bayedsolid Chapter 721 Hidden Mission 7
Chapter 721 Hidden Mission 7
The two then headed to the teleportation hall.
"True Lord, where are we going?" Yun Chu looked up curiously at True Lord Yue Ze's aloof profile.
"The Frozen Domain." True Monarch Yueze spoke succinctly, his gaze sweeping towards the distant north, a land of perpetually frozen ice and snow. "To seek the 'Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow' and the 'Ice Soul Jade Flower'."
"Ice Soul Jade Flower? One of the main ingredients for refining the Nascent Soul Pill, which 'clears the mind and concentrates the spirit, aiding in breakthroughs to higher realms'? True Monarch, are you preparing to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage? That's amazing!"
She immediately switched to the role of her assistant, "I know about the Xuanbing Marrow! The purest one is under a layer of ice thousands of feet deep, and it's extremely difficult to mine, but I can design a large drilling artifact with a rotating heating array..."
"Oh no, the heating effect will be reduced in the Frozen Domain, so it might need..." She began to immerse herself in her professional field again, analyzing as if no one else was around.
Yueze Zhenjun did not interrupt her, but listened to her chattering design ideas, and then lined up in front of the teleportation array to the Frozen Domain.
His expression remained as cold and aloof as an ancient jade pool, as if the surrounding noise and her chatter were nothing more than passing wind.
Only when the teleportation array lit up, and Yun Chu instinctively tugged at a corner of his sleeve because she couldn't stand steadily, did his long, strong fingers curl slightly, but ultimately he didn't brush it away.
A blinding flash of light followed, and the spatial fluctuations subsided. The greenery of the Taibai Mountains vanished completely, replaced by an overwhelming expanse of white and a bone-chilling cold.
The moment Yueze Zhenjun and Yun Chu stepped into the Frozen Domain side by side, it was not just a simple cold, but a silent invasion that penetrated to the bone.
The biting cold was beyond description; it was more like millions of ice needles coated with deadly poison, with a penetrating power that ignored spiritual energy, piercing through the protective spiritual light flowing around them!
Yun Chu felt a chill run down her spine, and an indescribable tingling sensation instantly spread from her limbs to her entire body. She could even clearly "hear" the faint cracking sound of her protective aura being forcibly pierced.
Before the exhaled breath could condense into white mist, it had already turned into finer ice crystal powder in the cold air, scattering down in a soft rustling sound.
Before me lies a world of utter stillness, completely frozen in time.
A pure, blinding silvery white covered everything in sight.
The majestic icebergs reflected the dim light of the sky, like the rugged back of a sleeping giant.
In the air, there was no longer snow, but fine, sand-like ice crystals shredded by the raging, cold wind, rolling and cutting like a never-ending white sandstorm.
Besides the wind! That is the only ruler—a hollow, mournful, and tireless roar, repeatedly squeezed, rebounded, and amplified between the icebergs, forming a continuous wailing sound, enough to shake the minds of the weak.
Occasionally, a huge icicle, unable to bear the weight, would burst open with a "crack" and fall, the dull thud sounding particularly startling against the silent backdrop.
The ice beneath my feet was as hard as black iron, and each step produced a cold, metallic echo. The air was thin and bitterly cold; every breath felt like swallowing shards of ice, scraping against my throat and lungs.
Yun Chu subconsciously tightened her dark green soft armor, the defensive runes on it shimmering slightly under the corrosive effect of the cold air.
'This godforsaken place…' she thought to herself, but her movements were swift and silent.
Under the cover of the gale, a few faint red lights quietly escaped from her wide sleeves—the Fire Iron Flying Ants.
Like tiny elves blending into the darkness, they flapped their wings, which were also extremely unstable due to the cold wind, yet they flew with unusual determination toward the deepest part of the ice crystal dance and the coldest direction of spiritual energy perception, their target being the legendary "Ice Soul Jade Flower".
Their mission is to be silent scouts, never alerting anyone until they find their target.
Our gaze shifts to the relatively "mild" area on the outskirts of the Frozen Domain (but only relatively).
On the icy plains, a few low-level cold beasts moved slowly.
Several hounds, resembling hunting dogs with fluffy, glossy fur like cedar trees, were clumsily digging at something on the thick ice with their paws covered in fine frost. The tips of their paws scraped across the smooth ice surface, making crisp "crackling" and "rustling" sounds that were particularly clear in the deathly silence.
Not far away, several pairs of eyes, gleaming with a ghostly, phosphorescent light, quietly emerged from behind a huge ice rock; those were the more vigilant ice foxes.
They are agile and elegant, with their pointed ears turning slightly to catch any unusual vibration in the wind, and their fluffy tails curled up like solidified icicles, warily covering their bodies.
Looking at them, Yun Chu smiled genuinely. These creatures from the frigid hell were delicacies to ordinary people, but to her, a Golden Core cultivator who loved good food and was skilled in crafting artifacts.
This was a rare opportunity! Her gaze suddenly sharpened, and her right hand swiftly formed a hand seal within her wide sleeve. In an instant, a blazing red light danced and condensed between her fingers, then shot out!
"Whoosh!"
A crimson arrow of fire, compressed from pure fire elemental power, trailed a scorching tail, tearing through the ice crystals in the sky, and pierced precisely into the chest of an ice hound that had just raised its head and seemed to sense danger!
"Woo..." With a short, painful whimper, the cold dog didn't even have time to dodge before its massive body crashed to the ground. There was no blood at the wound, only a chilling, burnt aura emanating from it.
The intense heat of the flaming arrow even briefly left a charred, spiderweb-like crack on the ice surface where it fell.
Immediately afterwards, Yun Chu made a fist with her hand, and a silent incantation flowed from her lips. The tiny ice crystals suspended in the surrounding air, swept up by the gale, were suddenly drawn by an invisible force, spinning and coalescing at high speed!
"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!"
Several ice spikes, each as thick as a baby's arm and with tips gleaming with a metallic sheen, appeared out of thin air. As if shot from a powerful crossbow, they pierced the vital points of several other ice foxes or cold dogs with a sharp whistling sound!
In the blink of an eye, the few cold beasts that were just moving had all fallen, and a deeper chill permeated the frozen air.
Yun Chu stepped forward lightly, and with a flash of light from her fingertip storage ring, she put them into her pocket.
Her movements were clean and swift, carrying the satisfaction of a hunter's haul. Only after she had finished did she look up at the distance.
Yueze Zhenjun stood silently in the wind and snow, like an ancient, unyielding statue of ice.
He was enveloped in a visible, pale blue barrier of cold air, which relentlessly pushed away the gale and ice crystals.
The brief, silent hunt just now seemed to have left him completely undisturbed. His deep gaze turned to the darker, more secluded core of the Frozen Domain, as if he were sensing an even more powerful threat in advance.
"True Lord, I'm all better." Yun Chu smiled and quickly ran to his side, her breath turning into a small cloud of white mist.
Yue Ze Zhenjun's cold gaze swept across her face, he nodded slightly, said nothing, and turned to leave.
That silent action is the greatest command.
Yun Chu, used to this, suppressed her smile and followed closely behind. The two figures were quickly swallowed up again by the churning torrent of white ice crystals.
As night falls, the true terror of this icy realm is revealed.
The temperature plummeted to an unbelievable level, as if the air itself were about to solidify into a giant blue crystal.
Moonlight? It couldn't penetrate the thick ice clouds and the swirling snowstorm. Only the ice field itself emitted a pale, eerie blue fluorescence from within, outlining the jagged, distorted silhouettes of the icebergs and casting a dreamlike, eerie hue over this desolate land.
True Lord Yueze chose a slightly flat, concave spot backed by a massive ice wall.
He extended his slender fingers, and pale blue runes quickly lit up and intertwined in the cold air as his fingertips moved.
A simple yet sturdy composite formation, integrating soundproofing, wind protection, and surveillance, was formed in an instant, temporarily isolating the raging wind and snow and the bone-chilling cold from the outside, leaving only a small, relatively "safe" area inside the formation.