224|City
What the hell is not too ugly? Seeing that Jing Chen was concentrating on thinking, the Wind Festival silently glanced at the Suzaku who had just come in from the entrance of the ice cellar, and retreated to the Duobao Pagoda.
"Haqiu." Suzaku, who was walking the steps of the ice cellar, stepped on the air and almost fell to the ground, so puzzled that he glanced around and found nothing abnormal.
Could it be that the old man's cultivation has regressed? Damn the Nirvana period!
Rubbing his nose, Suzaku staggered towards Jing Chen, and patted the baby apprentice on the shoulder from behind, "How are you thinking?" ”
Jing Chen had to rephrase what Tongfeng Sacrifice had just said.
"Not bad, good idea." Suzaku's eyes lit up, "Then do you think of refining anything, do you want to help you with your staff." ”
Jing Chen actually had a rough prototype in his heart, and now that there were coolies sent to the door, he didn't want to be in vain, and said with a smile, "Then it's troublesome Master." ”
In this way, the city became more and more noisy because of the arrival of the exhibition.
During this period, Jing Chen didn't go out to hang out again, and even Asura could only play boringly in the ice room.
"Apprentice, I'm back!" Suzaku, who was sent out to collect materials, threw the storage bag to Jing Chen, and lay on the ground without an image, his limbs wide open.
"Yiyayay Asura's hand shook, and the dream poison sting flew out, right on Suzaku's face, and immediately giggled.
Three seconds later, Suzaku sat up with a carp, pinched one of the tentacles of the "jellyfish" with his fingers, and finally failed to resist the small eyes of the asura, and threw it back.
Jing Chen opened the storage bag, the required materials were complete, and the next thing was to try refining, after all, his refining technique this time was something he had never tried before, and he couldn't use Asura's fire control ability.
Until the day of the official registration of the exhibition.
Suzaku dragged the person out of the ice cellar, and at this time, Jing Chen's whole person was in a fugue state after the refining weapon was consumed, and he couldn't lift his energy no matter how he looked at it.
Anyway, Suzaku didn't want to admit that such a lump in his hand was actually the only disciple he had accepted in the past thousand years, with a small face, and with the other hand, he picked up the Asura and walked towards the center of Ice Wave City.
Two uneasy yo.
"Where are we going?" On the street, smelling the aroma of rice wafting in the air, Jing Chen became lazy and picked up the Asura that was held by the Vermilion Bird.
"Sign up." Suzaku didn't have a good qi, so after thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask, "Is there any progress in refining?" ”
No wonder he would ask this, if the spirit level or above talisman is successfully refined, there will definitely be a thunder tribulation, and these days, there is no movement in the sky above the hut, and in vain he is always ready to suppress it as soon as the thunder tribulation appears.
Therefore, the above also shows from the side that Jing Chen's talisman is not of high quality, or it has not been completed.
But today is the registration day, can you be in time?
"Don't worry." Jing Chen casually touched Suzaku's head, and received an angry blow and stepped on his toes, "Of course, good things have to be saved for the competition, what's the point of refining them now." ”
Look at what I said, I was worried about it in vain. Suzaku put his hands behind his back, followed Jing Chen's side with a calm face, and walked with considerable momentum step by step - it made people laugh when placed on a three-year-old child.
Jing Chen glanced at Suzaku and then again, "Master, why don't I carry you?" ”
"Hmph."
Jing Chen, "......"
The city where the ice exhibition is held is already crowded with people, not only monks from all over the world, but also residents of the city are very happy to join in the excitement.
Maybe you will be selected to participate in this year's refining selection, which is a supreme honor!
The venue was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, and Jing Chen and the three of them came late, so it seemed very difficult to squeeze in.
"There are still two pillars of incense in the ice tower to open, so bear with it."
"Why are there so many people coming this year, I think there are twice as many as the last one."
"It's not the top prize of the refining competition, I heard that it's the refining material that even the Venerable wants ......."
"There are still three days before the refining competition starts, and today is the first day of the exhibition...... Damn, won't there be more people in a few days? ”
Jing Chen set up a wall of qi around him, and among all the people who were crowded around, he was relatively comfortable.
Let go of the divine sense, and all kinds of information will be gathered.
"What is an ice tower?" Jing Chen was puzzled.
The entire field was filled with people standing in a small block, but there was a kilometer-square open space in the center, guarded on all sides, making it impossible for crowded people to approach, which looked really strange and abnormal.
If you look closely, you won't find a single exhibit in the so-called ice exhibition.
"You'll just know later." Suzaku smiled, obviously he knew the inside story, these days he is not like Jing Chenguang hiding in the ice cellar and not coming out.
"Huh?" Asura pointed above the clearing, "Huh? ”
"Something?" Jing Chen raised his head, and he didn't find anything abnormal, but there were more and more people gathered around, and if it continued like this, once there was a little commotion, it would be a stampede.
The time of the two pillars of incense finally passed, and the noisy crowd gradually died down at this moment.
Jing Chen's mind moved, and he noticed that the energy in the air was different.
The corner of the clothes was pulled by Asura again, and the little finger was still above the clearing.
It's just that it's not empty now, but I don't know when the colorful streamer shines.
Jing Chen squinted, and saw the virtual image of an object in the brilliance, gradually solidifying, and it was actually a crystal clear ice surface.
The whole body of the tower is made of ice condensing stone, and it itself is a huge talisman that does not appear until it is activated, and people are unconscious even if they stand in the open space corresponding to the ice tower at this moment.
As soon as the ice tower revealed its true face, the crowd erupted in an exclamation.
Immediately afterwards, the congratulatory sound of the opening of the ice exhibition reached everyone's ears.
The man in front of him finally moved slowly.
Jing Chen walked in the crowd, while looking at the 100-meter-high ice tower, the pillars are small and large, and a circular platform is built around the wall at the top.
"Hurry up, I heard that the first 10,000 people who entered this year have an ice sculpture of a city protector beast!"
"Really? Forget it, what kind of foot strength are those monks, how can you compare with me, I'd better take it easy. ”
Jing Chen's ears moved, and he became interested in the ice sculpture in their mouth.
However, the road ahead is congested, and the ten entrances under the ice tower cannot evacuate so many people for a while, and it is estimated that there is no chance of waiting for the ice sculpture.
The ten entrances are evenly distributed on the ice wall, and when you go inside, you realize that the inside seems to have been blessed by the space formation, which is much larger than the space area seen from the outside, and the staircase passage up is extremely spacious, and it is not a problem to accommodate more than fifty people walking side by side at the same time.
"These are the exhibits?" Jing Chen noticed that there were entire display cases embedded in the wall on both sides of the staircase, and when he got closer, he found that there were some extremely realistic paintings, and some of them were pure text narrations, writing some history of the Extreme East Glacier Belt or Ice Wave City.
"Go fast." Suzaku was dissatisfied that Jing Chen was dragged by the mural, "Now catch up and have ice sculptures to take." ”
10,000 places are more than a lot, but not too much, Jing Chen will be more than 8,000 by then, which is still the reason why he didn't stop all the way, so it can be seen that there are really a lot of people who come to the exhibition.
At this time, the platform has been covered with people coming up one after another, but fortunately, the place is huge, and the distance between the display cabinets and the display cabinets is a little farther, and the space looks more than rich.
Jing Chen looked at the ice sculpture in his hand and walked to the nearest booth.
The castle guard beast is in the shape of a leopard, somewhat similar to the extreme ice leopard that was previously carved to vomit blood, only the size of a palm, and it is cute and cute, and it depicts the charm with a few knives.
"I'll see." Suzaku poked his head over, and his fleshy little face pouted, "Sure enough, it's the old guy's handiwork." ”
"Who?"
Suzaku shook his head and pointed to one place, "If you can get to the edge, you might be lucky enough to see him fishing." ”
Fishing, fishing?! Jing Chen was stunned, wait, isn't this in the air, where did the fish come from?
Suzaku didn't know what he said, so let's go to the ice exhibition first.
But it's strange to say, after going around in it for a long time, even if Jing Chen deliberately walked in a straight line, he really didn't see the edge of the ice tower.
Thinking back to the size of the ice tower I saw below, it was unreasonable.
"Go there." Suzaku patted Jing Chen on the shoulder, "Sign up." Then he seemed to be comforting, "Although I don't want to admit it, but that old guy is a heaven-level refiner, and his array attainments are second to none, you are still young, and you have talent, and if you learn for another thousand eight hundred years, you will definitely be able to make a draw." ”
Eighteen hundred years. Jing Chen, "......" Are you sure it's a comfort rather than a blow?!
The registration procedure is simple, pay a certain fee and get a jade nameplate, and the competition time is three days later.
There are still a lot of people on the platform, and many of them come in groups to discuss in front of a certain display case.
Compared with watching the exhibition, Jing Chen was more interested in the ice tower itself, but he just walked down, knowing that there was a formation in front of him to confuse his vision, but he was still unable to break through, let alone go to the so-called edge.
Well, maybe it's going to have to be a different approach.
Jing Chen touched his chin and spread his senses, and a small illusory spirit mark appeared in his palm.
Oh no, after the cultivation reaches the ground level, it is more appropriate to call this square seal in his hand a spiritual transformation.
"Look there, there is another fool who wants to break through the formation of the ice tower."
"Oops, come on, let's bet on how soon he'll give up."
"Damn, bet again?! That fool waited for two days last year, do you know how much time I wasted visiting the exhibition?! ”
"You're embarrassed to say that the result is not for you to win, twenty spirit rune stones, just thinking about it hurts me...... Hey, what about people? ”
While they were talking, Jing Chen was nowhere to be seen.
"Coming out?" Jing Chen didn't dare to take too many steps, and ten meters in front of him was the boundary of the top layer of the ice tower.
Looking far away, you can see the vast snowfield outside the Ice Wave City, until the phantom shadows of the heavy mountains overlap each other at the end of the field of vision, and the heaven and the earth seem to merge into one scene.
In the back, the exhibition continues, and the people walking around it are clearly visible, but it gives people the illusion that they are two worlds.
"Hey! Old man Mo! Suzaku patted Jing Chen on the shoulder excitedly, "The kid is lucky, the location is right!" ”
Otherwise, the ice tower was so big, even if Jing Chen broke through the mask array on the top layer, the probability of encountering Mo Fei was extremely low.
Just a few steps away, the old man sat on a small stool with his back to the three of them, his movements were unhurried, and he slowly retracted the rod while Suzaku spoke.
Jing Chen noticed that the old man's fishing rod was an ordinary willow branch, which had not been repaired and polished, and there were even many burrs on the corners.
The most eye-catching thing is the fish hook, which is actually straight.
Tsk, this equipment is in the business, and at first glance it is a master.