"Do you really think anyone would come here to cause trouble during the Lunar New Year?"

The guard in charge of a certain checkpoint looked at the distant, moonlit, white forest. He couldn't tell which way was north, south, east, or west; all he could see were trees.

The master of landscape formations hired by the Mu family used mountains, forests, and rivers as protection, and contained the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) formation to connect the formation stones in the center of the mine.

The Qi is connected, so any problem outside can be fed back there. Of course, for these guards, it's locked behind the door, so how can they open it unless they break it down?

"Just be careful. We get triple pay for shifts, and we won't be shortchanged on food. At most, we'll just miss watching a couple of shows."

Just then, the errand boy brought over the food for the training duty. As soon as he saw the food, one of them eagerly took it, opened the food box, and looked at the reddish pork knuckle. He couldn't wait to tear off a piece of meat with his hands.

"Ouch! It's hot...it's really strong! Come and try it! It tastes amazing!"

Steaming hot food, flavorful meat dishes, paired with a snowy night—it's simply wonderful!

"Thanks, brother. It's been a long time delivering the food. And look at you, you look like a starving ghost reincarnated."

The other person also thanked the errand runner, and then looked at the food box in front of him, which looked especially tempting in the night.

I couldn't resist the temptation and tore off a piece to eat. The feeling was just like the braised pork knuckle my family used to eat when I was a kid! So delicious!

Just as the two guards were about to enjoy their meal, the errand runner, who was about to leave, spotted a rather unusual dark figure in the stark white forest.

They were running faster and faster towards us. Intruders? Just as the errand runner was about to shout with this thought in mind, he saw that everything outside was like a disturbed surface of water.

An old man with black hair, blue clothes, and a weathered face stepped out of the water, his body surrounded by water vapor and ice shards, appearing before these people.

In just one glance, the white breath these people exhaled flowed back into their mouths and noses, turning into ice shards that blocked and froze their bodies.

In their struggle, their faces grew increasingly ashen, they couldn't even utter a sound, and their movements became increasingly stiff. Finally, bright red ice spikes pierced through their bodies.

"Set up battle flags, seal off the mine, leave no one alive!"

Niu Yuancheng looked at the Bagua plate in his hand. At the center was not a yin-yang fish, but a scarlet, fleshy eye with a vertical pupil that rotated with the surrounding energy.

Then, in the direction of where he stood, he gave instructions to the Niu family members who kept appearing behind him. With low replies, the blue-clad crowds, like waves, headed towards the central mine.

At that moment, Mu Changchun, who was celebrating, suddenly changed his expression and pulled out a blood-red round stone.

"Intrusion detected! Be on high alert immediately!"

There was no time to explain. Mu Changchun immediately arranged for his men to act. After they left with uncertain expressions, he looked at Dao Chengyi.

"Nephew, leave immediately! The Mu family is in grave danger!"

He has always been kind to others, and he lost the position of family head because he was not ruthless enough. Now, facing a genius like Dao Chengyi, he feels affection for him and has not chosen to bind him to this place.

"We are not yet at our wits' end, so why do you say such things, Uncle Changchun? If everyone flees at the first sign of danger, how can a family stand firm and remain undefeated?"

"It's just a little hardship, but we'll face it."

He drank and smashed his cup, looking at the mine that had unknowingly become on guard. Dao Chengyi then looked at the snowflakes that had unknowingly grown larger.

He gently pinched one of the ice crystals, which expanded and took on a thick crimson hue, heading towards the distant Ice and Snow Dragon Dust that was coming to seek revenge on the Niu family, the family whose three martial masters he had killed!