Chapter 32: Ten Thousand Years of Ice
It's the middle of the day.
"Let's go. Zhang Yi said to us.
Zhang Yi Yujian, I rode on Jair's back, Wen Lin rode the white tiger, standing on the edge of Huaixue Valley, looking at the snow-capped mountains and snow-covered peaks opposite.
"We've got to climb up. Zhang Yi's sword floated in the air.
"Can we all fly up to Huaixue Valley and not fly to the top of the mountain?" I asked Zhang Yi.
"If you can't fly, Huaixue Valley is a dividing line, and any further up, the mana of us and the divine beast will be invalid. Zhang Yi got down from the long sword, "Without further ado, let's go." ”
With Zhang Yi, we passed through a narrow mountain road and approached the snow-capped mountains opposite.
"Why isn't this mountain road covered with snow?"
"This mountain road is connected to Uncle Yi Zhen's iron-striking house, and the temperature is high, and ordinary snow can't stay. ”
"And the snow in their house?"
"It's soft snow, it's warm, it's snow on the mountain, it's cold, but it melts when it's hot. "We stood on a stone platform on the side of the snowy mountain, "This slope is a bit steep, everyone should keep their bodies down, every step must be steady, do not slide down, you can use weapons to stick into the snow to stabilize your body." After Zhang Yi gave the instructions, we clenched our long swords and began to climb up.
Wen Lin and I didn't hesitate, I took out the long sword given to me by Zhang Yi's uncle, Wen Lin threw out the dragon whip, and pulled it hard, and the dragon whip suddenly became hard, like a stick. The White Tiger and Jairus also stretched out the sharp claws on the beast's palms and plunged them into the snow.
I didn't say much, and Wen Lin followed Zhang Yi to climb the mountain.
After crawling for a while, I felt that the air was getting thinner, it was difficult to breathe, and my body was getting colder and colder.
"Why don't you feel this way when you're flying in the sky, but when you get here, you feel cold?" I couldn't speak out loud, but asked the mask in my heart.
"Because you usually have ghost power to protect you, the general cold and heat can't affect you, and the cold here is not because of the snow, but because of the 10,000-year-old ice in the mountains. ”
"Then how are we going to take out the 10,000-year-old ice in a while?"
"When there's a lot of that, it's going to be very cold, and if there's less, it's not that cold. ”
"Then what did Old Man Yi Zhen ask us to do with this?"
"The 10,000-year-old ice was also produced in the ancient period, even earlier than the ancient period, but it was not turned into an artifact, so it did not become an ancient holy weapon, it contains a huge power, if it can be integrated with your ghost power, the power will be unimaginable, and once the 10,000-year ice leaves the main body and attaches to something, it will make that artifact extremely hard. ”
As Zhang Yi climbed upwards, the hillside became steeper and steeper, and the cold hit him, and every step was difficult. White Tiger and Jairus gasped, and a thin layer of ice formed on their bodies.
"Everyone, keep up, it's almost there. Zhang Yi shouted in front.
When I looked up, I could already see the top of the mountain, which seemed to be only a few steps away, but it felt far away when I climbed up.
Just as I wanted to continue climbing, I suddenly heard the call of an eagle in my ears, and when I looked up, I saw that it was several snow sculptures, which were not so big from a distance, but when they flew overhead, they saw that they were half the size of a person with their wings spread.
"It's a snow sculpture! Lie down, don't be caught by the snow sculpture!" Zhang Yi said, and plunged his long sword deep into the snow.
When we saw Zhang Yi inserting his sword into the snow, we all picked up his weapon and inserted it into the snow, clutching the weapon tightly. Both the White Tiger and Jairus also lay down and thrust their paws into the snow.
The snow sculptures hovered in the air, their huge figures imprinted in the sunlight.
"They're here to find food, so you have to hold on to them, don't get caught by them! Zhang Yi shouted at us in the snow.
Wen Lin and I also learned from Zhang Yi to stick his body in the snow, and the cold poured through his whole body in an instant, Wen Lin and I couldn't help but start shivering, and Jairwood and White Tiger also kept shaking behind them.
"I'm about to freeze. I said to the mask.
"Let your heart calm down and overcome your fears, although the ghost power is useless on the top of this snowy mountain, but after all, you are not mortals, hold back, don't move, if you are captured by the snow sculpture, I can't help you." ”
I listened to the mask's serious tone, and suddenly did not dare to move, although my body still trembled unconsciously.
And Wen Lin looked like he couldn't help it, he raised his body slightly, and the snow sculptures saw Wen Lin's body raised, and instantly hissed and rushed over, grabbed Wen Lin's clothes and pulled him into the air.
"Wen Lin!"
The strength of those snow sculptures was very great, and although Wen Lin tightly grasped the dragon whip inserted into the snow, they were still dragged down a little, and the snow sculptures also scratched out a few holes in the back of their clothes.
When the white tiger saw that Wen Lin was caught, he jumped up with a roar and threw the snow sculpture closest to Wen Lin into the snow, and the snow sculpture only flapped its wings a few times before breaking free from the white tiger's restraints.
"Get down, hold on, don't move!" Zhang Yi shouted at Wen Lin and Baihu, but he couldn't do anything.
After Wen Lin heard this, he resisted the cold and lay down in the snow again, and those snow sculptures scratched a few deep blood marks behind Wen Lin's back, and then began to hover in the air again.
Seeing that Wen Lin was only injured, and he couldn't do anything about the snow sculpture, the white tiger also lay down in the snow.
Blood flowed from the wound on Wen Lin's back, but it quickly congealed into ice.
Wen Lin was shivering in the snow, and the pain was unbearable.
The snow sculptures were still hovering in the air.
"They don't seem to attack the mythical beasts, they only attack us, their eyesight is very poor, everyone endures, as long as they lie in the snow and don't move, it is difficult for this snow sculpture to find us. ”
The snow sculptures hovered in the air for a while, and then scattered and flew away.
Zhang Yi saw the snow sculptures fly away, waited for a while, and shouted to us: "Keep climbing forward, pay attention to safety, we will almost reach the top." He looked up at the sun, "Time is running out, we need to hurry!"
Without much talking, we continued to crawl after Zhang Yi.
Endured the cold and finally climbed to the top of the mountain.
The top of this mountain is a snow-covered platform, the platform is small, and the few of us standing on it are a little crowded.
"Be careful, don't fall. Zhang Yi said to us, "From here, let's dig down." ”
"What do you dig with?" I looked at the sword in my hand and Zhang Yi's hand and the dragon whip in Wen Lin's hand, and I didn't know what to do for a while.
Zhang Yi waved his long sleeves, and three nail rakes appeared on the ground, "This is the utensils used by the predecessors when they came to dig the ice of ten thousand years, and the uncle gave it to me, so I used this." ”
Without saying much, we picked up the rake and started digging.
At the beginning, the snow was very easy to dig, and after a few strokes, it was enough to dig three feet to meet the ice, but the ice was extremely hard, and I couldn't see the slightest crack in the ice with all my strength.
"What can I do?" I stood leaning on the nail rake, looking at Zhang Yi.
"Keep digging. Zhang Yi didn't look up, and continued to smash the ice.
Wen Lin and I glanced at each other, did not speak, and continued to dig with Zhang Yi.
He threw himself down one by one, but there was still no movement on the ice. The amulet I had tied around my waist came loose from my flick and fell on the ice without noticing.
I was about to crouch down and pick it up, when the ice suddenly cracked a little, but it quickly stopped.
"Talisman! This talisman works!" I raised my head excitedly and shouted to Zhang Yi.
"Take off the amulet and put it inside. Seeing this, Zhang Yi called Wen Lin to take off the talisman and put it on the ice.
When the amulet touches the ice, the ice makes a cracking sound.
Uncle said that as long as the heart is sincere, Snow Mountain will not embarrass us. What can we use to reflect our sincerity?" I remembered my uncle's words and said to Zhang Yi and Wen Lin.
"Blood. I heard my father talk about the legend of Huaixue Valley, in ancient times, in order to build Huaixue Valley, sacrificed many warriors, after their death, the blood in their bodies was poured on this snow-capped mountain, and the corpses were also buried in the snow-capped mountains, if you want to show sincerity, it can only use our blood. With that, Zhang Yi picked up the long sword and made a cut on his arm, and blood flowed out and dripped on the ice.
The ice slowly began to crumble again.
Wen Lin and I saw that this method worked, and we also dripped our own blood on the ice.
The blood of the three of us mixed together, and a burst of purple, blue, and white light appeared on the ice, the light disappeared, and the amulet disappeared, and the ice above completely shattered, revealing the ice surface that was as clean as jade below, and there was no foreign matter in it, and the sunlight shone into it and extended far downward, until it darkened, and disappeared in the depths of the ice, and the white cold air continued to emanate from the ice.
"That's it, it's all 10,000 years of ice down here, we just need to take a piece. Zhang Yi looked up at the sun, "Noon is about to pass, we have to hurry." To make the pureest ice without any dirt, we have to use our hands. ”
"With your hands?" I looked at the cold ice that was bubbling cold, and I couldn't believe Zhang Yi's words.
"Hmm. Zhang Yi didn't say much, he flicked his long sleeves back, revealing his arm with a frozen wound, and stretched out his hand to the 10,000-year-old ice. "Hmm......" As soon as Zhang Yi's hand touched the 10,000-year-old ice, his hand instantly froze, extending to his arm. He endured the pain and didn't make a sound.
"Zhang Yi!" I was afraid that Zhang Yi would be reckless and be frozen into ice, and just wanted to pull Zhang Yi away, but the ice suddenly stopped at his wound, while the other arm without a wound was still frozen.
"Scratch my other arm to the wound, quick!" Zhang Yi shouted at us.
"This ......" I hesitated a little, but Wen Lin snatched the sword in my hand very decisively and made a bloody mark on Zhang Yi's other arm.
Blood flowed out, and the arms stopped freezing.
Zhang Yi's blood dripped onto the frozen hands, and the ice on them began to melt. But the wound soon froze due to the cold, the blood no longer dripped down, and Zhang Yi's hands began to freeze again.
"Use blood! Don't let the blood stop!" Zhang Yi shouted, and Wen Lin went up with another sword, freeing Zhang Yi's frozen hand.
Zhang Yi picked up his long sword, dug the 10,000-year-old ice with one hand, and slashed his arm with the sword in the other hand to prevent the blood flow from stopping, seeing that there were many deep and shallow blood marks on his arm.
I saw Zhang Yi digging hard, and I also learned from Zhang Yi, holding a sword in one hand and slashing on his arm with the other, and digging ten thousand years of ice with the other.
Wen Lin shook off the dragon whip, and some sharp spikes appeared in the hardened dragon whip, and Wen Lin used it to scratch his arm and help dig together.
The 10,000-year-old ice was dripping with our blood, and the blood fell on it, and it was quickly absorbed and disappeared, and the 10,000-year-old ice became softer and softer.
Finally, the ice, soaked in our blood, was taken away like a piece of flesh from a human body. And our arms were covered in scars.
I picked up the 10,000-year-old ice, and it was no longer cold from the mountain, but as soft and warm as the snow on the bed in the village house.
I just wanted to call Wen Lin and Zhang Yi to go back the same way, "Zhang Yi, let's go quickly......"
Zhang Yi didn't answer, got up and took two steps and fell to the ground......