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"What's going on? Is another cold wave coming?"
"That's impossible. A lot of Yuanying monsters have been sent out to observe the weather. If tempests and snowstorms are coming again, alarms should've been sent out a long time ago."
Li Yao felt that the frost was spreading all the way to his abdomen from his nostrils like venomous bugs, helping him to depict the shape of his trachea and bronchi. He even sensed that a lot of his alveoli were frozen.
He suddenly fell on one of his knees and pressed his palms to the ground to feel carefully.
As he expected, he sensed a slight shiver, as if the ground in the mist up ahead had split open and something was crawling out of the ground.
Hiss!
After only several seconds, his palms were already frozen to the ground. He pulled them hard, and the thick gloves were torn apart.
Li Yao stared at the icy mist up ahead. Very soon, earsplitting shrieks seemed to be echoing from the icy mist, together with the noises of wriggling.
"Run!"
"There is a large area of ice up ahead. We have drilled apart the ice. A lot of Ice Devils are spurting out of it."
In the icy mist, dozens of Cultivators staggered back.
Their faces couldn't have been more twisted, as if they had been smashed by an ice hammer. Many of them were staggering. Their legs were covered in a thick shell of ice, indicating that they had suffered severe frostbite. But they did not dare to stop and simply ran away in a hurry like running fireballs at the cost of their spiritual energy.
Behind them, it was like a crystal-clear huge wave, but also like white snow that had a life of its own, pouncing over like a primordial beast baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.
One of the Cultivators had frostbitten legs to begin with. He summoned his flying sword and tried to fly away on it. Unfortunately, the flying sword was not very effective in the minus seventy to eighty degrees Celsius environment. After drifting for a long time, he was soon caught up by the crystal-clear waves.
"Hu!"
Wherever the tide passed, the Cultivator was directly frozen into a block of ice in midair. He fell to the ground heavily and smashed into pieces, leaving red ice crystals the size of fingernails on the ground.
All the Cultivators were creeped out by the scene.
Before entering the Eternal Night Ice Plains, they had collected a large number of adventurers' notes and organized a large amount of information about the Eternal Night Ice Plains.
Although all kinds of brutal demon beasts lived on the Land of Eternal Night, and there were even groups of ice barbarians, and the blizzards and tempests were quite dreadful natural disasters, the most dreadful of all the dangers was the Ice Devils.
The Ice Fiend Demon Tide was an extremely unique type of moss.
In order to survive in such a harsh environment as the Land of Eternal Night, it spent most of its time hibernating within the thick layer of ice, preserving its life in a manner akin to "hibernation".
And once it sensed the appearance of a large number of prey, it would find a way to break out of its shell, constantly multiplying and moving, like a man-eating swamp, fiercely pouncing on its prey.
The Ice Fiend Demonic Wave's feeding method was to directly absorb the heat from the air and the bodies of their prey.
Therefore, when the Ice Fiend Tide erupted, the surrounding temperature would plummet by dozens of degrees because all the heat in the air would be absorbed by the Ice Fiend Tide.
Once the prey was enshrouded by the Ice Fiend Tide, all the heat and spiritual energy inside their body would be drained instantly, leaving an empty ice sculpture behind.
After all the prey was cleaned up, the Ice Fiend Tide would sneak into the underground world again and enter the next round of hibernation, waiting for the next batch of poor prey to come and start a new round of hunting.
Li Yao had once encountered a very weird ancient moss on the Kunlun relic. It was called Blood Tide, also known as Hungry Ghost Moss. It could cover an area of dozens of square kilometers, was as thick as a carpet, and fed on spiritual energy. It was even bold enough to attack the high-level Cultivators who were equipped with the Crystal Suit without any hesitation.
The Ice Fiend Tide was probably a mutation of the Blood Tide in the Extreme Frigid Area, which was even weirder and more dangerous.
"Damn it. I should've thought of it a long time ago."
Li Yao slapped his thigh hard.
The information he collected about the Ice Fiend Tide said that such a terrifying creature was unpredictable. Generally speaking, as long as one's luck was not too bad, they might not encounter it.
However, if it was really a mutation of the Blood Tide, then it was very likely that it had a highly sensitive perception of spiritual energy. The area around the Divine Palace was the best place for it to live, just like the Blood Tide hiding in the depths of Kunlun where spiritual energy was rich.
The appearance of the Ice Fiend Tide meant that the Divine Palace was not far ahead. It might be right under the ice that they had drilled.
It was a pity that Li Yao did not connect the Ice Fiend Tide with the Blood Tide at the beginning. When he figured out the connection between the two, the crystal clear Ice Fiend Tide was already in front of him.
"Run!"
Li Yao roared. More than a dozen Thunder-Palms left his hands and exploded above the Ice Fiend Tide. However, they only blocked the Ice Fiend Tide for a moment before the dozen bursting flames condensed into translucent ice flowers. The color gradually changed from crimson to orange, from orange to blue, and from blue to light green. In the end, they were completely transparent and merged with the overwhelming Ice Fiend Tide.
Not only did the attack fail to blow up the Ice Fiend Tide, but it also made the Ice Fiend Tide sense Li Yao's existence. Sizzling sounds came from the depths of the Ice Fiend Tide. The Ice Fiend Tide, Ice Mist, and Ice Crystals were mixed together and surged toward him.
Li Yao secretly complained. He turned around and ran. As he ran, he wanted to shout and ask everyone not to panic. According to his experience, such a large area of the Ice Fiend Tide should be attacking by sensing spiritual energy waves. As long as everyone restrained their spiritual energy waves to the minimum, they would not be attacked.
However, on second thought, he realized that it would be suicide if he did not summon his spiritual energy to resist the cold in a weather of minus seventy to eighty degrees.
Besides, the Ice Fiend Tide was so thick that even if he condensed all his spiritual energy in his throat and let out a roar that sounded like a tsunami, it would not be able to reach hundreds of meters away.
It was not until then that Li Yao realized that the weird Ice Fiend Tide might be a trap made by the Ice Fiend Tide, and this place was their hunting ground.
Li Yao gritted his teeth and could only run away.
The temperature was so low that the magical equipment was highly unstable, especially the magical equipment made of metals. Once they were exposed to the air, a thick layer of ice would be condensed on them within a few breaths. As a result, the exchange of spiritual energy and rune arrays would not be smooth. The preparation time for flying on a flying sword would be greatly increased.
A lot of people were swallowed by the Ice Fiend Tide before the spiritual energy around their flying swords was fully enshrouded. In dry and hard screams, they were turned into bizarre-shaped ice sculptures.
The other survivors were already dizzy. In the hazy mist where they could not see their own fingers, they wandered around like headless flies. If they missed one or two marks on the ground in their haste, it was very likely that they would lose their way. The unluckier ones, on the other hand, would run toward the direction of the Ice Fiend Tide.
When they discovered that the air around them was gradually freezing, it was already too late. The overwhelming Ice Fiend Tide soon drowned them all.
"Don't run around. Follow me. Roar while you walk to attract your companions. Don't lose your way."
Li Yao was anxious.
Although he did not like the Cultivators of the Ancient Sages Sector, he was not heartless enough to watch them being frozen into ice while doing nothing. Although he did not know the situation of the other dozens of exploration teams in the mist, at the very least, he wanted to get out of there in one piece with his exploration team.
In the icy mist up ahead, a lot of people were suddenly shouting and running toward them in panic. It was obvious that they had lost their way because of the scourge of the Ice Fiend Tide.
"Don't panic. The camp is over there."
Li Yao grabbed a Cultivator in the lead and shoved him hard.
Suddenly, he felt that this cultivator was somewhat strange. He was wearing a sleek battle robe made of bear skin, and he was also wearing an otter skin cap that hung down to his ears. Although he wasn't wearing any earrings, the corner of a tattoo could still be vaguely seen on his exposed skin.
The saber on his waist was decorated with a lot of wolf fangs and the Seven Star Agates, which were the specialties of the Dark Cloud Prairies.
Li Yao pondered over their shouts just now. They had a weird accent and a strong air of the Dark Cloud Prairies.
They — they turned out to be a team of Ghost Qin Cultivators.
In the middle of the boundless icy mist, the dozens of Great Qian Cultivators and the Ghost Qin Cultivators stared at each other like headless flies.
The atmosphere was a little awkward, and the scene was very tense. Everyone's Adam's apple was constantly moving, and their eyes were rolling around. Their rapid breathing caused more white smoke to spurt out of their nostrils, and everyone's frozen expressions were shrouded in a fog.
It was not until then that Li Yao realized that the exploration team led by the Four Rapscallions must've discovered the coordinates of the Divine Palace that was enshrouded in the icy mist at about the same time as they did. However, they happened to be on the two sides of the icy mist and were exploring from the two ends to the middle.
Also, because the boundless icy mist blocked all the light, sound, and spiritual waves, and because they were all exploring and surveying carefully step by step, none of them discovered each other at the beginning.
It was like digging tunnels from the two ends of a mountain to the middle. Before the tunnels were connected, it was barely possible to detect each other's existence.
However, the weird Ice Fiend Tide sensed the two groups of prey at the same time and attacked them equally.
Under the scourge of the Ice Fiend Tide, a lot of people lost their way. They were not running toward their own camp but toward the depths of the Ice Fiend Tide or the noises of the crowd.
Right now, the Great Qian Cultivators, the Ghost Qin Cultivators, the Heaven Battering Army, the White Lotus Cult, and the Ghost Character must've been engaged in a chaotic battle.
It was truly the most chaotic situation.
"You are —"
Li Yao only hoped that the Ghost Qin Cultivators before his eyes could retain some of their fundamental rationality.
Even an idiot could tell that nobody would benefit from fighting an opponent when the Ice Fiend Tide was coveting them.
Thankfully, the Ghost Qin Cultivators on his opposite side seemed to have realized that. Or maybe even their fighting will and brutality had been frozen in the environment that was almost a hundred degrees below zero. Although they were holding the handles of their sabers tightly, they did not draw them out. Instead, they stepped back in silence.
However …
Shua!
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