Surrounded and Cut Off!
The wind and snow in Liang Province never stopped, not even for a single season.
When one first arrived here, the swirling wind and snow had a certain charm when viewed from afar.
But after watching it for too long, even that became tiresome.
Looking down from high above, one could see a deep pool roughly ten thousand meters across atop a magnificent mountain peak that soared into the heavens.
The rocks all around jutted high into the air, trapping the deep pool at the center like a precious jade embedded in the earth.
This was Liang Province's foremost scenic wonder—the Heaven Mountain Snow Pool.
At that moment, a white-robed man stood by the Heaven Mountain Snow Pool with his hands behind his back, gazing deeply into its waters.
A crow poked its head out of the Snow Pool, shook the water from its body, and flew to shore with a ten-pound green fish clamped in its beak.
"I've looked around. There aren't any treasures here."
"It's only because the terrain's ley lines are peculiar, gathering the frigid energy within a radius of millions of kilometers and concentrating it beneath this Heaven Mountain into an icy frost spirit vein."
"After nourishing the place for countless years, it imbued this Snow Pool with spirituality, transforming it into spirit water."
"The fish in the Snow Pool are the same."
The crow dropped the green fish from its beak at Lin Bai's feet and said, somewhat crestfallen.
Lin Bai smiled, picked up the still-wriggling green fish, deftly built a fire, and set the fish over the flames.
"We came here to admire the scenery in the first place, not to search for treasure."
"Why are you so dejected just because we didn't find any?"
Lin Bai sat beside the