Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ice Lotus Seeds
In a daze, Lin Shan had a long, long dream, in which he saw his loving father, grew up with him, taught him to hunt, and fell asleep with him on every cold night, telling him stories about the hunters in the mountains.
One winter he was seriously ill, and his father carried him up and down several mountains, found an old mountain doctor, and after careful care, snatched him back from the clutches of death.
When he grew up, he joined the army, killed the enemy bravely, and finally became a general, with hundreds of retinues, wearing a bright armor, riding a high-headed horse, and the villagers looked at him with awe, adoring eyes on both sides of the mountain road, and their mouths were full of praise.
His father smiled, and his mouth was still thinking of his mother who had no impression, while still touching his head, it was at this time, suddenly the mountain shook, countless fireballs fell from the sky, a fireball directly hit his father, in a moment his father was wiped out in front of him, Lin Shan panicked, his heart ached, and shouted loudly: "Father!"
With this shout, Lin Shan woke up, and suddenly felt cold to the bone, he opened his eyes and saw that the sky was not there, the endless night shrouded him, and a lot of small broken ice pressed on his body, Lin Shan just stretched out his hand, and immediately frowned, a sharp pain hit his chest, the pain was unbearable, and he almost couldn't breathe.
Only then did he remember that before he fell unconscious, he was chased and killed by a young man on the ice, because he couldn't beat this person, and he couldn't escape, so he had to stand and wait for death.
"If you don't die, if you don't die, there will be a blessing in the future!haha" Although the pain in his chest was unbearable, the corners of Lin Shan's mouth still showed a painful smile, after all, as long as he was alive, he still had a chance.
He endured the severe pain, constantly comforted himself in his heart, reached out and removed the Xiaoice pieces pressed on his body piece by piece, and after half a salary, he touched his chest, and his hand was a hard thing, and he immediately realized that it should be this thing that allowed him to escape with his life.
He took out this hard object with a shudder, although the surrounding area was dark, but he still recognized it immediately, this was the mysterious black object obtained from Fu Feng's body, before coming to the Xuanbing District, in order to make up enough spirit stones, he sold the spiritual energy bag, this black object was kept, he put it close to his chest, and he didn't expect to save himself.
Lin Shan carefully touched the black object that had saved his life, and then carefully put him back on.
He tried to look around, trying to determine where he was, but as soon as he twisted his body, a wave of pain hit his chest, and he could barely move.
After resting for a while, he strengthened his spirit, touched his whole body, and finally shook his head, but found that he was so poor that he didn't even prepare a pill to heal his wounds, although there were more than a dozen extreme grasses on his body, but it was definitely not edible.
Lin Shan thought about it, and continued to endure the severe pain and sat up gently, preparing to use his spiritual power to heal his injuries.
"Hmph!" a low snort, the muscles at the corners of his mouth were crooked, as soon as he activated his aura, there was a more unbearable severe pain inside his body, almost fainting him directly, he had to give up, now he can't run the aura, and there is no healing pill, the only thing he can do is to wait, wait for the sky to light up, see what kind of place this is, and make plans.
There is no spiritual power to protect himself, a chill hits, fortunately the physique is very good, after waiting for a long time, the surrounding area finally gradually has a bright light, Lin Shan turned his head slightly, looked around, and found that he seemed to be in a crystal ice temple, ice picks hanging down on the top of the ice, and there were also sporadic ice shoots on the ice.
There was also a place where there seemed to be light reflected from the surface of the water, which was very bright, but unfortunately it was blocked by a thick ice wall, and he couldn't see what was behind the ice wall, and he looked up and found that a small piece of ice above his head looked very thin, and the bright light penetrated through the ice top above, but the ice top was at least two feet high from him.
"Looks like this should be an ice cave. Seeing the surrounding environment, Lin Shan muttered to himself, and then smiled bitterly, with his current condition, it is impossible to get out of this thin ice above his head, this thin ice above his head should be formed by falling from above, the weather is cold, but it is quickly frozen.
Lin Shan struggled to stand up, although the pain in his chest still made him tremble from time to time, but fortunately, after a night's rest, he seemed to feel a little better, and the pain was barely bearable.
He first untied the clothes with a hole in his chest, and the entire chest was red and swollen all the way down to the abdomen, and pressed it lightly with his fingers.
It hurts! it hurts! it hurts! it hurts! Lin Shan estimated that at least a few bones had been broken, and Neifu was also injured a lot, he sighed, but he was glad that at least he was still alive.
He held on to the ice wall, moved forward step by step, and after walking past the ice wall that blocked his vision, what appeared in his eyes was a vast space, at least seventy or eighty zhang wide, most of the place here was occupied by water, and the light from the top of the cave shone in, reflected back by the water of this lake, and it was bright and watery here.
"That's?" he was a little surprised, and when he casually looked towards the center of the lake, he saw that something seemed to be growing there.
"What is it?" Lin Shan tried to straighten his head, trying to see what it was, but unfortunately the distance was a little far, and he was injured, so he couldn't see clearly in a trance.
He struggled to walk slowly along the surface of the lake, but after walking far, he realized that there was a large ice cave here, and there were still some scattered white hairs around it, and there was a smell of ice beasts.
"Just got out of the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den again?" Lin Shan was taken aback, but now that he was physically inconvenient, he could only resign himself to fate, but fortunately, he didn't find the figure of this ice beast after standing for a while.
After a closer look, I found that there was a thin surface of ice on the top of the ice not far from the ice beast, and it seemed that this ice beast had been going up from here for at least a while, but I didn't know if it would come back.
Although he was a little uneasy in his heart, but there was really no way, and he couldn't escape from here, he turned his attention to the discovery in the lake, and then it took him half a day to turn around the lake, and he didn't find any path to get him to the center of the lake, and the pain in his chest was terrible, so he had to do it.
"I'm talking about healing my injuries first. Lin Shan thought to himself.
He turned back to where he had been, and there was a wall of ice over there, at least to give him a buffer when the ice beast returned.
Lin Shan sat down honestly, this time, because of the threat of the ice beast, he meditated again and lucked up the aura, maybe his life was threatened, plus after a night of cultivation, his body was a little better, although the aura still couldn't penetrate the whole body in meditation this time, but he could also endure the pain and operate, but the aura couldn't run anymore when it reached the chest.
This sitting is in the evening, although there is still no big progress, but the body feels much better, it is estimated that after a few days of cultivation, you can run the aura around the body.
Lin Shan was thinking about the ice beast and the unknown thing in the lake, he carefully groped his way out, went around the ice wall and looked into the lake, and was immediately surprised, the unknown thing he saw in the center of the lake during the day actually emitted a trace of halo at night, although the halo was very faint, but it was quite conspicuous in the dark night.
"Elixir! It's definitely a precious elixir!" Although the pain was in his body, Lin Shan's eyes lit up, and he was very excited.
"Could it be that this is the ice chain, the ice lotus seed that makes Tsukidan? Yes, absolutely! According to the Wantong Building, the ice lotus seeds grow in the core area of the Xuanbing District, and when they are about to ripen, they will emit a faint light because they contain very rich aura, and when they are fully ripe, they will be fragrant for ten miles, and the ice lotus seeds in front of them are about to ripen!" A bright light appeared in Lin Shan's mind, and he suddenly remembered the record in the Jack-of-all-trades building.
"Ice beasts, it is recorded in the Know-it-all building that ice lotus seeds are generally guarded by high-level ice beasts. It must have been an ice beast that took care of the ice lotus seeds, but it disappeared for some reason, and it was difficult to fight with the other party, and both left. Then he thought of the Ice Beast Cave he had seen earlier, and the young man who had wanted his life.
After this appeared in his mind, he immediately realized that this must be an ice lotus seed, and it was about to ripen!
As soon as he thought that he was about to ripen, Lin Shan immediately became anxious, as soon as the ice lotus seeds were ripe, the fragrance would spread outward, which would definitely attract the nearby ice beasts, the ice lotus seeds found here, there was no doubt that this must be the core area of the Xuanbing District, the ice beasts in the core area, thinking of this, Lin Shan's heart was cold for a while, if it really came to that time, let alone the ice lotus seeds, he would definitely die.
"Be sure to pick the ice lotus seed before it is ripe. The thought immediately crept into his mind.
Regardless of the severe pain in his chest, he did not dare to delay, and immediately took action, he took off his clothes, carried part of the spiritual energy of his body, and walked towards the lake.
As soon as his feet stepped on the lake, he immediately shivered, and Lin Shan knew very well that he must not retreat at this time! Forcibly endured the cold lake water, and moved towards the center of the lake step by step, and walked to the center of the lake, which was still some distance away from the center of the lake, and the lake was too deep to go any further.
He estimated that there should be a distance of more than ten zhang or so, so he turned his heart sideways, kicked to the bottom of the lake with his toes, and swam towards the ice lotus seeds in the center of the lake.
The exertion of his hands and feet, the pain in his chest was incomparable, and the lake water was very cold, as if he wanted to freeze his whole body, but this also reduced the pain in his chest a little, and he had become numb.
In a short distance, it took Lin Shan a quarter of an hour to swim to the center of the lake, and he paddled slowly with his two legs, looking at the ice lotus seed in front of him that would definitely bring a burst of bloody rain if it appeared in Ethereal City.
This is a plant that looks very similar to a lotus, it has eight emerald green leaves, on the top, there is a lotus canopy, there are three crystal clear, yellow-green fruits in the lotus canopy, the green is already very light, Lin Shan breathed a sigh of relief, if the green once completely disappeared, that is when the ice lotus seeds are ripe.
He touched it with one hand and found that the ice lotus seeds still had many small roots under the surface of the lake, and the root system was very long, and it was already deeply rooted in the bottom of the lake.
He carefully plucked the lotus canopy, thought about it again, and plucked the top two leaves of the ice lotus seed, and began to swim back vigorously, and after a quarter of an hour, Lin Shan finally came ashore with a pale face, although it was very cold, very painful, and shivering, but fortunately, the aura that the body part could operate still protected him.
He carefully put down the lotus canopy and ice lotus cotyledons, wiped his whole body dry with his clothes first, and took out another set of clean clothes from the aura bag, until he was done with these, Lin Shan breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the ice lotus cotyleon and green lotus canopy.