Chapter Seventy-Eight: In the Snow
Seven days later, it snowed in the Ghost Valley, and this was the second snow in the Ghost Valley, and the first snow was when the Snow Demon first appeared. The once sandy land of the Onifang Valley had been covered with heavy snow, and there was not a single grain of sand in sight, and the white dead tree was even whiter, and the branches were crumbling under the heavy snow.
All the clansmen of the Ghost Fang tribe came to the valley under the leadership of the Black Vulture Ghost to bid farewell to the seven warriors from the Central Plains. The seven of them were dressed in animal skins, fox fur hats, and felt cotton boots on their feet. On the other hand, the people of the Ghost Fang Clan, they were just wearing thin coarse cloth coats, and in the cold wind, they couldn't see that they had the slightest feeling of cold.
"Roaring ......" Under the leadership of the black vulture, all the clansmen of the ghost side roared together and marched for the seven warriors. This is a unique ritual of the Ghost Fang clan to become a soul in order to bid farewell to the warriors, and I wonder what the fate of these seven people will be when they hunt and kill the snow demons. After the ceremony, the black vultures said: "The ghost tribe promised you the warriors, and after the warriors successfully hunt and kill the snow demons, they will fulfill our promise, please rest assured." ”
"Hei Wu, you can talk and count, keep that big white girl for our three brothers." Han Sanhai said.
"Definitely."
Tian Xuwu walked up to the ghost girl, untied his big hat and put it on the girl: "I'm leaving, what is your name, I don't know yet." ”
"I'll tell you when you get back."
The black vulture ghost came to Gu Zhuming and said, "Even if you don't come back, I will keep my promise." ”
"I hope so." After Gu Zhuming finished speaking, he walked out of the valley alone.
The black vulture ghost came to Zhan Wuxian again, and when he saw that Zhan Wuxian had no blade, he untied his sword and said, "This black sword is the best sword of my ghost clan, give it to the warrior for self-defense." Zhan Wuxian took the black sword and said, "Thank you." The black vultures said again: "Then you will know where the North Stygian Sea is, but I still hope you don't go there." ”
"Why?" Zhan Wuxian asked.
"It's a cemetery, there's no why."
"When the time comes, you can tell me where it is." At this time, Zhan Wuxian saw that Guisha had been looking at him, and his eyes seemed to say: You must come back, take me away, I will wait for you.
The snow fell heavier, and the seven people walked out of the mouth of the Ghost Fang Valley and headed northwest, while all the people of the Ghost Fang tribe stood at the mouth of the valley, and not a single person stepped out.
Because the Winning Five Wolves had fought with the Snow Demon and knew where the Snow Demon was, this operation was led by the Winning Five Wolves. On the way, the snow fell harder, and in a few moments, the snow was already up to everyone's knees.
"I'll tell you, have you ever seen such a big snow? It's been less than half a day, and you see, it's almost up to my waist. You can say something, you can't just walk like this, when will this come? Tian Suwu shouted.
"Knowingly asked." Qin Wuwolf said secretly.
"If you don't speak, no one will treat you like a dumb person." Han Sanhai said.
"I say, how do you speak? For everyone's sake, I'll hunt down the snow demon early and go back early. "Tian must have no way.
"I think you're missing your ghost little beauty." Zhao Zhigu said.
"Don't you want to, I think you brothers want more, and you don't just think about women, I'm right."
"If you talk nonsense again, be careful that I will abolish you." Wei said arrogantly.
"What, you want to fight three to one, you and I are afraid of you?" Tian Xu Wudao: "Did you let me talk about the sore spots?" ”
"You?" Wei said proudly: "Second brother, the third brother first abolished the surname Tian, and hunted and killed more snow demons, not more than him, less than him." ”
Zhao Zhigu and Han Sanhai heard the greeting of the eldest brother and immediately showed their blades.
"Don't make any noise!" Gu Zhu said: "Don't you think the weather is a little weird today, I've been in the ghost side for so many years, and I've never seen such a big snowfall, I suspect there must be something strange in it." ”
"Don't doubt it, you see." Win five wolves stop and point in front. I saw a huge cloud waterfall between the two mountains, connecting the sky and the earth, the snow was extremely white, filling the entire valley.
"Cloud Waterfall Sea?" Tian Suwu said in surprise.
"It's not a sea of clouds, it's a snow realm. Snow falls from the sky, then rises from the ground to the sky, and so on. We have to pass through this snow to get to where the snow demon is, and we have to do it quickly, you see that the snow is gradually expanding. ”
"What's in the snow?" Zhan Wu asked.
"I don't know, I just know that in the snow, you don't know the direction and the world, it's not strange for you to see anything, and it's normal for you to come out smoothly."
"Three brothers, aren't you going to kill me, let's see which of us passes through the snow realm first. If the three of you pass first, I will kill myself before you, and if I pass first, you know what to do. Tian Xu didn't finish speaking, and didn't care whether the three brothers of the Jin Kingdom agreed or not, so he jumped up from the snow and flew towards the snow with his toes against the snow.
Seeing this, the other six people didn't say much, and also used the same light body skills, lined up, and ran quickly through the snow, rushing towards the snow realm. Behind them, snow droplets splashed and made a brushing sound. After a while, Zhan Wuxian flew ahead of everyone and was the first to rush into the snow.
Suddenly, Zhan Wuxian felt that there was no sound, the white fog all around, it was really three feet away and there was nothing to see, only the snowflakes as big as the paulownia pages fell slowly, the snowflakes seemed to be attracted by some force, just stuck to the ground and floated up again, when they encountered the falling snowflakes, they avoided it very naturally, until they rose into the air and disappeared. Zhan Wuxian didn't care about these anymore, he just wanted to run out of this snow realm as soon as possible so that he could find the snow demon.
He was running in the snow, and suddenly he felt something unusual, he looked around, and saw that the others were gone, and then looked at his feet, where he had stepped on, there were no footprints. The more Zhan Wuxian felt that this snow realm was weird, he shouted: "Tian Xuwu, win the five wolves." He heard only his own voice go away, but he could hear nothing else.
Zhan looked around, trying to spot any trace of his companions, but found nothing. Zhan Wuxian ran forward again, and then ran to the left to find it, and the result was the same, the surroundings were always white, and the eyes were no more than three feet away, as if they had entered another world. Zhan Wuxian was still unwilling, he thought: others may still be behind and haven't caught up. Zhan Wuxian went back to look for it, and after a few steps, Zhan Wuxian suddenly stopped, he felt a trace of inexplicable fear, Zhan Wuxian looked down and saw that there was not a single footprint on the snow, he had just passed here, and the footprints would not be covered by snow flakes in just a moment. So Zhan Wuxian stretched out his right foot and stepped forward, and then pulled it back, and a footprint appeared on the snow, and the snowflakes fell on it, and there was no change. Zhan Wuxian was still confused, he stepped back with his left foot, and then retracted it, and looked back to see the footprints of his left foot, which were also there. Zhan said without compassion: "Could it be that I am suspicious? Is my way back out of line with the direction I'm coming from? When he turned his head again, he immediately denied himself, the footprint of his right foot was gone, and the ground was flat with snow.
Zhan took two steps back, staring at the footprints he had left on the snow to see when they would disappear. For a long time, Zhan Wuxian didn't even blink his eyes, and those few footprints never changed at all, quietly imprinted there, neither getting bigger nor smaller, neither getting deeper nor lighter. Zhan Wuxian took a deep breath and closed his eyes, silently reciting three numbers in his heart, and when his eyes opened again, those footprints disappeared.
Zhan Wuxian seemed to understand something, in this snowy realm, there seemed to be a mysterious force manipulating, and everything would change in a single thought. Looking at the visual distance of only three feet around him, this reminded Zhan Wuxian of the Boundless Realm, and this snow realm seemed to be a little different from the Boundless Realm. In any case, we can't stay in this snow realm any longer, and we have to find a way to get out as soon as possible.
Zhan Wuxian collected his true anger and was not using light body kung fu, he found that his feet were not sunk in the snow. Zhan Wuxian dug the snow with his hands, the thickness of the snow seemed to be infinitely deep, and he dug a snow pit that was more than ten feet deep, but he still didn't see the bottom. Zhan Wuxian pulled out the sword that the black ghost gave him again, and plunged it into the bottom of the pit, and the snow layer suddenly lost the sword body, until Zhan Wuxian's arm was also inserted into the snow, and he still felt empty underneath, and there was no bottom.
Zhan Wuxian stood up, he didn't try again, because he understood that it would be useless to try again, because this snowy realm was boundless. Zhan Wuxian re-raised his true qi and used his escape technique, he wanted to rush out of this snow realm as quickly as possible. However, as in the Boundless Realm, no matter which direction he rushed from, there was always a white expanse around him, as if he was trapped in an enclosed space, and no matter how fast you went, he couldn't escape.
Zhan Wuxian stood on the vast snowfield, although he didn't know where it was in the distance, he said in his heart: "This must be an infinite realm again, but unlike the hiding place of the son, it is black everywhere, and here it is all white; The water there is only instep, but the water is bottomless, and the snow here is ankle-thick, but you can never reach the bottom if you dig down. This place is also the same as the boundless realm, there is no direction, no heaven and earth, and no distance or size. "But to break out of this snow realm, Zhan Wuxian still has a glimmer of hope, he was in the boundless realm at that time, and it was Lingji's prompt that escaped through the blood realm.
"There was a big rock there." Zhan Wuxian is not right to think about it. In the boundless realm, he can see Lingji, he can see the primordial infant of Gongzi's defeat, and he can also get out through that big stone. But in this snowy realm, there was nothing, only a vast white mist and falling snowflakes. The companions who were close at hand just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, and if they also rushed into the snow, where would they be? Since the others will disappear in the snow realm, will the Phantom Warriors do it? Zhan Wuxian thought like this: I have a communication with the Phantom Warriors, no matter where they are, even if they disappear, as long as they still exist, I can sense them.
As soon as he thought of it, Zhan Wuxian released a phantom warrior in the five directions of forward, backward, left, right and above, and the five phantom warriors each moved forward, disappearing into the white mist and snow in an instant. Zhan Wuxian used spiritism to communicate with the five phantom warriors, and he felt that the five phantom warriors were also white everywhere they went, and they could only see a three-foot range, and they didn't find a single figure, let alone say it. Zhan Wuxian asked them to search farther away, and what they saw was the same as before. The Phantom Warriors walked farther and farther, and Zhan Wuxian and their senses began to slowly weaken. Suddenly, Zhan Wuxian had an ominous premonition in his heart, this was a feeling that he and the Phantom Warrior had never had, only when Zhan Wuxian's true qi was exhausted, the Phantom Warrior was unable to support it, and it would disappear, but he never lost his senses. This time, the communication between Zhan Wuxian and the Phantom Warrior should be like being cut down by a quick knife, and he has no way to know or fight back. For the sake of safety, Zhan Wuxian tried his true qi, feeling that he was full of qi and blood, and his true qi was flourishing, and there was nothing unusual about it.
At this moment, Zhan Wuxian was shocked, and said in his heart: It's not good. The communication between himself and the five phantom warriors suddenly disappeared, and he disappeared without a trace. Zhan Wuxian immediately chased forward, he thought that it should not be a problem to catch up with the Phantom Warrior in front of him at his own speed, he wanted to see what happened in front of him, so that he and the Phantom Warrior lost their understanding.