Shi Jian thought that he had concealed it very well, but he did not expect that his expression had already been seen by Song Zhong and Han Bing 'er. It was just that they knew what was going on, so they pretended not to know.
In the next few days, their journey was rather smooth. With Han Bing 'er concealing her aura, the demonic beasts were unable to discover them. With a special copper mirror that could detect the astral winds, these assassins were no longer a threat. Thus, their journey was rather smooth.
However, what Song Zhong and the rest did not know was that after they left, the owner of the ice castle received a special report from his subordinates, and started to be concerned about them.
It turned out that in a small place like the ice castle, Song Zhong and the rest's whereabouts were all monitored by the people of the ice castle. They realised that Song Zhong and the rest's whereabouts were very strange. For example, they had stayed here for half a year without leaving, which was very suspicious.
One had to know that the ice castle was not for outsiders to stay here for free. If one wanted to avoid the cold astral winds and strong demonic beasts, they would have to pay a considerable amount of spirit stones. Thus, under normal circumstances, no one would be willing to waste half a year here. They could also recuperate in other spiritual realms, there was no need for them to stay here. Such an abnormal situation, there must be something fishy going on.
Actually, these people had guessed correctly. Song Zhong and the rest did not want to wait for such a long time, but in order to avoid the possible pursuit of the two sects, and in addition to the fact that they wanted to get used to the weather here, they did not hesitate to spend spirit stones to stay here for half a year. This naturally attracted the attention of others.
Of course, if it was just this matter, it would not be enough to attract their attention. But later on, when the injured cultivator had just recovered, the few of them immediately set off and bought a large amount of items. They even almost emptied the ice castle of resources.
From this matter, the people of the ice castle came to two conclusions. Firstly, this group of people were very rich, at least they were not the kind of people who would risk their lives in poverty. As mentioned earlier, most of the cultivators who came to the Ancient Cold Realm were so poor that they could not afford to eat, and thus had no choice but to take the risk. Thus, the generosity of Song Zhong and Han Bing 'er caused others to be suspicious of their identities.
Secondly, according to the amount of resources, the people in the ice castle believed that Song Zhong and the others definitely didn't want to stay in the Outer Sect for only a few days. Instead, they wanted to stay for a few months. Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to stay outside for such a long time. Therefore, the actions of Song Zhong and the others were very suspicious. Either they had a death wish, or they had a way to stay outside for a long time.
If it was the former, it would be fine, but if it was the latter, it was undoubtedly an extremely important matter for the ice castle. Once they mastered the method of staying outside for a few months, it would definitely bring great benefits to the ice castle.
With this series of suspicious points and the temptation of a huge profit, how could the people of the Ice Castle resist? He immediately ordered several cultivators to secretly follow Song Zhong and the others.
From the City Lord's point of view, these cultivators under him had all climbed up from the outside world and were familiar with the terrain and climate. With them following him, it would be absolutely safe. However, the City Lord had still underestimated Song Zhong. Relying on the Frigid Ice Water Spirit's terrifying detection abilities, Song Zhong easily found out that someone was following them from behind.
However, these fellows had some skills. Although they could not deceive the Frigid Ice Water Spirit, they were still not something that Shi Jian and the others could discover. In order to conceal his strength, Song Zhong was naturally unwilling to take the initiative to announce his discovery, so he simply pretended not to see it.
Song Zhong letting them go was not a big deal, but in the end, it caused extremely bad consequences. It turned out that on this day, Daoist Lie Yan used a special bronze mirror to detect an extremely cold astral wind, so the group of people hurriedly dodged it.
The strange actions of Song Zhong and the others aroused the curiosity of the trackers, but they did not take it seriously. As a result, a tragedy happened. The two people who were following them were instantly frozen into ice by the Extreme Cold Astral Wind.
As a result, even if the other trackers were idiots, they would know that something was wrong. Song Zhong and the others were clearly able to detect the Extreme Cold Astral Wind in advance!
After obtaining the confirmed information, the followers were overjoyed and hurriedly returned to report to the City Lord. After the City Lord received the news, he was overjoyed. He knew that if he mastered the ability to detect the Extreme Cold Astral Wind, then it would be equivalent to controlling the entire Ancient Cold Realm. The vast amount of precious materials here could be mined without restraint, greatly increasing his strength.
With such a huge benefit, the City Lord could not help but be excited. However, although he was excited, he was still calm. He was not in a hurry to send out all his men to attack Song Zhong and the others. The reason was simple. Firstly, Song Zhong and the others had already left for several days, so even if they chased after them now, they would not be able to catch up.
Secondly, they had the ability to detect the Extreme Cold Astral Wind, but they did not. If they were to chase after them like this, who knew how many people would die outside? At that time, even if the two sides ended up in a field battle, they might not be able to gain the upper hand.
Therefore, after careful consideration, the City Lord officially decided to temporarily close the teleportation formation and chase out all the foreign cultivators who were still in the ice castle, lest they ruin his plans.
Following that, the entire ice castle was sealed off. The City Lord led his subordinates to set up layers of formations, specially used to ambush Song Zhong and the others.
With the efforts of all the members of the ice castle, the ambush formation was quickly completed. The City Lord looked at the ambush that was like an iron wall, and he could not help but think to himself proudly, "Everything is ready, except for the east wind, as long as you dare to come, I can guarantee that all of you will stay! Haha, the secret of being able to detect the Extreme Cold Astral Wind is mine! "
While the Ice Fortress was busy preparing the traps, Song Zhong and the others were still struggling against the layers of obstacles. The further they went, the more frequent the occurrence of extreme cold astral winds became. Originally, when they first left the ice castle, they would only encounter one Extreme Cold Astral Wind every two or three days. Later on, it became one Extreme Cold Astral Wind a day. After more than a month, it had developed to the point where Extreme Cold Astral Wind would attack them every fifteen minutes. Moreover, it was not just one Extreme Cold Astral Wind, but at least two or three Extreme Cold Astral Winds. Sometimes, there would even be more than ten Extreme Cold Astral Winds.
At this point, Taoist Lieyan's warning with his mouth seemed to be a little powerless. After all, due to the poor quality of his mirror's material, its detection range was not wide. In addition, the extreme cold wind was extremely fast, arriving almost instantaneously. Therefore, after discovering the extreme cold wind, there was not much time left for him to react. Furthermore, with so many Extreme Cold Astral Winds rushing over together, Taoist Lieyan only had one mouth. No matter how concise his warning was, it would be easy for him to make mistakes.
Everyone was already dissatisfied with this and requested for Taoist Lieyan to hand over the method of refining the mirror so that they could each refine one. In this way, they would be able to detect the danger themselves and would not need Taoist Lieyan's warning.
Of course, Taoist Lieyan would not be willing to hand over the method of refining the mirror for free. As such, he said that he could get others to provide the materials for him to refine.
Everyone also knew that it was a taboo to force others to ask for such a thing. Thus, seeing Taoist Lieyan give in, the others did not go overboard and handed over the materials that he asked for.
Taoist Lieyan did not dare to delay and hurriedly found a quiet place. He passed the mirror in his hands to Han Bing 'er for her to monitor temporarily while Taoist Lieyan focused on refining the mirror.
At the start, Song Zhong was still puzzled by Taoist Lieyan's generosity. It was only until Taoist Lieyan succeeded in refining the mirror that he understood what this shameless old man was planning.
As it turned out, after Taoist Lieyan gave his mirror to Han Bing 'er, he openly swallowed Han Bing' er's mirror. As a rich lady, the materials in Han Bing 'er's hands were the best amongst all of them. The mirror that she refined was also the most powerful and had the widest detection range. Just based on this point, it was already many times stronger than Daoist Lie Huo's broken mirror.
Obviously, Taoist Lieyan's actions were no different from robbing. He was obviously bullying Song Zhong and Han Bing 'er.
Song Zhong was so angry that his face turned green. He even had the thought of killing Taoist Lieyan on the spot. However, considering that the treasure map was still with him, if he were to kill Taoist Lieyan, he would not have the chance to obtain the cave.
As the saying goes, a little impatience spoils great plans. For the cave, Song Zhong controlled himself and did not flare up. Instead, he continued to act like a submissive idiot. As for Han Bing 'er, she seemed to have understood Song Zhong's intentions. She only expressed her indignation and wanted the other two to be the judge.
Shi Jian was Taoist Lieyan's friend, so he would naturally side with Taoist Lieyan. As for Venerable Master Xuanyuan, he was trying to mediate between them. Song Zhong was not an idiot. With a single look, he knew that this fellow was also siding with Taoist Lieyan. He could not help but sneer in his heart, "Alright, you ungrateful bastard. I saved your dog life and you treat me like this. Hmph, looks like I shouldn't have given you the elixir back then and let you die early! However, it doesn't matter. You think that you have the upper hand, but you don't know that you are all chess pieces in my hands. I can eliminate you anytime! For now, I'll let you be arrogant! "
Thinking about that, Song Zhong acted like a coward and started to persuade his woman to back down. Han Bing 'er pretended to be extremely angry and started to quarrel with Song Zhong. This made Taoist Lie Huo and the stone sword look down on Song Zhong even more. The disdain in their hearts was indescribable.
Then, the group continued to move forward. As each of them had an additional mirror that could detect the extreme cold wind, they were able to dodge the wind skillfully this time without needing Taoist Lieyuo to remind them. As a result, everyone's speed increased by quite a bit. Although the extreme cold wind became more and more intense, it was still unable to harm any of them.
Seeing this, Daoist Lie Huo, Shi Jian, and Master Xuanyuan were naturally very excited. However, the happiest person among them was Song Zhong. This was because after he obtained the mirror, he immediately handed it over to the Glacial Water Spirit secretly. After the Glacial Water Spirit used its unique ability to devour the mirror, it obtained such a miraculous ability.
If he hadn't devoured this mirror, even a powerful existence like the Frigid Ice Water Spirit wouldn't have been able to detect the existence of the Extreme Cold Astral Winds. But now, it was different. With this ability, the Frigid Ice Water Spirit's terrifying detection range could instantly mark out all the Extreme Cold Astral Winds within a radius of several hundred thousand li.
After SongZhong understood the distribution of the Extreme Cold Astral Winds, he was immediately shocked. It turned out that he discovered that the extreme cold wind was not evenly distributed. Instead, the closer it was to a certain point, the denser it was, forming a ball shape. When they were still a thousand miles away from the center, the density of the extreme cold wind had already reached an extreme. It was everywhere, with no gaps left. Under such circumstances, not to mention a person, even a fly would not be able to fly in.
This discovery of the Frigid Ice Water immediately made SongZhong depressed. In his heart, he thought that the center where the extreme cold wind was the densest was most likely where the Thunder Taoist's cave residence was. But that place couldn't be entered at all, which was really depressing.
However, Song Zhong still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. Perhaps the treasure map in Daoist Lie Huo's hands had a way to deal with this. After all, the purpose of this treasure map was to let people obtain the treasures left behind by the Thunder Taoist, not to kill them. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a way to refine the mirror in there. Without the mirror, almost no one would be able to come here.
Therefore, it was precisely because of this reason that Song Zhong finally decided to continue following Daoist Lie Huo and the others. He wanted to see if he had the means to reverse the situation.
Needless to say, Song Zhong made the right bet again. He did not know what secrets were hidden in the treasure map. Anyway, Taoist Lie Huo's journey was extremely smooth. Most importantly, he did not fly blindly towards the center of the Extreme Cold Squall. Instead, he flew towards a place that deviated from the center of the Extreme Cold Squall.
In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed. On this day, Song Zhong and the others, who were battered and exhausted, finally arrived at a strange place under the guidance of Taoist Lie Huo.
This was a valley with a radius of more than a dozen miles. Outside, cold winds howled, and it was a world of ice and snow. But inside the valley, it was like spring all year round. Everywhere was filled with vitality. Lush green grass, as well as towering trees, everything that could be expected was here. If one didn't know better, they would think that they were in another world!
Song Zhong and the others were led by Taoist Lie Huo through a portal disguised as an ice wall before they finally entered. After entering, Song Zhong and the others were dumbfounded on the spot. They never thought that there would be such a spring in the Ancient Cold Realm. Almost everyone was taken aback.
Only Taoist Lie Huo was not surprised. Instead, he laughed maniacally as if it was a matter of course, "Hahaha, as expected of the famous Taoist Lei Ting. Only such a big move is worthy of his reputation!"
"Ah!" Hearing Taoist Lie Huo say that this was the work of Taoist Lei Ting, the others could not help but exclaim.
No one was a fool. They knew that they could use Taoist Lie Huo now, so no one dared to offend him. Thus, everyone followed Taoist Lie Huo's thoughts and nodded in approval. "Yes, yes, yes! That is indeed the case! "
After saying that, Shi Jian said with a face full of surprise, "Senior Brother Lie Huo, in that case, we have already arrived at the place?"
Taoist Lie Huo then laughed loudly, "Haha, of course. This is the entrance to Senior Lei Ting's cave. What we need to do now is to find the short-distance teleportation array here. When the time comes, everything will be fine!"
Hearing Taoist Lie Huo say so, everyone was suddenly excited. Especially Song Zhong, he immediately thought of the news given to him by the Icy Water Spirit. Combined with the small teleportation array mentioned by Taoist Lie Huo, Song Zhong easily guessed that perhaps the place where the treasure was hidden was really in the center of the extremely cold astral wind. It was just that they had to rely on the small teleportation array here to transport people. Other methods could not enter the cave unless they could leap over such a thick layer of extremely cold astral wind. And this required at least a cultivator of the Great Vehicle Stage to be able to do it unscathed.
Since Taoist Lie Huo had shared the last bit of the secret, the others no longer hesitated and spread out to search for the small teleportation array.
The valley was actually not big and there was no extremely cold astral wind here. Therefore, it was safe for everyone to search with all their might. Soon, they found a strange place.
This was an ordinary thatched hut that looked like it was made a long time ago. Inside sat an unusually beautiful girl in white. After Song Zhong and the others received the news, they all flew over. Five pairs of big eyes stared at her. No one could guess what was going on!
After Song Zhong and the others checked with their spiritual sense, they finally came to a conclusion. First, there was no danger around the thatched hut. There was not even a warning array.
Second, this person who was beautiful enough to turn all living things upside down was actually an ordinary mortal. Even the Venerable Master Xuanyuan, who had the highest cultivation, could not see anything wrong with her.
If it was any other place, a thatched hut and a mortal lady were common things and not worthy of suspicion. But in this Ancient Cold Realm, such a combination was too strange. In this place where even high level cultivators could not enter, would they meet a mortal? In any case, Song Zhong would not believe it even if he was beaten to death! Therefore, he held Han Bing 'er's hand tightly, determined not to let her act rashly.
SongZhong's cautiousness did not influence the arrogant Daoist Lie Huo. With the treasure map in hand, he had already claimed to be the successor of Daoist Lightning. How would he allow someone to behave so atrociously in his territory? Therefore, Taoist Lie Huo rushed to the front of the thatched hut and shouted, "Which demon dares to build a thatched hut in my territory? Have you asked me, the owner? " (To be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please go to www.qidian.com, support the author, support the original reading!)
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