Wrong Answer

Ice Seal Forest, Heavenly Frost Canyon. 💚💎 ☝👤

"Who goes there?!"

Kang Zhao shouted, his obsidian-like eyes fixed on the rapidly approaching group of people.

Kang Zhao, with the Martial Soul "Mountain-Piercing Mound-Burrowing Armor", is 34 years old, a level 58 Power Attack System Battle Soul King, a captain of the "Night's Watch" in the northern border of the [Heaven Dou Empire], and also the third-in-command of this "Ice Seal Camp".

As his voice echoed across the canyon, hundreds of soldiers emerged from the surrounding cliffs, each holding a longbow, nocking an arrow, its tip pointed directly at the approaching figure.

There were about a hundred people who came, seemingly hiding from something. They walked quickly, kicking up snowflakes. Their faces and bodies were covered with frost, making their features unclear.

"Old Kang—! It's us—!"

Just as Kang Zhao raised his arm, preparing to order a probing attack to force the intruders to stop, a familiar shout rang out from the crowd.

"Huh? Old Li?!"

Kang Zhao's eyes flashed, recognizing the voice of the newcomer. He raised his hand and clenched it into a fist, signaling his men to remain on guard and suspend their attack. Then he stepped forward and leaned down to look down the cliff face.

When the newcomer wiped his face, Kang Zhao raised his eyebrows upon seeing the face and immediately jumped off the cliff.

A drop of over seventy meters was nothing to Kang Zhao, a Five-Ring Soul King. With just a few leaps, he arrived not far in front of the man. "Old Li, what's this? What's going on?"

At this moment, Li Yang was carrying Mo Yuxiong on his back, with Chen Ningqi and other members of the Lingyun City Guard Team beside him. They were all covered in snow and gave off a travel-worn and flustered feeling.

Hearing Kang Zhao's words, Li Yang waved his hand and said, slightly out of breath, "Hey! Don't mention it. Bad luck, ran into a tough nut. Old Mo is really done for this time. Are Peng Zi and Lian Lan in the camp?"

Kang Zhao led Li Yang and the others into the canyon, saying as they walked, "Peng Zi is here. Lian Lan went to Winterfell. It seems Lord Xue Nuo has someone who needs his medical attention, apparently a captain from the Night's Watch ' western camp..."

"Alright, it's good that Peng Zi is here." Li Yang nodded upon hearing this and breathed a sigh of relief.

As he spoke, Li Yang turned to Chen Ningqi and said, "A Qi, take the brothers back to the camp to rest."

"Yes!" Chen Ningqi responded crisply, waving his hand to signal the hundred or so Guard Team behind him to turn and walk down the left cliff face in the canyon.

There were camps there, more than half of which bore the "Blue Silver Grass" insignia of Lingyun City.

"You two," Li Yang turned his gaze to Lan Lan and Shui Qingyue, "It seems this mission will have to be temporarily suspended because of your teacher Bing Le from the Skywater Academy. I will report this truthfully, and the specifics will be discussed between Supervisor Bing Miao and you."

In response, Lan Lan and the other woman could only nod helplessly. "Okay, fine."

Meanwhile, only now did the two women realize that Bing Le hadn't returned to Heavenly Frost Canyon with them!

Li Yang, who also noticed this, didn't say much, but just shook his head and said to Kang Zhao beside him, "Old Kang, take me to find Peng Zi first, and let him take a look at Old Mo."

"Alright!" Kang Zhao glanced at Mo Yuxiong, who was pale-faced behind Li Yang, and nodded in response, "He should be at the military medical camp right now. No one has been injured these past two days, so it's been quite quiet. He's probably either cultivating or studying the prescriptions the city lord taught him..."

"Huh?! Are you kidding me?! This is top-grade 'Snow Ginseng'! And it's only worth two hundred Gold Soul Coin?!"

"I stole this from the lair of the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad!"

Walking along the path inside the "Ice Seal Camp," Kang Zhan and Li Yang suddenly heard a shout filled with indignation.

Following the sound, they saw a tall, long-armed young man wearing a white fox fur coat glaring angrily at the open window of a simple wooden house.

Noticing that Li Yang and Mo Yuxiong were both looking at the young man, Kang Zhao quietly introduced him to them, "That person is called Sun Minglou, his Martial Soul is ' Ice Wind Bow,' and he is a level 58 Power Attack System Battle Soul King. He often appears in various Soul Beast gathering places and ancient ruins on the continent, and is quite famous among independent Soul Master."

"So it was him." Mo Yuxiong, who was behind Li Yang, narrowed his eyes upon hearing this and said weakly, "I heard Haote mention him. He had invited this person to join Lingyun City before, but the person refused."

"He refused?!" Li Yang turned to look at Mo Yuxiong behind him, his face full of surprise.

This result was somewhat unexpected for Li Yang. As far as he knew, in the current Douluo Continent, apart from those from Soul Master families, and those with considerable power, ordinary independent Soul Master and small Soul Master families would almost never refuse the olive branch extended by Lingyun City.

"Hmm." A strange look appeared on Mo Yuxiong's pale face. He continued, "He told Haote that he was used to being free and wanted to always be the free wind. He didn't want to be tied down by anything, and he didn't want to be confined to one place where he had to be controlled wherever he went."

"Hey!" Li Yang raised an eyebrow, looked at Sun Minglou who was still arguing with the people inside the wooden house, and said with interest, "This is quite an interesting person."

"Forget it," Mo Yuxiong chimed in, then, under the astonished gazes of Li Yang and Kang Zhao, continued, "He has an older sister Sun Mingjing, who is currently a teacher at the Heavenly Craft Academy in Gengxin City. His younger brother, Sun Mingtai, studies there. This guy simply doesn't want to be controlled by his sister; after all, who doesn't know the connection between the Heavenly Craft Academy and our Lingyun City these days?"

Indeed, although it is common knowledge in the Douluo Continent that students of the Heavenly Craft Academy are free to come and go and the Heavenly Craft Academy never interferes, the teachers and school leaders of the Heavenly Craft Academy basically have an inseparable relationship with the Blacksmith Association.

The relationship between the Blacksmith Association and Lingyun City is well-known, not to mention that Ling Yi himself still serves as the vice principal of the Heavenly Craft Academy.

"Alright, forget about him~" Kang Zhao patted Li Yang's arm and led him to continue walking forward, "Gu Ying is at the recycling point. He can Gu Ying handle Sun Minglou, so don't worry."

"Gu Ying? What's he doing here?" Li Yang followed Kang Zhao's lead and asked as they walked.

Not only Li Yang, Mo Yuxiong behind him also became interested and asked curiously, "Right, isn't he supposed to be in ' Lingyun City ' all year round? What, did he get transferred out of the ' Martial Soul Research Institute '?"

In response, Kang Zhao shrugged and replied, "I heard we're supposed to collect ' Ice Spirit Iris ' and ' Phoenix-Tailed Ice-Feathered Pheasant ' in this ' Ice Seal Forest.' You know how advantageous Gu Ying's Martial Soul, the ' Heaven-Governing Compass,' is at finding things, so he volunteered to come..."

"I see." Li Yang nodded in understanding.

Mo Yuxiong, however, seized on the key point and asked again, "I remember that in the ' Soul Beast and Birds' section of the first volume of the ' Record of Rare Treasures,' there is a record of this ' Phoenix-Tailed Ice-Feathered Pheasant,' which seems to have an extremely rare phoenix bloodline, right?"

There's also the "iris," which seems to be mentioned in the "Exotic Flowers and Herbs" section of the middle volume. It's said that it can only grow under the parasol tree where the phoenix once perched. Phoenixes are generally fire-attribute, and parasol trees are mostly fire-wood attribute, so the "iris" should also be mostly fire-wood attribute. This "Ice Seal Forest" actually has "Ice Spirit Iris"?!

"Yes," Kang Zhao nodded in response, "Last month, someone sold a white 'iris' to the recycling center and sent it back to ' Lingyun City ' for the city lord to see. The name ' Ice Spirit Iris ' was actually decided by the city lord."

"Tsk!"

Mo Yuxiong strained to turn his head and looked down at the right cliff of Heavenly Frost Canyon. He saw Lan Lan and Shui Qingyue. His gaze lingered on Shui Qingyue for a moment, and he clicked his tongue and said, "No wonder the city lord advised Miss Shui not to absorb that ' Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone ' and even drew a lot of her blood..."

"What?!" Li Yang turned around abruptly, looked at Mo Yuxiong, his eyes wide, and asked in surprise, "Did the City Lord persuade you?"

"Holy shit!" Mo Yuxiong's chest clenched with pain from Li Yang's violent movements. He grimaced and muttered, "You fucking move a little lighter, I'm not taking any more pressure right now!"

After saying that, he hissed twice and continued, "Isn't it obvious? Since Lord City Lord can use the blood of Yu Xiaogang and the members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, along with those rare materials, to extract pure ' Dragon Power,' and since Miss Shui's Martial Soul ' Condensed Water Flying Luan ' also has phoenix blood, refining the corresponding ' Power of the Phoenix ' should be a piece of cake for Lord City Lord, right?"

"That's true~" Li Yang thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case, so he nodded in agreement.

Mo Yuxiong took a breath and continued, "When Haote Zhao Wuji, and I went to see Long Yin Long Yin time, he told us that the city lord seemed to be planning to form a ' Four Gods Legion,' and the ' Dragon Blood Warrior ' were already selecting members. I reckon they're preparing for the ' Phoenix Blood Warrior ' right now."

"You remember that new kid Ye Zhiqiu, and Shi Tiancheng from Squad 37? Boss Long Yin said those two might become the leaders of the ' Black Tortoise Warrior.' We'll see who ends up taking the position..."

"Who?! Stone?! Tiancheng... I think that's the old guy's name..." Li Yang heard the familiar name and turned to look at Mo Yuxiong again.

Li Yang Ye Zhiqiu was, but if Shi Tiancheng was the one he remembered, then he was very familiar with him.

It's worth noting that just last month, when Shi Tiancheng's twin sons, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, were born, he went to give them a gift.

"Hiss—!" Mo Yuxiong hissed, his anger seething as he weakly gripped Li Yang's neck. He turned to Kang Zhao and said, "Old Kang, it's your turn to carry me. Otherwise, I'll worry myself to death on the way to find Peng Zi!"

Kang Zhao: "..."

Around the same time, in the ' Land of the Far North ', about 800 miles from the Heavenly Frost Canyon.

On a flat snowfield, Ling Yi, dressed in the "Erlang" vest, pointed his "Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade Sword" at the two figures slumped on the ground before him, and said unhurriedly, "Now, do you submit?"

At this moment, the "Ice Jade Empress Scorpion," which was originally like an exquisite work of art, is like a crystal product full of cracks, as if it will shatter into pieces at any moment.

Even so, it still opened its pair of pincers, each missing a piece, stubbornly blocking the "Heavenly Snow Woman's" path, its sapphire-like eyes filled with a desperate determination.

Compared to the miserable state of "Ice Jade Empress Scorpion", "Heavenly Snow Woman" looked much better. There was only a trace of blue blood on the corner of her mouth. Her originally fair face, which was like an ice crystal for thousands of years, now showed a slightly abnormal blush. Judging from her appearance alone, she was actually more beautiful than when she first appeared not long ago.

However, all three present knew very well that "Heavenly Snow Woman" was actually much more seriously injured than "Ice Jade Empress Scorpion".

It should be noted that as a super Ferocious Beast with a cultivation of 680,000 years, the "Heavenly Snow Woman" is much stronger than the "Ice Jade Empress Scorpion" which has a cultivation of only 380,000 years. Therefore, when facing Ling Yi, the "Heavenly Snow Woman" is actually the main force in both attack and defense.

Therefore, facing Ling Yi's "Thunder Mode" + "Magnetic Field Rotation 50,000 Horsepower" + "Qi and Blood Furnace", "Heavenly Snow Woman" bears the most pressure.

Despite its seemingly normal appearance, its body is actually being invaded and severely damaged by the "Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder" and "Blazing Qi and Blood".

"Bang--!"

Ling Yi held the "Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade Sword" horizontally, and the blade, like hitting a golf ball, sent the petite body of the "Ice Jade Empress Scorpion" flying dozens of meters.

"Laugh--!"

Stepping forward, Ling Yi approached the "Heavenly Snow Woman," his three-pointed blade grazing her cheek before embedding itself in the ground. He bent down, his Weiyi visible pair of deep eyes meeting her blue pupils, where he could even see the silver-white mask reflected in her pure eyes.

"Tell me, are you convinced now?"

Ling Yi's voice was very soft, just as gentle as when he spoke with Tang Yuehua before.

However, unlike his previous politeness and courtesy, Ling Yi's words now carried an undisguised murderous intent.

It can be said that if the "Heavenly Snow Woman" in front of him dares to be defiant, his "Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade" will cut off her head in the next second.

Faced with Ling Yi's question once again, "Heavenly Snow Woman" remained silent and did not answer, just like her aloof, even icy, temperament.

Seeing this, Ling Yi raised an eyebrow under his silver-white mask, stood up, and used his right hand to pull the "Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade" from the ground.

"Incorrect answer..."

The raised blade gleamed dazzlingly in the sunlight streaming down from the sky.