Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 589 The Three Realms Reign Supreme, Li Baobao Encounters Danger
"The Void Fire, also known as the Great Void Karmic Fire, you should know about the Great Void, right?"

"Am I asking you, or are you asking me? If you dare utter another word of nonsense, you're dead!"

At this critical juncture, they're still trying to find out my background; this Six-Armed One is really too scheming...

Xia Hong's face remained expressionless, but his tone was unusually low, and when he looked at Liu Bi, the intense killing intent in his pupils was undisguised.

Six-Armed was so frightened that he trembled. He quickly suppressed his restless desire and began to tell the whole story about the Taixu Karmic Fire.

The Void Fire is different from ordinary flames. It can suppress all souls in the world, especially the dead souls. Speaking of this, we must mention the biggest characteristic of the dead souls: they will never perish.

The difference between a living soul and a dead soul has already been mentioned by the Six-Armed One. In short, the former is new and weak, while the latter is ancient and powerful.

Powerful things often come with privileges, and this principle can be applied to almost anything, including the dead.

Souls in the Netherworld do not normally perish completely. They are either suppressed, like those below Mount Qi, or devoured by other, more powerful souls and turned into nourishment.

Strictly speaking, neither of these two types constitutes complete death!

The former, those that were suppressed, could be released at any time if the Qishan Demon Lord was in a good mood; the latter, those that were devoured, could immediately regain their freedom as soon as their main body perished, and would gradually regain their intelligence over time.

Hearing this, Xia Hong basically understood!
Dead souls are a kind of immortal species in disguise, and they cannot be killed without special means.

This basically corresponds to the strange situation in the Ice Abyss.

Most of the monsters in the Ice Abyss are self-generated. Of course, it seems that some of them have smuggled themselves over from the Underworld. But as Six Arms has said before, the Underworld also has a constant stream of ancient dead souls that are resurrected, so they are basically immortal.

There are more than one way to destroy a dead soul than with Void Fire, but Void Fire is definitely the most effective of all methods.

"I come from the Demon Kingdom of the Dark Realm. Several months ago, I served under a Rakshasa Demon General in the kingdom. The area we were stationed in was attacked by a Great Sage from beyond the heavens. That Great Sage wielded a flaming divine spear, and when he struck it, he summoned a hundred miles of fire, nearly annihilating our entire army. Because we escaped death, I remember it very clearly. That flame was almost exactly the same as the flame that you used in the Ice Abyss before. At that time, the Demon General shouted 'Void Fire,' which is why I was able to recognize it."

Upon hearing this, Xia Hong's brows immediately furrowed.

This answer had virtually no effect on him. If one had to pinpoint its effect, it would probably have only made him aware of a bizarre force in the Dark Realm called the Demon Kingdom, and that Great Sage...

"What realm is the Great Sage? And what do you mean by 'beyond the heavens'?"

Six Arms was truly frightened at this moment, so he didn't dare to be evasive anymore and answered directly: "There are countless planes in the world, but the three realms of Great Abyss, Darkness, and Holy Sun are the most revered. I don't know exactly how strong the Great Sage is, but I know that he is a top expert in the Holy Sun Realm, roughly equivalent to the ruler of our Demon Luo Heaven Kingdom, and should be at the same level as the Qishan Demon Lord."

So, this six-armed being must have quite a background!

The Demon Lord of Moro Kingdom and the Demon Lord of Qishan are on the same level, and the Great Sage is comparable to them. That means there are likely even stronger beings above these three...

Xia Hong briefly dismissed this thought and quickly focused his attention on the first sentence spoken by Liu Bi.

There are countless planes in the world, but the three realms of the Great Abyss, the Darkness, and the Holy Sun are the most revered.

Xia Hong has been in the Ice Abyss for sixteen years now, but his understanding of this world has always been vague. Now he finally has a general idea of ​​what it is like.

Although Liubi didn't finish speaking, Xia Honglin could deduce some things from the various clues. The Tribulation Body Realm requires a dead soul to condense into a Venerable Appearance. Judging from the numerous slaughtering acts of the monsters in the Ice Abyss, it is not difficult to see that they also have a great need for living souls.

As for this Holy Sun Realm that I just heard about...

Xia Hong's eyes flickered slightly as he looked down at the six-armed creature and asked, "Is the life form that rules the Holy Sun Realm human or a cold beast?"

Six-Armed was taken aback upon hearing this, then subconsciously said, "Well, I don't know, but although there are some powerful humans in the Holy Sun Realm, I can assure you that humans cannot be the rulers of the Holy Sun Realm..."

As the six-armed man recounted his story, Xia Hong gained a general understanding of the Holy Sun Realm.

The life forms in the Holy Sun Realm are born with extremely powerful physical bodies, which is the opposite of the spiritual life forms in the Dark Realm. They are not divided into races, have no absolute ruler, and are divided into many major forces just like in the Dark Realm.

"Do you know about Lingyin Mountain?"

Upon hearing this, Liubi was taken aback. After a moment of thought, he nodded and said, "If you ask about other places, I really don't know. But I have heard of Lingyin Mountain. I learned about it from that Rakshasa Demon General. It seems that my Demon Luo Heaven Kingdom is related to Lingyin Mountain. It is said that the Demon Luo Kingdom ruler is an ancient person from Lingyin Mountain."

really!

Upon hearing this answer, Xia Hong felt a sense of understanding.

The strange creatures of the Ice Abyss do not only come from the Dark Realm, but also from the Holy Sun Realm.

This Holy Sun Realm sounds glorious and righteous, but judging from the things done by the five great masters of Dajue Temple, it is clearly not a good thing.

The Dark Realm and the Holy Sun Realm are probably two sides of the same coin. One side's beings are born with powerful souls, while the other side's beings are born with powerful physical bodies. Compared to humans, they seem to have unique advantages.

The fact that beings from both realms are so eager to descend upon the Ice Abyss means that the souls of humans from the Ice Abyss hold an extremely strong allure for them.

This is not a good thing!
Could the extreme cold of the Ice Abyss be the work of these two realms?
Upon suddenly encountering such a profound secret, Xia Hong felt a sense of unease, but many of his previous doubts were also resolved. However, due to his limited abilities, there were still many things he only vaguely understood, and he could only guess at the core concepts.

Originally, I wanted to use the question about the Ruins Fire to find out the origin of the Sacred Cauldron and even the camp system, but judging from the Six-Armed's answer, it was clear that it only had a superficial understanding and I was unlikely to get much more information out of it.

"I'll spare your life for now. I'll go to White Bone Mountain, but don't worry, if I encounter any danger there, I'll kill you immediately!"

Xia Hong didn't waste any more words. He sneered, ignored Liu Bi's expression, and directly put him into the silver box and then into the yellow mustard bag.

"Saving people is the priority, but ensuring my own safety is paramount. I have enough cultivation pills on me to sustain me for five to six days. That's about it. I'll focus on increasing my strength as much as possible. Seventy kilometers ahead, I'll slowly make my way towards White Bone Mountain!"

The results of his cultivation in just half a day were truly astonishing. Given such high cultivation efficiency, Xia Hong was naturally in no hurry to go over.

Xiahou Yong and Jiang Yiqing only have the Cold Resistance level of cultivation. Logically, they would die as soon as they enter the Dark Realm. However, the scattered spirit said that the three of them ran towards White Bone Mountain together, which means that the two of them are temporarily safe and are most likely with Li Baobao.

It's unclear whether Li Baobao was protecting the two of them, or if there was some other reason!
"Focus on improving first. In five or six days, breaking through to the peak of Manifestation Yang should be no problem. There might even be a chance to attempt the Tribulation Body..."

Having made up his mind, Xia Hong took a slight breath, looked to the west, found the nearest gathering place of spirits, and slowly approached it.

Relying solely on pills won't be enough; absorbing a large number of these spiritual entities will allow for faster improvement. This place is near Qishan, so he's a bit hesitant to use the Shattering Divine Light, but he can still use the upgraded Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.

So, Xia Hong devised a six-day cultivation plan for himself, and slowly approached the White Bone Mountain to the west, killing and absorbing scattered spirits along the way, thus beginning his frantic improvement.

...Boom!
Just as Xia Hong was frantically improving his cultivation in the Misty Swamp Forest, seventy kilometers to the west, at the foot of the Giant White Bone Mountain, in a boundless, dense white forest, Li Baobao was suffering greatly as she was chased by a raging fire.

"Where is this place?! How can there be such strange trees and those soul-like creatures without physical bodies? Only by summoning my golden body and unleashing my tribulation energy can I harm them, but there are too many of them. I can't handle them all by myself. This is troublesome!"

Having been in this world for half a day, Li Baobao escaped from the group of wandering spirits in the dense forest and made her way to this giant mountain of bones, and has roughly figured out some of the patterns.

In this world, most life forms lack physical form, rendering her powerful physical body, which she used to rely on, completely useless here; she can only depend on her golden body.

As we all know, when a cultivator in the Tribulation Realm unleashes their golden body, it means they are unleashing their full power. This state cannot last for long, at least not during the Tribulation Realm stage.

When she first figured out this pattern, she killed more than a dozen wandering souls and thought she could escape this world on her own. But when she walked out of the dense forest and came to this giant mountain of bones, she was instantly dumbfounded.

The giant mountain where he was standing was named White Bones because all the trees on the mountain were a deep white color and looked extremely similar to bones. There were humans, beasts, and some species that she couldn't recognize.

A mountain formed of bones is at most a bit eerie, but the fact that there is a large group of wandering spirits patrolling the mountain is quite outrageous. The key point is that these wandering spirits are wearing armor and carrying weapons, just like human soldiers.

"Fortunately, I can see them with the Boundary-Breaking Bead between my eyebrows. In the Ice Abyss, the Boundary-Breaking Bead was charged by absorbing monsters. The spirits I killed earlier were all absorbed by the Boundary-Breaking Bead, so these spirits and the monsters of the Ice Abyss are from the same source and are most likely the same kind of creature. So, have I come to the world of monsters?"

boom………

Li Baobao narrowly avoided the raging fire behind her. Turning her head, she saw thousands of heavily armed wandering souls chasing from behind and slowly surrounding her from the left and right. A hint of panic flashed across her beautiful face.

The wandering spirits she had encountered in that dense forest before were mostly incomplete, but the wandering spirits here were not only all formed, but also clad in armor and wielding weapons, making them significantly stronger.

Indeed, during her escape, she had already fought some of the wandering spirits. These fully formed wandering spirits were much stronger, and their weapons could even damage her golden body.

"With so many wandering soul soldiers, I'm doomed if we're surrounded. But my physical body is completely useless here. I can only rely on my golden body to fly, but I can't fly high or fast. How am I supposed to escape..."

Li Baobao looked up at the sky, her face extremely pale.

In the Ice Abyss, the ability to fly is a great advantage; the ability to move freely among thousands of troops is due to it. But here, it's completely useless; she had already tried it before.

boom………

"Little wench, stay here! You can't escape the Mountain of Bones. Abandon your physical body and stay by the lady's side as a maid, and you'll live forever..."

What's worse, the army of wandering spirits wasn't the only one chasing her from behind.

An elderly man dressed in a red robe, with a hunched back, sped toward her through the air. The old man held a crimson iron folding fan in his right hand and was fanning himself at Li Baobao.

With each wave of the old man's fan, a burst of fire would fly out from the folding fan, hurtling straight toward Li Baobao's golden statue.

Li Baobao had been running wildly for a long time, and his golden body was already somewhat weakened. His dodging movements were also starting to become a bit distorted. A continuous stream of fire beams rushed towards him. Although he dodged most of them, he would still be hit from time to time.

The flames clearly had a strong restraining effect on the human golden body. Many areas of Li Baobao's golden body were already covered with flames, and the flames were still spreading, showing a tendency to spread to other places.

"My eighty-foot golden body has been burned down to less than sixty feet, and it's already weakened by almost thirty percent. This time it's really over. Why did I go to the Great Xia? That blood pool must have been tampered with by the demonic dragon. It inexplicably sent me here..."

Li Baobao was filled with regret. Her previous inquiry into the situation of Chilong Lake was not aimed at Daxia, but rather she was worried that the resurrection of that demonic dragon would bring disaster to Mo'aochuan.

The subsequent discovery of the gold and the enmity with Xia Hong were purely accidental. She knew the value of the gold well, and as the Princess of Weibo and the next governor, she could not allow the Great Xia to monopolize it.

Furthermore, in her view, Great Xia does not currently have the strength to monopolize such a large amount of gold.

Of course, it's too late to say anything now!

"Those two Xia people fainted shortly after entering. Now it seems that hiding them on the outskirts of White Bone Mountain might have saved their lives. If we had taken them into White Bone Mountain with us, it would have been a dead end..."

Li Baobao felt a pang of sadness and shook her head slightly.

A beam of fire attacked from behind again. Realizing that she had no strength left to dodge, she showed a trace of despair, turned around, and released her golden body completely.

"There's no escaping it anyway, so let's fight!"

Three streams of calamity energy suddenly erupted from the golden body. Li Baobao turned around and drew her sword sharply. A sky-blue sword shadow also condensed on the golden body and suddenly rushed towards the fire.

call………

The fire was split in two, and a surge of calamity energy suddenly flew out, catching the red-robed elder off guard and forcing him to stop for a moment.

The front ranks of the wandering soul army fared even worse. They were first struck by the calamity energy, and then cleaved by the golden sword shadows. Dozens of wandering soul soldiers in the front ranks were instantly reduced to ashes, armor and all.

Of course, "ashes" is just a descriptive term; they are all spiritual entities. After being split open, they turned into countless points of light, which were then completely absorbed by Li Baobao's golden body.

"Even when death is imminent, you still dare to act so violently!"

Seeing that the rat he had been toying with had turned around and resisted, the old man in the red robe was furious. He raised his iron fan and swept it down sharply.

boom………

The raging flames shot out once more.

Li Baobao's golden body, which had just unleashed a powerful sword strike, was now completely exhausted and had no strength left to resist. She was relieved and simply closed her eyes to await her death.

Bang………

However, the expected pain did not occur.

"Come with me quickly! Crimson Flame is just one of the seven demon generals under Lady Jade Skull. Once the other demon generals arrive, we're doomed!"

Instead, a clear and charming female voice entered my ears first.

Li Baobao looked up at the girl who had suddenly appeared in front of her. She was stunned for a moment, but after seeing the girl's face clearly, she felt a strange feeling inexplicably.

"This face... doesn't it look familiar?"

(End of this chapter)