Chapter 17: The Spirit of Ice and Snow

As the night passed, the darkness slowly dissipated, and a ray of morning light pierced the sky in the distance. When the first rays of the morning sun shine into the recess, it brings hope to the traveler who keeps watch alone all night.

Luo Yin stood up, looked at the golden sunlight shining in through the forest in the distance, and his heart suddenly settled down, and finally survived until the next day, fortunately, the black shadow did not appear again last night.

Luo Yin, who was in a relaxed mood, suddenly felt a burst of hunger and exhaustion, he had not slept all night last night, and his spirit was highly tense, which consumed a lot of his mental energy. He was so tired that he just wanted to fall to the ground and fall asleep, but reason told him that he couldn't sleep and that he had to leave quickly.

He added some more wood to the fire in front of him, and the bonfire, which was almost finished, burned again. Although he had to leave quickly, he had to get some food to replenish his strength before leaving, otherwise he would definitely not be able to make it to the top of the mountain.

He quickly roasted the remaining half of the rabbit from yesterday, wiped out the rabbit meat in three bites and two bites, packed his bags, and quickly left this strange place and headed for the top of the snowy mountain.

In the morning, the snow-capped mountains are still quite cold, and the rising sun does not bring much warmth to the mountaineering travelers.

He trekked the snowy mountains, not only to endure the extreme physical exertion, but also to endure the thin air of the alpine region, which made every step of his walk extremely difficult.

The sun rose in the eastern sky, slowly walked into the sky, and then slid away to the west.

Luo Yin climbed the last steep slope in front of him, and his eyes suddenly opened up. The entire snow-capped mountain has been conquered by him and stepped on at his feet.

As far as the eye can see, the boundless Hengduan Mountains are in full view, and the snow-capped mountains are as low as small mountains under their feet. The snow-capped mountain under his feet looks like the tallest of the Hengduan Mountains.

Standing on the top of the snow-capped mountain, looking down on the world like a god, the whole world is under his feet, and the clouds and mist in the mountains make it seem that he is above the nine heavens.

He suddenly had a feeling of "looking back in shock, three feet from the sky". I saw him open his arms, embracing heaven and earth, shouting loudly, and the sound echoed in the mountains.

Just when his mood was agitated as if he owned heaven and earth, a cold chill that penetrated into the bone marrow came from behind him, spread through his back and spread throughout his body, freezing his whole body as if it no longer belonged to him.

He turned his head with all his might, only to see a figure standing a dozen paces behind him, surrounded by clouds and mist. He could only see the silhouette of the figure in the mist, but he couldn't see the man's face at all.

He screamed, struggling desperately to escape, trying to control his stiff legs and walk forward.

If you want to escape, you must run away quickly, I don't know if it's a demon or a ghost!

Luo Yin used all his strength, and finally barely got rid of the cold shackles, and desperately fled towards the bottom of the mountain.

After running for a short distance, he looked back behind him, only to see that the figure was still in place, as if it was useless to chase after him. Luo Yin's heart was relieved, and he prayed that it would stay so fixed, and never chase after it.

Suddenly, his feet on the ice and snow slipped, and the whole person fell uncontrollably and rolled down the mountain.

"It's over, such a high snow-capped mountain, you don't have to roll to the end, and you're dead. I can't imagine that I didn't die at the hands of the demon, but I fell myself to death!" Luo Yin, whose body was constantly rolling like a snowball, said in horror in his heart.

It didn't take long to roll, only to feel that his body was suddenly suspended in the air, and when he opened his eyes, he was immediately frightened.

I saw that I had slipped down the slope to a cliff. After a moment's stay, the body fell rapidly, and there was a cliff below!

"I died before I got out of the school, and I didn't think that I had died on the snowy mountain before I reached the residence of the immortals in my life. Immortality and immortality are still just a dream that can never be realized for their family. If there is an afterlife, I pray that Heaven must give me a chance to practice. Luo Yin closed his eyes and waited for death to come.

Luo Yin's body fell rapidly, and the wind screamed in his ears. Suddenly, he felt as if something was blocking his body, and the momentum of his fall slowed down a little, but then he accelerated down again. I just fell for a while, and I felt something on my back again.

He opened his closed eyes and looked back at him, only to see that a layer of ice and snow under him had converged into a barrier, blocking the fall. It's just that the force of this fall is too fast, and it only slightly blocks the ice and snow barrier before it is broken.

"What's going on, how can these ice and snow form a barrier to block their fall?" Luo Yin turned his head to look around with a strange heart, his eyes just looked in the direction of the setting sun, and then his eyes froze.

Before sunset, a figure covered in clouds and mist was floating in the air. I saw that it held its hands in a false position, and countless ice and snow flew up, and then turned into an ice and snow barrier under itself.

Luo Yin instantly understood that it was trying to save his life.

This was repeated several times, and finally the downward trend was greatly reduced, and Luo Yin's body was firmly supported by the unknown first barrier, and slowly fell towards the bottom of the cliff. The sound of the wind in his ears gradually calmed down, and he knew that his life had finally been saved.

After a while, the ice and snow barrier supported Luo Yin and landed steadily in the snow at the foot of the mountain. And the figure that lingered in the clouds and mist was suspended in mid-air, slowly dissipating in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"Thank you, thank you for saving my life!" Luo Yin shouted as he looked at the dissipating figure in the sky.

He struggled to his feet from the snow, feeling a sharp pain that seemed to be falling apart. Although there was ice and snow lifting when he landed, he didn't fall directly into the flesh, but when he just rolled down from the top of the mountain, he still rolled his body into a sharp pain, and the momentum of his fall was too strong, and his body still hurt his internal organs when he broke through the ice and snow barrier, and now he only feels nauseous and vomiting.

He surveyed his surroundings and found that he had landed at the foot of a snow-capped mountain, not far away from a forest covered in snow and ice.

"It's really hard to get up and down, it took me almost two days to climb to the top, and it only took a short time to get down. He glanced back at the towering snow-capped mountains and muttered to himself.

This way of going down the mountain, don't come back in the future, I really can't stand it. And if it is really so unlucky, it will happen again, but there will be no such good luck that someone will save it, I am afraid that when the time comes, I will go directly to the underworld to report to Lord Yama.

He endured the severe pain on his body, and slowly walked towards the forest step by step, preparing to rest there for a while to recuperate from his injuries, otherwise he would not be able to go far in this state at all.

Enduring the discomfort on his body, he reluctantly picked up some firewood, raised a bonfire under a big tree in the forest, melted the snow in a small pot and boiled the pot of hot water, and took out two dried steamed buns and inserted them on sticks and roasted them on the fire.

After a few sips of hot water, a warm current flowed into the stomach, and the whole person became comfortable. After eating two baked steamed buns with hot water, he looked at the bonfire and fell into deep thought.

The person who saved himself was probably the spirit of the mountain, but why didn't he eat himself and instead came to the rescue? Aren't these mountain spirits and wild monsters all ferocious and cruel, and when they meet someone, they open their mouths and swallow them in one gulp?

It's like the demon he met on the way to accompany Shen Mo to the exam last year, turning into an old man to lure people into the house, and then making people into pickled meat snacks, if he hadn't happened to meet an immortal, he would have been dead a long time ago.

However, the one I encountered now was completely different, not only did he not eat himself, but he also saved his own life. And it doesn't seem to have any ill will towards itself at all, it just feels like it's just following it curiously.

Thinking back to the mysterious person I saw just now, the whole person was surrounded by clouds and mist, and I couldn't see the appearance clearly, and I didn't know what kind of spirit it was.

Why did it save itself? Luo Yin was full of questions.

Time flew by in contemplation, the sunset had completely sunk behind the mountain, and the night began to cover the heavens and the earth.

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a reason, so Luo Yin had to shake his head and put these thoughts behind him. Don't waste your energy on thinking about what you can't think of, it's better to rest and recuperate.

He leaned against the trunk of the tree and closed his eyes and was about to sleep, when a bone-chilling cold hit again, and Luo Yin shivered. He reacted suddenly, this cold is so familiar, it's coming!

Luo Yin opened his eyes and looked ahead, and a figure stood there at the end of the firelight. He hurriedly said, "Thank you for saving me." ”

It's just that the figure heard Luo Yin's voice, and suddenly retreated back and disappeared into the darkness.

Just as Luo Yin was annoyed that he had scared it away, the figure appeared at the end of the firelight again, only to see it take a step forward, and retreat before it could stand still. After a while, he walked in again, into a place where the fire could shine.

At this time, Luo Yin finally saw its figure clearly, a person who was about the same height as himself and was covered in mist, but its body was even thinner than his own.

Luo Yin took out another steamed bun from the back basket, stretched out his hand to the person and said, "Steamed bun, you can't eat it, it's delicious." ”

The figure looked at the steamed bun in Luo Yin's hand, stared at it with some curiosity for a while, and walked towards Luo Yin. But he didn't take a few steps before he stopped, and looked at the flickering flames and hesitated.

The flames were only a few steps away from him at this time, and the warm light of the fire dispelled the clouds that lingered around him, revealing his original form and appearance.

Luo Yin looked at the true face revealed after the clouds and mist in front of him dissipated, his eyes instantly widened, his mouth opened wide and couldn't close, like a stunned goose, and he didn't know that the steamed bun in his hand fell to the ground.

It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful!

There was only one sentence left in his mind, and there were no other thoughts left.

Luo Yin's eyes reflected the figure of that person, it, no, her face was beautiful and not ordinary, like a fairy above the nine heavens. Let a mortal like Luo Yin forget about Hongchen at first sight, and only wish to stare at her for eternity, as if as long as there is a place for her, it is a fairyland.

When the woman saw Luo Yin's expression, she was startled, stumbled back a few steps, and instantly turned into ice and snow and dissipated between heaven and earth......