Chapter 12: Ice

The Hiyarama Mountains, the largest mountain range in this world, traverse the Eurasian continent and are known as the roof of the world.

As the highest peak, Mount Everest, due to its highest altitude, was not conquered by a pair of well-equipped internationally famous American mountaineering teams until 75 years.

But the route they climb is from the southern foothills of the mountains, which are relatively gently sloping. As for the dangerous northern foothills, it was not until 83 that a team of climbers from the British Climbing Association, a group of five, planted the national flag on the top of the mountain.

But the price they paid was five people, and only three came back, and two of them suffered severe chilblains, and after being rescued, they were all amputated, which saved their lives.

In recent years, after the restoration of peace in China, a warrior who had reached the Grandmaster of Huajin led the team to climb Mount Everest, planted the bright five-star national flag on the top of the mountain, and set up a boundary monument to tell the world that this place still belongs to the territory of China.

The actions of the Spiritual Master have led to Mount Everest becoming a mecca for the world's mountaineers, attracting mountaineers from all over the world.

Over the years, at the foot of Mount Everest, a gathering place has been formed, so that every climber can come and rest.

Lin Dao set off from Lhasa and walked to the foot of Mount Everest, when the sun had just set and the sky was already dark.

So, Lin Dao followed the road signs and walked towards the famous gathering place in the world.

At this point, it's just time for dinner. Therefore, the vents above each tent in the gathering place are bubbling with water vapor and cold at this time, forming bursts of white ice mist.

Such a scene directly pointed out the direction for the forest road that came over.

With his feet on the frozen and somewhat hard snow, Lin Dao seemed to walk slowly into the gathering place.

Looking at the mountaineers of different skin colors, different nationalities, and different languages, three in a group, and five in a group sitting together chatting and cooking, Lin Dao couldn't help but look sideways.

After all, the number of humans seen along the way from Lhasa to here is less than one-tenth of that here.

And when he saw Lin Dao stepping into the gathering place alone, and seeing him enter through the gate leading to the bottom of the mountain, he couldn't help but let out a low surprise.

After all, anyone who knows a little about the mountaineers here knows that this is a dangerous place for life and death. Therefore, they all travel in groups to deal with the dangers that arise along the way.

A person like Lin Dao came here, and he didn't meet him once in decades. Coupled with seeing Lin Dao's simple attire, as well as the yellow characteristics of black hair, yellow skin, and black eyes, they couldn't help but think of a legend in the mountaineering world.

That is, the captain who led the Huaguo mountaineering team back then was not wearing the warm clothes they are wearing now, but wearing an ordinary single clothes.

Originally, foreign mountaineers regarded this legend as an exaggeration. Because, after coming here, I saw the foot of Mount Everest, where the average temperature is around minus 30 degrees, and if you wear a single clothes, you won't survive the next day.

However, at this time, looking at Lin Dao, who was only wearing a simple leather jacket in front of him, and the ruddy face of the other party, all made those climbers amazed.

Ignoring the gazes of those people, Lin Dao walked directly to an empty yurt, and after putting down the backpack behind him, he took out the dry food and solid alcohol he brought from the backpack, and moved out of the alcohol lamp stove and small pressure cooker in the yurt.

After knocking down a large chunk of snow from the outside and putting it in a pressure cooker, lighting the alcohol stove, Lindao waited for the snow to boil.

Take out a pack of meat floss, milk tea dry powder, compressed dry food, cheese, and a thermos cup from the backpack. Pour the milk tea dry powder into the thermos cup, wait until the water boils, and then brew a cup of milk tea directly.

The snow was re-added to boil the water, and the forest road crushed the compressed dry food by hand.

When the water is boiling again, put the meat floss, cheese, dehydrated vegetables in the pot.

Ten minutes later, Lin Dao opened the pot and saw the sticky meat soup with the smell of milk. Then put in the crumbs of the dry food, and when the dry food softened, Lin Dao put out the fire and ate it in the pot.

After eating the milk tea and meat soup, and cleaning the pot with snow, Lin Dao directly practiced the breathing method that came with the Mixed Yuan Body Cultivation Gong in the yurt and evolved by Taoism.

At this time, the outside of the yurt was already pitch black, and only the yurt that lived in it showed a trace of fire from time to time.

There was no word all night, and it was very peaceful, only the howling mountain wind came.

At about half past four in the morning, when it was still dark, Lin Dao, who had woken up from meditation, made breakfast again.

After eating breakfast and filling the thermos kettle with boiling water, the morning glow on the horizon began to turn red.

Walking out of the yurt and facing east, Lin Dao began his morning exercise rain or shine. When the morning sun rose and the purple qi was born, Lin Dao turned from dynamic to static and set up the infinite hybrid element pile.

Facing the east, Lin Dao began to swallow the purple qi of the rising sun between heaven and earth. It wasn't until the morning sun completely rose that he stopped swallowing, sank into the dantian, and walked back to the yurt after the work was completed.

Grab your backpack, walk out of the yurt, and walk towards Mount Everest.

When passing by the gate of the gathering place, Lin Dao nodded his head to the two sentinels who were standing guard, and walked towards the summit of Mount Everest without looking back.

Yes, not to climb step by step, as in those mountaineering teams made up of ordinary people, fully equipped.

Lin Dao is stepping on the feet to soften the moving pile and Yu step, as well as the combination of various footwork skills he knows, forming his own unique Tianyan step, which is divided into body and footwork.

This exercise is taken from the fifty avenues and the forty-nine of the heavens, and one of them is gone. Therefore, the changes of heaven and earth are endless,...... From one to the end, from the end of the world, the infinite heaven and earth.

At this time, as Lin Dao carried up the body skills in it, he walked all the way, leaving only shallow footprints on the snow that fell last night.

When the mountain breeze blows, all traces of Lin Dao's past have disappeared without a trace.

At the northern foot of Mount Everest, the altitude is below 3,000 meters, and the slope is not very steep. But after 3,000 meters, the slope is about 70 degrees, not to mention the snow, there are countless ice caves and cracks, forming a death trap.

Every year, these traps engulf the lives of countless climbers who climb Mount Everest.

But for the trails, which are almost untouched by snow, these traps are like a fictitious thing. Only the steep and smooth ice walls can cause the slightest problem to the forest road.

By the time the trail had reached 4,000 meters, more than an hour had passed. At this time, on both sides of the road, some corpses that had long been frozen together with the mountain peaks appeared from time to time.

These bodies are the bodies of those who died while climbing the mountain. In the circles of climbers, there is a saying that the bodies of teammates who die during the climb will be left in place for burial, and only the relics of the other party will be sent home.

Without a trace of fear, Lin Dao followed the signposts formed by these corpses, and kept climbing upward.

His terrifying physical strength, as well as his mastery of himself, allowed Lin Dao to climb steep and smooth ice peaks with his bare hands without the aid of any tools.

The blazing qi and blood constantly melt away the cold that invades the body, so that every inch of Lindao's skin maintains its due vitality.

And under the staggered tempering of cold qi and qi and blood, Lin Dao's physical strength began to slowly and steadily increase again.

At the same time, as the altitude continues to rise, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and the cold mountain wind has turned into a knife like a knife to scrape the bones and flesh, forming white scratches on the bare skin of the forest road.

In the continuous confrontation with the cold qi, the qi and blood are also more and more condensed and introverted, and slowly merge with the power of the soul.

By the time Lin Dao reached the top of the mountain, the surrounding wind was already like a knife. The bare skin of the trail was severed, and the blood oozing out froze instantly in the extremely cold environment.

Standing on the top of the peak, there is a vast sea of clouds around for a while, the wind blows, the clouds fly and the fog disperses, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains enter the eyes.

But the loneliness of the high place involuntarily appeared in my heart, but it was instantly annihilated by my own martial will.

His mind slowly calmed down, and he followed his feet and communicated with the mountain peaks below him.

Instinctively, he stood up again and used the Taoist guidance technique, and his body slowly merged with the mountain peak.

At this moment, the fluctuations of the thoughts that probed out merged with the magnetic field of the mountain peak, and in the spiritual world of Lin Dao, the formation of this mountain range evolved.

In the outside world, because of the relationship between the mind and the will of Mount Everest, unconsciously attracted an innate cold qi hidden deep inside the mountain.

Following Lin Dao's consciousness, the innate cold qi swam to the top of the peak, and followed the spring points of Lin Dao's feet and entered Lin Dao's body.

Although Lin Dao's physical body is strong, it is fragile compared to the innate coldness.

As soon as the innate cold qi entered Lin Dao's body, it directly sealed Lin Dao in ice. The cells of the flesh cannot withstand this cold, and most of them are directly frozen, and a small part is directly necrotic.

With the help of the majestic qi and blood and the endless circulation of the innate qi, Lin Dao was not directly frozen to death at the moment when the innate cold qi entered the body, but he was still frozen and turned into an ice sculpture, standing on the top of the peak.

As for the brain part, with the suppression of the innate exotic treasure, the innate cold qi could not penetrate deep at all, and only formed an ice shell outside the skull.

In this way, because of the innate cold that has been preserved for hundreds of millions of years, the forest road was directly frozen on the top of Mount Everest, becoming a new scenery.