Chapter 376 Ice River Cave
Following Ji Rong's voice, Xi Tong moved closer and whispered mysteriously, "Arong, I told you, you can't trust pretty birds."
My good uncle will certainly not miss the authority I left behind; he just wait, ha ha! This time, I will make Him die bit by bit!
Xi Tong's words were indistinct, and his laughter was manic and triumphant. Ji Rong felt that Xi Tong was mentally unstable at this moment. She looked around and found many bones piled up next to Xi Tong.
Ji Rong frowned and asked, "Sister Hei, since you got here, have you been eating things cooked in fire?"
Xi Tong nodded naturally and said, "Yes, these are offerings given to me by the creatures above. Although they don't taste good, I've survived on these for the past two months."
Looking at the withered branches and leaves that hadn't yet burned out, along with the dead fish and rotten shrimp, Ji Rong suddenly realized that she and the mountains and rivers were probably also being thrown down as "tribute."
As she took out some normal spiritual fruits from her storage ring, she sighed, "Sister Hei, where is your storage ring? Did it all burn away?"
“Yes.” Xi Tong picked up the spirit fruit that Ji Rong handed her, took a bite, and immediately threw the charred meat back into the fire. She exclaimed, “Arong’s food is still the best.”
Then Xi Tong quickly started eating, and after eating until she was half full, she was still not satisfied and stretched out her wings and claws to ask Ji Rong for more: "A Rong, is there any meat?"
Ji Rong shook her head and said, "No, you eat these first. Later I'll look around and if there's a big river, I can catch a couple of fish for you to eat."
After saying that, he took out two healing pills and put them into Xi Tong's mouth, saying, "Why don't you get some sleep? We'll talk about the rest when you wake up."
Xi Tong took the pill but didn't sleep. She turned her head to listen to Ji Rong's voice and excitedly flapped her wings, circling around Ji Rong.
As she flew, she recounted her family history to Ji Rong, telling her of her irreconcilable hatred for the Lord of Xi. Those profound secrets were unearthed from Xi Tong's heart and brought to the world anew. Xi Tong felt her blood churning and even her breathing became rapid.
Sometimes she would excitedly squeal, sometimes she would grieve, sometimes she would fly high in the sky, and sometimes she would hide in the fire and not come out.
When Ji Rong saw this scene, her gaze toward Xi Tong gradually became as if she were looking at a mad bird.
Ji Rong and Xi Tong sat around the fire for a day in a stalemate. Ji Rong couldn't understand why the blind and maimed Xi Tong was happy, while Xi Tong couldn't understand why Ji Rong was worried.
Ji Rong wanted to take them back to the Danxue Mountains to recuperate.
After all, they had completed their mission of accompanying the mountains and rivers and rescuing the trapped children, and she also had a selfish desire to go back and see her precious tree; but Xi Tong insisted on staying in the abyss to recuperate.
With her pale eyes open, she calmly said to Ji Rong, "Arong, you should go back. I'm not leaving."
My uncle is a powerful lord; if I dared to appear before Him, He would surely kill me.
"I have to wait until He replaces my sun before I go out." As soon as he said this, Xi Tong propped his neck up and started babbling incoherently again.
"Ha! Heal your injuries!" Ji Rong shouted at Xi Tong with her neck stiff. "The spiritual veins here are depleted, cold and yin. Xi Jun doesn't come here, but there is no spiritual energy here either. What are you going to use to recover your body? What they throw down is never tribute, it's garbage."
“But I survived,” Xi Tong insisted. “My injuries haven’t healed yet, and I can’t control the fire.”
If I go out now, wherever I go, I will surely be feared by Xi Jun, and innocent cultivators will also be implicated; A Rong, let me stay here, this is my blessed land, I will not leave.”
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong could only stomp her feet in anger. Heartbroken, she took out the spirit crystals from two rings to help her and Xi Tong restore their spiritual energy.
As Ji Rong absorbed spiritual energy to recover, she thought to herself, "It's inconvenient to be without a tree trunk."
In the past, she would have simply connected some of the underground spiritual veins secretly, without needing to use so many spirit crystals.
Having absorbed the spiritual energy, the two birds discussed it again. Since Xi Tong wanted to stay here, Ji Rong decided to visit the Great and Little Cold Immortal Lords of the Ice River Cave Heaven before leaving, to find out their attitudes toward Xi Tong's pseudo-sun.
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After patrolling the cold river for days, he was exhausted. A tuft of his white hair had fallen out, revealing his smooth, snow-white head. Half of his ice armor had also been removed. When he heard that an old friend, a bird cultivator, had come to visit, he was about to refuse him.
The Cold River is a naturally occurring ice-spirited species. Due to its innate limitations, it and the Little Cold Immortal Lord can only walk in cold and gloomy places. After becoming immortals, they only increased their lifespan and control over ice and snow, without much change.
This glacier is cold all year round, which is very suitable for their life; therefore, they rarely go out. Apart from some old and immortal creatures that know them, they are only accompanied by the aquatic creatures of all sizes in the glacier. They do not know many birds.
But when the attendant handed over a piece of ice crystal, Leng Hezhong remembered Qingpingzi's old, monstrous bird junior sister. It handed the ice crystal to its servants to take down and stabilize the unstable ice surface. A smile appeared on its tired face, and it said, "Let her in."
The Ice River Cave is located in the deepest part of the ice river. Ji Rong followed the two king-level fish heads with their distinctive fin-shaped ice lanterns into the long ice path, stomping her feet as she walked.
The mountains and rivers have awakened, and He has transformed back into a small white goose, lying on Ji Rong's back together with Xi Baogong.
These two fish-headed cultivators were two gar. Although they were robust, they had unusually fair and gentle appearances. When they did not open their mouths, they had an honest look.
The ice path was deep and dark, devoid of any light, with only a faint glow from the snow, which made Ji Rong nervous.
The further they went, the darker it became, and the colder the air grew.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, a cold wind carrying moisture suddenly swept in from ahead, dispelling the chill from Ji Rong and her group.
At that moment, the two gar opened their mouths, and one of them said, "Honored guest, we are about to enter the water. Let me put a water-repellent cover on you."
After saying this, one of the two fish blew a huge bubble around Ji Rong, while the other quickly drew on the bubble.
As soon as the bubble was made, the two fish heads puffed out their gills and blew at the bubble, and the bubble was seen to adhere to Ji Rong's body like a thin layer of ice.
As soon as Bubble touched her body, Ji Rong noticed that the surroundings had brightened up. At the end of the ice cave, huge ice pillars stood in the water, and various white fish darted between the giant ice pillars, lighting up the scene. In just a few breaths, the surroundings were brightened up.
Several gleaming white caves were hidden behind ice pillars. Ji Rong followed the two fish into the largest cave in the middle and finally met the bald and listless Great Cold Immortal Lord Leng Hezhong.
Ji Rong was surprised to see Leng Hezhong like this.
Ji Rong recalled that at the grand banquet in the Nine Provinces, the Cold River Lord, who was favored by heaven and earth, had fair skin and jade bones and was ethereal. Ji Rong remembered that she had asked Qing Guanzi if the handsome Cold River Lord was a god.
Now, when I see it again, the Cold River, which has been an immortal for many years, has become a dilapidated place with a bald head and few armor, which is really an eyesore.
Looking at Ji Rong in the cold river, it couldn't help but admire her, thinking to itself that the Jade Void Palace really knew how to raise birds!
In just a few years, this colorful bird transformed into a colorful phoenix. The colorful phoenix in the fire that the Ice Wolf Clan mentioned recently must be Kiyohime.
After exchanging pleasantries, Ji Rong and the landscape resembling a white goose sat down at the ice table. Just then, they heard a young man named Leng Hezhong walk in from outside the cave. It was Leng Hexia. It first bowed to the Great Cold Immortal Lord at the head of the table and said, "I'm back."
Then he smiled at Ji Rong and said, "You are Qing Ji Zi, a distinguished guest of Yu Xu Palace. I have heard my elder sister talk about you. You are indeed exceptionally handsome."
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