Living ice sculptures
"What! A living ice sculpture!"
Jin ManLou was furious when he heard this: "Is this true? You must be seeing things!"
Jiang Chanyi seemed to believe it a little and stood there thinking.
Qianluo helped her up, crushed the spirit stone for her to absorb, patted her back gently, and looked at the ice sculpture puppets outside with her. Those ice sculptures looked exactly the same, but no one knew that the frost beads in their bodies were actually the soul beads of the cultivators!
Sun Rushuang glimpsed those ferocious, ugly and distorted faces from the soul bead. They wailed madly and slapped the soul bead's barrier. It was a cage that trapped them, locked up their souls and memories, forcing the cultivators to be unable to be free for their entire lives and be trapped in a small space.
A monk who has lost his mind is no longer a human being, but a beast full of violence.
Sun Rushuang could not imagine who had extracted the souls and consciousness of these monks, trapped them in small ice sculptures, and made them obey his (her) orders and become his (her) puppets.
A chill ran down her spine, making Qianluo break out in a cold sweat.
The frost beads that everyone was fighting for on the second floor turned out to be the soul beads of the cultivators. What kind of bloody methods did the people behind the scenes use to refine these Jindan cultivators into puppets, imprisoning them alive in frost, turning them into sculptures without any sadness or joy.
What kind of secrets are hidden in this second layer?
Who is the person behind the scenes? !
A brilliant blue hue flashed in Sun Rushuang's eyes. Blood was streaming down her snow-white cheeks, a truly terrifying sight. She propped herself up and stood up, her eyes determined. "If you're scared, please leave. I must find Bingshuang Lanzhi. This is the purpose of my trip."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Manlou crossed his arms with a look of disdain on his face. "Sun Rushuang, don't underestimate me! I've been through all sorts of dangerous places, like Longtan and Huxue. Isn't this just a small Frost Blue Secret Realm?"
If you don't look at her trembling legs, it might be somewhat believable.
Jiang Chanyi was known for her love of money. She lay lazily on the ground, her voice nonchalant, "Very good. The other treasures will be divided equally among the three of us. You can take Bingshuang Lanzhi."
Qianluo held her hand: "Don't worry."
Sun Rushuang lowered her head and smiled, "My consciousness has been severely damaged. Xiaoluo, please help me protect the law."
The three of them stood, while Sun Rushuang sat cross-legged. As they watched the increasingly violent ice sculptures, they felt a pang of grief. Where did so many Jindan cultivators come from? Could they be treasure-hunting cultivators entering the secret realm?
They either died in the treasure-hunting crisis or died in conspiracy and intrigue.
After a few days, the ice sculpture did not leave.
"Bang bang bang!" The remaining ice sculptures stepped on the snow and water of the same kind, one after another, crossed the gradually weakening strange fire, endured the danger of being burned, came to the defensive formation, and attacked the four people together.
"Bang!"
"Crack!" Countless fragments flew out, and the defensive formation was broken! The four of them had to gather their strength to fight!
Colorful magic lights suddenly appeared, and the four people fought against dozens of ice sculptures, gritting their teeth and fighting hard. Although they knew that they had no choice, at this moment, their own lives were the most important.
"Seize the Frost Orb!" Without the Frost Orb, they will have no energy supply!
Jiang Chanyi flipped over and swept the sky, sending ice and snow flying. She kicked the ice sculptures at her feet away with force, and with a swipe of her whip, she tripped five of them with a deafening roar. Jin Manlou summoned a spear of extraordinary rank and pierced through the five ice sculptures. The sculptures moved slowly, and five frost beads slowly rose.
"Be careful!" Sun Rushuang was extremely anxious. She didn't know when ten ice sculptures approached the two of them from behind. Considering their cultivation levels, their levels must be quite high.
However, she and Qianluo were already struggling to deal with five ice sculptures alone, and had no energy to help their teammates. She looked at Qianluo with an anxious expression.
Qian Luo rolled over to hide, her face already frosted and her hair disheveled. She leaped forward and blocked with her sword. She could hear the piercing sound of ice sculptures scratching against the Dragon Roar Sword.
"Hold on a little longer!" She glanced behind her and saw that Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou were struggling to deal with the ten ice sculptures and their spiritual power was running out.
Qianluo frowned and took out the map: Time is almost up, when will the second level of the secret realm begin!
Just as Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou fell to the ground, their maps flew out of the storage bag and lit up with white light. The expressionless ice sculptures actually showed a trace of fear and kept backing away. Soon, they had retreated ten meters away.
"How is this..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the four of them were sucked into the map by the white light.
…
When he opened his eyes again, the ice and snow on his face hurt. The biting cold wind whistled past. What appeared before his eyes was a dilapidated palace with broken walls and overgrown weeds. Even the glazed jade tiles on the roof were crumbling and fell on the snow without making a sound. Only five large characters written on the stone tablet next to it could be barely recognized.
"The ruins of the Snow Country?"
"This is the ruins of the Snowland Kingdom!" Jin Manlou exclaimed, her voice filled with uncontrollable joy. She pulled Jiang Chanyi and carefully identified it, almost jumping for joy!
"Oh my God! I actually reached the second level of the secret realm! There must be a lot of treasures in the palace! We are going to be rich, hahaha!" Jiang Chanyi's eyes were full of gold ingots, as if she saw countless opportunities falling into her arms!
The usually calm Sun Rushuang also showed a bit of joy. She grabbed Qianluo's sleeve, her eyes reddened, "Is there Bingshuang Lanzhi here?"
Qianluo did not answer. There was no Bingshuang Lanzhi here, but there was a palace made of a pile of bones.
When the four of them arrived, the monks around them woke up one after another. Everyone was excited at first, but then they became malicious and secretly alert. After all, there were so many monks and the treasures were limited. How were they going to divide them?
Of course it’s murder.
"Hey, Miss Jin is here too?"
The nonchalant Chu Lianxi raised his eyebrows, took a step with his long legs, and looked arrogant. His eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, and his looks were stunning. Even standing naked would attract attention, not to mention that next to him was the proud daughter of heaven, Wu Xingxue.
"Chu Lianxi!" Jin Manlou sized him up, clicked his tongue twice, and turned to complain to Jiang Chanyi, "Why is this guy still dressed so flashily? He's not manly at all!"
"You!" Chu Lianxi's brows were about to pop out. He was so angry that he picked up the poison needle and threw it out. A white light flashed, and an object came across and blocked his attack.
"It's you again!" Chu Lianxi was so angry that he jumped up and down, turning around and shouting, "Bai Lu Jian Jia, come here quickly! Someone is bullying me!"
The frost beads shattered and fell into the snow.
"It seems that you have made a lot of ice sculptures!" Chu Lianxi looked at the girl in front of him jokingly. Her amber pupils were quite special, much like the glass balls she played with when she was a child, crystal clear.
He took a step forward, stepped on the fragments of the Frost Pearl, and walked in front of Qianluo, his eyes flickering: "This is the second time we meet, and I still don't know your name?"
Qian Luo's pupils widened. This guy was actually picking up her hair. His nose was getting closer and closer. She could clearly see the boy's eyes, which were full of spirit and the gorgeous colors were amazing.
And the fragrance coming from him, is it poison or...
Chu Lianxi didn't know why, but he suddenly felt that the girl's dazed look was quite cute. He couldn't help but reach out and touch her nose, but there was always someone who ruined his mood.
"Get out!" Sun Rushuang flicked her fingertips, and the Tiangui Yinshui shot straight towards the young man. If it hit him, Chu Lianxi's face would be ruined!
"Sizzle!" A burnt smell filled the air.
It turned out that Wu Xingxue's teammate Bailu Jianjia had arrived at the scene. One of them was holding a shield made of unknown material, blocking the highly corrosive Tiangui Yinshui.
As the shield fell, two identical faces were revealed. Their skin was snow-white, their eyes were pitch-black, and their lips were light pink. If it weren't for the heaving chests, one would have thought they were robots.
"Fellow Daoist, your method is too cruel." It was not known whether it was Bai Lu or Jian Jia who spoke. She looked down at the corroded shield.
Sun Rushuang pulled Qianluo over, a strange blue glint in her eyes as she stared fiercely at Chu Lianxi. She protected Qianluo behind her like a hen protecting her chicks: "He's acting strangely. What's he trying to do by getting so close to him? Is he poisoning or being a hooligan?"
Then, he turned around to check Qianluo's body, and Qianluo caught a glimpse of the furious Chu Lianxi out of the corner of her eye.
According to the clues provided by the simulation, all four members of Wu Xingxue's team entered the top ten. With the information they possessed, they were very likely to know the role of the Frost Bead in the second-level secret realm.
Chu Lianxi in front of him was still furious, gritting his teeth and saying, "You coffin-carrying woman, I will never let you go. Bailu Jianjia, come at me!"
But Bailu and Jianjia exchanged a glance, took two steps back, and lowered their eyes: "The young lady is resting. We will not take action without her orders."
They just took action to protect Chu Lianxi's life. If his life was not in danger, they would not have taken action. After all, in the secret realm, spiritual power is the most important.
"You!" Chu Lianxi was so angry that he couldn't speak, and stared at the two female cultivators in front of him.
"If you don't go, I'll do it myself!" He lowered his hands, and ten silver needles appeared from his fingertips. The needles were so sharp that they gave his pitiful face a somewhat unstoppable aura.
Suddenly, a voice emerged from the crowd: "You, a grown man, bullying two female cultivators, what's that?"
The monks who were originally watching the excitement turned to look at the person who was speaking. It was a delicate-looking female monk. She had her hair down and spoke softly, her eyebrows and eyes curved. "Qianluo, long time no see."
Qianluo nodded and smiled, thinking that they were not familiar with each other. The person who came was Gu Qiuchi. Strangely enough, this female cultivator had shown many unusual qualities since the beginning of the alchemy conference.
She originally thought it was just a one-time encounter, but she didn't expect to meet Gu Qiuchi, Gu Xianyun, Qu Chun, and... Gu Wumian who wanted to kill her in the simulation.
Her gaze fell on the strangely silent swordsman. He carried a long, narrow sword, wrapped in a white cloth, hidden from view. But if he truly didn't want others to see his weapon, why didn't he put it in a storage bag instead of carrying it across the long, snowy journey?
When he saw her, his pupils visibly constricted, clearly recognizing her. For a moment, a multitude of emotions surged in his eyes: hatred, disgust, pain... before all of them settled into calm, transforming him into the taciturn swordsman one would imagine.
How strange! What grudge did she have with this Jindan sword cultivator? Based on her style, all her enemies were already dead, killed by her own hands.
Chu Lianxi was just about to teach this woman who had appeared out of nowhere a lesson. Her cultivation wasn't as good as his, yet she was so arrogant as to teach him a lesson? No one had ever dared to teach him how to do anything!
Just when he was about to explode, everyone's map flew out of the storage bag, with the new rules clearly written on it.
"The key to the second level of the secret realm is actually the Frost Pearl?"
"As long as I get enough frost beads, I can go in and get the magic weapon. Advanced skills, advanced magic arrays, eighth-grade elixirs, all of them will be in my pocket, hahahaha!"
There were many people who thought like him, and from the crowd came the sound of weapons colliding and the pungent smell of blood.
One of them slowly fell down, clutching his chest, bewildered. "Third Brother, why did you stab me? We're sworn brothers. There were ten of us, so why didn't you let me go?"
The short-haired male cultivator drew his sword, causing the blood to flow even faster. "Let alone sworn brothers, even blood brothers can turn against each other. Besides, one less person means one more hope! What did you do to me in the first level of the secret realm? Do you think I don't care?"
Such scenes appear frequently.
These cultivators had also gone through countless hardships to become Jindan or foundation-building cultivators, but in the face of treasure, everyone was equal and greedy, no one was exempt. They would kill anyone who stood in their way! Treasures were medals of honor, trophies for the victors.
Seeing that Gu Qiuchi and Chu Lianxi hadn't reacted yet, Qianluo pulled Sun Rushuang aside and asked, "Can you release the consciousness in the Frost Pearl?"
"You mean to reveal the conspiracy of the second secret realm?" Sun Rushuang was a little embarrassed. "I have never made a soul bead before, so I can only try my best."
Qianluo thought of the simulation and nodded: "It's okay, you try it first."
She then shared her idea with Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou, and both supported her. After all, the Frost Orb contained a cultivator's soul bead, and these cultivators were treasure hunters like them. This meant that the person behind the scenes definitely wasn't so kind as to give them the palace's treasures. Perhaps once they entered the palace, they would become prey, at the mercy of others, and suffer the same fate as these ice sculptures, over and over again.
In the end, the Frost Blue Secret Realm will become a huge cemetery.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the four people kept retreating and found a quiet place.
All the frost beads piled together totaled thirty.
Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou are guarding Qianluo and Sun Rushuang. Qianluo pretends to be helping, but in fact she has already started to simulate.
[This simulation consumes 1 point, 7 simulation opportunities remaining, 7 points remaining.]
Start simulation
At age 128, you resolved to uncover the secret realm's conspiracy and worked with Sun Rushuang to crack the soul orb. Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou blocked many attacks for you.
Twenty-five days later, fewer than twenty people remained in the secret realm, and the fighting intensified. You repeatedly stated that the Frost Orb was a cultivator's soul orb, and that everything was a tactic by someone else. However, the other cultivators, believing your group was out to monopolize the treasure, refused to believe you.
The situation is becoming increasingly urgent, and you still haven't found a way to release the soul orb. The person behind the scenes has cleverly imprisoned the cultivator's spirit, leaving you helpless.
Jiang Chanyi and Jin Manlou were attacked by others, their lives hanging by a thread. Forced by the situation, you and Sun Rushuang didn't continue to crack the soul beads, but instead slaughtered everyone until only ten people were left.
[You enter the palace, ignoring the strange looks from others, and frantically search for the secret mechanism, looking for a way out.]
After a night, you find yourself still alive. But trapped inside an ice sculpture, you hear the voice of someone behind the scenes: "You want to know how to crack the soul orb? I'll stuff you into the ice sculpture right now, and you'll know how I made the puppet, hahaha!"
【You were made into an ice sculpture, and you died.】
[Simulation ends…]
Damn it! This is such a pervert! Her scalp was tingling, her heart was filled with fear. For the first time, she knew what death felt like. She watched herself gradually die, unable to speak, unable to move her legs, becoming an ice sculpture without any emotion or joy. The pain of having her soul ripped out and her consciousness stripped away, the fear of being imprisoned, almost drove her crazy.
Qian Luo gritted her teeth and decided to simulate it a second time. Now that she had the method to make ice sculptures, she knew how the person behind the scenes made the frost beads and what talismans and formations were added to them. She knew everything.
Because she watched her teammates being made into ice sculptures, and she also watched herself being made into an ice sculpture.
"Xiao Luo?" Sun Rushuang touched her forehead and cupped her cheek. "What's wrong with you? Why are you so cold?"
Qian Luo closed her eyes and took a long breath. Feeling Sun Rushuang's slightly warm palm, she buried her face in her arms. The fear in her heart gradually eased: "...It's okay, continue."
[This simulation consumes 1 point, 6 simulation opportunities remaining, and 6 points remaining.]
Start simulation
At the age of 128, you, now experienced, cracked the secret of the Soul Orb and released it in front of all the monks. The souls of those monks were freed, and they nodded and smiled at you before dissipating between heaven and earth.
The other monks gradually came to believe your words and stopped killing each other. However, this aroused the dissatisfaction of the person behind the scenes, and he finally couldn't help but show up.
You are surprised to discover that the other person is just a wisp of consciousness, devoid of substance, the consciousness of an early Nascent Soul cultivator. He is as innocent and cruel as a child, venting his bitterness and telling his story to everyone.
[It turns out that many years ago, he was also a treasure-hunting cultivator named Hong Shuo. Facing the Nascent Soul Tribulation, he traveled to the Frost Blue Secret Realm to search for the Infant Formation Pill. There, he encountered many unfortunate things and eventually died.]
Because of the unique cultivation method he practiced, his consciousness didn't disappear, and it could exist for a thousand years. A thousand years was too long, and he became violent, manic, and crazy, so he devised a way to torture people. He discovered that he could control the wind and snow in the secret realm, and he became the king of the secret realm!
He hated the monks who killed people for treasure, so he created many illusions to attract monks. He also pulled the monks who entered the secret realm into the second level to become his puppet warriors, guarding him forever.
[He finished speaking, then waved his hand, shaping the ice and snow into an ice sculpture, and told you to go in. All of you, pay close attention to dealing with Hong Shuo.]
[But Hong Shuo has the cultivation base of the early Nascent Soul stage after all, and within a thousand years, his spiritual consciousness is extremely powerful, and he can dominate everything in the secret realm! ]
[Even if 100 Jindan stage cultivators were combined, they would still be no match for him.]
You are dead.
[Simulation ends…]
Qian Luo frowned. So that's how it is. If one hundred is not enough? What about a thousand? What about ten thousand?
She looked at the frost bead in front of her, which contained a twisted gray shadow and a hideous and strange appearance.
Don't they want revenge?
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