Deep in the mine, the closer to the center of the storm, the more violent the wind and snow become. The strong wind roars past carrying blade-like ice crystals, hitting the surrounding rock walls with a sharp hiss.
Xue Lanyuan's bare feet were hanging lightly in front, and the wind and snow seemed not to disturb her at all.
But the few people following behind were blown away and were struggling.
"I said - can't you just let this damn weather calm down a little bit!" Jin Buhuan shouted at the top of his lungs. The folding fan in his hand had long been frozen into a lump of ice, and he couldn't shake it away. He was holding it like a stick in his hand.
"This is probably the Array Eye she cast before. The wind and snow are the biggest!" Lin Qingyang replied loudly.
At this moment, almost half of his body was wrapped in Cang Mo's arms, and the hot body temperature was continuously transmitted through the fabric of his clothes. Even the wind and snow raging around him were forcibly torn apart by the fierce Demonic Qi released by Cang Mo as an invisible barrier.
Lin Qingyang turned his head with difficulty in the wind and snow, and looked at Su Ruohuan not far away with some worry.
Although this eldest lady did not have high spiritual power, she was not at all embarrassed. Instead, she walked lightly, and not even a single snowflake touched her body. The wind and snow that were still half a foot away from her seemed to have encountered some invisible stove, and instantly turned into a wisp of white smoke and evaporated.
"You're actually fine at all?" Lin Qingyang looked at her in surprise across the wind and snow.
Su Ruohuan took out a bunch of jingling pendants from her collar as a matter of course. Wind-avoiding beads, warm jade charms, cold-warming pendants... seven or eight Top-Grade high-level magic weapons shone with colorful auras, illuminating her whole body like a glowing Duobao Pavilion.
Lin Qingyang:"..."
The most evil rich man.
Everyone trudged through the wind and snow for a long time, and suddenly, the tearing whistling sound in their ears disappeared without warning.
They passed through the storm barrier and arrived at the center of a low-lying valley.
On the contrary, it was extremely peaceful here, with no wind at all, and only large flakes of goose-feather-like snowflakes falling silently. The surroundings were so silent that it made people feel hairy, and even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.
Everyone stepped on the snow that reached their ankles and walked into the valley bottom.
"Is there nothing here?" Su Ruohuan looked around, but there was nothing except the rock wall covered with ice and snow.
The Xue Lanyuan in front also stopped, just hovering in place quietly, no longer floating forward half an inch.
Everyone looked at her with some confusion. Cang Mo narrowed his eyes slightly and scanned the surroundings warily. Finally, he sank little by little and landed on the snow at his feet.
"Down below." Cang Mo spat out three words coldly.
Before he finished speaking, he gently raised his hand, and a black demonic wind rolled up to the ground, blowing away the thick layer of snow on the surface of the valley bottom, and the true appearance of the landform was instantly exposed.
Only then did everyone realize that what they were stepping on was not snow at all, but a huge frozen lake. At this moment, Lake Water had been frozen into extremely transparent ice, and under the transparent ice, there was a huge frozen thing.
Even though it was separated by several feet of ice, the appearance of the thing was still clearly visible. It was a pale white meat ball as huge as a hill, and the surface of the meat ball was covered with dense, large and small honeycomb-shaped holes. Countless white hyphae that were thicker than an adult's thighs extended from the holes, spreading like tentacles in the water, showing a posture that was about to erupt wildly outwards, but was frozen by the extreme cold force at the last second.
But what is really frightening is that through the translucent flesh walls and white threads, one can clearly see the interior of this mountain of flesh, which is densely packed with countless corpses. Some are human, some are birds and animals.
Those corpses had long been sucked dry of flesh and blood, leaving only a layer of blue-gray skin and bones, but they were like clay figures that had been forcibly kneaded into dough. Half of their twisted faces, half of their stiff arms, and their hollow and wide-open mouths stood out so strangely on Tai Sui's pale skin. They maintained the extremely painful struggling posture they had shown in life, entangled with those white threads.
Su Ruohuan only glanced down, turned her head away suddenly, and retched with a "Wow" sound.
Jin Buhuan also subconsciously took two steps back, covered his mouth and nose with a folding fan like ice lumps, frowned and said, "How many living things did this thing eat to grow like this?"
Mo Yan frowned and stared under the ice. "This is obviously an abandoned mine. No one sets foot on it on weekdays. How could it grow here for no reason?"
Lin Qingyang also felt a surge of emotion in his stomach. He quickly looked away and said solemnly, "There is only one possibility. Someone put it here deliberately."
Jin Buhuan frowned when he heard this. "This thing has become extinct since the war five hundred years ago. Who would think of bringing out such a monster?"
Hearing the words "five hundred years ago", Lin Qingyang's heart skipped a beat, and the ghost of the fake Bi Yue immediately appeared in his mind. Could it be that he had done this again?
Sensing Lin Qingyang's expression, Cang Mo's arms around his waist tightened comfortingly.
"Now is not the time to delve into the source." Mo Yan interrupted the silence, "We have to find a way to get rid of this Tai Sui first. I don't know how long this ice layer can trap it."
Everyone followed his gaze and looked at their feet again.
Deep in the ice layer, around the thickest white threads near the core of Tai Sui, the color of the ice is obviously muddy and gray. Looking carefully, it is the remaining heat and Demonic Qi of Tai Sui, which is slowly but stubbornly seeping outward, trying to melt the surrounding ice bit by bit. It is not dead, it is still breathing.
"You have to kill it before the ice completely melts." Lin Qingyang looked at the disgusting giant at his feet and his voice deepened, "But does this thing have any weaknesses?"
Jin Buhuan touched his chin in distress. "The Corpse Blood Tai Sui is extremely difficult to kill. As long as a small piece of parasitic hyphae remains, it can continue to regenerate. To kill it completely, I'm afraid you have to break its outer skin and destroy the demon elixir hidden inside. But... once you get close, as long as you are touched by the hyphae of that thing, you will immediately be parasitized, just like the disciples outside."
Everyone couldn't help but frown when they heard this.
At this time, Su Ruohuan suddenly looked around with some confusion.
"Where was that sister just now?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then they suddenly raised their heads. They saw that the surroundings were completely white, and in the empty valley, was there any trace of Xue Lanyuan?
Lin Qingyang An inexplicable uneasiness arose in his heart. He looked around, his eyes scanning the sky above, and suddenly paused.
"The snow... stopped." Lin Qingyang murmured.
Yes, the snowflakes that were still falling silently stopped completely at some point.
The entire valley fell into a suffocating and absolute silence.
"Click."
An extremely subtle crisp sound suddenly sounded at the soles of everyone's feet. Everyone looked startled and looked down suddenly.
I saw a bottomless crack on the ice beneath my feet, rapidly cracking open along the top of Tai Sui's thickest hyphae.