"Three peaks rose together, piercing the cold clouds; four walls lay spread, winding around the ravine. Snow ridges met the heavens, where men could not reach; ice pools shone beneath the sun, too wondrous for mortals to behold."
North Yin Mountain lay vast and boundless beneath heaven and earth, and everywhere the eye could see was an expanse of white.
The howling gale sweeping between the high mountains drove snow and ice against even the hardest rocks with a rustling hiss. Halfway up North Yin Mountain was a height even the mightiest Vultures could not reach. Amid the snow-covered peaks, only a few stunted coniferous shrubs grew stubbornly. Their slender branches, black as iron, bore ice and icicles thicker than the branches themselves.
Yet amid that boundless white snow, a tiny black dot suddenly appeared. The black dot dropped abruptly from the endless heights where the fierce winds howled, coming to a halt amid the snow.
Qi Lianliancheng.
That tiny black dot, which had fallen abruptly from the endless sky and moved through the vast white snow, was Qi Lianliancheng, whose facial lines were indescribably resolute and hard.
Half a day earlier, he had still been in Liaodong. Half a day later, he had already arrived at North Yin Mountain, thousands of miles away.
No matter how high one's cultivation, crossing thousands of miles at such speed would consume an enormous amount of true essence. Yet Qi Lianliancheng seemed utterly unaffected. His figure remained straight and cold.
Seeing that the tattered clothes on his body could no longer even cover him, Qi Lianliancheng suddenly reached out and grasped at the air. Dozens of stunted shrubs were uprooted wholesale and flew into his hand.
With only a knead and a shake, the dozens of shrubs became stalks like hemp cord in