Sitting and forgetting longevity

Chapter 1886: Ice Soul and Snow Spirit

A long staircase extended deep into the ground, and the cold air condensed into mist, floating in the narrow passage.

"Bang!" The lid of the jade box fell, and there was suddenly darkness in front of the two people.

Huang Long hurriedly pushed it and said, "It's locked up, we can only move forward!"

He took out a round bead, and the hazy white light spread out, but it could only illuminate the road under his feet.

The cold fog seriously hindered the divine consciousness.

Liu Qinghuan took out the Xuanyuan Sword and said, "Let's go."

Huang Long raised the round bead as he walked, trying to see the shadows in the wall clearly, wondering, "What on earth are those things... Wait! Are they moving?"

"Don't worry about those corpses!" Liu Qinghuan said, but before he finished speaking, an extremely cold feeling hit him in the face!

The Xuanyuan Sword stabbed out instantly, and under the sword light, a transparent and blurry figure appeared. His chest had been pierced, but he still stretched out his arms and flapped his arms, with a puff of white air spewing out of his mouth.

"Whoo~"

The temperature around us dropped sharply again, as if falling into an ice cave in the coldest days of winter, so cold that it froze our souls.

Liu Qinghuan's eyes flashed, and the protective shield formed by the dragon flame around him seemed to be frozen when it encountered the white gas, and suddenly shrank.

He turned the sword in his hand, and countless golden lights exploded in the transparent figure's body, piercing it with holes.

With a snap, the figure shattered, turned into a pool of water, and quickly froze into ice.

Liu Qinghuan's eyes moved, and he used his sword to split the ice, and found a transparent ice bead as big as a longan.

“Ice Soul and Snow Spirit!” Huang Long came closer and said in surprise: “It’s really Ice Soul and Snow Spirit. This kind of ice and snow spirit can only be born in extremely cold places. I didn’t expect that there is also one in this ice palace.”

"I'm afraid there are quite a few!" Liu Qinghuan said, "This kind of environment is most suitable for sneak attacks by Ice Souls and Snow Souls. We have to be extra careful. Especially the extremely cold air they exhale. If you are sprayed with it, you may die instantly!"

Huang Long nodded cautiously, and with a gesture, a dragon-shaped aura rose from under his feet and swirled around him.

"Don't worry, fellow Daoist. I will lead the way and will never let them approach silently!"

Then he looked at the ice bead in his hand with envy: "I heard that the Ice Soul and Snow Soul Bead can make people immune to cold and heat, ice and fire. Why don't you give it a try?"

"That's exactly what I meant." Liu Qinghuan said, wiping the beads in his hand and putting them into his mouth.

Just like swallowing a piece of ice, the bead melted in his mouth, flowed down his throat to his internal organs, and froze him so much that he shivered.

But slowly, there seemed to be a strange warmth suddenly appearing and flowing through the whole body.

"How is it?" Huang Long asked expectantly.

"It won't work so quickly." Liu Qinghuan said with a smile: "But it does seem to be less cold now."

Huang Long also laughed: "There is a saying that is true, there must be an antidote within seven steps of any poison. We are freezing to death in this ice palace, and now we have found the antidote!"

He was rubbing his hands together, wishing that another Ice Soul and Snow Spirit could come right away so that he could cut open its belly and take out the pearl.

"If one is not enough, just eat a few more! Then, we can walk around freely in this ice palace!"

Liu Qinghuan nodded in agreement. If he could withstand the extreme cold here, he wouldn't have to waste his magic power to maintain the Dragon Flame, which was really inconvenient.

But Ice Souls and Snow Spirits, as rare spirits of ice and snow, are extremely rare in themselves. There are not so many of them for two people to kill.

On the rest of the way, they only encountered a few of them, but there were not enough to share.

"Oh, by the way, Fellow Daoist Taiwei." Huang Long suddenly said, "Before you met Binghun Xuepo, you seemed to have said don't worry about the corpse. What did you mean?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Qinghuan pointed to the dark shadows in the distance on both sides of the ice wall and said, "Those are them." Huang Long stopped, clung to the ice wall and looked inside, and asked in surprise, "Are those corpses?"

"That's about right." Liu Qinghuan said, "Many people died in this ice palace in the past. After being frozen, they wouldn't rot, so they stayed here forever."

"But, some of them are moving. Could they be alive again?"

"There are glacial flows in the ice and some bodies may have been caught in them."

Liu Qinghuan paused, and then said: "In fact, instead of searching the palace, it is better to search their bodies. It is possible to find magic weapons or storage rings that they used when they were alive."

Huang Long didn't say anything else, but he kept looking at the wall.

Going down the stairs, soon a fork in the road suddenly appeared ahead.

One path continues downwards, while the other leads to a palace sealed in ice.

Huang Long looked around and patted his shirt on his chest: "Which way?"

A little head popped out and pointed with its hand!

Huang Long hesitated and said to Liu Qinghuan: "Why don't we go to the left first, maybe we can find something else?"

Liu Qinghuan said, "You can go and take a look. I don't mind. But let me remind you that the treasures in those palaces have basically been searched out by previous people. It's probably a wasted trip."

Huang Long thought about it and sighed helplessly: "Daoyou is right, let's not waste time."

With the maze to guide them, they don't have to worry about forks in the road, they can just follow it.

As for whether it was right or not, Liu Qinghuan didn't know.

The underground is like a huge maze. The deeper you go, the more branches there are. Occasionally, an ice crack appears, and the sound of rushing water can be heard from behind the wall.

There are still not many Ice Souls and Snow Souls encountered, but their strength has increased and they are becoming more and more difficult to deal with.

Correspondingly, the ice beads they obtained were several sizes larger.

This made Huang Long quite satisfied, and he didn't even feel so regretful about missing those palaces.

He suggested, "Fellow Daoist Taiwei, you and I both have seven or eight Ice Soul and Snow Soul Beads in our hands. Why don't we find a place to swallow them and take a rest at the same time?"

"Okay." Liu Qinghuan nodded, but halfway through his nod his expression suddenly became stern and he looked forward.

"Did you hear anything?"

Huang Long immediately became alert and listened attentively.

It is not dead silent underground. The ears can be filled with the sound of ice cracking, gurgling water, and occasional inexplicable thumping sounds.

At this moment, among these sounds, there was an additional noise, as if someone was arguing.

"There's someone ahead!"

They both spoke in unison, subconsciously lowering their voices.

Huang Long was in high spirits: "Finally I met other people! If this continues, I will think that there are only you and me in the entire Ice Palace. Let's go and take a look!"

As he spoke, he floated up and rushed towards the direction where the sound came from, with Liu Qinghuan following closely.

The two of them walked silently through a very deep passage, and stopped silently at the corner and looked out.

I saw the passage in front suddenly widen, and there was an ice door blocking the end. It was half opened at this time, and the sounds of talking and fighting came from inside.

There was also a strange humming sound mixed in, like the howling of the wind, the howling of ghosts and wolves, which was chilling.