dreams, Wang Sheng would never tolerate it.

Now, Wang Sheng no longer harbored illusions. He discarded all unrealistic fantasies. Looking at the massive ice pillar imprisoning the girl in his dreams, Wang Sheng now only wanted to destroy it.

Smashing it directly wouldn't work, so Wang Sheng immediately changed his approach. The ice pillar was incredibly hard because of the formation, but from Wang Sheng's experience descending into this space, even the ice frozen by the formation could be melted in small areas. If he couldn't break it, couldn't he melt it?

As long as he melted the ice pillar, then the formation inside would lose its foundation and might be easily solved.

Although it sounded a bit too simple, Wang Sheng still didn't mind giving it a try. He had come all this way, and he certainly wouldn't be satisfied without trying.

The most direct way to melt solid ice was to use fire. Among the many storage rings Wang Sheng carried, one or two were filled with firewood. If fire worked, Wang Sheng also had the parts of a large wooden ship, enough to burn.

Easily at one corner of the ice pillar, Wang Sheng lit a bonfire, directly leaning the firewood against the ice pillar, pouring oil on it, and igniting it. Soon, the flames rose.

Wang Sheng stared intently at the ice pillar right next to the flames. After a while, Wang Sheng finally sighed and actively extinguished the fire.

The formation on the ice pillar seemed to be able to shield heat. The flames were so large, fully three feet high, but they only melted the broken ice outside the ice pillar. Once it reached the area covered by the formation, it was useless.

Wang Sheng could clearly feel that the ice inside the formation was not affected in any way. Not to mention melting, it probably didn't even raise the temperature by a degree or two.

In this situation, it would be futile to experiment with fire again, and it would also consume the limited oxygen in this space, so he could only extinguish it.

Wang Sheng was not surprised by this result. If such a powerful formation could be solved with just a pile of firewood, it would be too childish.

With both hands pressed tightly against the ice pillar, Wang Sheng tried to penetrate the formation with the Nine Words Secret Mantra while using spiritual energy to melt the ice inside. Even if he could only melt a small piece, Wang Sheng would have the hope of breaking the formation. One small piece at a time, it was just a matter of persistence and time.

Unfortunately, even with Wang Sheng's ninth-level peak cultivation and almost completely liquefied spiritual energy, he was still powerless against this ice pillar. The ice inside seemed to have turned into steel under the effect of the formation. No matter whether Wang Sheng used strong or gentle methods, it was all in vain.

Wang Sheng was not discouraged and used more than a dozen methods in a row, but none of them could do anything to the formation. While the formation remained unmoved, there was not even the slightest sign of the ice inside melting.

After carefully examining it with the Nine Words Secret Mantra, Wang Sheng discovered that the formation not only existed on the ice pillar, but also extended deep underground to an unknown depth. This formation was definitely a giant formation of a scale that Wang Sheng could not imagine.

The first thought that came to Wang Sheng's mind was that the part of the formation that went deep underground must be the part that absorbed energy. And below, there was likely a huge active volcano, just like the underground palace of the old Lord Temple, with lava flowing underground, providing energy to the formation.

Besides this, Wang Sheng couldn't think of any other powerful energy source that could maintain such a huge formation and how it could turn a plain area into an ice basin. He just didn't know how the various sects figured out how to build this formation, or whether it was built by taking advantage of the situation. In short, being able to build such a formation was definitely a grandmaster among formation grandmasters. It was estimated that all the formation grandmasters Wang Sheng had seen would have to bow down when they saw this formation.

After working hard for a whole day, Wang Sheng felt that the underground space was starting to feel stuffy. There was not much oxygen in here to begin with, and burning a fire, plus Wang Sheng's own breathing, had consumed almost all of it. Fortunately, Wang Sheng brought his own steel cylinder, which contained compressed air, enough for Wang Sheng to stay here for another day or two.

Wang Sheng tried every possible method, but couldn't find a way to break the formation. After thinking about it, it seemed that there was only one left, and that was to cut off the energy source of the formation. Without the energy to maintain the operation of the formation, the formation would collapse on its own.

But the premise of cutting off the energy source was to fully understand the formation and be able to find the energy source. Wang Sheng suppressed his anxious mood, sat cross-legged against the ice pillar, with his back against the ice pillar, and began to cultivate. At this time, he needed to calm down, and Wang Sheng wanted to rely on the cold temperature here and his cultivation to calm himself down.

After circulating his energy for a week, Wang Sheng's spiritual energy began to slowly penetrate into the ice pillar from all directions. This time, Wang Sheng didn't intend to destroy it, but just to explore and see what kind of situation this complex formation was, and see if he could completely understand the formation through his own spiritual energy resonance. If possible, perhaps the resonance of the formation fluctuations could destroy the formation to the greatest extent.

When Wang Sheng calmed down and did this, Wang Sheng didn't realize that the lake surface was also causing a huge commotion with Wang Sheng's movements.

For no reason, a vortex appeared on the calm lake surface. The vortex was very small at first, just rotating slowly, but as time went by, the vortex rotated faster and faster, turning into a huge vortex with a diameter of hundreds of feet just from the rotating cavity.

The vortex set off huge waves tens of feet high, spreading from the center of the lake in all directions.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the central area of the lake except Wang Sheng at this time, and no one saw this terrifying scene. However, the huge waves spread in all directions, and even after hundreds of miles of weakening, it would probably cause a lot of commotion when it reached the edge of the ice basin.

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Wang Sheng's consciousness penetrated two feet into the ice pillar, and then could not go any further, reaching the limit. It was the same downwards, after two feet, it could not go any deeper.

After a long time, Wang Sheng's spiritual energy slowly returned to his body, and Wang Sheng also opened his eyes. It was certain that the underground was the energy source. In the deepest place, where Wang Sheng explored to the limit, Wang Sheng felt a fiery force, which should be the energy of lava.

But that depth was not the lava layer, it was just that Wang Sheng felt the energy of the lava at that depth.

Now what Wang Sheng had to do was to find a way to cut off the energy of the lava, so that the formation would slowly stop on its own after losing its energy supply.

It was obviously more difficult to rely on Wang Sheng alone, perhaps it was time to cooperate with the various families again.