The north wind is biting, the ice and snow are sweeping across the sky.
After the intense feeling of weightlessness, a biting cold quickly enveloped his entire body. Xiao Yu opened his eyes with a start, only to see a world of thick ice, accompanied by a relentless gale and blizzard.
"Is this a secret realm?" Xiao Yu half-heartedly thought he was still in the Gust of Winds. After all, not long ago, with the secret realm's opening, the Gust of Winds had celebrated with a massive snowstorm. Zhou Yanzhi measured the temperature with a special thermometer, revealing that with the blizzard, the temperature in the wasteland had plummeted from -80 degrees Celsius to -120 degrees Celsius.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss..." Xiao Yu was stunned when he found himself turned into a snowman. The blizzard fell on him, melting and freezing quickly. He moved on the spot, but it was no use.
The ice underfoot is very thick. When heavy snow falls on it, it actually melts and then clings to the ice surface in a semi-melted state. If you walk on it, you will slip if you are not careful.
Xiao Yu: ...
Xiao Yu felt that his shallow knowledge of physics and chemistry was under comprehensive attack.
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The snow was heavy and the wind was strong, blurring or obstructing even the best vision. Xiao Yu then used his spiritual sense to explore. He discovered that ten meters ahead of him, there was a mountain road covered in ice and snow, winding upwards. On the other side of the mountain road was an abyss.
About 500 meters up the mountain road is an open square.
The square was very large, and his spiritual sense was not enough to cover the entire square, but his eyesight could vaguely see through the wind and snow that there seemed to be bottomless abysses on both sides of the square.
In the abyss, wind dragons and snow dragons were vaguely visible, roaring in the wind and blizzard.
From a distance, he could vaguely see many people, monsters, and plants that could move on their own standing in the square. Further up, there seemed to be stairs.
The stairs were very high, with no end in sight. All that could be seen was the endless snow and fog above them. And suspended in the midst of the snow and fog was a huge palace wrapped in golden light.
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"Looks like this is a secret place!" Xiao Yu thought. Then he carefully walked up the mountain road. The mountain road was covered with ice and snow, making it difficult to walk. If you were not careful, you might slip into the abyss on the other side.
But if we don't follow the mountain road, there seems to be something blocking the side of the road and we can't go up at all.
Not only that, when he walked up the mountain road, he looked down and found that there were many people trying to climb up the mountain road. Some of them seemed to have frozen to death on the roadside, but more people had slipped and fallen into the abyss on the side.
Xiao Yu's gaze paused for a moment on the frozen corpses. He had previously learned from Zhou Yanzhi that the icy surroundings of the Gust of Wind Wasteland were difficult for those below the fifth level of Qi Refining to adapt to. Only those who had reached at least the seventh level of Qi Refining, whose entire body had been tempered, could adapt to the brutal cold there.
However, after reaching the fifth level of Qi Refining, if one can temper the body in the Gust of Wind Wasteland and then experience the extreme cold here one to three times, then the tempering of the body will reach a perfect state of at least the seventh level.
It is said that before advancing to the Lingyuan realm, the more extreme cold one experiences, the more perfect the tempering of the body will be.
In order to adapt to this extreme cold, Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi deliberately suppressed their cultivation after their advancement. Every time they drew talismans and carved formations, they would go outside the formation to be tempered in the extreme cold.
The temperature at that time was actually around minus eighty degrees Celsius.
When the temperature reached -120 degrees Celsius, not to mention those in the Spiritual Origin Realm and Hu Zheng and the others, even the divine beast Ao Kun would mutter and complain every day: "Is this a good time to live? This is too cold."
Xiao Yu quietly took out a special thermometer. The rapidly dropping temperature on it made him shudder unconsciously.
One hundred and eighty-four degrees below zero.
Xiao Yu quickly tugged at the specially made thermal robes on his body. These robes were made with the fur of some fire-attributed monsters, and the thermal insulation grade of the robes was high-grade, third grade.
When I was walking in the Gust Wasteland before, I felt hot wearing it. But now I feel a little cold.
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Xiao Yu walked cautiously on the mountain road. During the walk, many people, like him, came out from the snow beside the road, from behind the rocks, and from the frozen bushes.
Some of these people were wearing tattered clothes, had dark skin, and had wrinkles between their brows, and looked to be Qi Refiners in their forties or fifties; some were wearing animal skin cloaks with high-grade robes underneath, and looked like young ladies and masters from ancient aristocratic families or cultivators; there were also young men and women who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing what could be identified as sect school uniforms, with arrogant faces.
Of course, there are also some who look eight or nine years old, twelve or thirteen years old, who look like little adults, or little boys with innocent and childish faces.
However, one thing is very consistent: everyone is very vigilant when walking on the mountain road.
Xiao Yu saw three fellow students in school uniforms, one of whom was ambushed by the other two and fell into the abyss on the side.
Xiao Yu: ...No, there is no conflict of interests here, why is it like this right away?
A little girl who looked about eight or nine years old and was dressed in rich clothes suddenly smiled sweetly at him. Xiao Yu was startled and stood still.
The little girl frowned slightly, as if she didn't expect this man to be so cowardly.
Xiao Yu: o(╥﹏╥)o How could he not be timid? According to his blood stone memories, few people under ten years old in the Savage Continent reached the late stage of Qi Refining. Yet, the little girl before him, though seemingly young, was already at the twelfth level of Qi Refining. The arrogance between her brows was unconcealed. And someone like that suddenly smiled sweetly at him?
This is simply a weasel paying a New Year's visit, with no good intentions!
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The closer they got to the small square, the stronger the wind and snow became. Many cultivators with low cultivation were accidentally blown into the abyss by sudden gusts of wind, gusts of wind, and crosswinds. Add to that some cultivators who enjoyed backstabbing, and even just the last twenty meters to the small square, and they fell into the abyss like dumplings.
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