"The fever can't be that serious, right?" Li Qingyi felt the temperature of Li Xiu's body and was very worried.
Trial-takers generally don't get sick, but if they do, the illness will be extremely serious.
Li Xiu's body was so hot that if it were a normal person, his brain would probably be burned out.
Li Qingyi was a little worried. Even if he was a trial-taker, if he continued to burn like this, his brain would probably have problems.
"We should have helped him keep warm earlier. The S-level difficulty Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Trial does pose a considerable risk to those who have no resistance to ice." Li Qingyi regretted not helping Li Xiu keep warm earlier.
It was too late to say anything now. Li Qingyi could only pray that Li Xiu could survive the trial.
During the trial, many abilities, symbiotic contracts, and magic spirits cannot be used. One can only wait until leaving the trial field to find a way to treat Li Xiu. By then, there will be more methods available.
Now Li Qingyi only hopes that Li Xiu can get through this period and nothing will happen to him.
Lifting a corner of her coat, Li Qingyi saw Li Xiu leaning in her arms, seemingly asleep, with a hint of tears hanging from the corner of his mouth, as if he was about to drool.
"Could it be that the brain is damaged?" Li Qingyi's heart skipped a beat.
Generally, when the brain is damaged, one cannot control his or her behavior. Drooling is a behavioral manifestation of brain damage.
What if Li Xiuzhen's brain damage is serious and cannot be cured after he gets out? She doesn't know how to face it all.
"Li Xiu... wake up... nothing can happen to you..." Li Qingyi pressed her hand on Li Xiu's philtrum and pinched it a few times but there was no response. She became even more anxious.
Time passed minute by minute, and Li Qingyi felt that every minute was as long as a century, and every minute and every second was torture.
After finally making it to the end of the trial, Li Qingyi was just about to help Li Xiu up, take the reward, and leave the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Gate directly without going to the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land. He wanted to go out and find someone to heal Li Xiu first.
Li Qingyi put her arm around Li Xiu's shoulders and was about to help him up, but Li Xiu suddenly opened his eyes, rolled over to his feet, stretched, and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
"The trial is over? It's time to choose the reward." Li Xiu stood up and looked at the reward icon that appeared on the light screen.
Seeing that both people’s rewards included admission tickets, Li Xiu chose the admission ticket without hesitation. He said to Li Qingyi who was still in a daze, “I’ll go in first,” and then he dived into the vortex created by the admission ticket.
"Li...Xiu..." Li Qingyi bit her lip and called out Li Xiu's name, but Li Xiu had already gone in.
"That bastard!" Li Qingyi's cheeks turned red when she thought of Li Xiu sleeping in her arms and drooling.
The familiar longevity lamp and stone table appeared in front of Li Xiu. There was something on the table. He looked left and right but couldn't figure out what it was.
In general trial fields, weapons and other items are more common, and items such as armor and clothing also appear occasionally.
Other miscellaneous deeds are less common, but can be seen occasionally.
Li Xiu still hasn't figured out what this contract is. At least he has never seen something of this shape before, so he doesn't know what it is.
"Tiny carbon-based creatures..." A familiar strange voice came from the Longevity Lamp.
"Can you tell me what the name of this contract is?" Li Xiu asked while looking at the contract on the table.
The shape of the wedge was somewhat similar to a flashlight, a cylindrical object that was about ten centimeters long. The thick end had a diameter of about three centimeters, and the thin end had a diameter of a little more than two centimeters. It was black all over and as smooth as black glass.
If one end was transparent and had a button, this thing would really look like a flashlight.
Unfortunately, the top of this thing is still made of black glass, not transparent, and there are no buttons on it.
"Nine-Dragon Mysterious Ice Tube." The Changsheng Lamp actually answered Li Xiu's question.
"What's the use?" Li Xiu asked again.
"You'll know when you pick it up." Changshengdeng said.
Li Xiu was too lazy to ask any more questions. He would know everything as long as he picked it up.
He reached out and picked up the Nine Dragon Mysterious Ice Tube. It was a bit heavy, but with Li Xiu's current physical condition, it was not a big deal.
One hand easily picked up the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Tube, and a mysterious light suddenly burst out from the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Tube.
Li Xiu dripped a drop of his own blood on it, completed the contract, collected the Nine Dragon Mysterious Ice Tube as a parasitic contract, and received its information at the same time.
Nine-Dragon Mysterious Ice Tube: Parasitic Contract.
Level: E (evolvable).
Quality: Brilliant.
Original embryo quality: 0.9.
Innate skills: Nine Dragons.
"What kind of ability does the Nine Dragons Mirror have? I have heard of the Nine Dragons Fire Cover, which is a defensive artifact in mythology. Is this Nine Dragons Mirror also a defensive weapon?" Li Xiu followed the Longevity Lamp into the darkness with doubts.
When Li Xiu regained his vision, he found himself in a vast expanse of white ice and snow. Everywhere he looked was covered in silver. Thousands of miles of ice and tens of thousands of miles of snow were drifting. The sky and the earth were the same color, and everything was pure white.
Li Qingyi was standing next to Li Xiu, staring at him fiercely.
"Where should we go?" Li Xiu looked at Li Qingyi and asked, as if nothing had happened.
Li Qingyi snorted lightly, summoned a white bear, and rode the white bear towards one direction.
Li Xiu summoned the pink nightmare and chased after it, but he soon discovered that the pink nightmare was not suitable for running on such snowy ground. Its speed was much slower than that of Li Qingyi's white bear and it could not keep up.
He had no choice but to put the pink nightmare back, caught up with the white bear, and walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow following the white bear.
After walking for dozens of miles, Li Xiu didn't see a single evil spirit. It seemed as if there was nothing in this ghost place except ice and snow.
Li Xiu also discovered the difference in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land. In the trial sites he had visited before, there were usually some human buildings at the entrance.
Just like the Black Death City, as long as you are in the Black Death City, the Eternal Lamp will always follow you, but if you leave the Black Death City, the Eternal Lamp will not follow you out, it will only stay in the Black Death City.
The land of Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice is different. There are no buildings or any traces of human activity at the entrance. It is just a vast expanse of snow.
What's even more strange is that they don't have the Immortality Lamp with them. Without the Immortality Lamp, how can they leave this land of Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice?
"Qing Yi, why can't we see the shadow of the Longevity Lamp? How are we going to get out later?" Li Xiu asked as they walked.
"The Lamp of Eternal Life is not where we came in, so we must find it before we can get out." Although Li Qingyi was angry, she still answered Li Xiu's question, but her voice was a little cold.
"Where can we find it?" Li Xiu finally understood why the information he had read before said that anyone who entered the land of Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice would be in danger of death.
If you want to get out, you have to find the immortality lamp first. No wonder the mortality rate is so high.
The temperature here is dozens of degrees below zero. It is already difficult for ordinary trial-takers to withstand such low temperatures. There is nothing to eat, and they don’t know where to find the immortality lamp. Even if there is no attack by evil spirits, they may be tortured to death by hunger alone.
"There are nine fire points in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land. If you reach those fire points, you may be able to find the Eternal Life Lamp." Li Qingyi said.
"What do you mean by there is a possibility of finding the lamp of immortality?" Li Xiu felt that something was wrong with what Li Qingyi said.
"Because the Longevity Lamp appears randomly at the nine fire points, we may not be able to find it at the fire point we go to now." Li Qingyi said.
"That's good. As long as we know where they are, it's only a matter of time before we find them." Li Xiu said with relief.
"It's not that simple. Every fire point is guarded by a large number of evil spirits. Even if we find the Eternal Lamp, it's hard to say whether we can deal with those evil spirits and rush over." Li Qingyi identified the path and rode the white bear into a glacial canyon.
"What levels are the demons guarding the fire point?" Li Xiu followed behind, talking casually.
"There are all levels here. If you're lucky, you might run into a Soul Caster." Li Qingyi pointed to the front of the canyon and said, "The end of this canyon is the closest fire point to us. You follow my orders. If you cause any trouble again, don't blame me for not saving you."
"Yes, sir." Li Xiu saluted, looking very serious.
Li Qingyi rolled her eyes at him: "You're so careless all day long."
The two walked along the canyon and did not encounter a single evil spirit along the way. Li Xiu saw that the canyon was like a dragon and an abyss, winding for hundreds of miles and still had no end in sight.
After walking for a long time, Li Xiu felt hungry and thirsty. He grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, feeling the cold snow melting in his mouth. The melted water was quite sweet.
After eating several handfuls of snow in a row, Li Xiu felt that he was not so thirsty anymore, but he was still very hungry.
When Li Qingyi heard Li Xiu's stomach rumbling, she jumped off the white bear's back. After looking around, she walked to the ice wall nearby and asked the white bear to stretch out its claws to dig through the ice next to the wall.
Although the white bear was only an S-level demon spirit, its claws were very powerful and it was not afraid of the cold. It dug a large ice hole in a short while.
Below the ice hole, black rocks were exposed with a layer of brown substance on them, a bit like moss.
Li Qingyi squatted down, took out a small knife, gently pushed away the crushed ice, and then scraped off the brown layer. After a while, she scraped off a ball the size of a ping-pong ball.
Li Qingyi divided the thing into two halves, squeezed it a few times, and made it into two small brown pieces, and threw one of them to Li Xiu.
"Just eat what you can. There isn't much food here." Li Qingyi said, putting the remaining piece into her mouth.
Li Xiu took the small brown piece, put it in front of his nose and smelled it. It had a fungus smell. He put it in his mouth and chewed it. It was a bit bitter, but also had a fragrance.
The taste is not very good, but the texture is okay, crispy and smooth, a bit like the feeling of eating enoki mushrooms.
"What is this?" After Li Xiu swallowed it, he felt his stomach suddenly became much fuller. Although he had only eaten such a small amount, he miraculously didn't feel hungry anymore. He even felt a little bloated in his stomach, as if he had eaten too much.
"Secretions of glacier crystal worms." Li Qingyi said.
"Isn't this a fungus?" Li Xiu thought it was some kind of fungus.
"There aren't any fungi in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land." Li Qingyi said as he rode back on the white bear and continued on his journey.
Seeing that Li Qingyi was silent and a little bored, Li Xiu said from behind: "What kind of demon is the glacier crystal worm? The secretion you mentioned is like the nectar collected by bees. Flowers can't grow in this place, so what does the glacier crystal worm collect?"
"Glacier crystal worms are the most common demons in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land, but their levels are generally very low, at the bottom of the food chain. So under normal circumstances, glacier crystal worms live under the ice and will not easily drill out of the ice to avoid being hunted by other powerful demons."
Li Qingyi said as they walked, "It is said that there are nine most powerful demons in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land. They are all god-level beings with extremely brutal temperaments. Ordinary demons will only be devoured by them. On the contrary, the glacier crystal worms may be too weak. Those god-level demons will not devour them. Therefore, when the trial participants came here before, they would try to get a glacier crystal worm demon to explore the way, so as not to accidentally run into those god-level demons."
At this point, Li Qingyi glanced at Li Xiu and said, "As for the secretions of the glacier crystal worms, it's just a nice way of saying it. You can also understand it as excrement."
After hearing this, Li Xiu suddenly felt his stomach churning and had an urge to retch.
"You'd better not vomit. There's not much to eat in the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land. If you don't want to starve, you can only eat this." Seeing Li Xiu's depressed look, Li Qingyi finally smiled: "You don't have to have that expression. The glacier crystal worms eat microorganisms in the ice and snow, which are very clean. You can just think of its secretions as something similar to honey. Those secretions will swell after entering the stomach. Eating a little can last for several days. You don't need to eat it for a short time."
"Okay." Li Xiu wiped his mouth subconsciously, and nothing happened.
"Do we need to get a glacier crystal worm spirit first?" Li Xiu asked.
"I had prepared one when I came here, but not many people can get out of the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice alive, so there are not many Glacier Crystal Worm Magic Rings taken out. I only got this one. If you want, you can also go hunt the Glacier Crystal Worm first." Li Qingyi raised his left hand, showing the ring on his finger that looked like an ice crystal and said.
"It's a rare opportunity to come here, and I don't know if I will have the chance to come here again in the future. It would be nice to get a glacier crystal worm." Li Xiu didn't have anything in his hands, so he always felt uneasy and thought about getting one first.
Li Qingyi nodded: "Then let's go find the place where the glacier crystal worms gather."
"Didn't you say that glacier crystal worms are very common? Do we need to specifically look for places where they gather?" Li Xiu asked with some confusion.
"It's very common. There may be quite a few of them under the ice beneath our feet. But once we start digging the ice, they will immediately run away due to the vibration. By the time we dig up the ice, they will have already escaped. Just like when we were digging out those secretions just now, there must have been glacier crystal worms there, but they had already run away before we dug it up." Li Qingyi said with a smile.
"Can we stop talking about that?" Li Xiu sighed.
"You asked it yourself, I just explained it to you clearly." Li Qingyi smiled.
Li Xiu didn't say anything else and followed Li Qingyi for a while. Li Qingyi stopped at a large glacier crack.
He lay on the ground and looked inside, then listened for a while, and then the ice crystal ring on his finger turned into a tiny demon spirit like an ice crystal earthworm, and let it crawl down from the crack of the glacier.
Li Xiu looked at the glacier crystal worm curiously. It looked like an ice crystal all over. It was only 20 centimeters long and thinner than chopsticks. When it moved on the ice, it was as if it had ice skates under its body. It slid directly into the crack at a very fast speed.
After a long while, the glacier crystal worm crawled out again, crawled onto Li Qingyi's finger, and made a sound like a fly, as if telling Li Qingyi something.
"Okay, there are no scary evil spirits down there, but there are a lot of glacier crystal worms. Let's go down." Li Qingyi said as he went into the crack of the glacier.
Li Xiu also followed him in and found a thick layer of ice underneath, just like a cave, except that there were no stalactites in this cave, only glaciers of various strange shapes.
Because some ice caves are narrow and not suitable for mounts, Li Qingyi can only walk by herself.
After passing through several glacier caves, we saw a black rock cave below. White steam was coming out of the rock cave, making people feel very warm.
Li Qingyi summoned Fubuki-hime, who had already reached the Light Base level, and walked towards the rock cave.
Li Xiu also quickly summoned the Jedi Knight and followed Li Qingyi inside.
The temperature in the rock cave is quite high and you don’t feel cold at all. It seems like two different worlds from the outside. From time to time, you can see brown secretions of glacier crystal worms appearing on the rocks.
After walking not far, we saw a clearing in front of us. Inside a large cave, there was a hot spring emitting white steam.
Next to the hot spring, you can see a lot of glacier crystal worms shining with icy luster, lying in the hot spring drinking water.
Li Xiu took a closer look and got goose bumps all over his body. It turned out that there were glacier crystal worms not only around the hot spring, but also inside the hot spring.
It’s just because the body of the glacier crystal worm is transparent and it is almost invisible in the water, so Li Xiu didn’t see it at first.
A closer look revealed that the hot spring was densely packed with glacier crystal worms. People with trypophobia would probably vomit after seeing this.
Li Qingyi obviously did not have such worries and directly ordered Princess Fubuki to attack the glacier crystal worms in the hot spring.
Those glacier crystal worms slid very fast on the ice, but crawled very slowly on the rocks like earthworms and could not run far at all.
Wherever Fubuki's sword flashed, the glacier crystal worms were cut off.
The glacier crystal worms in the hot spring suddenly started moving, tumbling and twisting in the water. No one knew how many of them there were. They scrambled to climb up the rocks, trying to get back to the glacier outside.