Chapter 19: The Ice Zone
Xiao Ye took the lead, and the group went straight to the north of the Ethereal City, out of the Ethereal City, the five of them did not stop, except for the occasional stop to rest for a while, the rest of the time were in a hurry, along the way according to the instructions on the map, it took four days to walk through a forest, and six days to cross a boundless desert.
Finally, the five of them exhaled a breath of white air, and a vast white and vast ice and snow world was displayed in front of the five people.
After these exchanges on the road, Lin Shan roughly knew the origin of Xiao Ye's four people, Xiao Ye came from a remote immortal cultivation family's children, but this family has been very declining by Xiao Ye's generation, in addition to him, there are three disciples with spiritual roots.
What makes people even more frustrating is that no clansmen in the previous generation have cultivated to the foundation building period, but they were attacked in the process of a family outing, and the elders of the family, except for a cousin who avoided this catastrophe at home, all the others were killed.
Immortal cultivators in the Yuan cultivation period, the lifespan is the same as ordinary people, but the physical physique is better, only when they reach the foundation building period, they will have a longevity of about two hundred and fifty years old, although there are three other children with spiritual roots, but they are all average qualifications, one has mixed three spiritual roots, and the other two are even worse, with mixed four spiritual roots.
And he himself also has three kinds of spiritual roots, one of the facts of the immortal cultivation world, the more immortal cultivators with many spiritual roots want to improve, the more they need to absorb more heaven and earth spiritual energy, but when his family reaches his generation, the pills and resources he has are already quite small.
How to allocate these extremely limited resources became a tricky problem, and in the end, his cousin decided to supply him with all the remaining pills, which only allowed him to cultivate to the peak of the fourth layer of the cultivation period at the age of twenty-five, and the worst thing was that after reaching the fourth layer of the cultivation period, all the resources in the family had been consumed, so he had to come all the way to Ethereal City to find an opportunity.
As for Huang Ling'er and Xu Ping, the two came from a very remote country, 108,000 miles away from Ethereal City, with at least 20 secular powers in between.
These two families are both cultivators, but these two families are feuds, in a fight between the two is not a rival, Huang Linger and Xu Ping stopped, the two fought each other for several days, and they actually had feelings, this kind of thing must not let each other's families know, so the two discussed, and finally ran to the ethereal city so far away, planning to wait until the cultivation reached a certain level before thinking about going home.
Nie Zhen's origin is as Xiao Ye said first, he is a poor talent from the secular world, more than ten years ago I met an old man who was also an immortal cultivator in the Yuan cultivation period, the old man is approaching his life, and he met Nie Zhen, a talent with spiritual roots, but it is also fate.
So he accepted him as an apprentice, and after some guidance, he returned to heaven, and Nie Zhen followed the master's instructions, and felt the immortal aftermath, and suddenly fell into it.
He gave up everything in the secular world and practiced penance for more than ten years, but he felt that his cultivation was difficult to improve, so he remembered the ethereal city that his master said before his death, and he looked for opportunities all the way.
Regarding his identity, Lin Shan didn't say it clearly, Xiao Ye said that he came from the big Immortal Cultivation Sect, he didn't deny it, he just smiled, and he did not talk much, so everyone also acquiesced that he was a disciple of a certain Immortal Cultivation Sect.
The five of them stepped into this snowy, windy world, and immediately let go of their divine consciousness and searched for everything in their divine consciousness, but in the blizzard, Lin Shan's divine consciousness was at most about ten meters away, and the others were even closer.
Although everyone was mentally prepared to face the harsh environment when they came, they gradually became nervous in the face of such a blizzard, and the five of them propped up their aura covers and groped their way forward.
"If only there was a fixed wind bead. Looking at the world in his sight, which was white and almost impossible to see because of the violent snowstorm, Nie Zhen let out a long sigh.
"Hurry up, there is already a lot of wind and snow on the periphery of the Xuanbing District, and it is much better to go deeper into an area. As soon as the words fell, Xiao Ye stabbed him from behind and urged him to move quickly.
The five of them walked for about half a day against the strong wind, and sure enough, as Xiao Ye said, the wind really gradually became smaller, and everyone's horizons gradually broadened.
The first feeling given to Lin Shan here was the richness of his aura, which was even a point or two thicker than that of Ethereal City, and his heart immediately sank slightly, the more sufficient the aura, the more likely the cultivation of the ice beasts here would be, because the ice beasts were born with the aura of heaven and earth, and most of their food was rich in the aura of heaven and earth, so their growth rate was not slow.
As far as the eye can see, there is an open ice surface in front of you, the ice is staggered with ravines, and there are huge pieces of ice everywhere, and gusts of wind blow, spinning the snowflakes and carrying them in all directions, and you can vaguely see some white shadows in the distance, which should be towering mountains in the distance.
"Let's go, go ahead, it is said that the best place for hunting in general is in the ice valley, let's find an ice valley. Xiao Ye urged the four of them, and he took the lead and walked forward.
Lin Shan followed behind Xiao Ye, let go of his divine sense, and walked forward cautiously, while the others did not speak, and wrapped their clothes tightly and followed forward.
Three days later, they came to a large ice valley, the ice valley could not be seen at a glance, the peaks on both sides were high and steep, the wind mixed with snowflakes blew out of the ice valley in bursts, making a "whining" sound, and in front of the left was an undulating ice field, a white expanse, with no end in sight.
Xiao Ye took out the map, beckoned everyone to come closer, pointed to the map and said: "This ice valley area, it should be here on the map, the name is Ice Plain Valley, according to reports, the common ice beasts in the Ice Valley have first-order ice sculptures and ice wolves, and second-order ice beasts are relatively rare, of course, we must also be prepared, all kinds of ice beasts may be encountered in the Xuanbing area." ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Ye stopped, his eyebrows were jumping, he was very excited, and after looking at the four of them, he continued: "It is said that there is a high probability that there is extreme grass growing in the Ice Plain Valley, and the extreme grass is the main medicine for refining the Xiuyuan Pill, and the Cultivation Yuan Pill is the best pill for our Xiuyuan period monks to improve their cultivation, my opinion is that we can break into the Ice Plain Valley, what is your opinion?"
The spirit grass of "Extreme Grass" is full of great temptation for Nie Zhen, Huang Ling'er and Xu Ping, even Lin Shan, although he has the Five Elements Bead, he is already unique in terms of spiritual energy absorption, but with his current cultivation speed, he is also in urgent need of spiritual pills to improve.
Nie Zhen was silent for a while, and immediately agreed, Huang Ling'er and Xu Ping naturally had no objections.
Lin Shan thought for a moment, and then said slowly: "I also agree with the trip to the Ice Plain Valley, although there must be danger in the valley, but the return must be worth it, but before entering, I suggest that the team list the position and the things they should pay attention to;
Just after a moment of silence, Xiao Ye was the first to support, he clapped his hands and said to Lin Shanyan: "It is indeed my negligence, this proposal is very good, I agree." ”
The other three had no objection, after all, it was much safer, and everyone just had to keep an eye on their direction.
Lin Shan lowered the straw hat on his head slightly, and took the lead towards the Ice Plain Valley, while the other four people followed closely at a certain distance.
The ice peaks on both sides of the ice field valley are at least as high as 1,000 zhang, and the valley is also staggered, and there are bulging giant ice everywhere, although the wind blowing in the valley is much smaller than the wind he encountered when he first came in, but Lin Shan put his divine sense to the maximum, and it is only about fifty meters away, this fifty meters distance, according to the speed of the ice wolf and ice sculpture, it is also in the blink of an eye, Lin Shan did not dare to slack off, walked and stopped, as soon as there was an abnormal sound, he immediately stopped, and after careful inspection to determine that there was no danger, he would continue to move forward.
Walking for more than two hours, Lin Shan jumped lightly on a piece of ice, suddenly his feet shook, the ice was shaking, he was startled, looked down, the ice actually fell out of the water faintly, Lin Shan looked down the water, and found a lot of moving creatures.
He gently brushed aside the ice floe in front of him, and a snow-white fat spirit fish came into his sight, and before Lin Shan could make a move, the spirit fish flickered its tail and disappeared into the water.
"What's the matter?" Huang Ling'er looked at him for a while, and had already followed, asking him cautiously in a low voice, while in the distance, the other three were looking at them with nervous expressions.
In the late cultivation period, when they need to communicate secretly, they can secretly transmit sound without making a sound, as if they are talking in their ears, and although speaking now will bring a little danger, they have to keep their voices as low as possible.
"Now this valley under our feet is actually a river, and I just saw a few spirit fish. Lin Shan replied in a low voice.
"Tell everyone to be on guard, these spirit fish, I estimate that they are the food of some ice beasts, and they are estimated to encounter ice beasts in the future. Lin Shan paused slightly, seemed to realize something, and immediately ordered Huang Ling'er to go back and be on guard.
Huang Ling'er hurriedly turned around and walked quickly towards the road she came, but she hadn't returned to the place where the other three people were behind, and the changes were flickering.
"Be careful!" Lin Shan suddenly shouted a warning voice, and with his shout, he had already shot two fireballs into the sky.