Chapter Twenty-Three: Snowy Ice
The Far East, outside the Ice and Snow Forest
Early in the morning, Qiye woke up from the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, and after a night of painstaking cultivation, Qiye's comprehension of "Shadow Step" improved a lot. Last night, the fracture of the right rib and the pain in many parts of the body, after a night of warmth and nourishment in the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, the bone cracks have basically healed, and the pain has disappeared a lot. I believe that in a few days, I will be able to achieve healing. As for the "Residence Spiritual Cultivation" function attached to this Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, Qiye felt sincerely satisfied. Especially in this desperate place, if you are seriously injured, you will definitely die.
The so-called "Spiritual Cultivation of the Body" refers to the fact that when a cultivator cultivates his spiritual power in the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm will automatically and silently adjust and nourish the cultivator's physical body, so that the cultivator's realistic physique and spiritual power improvement have been consistent. In short, it is the result of a cultivator's cultivation in the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, which can be directly and perfectly fed back to the actual physique, thus putting an end to the mismatch between the powerful spiritual power and the weak physique.
Once, when Qiye received the inheritance of the "Mixed Yuan Refining Realm" from the Mixed Yuan Taizu, he only knew that the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm had the functions of extending the timeline and shielding spiritual power detection. If it weren't for the fact that Qiye was often injured in the mine camp, through the cultivation of the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm, he really felt that his injured body was recovering at an incredible speed. I'm afraid it's hard to perceive that this Mixed Yuan Refining Realm actually has the magical effect of "Staying Body Spiritual Cultivation", which is simply comparable to a high-level healing medicine! And the high-level healing medicine is only a simple treatment of injuries, but the "Staying Body Spiritual Cultivation" can strengthen and adjust the body while healing the injury, reaching the point where the physique is becoming more and more perfect.
Walking out of the tent, Qiye activities and muscles and bones, a "gurgling" feeling between the bones came, making people feel extremely happy physically and mentally! Clenched his fists, the saturated sense of strength made Qiye feel that his body was much stronger than before, feeling the vitality in his body, and Qiye smiled lightly.
Although, it was rare to be so happy, Qiye still smiled very hiddenly, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and then the shallow smile was quickly drowned in the blandness. In today's brutal barracks, laughter is naturally an emotion that is completely incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere, and it will naturally attract unnecessary attention.
Therefore, in order to avoid the surprise attention of others, Qiye quickly restrained his smile, and his face returned to its usual calmness. Walking outside the tent, Nanaya noticed that some soldiers around him were in an unusually hurried and panicked manner.
"Quick, go over and see," the soldiers urged each other. Seeing this, Qiye frowned, and an ominous premonition lingered in his heart: Could it be that what happened again? Without thinking much about it, Qiye hurriedly followed the crowd to see what was going on.
Drilling through the crowded fence and seeing the scene that appeared, Qiye's eyes froze: in front of him, a large number of people were lying on the snow, and they had no breath. There were no blood stains around, the corpses were not attacked in any way, and there was even a sense of serenity on the faces of each deceased.
"I've heard that they all slept during the night patrol. ”
"How can so many people die in their sleep?"
"These people seem to be late night patrols. ”
The soldiers in the crowd chattered...
After hearing these fragmentary information, Qiye understood: it turned out that these dead were all patrol soldiers late last night, but a large number of sleeping deaths and disappearances had occurred for unknown reasons.
Qiye's heart was suddenly shocked: the late-night patrol soldiers, which was the second group of guards who changed guards with their first batch of patrol soldiers, remembered that the number was about 5,000 people. Since the late-night wolf attack, the number of night patrol soldiers has increased from 2,000 per batch to 5,000 per batch, and now there are a total of 10,000 *** vigils every night. Although there are still cases every night when some people are physically exhausted and die in the cold during the night vigil, there are only a dozen or so people at most, so how can it be that most of the 5,000 people have slept to death and some have disappeared for no reason? This is also terrible! When I think about it, I thought about it last night, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt creepy, and my palms were cold.
Soon, when Han Qi and Shui Lianggong heard the news, they were shocked and rushed over with the guards. The wolf guards stepped forward to carefully examine the corpses of the soldiers who had fallen asleep: there were no fatal wounds, their expressions were calm and serene, and they couldn't help frowning, and they couldn't help but be puzzled by the strange cause of death.
"How's it going?" asked Hanqi anxiously as he stepped forward.
"Lord Hui, these soldiers have no wounds, and judging from the current situation, they should freeze to death. The wolf guard glanced at the corpses of the soldiers again and made a judgment.
"Freezing to death?!How could so many people freeze to death outside the tent overnight?Why didn't there be any induction inside the tent?And why did those who disappeared disappear so quietly?"
"This, the last general didn't know, in the middle of the night last night, the last general didn't find anything unusual when he was on patrol. Moreover, no traces of fierce beasts were found around the barracks, and as for how the missing person disappeared without realizing it, the last general really did not know. "The wolf guards can't do anything about it.
"It seems that something must have happened late last night, judging from the lack of any blood stains around, it should not be the work of a beast, there may be something else hidden. There must be something hidden in this Far Eastern Domain. Shui Lianggong on the side speculated.
"Well, in that case, there's no point in digging into it. The order was sent down, and the patrol soldiers made up another 5,000 men. The whole army is ready to go!" The matter has come to this, Han Qi decisively gave up, at this moment he just wants to find the thousand-year-old treasure as soon as possible and leave this barren place as soon as possible.
The death of 5,000 soldiers at once without a clue terrified the entire army, but Hanqi still chose to move forward without hesitation. The remaining 180,000 troops are now reduced to about 170,000, and at this rate, I am afraid that neither army will be able to bring back 100,000 people. If his entire army is annihilated, it will be a huge blow to the defense of Cold Spirit City, and if he can't find the treasure at such a big price, then Cold Spirit City will be tantamount to self-destruction.
Shui Lianggong seemed to see that Han Qi was worried, although the number of casualties was similar between the two armies. But the number of deaths this time was more than he expected, and it was very strange. If it is reduced at this rate, his 100,000 troops will not be able to survive the return journey. Therefore, although along the way, Shui Lianggong has his own wishful double-plate, but this time the problem is indeed a bit serious. However, for such a large casualty of his own army, although Shui Lianggong didn't care, he couldn't pretend to turn a blind eye in order not to arouse the suspicion of Han Qi.
"The whole army has stepped up its defenses, and if there is anything abnormal, report it immediately!" Shui Lianggong took a step forward and ordered.
Han Qi glanced at Shui Lianggong, who had a serious expression, and asked a little anxiously, "Brother Shui Liang, the army has been marching for several days, how long will it take to reach the hinterland of the Far East Domain?"
"After the continuous hills and slopes ahead, you should enter the hinterland of the Far Eastern Domain. Shui Lianggong looked at the white undulating hill slope in front of him and speculated.
"Well, without further ado, the whole army is ready to set off immediately!" Han Qi urged again.
So, after a brief packing, the army immediately set out. Looking at the dead patrol soldiers in that place, Qiye apologized slightly, and followed the advancing torrent army.
The rolling slopes of the snow and ice hills are as dense as the large and small sand piles in the desert. But the snow on this hillside is not as thick as the snow forest, it is as fluffy as the foam in the ocean, and it is very easy for the forward battalion of the army to clear the way. The forward battalion of the army took turns to open the way, and the rear army advanced steadily forward. Just when Han Qi thought that he would advance so smoothly to the hinterland of the Far Eastern Domain, the troops had not advanced far.
The forward battalion at the front stopped for some reason, and then there was a commotion in the crowd. Seeing that the army was stagnant, the cold banner on horseback immediately asked, "Why stop! What is happening ahead?"
Soon, Liu Bingwei rushed over when he heard the sound, leaned over and said, "Qiqi City Lord, there is an abnormal discovery in the forward battalion ahead. ”
"What, there's something unusual? After listening to the report, Han Qi frowned, and then simply and decisively threw himself off his horse. In this way, under the guidance of Liu Bingwei, Hanqi walked quickly to the front of the army.
At this moment, the soldiers of the forward battalion were looking at the white snow in front of them with a frightened face, and the cold flag came to the soldiers of the forward battalion, and when he saw the soldiers' faces changed, he asked eagerly, "What happened?"
"Return, return to the city, city lord, there are, there are soldiers who fall, fall, disappear, disappear, see...", a soldier of the forward battalion who was slumped on the ground, pointed to a piece of snow in front of him, and stammered in horror in reply.
"What! gone?" said Hanqi, in disbelief. Then he turned his head sideways and looked at the seemingly quiet snowfield, Rao was him, and he couldn't see anything unusual.
At this time, Shui Lianggong also rushed over with his personal guards. After listening to Hanqi's narration, Shui Lianggong looked at the seemingly flat and soft snow in front of him with a solemn expression. After hesitating and thinking for a while, Mizurashi slowly moved forward cautiously and slowly to the front of the forward battalion. Then he squatted down and stretched out his hand to probe the snow surface in front of him, there was a thin layer of ice on the snow, and the situation below was unknown, but this thin layer of ice could block the detection of the spiritual power of the fingertips.
"Bring the spear!" said Shui Lianggong.
Soon, a soldier handed the spear to Shui Lianggong, who held the spear in his hand, injected spiritual power slightly, and threw the spear with a blast.
"Huh~" The spear instantly penetrated the ice and disappeared into the snow, and after a few ups and downs like water on the snow surface, it quickly regained its calm. And the spear that shot into the bottom of the snow, Shui Lianggong could no longer feel any spiritual reaction.
"It's... Xue Ze!" Shui Lianggong judged from this, although he didn't believe it, but Shui Lianggong still firmly believed. As early as more than a year before this treasure hunt in the Far East, Shui Lianggong collected extensively and consulted any records about the snowy region. Learn about the various environments of the snowy region in the vast number of books, but in the various sea and river atlases, there are descriptions of various terrains in the ordinary snowy region, but there are few records of mysterious snowy regions such as the Far East Domain, which the human race has not been involved in. And "Ice Snow" is also one of the unique terrains of this mysterious snow region.