Chapter 186: Platinum City
The glacier valley is vast, with endless glaciers and snowfields, and where they meet the sky, they appear black edges, like a faint ink outline.
Even the snow is falling wantonly, and the sky is white.
Lin Feng and his teammates continued to move forward under the leadership of Elder Xie Lingtian, walking on such a vast and boundless snow, only then did they know what the feeling of vastness and heroism was, and only in such an open natural environment could people easily appreciate things related to the essence of life.
Lin Feng had never been to such a large area of glaciers and snowfields, but this feeling of desolation had been experienced in his previous life, he had been to the desert in his previous life, although the two places were extremely different, but the artistic conception was the same.
A heroic feeling experienced in the previous life can be described by an ancient poem: "The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river." It is only against the vast natural background that people have the idea of howling.
Along the way, all kinds of snow monsters were busy looking for food, while many casual cultivators were looking for spirit grass in the crevices of the rock wall, and some monks formed a team to hunt demon beasts.
I don't know how many years these scenes have lasted, and I don't know how long they will continue in the future, but perhaps as long as this glacial snowfield still exists, they will continue to live like this.
After three days on the snow, the snowflakes gradually stopped, and the sunlight appeared in the sky, shining in this silvery world, transforming into colorful colors, which was quite gorgeous.
"It must be a sunny day, look at the red dress, which is extremely enchanting. Lin Feng touched the scene and said casually.
"Brother Lin is really brilliantly written, how can such a good sentence be thought of by people like us who only know how to cultivate?" Li Zhou stroked his palms and smiled.
He praised it sincerely, and the other elite disciples next to him listened to it and didn't think so, and said in their hearts: "But I can chant a few lines of poetry, what's the big deal?" If there is a real crisis, the first person to die should be this Lin Feng, but he has only only condensed the cultivation of the middle stage of the Sevenfold Void Pill." ”
Elder Xie Lingtian stared at Lin Feng with a smile, then waved his sleeve robe in a dashing manner, and said, "Everyone has gathered their essence and blood energy, and has quickened their pace, I already feel that there is a town a hundred miles away. ”
Once in the town, you can buy maps of the glacier valley and the edge of the Kunlun Ruins in some of the big shops, and everyone in this group is here for the first time, so it can be said that they have crossed the river by feeling the stones.
Although they did not summon mounts, the elite disciples of the Jiuding Sect displayed their swift body skills, and their speed was also extremely fast.
Just like Feihong stepping on the snow, there is no trace, but a phantom flickering is seen on the vast glacier and snow field, and this team is full of masters.
The distance of a hundred miles was not long after, and a huge city appeared in front of him, but it was not the town that Xie Lingtian had guessed by his perception before.
The quaint and grand city wall is built along a huge iceberg, and the ancient trees next to it are full of ice edges, still standing proudly in the cold wind, and the three golden characters "Platinum City" are engraved on the city wall in ancient and vigorous handwriting.
Such a large-scale city was much larger than the county towns that Zhi Lin Feng had seen before, and the moat outside the city had not frozen for some reason under such weather, and the water was glowing with a ghostly light, and there was a little cold smoke.
Xie Lingtian led ten elite disciples across the moat from the drawbridge and then reached the city gate.
The guards were all dressed in bright silver armor and carried a large heavy sword, each of them tall and powerful, with a strong breath.
They weren't picked, but they were born and raised in the Glacier Valley because they grew up to be so resolute and mighty.
According to the usual practice, the guards let everyone enter the city after receiving a hundred blood crystals from each person.
The crystal ice cubes are cut into a very regular shape and paved into a large road, and there is a crisp footstep sound when you walk on it.
The buildings on both sides of the street are very atmospheric, all covered with snow, like igloos, and it is truly a platinum city.
There are also many stalls on the road selling all kinds of genius treasures and demon beast materials, and the shouts of the scattered cultivators are endless. There were still some stalls in front of the shops on the street, but seeing that the swordsmith used special materials to burn the furnace very strongly, and the cold weather could not affect it, this man wore a rough suit made of animal skin, picked up a sledgehammer and struck the sword embryo.
On the shelves next to it, there are many well-made blades, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and swords, which shimmer in the cold light against the backdrop of the snow and sun.
As long as they are infused with spirit stones of various attributes, and runes are engraved on them, these weapons will become magic weapons.
In addition, there are also some powerful monks who captured many middle-level demon beasts alive, sealed their demonic power, tied chains, and then set up roadside stalls to sell.
Everything seemed to be thriving, Lin Feng found that he hadn't seen a few ordinary people along the way, could it be that such a large ancient city was specially built for monks?
Thinking about it, how can ordinary people live in such a harsh environment? Not only do you have to face monks from all sides who can't distinguish between good and evil, but also countless demon beasts in the glacial valley.
After wandering around the Platinum City for half an hour, they finally found a large chamber of commerce, and when Xie Lingtian took them to step into this chamber of commerce, even if they all gathered most of their essence and blood energy, they still formed a powerful aura.
Everyone is a young man, it can be described as amazing, and it may not be possible to pick one out of tens of thousands of people, so they make the shopkeeper of the Chamber of Commerce quite shocked, and they came out to greet him with great fear, and their attitude was extremely respectful.
"Shopkeeper, don't panic, we're just here to buy a map of the glacier valley region and the edge of the Kunlun Ruins. Li Zhou stepped forward with a smile and said.
"How is one enough, a total of eleven copies, give one to everyone. Xie Lingtian smiled casually, walked over and patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder.
Cold sweat flowed from the shopkeeper's forehead, and he quickly nodded and went to the counter to look for it, and then handed over eleven pairs of jade slips.
The map is recorded in the jade slip, but any monk, no matter what his strength, can see the map in it at a glance as long as he probes his spiritual power into it.
Xie Lingtian smiled lightly and left with his disciples, but Lin Feng didn't leave in a hurry, came to the shopkeeper, and asked, "When was the Platinum City built, why is it so simple and grand?"
"Returning to the strong, Platinum City was built eight thousand years ago, and what you see is only the tip of the iceberg, the heart of Platinum City is above the huge ice peaks deep in the glacier valley.
It is said that it was an ancient city established by the five peerless powerhouses who cultivated to the heavens and the earth, in order to unite the monks to fight against the invasion of demon beasts.
The area where we are now is only in the southern part of the city, and I really recommend that you visit the main city when you have time in the future, it will definitely shock you. "The shopkeeper was excited when he talked about Platinum City, and he was a little proud.
Lin Feng smiled and nodded, he was encouraged by these words, and he also wanted to see the large-scale Platinum City, but Xie Lingtian should be in a hurry to lead the team to Kunlun Ruins, so this matter had to be put on hold.
When you go out, you still have to focus on the team, unlike before when you came out alone to experience and do whatever you wanted.
Hurriedly following the team, Xie Lingtian and his teammates didn't bother to ask Lin Feng what he had left behind just now, and now that he had obtained the map of the edge of the Glacier Valley and Kunlun Ruins, it was easy to get out of the road.
Lin Feng also probed his spiritual power into the jade slip, looked at the map in it, first had a general outline of the introduction, and then only needed to focus his mind on one of the maps, and then it would be enlarged, and everything was clear in his mind.
Even some important places and dangerous places were marked, and the monks were persuaded not to go to them by mistake, so as not to lose their lives.
The danger of the glacier valley is not only the danger of the sky, but also the power of the blood alliance, those big blood alliances are hostile to each other, if they rashly hunt demon beasts in their territory, they will be wiped out.
Between the glacier valley and the Kunlun ruins, there is a wide sea, called the Xingchen Sea, which is also an extremely dangerous place.
"From the map, we are now at the southernmost point of the glacial valley, and 1,200 miles from Platinum City is the Sea of Stars, and we will go to the sea and prepare to cross the sea. The danger of going to Kunlun Ruins is estimated to be not far away, so don't take it lightly. Xie Lingtian said in a solemn tone.
"Remember the teachings, you must be cautious when you go to Kunlun Ruins. The other elite disciples said in unison as if they had discussed it.
Li Zhou pursed his lips and muttered to Lin Feng in a low voice: "These guys look like they are swearing, it's really unbearable, if they really encounter a life and death crisis, I don't believe they can be so calm." ”
"Perhaps, after all, true courage must be tempered in constant actual combat. Lin Feng's voice was also very low, and the implication was that the other elite disciples actually worked behind closed doors most of the time and had not been truly sharpened.
Here is the southern branch of the platinum city, although it is the tip of the iceberg, it is also magnificent, the palace pavilion, can be described as ice carving jade, Ambilight.
There are a lot of low-level and middle-level monks in the city, and the high-ranking monks may be in the pavilions, and they will not set up stalls on the street to shout.
Lin Feng's team is full of dragons and phoenixes, and the collection in the storage bag is also quite rich, so he only glanced at the stalls selling various magic weapons and talismans on the roadside, and he still disdains it in his heart.
For them, these things are like broken copper and iron, in fact, there are many real treasures in these genius treasures and various things sold in stalls, and if they are lucky, they can also be picked up.
Lin Feng knew this very well, and at the beginning, he was in the Tianxia Alliance Chamber of Commerce in the ancient town of Xianshi City, and purchased a strange blade like the red and blue double knives at the price of the magic weapon.
Now he has to keep up with the team, and if he has the opportunity in the future, he doesn't mind spending some time picking up some genius treasures, maybe he will have unexpected gains!
The monks who set up stalls on the side of the road didn't dare to come up to peddle, or even come over to talk, after all, the overall momentum exuded by Lin Feng's team was quite powerful, and the monks were very knowledgeable and didn't dare to come up and cause trouble.
Along the main street, the procession marched all the way, and the bright sunlight shone in the midst of the Platinum City, and everywhere glowed with a strange brilliance, which made people enchant.
In the evening, he finally walked out of the southern part of the Platinum City, and the city gate behind him was even more heavily guarded, and the guards were all blood condensation fivefold cultivators, wearing silver armor and having strange runes on it, everyone was magnificent.
They don't look like guards, they look like commanders patrolling here.
Lin Feng knew from the situation reflected in the map of the Jade Room that from this outing, all the way to the east was the Sea of Stars, an extremely important intersection, and the guards were of course selected from the elite.
As they approached the gates, a large fence suddenly appeared, blocking the way.
A handsome guard walked with a compass-like magic weapon, glowing like an emerald.
"You all give me honesty, this is Platinum City, and the masters in the town are in the Transfiguration Realm. Now I'll test if you're someone sent by the Star Palace. With the urging of the handsome guard's hand, the compass magic weapon shone brightly, starting from Xie Lingtian, and examined the entire team one by one.
found that there was nothing unusual, so he nodded and smiled: "It means that there is no special reaction from the astrolabe, which means that you are not from the Star Palace, hurry up and get on the road." ”
"Where is the power of the Star Palace?Besides, the person they sent must have that special mark?" Lin Feng didn't believe that such a compass magic weapon could detect whether the monk was from the so-called Star Palace.
"You're a foreign monk, aren't you! You don't even know the way of the Star Palace, this power is majestic above the sea of stars, and the main altar is hidden in the sea of fog, and you can't find it at all. And in the past few years, Star Palace has actually coveted Platinum City and the Glacier Valley area. ”
The guard said: "All the people of the Star Palace practice spells on the sea, and the breath is very different from ours, and they control outsiders with a special elixir, and the breath of the Star Palace contained in it will only be stronger, so the finger astrolabe in my hand can accurately detect whether the monk is from the Star Palace." ”
Lin Feng smiled lightly, noncommittal, and then followed the team out of the city gate.
"That means that the astrolabe is not very reliable, if the Star Palace is ingenious and asks the people sent not to take the special pills, they reach an agreement, and they don't have to use the pills to control it. Guards simply don't use the astrolabe to detect it. Lin Feng said in his heart.
"It's a good star palace, there is this kind of battle between the great forces everywhere in the cultivation world, we are just passing by, there shouldn't be much danger in the Star Sea, right?" Elder Xie Lingtian analyzed.
Then he turned around and smiled, "Lin Feng, what do you think?"
"The so-called strong dragon can't suppress the earth snake, we still try to avoid the people of the Star Palace, since they can become the number one force in the Star Sea, there must be a lot of masters among them. Lin Feng said.
"This statement is quite reasonable, after all, it is not like staying in the Jiuding Sect of the Qingbarren Mountain Range, and we have to learn to be patient when we are trained outside. When we get to the coast, everyone is ready to go to sea as soon as possible, I really want to reach Kunlun Ruins soon!" Xie Lingtian patted Lin Feng's shoulder with great appreciation and smiled.
Several elite disciples secretly cursed in their hearts: "Is Elder Xie's eyes blind? There are so many of our elite talents standing here, but he went to ask Lin Feng, who is not very strong in cultivation and resourcefulness. ”
They have always been arrogant, so they will not show the dissatisfaction and jealousy in their hearts, but they are bent on finding a time to humiliate Lin Feng, but this opportunity has never come.
Looking back at the southern city of Platinum City, the pavilions and cornices, and the buildings stacked with ice crystals are extremely spectacular, and the monks in the past are all busy, hunting demon beasts and collecting spiritual grass in this kind of place, which can often be sold for a good price.
There are even monks who specialize in business, buying and hoarding all kinds of materials at low prices, and then reselling them. In short, there was a very prosperous atmosphere, which was not so grand in the county towns around the Qinghuang Mountain Range.
Buried in the road, stepping on the snow, making a "snort~" sound.
Originally, everything was normal, and the monks who came and went had a confident look on their faces, but in an instant, black clouds rolled in the sky, and the ink waves were surging.
The original sunset afterglow was directly obscured by the surging black clouds, and the sky appeared very low, as if it was about to collapse, and the southern city of the Platinum City below was shrouded in a layer of haze, which could be described as a black cloud that was about to destroy the city.
In the gloomy sky, lightning like fiery snakes continued to flow and rage downward, destroying many buildings.
If there is a vision of heaven and earth, there will be changes. The monks were all awe-struck and hurriedly fled in all directions.
Some monks are so timid that they scream even if they panic. Moreover, such a terrifying environment made people panic, and the figures on the snow flickered, and the monks could be said to have fled desperately.
"Elder Xie, where are we hiding?" asked Li Zhou.
"If it's really a big disaster, it won't be able to run far for a while. If we don't, let's get ready to fight and see what the hell is going on. "Elder Xie is usually chic and uninhibited, and he looks a little unreliable, but when he encounters serious things, he becomes very serious, and even a little old-fashioned.
The top ten elite disciples glanced at each other, none of them had any different opinions, they were already keen on fighting, and the masters of the arts were bold, how could they be afraid of a little vision of heaven and earth?
Lin Feng looked up at the sky, but saw that the black clouds formed a huge vortex in the sky, and then the clouds continued to roll and surge, and the lightning became more and more intense. I looked in the direction of the city gate, but I saw the monks crowding in like a swarm.
It was difficult to retreat before the disaster struck, and the guards standing on the city wall suddenly turned their hearts and slashed the chains that bound the city gates, and then the huge metal gates fell from above, as swift as a guillotine knife on a guillotine.
Many of the unlucky ones among the dense monks were killed by the floodgates before they could make a countermeasure, so that the gates were closed, and the guards left the walls, and no matter how the monks outside tossed, they could no longer enter the Platinum City.
The sky above this city is guarded by an ancient formation, and almost no one can force their way into the formation from the outside.
"Boom~" The black clouds in the sky burst open, and soon condensed a huge ice sculpture mask phantom, and then a cold and hoarse voice echoed in the void: "Stupid cultivators of Platinum City, are you still hesitating? Star Palace is the best force you can rely on." ”
The scattered cultivators can be said to have no way to go to heaven and no door to enter the ground, and when they are frightened, they don't care about face, and they kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, claiming that they want to sincerely take refuge in the Star Palace.
"It's too late now, you can only think that you are unlucky, kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys, and I will destroy you to show the people in the city. The huge ice sculpture mask phantom in the void sneered.
Then the nightmare of the cultivators came, the ice sculpture mask phantom fell from the void, blocking all the space qi around them that could escape, and then the screams kept coming, and the blood stained the snow red.
"Elder Xie, what realm of cultivation is this monster, can you be sure to deal with it?" Lin Feng said.
"Isn't it the first time I've been to Glacier Valley? I haven't really fought, and I don't know if I'll be able to defeat this monster. Xie Lingtian muttered.