Brother Tor was still in shock over Mu Jinyu's strength.

"Swoosh!"

"Swoosh!!"

The Barbarian King, with Jian Ruyan, swept over, paused, and said to Brother Tor, "Brother Tor, what are you still looking at? Let's go down and have a look!"

With that, the Barbarian King didn't waste time waiting for Brother Tor, and directly took Jian Ruyan towards the ice cave in the distance!

Brother Tor reacted, hurriedly stepping up to follow, then asked the Barbarian King, puzzled, "Aren't you curious, this person... actually took out that Ninth Layer Hedao Realm Ice Phoenix with one spear?"

He originally wanted to instinctively say, this human kid, but recalling Mu Jinyu's terrifying strength, he changed his words in time.

Though Brother Tor didn't say anything out loud, he still held a sense of awe towards Mu Jinyu's strength in his heart.

"Isn't it quite normal?"

Hearing Brother Tor's words, the Barbarian King glanced back at him, naturally saying, "Younger Brother Mu's strength is inherently strong, and he also mentioned he has a secret technique to temporarily elevate his cultivation. It's quite normal to defeat that Ice Phoenix in one strike, isn't it?"

His tone was really matter-of-fact, as if no matter what great thing Mu Jinyu did, he would find it normal.

Hearing the Barbarian King's words, Brother Tor thought for a moment and seemed to agree.

Then, thinking more carefully, he looked at the Barbarian King again and hesitated to ask, "What did you just call him? Younger Brother Mu?"

"Yes, Younger Brother Mu, he's younger than me after all..." The Barbarian King chuckled and said, "But we got along so well when we first met, we call each other brothers."

Hearing this, Brother Tor suddenly felt quite envious.

Then he couldn't help but ask, "Hey, how did you and he... meet?"

Despite having some bias against humans, Brother Tor couldn't help but become interested in making friends with Mu Jinyu at this moment.

Of course, he knew that Mu Jinyu might not be willing to befriend him, but he couldn't help being curious about how the Barbarian King met Mu Jinyu.

Hearing Brother Tor's question, the Barbarian King chuckled and briefly narrated how they met.

"Swoosh swoosh!"

As they walked and talked, they soon reached the bottom of the ice cave.

At this moment, they saw Mu Jinyu harvesting the corpse of the Ice Phoenix.

"Younger Brother Mu, did you succeed?"

The Barbarian King stopped talking to Brother Tor and curiously asked Mu Jinyu from the ground.

"Yes, I've already obtained the Divine Soul."

With a wave of his hand, Mu Jinyu hurled a jade bottle that hung in mid-air.

Soon after, the jade bottle emitted a faint glow, becoming transparent, revealing a small Ice Phoenix inside, wildly colliding with the bottle's walls, attempting to escape.

This was the Ice Phoenix Divine Soul that Mu Jinyu had just collected.

Thus, Mu Jinyu's purpose for this trip was accomplished.

However, having slain an entire Ice Phoenix of the Phoenix Bloodline, he certainly wouldn't just collect the soul and discard the body!

Thus, Mu Jinyu continued to harvest everything useful from the Ice Phoenix's body.

Including the demon core, the phoenix claws, and the feathers...

"Quite a haul!"

Soon, Mu Jinyu skillfully completed harvesting the Ice Phoenix's body.

He even distributed some phoenix meat, blood, and feathers to the Barbarian King and Brother Tor.

The Barbarian King and Brother Tor accepted without pretense.

After all, it was the meat of a Peak Hedao Realm Demon Emperor, a true tonic. Besides, the barbarian tribe wasn't one for fake courtesies. When tempted and given by Mu Jinyu, naturally, they wouldn't refuse.

"This ice cave is quite large! Should we go inside and take a look?"

After harvesting the Ice Phoenix's body, Mu Jinyu initially planned to leave directly and prepare to refine a heaven-reaching spiritual treasure!

However, thinking about the Ice Phoenix's power and its furious disposition, Mu Jinyu felt there might be something here and wanted to explore further.

"Yes, let's take a look inside. I remember long ago, there was a Ten Thousand Year Ice Spirit Marrow here, quite suitable for cultivation, but later it was occupied by this Ice Phoenix, so we never relocated!"

"I don't know whether over the years, this Ice Phoenix has used it all up!"

Brother Tor suddenly spoke up.

"Oh? Did that happen?" The Barbarian King widened his eyes.

Obviously, he was very tempted by the Ten Thousand Year Ice Spirit Marrow as well.

"No wonder the Ice Phoenix is here, and your Liuyun Tribe didn't want to leave. You're planning to reclaim your territory?"

The Barbarian King realized.

Brother Tor didn't seem embarrassed, as it was their Liuyun Tribe's secret. Not having told the Hanchi Tribe was reasonable.

He could have persuaded Mu Jinyu and others to leave, but he chose to reveal it instead.

It wasn't that he suddenly had an epiphany, but he wanted to befriend Mu Jinyu.

"Ten Thousand Year Ice Spirit Marrow? It's useful for alchemy and artifact refining, a rather good heavenly material and earthly treasure, so let's take a look!"

Hearing this, Mu Jinyu's eyes lit up at the thought of the Ice Spirit Marrow's uses, and he proposed.

He understood Brother Tor's intention and didn't mind befriending him. After all, the barbarian tribe was quite straightforward, no scheming, everything on their face, not hidden in their hearts.

Then, Mu Jinyu took the lead, proceeding through the deep, chilly passage!

"Clack clack clack!"

In the cold, empty passage, there was no other sound, only their crisp footsteps echoing gently.

It's not that they didn't want to fly straight in, but halfway in, there seemed to be a Sky Restriction Array deep within the ice cave, preventing aerial entry.

Mu Jinyu asked Brother Tor if it was something they had done before.

Brother Tor shook his head, puzzled, it wasn't like this before.

Then, the Barbarian King jokingly asked if the Ice Phoenix set up the formation?

Mu Jinyu didn't immediately refute since Yin Li could arrange formations, who's to say demon beasts couldn't understand formations?

However, thinking about it, he still concluded that the Sky Restriction Array was unlikely set by the Ice Phoenix.

After all, as a bird, flying was natural. A formation should be for other defenses, not for restricting flight like this!

Thus, Mu Jinyu speculated that there was likely someone else involved!

"So, the Ice Phoenix might have been deliberately nurtured by someone?!"

Brother Tor was stunned, then seemed to understand.

He found it odd why the Ice Phoenix's strength surged so quickly. He originally thought it might be due to the Ten Thousand Year Ice Spirit Marrow.

Years ago, Brother Tor's cultivation was at the Fifth Layer of the Hedao Realm, while the Ice Phoenix was at the Seventh Layer, which was why the ice cave was taken by the opponent.

Brother Tor believed the strength gap could be closed eventually, so he didn't relocate, but unexpectedly, the Ice Phoenix's strength quickly rose to the Eighth Level of the Hedao Realm.

While he was still at the peak of the Fifth Layer.

This left Brother Tor very unwilling, pondering whether to relocate with his tribe.

Yet, noting that while the Ice Phoenix occasionally attacked, it didn't seem to intend mutual destruction with them.

Finally, with reluctance, Brother Tor chose to stay rather than be driven away by the demon beast.

Until he saw the Ice Phoenix rise to the Ninth Layer of the Hedao Realm, he finally lost heart and decided to return to relocate the tribe.

But he didn't expect that the Ninth Layer Hedao Realm Ice Phoenix would be so easily pinned by Mu Jinyu!

It turned out, the Ice Phoenix's rapid rise in strength might not solely be due to the Ten Thousand Year Ice Spirit Marrow!

It was more likely due to being nurtured!

But if this guess is true, just who could raise an Ice Phoenix to such power?!

Considering this, Brother Tor suddenly felt reluctant to delve further in!

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