Just as Li Yan pretended to be dazed and watched silently, Cheng Wenming's attack sent out a fiery red flame that turned into a three-meter-long sword, and with one sword it chopped on the white flying hook. The two did not make any sound when they intersected, but only a piece of misty water vapor rose in front of Tanze Mountain, and then turned into very small ice crystals and fell to the ground. After falling on the snow, these ice crystals rolled quickly in front of the four people's astonished eyes, and then gathered into a large ice crystal, and then flew towards Bing Yuan again, and instantly merged into his feathers and disappeared.
After Bing Yuan's attack from his flippers was blocked by the red flaming sword, he hummed softly, and his two flippers clenched and opened quickly in a flash, emitting hook-like white rays. But at this time, Li Yan and the other two had "woken up", especially Tan Zeshan. With a touch of blood at the corner of his mouth, he shouted, "Evil beast, you're looking for death!", took out the iron scroll and the alchemy book, and attacked.
If there was only one foundation-building cultivator here, then facing the attack of an ice mandarin duck, the outcome would be uncertain. It could be a life-and-death battle. If the cultivator's magic power was not strong, his soul would be hooked away in a single encounter and he would die here. But there were four foundation-building cultivators here now. Even if Li Yan and Ye Xiuwen did not attack, Cheng Wenming and Tan Zeshan alone would beat the ice mandarin duck into a ball of ice debris in just a dozen breaths. Even though the opponent was obviously very strong, the monster still attacked recklessly. After thinking about it, Li Yan guessed that it might be because there were too few human cultivators coming from this melting cave passage, which caused the opponent to make a misjudgment.
In the following journey, the monsters here appeared in endlessly. The most common ones were the snow elves. They came out in groups. Although they were first-level monsters, their bodies were abnormally tough. Even Li Yan was amazed. He had to use 30% of his magic power to beat a snow elf into a pile of broken ice.
The snow elf is square in shape, made up of two huge blocks of ice and snow, one large and one small. It is a monster with a large square ice block on top of a smaller square head, and limbs growing on four opposite corners of the large ice block. It looks very strange and funny. Each one is more than ten feet tall and very burly. Its attack is to run and collide with the enemy head-on, and then at the moment of colliding with the enemy, use its upper limbs to hook the enemy's body and pull it into its arms, then release suction from the surface of its body to stick the enemy firmly to its body, and then try to merge into its body, and finally burn and melt it with the blue flames in its body. This kind of attack is simple, but it is very difficult to deal with. Each time, a large number of snow elves come out, and it is difficult to keep attacking from a distance in the melt cave. In the snow elves' fearless rampage, it is inevitable that you will have physical contact with them. Once in contact, it will be like someone licking an iron block with his tongue in the severe cold, and he will immediately stick to it. The same is true for the snow elves. When he gets close to the enemy, he will quickly secrete layers of water. The water surges on the surface of the opponent's body, cools down at a very fast speed, and wraps it up.
Li Yan had a hard time dealing with it as he didn't want to expose his strength, but fortunately his spiritual power was converted into fire attribute, and flames were burning outside his body. It was basically impossible for the snow spirit to stick to him. However, this way of using spiritual power was quite huge, but when Li Yan's five elements circulated, he only used more than 30% of his spiritual power, so the consumption and derivation of spiritual power could still maintain a balance.
Cheng Wenming's main spiritual power is also of fire attribute. He chose the same method as Li Yan. For a moment, he was not afraid of the snow spirit's sticky attack. Li Yan also saw Ye Xiuwen and Tan Zeshan. They should have been prepared. One after another fire talismans continued to burst out of their bodies with flames. These fire talismans were all defensive. As long as they could prevent the snow spirit from sticking to them, they would just let go and fight.
After such a fight, Li Yan obtained a total of more than ten Snow Spirit Blue Fire Demon Cores. At first, Cheng Wenming and the other two were always paying attention to Li Yan's attack process, but after several times, they saw that Li Yan used wood and earth spiritual power in addition to fire spiritual power. Finally, they determined that Li Yan should be a three-element earth spiritual root. They looked at each other and then felt relieved.
In fact, in order to test out the method to deal with the snow spirit, Li Yan used all five elements, but he did it deliberately in front of the three people, and used water and gold quietly when the three people were no longer paying attention. For such cold things, gold spirit is also very effective. Of course, there is also water spirit, which is the same as the snow spirit. In Li Yan's opinion, water spirit belongs to the same category as the monsters here. Although it cannot be restrained, it can be assimilated. So Li Yan retained the attributes of gold and water.
However, after the actual test, Li Yan has confirmed that although the gold spiritual power can also restrain the monsters here, it is not as fast as the fire spiritual power. The water spiritual power is okay for other monsters, but it surprised Li Yan when dealing with the snow spirit, because the water spiritual power can be directly separated from the water secreted by the snow spirit, as if the water in this space cannot be mixed with the water in the outside space. Seeing this situation, Li Yan was thoughtful.
Li Yan did not see any of Cheng Wenming and the other two using water spiritual power. Although it was possible that none of them had water spiritual power, Li Yan still had doubts in his heart, and he sneered in his heart.
In this way, the group traveled another three hundred miles, during which they encountered several attacks from monsters. Among them, the group of snow elves became larger and larger, and their strength became stronger and stronger.
Cheng Wenming, who was flying, suddenly said to Li Yan, "Brother Jiang, I don't know what we will get this time. If there is only one Snow Spirit Master, then I hope to exchange the spirit stones of equivalent value for the demon core I finally get. I hope Brother Jiang can help me."
Li Yan frowned, looking somewhat reluctant. Cheng Wenming quickly said, "Brother Jiang, please rest assured. The spirit stones are easy to deal with. Of course, this is the case when there is only one Snow Spirit Master. If there are multiple Snow Spirit Masters, there is no need to say this. By the way, there is one more thing I need to explain to Brother Jiang. That is, the attack of the Snow Spirit Master is different from that of ordinary Snow Spirits. I wonder if Brother Jiang has heard of it."
Li Yan looked at Cheng Wenming in surprise. "Fellow Daoist Cheng, I even learned about the Snow Spirit Master from you. Could it be that the Snow Spirit Master has other innate magical powers?"
"Brother Jiang really guessed right this time. The Snow Spirit Master is just as good at hitting the enemy with his body as ordinary Snow Spirits, but the water secreted from his body surface is more and stronger, and the suction force may be more than ten times that of ordinary Snow Spirits. This must be guarded against. Another magical power that ordinary Snow Spirits do not have is that the blue flame in his demon core can penetrate the body and attack people outside the body. Brother Jiang should know how powerful this fire is through the demon core of ordinary Snow Spirits in his hand. Just a little bit of it is enough to kill a mortal dozens of times." Cheng Wenming's face was solemn. After hearing this, Li Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, then you need to dodge and attack from a distance."
Cheng Wenming smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Jiang, it's not that simple. Every time a snow spirit comes out to hunt, it will bring many snow spirits with it. Long-range attacks are difficult to achieve. The only way for us to deal with it is to suppress it with fire magic. Otherwise, none of us can escape. This is also the main reason why I invited you. If I were the only fire spirit cultivator, I would have to rest for at least half a day before I could continue. But now that we have the help of brother Jiang, with your magical power, we can easily kill this monster."
After hearing this, Li Yan nodded and said, "Of course. Since I'm entering with the three fellow Taoists, I will not refuse my part. As for who will own the demon core, we'll discuss it after we kill the Snow Spirit Lord." After Li Yan finished speaking, Ye Xiuwen and Tan Zeshan in front of him, who he couldn't see, curled their lips with disdain in their eyes.
“Okay, but I still hope that Brother Jiang can consider my suggestion. Our main goal this time is not to enter the second floor. In fact, we are going to the main demon core of the snow spirit here, and Brother Jiang should go to the second floor to look for opportunities, so... hehe..." Cheng Wenming said this, laughed twice and stopped.
Just as Cheng Wenming had said to Li Yan before, after traveling five hundred miles in the cave, bursts of rumbling sounds suddenly came from deep in the front of the dark blue cave, like thousands of horses galloping, shaking the snow on the cave wall to fall.
"Here it comes!" Cheng Wenming shouted, and then he stopped. Li Yan and the other two also fell from the air to the ground, and everyone scanned forward with their spiritual sense. In Li Yan's spiritual sense, a white square ice block was approaching them quickly. This phenomenon had happened before, but it was not so shocking.
His spiritual sense quickly passed over the snow elves in front of him, and Li Yan soon found a snow elf with a more burly body in the middle of the vast team. This snow elf was as big as three ordinary snow elves combined. In the cave that could accommodate about ten people side by side, his thick body, like a huge rock, occupied 30% of the size. His head almost touched the top of the cave, and his body was covered with a layer of ice and snow armor that shone with dazzling white light. His thick limbs were like four icicles, and his eyes flashed with blue light. He came aggressively like a ferocious beast that smelled blood.
In just a moment, there were hundreds of snow elves in front of Li Yan and the other three. The Snow Elves Lord in the middle used his giant hand to move around and came directly to the front. After looking at the four people, he actually laughed, "Human monks, I like them!" The ordinary snow elves that Li Yan attacked before could only scream, but the Snow Elves Lord was able to make human voices. Although the words seemed extremely stiff, they were understandable.
"Brother Jiang, be careful, this Snow Spirit Lord is already at the high level of level two." Cheng Wenming reminded in a low voice.
"Oh, how do you see it?" Li Yan also asked in a low voice.
"Eyes. The eyes of an ordinary second-level snow spirit are azure blue, those of a mid-level second-level are dark blue, and those of a high-level second-level are dark blue." Li Yan looked at the eyes of the snow spirit again and nodded.
"Next is the most difficult time. Brother Ye and Brother Tan will deal with those snow elves, and the two of us will work together to take down this snow elf master. But there are too many snow elves here, so we must give it our all and complete the hunt as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if the two Taoists deal with so many snow elves at the same time, something will go wrong after a long time." Cheng Wenming reminded him again.
Li Yan nodded slightly, and after the Snow Elf Lord on the opposite side finished speaking, he saw that no one on the opposite side paid attention to him, and he could not help but shouted angrily, "You have trespassed into my territory, die!"