Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Cry of Sorrow in the Fire and Ice
The place where Zhang Ning had retreated had been covered by a wide lava flow that was spreading, and the magma rushing out of the ground raged on the white ice sheet of Beichuan, and the glowing magma with black stones and white ice and snow contrasted with it.
This crustal movement will permanently change the topography of Beichuan.
Unlike the icebergs and snow-capped mountains on the land of the world where Zhang Ning lives, the icebergs in Beichuan do not have earth-rocky mountains, but huge ice blocks with irregular shapes, while snow-capped mountains are huge ice blocks covered with thick snow.
For unknown reasons, the geological movement of Beichuan intensified abruptly, and underground magma gushed out, covering one-tenth of the area of Beichuan.
The high-temperature gas emitted from the red yellow lava caused the rapid disintegration and melting of icebergs and snow-capped mountains. The meltwater of the ice and snow rolled down with the unmelted ice and snow blocks, washing out countless wide rivers in Beichuan.
Zhang Ning had no time to appreciate this magnificent beauty, and the moment he saw the magma, he changed his mind and decided to go north immediately - Qingyingsan needs ice crystal pith as a medicine, such a violent geological catastrophe, if he doesn't race against time now, who knows if Beichuan will become an ocean in a few months.
He vaguely felt that the Beichuan geological disaster might be related to his taking away the Dongming Xuanhuo, but he was not very sure.
After flying for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Ning sacrificed a disposable paper tray and injected it with the pure spiritual power cultivated during the Yuan Infant Stage—this spiritual power was transformed from the spiritual liquid in the blue and white porcelain vase at the dantian.
The paper tray rushed towards the north as if it had been hit with top-notch chicken blood, traveling twice as fast as Zhang Ning's previous flight speed.
The small green fluorescent mushroom at the end of the paper plate shook its head, leaving more than a dozen green trails extending in different directions every few dozen miles.
Along the way, several wide and narrow lava flows quickly encroach on icebergs and snow-capped mountains, and the smoke from rock melting mixes with the water vapor produced by the rapid melting of snow and ice.
The hot and cold air blends violently, the temperature fluctuates between hot and cold, the weather changes irregularly, and under the thick clouds, rain, snow, hail and gale are staged in turn, like a naughty little black cat jumping on the "weather control console".
Icebergs and snow-capped mountains are melting at an accelerated rate in the fierce temperature alternation and unprecedented extreme weather, and the once relatively flat ice surface has undergone huge deformation, full of ice cracks, and the sound of huge ice breaks has resounded one after another in Beichuan.
The ice and snow deposited on the glacier for hundreds of millions of years have turned into water and water vapor, and the successive rainfall and snowfall have destroyed the overall force balance of the glacier, and ice avalanches and avalanches are staged on each glacier. All the glaciers Zhang Ning saw along the way were flowing southward at breakneck speeds — at a speed comparable to the average speed of an untrained person on a regular bicycle, which is about 18 kilometers per hour.
The sense of urgency in Zhang Ning's heart suddenly increased by several orders of magnitude, and at this rate, the crystal white Beichuan will soon become bald!
Before that, he only knew that Beichuan referred to the area occupied by icebergs, snowy mountains and glaciers in the north, but at this moment he suddenly thought of another meaning of "river": the source of the river...... He didn't dare to speculate any further.
The first priority is to obtain the ice crystal pith before thinking about anything else.
The geological disasters that are being staged have dealt a devastating blow to the fragile ecological environment of Beichuan.
The population of spiritual plants that had been breeding in Beichuan for hundreds of millions of years suffered a catastrophe - the rime-like snow coral bushes withered due to the lava flow, the ice grass that resembled the lace of Beichuan was washed away by the torrential rain, and the ice bamboo vines crisscrossing the ice like a railway network were smashed into a mess by the hail the size of a wok.
Snow coral, ice grass, and ice bamboo vine are all spiritual plants recorded in the book, and there are also many spiritual plants that Zhang Ning can't name like a crystal clear little hand, writhing like a snow-white fluffy cat's tail, and trembling like a transparent spring, all of which were tragically destroyed.
Seeing these beautiful lives suffering from the catastrophe, Zhang Ning couldn't bear it, and selected a few plants of each variety he encountered, used a silver wrench to dig out the ice that the spirit plant grows, and transplanted it into the Qiankun Treasure Snail.
After another day of flying, Zhang Ning began to find traces of spirit beasts fleeing north.
Spirit plants that cannot move can only sit helplessly and wait for death, while spirit animals that move freely will do everything they can to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
The air in front of Zhang Ning was covered with silk threads that shone with seven-colored light, and they rotated and tumbled without entanglement under the alternating hot and cold air currents, as if dancing an elegant dance. When the hot air prevails, the transparent silk threads will lose their vitality and fall to the ground, while when the cold air prevails, the silk threads will take advantage of the momentum to drift northward, and at the same time grasp and split more colorful silk threads.
Below the colorful silk line is a clump of tumbleweed-like ice silk-like spirit beasts, which will split in two and continue to roll with the wind when it hits an obstacle.
Zhang Ning collected a few bunches and put them into the Qiankun treasure snail.
Later, he met a white paper-like flat spirit beast that slowly wriggled on the ice and snow, if it weren't for the drastic catastrophe, with their protective color and wriggling amplitude, they might not have been discovered by Zhang Ning. Although they move slowly, when they encounter a strong wind, they will flutter in the wind like paper documents in the hands of the unlucky heroine of a soap opera.
In addition, there are dandelion-shaped, hairy, and ice-bamboo-like ice and snow spirit beasts, all of which are magical beings that have not even been included in the "Raiders".
Because they don't have a female and a male waiting in line for rescue, Zhang Ning can only use double-sided tape to capture a few random in the migrating spirit beast group, I hope this random selection can take both male and female into account.
In the Qiankun treasure snail, with the snow mountain as the center, Zhang Ning circled out 10,000 acres of mountainous land as the shelter of these "refugees", and set up a huge ice and snow magic circle to try his best to restore the cold environment of Beichuan.
That's all Zhang Ning can do.