Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 533 Initial Confrontation and Hidden Cards, the Scene Stagnates

A black dot slowly appeared high in the sky.

The black dot fell from the sky, growing larger and larger as it approached, until it was less than a hundred meters from the ground. Only then did everyone realize that the black dot was actually a burly old man dressed in a blue imperial robe, with a dignified and imposing posture.

The word "robust" is probably the best way to describe him.

Humans in the Ice Abyss are relatively large. For example, a 15-year-old adult male like Xia Hong, who is 1.9 meters tall, is only above average. If someone is shorter than 1.9 meters, they would definitely be considered short in a crowd.

As for those under 1.8 meters tall, I'm not sure about other places, but in the Xia people's simple understanding, only underage children should be that short. It's not that there aren't any adults under 1.8 meters tall, but I estimate that you could only find two or three out of hundreds.

The old man standing in mid-air, above everyone's heads, was at least 2.1 meters tall, according to Xia Hong's rough estimate.

The old man wore a square silver crown inlaid with jade, with five green tassels hanging from the front and back, each tassel strung with five green jade beads. The tassels slightly obscured his face, adding a touch of mystery to his already dignified and noble demeanor.

Although his face was not clearly visible, the white hair on the old man's temples indicated that his hair was almost entirely white and that he was obviously quite old.

However, he showed no signs of aging. His explosively bulging muscles made his imperial robes look exceptionally dignified. He looked down at Xia Hong and all the Xia soldiers below, giving people an extremely strong sense of oppression.

This oppressive feeling did not only come from the old man's posture. The key was that his aura continued to rise from the moment he fell, and when he was still a hundred meters above the ground, he had almost completely dispelled the wave of blood energy above the military camp.

Once he stopped and hovered in mid-air, almost no trace of the lingering blood aura could be found around the entire military camp.

Cai Qiufangbo and Cai Qianshan, both renowned experts at the fourth level of the Tribulation Realm in Mo Aochuan, have personally ventured into the southern foothills.

"Lord Xia, take your Xia army and retreat! Now that I've arrived, the towns of Wuchuan and Jinshan no longer belong to your Great Xia..."

So young, Xia Hong.

As Cai Qianshan spoke, he was also carefully examining Xia Hong. After seeing Xia Hong's face clearly, his heart skipped a beat, and then a murderous intent slowly surfaced in his pupils.

Youth is an asset. Xia Hong looks like he's not even forty years old. If you calculate it, he's at most fifty or sixty.

This level of qualification is remarkable, even within the four major regions.

Given Cai Qianshan's advanced age, Xia Hong's astonishing talent naturally aroused deep-seated apprehension and unease within him.

"Uncle Cai speaks too quickly; be careful not to slip up..."

Upon hearing Xia Hong's slightly mocking response, Cai Qianshan's face instantly darkened, and the killing intent in his pupils rapidly increased.

"Bold maniac!"

"These lowly barbarians from the south don't even realize they're about to die."

"You brat, how dare you disrespect Lord Fang!"

…………

Of course, he didn't need to respond to Xia Hong.

Cai Qiuhu and the group of Xianyang-level cultivators behind him immediately rebuked him, their faces full of anger. From their expressions, one could tell how high Cai Qianshan's status was in their hearts.

This is considered a unique feature of the Ice Abyss.

Xia Hong raised his hand to stop Xia Chuan and Yuwen Tao from responding verbally, then turned his gaze away from Cai Qianshan and continued to look at Cai Qiuhu and his group.

To be precise, it's about looking at Cai Shiqi behind Cai Qiuhu.

From the moment Xia Hong called his name inside the tent, Cai Shiqi showed no fear whatsoever. He was clearly certain that Cai Qiuhu would never hand him over to him. With the arrival of Lord Fang himself, he was even more fearless. His face was full of smugness, and when he saw Xia Hong looking at him, he even curled up a contemptuous smile.

Seeing the expression on Cai Shiqi's face, Xia Hong suddenly laughed.

He didn't laugh out loud, but he did smile.

"careful!"

The first to notice something was wrong was Cai Qiuhu.

The moment a smile appeared on Xia Hong's face, he suddenly realized something. He shouted angrily to warn everyone, then quickly turned around and tried to grab Cai Shiqi and escape into the air.

Bang... Bang... Bang...

"Fire arrows!"

The Xianyang-class reacted quickly. As soon as Cai Qiuhu shouted the warning, the fifty people behind him immediately pushed off the ground and took off, creating a series of sonic booms.

Xia Chuan reacted just as quickly. After all, they were brothers. When Xia Hong smiled, he realized that his older brother was about to make a move. So, his command to fire the arrow was issued almost simultaneously with Cai Qiuhu's.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Twenty crossbows, which had been set up long ago, fired in unison, their target clearly Cai Qiuhu and the fifty Xianyang-class aircraft that had taken off.

call out!
Leaving aside the clash between the Divine Crossbow and Cai Qiu's group of Xianyang-level warriors, Cai Qiuhu, who was the first to issue a warning, suddenly froze when he heard a sharp screech in his ear.

Simply because his hand grasped nothing.

He realized that Xia Hong was going to make a move against Cai Shiqi, so his first reaction was to warn the others, while he tried to grab Cai Shiqi and run away with him.

With Cai Shiqi's strength, it was impossible for him to miss, and the sharp hissing sound came from Cai Shiqi himself.

So, the result is already quite obvious...

Cai Qiuhu did not run away. He first cleaved the two silver crossbow bolts, each about ten feet long, in front of him with a single slash. Then, he stared intently at Cai Shiqi, his frozen expression suddenly changed, and then a raging fire rose in his pupils.

Cai Shiqi is dead.

His body was sliced ​​in two from the waist by sharp claws. The claws were so sharp that they cleanly severed not only the skin and flesh but also the bones. The internal organs and flesh seemed to be unable to react in time and did not spill out because the speed was so fast.

A blue-eyed fire lion, less than half a meter long, hovered silently above the corpse, its blue pupils staring at him without any emotion.

Clearly, this fire lion is the culprit.

Cai Qiuhu turned to look at Xia Hong, his expression a mixture of shock and anger. He was shocked that the Beast King puppet had attacked silently without him noticing; he was angry that even though his father and uncle Cai Qianshan had come to this place, Xia Hong still dared to make a move, and with one strike, he killed someone.

Swish swish swish…………

The situation changed rapidly. Xia Chuan ordered the arrows to be fired at the same time as his warning, so by the time he saw Cai Shiqi being killed, the situation was completely out of control.

The continuous barrage of silver crossbow bolts fired by the twenty divine crossbows did not cause any fatal damage to Cai Qiu and his group of Xianyang-level warriors, but it forced them to scatter and dodge, leaving them scattered and in a rather disheveled state.

"Xia Hong, you're asking for death!"

Seeing the disheveled state of Cai Qiu and his men, and realizing that Cai Qiu had completely lost face, Cai Qiuhu finally lost his temper.

He roared, drew a blue decapitation sword from his waist, and his body shone with golden light, instantly transforming into a thirty-foot giant. He suddenly turned and pounced on Xia Hong.

The cyan decapitation blade had an extremely wide blade. The powerful cyan edge it created in the air sliced ​​through the airflow, condensing into a cyan blade aura hundreds of meters long, which fell from the sky and slashed fiercely at Xia Hong's head.

The moment the blade cleaved downwards, the air on both sides of the blade seemed unable to withstand the fierce cutting, and intense sparks suddenly appeared out of thin air. The blue blade energy was stained by the sparks, and its power increased greatly, with flames shooting into the sky.

"You think you can act with impunity just because you killed Yang Zun? If it weren't for the fact that you're somewhat useful to me, Cai Qiu, last night..."

Keng!
Cai Qiuhu was clearly extremely confident in his angry strike; before the blade even touched Xia Hong, he had already finished speaking.

Unfortunately, his words were ultimately cut off due to his confrontation with Xia Hong.

His broadsword was actually blocked by Xia Hong!
Xia Hong used a long, narrow sword, and he didn't even put much effort into it. He simply raised his sword to block the blow the moment the other sword came down.

That gentle block prevented his blade from striking down.

"Your strength... how could it be... how could it be..."

Cai Qiuhu's confident expression vanished instantly after his powerful clash with Xia Hong. His pupils shrank, and his face was filled with horror, numbness, and a hint of undisguised terror.

With his cultivation at the second stage of the Tribulation Body Realm, and having unleashed his Golden Body Battle Body, coupled with the support of the dual elements of wood and fire, his strength had already reached over 240 jun. How could Xia Hong possibly withstand his attack?

How can it be……

Cai Qiuhu was so shocked that only these four words filled his mind. He even forgot to sheathe his sword and overlooked Xia Hong's sudden action of sheathing his sword.

"Just because you come from a vassal state, you think you can act with impunity in my southern border region? If it weren't for the fact that you, Cai Qiu, are of use to my Great Xia, would you have dared to speak with me last night based solely on your title as a minor regional governor?"

Xia Hong said what Cai Qiuhu hadn't finished speaking, almost verbatim. Cai Qiuhu's handsome face instantly turned bright red, and his anger reached its peak.

call…………

However, Xia Hong gave him no chance to retort. The retracted blade was swung forward again in less than an instant.

To be precise, it was a direct stab.

Yin-Yang Reverse Blade Technique!
This martial art is the best choice for defense and counterattack. As long as you can block the opponent's attack and use the momentum to launch a counterattack, almost no one can react in time.

Even Cai Qiuhu, who is at the Tribulation Realm, is no exception!

call out…………

As the blade pierced his face, the panic in Cai Qiuhu's pupils vanished in an instant. His body shuddered violently, and then his hundred-meter-tall golden battle physique quickly transformed into a transparent state.

call…………

It's not just visually, it's actually become transparent.

Although Xia Hong's blade pierced through, it didn't feel like it had broken through the skin and flesh, let alone the bones inside.

"You think you can hurt me?"

"Even a cultivator at the Body-Stealing Realm needs to resort to trickery in battle? Useless!"

After Xia Hong's blade pierced through, he saw that Cai Qiuhu only made a sarcastic remark to him without making any substantial counterattack. He immediately realized that the trick of making his body transparent was just a means of self-preservation and could not be used against enemies.

So he didn't hold back, raised his knife and continued to thrust forward, cursing "trash" as the Yangxu Cauldron within his body suddenly burst into bloom.

boom…………

The only condition for using the Frost Beast Stake is that it must be within the illumination range of the Yangxu Cauldron. Therefore, in the brief moment between killing Cai Shiqi, Xia Hong activated the Yangxu Cauldron within his body.

To avoid being detected by Cai Qianshan in the sky, he immediately shut down the gates after killing Cai Shiqi. Now that Cai Qiuhu has used trickery to fight him, he naturally can no longer hold back.

The moment Yangxu Peak bloomed, meridians slowly emerged from Cai Qiuhu's transparent body, followed by bones, flesh, and skin...

Throughout this process, Xia Hong never put away his Dragon Sparrow Blade.

puff…………

After Cai Qiuhu's body solidified completely, Xia Hong's blade pierced into his body, tearing through his skin and flesh, and blood spurted out with a "plop".

As Xia Hong's blade pierced all the way to bone, a powerful force surpassing his own surged from the tip of the blade, and only then did a genuine hint of panic flash in Cai Qiuhu's eyes.

The Battle Body Golden Body is indestructible and indestructible. No matter how powerful the force, it can only injure him at most. For someone who does not control the Calamity Qi, it is simply impossible to kill a Calamity Body Realm cultivator.

Therefore, he wasn't afraid of death; Xia Hong couldn't kill him no matter what.

What he feared was his father and uncle Cai Qianshan in heaven.

He took the initiative to take charge of the affairs in the southern foothills region. After receiving a message from Cai Shiqi and others, he confidently assured his father and uncles that he would be able to use the war that was rising in the Great Xia Dynasty, with Jinshan and Wuchuan towns as springboards, to support Cai Qiu's agent and allow Cai Qiu to smoothly control the entire southern foothills region.

However, five days have passed, and not only has he accomplished nothing, but his strength is now being suppressed by Xia Hong in front of him.

He has three powerful older brothers and many talented younger siblings. Many people are eyeing the position of Junior Governor.

With this blow, Xia Hong not only lost all face, but his father and uncle Cai Qianshan would also be extremely disappointed in him. At that time...

"enough!"

Cai Qianshan, who had been observing coldly from the sky, finally spoke up just as Xia Hong had forced Cai Qiuhu to retreat.

Previously, whether it was Xia Hong's sudden outburst, Cai Shiqi's murder, or Cai Qiu and his group of Xianyang-level warriors being forced to flee in disarray by the Divine Crossbow, Cai Qianshan had always just watched, seemingly uninterested in getting involved.

Only now, when Xia Hong was about to injure Cai Qiuhu's bones with a single blow, did he finally speak.

enough!

These two words, coming from his mouth, already carried a great deal of weight.

However, Xia Hong acted as if he hadn't heard anything at all. There was no sign of him pulling back his strength. The tip of the knife pressing on Cai Qiuhu's bones began to gather its strength for the last time before suddenly rushing forward.

"Arrogant brat..."

Xia Hong's actions clearly showed that he was being ignored. How could Cai Qianshan not see this? His anger surged, and after a curse, he suddenly lunged forward. Without any weapon, he raised his palm and slammed it towards Xia Hong's face with a gust of wind.

roar…………

The fire lion puppet that had been hovering motionless in mid-air suddenly moved.

Along with him, the three-headed wolf king suddenly sprang up from the ground.

The two Five Elements Realm Beast Kings attacked simultaneously, directly blocking Xia Hong's path.

"The Solitary Beast King, you think you can stop me?"

Seeing the two beast kings blocking his way, Cai Qianshan sneered and asked a question. Without restraining himself, he continued to strike down with his palm, and in an instant, he was in front of the two beast king puppets.

Bang... Bang...

He used both hands, striking the bodies of the three-headed wolf king and the fire lion beast king puppets in succession.

It should be noted that both of these beast kings have now activated their battle forms, each measuring around two hundred feet in length. Compared to their enormous bodies, Cai Qianshan, who has neither activated his Golden Body Battle Form nor received any other trickery, is practically a tiny speck.

However, this tiny creature, wielding both hands, sent the Wolf King and the Fire Lion flying several kilometers with a single strike.

With the two beast kings sent flying, Xia Hong was now free of any obstacles.

Cai Qianshan's face beneath his crown was filled with anger. Without pausing for a moment, he continued to raise his hand and aim at Xia Hong's head. A murderous glint flashed in his pupils as he slapped down directly.

Xia Hong acted as if he hadn't noticed him, continuing to relentlessly suppress Cai Qiuhu with his Dragon Sparrow Blade, even as Cai Qianshan's palm strike reached his head. He remained unchanged, making no move to retract his blade.

Are they so fearless?
"Roar…………"

"Roar……"

…………

Just as Cai Qianshan had guessed, Xia Hong was indeed fearless.

Just as Cai Qianshan's palm strike was about ten meters away from Xia Hong's head, ten angry roars suddenly came from the ground, followed by ten beams of intense light shooting into the sky.

Four of them blocked Xia Hong's path directly, while the remaining six rushed towards Cai Qianshan from six directions: up, down, front, back, left, and right.

The six beams of intense light actually turned around and surrounded Cai Qianshan.

As the intense light dissipated, the object at the core of the light revealed its true form, casting shadows on the ground one after another, growing larger and covering a wider area. Everyone's expression froze instantly.

This "everyone" doesn't refer to just one party!
Whether it was the Xia army soldiers, Cai Qiuhu and his group of Xianyang-level soldiers from Caiqiu, or even Xia Chuan, Yuwen Tao and other high-ranking officials of the Great Xia, they were all the same.

They looked up and saw ten powerful beastly shadows that blotted out the sky. Their pupils trembled, and then their expressions slowly turned to excitement, their faces filled with exhilaration.

Cai Qiuhu and the forty-nine other Xianyang-level beings still had their pupils trembling violently, but after the tremors subsided, their faces were filled with terror and horror, as well as a hint of disbelief and astonishment.

"This this……"

"Plop..."

"Is this real? How can there be so many Beast King puppets?"

"It's not just that there are many, look at those few, they're in pairs?"

"Look at the white dragon above Fang Bo's head, isn't it in three rows?"

"Fire, metal, and water—the three elements—this is the Three Elements Five Elements Realm Beast King..."

………………

Surrounded by the six Beast Kings, Cai Qianshan's expression froze.

Clearly, what he was seeing was far beyond his understanding of the strength of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Twelve Beast King-level puppets, and one Three-Line Beast King...

(End of this chapter)