“Do you think my father brought me here just to have me walk through that snow and ice and then go back?” Qi Ruqing turned her head, asking flatly.
Two attendants’ faces stiffened, and they remained silent.
“If you are afraid, you can turn back immediately. I don’t need your help.” Qi Ruqing’s eyes flickered with a faint blue light as she spoke, “Rest assured, I have my own explanation for father. I won’t implicate you.”
“Miss, how could we possibly do such a thing?” the two attendants exclaimed, their faces changing in alarm.
“Then don’t waste time, come with me.” Qi Ruqing said coldly, and walked onto the iron chain bridge alone.
Two attendants followed behind, their expressions flickering.
But seeing Qi Ruoqing walking farther and farther away, the two had no choice but to grit their teeth and follow.
After the trio, one family contingent after another emerged from the narrow path and arrived at the precipice.
Upon seeing the iron suspension bridge ahead and the noticeably darkening sky on the opposite side, each team exhibited a degree of shock and hesitation.
Most of them had never been to this place before, and they could never have imagined that in the depths of the far North, there would be such a sight.
But since we’ve come this far, no one wants to back down.
They all came here after receiving the same piece of intel.
Through all their hardships, they absolutely had to win back that treasure!
Thus, one aristocratic contingent after another crossed the iron bridge and ascended to a land vastly different from the previous icy and snowy wasteland.
As these people carefully crossed the rope bridge, they did not notice that at the abyss beneath their feet, a pair of red-glowing eyes were staring up at them.
Every person who walks across the iron bridge is scanned by these eyes…
……
Fang Yu strode into the cave before he arrived.
As soon as he tried, he immediately felt a surge of power, like a thick wall, blocking his divine sense and preventing it from spreading.
At this very moment, all that the consciousness encountered was utter darkness.
This feeling, he had once tried to grasp when he ventured to the very edge of the deep north.
At that time, he wanted to use his divine sense to track the sound coming from deep within, a sound capable of controlling the emotions of thousands of demonic beasts… After tracing it for a certain distance, he encountered such a wall.
“Before crossing the iron cable bridge, one can use their divine sense… That is to say, only this life forbidden zone has the ability to block divine sense.” Fang Yu thought to himself, “This also allows us to deduce that the source of the voice controlling thousands of demonic beasts is located within this life forbidden zone.”
With his divine sense unavailable, Fang Yu activated the Eye of Insight.
Thus, the interior of the originally pitch-black cave immediately became bright in Fang Yu’s vision.
The space inside the cave is not large, and it could even be said to be very narrow.
A few meters ahead is the end.
On this rock face, a plant as white as snow emerges.
Snow lotus?
Right there in plain sight?
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, then walked forward and stopped before the rock face.
As soon as you get closer, you can smell a faint fragrance.
This is the snow lotus.
The scent of the medicine is faint, but it is extremely rare.
Fang Yu reached out and plucked the Taisu Xuelian, placing it into the storage space of his Kongling Ring.
“That’s it? Wasn’t there supposed to be a monster?” Fang Yu looked around, confused.
As soon as this doubt arose, a disturbance suddenly appeared before me!
“Boom…”
The entire cave suddenly shook.
Then, the rock wall in front of Fang Yu suddenly pushed forward and slammed into Fang Yu.
“Bang!”
Its immense power sent Fang Yu flying out of the cave.
During the backwards flight, Fang Yu opened his perceptive eyes, staring intently at the situation inside the cave.
He could see that inside the cave, the original rock face was slowly deforming and transforming into a human form!
“Stone man?”
He had been keeping his Eye of Insight active the whole time, yet he didn’t notice anything unusual about the rock face before him!
This shows that this stone man is not a living being, and there are no mechanisms inside. It’s simply a humanoid monster formed from a single piece of stone!
>This is a rather hard-to-understand situation.
But in this forbidden zone of life…it’s hard to say.
Fang Yu stood firm thirty meters outside the cave.
“Bang bang bang…”
At this moment, a stone man made of gray-black stones inside the cave rushed towards Fang Yu outside.
For a stone giant, whose size and weight would normally suggest sluggishness, its speed was remarkable.
But in front of Fang Yu, it seemed very dull.
“Whoosh!”
Fang Yu moved, appearing behind the stone statue.
Seeing the rocky cliff behind Shi Ren, Fang Yu raised an eyebrow and said, “That Tai Su Xuelian from before, was it actually pulled out from your backside? No wonder you’re so angry.”
As soon as the sound came out, the stone man immediately stopped in his tracks and wanted to turn around.
“
“Bang!”
”
But the next second, its entire hard body, shattered with a boom!
In the midst of billowing smoke, Fang Yu leaped and returned to the hillside.
Lan seeing that stone golem monster, which filled him with terror, being blown to pieces by Fang Yu’s single punch, fell into shock once again.
“Why didn’t you say sooner that Taisu Xuelian grows on that stone statue?” Fang Yu asked.
“A Tai Su Xuelian on the monster? I don’t know…” Cang Lan widened her eyes and said, “I was just passing by the hillside at the time, and then I saw a patch of Tai Su Xuelian growing on a rock wall inside the cave… So that rock wall was the stone man?”
“That’s right, and it happened to grow right on its buttocks.” Fang Yu laughed.
After that, Fang Yu walked towards the Imperial War Chariot and sat in it.
“Since Tai Su Xuelian has already secured the prize, let’s take a stroll around this forbidden zone of life,” Fang Yu said, “So many people came here, what exactly are they looking for?”
“Which way should we go now?” Fang Yu asked.
“I… I don’t know either. I just came here last time and then went back the same way.” Canglan said.
“In that case, let’s just choose a direction at random based on instinct.” Fang Yu said, controlling the war machine to rise and charge forward.
No matter how many places I passed, the surrounding scenery didn’t change much.
The ground was covered with gray-black stones, with small hills appearing every now and then.
If one is not seated in a chariot, speeding swiftly, but merely walking on the ground, one would inevitably feel despair.
This restricted zone of life, much like the deepest depths of the ocean, stretches endlessly yet remains barren.
The Emperor’s tanks moved northward for almost twenty minutes.
Although the speed didn’t reach lightning fast, the journey at least covered two or three hundred kilometers.
I found nothing, and didn’t see any other groups of people.
“Do you know how big this restricted area is?” Fang Yu asked.
“I think… no one in the world should know the answer.” Canglan replied.
“That’s how it is…” Fang Yu nodded and said, “I feel like we’re going in the wrong direction. We should find a team first, and then try to follow them… That way we have a chance of finding what that group of people are looking for. If we keep driving aimlessly like this, who knows when it’ll end.”
Having said that, Fang Yu turned the chariot’s direction and went in the opposite direction, accelerating suddenly.
It was another twenty minutes or so of travel.
Fang Yu didn’t know if his direction was accurate, because the surrounding scenery hadn’t changed much.
He still hadn’t seen any human teams.
Thus, Fang Yu turned the direction again and moved forward for another twenty minutes.
After all the twists and turns, I still came up empty-handed.
“Where did so many people go?” Fang Yu frowned, directly stopping the tank in mid-air and standing up to look into the distance.
“Bang!”
Just at that moment, a blast echoed from the direction he was looking.
Then, a faint shout reached Fang Yu’s ears as well.
“Finally found someone.” Fang Yu’s face lit up, and immediately controlled the tank, charging in the direction of the voice.
“Whoosh!”
Tanks streaked across the sky, leaving a golden afterimage against the gloomy heavens.
……
“Help… I don’t want to die!”
At this time, in a low-lying basin, four men in yellow robes were desperately running away.
A creature, all black and as large as a python or dragon, is chasing them!
The monster had a gaping maw filled with the remnants of corpses.
Four men in yellow robes, all at the early stage of the Nascent Soul period.
But facing this monster, they didn’t even have the ability to resist!
From the discovery of this monster to eight teammates being slaughtered, and then escaping… a series of events happened within just two minutes!
“Help us…” The four of them were terrified, crying out for help, begging for a response.
“Ah!”
Just then, the monster caught up, swallowing the slightly lagging man in one gulp!
“Click…”
A crunching of bone and splattering of blood echoed, causing the three running ahead to shake in their legs.
Here, due to the overwhelming pressure and spells, they are unable to use true qi in large quantities, cannot fly with qi, and can only rely on their physical strength to run wildly.
“Help me…”
Another person was caught by the monster and swallowed whole.
In an instant, only two people were left fleeing for their lives.
The monster easily swallowed the person in its mouth and reared back to strike again.
“Zhen!”
Just then, a blue sword light appeared in mid-air, slashing down towards the monster’s body!
“Bang!”
With a deafening roar, the monster’s head was cleaved in two by the sword!
However, the monster merely shook its head and lunged forward!
“Bang!”
Another person was swallowed whole, chewed to pieces!
“Oh… I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…”
The last one left was completely broken. They collapsed to the ground, unable to move a muscle.
The monster swallowed the person in its mouth in two or three bites and stuck out its head again!
“Bang!”
At this moment, a figure flashed from behind, accompanied by a blue sword qi!