Snowy Ruins
Chu Lianxi followed Qian Luo angrily, muttering softly, "Why do you all listen to her... Her cultivation isn't even as high as mine. She's just a mid-stage Jindan cultivator, who is she putting on airs for?"
The silver ornaments on his body jingled as he walked, a clear and melodious sound. The girl in the white and blue military uniform embroidered with gold ignored him, her long boots wrapped around her slender and powerful calves as she walked ahead, Bai Lu Jian Jia flanking her on either side, her eyes fixed straight ahead.
Obviously, none of the three wanted to pay attention to Chu Lianxi who was acting like a spoiled brat.
"Hey! You guys!" Ever since arriving in the Frost Blue Secret Realm, Chu Lianxi had found himself constantly being humiliated. He bit his lip, clenched his fists, and his eyes flashed with anger. "Damn you, Ice Trio! I should have known not to come with you!"
It would be better to come to the secret realm with his followers. Those followers have lower cultivation than himself. They flatter him all the way, serve him diligently, and their flattering words make him feel comfortable.
Unlike the three of them who didn't talk much the whole time, and didn't even try to accommodate me! They went against me everywhere!
He had a lot of rage and nowhere to vent it! He kicked the stones at his feet as he walked, feeling extremely bored. No one wanted to flatter him or please him, they all followed that annoying female cultivator!
"Unhappy?"
The girl behind him, for some unknown reason, actually approached him. A completely unfamiliar female cultivator, she was looking at him with a smile. Although she was smiling, she was even more annoying than the cold-faced Wu Xingxue.
"What's it got to do with you!" A female cultivator whose cultivation level was not as good as his was trying to pretend to be smart and comfort him!
Gu Qiuchi was scolded by him, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he stared at him with interest: "Chu Lianxi, don't you want everyone to flatter you?"
She seemed to see through his heart, and a strange light flashed in her deep eyes: "Why don't you listen to my advice?"
As if bewitched by her, Chu Lianxi clearly heard the sound of his own agreement: "Okay..."
Gu Xianyun and the other two, who were standing behind them, only saw Gu Qiuchi and Chu Lianxi chatting happily. They were a little confused: "Xiaoyan, when did you become so close to him?"
She felt like a grown-up girl was too young to be kept, and even a little jealous. The male cultivator from the upper third district… and dressed so seductively, how could he possibly have won Xiaoyan's favor?
Qu Chun turned his gaze back and smiled slightly: "Maybe we just get along well."
"Really?" Gu Xianyun withdrew her gaze and turned to find that her cousin Gu Wumian had been staring at a certain cultivator.
Following his gaze, the female cultivator and her friend beside her were both smiling broadly, clearly on good terms...
Gu Xianyun was a little surprised...her cousin...actually likes this type?
She slapped her forehead, looked at the wind and snow in front of her, and was a little confused: What's going on? One or two of them are bewitched and fall in love at first sight?
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Following the map, a group of people arrived at the third level of the secret realm. This place was different from the previous secret realm. After walking through the narrow corridors and low ice caves, the scene in front of them suddenly opened up and a golden light surged!
"Hiss--" Someone gasped and looked in disbelief at the palaces of all sizes floating in the sky before them. At a glance, there were 749 palaces, shrouded in clouds and mist, with golden bricks and jade tiles. They seemed to have strayed into a fairyland on earth.
As they stepped on the ladder, they saw nothing below, only layers of clouds and mist, making it difficult to see clearly! If they accidentally stepped on the wrong path, they might end up with no trace of their bodies left!
At the other end of the ladder is the majestic Heavenly Gate. On the pillars are carved images of phoenixes, standing proudly with their heads held high and chests puffed out, looking lifelike, ready to break through the cage and soar into the sky at any time!
The map then sank into the door, and a golden light flashed.
A line of words appeared on it: Snowy ruins, monks' inheritance, mountains of swords and seas of fire, ice, snow and dust.
The sixteen words are easy to understand. They mean that this place is the ruins of the Snowland Kingdom, which contains the inheritance of cultivators. If you want to obtain the inheritance, you must pass four trials, namely the mountain of swords, the sea of fire, ice and snow, and sand and dust.
"Is this another conspiracy?" Some people were worried. After all, they had just experienced a conspiracy and now the inheritance of the Snowland Kingdom had come up again.
"Not really, the map is real..." Some people wanted to believe it, but the scene before them was too similar to the previous one, forcing them to hesitate.
The inheritance that was so close at hand and the magnificent palace made them uncontrollably excited, and the passion surging in their chests turned into desire!
Everyone's eyes fell on Qianluo. It was she who resolved the crisis. She must have some secret method that was unknown to others!
As a result, everyone's eyes were filled with greed, and their breathing became heavy. A scene emerged in their minds where the female cultivator had foresight, was calm and composed, and was battling it out with the soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
She must have a secret! She must have!
Everyone screamed in their hearts, murderous intent flashing in their eyes. With so many of them and higher cultivation than hers, they could definitely capture her in one fell swoop and force her to reveal the secret!
Qian Luo stared at them, sneered, and felt murderous in her heart, but they were outnumbered, so she quietly retreated, holding Sun Rushuang with one hand and Jiang Chanyi with the other.
Jiang Chanyi, who was suddenly pulled, looked down and said, "?"
But he heard the other party whisper: "Hold Jin Manlou and jump down!"
Jiang Chanyi glanced at Qianluo. She didn't expect that she still hadn't forgotten her. They were just casual acquaintances, but at the critical moment of life and death, she didn't abandon her and Jin Manlou.
Seeing the crowd approaching, Qianluo pulled the three of them and jumped down: "Ahhh!"
Jin Manlou, who was completely unaware of the situation, burst out in a sharp voice: "Jiang Chanyi, I *******!"
The sound of the exploding wind passed by her ears and face, and the fear in her heart turned into despair. She seemed to be able to foresee that she would fall to pieces. Her back felt cold and a chill climbed into her heart. She closed her eyes and dared not think about it anymore.
After a long time, the dust settled and a hint of burning smell appeared in the air.
She heard someone calling her: "Jin Manlou, what are you standing there for?"
As soon as Jin Manlou opened his eyes, he was covered by yellow sand blowing in his face. He had no time to dodge and his mouth and nose were full of dry sand.
"Bah! Where is this place?" She is the eldest daughter of Jubao Pavilion. When has she ever suffered such a great suffering?
Not to mention that she is a monk, a divine being who does not need to eat or excrete. Her robes are impervious to water and fire, always clean, and warm all year round.
Her mother was right. It was really hardship coming here. Not only had she suffered, but she had almost lost her life. She was a little hesitant, wanting to take back her previous ambitions. She spat out a mouthful of sand, her face full of despair: "Mom, I want to go home!"
"Oh, Loulou, you can't give up. We've only just started." If Jin Manlou left, what would happen to her magical treasures? She hadn't even taken a single one from her!
Jiang Chanyi desperately pulled at Jin Manlou, who had disheveled hair, tattered clothes, and was covered in dust, and kept shouting, fearing that she would be greatly shocked and run away in anger.
However, in the secret realm, the magic talisman was useless and she couldn't escape even if she wanted to.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chanyi breathed a sigh of relief. She patted Jin Manlou's little face, tidied her hair, and said softly, "Loulou, listen to me. Since we're here, we can't suffer this in vain. We must get the inheritance! You're already in the middle stage of Jindan, and you have to reach a higher level in the future! Do you want your mother to look down on you? This time you entered the secret realm, but you broke up with your mother. If you come back empty-handed, your mother will probably laugh at you!"
After being provoked by Jiang Chanyi, Jin Manlou's emotions gradually calmed down. He stopped crying and wanted to go back. He wiped his tears pitifully and said, "Okay, since you have advised me so much, I will listen to you this time. How should we go?"
Jiang Chanyi looked at Qianluo and Sun Rushuang and chuckled twice, "I didn't recognize the value of gold and jade before. Qianluo, please don't take it to heart!"
Since entering the secret realm, although Lan Qianluo is in the middle stage of Jindan, she acts decisively, does not panic when encountering things, and always saves lives at critical moments. There are also many strange things about her that make people think more.
So, she opened her mouth, showing her big white teeth, and laughed heartily: "Sister, my life depends on you!"
After saying that, he tugged at Jin Manlou's sleeve and said, "Look, he's saved our lives twice. Shouldn't you show some appreciation?"
"What? What did I mean..." Jin Manlou was embarrassed by her stare, and his voice gradually weakened. He turned his back to the few people and rummaged through the storage ring. All he heard was crackling sounds and saw the colorful light of precious flowers.
After a few minutes, she awkwardly handed over two pieces: "Maybe I can deliver them."
Qianluo took a quick look and saw that they were all good stuff, one was a high-level portable defensive array plate, and the other was a healing medicine. She accepted them all without hesitation: "Thank you."
Jiang Chanyi raised an eyebrow at Jin Manlou and chuckled twice. With her long arms and legs, she put all her weight on Jin Manlou. Jin Manlou frowned and turned away from her: "You're too heavy, get up!"
"No, we're sisters in the same boat now! What's wrong with getting close?" She pointed at the overwhelming yellow sand, coughed a few times, and covered her mouth, "Pfft!"
"Isn't it possible that I have to reach the end of the desert to succeed in the trial?"
Qian Luo didn't say anything. Before her eyes, yellow sand filled the sky, and smoke rose in the wind. Behind the yellow sand, there were faint flying monsters. A buzzing sound could be clearly heard: "Oh no, it's desert locusts!"
Sure enough, the locusts smelled the scent of a living person and flew over like crazy. They were pests in the desert and ate all the animals and plants in the desert. Wherever they went, there was no grass and only bones were exposed.
They hadn't smelled a living human for decades. Their compound eyes flashed with greedy desire, sending signals to their kind. All the locusts piled up together. Only then did they see the locusts' true appearance: black and yellow, with black backs and yellow bellies, slender and narrow limbs, and compound eyes so large they almost protruded. Their behavior was terrifying.
Especially, they love to eat animals, including humans. There is blood of small animals on their mouths, and their black eyes are staring at them!
"Ah, so disgusting!!!" Jin Manlou took out a flame cannon and bombarded the locusts in the sky. Flames filled the sky and broke through the clouds.
The locust monsters were relatively low-level, unable to speak or develop intelligence, but they were incredibly numerous, constantly coming one after another, and being flying monsters made them difficult to defend against. Previous ice sculptures were at best highly skilled, with simple behaviors. The locusts before them were omnipresent and could even devour humans.
"No, we can't get through now!" Jiang Chanyi drew out her spiritual power and swung her long arms, killing a bunch of locusts with one whip. Immediately, a new batch of locusts came to replace them, buzzing non-stop and giving her a headache.
Qian Luo used the strange fire in her hands to burn a lot of locusts, but the locusts reproduced very quickly and new locusts appeared immediately. The new locusts were even larger than the previous ones. They could spray poison needles from their mouths, seal the spiritual power of the monks, and trap them in the desert, leaving them at the mercy of others.
Sun Rushuang was not good at dealing with these locusts. She could only use Tiangui Yinshui, which consumed a lot of spiritual energy. "Xiaoluo, use the formation plate!"
Yes, what Jin Manlou gave her was a portable array plate that could be moved. Qian Luo thought about it, and the array plate burst out with a huge light, which shook the locusts one meter away and formed an encircled space. The four of them were safe inside.
But they were all covered in dust and dirt, especially Jin Manlou, who had the lowest cultivation level. His fair and tender face looked like a wilted flower, and he said dejectedly: "Hiss—just now a locust actually bit a piece of my flesh!"
Her wrist was bloody, bitten by a locust. She frowned in pain and muttered something, not knowing whether she was cursing the locust.
Jiang Chanyi wiped her tears and said, "Alright, alright. You have a bunch of pills in your storage ring. Are you afraid you can't recover?"
She looked at the locusts that kept swooping down on her, feeling worried. "We've only taken a few steps, and the locusts have already evolved. Aren't they getting stronger the closer we get to the center? Give me a miniature camera, and I'll throw it out in front to see what the locusts are doing."
Jin Manlou slapped his head and said, "Hey, why didn't I think that spiritual sense doesn't work well, but the camera does!"
She gave Jiang Chanyi a round camera and added a small portable array plate to the camera so that she wouldn't be afraid of locusts damaging it. She thought there were no omissions.
Unexpectedly, the small round camera spread its wings and left the four people. When it flew to a place a thousand meters away from them, they saw a huge locust king, which was ten meters tall, with long and thick limbs and a pair of frighteningly black compound eyes. Just standing there, it gave people invisible pressure.
"Bang, bang!" The Locust King caught sight of the circular camera, a chill running down his spine. Behind the camera, Jin Manlou grimaced, a cold sweat pouring down his face. On the screen, he watched as the Locust King flapped his wings, creating a desert tornado. The circular camera lost its way and was finally crushed by the Locust King.
"Hiss!" Jin Manlou gasped. "Did the Locust King see us? Did you catch his last glimpse? So scary! He must be at the Jindan stage, with his intelligence awakened!"
Jiang Chanyi: "How many do you have left? Send them all out."
Qian Luo nodded: "Let's check the situation. If there are tens or hundreds of these locust kings, we should be prepared in advance!"
"Okay!" Twenty small round wings flew out of the defense array. With the lessons learned from the first time, this time the camera flew in the sky. The desert locusts were looking for food at low altitude and did not pay attention to dead objects.
This time, only a few dozen locust kings like these could be clearly seen, but after flying over them, a vast expanse of endless desert appeared. The circular camera flew for three days and three nights without finding an exit, and finally stopped working due to lack of battery.
"Perhaps there's a teleportation formation in the desert." Qian Luo speculated. The test of jumping from the ladder was random, with different secret trials appearing at different times. In the simulation, she encountered other trials and had no idea such dangers lay hidden in the desert.
Just as they were frowning, a few voices came from behind them: "Strange, why are the people who came down earlier gone?"
"Yeah, they obviously came down at about the same time. How could they run so fast? Is this a desert trial?"
"Where did that female cultivator run off to? I must catch her and find out what crisis is about to happen. Maybe she has the magical gift of predicting the future!"
Qian Luo's heart tightened. She had never expected that such a good deed she had unintentionally done would lead to such covetousness. Murderous intent gradually rose in her heart, and her eyes flashed slightly: "Jin Manlou, Jiang Chanyi, are you sure you still want to complete the trial with me?"
Jiang Chanyi was unhappy when she heard this: "Hey, what are you talking about? You are my carefully selected teammate, how could I let you go and run away?"
Jin Manlou also patted his chest and said, "That won't work. They all said you have the magical gift of predicting the future. I must hold on to you tightly. Otherwise, if it's just Yiyi and I, we won't know how we died."
Sun Rushuang also held her hand and expressed her determination with her eyes.
"Okay, let's go."
Qian Luo's eyes darkened: "But these people can't get out alive."
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