Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 144 Intermediate Lei Kui's Second Reshaping of the Skin Membrane [Three-in-One]

Click……

Deep in the Redwood Ridge, a mid-level Snowmane with iron arrows stuck in its eyes was fleeing northward in panic. It was blind and could only move around based on its senses.

Snowmane's right hind leg was dragging a trap. The skin and flesh of the part that was trapped had been turned open and bright red blood was constantly oozing out.

Due to a leg injury, its speed was not as fast as normal, but its huge body and strong desire to survive still allowed it to unleash a tremendous impact.

In less than a hundred meters, it had already knocked over three or four giant trees.

"Zhao Long and his two companions will shoot from a distance, Xia Chuan will set the line to confine the beast, Yuan Cheng and Yue Feng will continue to set traps in the front, Luo Yuan and all the others will pull the ropes to control the direction in which this evil beast will escape!"

As Xia Hong's voice sounded in the back, several white lines suddenly attacked from the side of Xue Zong's body; two figures suddenly accelerated, running from the left and right sides to a few dozen meters in front of Xue Zong, and then quickly threw four more animal traps to the ground, one end of which was still tied with a rope.
Three waves of dozens of arrows were shot from behind, all of which accurately hit Snowmane's abdomen and the place where the trap was dragging on his legs.

When Snowmane was shot in the abdomen, he didn't react because the wound was not deep.

But it couldn't hold on after being shot at the injured part of its leg. Every time it was hit by an arrow, it would let out a muffled groan, and its escape speed would slow down a bit. Obviously, the injury on top of the injury made it very painful.

As its movements slowed down, a group of eight people caught up with it from behind. They all held a rope in their hands, and the end of the rope was tied to the trap dragged by Snowmane's right hind leg.

"Almost there, La!"

Xia Hong shouted loudly again, and the eight people from Luo Yuan behind him all gritted their teeth, found the nearest big tree, quickly wrapped the rope around the tree several times, and then stood still behind the tree, holding the rope tightly.

Luo Yuan and his eight men stopped, but Xue Zong did not stop. The rope connected to the trap on its leg quickly straightened in mid-air.

Pah……

The rope was stretched straight with a loud whip-crackling sound. Although Xuezong's running body did not stop immediately, his right leg staggered violently and his body shifted slightly to the left.

Click…………

Because of this slight deviation, Xue Zong's left forelimb just happened to step on one of the four animal traps set by Yue Feng and Yuan Cheng.

The trap with a diameter of more than half a meter suddenly closed, smashing the bone of Snowmane's left forelimb with a loud cracking sound.

"Roar…………"

Snowmane, feeling the pain, became even crazier, and the power that erupted from his body was even stronger than before.

Click…………

Although the eight people from Luo Yuan who were pulling the rope had tried their best, they still failed to hold on to the completely crazy Xue Zong. They could not even hold on for two breaths before being pulled to the ground. Even the rope and the big tree with a diameter of more than ten meters were all pulled apart.

If the eight people had not reacted quickly and released the rope in time, they would have been dragged dozens of meters away by Snow Mane and crashed into the big tree in the middle, possibly causing serious injuries.

Pfft…………

Snowmane's left front leg and right hind leg had been caught in the trap. Due to his strong desire to survive, he could only hold on for a while. After running more than a hundred meters to the north, his speed slowed down visibly.

At the same time, Xia Hong, who had been following Xue Zong on the tree all the way and had already run ahead of Xue Zong, saw the opportunity when Xue Zong was about to arrive and finally took action!

boom…………

Xia Hong raised his hands above his head, with a huge double-edged axe hanging behind him. He jumped down from a tree more than 20 meters high. With both hands exerting force suddenly, the huge axe drew a semicircle from back to front in mid-air and suddenly chopped down the head of Snow Mane who had just arrived under the tree.

The axe blade split the skull, which should have made a cracking sound, but Xia Hong's axe actually made a bang.

It was like a sudden thunderclap, resounding within a radius of two to three hundred meters.

Xia Hong's basic strength is already as high as more than 32,000 pounds, and the Changquan force-generating technique can add 20%, plus the acceleration generated by falling from a high altitude.

The force exerted by this axe is at least over 40,000 pounds.

This axe broke Snowmane's skull like a rotten wood. The fan-shaped axe blade with a radius of 75 centimeters was completely chopped into its head, leaving only the other side outside.

boom…………

Snowmane's head slammed to the ground with a bang. The terrifying potential energy brought about by the powerful force directly created a circular shock wave on the ground, which lifted up all the snow within a radius of more than ten meters.

"Roar…………"

The skull was almost chopped into two pieces of snow-capped mane, but the ferocity had not completely disappeared. He lay on the ground and let out a hoarse roar. His blood-red pupils slightly raised, glanced at Xia Hong above, and suddenly shrank.

"Everyone gather together, quickly!"

Xia Hong noticed this scene and shouted at everyone.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan and his group, including the three Zhao Long brothers who were hanging at the back shooting arrows, heard the sound and quickly ran towards Xue Zong.

In less than three breaths, all fourteen people gathered around Xue Zong, and then they all crawled under Xue Zong; and Xia Hong, who had reminded them first, had already crawled under Xue Zong's chin.

swoosh...swish...swish...

The barbs on Snowmane's back shot out indiscriminately in all directions, just like the last time. From the dozen or so large trees around that were riddled with holes, one could see how powerful these barbs were.

Unfortunately, Xia Hong and the fourteen members of the hunting team were all hiding on the lower side of its abdomen at this moment. No matter how strong the barbs on its back were, it was impossible for it to turn around and shoot at that position.

“Hahahaha, this Snowmane will never imagine that we can use its body to break its last unique skill…”

After three or four breaths, as all the barbs on his back were shot off and Xue Zong fell to the ground with a whimper, Yuan Cheng was the first to laugh out loud, his laughter full of excitement and pride.

Although the others didn't say anything, they all had excitement on their faces when they saw the huge prey on the ground.

But in the end, seeing the double-edged axe still stuck in Xue Zong's head, everyone turned their eyes to Xia Hong in the front, their faces full of admiration.

"Is the intermediate-level cold beast blood so strong? The leader has only used it once, and the change in strength is so great. No, I have to quickly increase my strength to the limit of 30,000 jin..."

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and everyone else had this thought in their minds at this moment.

Xia Hong's change is really huge.

When they first hunted the intermediate Snowmane, everyone still remembered that Xia Hong had to use the long ceremonial knife to injure the face or eyes of Snowmane in order to hurt his skull. But only a few days later, he was able to use the giant axe to directly chop open Snowmane's skull.

Kah…

Xia Hong was of course unaware of what everyone was thinking. He pulled out the double-edged axe from Snow Mane's head, with a hint of excitement on his face.

It was only more than three hours, and a mid-level snow mane was already in hand.

Tonight's hunting process went much more smoothly than expected!
The strength of Snow Mane's membrane and skull should be around 40,000 kilograms.

No wonder when we saw Yuwen Tao fighting against the demon sheep last time, he was able to leave so many wounds on it with his broadsword.

The reason why this hunting process went so smoothly was that my own improvement in strength was the biggest factor, but it also benefited from my familiarity with the intermediate snow mane and the tacit cooperation of everyone in the hunting team.

"As long as you hide under the belly of Snowmane, its unique barb skill will be basically useless. However, the only thing to note about this method is that you must seize the moment when it is dying and losing its strength. If you drill under its belly in advance, it will not be avoiding the barbs, but seeking death!"

The last time Zhu Shun and Zou Yuankai were seriously injured, Xia Hong was thinking about how to avoid Xue Zong's backstab skill. After thinking about it, he could only come up with this method.

Judging from the speed and power of the barbs on Snowmane's back, as well as the ultimate range, running to the periphery is a sure way to death. Lying still on the ground is also an option, but it is still impossible to avoid it 100%.

When the snow-mane monster they hunted for the first time shot out its barbs before dying, Xia Hong led everyone to jump off the tree and then lay on the ground to hide.

But in the end, Zou Yuankai and Zhu Shun were still shot.

There is no time to escape, and lying on the ground cannot completely avoid it.

Then the only way is to stay close to the enemy.

I tried it for the first time tonight, and the result has proven that this method can work for now, but it requires a good grasp of the timing.

"Okay, that's enough for tonight."

"It's over? Chief, we can continue!"

"We are not seriously injured, so we can continue. Chief, can you take us to hunt another one?"

"We have plenty of arrows, our weapons are intact, and it's only been three hours. There's no need to go back so early. Please continue, leader!"

"Yes, it's still early, Chief."

When they heard Xia Hong announce the end of the hunt, everyone immediately spoke up to dissuade him.

Xia Chuan was the last to speak in a deep voice, "Leader, didn't you say that breaking through the cold-resistant level requires a lot of cold beast blood? This is just one, we still have enough energy to spare. Let's hide this prey first and continue?"

When everyone heard Xia Chuan's words, they all nodded heavily.

A warm feeling suddenly passed through Xia Hong's heart.

Obviously, Xia Chuan's last words were what they really thought.

"Okay, let's continue. However, we can only look for Snowmane. Other intermediate-level frosty beasts will not be considered for the time being."

Xia Hong only pondered for a moment before agreeing to everyone's suggestion. However, he still made strict restrictions on the choice of prey and could only look for intermediate-level snow manes.

Everyone nodded, and immediately divided the work and worked together to lift the huge snow-mane on the ground and put it right above a big tree, and even deliberately posed it in a resting posture.

After everyone had packed up and marked the prey, Xia Hong led the team to continue searching northwards.

"The depth here should be 1300 meters. We have searched almost everywhere from south to north, and apart from the Teng Jiao, we can't see any other prey. Let's go a little deeper!"

Everyone nodded. Even though the first time they hunted the intermediate Snowmane, they accidentally went deep into the four-kilometer range of Redwood Ridge. But the feeling of being spied on by the powerful cold beast was indeed uncomfortable and extremely dangerous.

Before the strength is sufficient, the scope of the search must be strictly controlled.

"Go another 200 meters in and see if there are any new discoveries!"

"Hey, look over there..."

Just as Xia Hong made the decision to go 200 meters deeper, Zhao Long in the crowd exclaimed, raised his hand and pointed to the north, signaling everyone to look.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and were all stunned.

Although no one lit a fire, the ground and trees of Redwood Ridge were covered with snow, so the dense forest was not pitch dark, but a miserable grayish-white color.

Amidst the myriad of gray and white, more than a hundred meters to the north, there was a sturdy ice tree that was emitting a faint golden light.

Not only that, there were a few flashes of lightning in the sky right above the ice tree from time to time. The lightning turned into thunder and struck straight down, landing right on the ground around the ice tree.

"That Bingshuo tree, is it the one we encountered last time we came here?"

Xia Hong gave a hint and everyone remembered it immediately.

"Yes, that's the one. I remember that ice tree was very big, and the ground around it was fluid, like a golden swamp."

"I also remember that the crystal fruit on the Bingshuo tree weighed at least 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms. The leader even dug the ground but found that he couldn't dig it up."

…………

"Go and take a look first!"

After hearing what everyone said, Xia Hong confirmed that it was the giant ice tree that he had discovered last time. Without hesitation, he led everyone over there.

Boom…

As the distance gets closer, the sound of thunder becomes clearer and clearer.

Everyone, including Xia Hong, felt a little nervous.

This has nothing to do with courage. People are naturally in awe of natural phenomena such as thunder and lightning, not to mention that they are only a few dozen meters away.

"Let's climb the tree first and see what's going on!" When they were less than forty meters away from the ice tree, Xia Hong felt something was wrong. He stopped and asked everyone to follow him and climb up a nearby big tree.

At the top of the tree, which was about fifty or sixty meters high, Xia Hong, who was the first to climb up, looked toward the edge of the ice tree. When he saw it, he was stunned.

The people who climbed up later were all stunned when they looked up, just like him.

In the swamp beside the ice tree, there was a huge cold beast about ten meters long and shaped like a rhinoceros.

The body of the cold beast was light golden in color, with two huge eyes like lanterns, and a three-meter-long, dark horn on its head that pointed upwards.

Although its limbs were lying down, one could see that they were more than one meter in diameter, extremely thick, and full of muscles. Even with just the naked eye, one could feel the terrifying power contained within them.

The thunder in the sky above the Bingshuo tree did not fall on the swamp at all, but on the sharp horns on the head of the cold beast.

Crack...

Every time a bolt of lightning struck, an arc of lightning would flash across the sharp horns of the cold beast. The arc of lightning would spread from the tip to the back, flowing through all the skin on its body.

Its skin was originally light gold, and as the arc light flowed through it, the color became more textured and darker, clearly evolving towards pure gold.

"Golden armored Kui Niu?"

"Golden armored Kui Niu?"

…………

After seeing the appearance of the cold beast clearly, everyone in the hunting team exclaimed several times. Obviously, they all recognized the appearance of the cold beast.

"Low-level Kuiniu have yellowish skin and are not this big. This should be a mid-level Kuiniu. I didn't expect that I would encounter a mid-level one before I even hunted a low-level one."

Xia Chuan took out a roll of animal skin book from his arms. On the cover of the book were engraved the five words "Records of the Cold Beasts of Great Xia". He turned to the page with the golden-armored Kuiniu, and after comparing it with the cold beast in front of him, he immediately made a judgment.

The Records of Cold Beasts of Great Xia was compiled based on the scroll of cold beasts left by Luo Ming. Currently, there are not many types of cold beasts recorded. There are only seven types: the Bone-Spur Frost Wolf, the Long-Tongue Snow Mane, the Golden-Eyed Demon Sheep, the Blue Moon Spirit, the Cloud and Mist Dragon, the Golden-Armored Thunder Kui, and the Long-Tailed Rat.

These seven kinds of cold beasts must have intermediate forms, but the only one Da Xia has successfully hunted is the intermediate snow mane. We have dealt with intermediate gnats, and have also seen intermediate soaring dragons and demon sheep.

The only thing is that the low-level Kuiniu has not been successfully hunted.

This is the first time I’ve seen an intermediate one today.

Xia Chuan was very strict in compiling the Records of Cold Beasts. He would only add a cold beast to the record after he had successfully hunted it and had a clear understanding of its weaknesses and habits. So up to now, there are only seven species recorded in the Records of Cold Beasts of Great Xia. If the intermediate snow mane is included, there are only eight species in total.

"How about giving it a try?"

"I think it's OK. This Kui Niu's skin membrane looks very strong. It can even withstand thunder. It looks like a defensive cold beast. Its attack power may not be strong."

"That pale golden animal hide may still be used as armor. We happen to be short of armor, so we can give it a try."

“I think I should try it too!”

………………

"What kind of grand dream are you all dreaming about? You haven't even hunted a low-level Kui Niu, but you're already thinking about hunting a mid-level one. Wake up, let's go and continue looking for Xue Zong. We can talk about this Kui Niu later!"

Xia Hong interrupted everyone's instigation and immediately shook his head.

This is what is called, the weaker you are, the more ignorant you are. Even if he is hunting a mid-level Snow Mane, he cannot guarantee a 100% success rate now, let alone the Kuiniu in front of him that can cause thunder.

It is obvious that this Kuiniu is using thunder to strengthen its body.

This scene alone proves that its strength is definitely superior to Snow Mane.

Not only that, when it comes to Thunder Body Forging, even the Demonic Sheep is probably not as good as it.

These people don't even know what's going on with the low-level Lei Kui, but they're already attacking the middle-level ones. It's clearly a way to death.

It seems that the hunting has been too smooth during this period, and the people in the hunting team have begun to become a little too proud of themselves!

Xia Hong turned his head to glance at the Lei Kui and frowned slightly.

The swamp next to the big tree is probably the habitat of Lei Kui. The reason why it appears to be a golden fluid is probably because Lei Kui has been entrenched there for a long time.

The last time he came here, he dug through the ground in the swamp. You know, his basic strength at that time had reached the limit of 30,000 kilograms, but no matter how hard he tried, the ground remained motionless.
This Lei Kui can not only move freely in the golden swamp, but can even bury its body completely in it.

From this point alone, we can see that Lei Kui's strength is not simple.

"When you go out hunting later, kill a few low-level ones first, and find out the habits and methods of Lei Kui. Tell me and I'll consider it!"

Although Xia Chuan and others were a little disappointed, they also knew that Xia Hong's method was more reliable, so they all nodded.

………………

The density of cold beasts in Redwood Ridge is indeed very high.

Xia Hong led everyone and went two hundred meters deeper. Less than an hour later, they found another intermediate snow mane.

This is the case when we are only looking for Snowmane. If there are enough hunting options, there are Tengjiao, Lei Kui, Frost Wolf, and many other intermediate cold beasts within a range of 1,500 meters.

The first time is new, the second time is familiar, and by the third time, you will be already familiar with it.

Fourteen ten-thousand-jin iron bows, five animal traps, Xia Chuan's white line, the giant double-edged axe in Xia Hong's hand, and the tacit cooperation of everyone.

This snow-mane beast only lasted for more than an hour before it collapsed in despair.

It had been more than six hours since the two intermediate snow manes were obtained. Although only a small part of the night had passed, everyone's bodies were almost exhausted.

After successfully harvesting two mid-level prey in one night, both Xia Hong and the others were already satisfied.

After returning to the location where the first prey was, the group happily took the two preys and went straight back to the valley camp.

As soon as he returned to the camp, without Xia Hong's instructions, Xia Chuan immediately ordered the people in the camp to start bleeding the two snow-maned cats.

Xia Hong only waited in the room for a few minutes before Shi Ping and several others carried in a large basin of cold beast blood.

"Captain, the two snow-manes lost a total of 130 kilograms of blood, all of which is here."

"Okay, you all go out!"

After Shi Ping and others left, Xia Hong stood up and walked to the basin. He smelled the strong smell of blood overflowing from the basin, and a hint of excitement flashed across his face.

"130 pounds is a pretty big amount. Let's see how much it can help me gain!"

The process of reshaping the membrane is certainly painful, but as long as you can get through it, the subsequent improvement in membrane strength and the leap-forward increase in basic strength are so great that I believe no matter who you are, after experiencing it once, no one will be able to refuse it.

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In just half a night, the timber had increased by more than 1300 pieces, which shows the enthusiasm of the camp for logging.

All members of the hunting team followed him out, so the prices of coal and iron did not increase at all.

Looking at the remaining resources in the system, Xia Hong fell into deep thought.

Last time, in order to resist the tremendous pain brought by the hundred kilograms of cold beast blood, he almost used up all the resources in his system.

At that time, there were nearly 100,000 tons of timber, more than 5,000 tons of iron, and more than 8,000 tons of coal.

Although he was unclear about the specific consumption rules, he only had so few resources this time, so he certainly couldn't just jump into the tub.

"Try it slowly first!"

Xia Hong took off his shirt, took out a large wooden spoon weighing one pound that he had prepared long ago, scooped out a spoonful of blood, and then slowly smeared it on his body.

The first pound, there is only a slight pain;

The pain intensified after the second pound, but it was still within the acceptable range.
The third jin... the fourth jin... the fifth jin...

"hiss…………"

After applying it for the tenth time, which was ten kilograms, the pain was so severe that Xia Hong began to hiss.

But the system still did not give any prompts, it seems that it is still within the acceptable range.

Xia Hong gritted his teeth and persisted, continuing to apply the blood of the cold beast on his body.

Fifteen pounds... twentieth pounds... thirtieth pounds...

"ah………………"

Xia Hong began to scream, and large areas of his skin began to be burned, with smoke coming out, and his flesh and blood began to blur.

But the system still didn't give any prompts.

"ah………………"

Xia Hong's screams intensified, his pupils began to become blurred, and the severe pain made him dizzy. The only remaining willpower was still waiting for the system to prompt him.

"Still... not... giving any hints... this..."

Xia Hong's pupils began to turn red, his body began to feel weak, and the hand holding the wooden spoon was shaking, but he could not wait for the system to prompt him.

During the process of epidermal remodeling, the pain will continue and will not subside.

This process cannot be stopped.

In other words, as long as the system does not prompt, Xia Hong will continue to suffer this kind of pain, whether it increases or not, it will be the same.

Xia Hong looked at the wooden basin, gritted his teeth, and used the wooden spoon in his hand to quickly scoop out the blood and pour it on his body.

Thirty-five, thirty-six... Forty-one... Forty-two...

[It is detected that the host nerve has reached its load limit, and system resources can be consumed to offset some of the nerve pressure]

"finally…………"

When it reached forty-two times, which is forty-two kilograms, the system prompt finally came.

The first thing consumed was wood, and after 1000 pieces fell, it was all gone after only thirteen drops;
Then came the coal, 50 fell, and after eleven drops, it was all empty:

The last one was iron, which also dropped by 50 at a time. It dropped down twenty-four times and was empty.

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The moment the resources were cleared, Xia Hong was shocked to find that the pain he was suffering had not diminished at all and was still exactly the same as before.

"what…………"

Xia Hong screamed and fainted beside the wooden basin.

At the moment before he fainted, he also realized:

Consuming resources only helps him offset the increasing nerve pressure. In other words, the intensity of the pain he endures is always at the moment when his will reaches its limit.

"If this process continues for a few times, the limit of what I can bear will become higher and higher, and the resources consumed will gradually decrease. This is a good thing, this is a good thing..."

Before he fainted, this thought flashed through Xia Hong's mind, and the pain on his face seemed to disappear a lot at once, and he even smiled a little.

Of course, this smile, accompanied by an expression of extreme pain, was bound to be a little distorted.

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