Wind and snow howled!
Heaven and earth were a blur of chaos!
The sky was white, the earth white.
It was as though this stretch of heaven and earth had become a world of wind and snow.
"Third Brother, how much farther?"
In the valley, a burly man dressed in black flew on a sword, flashing past several cliffs.
One man flanked him on either side.
The fellow on his left, dressed in a blue-green Daoist Robe and wearing a bamboo hat, said, "Nearly there, Boss... just up ahead!"
"Once we get through this valley and turn the corner, we'll see a huge pine tree!"
"It's right beside that pine!"
"Good!" The burly man in black nodded. "Let's hope we don't come back empty-handed this time!"
"Don't worry, Boss. This place used to be called Lone Pine Mountain. It was a top-tier sect that towered into the heavens. Later, no one knows what happened, but someone wiped the sect out, and it's been a ruin ever since!"
"Even after it became a ruin, the Vermilion Bird Tribe sent people to guard it!"
"But for some reason, the Vermilion Birds guarding it suddenly left recently!"
"Hehehe... we brothers can fish in troubled waters. If we can find a Spatial Ring or two in these ruins, or a few other items, that alone would be a tremendous stroke of fortune!"
Of the three, the boss had the highest cultivation, at the Eleventh Layer of the Golden Core Stage.
Although the other two were also at the Golden Core Stage, they were only at the Mid Golden Core Stage.
Whoosh...
Three streaks of sword light swept swiftly through valley after valley.
They flew higher and higher.
Soon, they could faintly make out the highest peak in the area.
Its summit was blanketed in