Shi Jian thought he had concealed it well, but unexpectedly, his expression just now had already caught the eyes of Song Zhong and Han Bing'er. It's just that they know it well, so they pretend not to know.
In the next few days, everything went smoothly for the group of people. With Han Bing'er concealing their aura, the monsters could not detect them. There are special bronze mirrors that can detect Gangfeng, so this kind of killer is no longer a threat, so the journey has been smooth.
However, what Song Zhong and others didn't know was that after they left, the owner of the ice castle also received special information from his subordinates and began to care about them.
It turned out that in a small place like Ice Castle, the whereabouts of Song Zhong and others were closely watched by the people of Ice Castle. They found that the whereabouts of Song Zhong and others were extremely strange. For example, they lived here for half a year but did not go out, which was very suspicious.
You must know that the Ice Castle is not free for outsiders to live here. If you want to avoid the extremely cold wind and powerful monsters here, you must pay a large amount of spiritual stones. Therefore, under normal circumstances, no one wants to waste half a year here in vain. He can also recuperate in other spiritual worlds, and there is no need to be here at all. There must be something evil in such an abnormal thing.
In fact, these people guessed it right. Song Zhong and others actually did not want to wait for such a long time, but in order to avoid possible pursuit by the two major sects, and they also wanted to adapt to the climate here, so as to prepare for the next step. He wanted to prepare for action, so he did not hesitate to spend spiritual stones and stay there for half a year. This naturally attracted people's attention.
Of course, if it was just this one thing, it would not be enough to attract their attention. But later, as soon as the injured monk was healed, a few people set out immediately and purchased a large number of items, even including all the items in the ice castle. We are almost out of supplies.
From this incident, the people in Ice Castle came to two conclusions. First, these people are very rich, at least they are not the kind of people who are desperate. As mentioned before, 80% of the monks who come to the ancient cold world are too poor to take the blame, so they have to take risks. Therefore, Song Zhong and Han Bing'er's generosity suddenly made others doubt their identities.
Secondly, based on the amount of supplies, the people in Ice Castle believed that Song Zhong and the others were definitely not just staying at the outer gate for more than ten days, but actually wanted to stay for several months. Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to stay outside for such a long time. Therefore, the whereabouts of Song Zhong and others are very questionable. Either they are seeking death, or they have figured out a way to stay out for a long time.
If it's the former, it's easy to say, but if it's the latter, it's undoubtedly an extremely important matter for Ice Castle. Once they master the method of staying outside for several months, it will definitely bring extremely huge benefits to the ice castle.
With this series of doubts and the temptation of a huge profit, how can the people of Ice Castle endure it? He immediately ordered several monks to quietly follow Song Zhong and others.
From the city lord's point of view, these monks under him were all worked hard outside and were familiar with the terrain and climate. With them following them, they would be absolutely foolproof. However, the city lord still underestimated Song Zhong. With the terrifying detection ability of Hanbing Shuiling, Song Zhong easily learned that someone was following him.
However, these guys can be regarded as having two tricks. Although they can't deceive Han Bing Shui Ling, they are not something Shi Jian and others can discover. In order to conceal his own strength, Song Zhong was naturally unwilling to take the initiative to announce his discovery, so he simply pretended not to see it.
It didn't matter that Song Zhong let them go, but the result was extremely bad consequences. It turned out that on this day, the Lieyan Taoist used a special bronze mirror to detect the extremely cold wind coming, so the group hurriedly evaded.
The strange movements of Song Zhong and others aroused the curiosity of the stalkers, but they did not take it seriously. Then, tragedy happened. The two stalkers were instantly frozen into ice cubes by the extremely cold wind.
In this way, even if the other stalkers were all idiots, they would also know that something was wrong. Song Zhong and the others were clearly able to detect the extremely cold Gangfeng in advance!
After getting the confirmed information, the followers were overjoyed and hurried back to report to the city lord. After the city lord got the news, he was immediately overjoyed. He knew that if he mastered the ability to detect the extremely cold Gangfeng, then he would be able to master the entire ancient cold world. The massive amounts of precious materials here could be mined and his strength would be greatly improved. Significant improvement.
With such a huge benefit, the city lord couldn't help but be excited. However, although he was excited, he was still calm and did not rush to send all his troops to attack Song Zhong and others. The reason is very simple. One is that Song Zhong and the others have been gone for several days, and they can't catch up even now.
The second is that others have the ability to detect extremely cold winds, but I don't. If I just go after it, I don't know how many people will die outside? At that time, even if the two sides end up having a field battle, they may not be able to take advantage after suffering heavy losses.
Therefore, after careful consideration, the city lord officially decided to temporarily close the teleportation array and temporarily drive out all the foreign monks who were still in the ice castle to prevent them from ruining their own affairs.
Then, the entire ice castle was sealed, and the city lord led his men to set up layers of formations specifically to ambush Song Zhong and others.
With the efforts of all Ice Castle members, the ambush formation was quickly completed. The city lord looked at the ambush that was like an iron wall, and he couldn't help but secretly said proudly: "Everything is ready, all I need is Dongfeng. As long as you dare to come, I can guarantee that you will all stay! Haha, you can detect the extremely cold wind. The secret is mine!"
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While Ice Castle was busy preparing the trap, Song Zhong and others were still struggling against the obstacles. The further you go, the more likely extreme cold winds will appear. When we first came out of the ice castle, we would only encounter an extremely cold wind every two or three days. Later, it would happen once a day. After more than a month, it had developed to the point where the extremely cold wind hit us every quarter of an hour, and it hit us all the time. The extremely cold winds came not just in one blast, but at least in two or three. Sometimes there were even more than a dozen extremely cold winds coming.
At this point, just relying on Taoist Lie Yan's mouth to warn him seemed a little powerless. After all, due to the inferior material of his mirror, the detection range was not wide. In addition, the extreme cold wind was extremely fast and arrived almost instantly. Therefore, after discovering the extreme cold wind, he did not have much time to react. . Moreover, with so many extremely cold winds rushing towards him at the same time, Taoist Liehuo only had one mouth to speak. No matter how concise the warning was, it was easy for mistakes to appear.
Everyone has long been dissatisfied with this, and has asked Taoist Lieyan to hand over the method of refining this kind of mirror, so that each of them can refine one. In this way, they can all observe the danger by themselves, and there is no need for Taoist Lieyan to warn them. .
Of course Taoist Liehuo was not willing to hand over the method of refining this precious mirror for nothing, so he said that he could let others provide the materials and then refine it by him.
Everyone also knew that it was extremely taboo to force others to ask for such things, so when they saw Taoist Liehuo give in, the others did not hesitate to give him the materials he mentioned.
Taoist Liehuo did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly found a quiet place, and gave the mirror in his hand to Han Bing'er, who would temporarily monitor it, while Taoist Liehuo concentrated on refining that kind of mirror.
At the beginning, Song Zhong was very surprised by Taoist Liehuo's generosity. It was not until Taoist Liehuo successfully refined it that he figured out what the shameless old guy was up to.
It turns out that after Taoist Liehuo gave his mirror to Han Bing'er, he openly swallowed Han Bing'er's mirror. As a super rich woman, Han Bing'er has the best materials among everyone, and the mirror she refines is also the most powerful, with the widest detection range. With this alone, it is better than Taoist Liehuo's own broken mirror. How many times.
Obviously, Taoist Liehuo's approach was almost the same as Ming Zhan. He made it clear that he was bullying Song Zhong and the two.
Song Zhong was so angry that his face turned green at that time, and he even wanted to kill this guy on the spot. However, considering that the treasure map was still with this guy, if he killed him, he would have no chance to get the cave.
As the saying goes, a small impatience ruins a big plan. For the sake of the cave, Song Zhong finally restrained himself from having an attack and continued to act as a submissive idiot. Han Bing'er seemed to understand what Song Zhong meant, but she acted indignantly and kept asking the other two to comment.
Shi Jian was a friend of Taoist Liehuo, so he naturally spoke to Taoist Liehuo, while Master Xuanyuan kept persuading him from side to side, looking very conciliatory. Song Zhong was not a fool. He knew at a glance that this guy was also partial to Taoist Liehuo. He couldn't help but sneered secretly in his heart: "Okay, you ungrateful bastard, I saved your life, so you treat me like this. Humph, it seems that I shouldn't have given you the elixir and let you die early! But it doesn't matter. You think you have the initiative, but you don't know that you are all pawns in my hands. I can kill you at any time. I can clean you out anywhere! Now, let’s let you be arrogant for now!”
Thinking of this, Song Zhong acted like a coward and began to persuade his woman to give in. Han Bing'er pretended to be very angry and almost quarreled with Song Zhong. This made Taoist Liehuo and Shi Jian look down on Song Zhong even more, and the contempt in their hearts could not even be mentioned.
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Next, the group continued walking forward. Since everyone has an extra mirror to detect the extremely cold wind, everyone can avoid it very cleverly this time without the need for Taoist Liehuo to remind them. As a result, everyone's speed increased a lot again. Although the extremely cold wind became more and more intense, it was still unable to harm any of them.
Seeing this situation, Taoist Liehuo, Shi Jian and Master Xuanyuan were naturally excited. However, the happiest person among them would actually be Song Zhong. Because after he got this kind of mirror, he immediately gave it quietly to Hanbing Shuiling. After the ice water spirit used its unique ability to devour it, it gained this magical ability.
Without this kind of mirror, even an existence as powerful as the Ice Water Spirit would not be able to detect the existence of the extremely cold Gangfeng. But now it is completely different. With this ability, with the help of the Ice Water Spirit, the extremely terrifying With a detection range of 100,000 square meters, all the extremely cold winds in the surrounding hundreds of thousands of miles were marked out in one fell swoop.
After Song Zhong learned about the distribution of these extremely cold winds, he was immediately surprised. It turned out that he discovered that these extremely cold winds were not evenly distributed, but became more dense the closer they were to a certain location, forming the shape of a ball. When it was still thousands of miles away from the center, the density of the extremely cold wind had reached an extreme, and it was everywhere, with almost no gaps left. In this case, not even a fly can fly in, let alone a person.
This discovery by Hanbing Shuiling immediately made Song Zhong depressed. Xin said that the center of the place where the extreme cold wind was the densest was probably the cave where Taoist Lei Ting lived in his early years. And that place is completely inaccessible, which is really depressing.
However, Song Zhong still had one last glimmer of hope in his heart. Perhaps the treasure map in Taoist Liehuo's hand contained a way to deal with this matter. After all, the purpose of this treasure map is to let people get the treasure left by Taoist Thunder, not to kill them. Otherwise, there would be no refining method for that mirror inside. Without that mirror, almost no one could come here.
Therefore, it was precisely for this reason that Song Zhong finally decided to continue to follow Taoist Liehuo and others. Let's see if he can use any means to turn things around.
Not to mention, Song Zhong made the right bet again. I don’t know what secrets are hidden in the treasure map. Anyway, Taoist Liehuo walked extremely smoothly. The most important thing is that he did not fly blindly to the center of the extremely cold wind, but to another deviation. A place at the center of extremely cold winds.
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More than a month passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, the embarrassed Song Zhong and others finally arrived at a strange place under the leadership of Taoist Liehuo.
This is a valley with a radius of more than ten miles. Outside, the cold wind is howling and the sky is covered with ice and snow. However, the valley is like spring all year round. It is full of life everywhere, including green grass and towering trees. Those who don’t know better think it is. In other circles!
Song Zhong and others were led by Taoist Liehuo and passed through a portal disguised as an ice wall before finally being able to enter. After entering, Song Zhong and others were stunned on the spot. They never expected that there could be such a spring scenery in the ancient cold world. Almost everyone was taken aback.
Taoist Liehuo was the only one who was not surprised. Instead, he laughed wildly and said, "Hahaha, he is worthy of being the world-famous Taoist Thunderbolt. Only with such a generous act can he be worthy of his reputation!"
"Ah!" Others couldn't help but exclaimed when they heard Taoist Liehuo say that this was Taoist Thunder's work.
Everyone is not a fool. They know that Taoist Liehuo is needed now, so no one dares to offend him. So everyone followed Taoist Liehuo's thoughts and nodded in approval, "Yes, yes! It is indeed true!"
After saying this, Shi Jian said with a surprised look on his face: "Senior Brother Liehuo, so to speak, we have actually arrived?"
Taoist Liehuo then laughed and said: "Haha, of course, this is the entrance to Senior Lei's cave. All we have to do now is to find the short-distance teleportation array here, and then everything will be fine!"
Upon hearing what Taoist Liehuo said, everyone was immediately excited. Especially Song Zhong, he immediately thought of the message given to him by Han Bing Shui Ling. Combined with the small teleportation array in Taoist Liehuo's mouth, Song Zhong easily guessed that maybe the place where the treasure was hidden was really in the extremely cold Gangfeng. In the central area, personnel transmission can only be carried out by relying on the small teleportation array here. There is no other way to enter the cave, unless you can leap through such a thick layer of extremely cold wind, and this requires at least a Mahayana monk to do it unscathed.
Now that Taoist Liehuo had shared the last bit of his secret, the others no longer hesitated and spread out to look for the small teleportation array.
The valley is actually not big, and there are no extremely cold winds here, so everyone who is safe can search with all their strength. Soon, they found a strange place.
This is an ordinary thatched house that looks like it was built a long time ago. There is an extremely beautiful girl in white sitting inside. After Song Zhong and several others received the news, they flew here one after another, with five pairs of big eyes staring at her. No one could guess what was going on!
After several spiritual inspections by Song Zhong, they finally came to the conclusion that the first one was that there was no danger around the thatched house, and there was not even a warning formation.
The second one is that this person is so beautiful that he can confuse all living beings, but he is an ordinary mortal. Even Master Xuanyuan, who has the highest level of cultivation, can't see anything wrong with her.
If in other places, thatched houses and mortal ladies are common things, there is no doubt about it, but in this ancient cold world, such a combination is too strange. In this place where even high-level monks cannot enter, will they meet mortals? Anyway, I won’t believe it even if I beat Song Zhong to death! So he held Han Bing'er's hand tightly, determined not to let her act rashly.
Song Zhong's caution did not influence the arrogant Taoist Liehuo. He had the treasure map and already regarded himself as the successor of Taoist Thunder. Who would tolerate running wild in his territory? So Taoist Liehuo rushed to the front of the thatched house and shouted: "Who the devil dares to build a thatched house on my land? Have you asked me, the master?"