When Xueran came back, he found that his hut was full of heat, driving away the chill in the underground snow area.
There was an instant subtlety in his expression.
Seeing him coming back, Shi Wuming and his group gathered together to warm up by eating hot hot pot, immediately greeted him enthusiastically, and pulled him over to sit down.
"Brother Xue, come, come, eat together, and warm up."
Ning Jichen held the airs of the elders, and said cordially and friendlyly: "If Mr. Xue doesn't mind, let's sit down and eat together."
Wen Qiao took out a pair of bowls and chopsticks carved from spirit wood. The bowls and chopsticks were made by Ning Yuzhou himself. Some beautiful and graceful patterns were carved on the surface of the bowls, which were polished with spiritual power. They were smooth and oily. The artwork is average.
Xue Ran sat in front of the steaming pot with bowls and chopsticks in his hands, surrounded by strangers he had just met. The hot and lively atmosphere gave him the illusion that he and this group of people were companions who had known each other for a long time.
After recovering, he shyly refused, "No, no need..."
Before he could refuse, Shi Wuming had already put a few slices of cooked meat as thin as a cicada's wing into his bowl, and the spicy and slightly spicy pungent fragrance wafted over, it was so overbearing that it invaded all senses and made him The refusal was gagged.
Shi Wuming seized the time to grab the meat and persuaded him to eat it: "Eat it quickly, this is made by Brother Ning, it is very delicious."
"Jiujiujiu~"
"Mmmmm~"
Xueran looked over, and saw a little yellow bird and a black and white dumpling-like monster buried in the bowl, the two ate very sweetly, and after they ate quickly, they urged their companions to cook the meat for them .
Wen Tutu was so angry that he was sweating profusely, and scolded: "Why are you eating so fast? I can't even eat a piece!"
His mouth was cursing fiercely, but his hands were so fast that only afterimages could be seen, he quickly cooked the meat for the two monsters, put the cooked meat into the specially prepared drunken sauce, and dipped it in the sauce. The sliced meat looks even more enticing.
The child was only seven or eight years old, but he acted like a nanny, taking good care of the two cubs.
When he came back to his senses, he found that he was holding a bowl, and they started to compete for meat with them.
After eating and drinking, the scene was a mess.
Xueran hugged her stomach and sat silently aside, the overbearing scent still lingered in her mouth, this was something he had never eaten or experienced in his life.
He secretly looked at these foreign cultivators brought back by him, and knew that he was different from them. According to what his clansmen said in the past, he should be on guard against them, but somehow, he sat with them and ate A meal of food that is only available in the outside world.
As the saying goes, cannibals have soft mouths, and Xueran is an example of this now.
Next, when Shi Wuming made a cliché, he quickly drew out the situation here from Xueran.
The place they came to was the Snowy Land of Tianlun Continent, which is the worst environment in Tianlun Continent. Just the death icicles are daunting, not to mention the bone-eating extreme cold air, Few practitioners can bear it.
Because the ground environment of the Snow Region is really harsh, most creatures choose to live in the underground space of the Snow Region.
There is an extremely vast and lush underground space in the Snow Region, which is extremely far from the ground and can avoid the terrible death icicles. Although the temperature is still extremely cold, at least it is not as scary as the ground.
There is a group of practitioners who have awakened the blood of the ice phoenix living in the snow domain, and the world calls it the ice phoenix clan.
The Bingfeng people have very obvious white hair. Their physique is cold, and they are not affected by the extremely cold climate of the Snow Region. They can be said to be the overlords of the Snow Region.
"Is the Bingfeng clan related to the Phoenix?" Wen Qiao asked puzzled.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp~"
Before Ning Yuzhou could speak, Xiao Fenghuang protested with fury.
Although Bingfeng has the word phoenix, it is not a member of their phoenix clan. It is just a kind of monster related to phoenix, far inferior to phoenix, and it does not have the blood of phoenix.
Wen Qiao brushed its blown fur to calm it down, and then looked at Ning Yuzhou.
Wen Tutu and Ning Jichen were also puzzled, they didn't know much about the Bingfeng clan.
Ning Yuzhou thought about it for a while, and said, "They should be the ones who awakened the blood of Bingfeng... Just like the awakened blood of Gouchen from the Wen family in Hongsen Continent, they can be regarded as the descendants of Bingfeng left in the lower realm."
Even the descendants, because the distance is too far apart, the power of the bloodline is weakened, not the Bingfeng clan itself.
Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized.
Wen Qiao asked strangely: "So Bingfeng has white hair?"
"Probably not." Ning Yuzhou thought for a moment, "The spirits of all things are mainly black hair and black eyes. At most, some differences are added to the hair color or eye color. The shape of the transformation is similar to that of normal people. Bing The Phoenix Clan should be the same, as for why these awakened cultivators of the Ice-Phoenix bloodline behave like this, I don’t know.”
"Could it be that their awakened blood is impure?" Shi Wuming raised his hand to speak, "Maybe it's because the power of the awakened blood is too thin, which caused their power to change, so they turned into this white-haired appearance. "
Ning Yuzhou nodded: "It's also possible."
Everyone discussed the Bingfeng tribe for a while, and then turned to the attitude of the Bingfeng tribe towards the outside world.
"According to Xueran, the Bingfeng people seem to be very unfriendly to outsiders." Ning Jichen was a little worried, "I don't know why."
"It's easy, just ask Xueran."
Of course, you can't ask directly. Even if Xueran is a very innocent boy, if you ask too directly, you may doubt them.
After a night of rest, when Xueran was about to go out, Shi Wuming stopped him at the door.
"Master Xue, where are you going?" Shi Wuming asked curiously.
With a shy smile on Xueran's face, she said softly, "I'm going to patrol nearby to prevent ice locusts from crossing the border and attacking."
"Ice locust?"
"It's a kind of demon insect that feeds on ice spirits. It likes to destroy the environment. It cannot be allowed to cross the boundary."
After his explanation, Shi Wuming and the others finally understood that the ice locust, a monster insect, is a common creature in this underground space, fighting wits and courage with the ice and phoenix clan, and grabbing each other's living space, it is considered immortal.
Contacting Xueran to live here alone, everyone quickly understood that Xueran should be sent by the Bingfeng clan to guard the border here. This area is also considered a relatively remote edge area, and there has never been a single person except Xueran.
That's why Xue Ran was so surprised when Wen Qiao and the others suddenly appeared.
Ning Yuzhou came over, with a gentle smile on his face, and said to him: "Mr. Xue, thank you for taking in these two days. If you have troubled me for a long time, we should leave."
Yukino looked at them suspiciously, "Are you going to leave? Recently, when death icicles occur frequently, are you really going to leave?"
Several people were taken aback when they heard it, and couldn't help thinking of those icicles on the ground that looked like pillars of ice.
Shi Wuming reacted quickly and said: "Hey, it's not good for us to bother you all the time... You also know that we came to the Snow Realm by accident. The environment here is really not suitable for us. We wanted to leave, but we didn't. Thinking of getting lost and not knowing how to leave."
Xue Ran expressed his understanding, and said with some hesitation: "Actually, it's okay for you to stay here. I live here alone. Usually, few people come here. It's safer for you to leave after the death icicles are over."
It is said that there are nearly ten months of a year when death icicles frequently occur, and the remaining two months are relatively safe. Whether it is a foreign cultivator or a member of the Bingfeng tribe, they all go to the ground during these two months. It is dwelling in this underground space.
There is still more than half a year before the death icicles pass.
Shi Wuming said with a bitter face: "It will take so long?" Suddenly, he remembered something, and looked at Xueran with bright eyes, "I heard that Xueyu City is very lively, is it far from here? We want to go Take a look at Snowy City."
Xueran's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said: "You guys better not go, the security of Xueyu City is extremely strict now, no outside practitioners are allowed to enter..."
"Why?" Wen Tutu asked puzzled.
Xueran shook her head, feeling a little out of sorts, she didn't say anything in the end, and went to patrol soon.
Not being able to ask anything from Xueran, everyone was not discouraged.
Although he wanted to leave, he really didn't know the environment of this underground space. He didn't even know where Xueyu City was, so he had to ask Xueran to find out the way.
However, Yukino doesn't seem to want them to go there. The reason is very simple. This shy, innocent and kind-hearted boy is worried that they will be expelled by the Bingfeng clan, especially since the ground is the period when death icicles frequently occur. If they stay on the ground for a long time, It's easy to run into death icicles, with predictable results.
"Brother Xue is such a good boy!" Shi Wuming couldn't help but sigh, "Our luck is still good, isn't it?"
Although he was unlucky enough to come to this extremely cold place of ice and snow, the first cultivator he met was a good person who was willing to take them in and help them understand the situation instead of expulsing and suppressing them directly, which really moved Shi Wuming Terribly, I feel that my luck is not so bad.
"It has nothing to do with you." Wen Tutu said with certainty, "It must be our luck."
Shi Wuming has nothing to say, and if these people pick one at random, they will have better luck than him.
Just as they were discussing whether to go to Xueyu City, a visitor came to Xueran's house.
At that time, Xueran was patrolling outside, and they nestled in the wooden house to warm themselves by the fire. While eating sweet potatoes with sweet hearts, they sensed a breath approaching here.
They were already familiar with Xueran, and instantly realized that the breath was not Xueran.
According to Yukino, this is the fringe area of the Snow Region. Except for those who are stationed and patrolling, there are very few people who come here, and even a few years may not be able to locate a person.
Someone came over suddenly. Although they could avoid it, it was easy to expose the space, so they decided to wait and see what happened.
Before the man reached the wooden house, he opened his throat and yelled: "Xueran, are you there? If you are here, get out, the clan's punishment has come down, and you will be fined not to return to the clan for a hundred years..."
The schadenfreude in that voice was so obvious that one could imagine the excitement of the visitor without seeing anyone.
Wen Qiao's brows could not help but wrinkle.
After getting along for a few days, they still have a good impression of Xueran. In fact, this young man is innocent and kind. He knows that they came in a strange way, but he still chooses to take them in. Such a kind and beautiful existence is really a minority in the sinister cultivation world. It is probably related to the fact that the Bingfeng clan lives in this harsh snowy area. simple.
However, no matter how simple the environment is, it can still raise some not-so-simple people.
One example is the one delivered to your door.
The visitor came in yelling, without the slightest thought of being inappropriate, and without waiting for the owner to speak, he pushed the door open and entered.
Seeing no one on the first floor, go straight to the second floor.
When he pushed open the door of a flower hall on the second floor and saw a few black-haired people in the room, he froze for a moment and realized it instantly.
"Who are you? Where did you come from? Could it be that Xueran kept it privately?"
Having said that, the man became excited and looked at them with extremely excited eyes.
Wen Qiao looked at him and found that his hair was not completely white like snow dye, but mixed with a little black hair. Compared with Xueran, his facial features are well-proportioned, and he is a bit more sophisticated, so he doesn't give a very good first impression.
"Okay, Xueran dared to harbor outsiders, I must tell the patriarch..."
Seeing him chattering, Wen Qiao glanced at Wen Tutu.
Wen Tutu's body flicked, and the person had already come in front of the person, his delicate hands pinched the person's neck, and the noisy voice stopped.
—
After Yukino came back from patrolling, she found that there was a man tied up on the floor of the house.
The man was tied up with a spirit rope, and his mouth was blocked by a cluster of snowflakes. When he saw him, his eyes shot out for help, and he yelled.
"You are... Xue Hengfeng?"
Xue Ran sized up the person on the ground, finally recognized his identity, and couldn't help being a little stunned.
Xue Hengfeng whined at him, motioning him to release himself immediately.
Xueran ignored him, but looked at Wen Qiao and the others, and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Ning, Mr. Shi, what's going on?"
Shi Wuming said quickly: "This guy suddenly ran over and said that the punishment of your clan has come down, and you are not allowed to return to the clan for a hundred years... We saw him yelling wildly, making a lot of noise, and said he would hide you in us." To get out about the incident, let Xueyu City send people to arrest us, so we had no choice but to make a bad move."
What Shi Wuming said was extremely innocent, but Xue Hengfeng's eyes glared angrily and almost exploded.
However, Xueran didn't notice him at this time, his face instantly became extremely pale, his thin body was crumbling, and he said hoarsely: "The clan really decided so?"
"Wooooow!"
"Then, what about my brother..." Yukino asked cautiously.
"Wooooow!"
"How is my brother now?" Xue Ran looked like she was about to cry.
"Wooooow!"
"..."
Wen Qiao looked at these two guys who were talking to themselves, raised her hand and grabbed the snow flakes from Xue Hengfeng's mouth, so that he could speak normally.
Xue Hengfeng gloated and said: "Hehehe, your brother dared to leave the Snow Realm without permission. The patriarch has already sent someone to catch him. Now it is the time when death icicles frequently occur outside. He can't escape far. When he was captured, the patriarch said that he would wash off his blood and imprison him in the snow pond, this is the punishment he deserves!"
Xueran cheered up immediately, and said happily, "You mean, my brother hasn't been arrested yet?"
"It's going to happen soon!" Xue Hengfeng sneered, "You don't have to be too sad, the two of you brothers will get together soon, let's go to the snow pool to get together—oh!"
Xue Hengfeng screamed and rolled into a corner.
Wen Tutu retracted his feet, and said angrily: "What are you being arrogant? How dare you be arrogant in front of Master Tu, don't you want to live anymore?"
Xue Hengfeng cursed: "Xueran, you have colluded with outsiders, I want to tell the patriarch, let the patriarch wash away your blood, and throw you to feed the ice locusts... Ahh!"
The end of being tongue-in-cheek is being kicked by Wen Tutu as a ball.
Little Phoenix saw that it was fun, so he jumped over and slapped his wings.
Although it is still a cub, the strength of the divine beast is not small. It fanned people out of the house with one wing, and then jumped over happily, spewing fire.
Naturally, the phoenix fire didn't fall on Xue Hengfeng's body, it only scorched his hair, but it had already terrified him so much that he almost lost his wits.
Not only him, even Yukino was a little surprised.
If the Bingfeng clan is some kind of noble blooded monster, then the phoenix is a divine beast that stands above the Bingfeng clan, and the phoenix spirit fire is the existence that overcomes the Bingfeng clan.
Previously, the little phoenix maintained the appearance of a little yellow bird, which looked inconspicuous, but when its phoenix fire spewed out, the two Ice Phoenix people present could feel the instinctive fear.