wind control

Chapter 696 Snow Goose City ([-])

Although Xueyan City is cold all year round and its location is steep, for some reason, it can give people a lazy and deserted feeling. After entering through the city gate, you will see all the buildings. The streets are very random, just like the original It's as if the builders didn't plan carefully at all.

This is the most intuitive feeling for Feng Ruo, Chiran, and Heifeng, because according to the legend, Xueyan City is the gateway of the Hanyu Ice Palace, so with the meticulous atmosphere in the Hanyu Ice Palace, this Xueyan City should be It won't be that bad either!
But now, it's really unbelievable.

In addition, there are very few pedestrians in the entire city, and occasionally a few figures are low-level ascetics in the Qi refining period or foundation building period passing by in a hurry, all the shops are closed, and even the city guards are alone. No, it seems that the snowflakes falling from the sky seem to be dead and slow.

"Feng Ruo, there seems to be something wrong with this place! Is this a city of cultivating immortals?" Han Feng was the first to speak out. He had stayed in the world of human cultivating immortals for a long time, so he also noticed the people in Xueyan City at the first time. eccentric.

"Maybe! But it's also possible that this is the characteristic of Xueyan City!" Feng Ruo nodded and said in a low voice. Now he is also a little confused, because according to the information he obtained before, this Xueyan City has tens of thousands of cultivators. It's unreasonable to be so deserted!
At this moment, a figure ran out from a dilapidated street corner in the distance. This guy was only in the late stage of Qi refining, but he seemed to be in a worse situation than Feng Ruo was at the beginning. The two snow silkworm suits were tattered, and there was probably only a little left. The defense power is improved, and there are many black blood stains on it, whether it is his own or the hunted spirit beast, there is no doubt that this guy should have just returned from hunting.

Without even thinking about it, Feng Ruo stopped this guy.

And although the cultivator couldn't see the real cultivation of Feng Ruo and the five people, he knew their strength was unfathomable based on their bearing, so he stopped wisely and asked respectfully: "How many times?" Senior, do you have any instructions? Junior Chi Qing, as long as this junior knows, he will know everything and say everything!"

"En! Not bad!" Feng Ruo nodded in satisfaction. This little guy named Chi Qing is only in his twenties. Although he is down and out, he is still energetic. Most importantly, this kid is very smart.

He casually took out a medium-grade Five Elements Stone and threw it into Chi Qing's hands, Feng Ruo then asked Chi Qing who had become extremely ecstatic all of a sudden: "I heard that there is a Xueling Spring in Xueyan City, the spring water is clear, and the aura is compelling , if you can soak it for a while, you can use it to participate in good fortune, and prolong your life, can you take us there?"

Hearing Feng Ruo's words, Chi Qing, who was still a little excited on his face, suddenly became embarrassed, and said helplessly: "Reporting to seniors, you don't know, that Xuelingquan is indeed the signboard of my Xueyan City. There is an endless stream of senior cultivators who come here admiringly. Thanks to the popularity brought by this Xuelingquan, the entire Xueyan City is also quite lively. Even major commercial firms have set up branches here one after another, and like us These scattered ascetics will get more benefits and opportunities! However, for some reason, just a few decades ago, the Xueling Spring suddenly dried up, and not long after that, the barrier leading to the mountain was closed!"

"In this way, the vitality of Xueyan City will be wiped out. Since there are no senior cultivators from all over the world to come here, those business houses have also closed down one after another. Back then, some big forces in Xueyan City, including the city lord, all left one after another. The rest of the ascetics who were a little bit stronger also left. The current Xueyan City is actually almost a dead city! As far as the juniors know, there are no more than 800 monks left in this Xueyan City. Those who are actually the most powerful are only in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and those of us are still dying. Even if we want to sell the items obtained from hunting, we have to go to Bingyan Town, which is three hundred miles away. , we have to dodge in advance!"

After hearing Chi Qing's words, Feng Ruo's face was a little ugly. His sources of information were very closed, so he didn't know that Xueyan City had been abandoned. In this way, his original plan was Something is not working.

After thinking about it, Feng Ruo still said to Chi Qing: "It's okay, you can take us to see the exhausted Xueling Spring first, since we are here, we must leave a souvenir for ourselves!"

"Yes! This is the honor of the juniors, please seniors!" Chi Qing agreed without any hesitation, not for anything else, but the middle-grade Five Elements Stone that Feng Ruo gave him just now is enough for him to practice for several years Well, if you refuse such a good thing that fell from the sky, you would be a fool. At this time, Chi Qing is even planning how to spend this middle-grade Five Elements Stone.

At this time, Feng Ruo and the other five people followed Chi Qing through the abandoned streets and walked towards the core of Xueyan City. Above the cliff is the Hanshan Ice Field, which is the scope of the Hanshan region.

However, it is not easy to climb over this thousand-foot-high ice cliff. Not only are there countless ice beasts in that area, but also the guards of the Ice Palace of Ice Jade. Most importantly, when entering the ice field, the temperature will drop to the extreme, even A cultivator who is as strong as the Golden Core stage should not even try to compete.

In the past, there was a passage leading to the hinterland of the ice field in this Snow Goose City, but it has been closed now, and there is no other way unless it is a forced entry.

And as it gradually approached the Xueling Spring, the scale of the houses on both sides of the road became larger and larger. Obviously, before the Xueyan City was abandoned, the people who could live in this area were all prominent figures. Unfortunately, now They have all become empty houses, or are occupied by some low-strength little ascetics.

However, Feng Ruo also discovered a detail, that is, these huge, beautifully built and sturdy courtyards seem to have experienced many attacks, countless scratches and impact marks, and even some places still have frozen blood stains.

That Chi Qing is very good at observing words and expressions. After finding Feng Ruo looking at the battle traces around here, he immediately explained: "Senior, those are all left by the beast tide. Since the establishment of Xueyan City, it has often suffered. The beast swarms from the sacred mountain will appear every few years. As for the sporadic small animal swarms, there are countless. It's just that the major forces joined forces and the guards on the sacred mountain helped. Only then can the defense of Xueyan City be supported, but now that Xueyan City has been completely abandoned, naturally it can no longer withstand the tide of beasts. There were several small forces who wanted to integrate this abandoned Xueyan City, but they all It completely collapsed under the impact of the beast tide, and from then on, every time before the beast tide came, we would hide in Ice Rock Town."

"Oh! That's how it is!" Feng Ruo nodded, but he thought in his heart, did something happen inside the Frost Jade Ice Palace?As a result, the Xueling Spring would dry up, and they even had to give up Xueyan City. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, this Xueyan City has little to do with the Hanyu Ice Palace, but those who know the inside story understand that this Xueyan City It is extremely important to the Hanyu Ice Palace.

"It seems that I can't just sneak into the Hanyu Ice Palace rashly, at least I have to get some recent effective information, so I can make a decision!" Thinking so, Feng Ruo asked Chi Qing casually: "Where is that Bingyan Town? Since it's only three hundred miles away from Xueyan City, wouldn't it be harassed by beast hordes?"

"Senior, this Bingyan Town is very different from Xueyan City!" Chi Qing turned his head and nodded at Feng Ruo, and said very familiarly: "This Bingyan Town was established for a short time. According to others, it is about It was established more than 200 years ago. At that time, the two major sects of Miaoyinmen and Qianhuanzong took the lead, and then joined many other small and medium forces to build this Bingyan Town. However, although this Bingyan Town is a town, it is not large. But it is much bigger than Xueyan City. There are at least [-] ascetics there. It is said that the Thousand Illusion Sect even moved the mountain gate to Bingyan Town, and it is said that there are masters of the Lingying stage sitting there. ! So it is very easy to deal with the beast horde.”

"Oh? Thousand Illusions? Miaoyin Sect?" Hearing this, Feng Ruo couldn't help but frowned. Chi Qing didn't know, but he knew that Qian Ye, one of the five great sects, was behind the Thousand Illusions Sect As for the backing of the Miaoyin Gate is the Jiushen Palace, these two sects established Bingyan Town near Xueyan City, which is clearly a challenge to the Hanyu Ice Palace!

As for why Jiushengong and Qianyemen dared to have this courage, it is mostly because of Zhishuijie, because the news of Zhishuijie's discovery was at that stage.

Perhaps, the reason why Xueyan City was abandoned has a great relationship with Bingyan Town!
Thinking of this, Feng Ruo had already decided to go to Bingyan Town to find out the situation, glanced at Chi Qing who was leading the way, his heart moved slightly, and then asked: "Chi Qing, where do you usually hunt? Will all the hunting proceeds be sold in Bingyan Town?"

"Uh, to report back to seniors, in fact, my strength is too low, and I can only hunt on the edge of Xueyan City, but if it is a strong person in Bingyan Town, they can go deep into the holy mountain to hunt, where there are high-ranking people everywhere." If you are lucky enough to collect a few ice-attribute spirit grasses, you will make a fortune! As for the hunting income, except for some of the hunting income, you can take it to Bingyan Town in exchange for the Five Elements Stone, and keep the rest for yourself For refining tools or alchemy, I am now striving to enter the foundation building stage as soon as possible, so that I can compete for the guard of Bingyan Town, and if I am lucky, I will be favored by the holy envoys on the mountain and join the mountain." Chi Qing Some look forward to authentic.

"Oh! Join Shenshan?" Feng Ruo's eyes flickered slightly, he naturally knew that the Shenshan that Chi Qing was talking about was the Hanshan area, and it also belonged to the Hanyu Ice Palace. From this point of view, it is not that he has no chance to mix into the Hanyubing palace.

"Senior, there is the Xueling Spring in front of you!" At this time, Chi Qing pointed to the seven or eight hundred feet ahead, where there was a huge crack, directly slanting on the ice cliff, and Feng Ruo's eyesight But it has been seen clearly for a long time, presumably the Xuelingquan dripped out through this crack back then.

At this time, even though the Xueling spring had dried up, it could still sense that unique coldness in the air.

Just when Feng Ruo was about to step forward to take a closer look, a rush of bells suddenly rang from a distance, and hearing the rush of bells, Chi Qing's face suddenly became extremely pale, and his whole body trembled a little When he got up, he almost sat on the ground.

"Pre-Senior, no-no, it's-yes-it's the beast tide, I-we're dead!"

"Beast tide?" Feng Ruo was a little surprised, and took a funny look at Chi Qing who was trembling and almost frightened to death, and then motioned for Qingran to grab him.

"Don't worry, whoever dies, you won't die, we still need you to lead the way to Bingyan Town! Alright, let's go!"

After saying this, Feng Ruo took a step ahead and headed directly towards the outside of Xueyan City. He is only displaying the strength of a cultivator at the golden core stage, but it is enough to make Chi Qing dumbfounded.

At this time, as the rapid bell rang, many panicked ascetics emerged from the originally desolate Xueyan City. Obviously, the appearance of this animal horde was very unusual, so they were not prepared at all.

"It's kind of interesting!" Feng Ruo said to himself, while Chi Qing and Hei Feng carried Chi Qing, whose hands and feet were going limp, and followed behind like a stroll in the courtyard, even thinking about admiring it The panicked appearance of those fleeing cultivators, to them, no matter how powerful the animal swarm is, they are just bean sprouts. If Feng Ruoyou hadn't said something first, they only need to release a little wave of the dragon, which is enough to scare the animal swarm Return!
And at this time, a rumbling sound resounded from above the huge ice cliff in the distance. With Feng Ruowai's eyesight, he could clearly see that countless snow-white spirit beasts emerged from the thousand-foot ice cliff like an avalanche. Roaring down the cliff, although these spirit beasts are only five or six levels, they are superior in number. Under such an impact, even a cultivator at the early stage of Jindan has to avoid the edge for the time being.

"I really didn't expect it! This beast tide actually formed from the cold mountain ice field. What exactly is the Cold Jade Ice Palace trying to do? Interesting, interesting!"

Feng Ruo looked at the tide of beasts that gradually formed and more and more high-level spirit beasts appeared, but there was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth. Now, he had a guess in his mind, but he couldn't verify it at the moment.

With the speed of Feng Ruo and others, even if they hide most of their strength, they are much faster than those ordinary ascetics, so they quickly arrived at the huge city gate without any guards.

Now, they understood why the Xueyan City was abandoned. It was because the beast tide rushed into the Xueyan City directly from the thousand-foot cliff, so no matter how powerful the defense, no matter how strong the city gate was, it was useless!
"Let's stop here!"

Feng Ruo said indifferently, he is not a good person, but sometimes, it does not prevent him from doing good things with little effort, this beast tide can't do anything to them at all, as long as they stay here for a while, then the Xueyan City Those remaining ascetics can have a glimmer of life.

(End of this chapter)