Chapter Seventy-Five: Sand Table Map
In the Extremely Cold Land, in the safe house, Xingchen has determined that Xiaoying's special abilities cannot be used by him after many tests. That is to say, what he envisioned could not be realized at all, and it was impossible for him to act in the dark.
Xingchen, as a cultivator, cultivates day and night, the sun and the moon change, and now because of the special rules of this extremely cold place, he must be like a mortal, the sun rises and the sun sets.
Open the door of the safe house, and there are two worlds inside and outside the house.
During Xingchen's mind exploration, he found that this safe house was an ordinary wooden house, but there was an inexplicable layer of things on the wooden house, and it was this inexplicable thing that made the extreme cold outside unable to affect everything in the wooden house.
Seeing that it was okay, Xingchen opened the door of the safe house, sat cross-legged on the bed, and looked at the world outside the door.
Over time, ice crystals continue to condense in the air of the outside world. These ice crystals are snowflake-shaped, falling from the sky like a snow scene, and the white snowflakes are mixed with a small number of snowflakes of various colors, of which the light blue is the most. When a pale blue snowflake fell from the door, the figure of the star flashed, appeared at the door, and reached out to hold the pale blue snowflake in his hand.
Just this short stretch of hand, there is already an extra layer of ice crystals in his hand. But because of the ice crystals, the blue snowflakes kept a breath in the house. After the blue snowflakes disappeared, Xingchen found that there was a trace of a familiar gas in the air of the wooden house, this gas was the gas necessary for mortals to breathe and sustain life, if Han Feng was here, he would definitely blurt out, "Oxygen," but after the cultivator achieved innateness, he no longer relied on this gas, so no one studied it, let alone a name.
As time passed, the snow became heavier and a thick layer had accumulated on the ground.
Not long after, a point of light appeared in front of the safe house, and the point of light slowly drifted down into the snow. The little shadow went directly to the point of light, and the figure was not in the snow, so he ran back with the point of light.
It came to the safe house, and when the star reached out, it placed the point of light on the star's hand.
After entering the safe house, the light gradually faded away, revealing its true colors.
A colorless transparent crystal the size of a mung bean lay in the palm of Xingchen's hand. From this crystal, the stars felt a rich aura. Xingchen took out a spirit stone from his storage ring, this spirit stone was one of the relics left by his father, a top grade spirit stone, the energy contained in this top grade spirit stone was a thousand times that of the top grade spirit stone, but it was still not as good as the colorless and transparent crystal.
This crystal has no impurities, in contrast, Xingchen found that although the crystal is several times smaller than the best spirit stone, the aura inside is more than ten times that of the best spirit stone. What the hell is this?
Just as the stars were comparing and conjecturing, the size of the crystal became a little smaller, and at the same time, the safe house was filled with a rich aura. Upon discovering this change, Xingchen immediately took out a jade bottle, placed the crystal in it for preservation, and received the storage ring. After being put into the jade bottle, the crystal no longer changes.
This is definitely something more advanced than the best spirit stones, if you can collect some more. Thinking of this, Xingchen looked at Xiaoying, he knew that Xiaoying could move outside at night, but he didn't know how long Xiaoying could be active outside, after all, using strength to resist the extreme cold also requires physical energy. So he looked at Xiaoying and asked, "Xiaoying, how long can you be outside?"
Xiaoying was just screaming there, and after listening to it for a while, Xingchen spoke, "Three hours?"
Xiaoying nodded.
Xingchen had an idea in his heart and said, "Xiaoying, you will go out to find the luminous crystal just now." You and I can sense each other within 300 miles, you don't leave this range, and you have to make sure that you can come back within an hour, you know?"
Xiaoying nodded again and again, and then ran out of the safe house, and the figure was once again in the snow and disappeared.
Xingchen could only wait in the safe house, and at first he was in the mood to watch the snow, but as time went on, he no longer had the heart to wait and see, just waited anxiously there.
By the time three hours had passed, Xingchen's heart was as cold as the outside world.
For some reason, he couldn't feel the presence of the shadow, and after another quarter of an hour, a bulge appeared in the snow in the distance, but after moving a few meters, there was no movement.
It was Xiaoying, Xingchen didn't care about anything else, rushed out of the safe house, and quickly went to the bulge, when he got there, his eyebrows and hair had become ice crystals, and there was an extra layer of frost on the surface of his body.
Upon arriving, Xingchen slowly picked up the frozen shadow in the snow, the skin on his surface already crystallized. After picking up Xiaoying, Xingchen quickly returned to the safe house.
In the safe house, the cold in his body gradually disappeared, and Xiaoying's body gradually thawed. It took a while for Shadow to regain her mobility.
The first thing Shadow did after being able to move was to spit out six crystals from her mouth.
Xingchen didn't care about those crystals, and directly picked up Xiaoying, carefully checking if there were any dark wounds left?
But Xiaoying kept calling at the crystals on the ground, reminding Xingchen to quickly put them away.
After inspecting it, Xingchen took out six jade bottles and filled them with crystals.
Feeling the richer aura in the safe house, the recovered shadow screamed a little angrily.
And Xingchen heard the unhappiness in Xiaoying's cry, and he didn't get angry, he picked up Xiaoying and said with a smile: "Xiaoying, you pay attention to your safety next time, otherwise I won't accept how much you take back next time." ”
Xiaoying was a little silent and depressed, no longer calling, in the search journey just now, it had already planned to come back, but who knew that it saw a bright light in the distance, and hurriedly ran over. Then the lights appeared, and it almost died.
Seeing that Xiaoying was silent, Xingchen persuaded again: "Xiaoying, you can find the glowing crystal again if it is gone, but if you are gone, I will completely lose you." You know what?"
Xiaoying screamed happily twice.
It was only when the star laid it down that it wanted to set off in search of the glowing crystal. When it ran to the door, it was stopped by the stars.
Looking at Xiaoying, who still wanted to go out, Xingchen said, "When the day dawns, I'll go out with you." Now, go back and rest. ”
Hearing this, Xiaoying happily ran back, jumped on the bed, and curled up in a ball, keeping her eyes fixed on the stars. After Xingchen came to the bed and sat down, Xiaoying closed her eyes.
When it opened its eyes again, it found that its owner was not around, so it hurriedly got up and ran out of the safe house, only to find that the owner was practicing swordsmanship outside the safe house.
After practicing a complete set of swordsmanship, Xingchen stopped, he looked at Xiaoying, and said with a smile: "You're awake, just right, let's go." As he spoke, he put away the Star Sword and stretched out his hand.
The shadow immediately jumped up and landed in the arms of the stars.
Only then did the stars fly into the sky, and after fixing on the town fifty miles away, they flew over.
In a short time, the stars were already flying over the town. After coming here, he looked at it and found that there were mostly humanoid ice sculptures in the town, which were originally residents of the town, but after the disaster came, they became this ice sculpture, some shrunk into a ball, some ran hard, and some reached out to pull the door.
Thoughts enveloped the town, and Xingchen realized that the house was full of ice sculptures. Some lay on their beds, some around the fire. Everything in the town is frozen in ice, and after some searching, Xingchen finds a sand table map in the most luxurious building in the middle.
There is a map, and this trip is not in vain. The stars immediately flew down, breaking through the frozen windows and into the room to a sand table.
At first glance, the sand table is well preserved, with only three destroyed parts. Xingchen estimated that this sandbox should present a terrain within a radius of 300 miles.
After careful observation, Xingchen realized that one of the destroyed locations was the location of the safe house, and the other two destroyed locations, Xingchen had some conjectures in his heart, drew a map in his mind, and then left here and went to one of the destroyed places.
Soon, the stars arrived at their destination, a cliff with an ice-blue beehive hanging from a large ice crystal tree on the cliff. Sensing the arrival of the stars, three hundred ice-blue bees flew out of the ice-blue hive, the size of a small thumb and a finger, heading straight for the stars.
Soon the two sides came into contact, and in the middle of the battle, Xingchen found that he couldn't help the ice blue bee at all, and of course, the ice blue bee had no way to take Xingchen.
Not long after the fight, Xingchen quietly instructed Xiaoying. The shadow immediately turned into a black shadow and quickly headed towards the ice-blue hive. And pluck the hive from the tree.
Two hundred bees flew out to attack Shadow, but they couldn't hit Shadow, and could only watch as Shadow brought the hive to the stars.
Xingchen held the hive, invisible fluctuations came out, and at the same time shouted, "Surrender, or I destroy the hive." ”
The bees did not attack the stars for a while, but only surrounded the stars, and the two sides confronted each other.
Eventually, the bees relented and flew back to the hive and stopped attacking the stars.
It's a good thing, but it's a pity that the bees in this hive are alive, otherwise they could have been put in a storage ring. With this thing, Xingchen can only temporarily return to the safe house and fix the hive to a large tree near the safe house.
Two hours had passed since he had done this, and here he had spent the whole night, knowing that the night lasted for eight hours, and that there should be only four hours left during the day, and that he had to stay in this safe house for safety.
Sure enough, two hours later, it was dark. Fortunately, I didn't go to the last location, if something happened and the time was delayed, Xingchen was not sure that he would survive outside all night.
When night fell, Shadow left the safe house again in the middle of the night, this time, it rushed back within three hours, bringing back five glowing crystals.
Just as Shadow spit out the crystal, the ice-blue hive shook a little, but the bees didn't keep flying out. This was noticed by the stars. So after putting away the crystal, he motioned for Shadow to take the hive over.
When the hive came to the safe house, five hundred bees flew out, staring only at the stars.
But the stars are not afraid, although the material of this wooden house is ordinary, but because of the inexplicable thing that blocks the extreme cold, it becomes indestructible, and the battle will not be destroyed, and the space here is narrow, and the space for bees to dodge is insufficient, and the battle really breaks out, and the winner is also him.
But the bees had no intention of fighting, just staring at the stars, and after twenty breaths, they all flew back to the honeycomb.
Xingchen took the honeycomb in his hand and placed it in the corner of the roof of the safe house.
After settling in, Xingchen recalled what had just happened, took out a jade bottle, and looked at the hive. At that moment, he used his phantom mind to move the special crystal out of the bottle. When the special crystal appeared, the hive began to vibrate again, and five hundred bees flew out, staring at the special crystal, but none of the bees rushed over to snatch it, these bees had simple intelligence, and knew that they couldn't grab it at all.
Seeing that the crystal was a little smaller, Xingchen put it away, and at the same time shook the jade bottle at the bees, and said, "It seems that you want this thing, but I won't give it to you for nothing, so how about giving you one for every time you do something for me?"
The bees did not act immediately after hearing the words of the stars, and after a while, they began to fly and form a smiley face.
Xingchen saw the smiling face and smiled, "It seems that you agreed." I will call you out when I need you later. ”
That's when the bees fly back into the hive.
After the two sides reached an agreement, there was no incident. When the night passed again, the stars tied the hive behind their backs with ropes, and carried the shadow to the last location.
After a continuous flight, the stars came to a valley. When he saw the buildings in the valley, he smiled slightly, it was a temple. Seeing the letter, Xingchen knew that the temple would not be too far away, otherwise the man who built the safe house would be running back and forth between the safe house and the temple every day.
As for why the location of this temple is one of the three destroyed landmarks, Xingchen does not know. Now that they are here, the stars are not the first to enter it.
He first took out a jade bottle, and then used his mind to awaken the bee, and at once five hundred bees flew out and flew around the stars.
Xingchen directly threw the jade bottle up before saying, "First of all, explore this temple with me." In order to show sincerity, the remuneration is paid in advance. ”
A bee directly shatters the jade bottle, and then brings a special crystal into the hive. After that, another 199 bees flew into the hive and never came out.
And the rest of the bees still surround the stars.
Seeing this, Xingchen smiled and said, "Let's go." ”
For a while, the remaining three hundred bees followed the figure of the stars to the temple.
When the stars came to the temple gate, a terrifying wave rose in the temple. After a short time, a two-meter-tall man walked out of the temple.
When Xingchen looked over, he found that the big man's pupils were dilated, his eyes were dilated, and he was obviously dead. But he was still standing in front of Xingchen, and the momentum on his body was close to Xingchen.
Xingchen felt that this momentum was several times stronger than his own, and that could only be a saint-level master. A dead saint-level master was actually standing in front of him, and most importantly, there was no realm around.
When the stars were on guard, the two-meter man swayed towards the stars. When he walked five meters in front of Xingchen, Dahan's mouth suddenly opened, and dozens of black insects flew out and rushed straight towards Xingchen.
However, before these little insects could fly to the stars, they were already strangled by the bees.
Although Dahan's eyes were dazed, he seemed to sense that the black worm he released was dead, so he directly raised his head to the sky and roared.
After the roar, a black cloud rose from the temple behind him, and various ice-blue poisonous insects drilled out of the ground. Each of these poisonous insects has a small black worm parasitic on its head.
When Xingchen saw those poisonous insects, he knew the role of the little black worms, parasitizing and controlling the creatures, and the black clouds on the top of the temple must be composed of small black worms.
There are a lot of them, but what Xingchen is most afraid of is this kind of battle, so he summoned the Phantom Purple Bamboo Flute with one hand and whispered a word in Xiaoying's ear.
The shadow turned directly into a black shadow and merged into the shadow of the stars. The many poisonous insects, as well as the black clouds, rushed straight towards the stars. Xingchen picked up the phantom sound purple bamboo flute and played, and at the same time, the Xingyao Sword was summoned, and the shadow of the Ten Thousand Dao Sword appeared, revolving around the star. When the black cloud came down, it was attacked by the Ten Thousand Dao Sword Shadows. Except for a small number of small black insects that can break through the defense of the sword shadow, the others are basically strangled in the sword shadow, and some of the ones that break through the defense of the sword shadow are picked up by the three hundred bees.
Under the sound of the flute, some poisonous insects that rushed to the front attacked their heads with their pincers and limbs, and after killing the small black insects parasitic on the head, they began to defect.
After the continuous fighting, the black clouds completely dissipated. When the two-meter man saw this, he rushed over angrily and punched the sword shadow, and the sword shadow that was hit dissipated directly.
Actually able to disperse the sword shadow, Xingchen was stunned, it seems that even if these black insects can't control the dead saint-level powerhouse production field, they can still exert their own combat power.
Seeing this scene, Xingchen began to control the sword shadow to unify, covering the Xingyao Sword, and when it was completely covered, the Xingyao Sword went straight to the center of the big man's eyebrows.
The controlled big man was fearless, and punched the Xingyao sword. At the moment of collision, the Star Sword and the Great Han seemed to be still, and after a while, the Great Han's body turned into a point of light and disappeared, and at the same time, a golden insect flew out and went straight to the Xingchen Face Gate.
Xingchen didn't look at it, and continued to play the phantom purple bamboo flute to control those poisonous insects to turn against him.
Just when the golden worm thought that it was about to succeed, a shadow suddenly rushed out of Xingchen's body, wrapped the golden worm, and returned to Xingchen's body.
After the golden bugs disappeared, the poisonous bugs controlled by the black bugs became berserk and attacked each other.
While they were in civil strife, the stars waited outside the temple. After feeling that the worm was almost dead, Xingchen instructed the bees beside him, "You inspect the temple again, even if this help is over." ”
The bees flew to the temple and began to patrol them, but whenever they encountered black bugs, they were killed directly. When all the bees returned to the hive, the stars stepped into the temple. The poisonous insects under his control regained their freedom, and did not leave the temple, but hurriedly crawled into the temple and took refuge in all corners of the temple.
Xingchen walked into the main hall of the temple, and the phantom mind was released, and he did not find a single black bug, and it seemed that the bee was serious about its work.
Arriving at the temple hall, Xingchen found that the largest statue in the middle was exactly the same as the one he had seen in the Phantasmal Star World before. However, the base of the idol is very large, and although the idol is huge, it still looks empty. There are still four traces around the idol, as if there were other idols here. Could it be that Xingchen remembered the mission, the four statues of jackals, tigers and leopards, maybe they were them.
Then Xingchen searched the temple and found only more than 200 books, but seeing that it was getting late, Xingchen did not check these books, so he hurriedly left the temple and returned to the safe house.