Ice and snow
The roar of the light column and the snake's body colliding, the wailing of the giant water monster, and the screams of the black water monster on the ground drowned out Hua Si Miao's angry shouts.
Jiang Jingyuan quickly raised his hand and pressed her shoulder to stop her from rushing out.
Returning to the gray sky and earth, the girl turned around and looked at her with a flutter of her aqua blue cloak. The water bubbles in her eyes, which had finally subsided a little, turned red again and tears fell instantly.
She choked up and said, "That's mine!"
"My master gave it to me before I left..." she said tearfully, "Not only this, but many more were snatched away by those guys in green! They're the same group that robbed me before!"
The sky and the earth were bright and dark. Jiang Jingyuan watched as the green-clad men took out their maces and attacked the giant water monster. He turned around and asked Hua Simiao, "Are all these people here together?"
Hua Simiao was stunned, then nodded with tears in her eyes: "Yes!"
"Then let's wait and see." Jiang Jingyuan said calmly.
Perhaps because the noise at the lake was too loud, many figures could be seen rushing over from afar.
When the newcomers saw the giant water monster flying in the sky and the water monsters the size of adults crawling on the ground, their scalps tingled and they stopped not far away.
"Fellow immortals!" one of the men fighting the water monster shouted, "Please lend us a hand, fellow immortals!"
"This road is the only way to the birthplace of magical instruments. Fellow immortals, please help clear the way!"
The people who came following the sound were stunned, then picked up all kinds of weapons in their hands and rushed forward!
"I'll do it! I'll help you!"
"I'm watching over here, go ahead and smash it!"
"I have some explosive pills here, throw them into its mouth!"
"This beast has a wound in its eye. Let's work together to attack the eye—"
Various spells flew through the sky, and explosions roared continuously. On the bumpy snow, the blackness faded, and a water monster covered in black scales screamed and crawled back into the lake with its hands. It then quickly sank to the bottom, and the water returned to its original deep blue and green.
Jiang Jingyuan watched the battle in the air gradually draw to a close, puzzled. Was this the only ability of this water monster? And what about the ice covered with corpses they had seen when they first arrived at the lake?
"boom!"
The giant water monster with a human face and a snake body has distorted features on its face covered with snake scales, and black and red blood is flowing in it.
It rushed straight towards the crowd, determined to break through their encirclement even if it meant taking damage. It plunged headfirst into the deep blue-green lake as if fleeing, and soon disappeared.
Huge splashes of water were stirred up on the surface of the lake, soaking the people chasing them.
They wiped their faces and cursed with laughter:
"Coward!"
"Haha, you coward! You're running away right now?!"
"That's all, haha. He ran away in just two moves. Hahahaha——"
Everyone landed by the lake laughing and joking. Instead of rushing to cross the lake, they complimented each other like brothers.
"Li Xianyou is truly amazing! With such a powerful magical weapon, even a beam of light from it sent the water monster howling in pain, running back home to find its parents!"
"If you ask me, I just didn't make it in time! If we had rushed and hit that thing a few more times, we could have eaten snake soup. If not, we could have taken a snake soup bath, hahahahaha!"
"Cooking snakes in the snowy mountains, what a thrill! Brother Zhang is truly amazing!"
"Hahahaha, Li Xianyou is still the best. Look at all the fresh blood in the snow. Someone just died there. If Li Xianyou hadn't taken out this treasure, how could we have solved it so quickly? Hahaha——"
"Yeah, yeah, this baby is really powerful. I've never seen one with such strong attack power!"
"With your knowledge, how many magical weapons have you seen?!"
"So what?! Li Xianyou's treasure is amazing!"
"Yes, yes, that's awesome!"
The few people in green clothes who were surrounded were laughing from ear to ear.
Only Li Xianyou, the immortal friend at the center, remained calm and composed. He raised his hand and said, "My fellow immortal friends, thank you for your kind words. This is just an ordinary magical weapon, not a precious one. If it weren't for your help, I wouldn't be able to carry it so lightly."
"Ah, Li Xianyou is too modest! You are so modest! Li Xianyou's name is well known to everyone. Even without us, it would only take a little longer to defeat the water monster!"
"Right, right, right, Li Xianyou, please don't be so modest. We are just the icing on the cake!"
There was laughter over there, and Hua Si Miao inside the barrier was so angry that she was shaking all over, and she wanted to rush up and argue with them.
Her almond-shaped eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and white smoke rose from her head. She cursed loudly, "You shameless people! You're using my things to pretend to be rich! You call them 'ordinary magical tools' and 'not really precious'?! If I sell them, the whole sect won't be able to afford the compensation!!!"
She screamed madly: "You bastard, I'm going to fight you!!!"
"Wait." Jiang Jingyuan calmly pressed her down.
Hua Simiao's blood rushed to her head, and her pale face, which had been exhausted from exhaustion, now flushed red with anger. She jumped up and down in frustration, saying, "What are you waiting for? I'm not waiting anymore! How dare they ruin my things? I'm going to fight them!"
"These bastards, all of you, give your lives—"
She screamed and struggled.
"Can you beat them now?" Jiang Jingyuan asked calmly.
Jiang Jingyuan was indeed asking seriously. She didn't outright conclude that Hua Simiao couldn't win, but she felt it was highly likely. After all, Hua Simiao, who had been fully armed before, had had many of her magical weapons stolen by these people. Now, with her pockets empty, could she still redeem herself?
Hua Simiao's anger was instantly silenced, and tears began to flutter in her eyes again. She said stubbornly, "Even if we have to fight to the death, I won't let them take my things so easily again!"
She looked at the group of people enjoying themselves by the lake in the distance, and thought of her own experience of fleeing in a panic since her magic weapon was stolen. She was suddenly overwhelmed with grief and her tears fell even harder.
Jiang Jingyuan saw what she was thinking at a glance. Indeed, Hua Simiao looked like she had lived a life of luxury in the sect, always carrying piles of treasures with her when she went out for training. Now that she had been treated so poorly, there was no way she could swallow this humiliation.
"No rush, it's not over yet." Jiang Jingyuan just said.
Hua Simiao nodded with tears in her eyes. There was no other way. She couldn't wait. She really couldn't win!
But... Hua Simiao wiped her tears and secretly made up her mind that even if there was no turning point in the end, she would go out and fight with them. She would never let those bastards get away so easily!
If she didn't get the things back, if she didn't get the things back... then she would go back and ask her master to ask the Baizhetang to issue a killing order, sob sob sob...
"Just watch, they won't leave so easily." Jiang Jingyuan still comforted.
By the lake, the group of people took out their respective flying magic weapons, and even took the initiative to invite immortal friends who did not have flying magic weapons to cross the lake together. The scene was peaceful and harmonious.
A huge group of people flew into the air above the lake.
They tried to fly cautiously at first, but when nothing came out of the lake to stop them, they became bolder and continued to communicate with each other while laughing.
One man, holding his left arm, which was twisted into a strange angle, with his right hand, spat viciously into the lake: "You coward, can't you be so arrogant? If you weren't in such a hurry to cross the lake, I would have cut you into pieces!"
Another person followed suit and spat into the lake, cursing, "You piece of shit! How dare you hurt someone with your limited skills?! You should have been fished out by the Grandmaster and soaked in wine eight hundred years ago!"
The man holding his left arm had a sullen expression and sneered, "Eight hundred years ago, it might have been a leech. People passing by wouldn't even bother to look at it!"
"Yes, this thing looks weird. It might not have been a tapeworm before. Hahaha!" The person standing on the magic weapon in front laughed and said.
Suddenly, everyone on the lake burst into laughter, and the atmosphere became more cheerful again.
When they reached the center of the lake, the last person seemed to remember something and turned back to spit in the lake again. He made a "Heh" sound, but before he could spit out, he was hit head-on by a column of water that shot up into the sky and flew away. He screamed in fear: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——"
The crowd in front was startled, and with smiles still on their faces, they subconsciously looked back.
"Ah—quickly set up the formation—"
"Everyone, take out your weapons! Hurry up!!"
"That thing is out again!"
Everyone hurriedly took out all kinds of weapons from their storage spaces, grinning, but not very afraid - it was just another fight, could this water monster with a human face and a snake body become more powerful after entering the water?
The crowd was disdainful and scattered, trying to surround the water monster again.
"I was just talking about this thing! Now it's all good, let's kill it right away!"
"Hahaha, Brother Zhang, your snake soup is here!"
"Haha, come on, come on, come on, it's good to come!"
"Li Xianyou, we can fight together again. What a blessing! What a blessing!"
Li Xianyou, dressed in green, smiled faintly, took out a disc engraved with a magic circle inscription, nodded to the people around him who were complimenting him, and responded, "I am honored to be in this together with you all!"
"Please, fellow immortals, give me a helping hand—"
Everyone laughed heartily with their heads raised.
Like a stream flowing into the sea, hundreds of spiritual powers gathered and flowed towards the disc. The blue magic patterns on the disc flowed and gathered in the center, forming a blue beam of light that shot straight into the sky!
Before the aqua-blue beam of light could break through the dense black clouds, it was suddenly sucked towards the human-faced, snake-bodied water monster in the center of the lake by a huge airflow.
In the middle of the boundless lake, the lower half of the giant water monster with a human face and a snake body was still hidden under the water, with only the upper half of its body sticking out, standing upright in the air.
It opened its bloody mouth, with a vortex of air running in its mouth, madly sucking in everything in the ice and snow!
"ah!!!"
Someone was sucked into the air flow with a scream, struggling with his hands and feet dancing wildly, but it was in vain. In the blink of an eye, he was sucked into the water monster's mouth and slid down his throat.
"Ahhhh, hurry up, hurry up and hold me——"
"Senior sister, senior sister, senior sister, you must hold me tight, senior sister, ah ah ah ah——"
Someone, desperate, cast his gaze towards the group of green-clad men struggling to hold on, pleading, "Li Xianyou, Li Xianyou, save me!"
"Li Xianyou! Li Xianyou, please save us! Li Xianyou, I can't hold on any longer!!!"
They shouted "Li Xianyou" frantically as if they were grabbing at a life-saving straw.
Li Xianyou, who was in the center of the group of people in green, had veins popping out on his forehead. His expression was no longer as calm as before. His facial features were distorted. He completely ignored them and just rummaged through his storage space.
It was not until his fellow disciples around him began to shout in panic that he took out a magic weapon and lit up a barrier to protect himself and several of his fellow disciples.
Listening to the noisy shouting and cursing in the distance, Hua Simiao gulped down a whole bottle of Soul-Replenishing Pills and said angrily, "That's just how weaklings are. They don't know how to use all my magic tools!"
Jiang Jingyuan glanced at her silently.
Hua Simiao felt it, her body stiffened, and she excused herself: "I was tricked by them before!!!"
The gigantic gray-white water monster, seemingly towering over the heavens, stopped absorbing water but did not close its mouth. The vortex within its mouth spun rapidly.
"call--"
The water monster twisted its head and body, and bitingly cold air spewed out of its huge mouth.
The person in mid-air was instantly covered by a thick layer of ice...
The cold air spread, and ice formed on the surface of the deep blue lake. Ice sculptures fell on the ice and stood quietly for a long time.
A thin layer of ice climbed up the barrier, but it didn't affect the two people inside. Jiang Jingyuan and Hua Simiao were covered in ice.
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