"Second Senior Brother!"
Tianning called out, and Jiang Xi immediately understood what she meant.
He took out the pendant he had found on the fake city lord and gave it to Long Aotian beside him. Taking advantage of this moment, Tianning threw the demon sword into the pond full of green liquid.
The Demon Sword immediately started eating and ate heartily!
There's no way around it; following Tianning is like this—it's painful yet joyful...
Long Aotian had already approached the Frost Deer with the pendant in hand, while Tian Ning illuminated the entire cave with the colorful light of his swords.
The green liquid in the pond began to dissipate little by little after being exposed to the light. The Frost Deer, which was also exposed to the light, let out a painful roar, and the tentacles on its body, like rats exposed to the light, cowered and hid inside the Frost Deer's body.
However, this also restored some of the Frost Deer's rationality, especially when it saw Long Aotian take the pendant in front of it; a struggle was clearly visible in the deer's eyes.
Long Aotian asked, "Is there a way to cure it like Wang Shengan did?"
Tian Ning shook his head.
"The green liquid on Wang Shengan's body takes pleasure in tormenting him, gradually increasing in size. The Frost Deer's condition is not optimistic; the green liquid has already seeped into its bone marrow. Even if it regains its sanity, it can only do so for a short time..."
The Frost Deer's eyes cleared a little: "How come you have his things on you?"
Remembering what Tian Ning had said, Long Aotian wasted no time. He revealed his identity as a disciple of the Six Sects, explained the general course of events to the Frost Deer, and asked what happened next.
“They are all...the murderers!”
From the Frost Deer, the three learned the whole truth.
The city lord's discovery of the ice crystals was purely accidental, but the ice crystals have special properties; they can dispel distracting thoughts, and are especially effective for cultivators with a tendency to become possessed by demons.
Therefore, the residents of Snow City mined ice crystals and sold them to others, earning a lot of spirit stones, and Snow City became rich as a result.
The city lord was also highly regarded by the former city lord, and he and the city lord's wife became Daoist partners.
Everything was fine until the beast tide appeared for some unknown reason. Since then, the city lord has begun to investigate the cause.
“It’s ice crystals,” said the Frost Deer.
The three were not surprised.
From the moment the Frost Deer mentioned the special function of the Ice Crystal, one could vaguely guess what it meant.
The ice crystals are meant to protect the residents of Snow City, but overexploitation is causing the creatures inside to become increasingly uncontrollable. If no measures are taken, Snow City will eventually be submerged by a beast tide.
To this end, the city lord consulted the ancient books of Snow City and finally discovered the origin of the ice crystals.
Legend has it that a man in Snow City once committed a grave error by sacrificing the entire population of Snow City to summon the ferocious beast Taotie, attempting to make a pact with it and wreak havoc on the world.
In that battle, countless residents of Snow City died in order to prevent the Taotie from appearing in the world. They used every means possible, turning their own bodies into ice crystals to seal it away.
However, the price of the seal was not only that; all residents of Snow City were cursed, including their descendants.
If they get close to the snow mountain that seals the Taotie, their bodies will gradually turn into ice crystals a month after they die.
At that time, the residents of Snow City, who had survived the calamity, did not think this was a bad thing. The seal on the Taotie was not strong enough to begin with, and in order to prevent the Taotie from breaking through the seal and harming people, the ancestors established a special custom:
When a resident of Snow City dies, their body must be taken to a designated snow mountain.
That was the very place where the city lord discovered the ice crystals, where the Taotie was sealed.
Thousands of years have passed, and the old customs have long been abandoned.
Fortunately, during the duration of the custom, the bodies of the ancestors of Snow City transformed into countless solid ice and snow crystal walls, blocking the Taotie and protecting Snow City.
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