After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 264 Cold-Level Secret Realm 2
After a whole day of searching, they found a bunch of snow mushrooms and snow grass, but not a single precious spiritual plant.

That's true. The secret realm that can be entered by paying spirit stones has already had its precious spiritual plants dug up by others, so there's no chance for me to find them.

As night falls in this secluded realm, you can look up and see the full moon hanging in the sky.

The pine forest covered in snow resembled a man-eating monster awakened, withered vines sprouting and stretching out to absorb the essence of the moonlight.

Upon seeing the snow rabbit peek out, it was strangled with lightning speed, and in a short while, only the snow rabbit's fur remained.

Lin Yan, who was resting on a rock, scanned the scene with her divine sense and felt her scalp tingle.

Seeing with the naked eye in a snow-covered area puts a great strain on the eyes, so she uses her divine sense to see and also to be on guard against being ambushed.

Unexpectedly, I witnessed the withered vines feeding on food.

There are records of this withered vine in the ancient books of spiritual plants. It is called the Moonlight Vine. It cultivates by absorbing the essence of the moon and feeds on living things.

They sleep underground during the day and only emerge at night.

There's nothing of value on the Moonlight Vine; it can't be used for alchemy or weapon crafting, and there are better alternatives. It's something that cultivators would disdain.

Low-level Moonlight Vines have no consciousness and can only hunt weak beasts.

Vines have a much shorter lifespan than ordinary demonic beasts. They die before they can grow strong enough to become nutrients for the land, so they are not considered dangerous.

The problem is that the number of moon vines will cluster together, with countless vines sprouting out of nowhere, making it impossible to guard against them.

If a cultivator whose strength is insufficient accidentally enters the Moonlight Vine grove and provokes the vines, they can easily be hunted down as two-legged monsters.

Lin Yan was rather unlucky; the Moonlight Vines in front of her were indeed clustered together, including the King of Vines.

Under the command of the Vine King, the Moonlight Vine spread rapidly, and wherever it passed, the low-level demonic beasts that came out to forage became their nourishment.

The mark on her wrist burned, and the faint voice of the spirit bow echoed in her mind. "So...so hungry, I want to eat..."

The bow spirit suffered severe damage and was downgraded. It was also sealed inside the body of the Abyss Lord, which caused the Crimson Crown Divine Bow to be downgraded to a ninth-grade magic weapon.

After being contracted by myself, the bow spirit has mostly been asleep and recuperating, and has never reacted like today, let alone cried out for food.

Unlike spirits, bow spirits don't have physical forms and are sustained by a master's spiritual power, so they shouldn't be hungry. Now that it's suddenly appearing and complaining of hunger, she wouldn't be foolish enough to believe it's genuinely hungry.

It is because it desperately desires to devour something, but cannot describe this desire, so it uses the word "hunger" to describe it.

What attracts the archer spirit?

She had to pay attention to the Moonlight Vine. The Bow Spirit hadn't reacted when they entered the Frost-level Secret Realm; it only became active when the Moonlight Vine appeared.

To be precise, it only reacted when it discovered the King of Vines.

Amit said that to restore the bow spirit, it must be fed with rare and precious treasures, but it seems these aren't the rare and precious treasures she understood. Tree-type treasures like the King of Plants would also be effective.

Hunting down the Vine King is no easy task. Moonlight Vine grows in clusters, and she will inevitably be surrounded and killed by withered vines as soon as she appears.

This thing is good at ambushes, and one wrong move could put you in danger. But she finally found something to feed the bow spirit, and she didn't want to give it up.

If only she had dodder vine seeds right now. She could unleash her spiritual power, then use wood spirit to encourage their growth, allowing them to compete with the moonlight vine for territory and entangle the vine king's roots.

Dodder vine cannot defeat Moonlight vine, but it can create an environment for her to kill the Vine King.

She suddenly realized that there were no dodder vines, but there were cacti!
The cactus originally lived in the desert, and its root system had become exceptionally developed in order to plunder nutrients, making it a formidable opponent for territory even against the moon vine. She quickly summoned Fairy from her spatial dimension.

Xianxian, who was still half asleep, was woken up by the cold as soon as she came out and started shivering. Hugging his arms, he flew into her collar and poked his head out.

"Master, it's so cold~ Xianxian is freezing to death."

Upon hearing this, she scratched her head and used her spiritual power to wrap the little elf in, helping it stay warm.

The temperature difference between day and night is large in the desert area. Aren't cacti that grow there drought-resistant, cold-resistant and heat-resistant?

Plants are highly adaptable in order to survive, and she thought that the cactus that had grown in the yellow sand for many years had developed the ability to withstand the cold.

Undeterred, she asked again, "Didn't Xianxian develop cold resistance in the desert?"

"Master, but... but it's colder here than in the desert lands~"

Lin Yan fell silent after hearing this.

It was because she wore an outer robe to keep warm and an inner robe for protection, along with spiritual energy to protect her, that she was able to withstand the cold.

The elf's clothes were made of cactus petals and had no effect on keeping it warm.

If you plant the fairy's body in the ground, I'm afraid its root system will be damaged by the frost.

Her plan to use cacti to invade the moonflower vine has failed, so she has to think of another way.

"What does Master want Xianxian to do?" Xianxian didn't want to disappoint her master, so she rubbed against her collar and asked.

Lin Yan tapped the little elf's head with her finger and explained her idea. However, instead of letting Xianxian plant its main body in the snow, she sent it back to her space and decided to find another way.

"Master, can't you let the giants uproot them?" Xianxian asked in confusion.

It describes using magic to transform earth and stone into giants, who would then uproot the vines. However, the moon vines are numerous, and the giants are slow-moving; before they can even make a move, they will be entangled and crushed by the vines.

After thinking it over, I couldn't come up with many good solutions.

She sent Xianxian back into the space, marked the spot, and then left.

It's impossible to get her to give up on the Prince of Fuji, but there's really no better way right now.

She didn't believe that such a vast, frigid-level secret realm didn't contain any woody plants or demonic beasts that were incompatible with the Moonlight Vine.

Leaving the pine forest, she soon arrived at a barren place. There were few trees and only huge rocks. The ground was covered in snow; looking at it for even a short while could cause snow blindness.

It can be said that the pine forest is the most lush vegetation in the cold-level secret realm, where you can hardly find a single tree in other places.

Beyond this point lies the frozen lake, which is quite close to the heart of the secret realm.

There you'll find powerful monsters like snow apes and frost snakes. If you're lucky, you might even encounter ice crystal flowers and snow lotuses.

Given her current strength, going to the central area was too dangerous, so without thinking, she gave up on going there and chose to find a cave in the frozen lake area as her hiding place in the secret realm.

She was taking out a pill to replenish her strength when suddenly a black-nosed, white-haired thing appeared and let out a loud "Ah!"

With a tremor, the pills that had been poured out rolled off the ground. The furry creature quickly scurried over from the snow, picked up the pills, and darted back into the snow.

That thing looks just like a groundhog.
This time, instead of pouring out the pills, she chose to drink them directly, then held the bottle in her hand and continued walking forward.