Chapter 398 The Most Handsome Snowman in the World
In Naixue City.
"Elder! Elder! Look what three things I picked up!" Nunu ran all the way into a tall palace, looking very excited.
Along the way, many snowmen with slightly more "slender" bodies and looks like women turned their heads to look at it. Judging from its gaze, it seems that it is not bragging when it says that it is the most handsome snowman in the tribe.
Li Chu and the other two followed behind it, looking at the snowy buildings along the way. They saw that the snowmen coming and going were all similar, which they found very mysterious.
This is probably one of the charms of the secret realm.
Before entering it, you can never guess what kind of world is inside.
However, this charm has always been accompanied by unknown risks. If it were not for Li Chu, Qingshui Jian and Zang Yunzi would probably have died before they even saw the city.
An old snowman with a hunched body and a weathered look came out of the palace. Although the snowman had no wrinkles or beard, he was visibly aged.
"Nunu, why are you yelling?" the snowman elder said in a reproachful tone, but there was no displeasure in his tone, just like a kind elder.
"Look, elder. I brought back three outsiders." Nunu stretched out his hand and pointed at the three people behind him.
"Oh my God!" Elder Snowman's eyes widened. "He really is a stranger. Is he a stranger in the ancestral teachings?"
"That's right! It's the outsider mentioned in our ancestral teachings!"
“Can they breathe?”
"meeting!"
“Can they walk?”
"meeting!"
“Can they talk?”
"meeting!"
"These outsiders are so awesome!" the Snowman Elder exclaimed excitedly.
“…”
The three of them were silent for a moment.
Qing Shuijian whispered: "Is this a compliment?"
Zang Yunzi replied: "Is that so..."
"But why don't I feel happy..." Qingshui Jian narrowed his eyes.
Li Chu nodded silently.
Nunu and the snowman elder shouted back and forth for a long time before they made things clear.
The Snowman Elder's gaze focused on Li Chu.
"You killed a snow monster as tall as a hill with just one move? Oh my god." It still used that exaggerated tone, "The ancestral teachings are indeed true. You are indeed sent by God to help us eliminate the snow monster."
"In fact..." Li Chu said slowly: "Of course we were not sent by God. We came here to look for something. If you can help us find it, then... I can indeed help you fight the snow monster."
"This is not help, but an equal exchange."
At the beginning of the communication, he emphasized the definition to prevent the Snowman Elder from having any unrealistic fantasies.
"Oh?" Elder Snowman calmed down. "What are you looking for?"
"This..." Zang Yunzi said, "We are not sure, so we want to take a look at your city... and the holy mountain, and the so-called 'fairyland' on the top of the mountain."
"Haha, as long as you don't harm our people, it's fine for you to wander around the city." The Snowman Elder laughed, "But as for climbing the Holy Mountain... you can't do it."
"oh?"
"Because only snowmen can enter the wonderland of Yunding, we are said to be creatures born on the top of the holy mountain." Nunu explained on the side.
"Wouldn't it be impossible for us to go up like this..." Zang Yunzi touched his chin, "This is the place most likely to have the Fairy Water of Yaochi. If we don't go and take a look..."
"Actually..." Elder Snowman pondered for a while and said slowly, "If you must go to Yunding Wonderland, there is a way."
"Hmm?" The three of them looked at it together, with an expression that wanted to "tell more about it".
"I was a little worried that you might destroy the fairyland, so I didn't mention it. If you just want to find that 'fairy water'... there are indeed two springs, Yin and Yang, in Yunding Fairyland. According to legend, if the Yin spring and the Yang spring are combined, the 'fairy water' with magical power can be born."
"But... this is a legend from a long, long time ago, because thousands of years ago, the cold Yinquan was occupied by the snow demon..."
"etc……"
The Snowman Elder was about to do so when Zang Yunzi suddenly interrupted him.
"Elders, didn't you just say that the Snow Demon couldn't ascend to Cloudtop Wonderland? How did it occupy a spring for thousands of years?"
He accurately grasped the blind spot.
"Haha, this is why you can also ascend to Cloud Top Wonderland..." The Snowman Elder smiled slightly, "A long, long time ago, our ancestors invented a snow festival ritual that could transform snow beasts into snowmen. Later, the snow demons stole the ritual, and they used it to transform themselves into snowmen and ascend to Cloud Top Wonderland."
"Snow beasts can, snow demons can..." Qing Shuijian asked, "Then we can also turn into snowmen? Will it be dangerous?"
"Um... I'm not sure. You outsiders are structured completely differently from us. I don't know what will happen to you during the Ice and Snow Festival." The Snowman Elder felt a little unconfident when asked, then he stroked his beard and smiled, revealing a smile of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick.
"But I have a clever trick that will tell you if you're in danger."
"What's the good idea?" The three looked at him expectantly.
Then I heard the Snowman Elder slowly utter three words: "Give it a try."
"?"
Three faces of confusion.
"Why don't you send someone to try it first, and you'll know if it can succeed." The Snowman Elder spread out his hands, with an expression that said, "How could you not even think of this?"
"But..." Qingshui Jian said, "If there is any danger, won't the person who tries it be in trouble?"
"Why don't you just send the weakest person to try?" said the Snowman Elder. "If you succeed, you will have a chance to ascend to the Cloudtop Wonderland. If you fail, you can still retain your strength."
"How can this be! This is so inhumane!" Qingshui Jian retorted.
Elder Snowman looked at Li Chu and the others, then looked at Qingshui Sword, wondering, "Why are you the only one who objects?"
Qingshui Jian hesitated for a moment, then said: "Because I am the weakest person now..."
“…”
After listening to them talking for a while, Li Chu said, "Why don't I try it first?"
"Brother Li..." Qingshui Jian turned to look at him, tears instantly filling his eyes.
Li Chu's move was not a show of force, but he felt that the ritual was unlikely to cause any risks. Moreover, with his current physical strength, the laws in this secret realm would not necessarily be able to completely harm him.
Faced with unknown risks, I am indeed the one with stronger resistance.
Although he always remains cautious when it comes to his own safety, Li Chu is always willing to step forward when it comes to protecting others.
"Okay, you are a brave stranger." The Snowman Elder praised him, and then said, "Then we can make an agreement. I will help you try the Ice and Snow Festival. If it succeeds, you will help us take back the spring while searching for the fairy water in Yunding Wonderland. If it fails, then we will pretend nothing happened..."
"Can."
Li Chu nodded in response.
…
There is a huge ice cave at the south end of Naixue City. As soon as you approach it, you can feel the chill. The altar for the ice and snow ceremony is right above this ice cave.
When Li Chu scanned the area with his mind, he sensed a very terrifying aura lurking inside. It was something he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened.
"What's in this?" he asked.
"He is the patron saint of our Naixue City." said the Snowman Elder.
He narrated: "Compared with the snow monsters, our strength is simply too weak, and the walls of Naixue City cannot stop those terrible giant monsters. The reason why we can live in this city is because there is a divine beast brought down from the top of the Holy Mountain that year, which always guards our city. With this great existence, we don't have to worry about the snow monsters coming to invade."
"It is a unicorn beast with ice attributes. We all call it..."
"Ice Qilin."
"It's actually a Qilin!" Several people were a little surprised.
Among the five auspicious animals in the world, except the four elephants, the remaining one is the Qilin.
The difference is that the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird and Black Tortoise are all the absolute best in their respective races, and only then can they become mythical and supreme beings.
The Qilin is a natural auspicious animal. There is only one Qilin of each attribute in the world. When the previous one dies, a new one will appear. And any Qilin that grows to adulthood is a top existence. From this perspective, the Qilin clan is a more powerful bloodline than the dragon clan.
However, from ancient times to the present, there have been very few Qilins appearing in the world.
According to legend, Guo Longque raised a unicorn on Broken Stele Mountain. This extreme power was also the important reason why the rebels had never been wiped out despite their huge goals.
Who would have thought that within this secret realm, there actually existed an ancient ice Qilin that had never appeared in the world? "If there was a Qilin to help, those snow monsters would be nothing but chickens and dogs. Why would you be afraid of them? Wouldn't it be better to just let the Qilin kill them?" Qingshui Jian asked.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the Snowman Elder and Nunu both looked a little angry.
"The Ice Qilin is not a snow beast we raise, but a guardian deity we worship!" the Snowman Elder said loudly, "How could it be driven by us to kill?"
Qingshui Jian shrank his neck and stopped making any sound.
After a while, everyone climbed up the ridge above the ice cave and reached the place where the altar was.
This so-called altar is more like a huge circular platform, not high off the ground, and quite vast. Looking down from the sky, you can see that it is painted with quite complicated patterns, and the overall shape is like a hexagonal snowflake.
"Now..." Elder Snowman said to Li Chu, "You just need to stand in the center of the altar and wait quietly for the snowflakes to fall. During this process, no matter what happens, don't resist it... It's best to enjoy it."
"Um."
Li Chu agreed, jumped to the center of the altar and stood there.
Then the Snowman Elder told Nunu, "Go ring the bell."
Nunu took the order and immediately ran to the side of the altar, to a pavilion with a large ice bell hanging on it, and struck the ice bell hard! It actually made a metallic sound!
clang--
The sound was quickly carried to Naixue City by the strong wind.
After a while, a large number of people came to the altar. They were all snowmen from the city who came from all directions. They came to the altar and were very familiar with the process. They didn't make any noise or noise, but just stood quietly, lowered their heads, and seemed to be meditating on something.
As more and more snowmen appeared, the atmosphere gradually became heavy.
Soon, snowflakes as big as goose feathers began to fall from the sky.
Qingshui Jian whispered, "Why do I feel like they are observing a moment of silence? Aren't they trying to send my brother Li away?"
"Don't make a fuss." Zang Yunzi said, "I feel like this is more like a ritual to pray for snow..."
"That's right." The Snowman Elder said, "This sacrifice was indeed discovered accidentally by our ancestors during the snow-praying ceremony. Over time, it evolved into the current Ice and Snow Festival."
After he said that, he raised his hands high and closed his eyes, as if he was communicating with heaven and earth.
Zang Yunzi and Qing Shuijian didn't dare to disturb them anymore.
Let’s talk about Li Chu.
He stood alone in the center of the empty altar, feeling the surroundings gradually getting colder. Snowflakes fell slowly, soon accumulating into a deep layer.
He subconsciously tried to lift his feet, but he felt as if some force was gathering towards him from the snow. He could feel that he could get rid of it with a little effort. But he remembered what the Snowman Elder said and did not resist this force.
I have had this kind of experience in secret realms before, and it feels somewhat familiar.
Gradually, the snow piled up above the waist.
This didn't make him feel cold, so he didn't feel uncomfortable and just continued to wait.
In the end, the thick snow buried Li Chu's head.
The miraculous thing was that the snow on the altar was so high, but not a bit of it fell to the surroundings. And the heavy snow that was flying all over the sky did not fall outside at all.
Qingshui Jian frowned as he watched Li Chu being buried in the snow, and couldn't help but feel suspicious: "Isn't this some kind of weird funeral method..."
Before he finished speaking, the Snowman Elder suddenly opened his eyes.
"Very quickly..."
“It’s already been completed.”
The Snowman Elder waved his hands heavily, "Come out... the reborn Snowman!"
Bang——
His words were like an order, and the strange power surrounding the altar seemed to disappear. Countless snow poured out in an instant, and with a rumbling sound, it slowly spread out around.
In the center of the altar, Li Chu's figure gradually appeared.
No.
It can no longer be said to be Li Chu, it should be a brand new snowman figure.
Slender, upright, pure white...
Against the backdrop of sunlight, it looks like the most perfect work of art in the world.
As the figure gradually emerged, all the snowmen watching around exclaimed in surprise.
“Wow——”
There was an uproar! "What happened?" Qing Shuijian was excited about the success of the ceremony, but suddenly saw the amazement of the snow people around him and felt a little puzzled.
Then the snowmen shouted, "There is such a handsome snowman in the world. Oh my god, can this really exist?"
"I actually participated in the birth of such a gorgeous snowman. It's really... such an honor!"
"This is probably the most beautiful sight that has never appeared in the history of Naixue City!"
“…”
He grinned, as if he wanted to complain, but he didn't know where to start. In the end, he could only sigh: "As expected of Brother Li."
On the other side, there was a snowman whose expression was different from everyone else's.
That's Nunu.
He was originally happy about the success of the ceremony, but when he saw Li Chu's complete figure, he suddenly became stunned.
The joy on his face gradually faded and was replaced by disbelief.
"I... I am no longer the most handsome snowman in the world?" It made a heartbreaking sound.
At this time, Zang Yunzi patted him on the shoulder.
"I understand how you feel."
(End of this chapter)
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