Entry Connection Point of the Icebound Secret Realm

He glanced out the window.

The faint fragrance was very familiar to him; it was the scent emitted by the ten miles of peach blossom trees he passed by every day.

However, usually, the fragrance of those peach blossom trees only lingered within their sect's grounds. For some reason, it was so rich and intense today that it could even be smelled at the foot of the mountain.

Perhaps Brother Xiao had done something up there again.

After only a brief moment of distraction, Sun Yigao pulled his thoughts back and continued lecturing the energized students below.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao finally snapped out of his intoxication with the beautiful scenery.

At this moment, having waited so as not to disturb his reverie, the system finally sounded its prompt:

Ding—Congratulations to the host for completing the Sect Construction Task: Extensive Recruitment of Disciples (1): Construct a qualified Path of Heart-Questioning. The task reward has been issued to the private treasury. Please check it, host.

Lin Xiao was never in a rush to check his rewards.

After all, the rewards were sitting safely in his private treasury and wouldn't grow legs and run away.

He had more important things to do right now.

He arrived at a clearing not far from the cultivation room.

There was only a single large stone in this entire clearing.

It was the entrance connection point to the Green Field Secret Realm.

Lin Xiao planned to place the entrance connection point for the Icefield Secret Realm here as well.

This would save him from having to run all over the place looking for entrances when he wanted to enter the secret realms later.

Acting on his thoughts, he got to work.

From his private treasury, he took out the secret realm entrance connection point that the system had rewarded him with when he obtained the Key to the Icefield Secret Realm.

This time, it wasn't a large stone, but rather a small pool of water.

Perhaps calling it an ice pool would be more fitting.

Because after Lin Xiao took it out, he found that although the water in the pool was flowing, its temperature was extremely low, and a chilling mist rose from its surface.

Seeing this, he thought for a moment and decided to place it next to the moss-covered, lush green stone at the entrance of the Green Field Secret Realm.

A bluestone paired with a water pool—didn't that look quite nice?

After setting the ice pool in place, Lin Xiao stuck his head into the pool to see what was inside.

Since the large stone serving as the Green Field Secret Realm's entrance connection point had a place to insert the secret realm key, this Icefield Secret Realm entrance should have one too.

Moreover, since this entrance connection point was provided by the system, Lin Xiao felt very reassured about its safety.

When he submerged his head into the ice pool, he found that it was actually quite deep and spacious inside.

Then, at a glance, he saw a peculiar stone rack at the bottom of the pool.

A small, seven-colored bubble floated above the rack.

Lin Xiao took out the secret realm key and tossed it toward the little bubble.

The moment the secret realm key touched the seven-colored bubble, it was absorbed inside.

Today happened to be the day the Icefield Secret Realm was closed.

Therefore, when Lin Xiao placed the secret realm key, the entrance to the secret realm still opened.

It opened right above the ice pool.

Seeing this, he knew that the method of using this secret realm key was indeed identical to that of the Green Field Secret Realm.

Feeling relieved, he dove into the ice pool and retrieved the secret realm key from the seven-colored bubble.

The entrance to the secret realm subsequently closed.

Emerging from the ice pool, Lin Xiao used his spiritual energy to evaporate the freezing water on his body, staring at the ice pool with a thoughtful expression.

Unsure of what he had just thought of, he opened the goods storage area in his private treasury again.

A moment later, he took out a silver-tailed fish from it.

The silver-tailed fish was quite large and struggled vigorously, but since its tail of destiny was firmly grasped in the human's strong and tight grip, its struggles seemed futile.

With a casual toss, Lin Xiao threw the silver-tailed fish into the ice pool.

As soon as the silver-tailed fish entered the ice pool, it seemed as if it had returned home, swimming naturally and even happily flipping its belly a couple of times.

However, Lin Xiao noticed that after the silver-tailed fish entered the ice pool, it seemed to have become a bit smaller?

To confirm this, he bent down and, with a very swift motion, grabbed the silver-tailed fish by its tail and pulled it out of the ice pool upside down.

Yet, the silver-tailed fish was just as large as before.

He tossed it back into the ice pool.

Then he saw the silver-tailed fish shrink again.

At this, he suddenly understood.

This ice pool actually had such an effect!

Its capacity was far greater than the small size they could see with their naked eyes from the outside.

No wonder he felt it was quite large when he went down earlier; he just hadn't paid much attention to it at the time.

With this, Lin Xiao felt that the dozens of silver-tailed fish stored in his private treasury's goods area finally had a place to live.

However, afraid that this ice pool might not actually be suitable for the silver-tailed fish to survive, he only dropped ten of them inside.

He planned to observe them for a few days first.

Once he confirmed that the ice pool could genuinely sustain these silver-tailed fish, he would put the rest of them in.

If this ice pool could really sustain these silver-tailed fish long-term, they might even breed more little fish.

Then their sect would have delicious and savory silver-tailed fish to eat in the future!

When the time came, he would hand the silver-tailed fish over to Fuzi to practice his cooking skills and see what kind of delicacies he could whip up.

After finishing this, he took out a few stalks of Ice Stone Grass.

That's right, it was the very same grass he had harvested a large patch of in the Icefield Secret Realm earlier.

He planted a portion of the Ice Stone Grass all around the edge of the ice pool, leaving only a small pathway for people to pass through.

Just like with the silver-tailed fish.

He didn't dare to plant all the Ice Stone Grass at once.

He was worried that if the environment around the ice pool wasn't suitable for the Ice Stone Grass to grow, he would have wasted all his hard work digging up so many of them while carefully preserving their roots.

After setting everything up, Lin Xiao clapped his hands and admiringly looked at his handiwork with satisfaction.

The mist-emitting ice pool sat right next to a large, lush green stone.

Around the pool, the snow-white Ice Stone Grass was planted.

Such a scene seemed somewhat out of place in this mountain wilderness.

Yet, inexplicably, it possessed a strangely harmonious synergy.

This touch of white amidst the green mountains and clear waters seemed to add a trace of serene coolness to the peaceful, scorching summer days.

Finally, regarding the handling of his harvest from the Icefield Secret Realm, only the Icefield Sprite remained.

However, Lin Xiao had no intention of making it recognize him as its master.

After all, this creature had been caught by Senior Liao.

Furthermore, the Icefield Sprite's purification ability was more or less similar to his own Purification Spell.

He felt that he didn't particularly need this thing.

So, he had no real plans for the Icefield Sprite.

He decided to set it aside for now and deal with it later.

Coming back this time, Lin Xiao had a plan in mind.

His plan for the immediate future was very simple: cultivate.

During his trip to the cultivation world this time, he realized that as a sect master, having a higher cultivation level was truly necessary.

Moreover, their sect couldn't hide silently in the mortal realm forever.

Although they wouldn't actively promote themselves, they wouldn't deliberately hide themselves away either.

As long as they gained a reputation, trouble was bound to follow.

At that time, having a sect master with high cultivation as a strong backing would become extremely important.

Therefore, Lin Xiao planned that after returning this time and arranging the internal affairs of the sect, he would directly enter secluded cultivation.

He would not come out of seclusion until he reached the Golden Core stage!