I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 563: Chapter 453: Cold Pearl, Secret Realm, Frost Palace

Qin Tian retracted the Black Frost Blade and swam towards the glint in the middle of the lake bottom.

As he descended deeper, the light became increasingly clear, and the surrounding water grew even colder, causing the tortoise shell shield on his body to tremble slightly, as if it could be penetrated by the cold at any moment.

In just a moment, he reached the bottom of the lake.

Underfoot was a flat ice surface, producing a faint creak as he stepped on it, and the source of the glimmer finally appeared fully before him.

It was a deep blue orb, about the size of a fist, perfectly round and translucent, as if it contained the chill of the entire ice field, quietly resting on a stone platform at the center of the lake bottom.

The strangest part was that the lake water around the orb was separated by an invisible force, forming a vacuum area with a diameter of about a meter where not a single drop of water could approach.

The orb appeared ordinary, like a simple blue gemstone, yet as Qin Tian stared at it, his heart involuntarily raced—he could distinctly sense that the orb contained an unimaginably terrifying freezing power, and the eerie and formidable cold of the lake emanated precisely from this orb.

Qin Tian slowly approached and stopped several meters away from the stone platform, carefully observing the orb.

A moment later, he activated his Spiritual Energy to probe deeper, but as soon as his senses touched the edge of the vacuum area, they were rebounded by a cold force, while his soul shuddered.

"Quite troublesome."

Qin Tian took a deep breath and slowly extended his right hand toward the vacuum area.

However, the instant his hand entered the vacuum area, a terrifying chill far exceeding that of the lake water suddenly attacked.

Before Qin Tian could even react, a layer of heavy frost rapidly formed on his arm, the frost seemingly alive, instantly covering his forearm, freezing the muscles and blood vessels beneath his skin, robbing them of all sensation.

He could clearly feel the tissue encased in frost rapidly decaying, and if he delayed retrieving it for another second, this entire arm might have been completely wasted.

"Such terrifying frost power!" Qin Tian’s eyes narrowed, and without any hesitation, he gripped the Black Frost Blade with his left hand and slashed at his decaying forearm. With a swish, the blade ran through, the necrotic forearm fell away, and blood immediately froze into tiny ice crystals as it spurted into the cold lake water.

Simultaneously, his Immortal Sacred Body operated at full force within him, his Qi and Blood boiling like magma, and new flesh buds rapidly grew at the severed wound, forming a fully restored arm within moments, as if the previous injury had never occurred.

Qin Tian shook his newly formed arm with a solemn expression.

Fortunately, he possessed the Immortal Sacred Body; otherwise, anyone else might have been entirely frozen into an ice sculpture instead of just losing an arm.

At that moment, he realized the orb’s power greatly exceeded expectations, making it impossible to touch it directly with the flesh.

"Good thing I have another way."

Qin Tian raised his left hand, and a faint silver light gradually emerged in his palm, with the Power of Void slowly surging towards the vacuum area.

As soon as the Power of Void entered the vacuum area, Qin Tian distinctly felt a resistance—the Power of Void instantly stagnated, seemingly frozen by an invisible cold force, making it flow with extreme difficulty.

But compared to the immediate necrosis from physical contact, the space for manipulating the Power of Void was significantly larger, at least not directly harming him.

Qin Tian continued to increase the input of the Power of Void, with the pale silver Void power rushing into the vacuum area like a tide, gradually dispersing the surrounding cold, soon filling the entire vacuum area.

He cautiously maneuvered the Power of Void, shaping it into an invisible hand, gently wrapping it around the deep blue orb.

The orb seemed to sense external contact, with a faint blue light surfacing on its surface, significantly intensifying the cold it emitted, attempting to break free from the constraints of the Power of Void.

But Qin Tian was already prepared, instantly tightening the Power of Void and securely wrapping the orb.

Then, with a mere thought, the encasing Power of Void broke through space, transporting the orb into his Spirit Space.

Qin Tian immediately directed his thoughts into the Spirit Space, where the deep blue orb, upon entering, released an astounding cold, instantly freezing the surrounding space, turning everything stored within the Spirit Space to ice.

But Qin Tian wasn’t flustered—this was his realm, where everything was under his control.

He quickly gathered the Power of Space, forming a square silver crystal around the orb, completely sealing it within.

The silver crystal acted as a sturdy cage, perfectly isolating the cold emitted by the orb, gradually returning the temperature within the Spirit Space to normal.

Qin Tian gazed at the now empty stone platform, raising an eyebrow slightly—earlier, when retrieving the orb, he detected a barely noticeable spatial fluctuation, like a fine trace across the water’s surface, fleetingly passing.

This fluctuation was extremely faint, something no ordinary spiritualist could detect, not even a Tier Seven powerhouse, without specifically focusing on space perception.

However, bearing the Void God Master Holy Blood level talent, Qin Tian’s sensitivity to the Power of Space far exceeded that of ordinary individuals, even such a minor fluctuation could not escape his perception.

As soon as the orb was stored into the Spirit Space, the lake water, previously separated by the vacuum area, instantly rushed in, thoroughly submerging the stone platform.

The Extreme Cold Power of Mingwang Planet seemed to find a release, causing the lake water to freeze rapidly, with ice crystals spreading downwards from the surface, and within breaths, the entire icy lake froze from surface to bottom, even the ice sculptures on the lake walls were covered by a new layer of ice, completely becoming a frozen prison.