Yin Hu, Temporary Breakthrough!

[At Xiao Meng's suggestion, you continue walking in one direction.]

[During this time, you encounter some unique demonic beasts in the desert, such as Yellow Sand Poison Scorpions, Scale Lizards, and Blood Spot Snakes.]

[You discover that these demonic beasts are all highly venomous and rather difficult to deal with.]

[Four days later, this is the fifteenth day since your arrival in the secret realm. You finally walk out of the desert and arrive at a snowfield.]

[You are even more bewildered. How is it that as soon as you leave the desert in this secret realm, you arrive at a snow plain? Could it be that there are only such harsh environments here?]

[You step onto the snowfield.]

[Heaven and earth merge into a single color of boundless, vast white.]

[This is an endless snowfield, devoid of mountains or ravines, a flat expanse for ten thousand miles. The snow layer is deeply piled, reaching up to the waist and abdomen, while the shallowest parts still cover the ankles. Stepping down produces a crisp crunching sound, and snow powder rises in flurries, falling back onto your shoulders and clinging to your eyelashes to instantly freeze into a thin layer of frost. The snow color is not a single shade of white; viewed up close, they are glistening white snow grains mixed with fine, shattered ice crystals, refracting tiny points of cold light under the daylight. Viewed from a distance, they are pale cyan snow waves, layered and stacked, rolling and undulating slowly with the force of the wind like a frozen sea of clouds, spreading out to the edge of heaven and earth.]

[The vault of heaven is a gloomy, leaden gray. The clouds press down low, devoid of a shred of sunlight, and no flying birds sweep past. There