Hu Guanyu

"I don't know, but I'll try every possible method I can think of."

At this moment, Liao Pantu, who was in Lin Xiao's arms, suddenly transmitted a message to him:

"I know exactly where my soul is now. My priority is to find a way out."

So Lin Xiao smiled and said to Hu Guanyu:

"Two days have passed already, haven't you tried every possible method yet?"

After being asked this, Hu Guanyu paused, then asked him with a hint of embarrassment and annoyance:

What do you mean by that, young man?

Seeing that he was somewhat displeased, Lin Xiao quickly spoke up:

"Why don't we work together? There are always more ways to do things, right?"

Seeing that he actually wanted to act with him, Hu Guanyu's expression softened slightly, and he nodded, saying:

"Judging from your young age, and though you're trying to conceal it, your cultivation level is probably not high. Just stay obediently behind me. If you have any ideas, you can tell me, and I'll see if they're feasible."

Lin Xiao felt no embarrassment at being treated as a weakling and nodded in full agreement:

"Good!"

Seeing the two of them talking so animatedly, Jiang Cheng quickly spoke up:

"Can I come with you guys too?"

Seeing that he did the same, Hu Guanyu nodded indifferently.

"In that case, we'll be a three-person team. Since you all want to come with me, I'll be the team leader. You shouldn't object, right?"

Lin Xiao nodded quickly, "No problem!"

Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Seeing that they both agreed, Hu Guanyu added:

"In that case, you will all have to follow my instructions for the time being. Of course, as the captain, I cannot let you put yourselves in danger, so you don't need to worry about that."

After speaking, he recalled the time when Senior Brother Xi was the team leader in the sect, and feeling that he had said something correct, he imitated Senior Brother Xi Xi's usual manner, putting his hands behind his back and saying to Lin Xiao and the other two:

"Then let's go."

Seeing this, Lin Xiao immediately spoke up:

"Captain, I haven't finished digging this ground yet."

Seeing that he still stubbornly wanted to dig, Hu Guanyu frowned and thought hard about what to do if this situation occurred in the team. After a while, he finally spoke:

"Well, the team can't let you hold up the whole team. You can't dig a hole out of here. Senior Yuan mentioned it in his last letter. But if you insist on trying it yourself, I won't stop you."

"Then you can keep digging here. Anyway, there's no danger in this ice cave. Once you're done digging—"

As he spoke, he took a small white origami crane from his pocket and handed it to Lin Xiao, saying:

"Once you're done digging, just use this to find me."

Lin Xiao took the origami crane and put it away, then thanked him.

Then Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng left.

There were several Foundation Establishment cultivators who had come after hearing the commotion, but seeing that these three were just children with low cultivation levels, they did not show themselves. After hearing the contents of Hu Guanyu's farewell letter, they had even less interest in dealing with these children and hurriedly scattered to find a way out.

Before long, Lin Xiao was the only one left around.

He tossed the origami cranes into his private stash and picked up his pickaxe to begin his house-digging project.

Before long, the house, which occupied only about fifty square meters, was completely separated from the ice on the ground by Lin Xiao.

After confirming that no one was around, Lin Xiao quickly released his Spiritual Power to envelop the entire house made of Cold-Concentrating Jade, and in the blink of an eye, he stored it in his private treasury.

That's right. To collect such a large item, he needed to use his Spiritual Power to completely envelop it before he could store it in his private treasury.

When Lin Xiao first learned that there was this condition for receiving large items, he secretly complained a couple of times about how inconvenient it was.

The system stated that this was a rule of the private database, and there was nothing it could do about it.

Looking at the large house Cold-Concentrating Jade lying intact in his private vault, Lin Xiao was overjoyed.

Liao Pantu, who had been secretly observing outside from within the Soul-Nourishing Pendant, saw that he had indeed put the house away.

At this moment, Lin Xiao transmitted his voice to ask him:

"Senior, although these houses are too big, and others don't have enough storage space with a large enough entrance to take them all, wouldn't it be easier to break them down into pieces? But to me, these houses are all intact, with no damage whatsoever."

Upon hearing this, Liao Pantu replied:

"That's for sure. This is the Cold-Concentrating Jade. Those who enter this Icefield Mystic Realm are either Qi Refining Foundation Establishment cultivators. Very few people have even heard of the Cold-Concentrating Jade. Even if some have heard of it, most of them have probably never seen the real thing. And even if they have, they might not know that it is the Cold-Concentrating Jade."

Furthermore, as you just heard, not many people get into this ice cave each year if they're unlucky.

"So this Cold-Concentrating Jade is so little known in the Immortal Cultivation Realm?" Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised.

"It's not exactly unknown, just little known to those below the Golden Core stage. Most cultivators above the Nascent Soul Nascent Soul know of its existence. If you manage to get out of here safely, you'll make a fortune from this high-grade Cold-Concentrating Jade house."

Upon hearing his words, Lin Xiao couldn't help but shift his gaze to the houses nearby, nestled among icebergs of varying sizes, built from what Senior Liao had described as 'ordinary-grade' Cold-Concentrating Jade.

He decisively raised the spirit pickaxe in his hand and walked towards them with shining eyes.

--

Meanwhile, in a very secluded corner within this enormous ice cave...

Yuan Zhiyun spent two days exploring this ice cave before discovering it.

She walked in cautiously.

Yesterday, she met a cultivator at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement who told her the truth about the ice cave.

Knowing that she was trapped inside and would likely freeze to death if she couldn't get out before the secret realm closed, she was extremely shocked.

After all, this wasn't her first time entering this Icefield Mystic Realm, but she never expected there to be such hidden secrets within.

She wasn't entirely convinced at first, but to her surprise, the Qi Refining cultivator who revealed the truth produced her uncle's last letter, which had disappeared without a trace three years ago after he entered this Icefield Mystic Realm!

She immediately confirmed, upon examining the handwriting and the blood, that the writer of this suicide note was undoubtedly her uncle.

So she believed the boy's words at the time.

Originally, she wanted the Qi Refining cultivator to take her to her uncle's remains to collect them, but the cultivator said that he had already collected her uncle's remains, and because he had borne the karma of her uncle, he had to personally take the remains out to her uncle's son.

He said that, and Yuan Zhiyun had no choice. Moreover, she didn't think this person was a vicious person. He was a Qi Refining cultivator, so he probably wouldn't use her uncle's remains for anything. So she could only tell him to take good care of the remains.