Volume 1 The Vanishing Land, Chapter 22
After passing through this forgotten land, the deeper you go, the colder it becomes, different from the severe cold of Brett's winter, the temperature here has made it difficult for a high-level breather to adapt, Kule has already used his breath to resist the erosion of the cold, not to mention that Taylor's breath concentration is not as good as Kule, so he was arranged in the logistics force, and Ai Ling opened the blue breath shield to lead them forward, this is the territory of the ice giants, and the huge ice caves that can be seen everywhere are the habitat of these giants, Kule and Ai Ling are vigilant at all times, because they don't know where an ice giant will emerge, and the cold wind and snow make their vision restricted, coupled with the fact that the Ice Giant's body is extremely easy to hide in this snow and ice, they must be especially careful with every step.
According to the marks she left along the way, Ai Ling led them carefully through the territory of the Ice Giants to the southernmost part of the continent, the Extreme Cold, but their destination was not here, they had to cross the Extreme Cold Surge to a deeper place.
"Your Excellency Taylor, can you still hold on?" Kule looked at Taylor, who was extremely weak, with some concern, to say that a month ago, Taylor would have told him that he couldn't hold on, but now he seems to have a strength to support him, even in the face of collapse, he can always survive, maybe this is the result of experience.
"I'm okay, I really didn't expect that the cold air in this extremely cold place is actually condensed by the breath, if it weren't for the ownerlessness of this breath, I really can't imagine how terrifying it would be once such a huge breath was used. Taylor said weakly, wrapped tightly around his cotton clothes.
"That's right, do you remember the giant ray we met on the strange plank road? This kind of breath spirit beast can control dozens of times the concentration of breath of humans, and a giant ray is still like this, you can imagine how terrifying the spirit beast that exists in this extremely cold place. Culle helped Taylor and said as he walked.
"You mean, there are huge spirit beasts in the Extremely Cold Land?" Taylor had heard of for the first time.
"Otherwise, do you think this climate is normal? Is the breath of nature so strong?" Taylor then realized that on this continent, there are not only them and Blatter, this kind of breath spirit beast that has been bred for thousands of years, I am afraid that any party will have to retreat, which also makes him have an idea, is there still a family of breath spirit beasts with human intelligence in the Tremian continent? If he can get away with returning to Brett safely this time, he must go and find it.
"Stop!" Ai Ling, who was in front of them, suddenly stopped, blocking in front of them, Taylor vaguely felt that there was a very powerful force that continued to squeeze the breath in their bodies through Ai Ling's aura shield. He found that the view outside the shield was only one step away from the dense snow crystals, as if they were in a huge freezer at this time, surrounded by materialized cold air, and he could even see the tracks of these cold air through the pale blue breath shield.
"Human Guardian, do you know the consequences of stepping into the Ice Crystal Sanctuary?" a huge breath pressure poured down from above their heads, instantly sending Taylor and some of the soldiers to the ground, limbs and cheeks pressed against the ice.
Seeing this, Ai Ling hurriedly took out her staff and completely released the breath in her body, Taylor tried to look up at Ai Ling, he found that the oracle at this time was all blue, and the blue aura around her body kept surging towards the staff in her hand, and the cold air around her seemed to be dissipated a lot by the pressure of this breath, and with a ding, Ai Ling inserted the staff full of blue breath on the ice, and the oncoming ice crystal cold qi was split in two by the staff, and walked around them. Ai Ling held her staff in one hand and glared at the unknown creature in front of her.
"Damn, you dare to desecrate the Ice Crystal Holy Land. A deafening roar sounded again overhead, and Taylor managed to get to his feet, only to find that the ice around them was beginning to crack, and the ground was shaking, with the sound of a rumbling collapse.
"Hmph, why don't you dare!" Ai Ling turned her hand and put the staff across her chest, her originally blue and gentle aura suddenly became manic, Taylor looked at the concentration of blue and green aura around Ai Ling, he couldn't imagine how destructive this aura would be, he felt that the protective shield around him turned into a sharp cone, and began to cut through the ice crystals gushing in front of him, this is the skill of becoming a weapon after the aura is materialized, he has seen it in books, it is called the jade cone, and if you want to use it, you must have at least 10 levels of aura concentration, and Ai Ling uses it so easily. According to the division of breath concentration, the highest breath concentration in the mainland is only 12 levels, and the difference in breath concentration between each level is calculated by 10,000 times.
Ai Ling as an awakened person, she has naturally broken through the so-called breath level, in fact, there has always been a fallacy in Brett and Red, they think that they will be able to become an awakened person if they pass the breath awakening, you know, the breath awakening and the awakened are not the same thing at all, many people desperately want to cultivate to awaken their breath, but what they don't know is that what they have awakened is just a source of the lowest breath, at best, it can strengthen their own breath skills and improve the bearing of their own breath, which is also the reason why they are called guardians instead of awakened, and those who have truly completed the breath awakening are awakened to the bloodline breath belonging to the origin of the Titan, completely freed from the shackles of the source of the breath, but only the people who can come into contact with this level are only a few in the whole continent.
"Huh?" The voice in front of them seemed to sense that something was wrong, the extremely cold land has rarely been set foot in for thousands of years, he didn't expect the group of people he met to be so strong, especially the woman who hit the head, the pressure she gave was something he had never felt, the terrifying aura continued to tear apart the cold around him, the friction of the two breaths generated a powerful energy that began to make this area fragmented, and the sound of the ice belt breaking was endless, and if this continued, the ice shell in this area would be completely broken, so he began to shrink his cold air and stabilize the ice under his feet。
Before Ai Ling met, the aura of the unknown creature began to contract, and she no longer released her breath further, but held the staff in her hand, maintaining the form of an emerald cone. The cold air gradually dissipated, and Taylor and his party saw the environment they were in at this time, the ice around them had been shattered in the brief collision, and the broken ice cubes that could be seen everywhere were squeezing and accumulating with each other, and there was only a hundred-meter-high iceberg standing in front of them on the ice field.
"Humanity is already so powerful. A heavy, stressful voice sounded overhead again. Taylor looked up and saw that it was the iceberg in front of him that was speaking, in the continental lingua franca of the former Brest dynasty, and he looked closely at the iceberg and found that through the thick ice, there seemed to be some kind of life inside the iceberg talking to them through breath.
"Ice Crystal Holy Son, isn't it possible that we humans shouldn't be strong?" Taylor and the people in the iceberg were all surprised, Ai Ling actually knew his identity.
"How do you know my identity? No human has set foot in the Ice Crystal Sanctuary of the Extreme Cold Sanctuary for thousands of years. Although surprised, the person who Ai Ling called the Ice Crystal Saint Son didn't seem to be too surprised, and just asked puzzledly.
"At the beginning, the ten gods of the continent signed a non-aggression pact with tribes from all over the world, and the first to respond was your Ice Crystal Holy Land clan, I was right. Ai Ling said slowly.
"It turned out to be the descendants of those ten people, no wonder you know, in that case, why did you even step into the Extreme Cold Domain?"
"I took advantage of the road, and I never thought of alarming the nobles. ”
"Where are you going?"
"Emerald Temple. As soon as Ai Ling's voice fell, a cold aura condensed into a human form in front of them, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but he could feel the concentration of his very terrifying aura, around him, the air was drained, and all the aura that touched his surroundings was frozen.
"That being the case. The man was silent for a moment, then continued, "I will stop you from obstructing you, please get out of here as soon as possible." With that, the iceberg that had been standing in front of them disappeared in an instant, and in front of them was a wide ice field channel, and when they turned around, the previously broken ice surface was also restored, as if nothing had happened, and the person was as if it had evaporated, and he couldn't even feel a trace of breath.
"Let's go. Ai Ling said, leading them forward again, without the cold before, Taylor felt much more relaxed, and could walk on his own in Ai Ling's shield.
"Your Excellency Ai Ling, is that one also an Awakened One just now?" Taylor asked after walking for a while, out of the ice field.
"Hehe, how can there be so many awakened people on this continent, to be exact, he is not human. Not feeling threatened again, Ai Ling removed the jade cone and reopened the light blue shield to escort everyone forward.
"It's not a human, it's a spirit animal?"
"No, if anything, he should belong to a breath spirit, he has no physical form, only breath. Ai Ling explained.
"Breath spirits?" Taylor heard this for the first time, and the people he knew of this continent who could have breath were not only guardians, but also Brat, breath spirit beasts, and some plants, but these were all living beings without exception, and what category did Ai Ling say about spirits?
"The spirit body is a form between the life body and the spirit body, it is a kind of energy body, the breath world was formed after the wrath of the Titans, it is mainly this energy body, our ancestors found the ability to absorb this energy body according to some cultivation methods of the Davier people, that is, the breath we have, but the breath that humans can absorb is limited, after thousands of years, these breath energy that has been precipitated will gather together to become a special energy body, that is, the spirit body, they have a strong breath energy, and they also have a certain sense of autonomy, and they are also a race on the continent, when the gods unified the continent, they were discoveredHowever, for the sake of the stability of the dynasty, they signed non-reciprocal treaties with various races, and most of them existed in remote areas, so people naturally rarely knew about them. Ai Ling said to Taylor: "If you meet in the future, you don't have enough strength, try not to provoke them." ”
Hearing Ai Ling's explanation, Taylor was like a slap in the face, he once thought that the knowledge he learned in the sacrificial church was no match for others, and after walking between continents, he realized that he was so small.
"Your Excellency, is our destination the Emerald Temple of Assoas?" Taylor lowered his head, as if he had been hit hard.
"Oh, it looks like you know this forbidden place, Kule, and that's the gap between us and Brett. Ai Ling's tone became cold again, and Ku Le on the side also lowered his head in shame, not daring to speak.