Amidst the flying snow, Xue Lanyuan landed quietly on the ice.
Those ice-blue, inhuman eyes stared straight at Lin Qingyang without any disturbance. Not far behind her, lay the ice corpses of several Myriad Spirits Sect disciples.
Lin Qingyang was so stared at that he felt terrified and instinctively wanted to step back, but the ice under his feet was too slippery, so he stumbled and fell to the ground.
He held up his arms and tried to stand up, but without Cang Mo's Demonic Qi for warmth, the extremely cold temperature instantly froze his bones, and his hands and feet were so stiff that he couldn't control them.
Xue Lanyuan walked up to him step by step with bare feet, looked at Lin Qingyang condescendingly, and tilted his head as if in doubt, and the white frost and snow dancing around him actually softened.
"Xue Lanyuan, do you still recognize me?" Lin Qingyang took a deep breath and called out tentatively.
Xue Lanyuan didn't respond, still looking at him quietly.
Lin Qingyang frowned, keenly aware that something was wrong. His gaze passed over her and fell on the murdered Myriad Spirits Sect disciples. A faint thought flashed through his mind.
At this moment, Xue Lanyuan suddenly raised his hand and moved his fingertips slightly, as if he wanted to touch Lin Qingyang's face.
"Bang--!"
A deafening loud noise suddenly exploded, and the icy lake not far away was instantly shattered by the violent Demonic Qi! Among the ice cubes and water splashes flying all over the sky, a black afterimage rushed out of the water.
Cang Mo was holding Howling Moon Saber, with a terrifying murderous intent all over his body. When he saw Xue Lanyuan was about to touch Lin Qingyang, he slashed it down with his knife in the air without hesitation!
Xue Lanyuan didn't even make a move to hide. The moment the blade touched it, his body turned into a cloud of flying snow, scattered with a "swish", and then condensed and formed again ten feet away.
The moment Cang Mo landed, his left hand directly grabbed Lin Qingyang's waist, picked him up from the ground, and held him in his arms.
With his right hand swinging the knife, Amber's eyes glowed fiercely, like a lone wolf guarding its food, staring at Xue Lanyuan opposite.
"A-Qi, wait a minute!" Lin Qingyang saw that he was still going to make a move, so she quickly held down his wrist holding the knife.
The anger in Cang Mo's eyes did not dissipate. He frowned and looked at the person in his arms, then turned to look at Xue Lanyuan.
Seeing that the other party was just standing quietly in the wind and snow, with no intention of attacking, he slowly lowered the blade, but the hand around Lin Qingyang's waist did not loosen at all.
At this time, there was a burst of chaotic footsteps in the mine behind them. Mo Yan, Jin Buhuan and Su Ruohuan finally broke through the ice and hurried out.
As soon as they came out of the cave, everyone was stunned.
Su Ruohuan's eyes fell on the corpse at the entrance of the cave, which was the disciple he had just rescued. Su Ruohuan looked angry and unsheathed her long sword, pointing at Xue Lanyuan in the distance, her sword at war.
"Ruohuan, put down the sword!" Lin Qingyang shouted in a deep voice.
"Master! She killed so many Myriad Spirits Sect disciples!" Su Ruohuan said loudly, with a look of reluctance on her face.
Lin Qingyang frowned and said, "There's a problem! Didn't you notice? She only killed Myriad Spirits Sect's disciples just now, but she didn't kill a few of us from the beginning to the end."
Jin Buhuan put away the fan that he was preparing for a sneak attack just now, and nodded thoughtfully. "Indeed, when she attacked us in the cave just now, it was just to block us so that she could hunt down that disciple."
Su Ruohuan was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case, and she didn't say anything for a while.
Mo Yan looked at the ice blue figure with a complicated expression. "Then why did she want to kill all the people in the Myriad Spirits Sect?"
Everyone looked at Xue Lanyuan, hoping to get an answer, but they saw that Xue Lanyuan just turned around slowly, walked to a nearby rock covered with ice and sat down, holding his knees with his hands, staring blankly at the wind and snow in front of him.
Jin Buhuan said a little speechlessly, "What do you expect her to answer? She looks like this now, it's damned if she can understand human speech."
Lin Qingyang said nothing, turned around and walked to the body of the disciple just now.
Cang Mo followed him and turned the frozen corpse over, face up.
Everyone gathered around and saw that the disciple was covered in white frost, and the skin on his face showed a strange purple color.
"It looks like... there's nothing strange about it except that it's freezing." Su Ruohuan looked at it for a moment and said.
"Something's wrong." Lin Qingyang stared at the place where the ice pick penetrated the corpse's chest, "It was penetrated directly by such a thick ice pick. How come not even a drop of blood came out?"
After he reminded them, everyone suddenly realized that the wound pierced by the ice pick was clean, with only a layer of pale ice and no trace of blood.
Cang Mo moved his nose and said with a heavy look, "He has a very strange smell. It's a demon smell, but it's different from Demonic Qi on Xue Lanyuan."
Lin Qingyang thought for a moment, leaned down, and reached out to push aside the frozen clothes on the disciple's chest.
Before his fingertips touched the fabric, his wrist was caught halfway by a warm hand.
Cang Mo pulled Lin Qingyang's hand back and whispered, "Don't touch, I'll do it."
After that, he flipped his wrist and used the tip of the Howling Moon Saber knife with his backhand to swipe it cleanly, and with a "chila" sound, he cut open the clothing on the disciple's chest.
The moment they saw the scene under their clothes clearly, the expressions of several people present changed.
That was definitely not the body of a normal person. The skin under the clothes was a dead gray, and the entire chest and abdomen were abnormally dry, with almost only a thin layer of skin remaining tightly attached to the skeleton, as if the flesh and blood in the body had been drained by something in a short period of time.
"How... how could this happen?" Su Ruohuan said in shock.
Lin Qingyang looked at the corpse in front of him, then turned to look at Cang Mo. Cang Mo immediately understood. The arm holding the knife sank, and the blade went down, directly cutting open the shriveled chest and abdomen.
The moment the wound opened, Su Ruohuan covered her mouth and almost vomited.
I saw that the outline of normal organs had long been gone in the abdominal cavity, and instead, there were densely packed white silk threads that were intertwined like a spider web. Looking up along the direction of the growth of the silk threads, all the white threads eventually converged towards the heart.
There, the original heart had long been hollowed out, replaced by a fist-sized piece of pale white meat. The surface of the meat piece was covered with fine honeycomb-like holes. It was frozen by the extremely cold air of Xue Lanyuan Knot, this disgusting piece of meat is like an amber ice sculpture at the moment, but it still makes people's scalp numb, and the ice pick shot by Xue Lanyuan is unbiased, nailing this weird piece of meat into the chest cavity accurately.
Several other people also immediately went to check the corpses of several other disciples around them. Without exception, they all had this disgusting parasitic thing in their abdominal cavities.
"This... what the hell is this?" Su Ruohuan's voice was trembling, "Is it poisoning?"
Jin Buhuan stared at the piece of frozen white meat with an ugly expression, put away his usual idleness, and said in a deep voice, "It's not poison, it's parasitism."
Everyone turned to look at him.
Lin Qingyang asked, "Do you recognize this thing?"
Jin Buhuan took a deep breath, closed the folding fan with a "pop" sound, and said solemnly, "If I'm not mistaken, this thing is called 'Zombie Blood Tai Sui'."
"Taisui?" Mo Yan frowned slightly with some confusion.
Jin Buhuan nodded. "Tai Sui is originally a very lazy monster in the demon world. He usually hides in the deep mountains and old forests to absorb the spiritual energy of plants and trees, and is not aggressive. But during the Human and Demon Clans war five hundred years ago, some Tai Sui mingled in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, sucking too much flesh and blood and resentment from the dead, causing mutations and becoming this extremely evil 'Corpse Blood Tai Sui'."
He pointed at the hollowed-out heart. "This thing will actively attack living people in order to reproduce. As long as its spores penetrate into the body along the wound, they will take root in the human heart and use the host's flesh and blood as nourishment. In a few days, the human will be sucked dry and become a walking zombie controlled by mycelium."
When everyone heard this, they all took a deep breath.
Jin Buhuan glanced around with a complex expression. "What's even worse is that this controlled body will constantly attack other living people to spread the spores. If these disciples of the Myriad Spirits Sect escape from this mine..."
He didn't say the rest, but everyone understood.
If these parasites are allowed to return to the bustling Myriad Spirits Sect, or even descend to surrounding towns, the consequences will be an unstoppable disaster.
Thinking of this, Su Ruohuan's face turned pale, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back.
Lin Qingyang turned around and looked at the icy blue figure sitting on the rock not far away. His voice was very soft. "So, Xue Lanyuan froze the entire mine in order to trap the corpse blood Tai Sui and kill those disciples..."
Lin Qingyang paused, a complex emotion flashed in his eyes. "It is also to stop this disaster here."
Everyone was silent and turned to look at Xue Lanyuan.
In the snow that was flying all over the sky, she still sat there hugging her knees, looking blankly into the distance, like a beautiful ice sculpture.
But even though she has become the unconscious Otherworldly Demon, she still instinctively prevents disasters and saves the world!