novelhk Chapter 182 Wilderness 3
Chapter 182 Wilderness 3
The five decided to stick together and head towards the glacier. There's a saying that goes, "The end of the wilderness is the demon realm." Rather than the dense forest whose direction is unknown, it's better to go to the demon realm first. Maybe once they reach the demon realm, they can ask around and find their way to the royal city. After all, their master and the others went to the demon realm to negotiate with the demon emperor in the royal city.
Of course, it would be even better if the masters could find them in advance.
Meanwhile, Qingxu Immortal Lord and his companions noticed the great commotion in the wasteland swamp and realized something was wrong. They knew about the swamp devouring, but the intervals between attacks varied, though they were generally quite long. Surely they couldn't be that unlucky!
Immortal Lord Qingxu thought to himself with a guilty conscience, thinking about Cheng Jiu's occasionally eccentric constitution.
Seeing the great migration of swamp monsters, all the guesses became reality. Not to mention Qingxu Immortal Lord and his disciples, Suyuan Venerable Lord and Lu Yan Daojun were all heart-pounding. They should have brought these five little guys with them. There was no warning beforehand. How unlucky they were.
Fortunately, considering that this was a wild and untamed place, the masters did not completely trust their disciples and each left a trace of their divine consciousness on their disciples.
This is where it came in handy, and they saw their apprentice moving westward at great speed.
"Those little guys went towards the Swamp Hell Glacier!" Immortal Lord Qingxu sensed Cheng Jiu's direction.
"Then I'll trouble you, Tiexian, to tell that senior to look after our disciple! We'll wait for them at Quanhai Cliff ahead." Qingyang Immortal Lord looked at Tiexian Immortal Lord.
"Grandmaster Uncle is probably going to bother me again. These little rascals really know how to cause trouble." Elder Tiexian sighed, but didn't delay, taking out a jade slip to send messages to people he didn't contact often.
"That old guy always stays in that godforsaken place, doesn't he get bored? Maybe those little guys can even liven things up for him," Qingyang Immortal Lord joked.
"Do you dare say that in front of your grandmaster?" Elder Tiexian asked, urging Qingyang Immortal Lord on.
"I won't! That old guy is definitely using his seniority to pressure me again. I'm not going to argue with that old man!" Immortal Lord Qingyang decisively refused: "Alright, let's go quickly. It's quite a distance from here to Quanhai Cliff. Sorry to trouble you, Suyuan, Lu Yan."
"It's alright, we're also concerned about those little ones. Anyway, there's no rush." The two shook their heads to indicate that they didn't care. After all, their master was also in the group, and they had to prioritize the safety of the little ones.
Meanwhile, upon arriving at the icy plains, the Earth Crocodile stubbornly refused to approach, even with the ginseng doll's attempts to urge it on. With no other option, everyone had to temporarily bid farewell to this temporary mount.
As soon as the group released the Earth Crocodile, it dashed off into the wilderness like a wild horse and disappeared.
Unable to withstand the low temperatures of the icy plains, the ginseng doll hid in Gong Yu's spirit-concealing pouch.
The closer you get, the lower the temperature becomes; even the air you breathe turns into ice crystals. All around are glaciers that have remained frozen for millennia, with no movement in sight, and the sky is filled with silence.
The temperature around them kept dropping. Even with their magic robes on, the biting cold seemed to penetrate to their very bones. They had to circulate their spiritual energy to warm themselves up before they could barely hold on.
"Is there anything that can survive in this godforsaken place?"
Cheng Jiu exhaled a breath of cold air, holding a fire crystal in her arms. Originally, she wanted to release the strange fire, but the little green fire was even more resistant to this environment than she was. Cheng Jiu also felt sorry for it, so she put it away.
Even the intensely hot flames of the palace flickered in this environment, barely holding on. The heartbroken palace maiden simply withdrew them, for this place was practically an enemy of any strange flame.
That means even a ninth-grade robe is useless.
As for retreating, none of them had that idea.
There's a saying that goes, "Since we're already here, no matter what this place is, hell or something else, we're willing to give it a shot."
"Did you hear anything?" Cheng Jiu's ears twitched.
"Could it be an avalanche?" Gong Yu thought of the avalanche that had happened on Canglan Peak before.
"Not only that, the Iceberg Man is fighting the Yeti!" Cheng Jiu looked at the two high mountains on both sides. Snow-white falling rocks rushed towards the five people like a surging sea. Unfortunately, the five people were in the corner between the two mountains. They couldn't dodge, they couldn't dodge at all. It was a sure way to bury the five people.
On the left mountain, a snow monster that blotted out the sky roared, while on the right mountain, a humanoid monster made entirely of ice was equally fierce. The two sides fought each other, and the huge shockwaves shook the snow off the surrounding peaks, creating massive avalanches.
"Find a place to hide, find a place to hide!" Li Wei shouted. The five of them looked around, trying to find a place to hide.
With the snow pressing down, would they still survive? For the first time, they deeply understood what it meant for a powerful force to wage war while others suffered.
"Senior brother, hurry up and use your water elemental root so we can build an igloo." Cheng Jiu thought of something and shouted to Gong Yu, "Shovel snow, hurry up and shovel snow! Chop ice, hurry up and chop ice!"
Fortunately, it snows here all year round. There's plenty of everything except ice and snow. Hearing Cheng Jiu's words, the four of them instantly felt reassured.
Li Weixin wielded her sword, creating sparks that rapidly sliced the frozen glacier into squares. Shangguan Song quickly stacked these squares into a semi-circular fortress. Gong Yu summoned a giant water dragon to reinforce the fortress. Fortunately, its water elemental root was extremely cold, making it a body of extreme cold, and the condensation speed was incredibly fast.
Cheng Jiu used vines to shovel out piles of snow, while Gong Cheng melted the snow and poured it into the ground.
Before the avalanche struck, the group successfully built a semi-circular fortress and took refuge inside.
All that could be heard was a creaking sound and a rumbling noise. Cheng Jiu's vines struggled to support the small space, and the noise finally stopped after a while.
"Are they done fighting?" Li Wei asked after pausing upon hearing the commotion.
"You can tell it's not going to be good just by looking at the sounds coming from underground, right?"
Cheng Jiu's face was pale. She had used too much spiritual energy, and the area was full of icy spiritual energy. If she hadn't learned how to convert it with her master, she wouldn't have been able to withstand it at all.
Just look at Gong Yu; the huge pile of water spirit stones in front of him is being consumed at a visible rate, and there's no way to replenish any other spiritual energy here.
"We can only wait!" Cheng Jiu took out the Wood Spirit Stone to absorb it: "Hopefully they can finish fighting before these ices solidify, otherwise we might become frozen artifacts under this glacier."
Listening to Cheng Jiu's deadpan jokes, Li Weixin muttered, "This isn't funny at all, okay?"
"Let's pray! If they don't stop fighting, we'll really become a laughingstock!" Shangguan Song also sat down on the ground. What else could they do? They couldn't defeat those two huge monsters outside, could they?
“We’re all a bit unlucky!” Li Weixin said, sitting on the ground.
Miyagi took out the spirit wood and lit a campfire with his own fire. In this extremely cold environment, the temperature inside the room seemed to rise a little.
But it quickly went out, since there wasn't enough fire element here, only enough ice element. Perhaps out of boredom, Miyagi lit it again and again, changing one type of spirit wood after another.
Li Weixin and Shangguan Song, who were originally just watching from the sidelines, eventually joined in this boring game. The firelight flickered in and out of the room, and the three of them had a great time.
After recovering his spiritual energy, Gong Yu joined the game. Playing with fire was indeed something hard to resist.
After an unknown amount of time, as the commotion underground subsided, it was possible that the two powerful figures above had finally stopped fighting, or that a victor had been decided.
"Let's get out of here!" The longer Cheng Jiu stayed, the more unsafe he felt.
"Leave it to me, junior sister!" Gongcheng was engulfed in flames.
"Wait a minute, Senior Brother!" Cheng Jiu grabbed him. "It's all snow outside. If you go out like this, what will the snow turn into?"
"Water!" Miyagi seemed to understand, and lowered the temperature!
"Yes, at such a cold temperature, the water will freeze into ice very quickly. If it overflows, not to mention that we'll all turn into ice blocks in no time."
"Let's first collect all this snow into our storage ring. Senior Brother Gong Yu, please try to create some space using ice. Then we'll climb up. When we encounter ice blocks, Senior Brother Gong Cheng, please intervene."
"It sounds great, Junior Sister!" The four nodded.
"Then let's get out of here quickly!" Regardless of whether the two monsters above have left or not, if they stay here any longer, they will definitely die.
I don't want to freeze to death here!
Although the snow was thick, it hadn't completely turned to ice yet, and the five of them worked together to successfully dig a hole from the ground and emerge.
The five people were exhausted after crawling out of the ground. After all, they had been using their spiritual power without stopping, and there was no spiritual energy to replenish it, so the effort they had to expend increased exponentially.
Fortunately, when I crawled out from underground, I didn't see the two monsters, which was a relief.
The five chose to recover their spiritual energy on the spot before setting off again, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to withstand the extreme cold.
Cheng Jiu recovered first, and after the other four recovered, the five of them continued forward.
"There's really nothing here!" After walking for a while, the group hadn't seen a single living creature. The surroundings were eerily quiet, as if there were no other living beings in the world but the five of them. An indescribable sense of loneliness filled their hearts, as if they had been abandoned by heaven and earth.
Gradually, loneliness filled her heart. Cheng Jiu felt like she was all alone in the world, and her four companions seemed to no longer care. A strong sense of crisis arose in Cheng Jiu's mind. When she came to her senses, Cheng Jiu realized that apart from her, the other four had gone in different directions.
No! Absolutely not. Putting everything else aside, the brothers Gongcheng and Gongyu have always been inseparable. How could they possibly be apart? Even if they were going in the same direction, they would definitely choose the same path!
Although she sensed something was wrong, her mind seemed to be clouded. Her reason knew something was wrong, but she couldn't feel any emotion. Her body was stiff and she couldn't move. She just numbly walked forward in one direction.
This seems to be a sign of hypothermia. How could this be? She is clearly a cultivator, but when she realized it, she found that her spiritual energy had been completely depleted. If it weren't for the spiritual robe she was wearing, which maintained her basic survival temperature, she probably would have collapsed to the ground long ago.
She hurriedly called out to Little Green Flame in her mind. Little Green Flame, who had been frozen into a deep sleep by the extreme cold, sensed her call and felt its master's life-or-death crisis. Little Green Flame struggled to appear in front of Cheng Jiu, and the intense heat allowed Cheng Jiu to regain some control of her body.
She took out the Wood Spirit Stone and greedily absorbed it. As her spiritual energy recovered, her body temperature rose.
Her previously frozen brain successfully revived, and a sense of lingering fear welled up in her heart. She had almost, almost, died unconsciously in this icy wasteland!
However, she didn't have time to think too much about it, since her situation was already so bad, her friends' situation must be even worse.
As soon as she recovered, she rushed to save her friend. The one closest to her was Gong Cheng, whose condition was even worse. He had been frozen and was completely numb. When Cheng Jiu tried to stop him, he fell straight down.
"Senior Brother Gongcheng, Senior Brother Gongcheng, wake up!" Cheng Jiu grabbed a handful of fire spirit stones and put them on him, but the other party seemed to have no strength left to absorb the spirit stones.
When Cheng Jiu was feeling somewhat lost, she suddenly remembered her own constitution. The Spiritual Essence Immortal Body was the gentlest spiritual body in the world, and its spiritual energy was also the gentlest. This meant that she could input her spiritual energy into Senior Brother Gongcheng without worrying about being rejected.
Cheng Jiu felt like she had grasped a lifeline, and was extremely grateful for her physical condition. If her friends had died in this icy plain today, she would never have forgiven herself for the rest of her life.
Cheng Jiu grabbed a handful of wood spirit stones in one hand and used the other hand to channel spiritual energy into Gong Cheng. The continuous flow of spiritual energy poured into Gong Cheng's body, warming his limbs and bones.
After a long while, Gongcheng finally woke up from his coma: "Junior Sister!"
"Senior Brother Gongcheng, you're awake!" Cheng Jiu said with surprise.
Gong Cheng looked around and understood the situation: "Junior Sister, you go and save your brother, Senior Brother Li, and Senior Brother Shangguan first! I'll come help you as soon as I recover!"
"Okay!" Cheng Jiu didn't say much more. Time was of the essence, and not a moment could be wasted!
Gong Yu was the closest to the palace. Although the two brothers were separated, they were not far apart. The other stood stiffly, not even having the strength to walk.
When Cheng Jiu approached, the other person's brows and eyes were frosty. If the other person wasn't still breathing, Cheng Jiu would have been afraid that the other person was gone. A sour feeling welled up in Cheng Jiu's nose.
Cheng Jiu quickly knocked the opponent down, placed a fire spirit crystal next to him, and put a large number of water spirit stones on his body. She then began to channel spiritual energy into him to give him life-saving pills. She was even more worried about the other two people, but the current situation did not allow her to be distracted. She had to save as many as she could!
Meanwhile, Gongcheng, after recovering slightly, went to rescue the other two people. He carried them to Cheng Jiu's side. Although he had a fire spirit root, Cheng Jiu was still the main force in rescuing them.
He could only use fire elemental energy to slowly maintain their body temperature and prevent their condition from worsening.
This is also a huge challenge for him, after all, he has an extreme fire body, and his fire spirit energy is not gentle at all, with a strong attack power.
With the help of pills and Cheng Jiu, Gong Yu successfully recovered. Cheng Jiu did not talk to Gong Yu and immediately went to help the other two people.
Fortunately, although they came later, their situation was much better than Gong Yu's, only slightly worse than Gong Cheng's.
Having successfully woken up his two friends, Cheng Jiu was too exhausted to speak. This kind of thing was truly mentally and physically draining; Cheng Jiu's heart trembled as he saved them.
The wilderness is indeed fraught with danger; if you're not careful, you might die in some unknown corner.