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Xue Tianxing continued to flip through the manuscript, and his heart was filled with emotions as he read about the experience of the dean five hundred years ago.
The manuscript states that after discovering that his cultivation speed had slowed down, the dean became disheartened and even considered giving up on finding a solution and continuing to cultivate step by step, even though his future achievements might be far less than expected.
But fate seemed to be particularly kind to her - after spending several years struggling to break through from level 30 to level 40, and heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the fourth soul ring, she accidentally broke into an extremely hidden canyon.
The canyon was hidden behind a cliff deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the entrance was blocked by dense vines and rocks. If she had not been trying to avoid being chased by a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, she would probably never have discovered this place.
The moment she entered the canyon, she felt a surge of pure ice energy rushing towards her. Her originally stagnant soul power actually began to operate on its own. Not only did her cultivation speed return to the level before level 30, but it was even several points faster than when she was young!
She looked towards the source of the energy and saw a fist-sized blue crystal suspended in the air in the center of the canyon. The crystal was crystal clear, like the purest ice diamond, emitting soft yet powerful ice energy. It was an "ice heart" emitting strong ice-attribute soul power.
She was ecstatic and wanted to get close to Bing Xin and take her away, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not break through the invisible barrier around Bing Xin. As long as she got close to a certain distance, she would be bounced away by a powerful repulsive force.
After trying countless times, she had no choice but to give up and chose to stay in the canyon temporarily, using Bing Xin's energy to practice.
At that time, she had just obtained her fourth soul ring, and her soul power remained at the 41st level of Soul Sect.
With the nourishment of the Ice Heart Energy, her soul power grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just over a year, she broke through from level 41 to level 50 Soul King. Moreover, her soul power foundation was extremely solid, and her control over the ultimate ice was also improved.
Looking at her own progress, her heart was filled with anticipation. She decided to leave the canyon first and go to other areas of the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the fifth soul ring, and then return here to continue practicing with the help of Bing Xin's energy.
But what she didn't expect was that when she returned with the fifth soul ring, the entrance to the canyon had mysteriously disappeared - the vines and rocks that originally blocked the entrance were still there, but no matter how she searched or dug, she could no longer find the passage into the canyon, as if the canyon had never existed.
Fortunately, after leaving Bing Xin's energy, her cultivation speed did not slow down again, and she still maintained a relatively fast pace of improvement.
But she was unwilling to give up, and searched in the Star Dou Great Forest for a month, almost turning over every area where she had discovered the canyon, but still found nothing.
In the end, she could only return to Tianshui College with regret.
However, thanks to her recovered training speed and the power of her ultimate martial soul, her strength increased rapidly, and she soon became a leading figure in the soul master world of Douluo Continent. Later, she broke through to become the Titled Douluo and took over the position of dean of Tianshui College.
But she never forgot that canyon and that icy heart. Every year, on the day she first encountered the canyon, she would return to that area of the Star Forest and continue her search.
But unfortunately, until the end of her life, she was never able to find the entrance to the canyon again.
At the end of the manuscript, she wrote that she had recorded the exact location of the canyon where she first encountered it in the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping that future ice-type soul masters of Tianshui Academy, especially those with the ultimate ice martial soul, would be able to find that place and bring the ice heart back to the academy, making the ice heritage of Tianshui Academy even more glorious.
Seeing this, Xue Tianxing's heartbeat couldn't help but quicken, because Xue Tianxing knew that this Bing Xin must be a treasure, and a treasure that could be compared with the fairy grass at worst. Otherwise, how could a person erase the disadvantages of the ultimate martial soul just by absorbing the soul power it emitted, and even increase the soul power so much in more than a year!
So Xue Tianxing quickly reached out and prepared to turn to the last page of the manuscript to check the location of the canyon recorded by the dean.
But when Xue Tianxing opened the book, he was stunned - the last page of the manuscript, the page that was supposed to record the key position, was torn off by someone!
There were still irregular tear marks on the edges of the pages, which were obviously done intentionally by someone. Moreover, the pages did not seem to have been torn very long ago, and the broken edges of the paper had not yet completely turned yellow.
"Who tore this page?"
Xue Tianxing frowned, his heart full of doubts.
This manuscript has been kept in the database of Tianshui College, and only a few people have access to it. Who could have deliberately torn off the page that records the location?
Is it that he doesn't want anyone to find that ice heart, or is there something else hidden?
Xue Tianxing reread the manuscript, trying to find some clues about the location of the canyon from the previous content, but the dean seemed to have anticipated that someone would pay attention to the location information. Except for the last page, the previous content did not mention the specific location, only vaguely mentioning "deep in the Xingdou Great Forest, near a cliff."
Xue Tianxing closed the manuscript and fell into deep thought.
Although the key information was torn away, at least he knew that there was something that could eliminate the disadvantages of slow cultivation of the Extreme Ice Martial Spirit, and that the Ice Heart was likely to still exist in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Perhaps, if he has the chance in the future, he might go to the Star Dou Great Forest and try to find that mysterious canyon.
Although he failed to get the specific location of the canyon, Xue Tianxing was not without gain.
Then Xue Tianxing carefully put the manuscript back to its original place and picked up other materials to read. However, his mind was no longer on these ordinary materials. Bing Xin and the secrets that might be hidden behind the torn key page kept echoing in his mind.
The sky outside the window gradually darkened, and the servant knocked on the door gently, reminding Xue Tianxing that it was time to go to the front hall for dinner.
Xue Tianxing responded, sorted out the information, temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart, stood up, and walked towards the front hall - perhaps, he could find out some information about the past of the manuscript from Mizunoe, and maybe find clues about the torn pages.
Then Xue Tianxing carefully held the yellowed autobiography in his arms and walked quickly towards the front hall.
Along the way, Xue Tianxing pondered over and over in his mind - as the current president of Tianshui College, Mizunoe might know some secrets about the last page?
After all, this autobiography is a treasure of the college, and successive deans must have paid special attention to it.
As soon as he walked into the front hall, Xue Tianxing met Mizunoe's gaze.
Mizunoe glanced at the autobiography in his arms, and a knowing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes seemed to say, "I knew you would ask this."
Xue Tianxing saw this and smiled as well, then sat down next to Shui Binger.