Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams

Chapter 347: Chapter 199: The Crisis at Luoxia Mountain (Part 3)

He Zhongyi looked at the vast snowstorm around and spoke.

Mu Chang carefully sensed his aura and shook his head slightly, ”Young Master Chongyi, we cannot proceed any further, we must find a place to take shelter.”

Although He Zhongyi’s cultivation had reached the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer.

However, when they ventured deep into this place over a month ago, they encountered this mysterious snowstorm attack.

The horse they were riding had been frozen to death days ago, leaving the two with no choice but to continue on foot.

Mu Chang originally planned to use wind manipulation to escape the snow-covered area with He Zhongyi, but this strange snowstorm engulfing the desert seemed to possess an odd power that could consume the cultivators’ spiritual power.

After flying barely over ten miles, their spiritual power was more than half consumed.

Even the spiritual power consumed to maintain the spiritual power shield was several times the usual amount.

Noticing something amiss and fearing other dangers lurking in the snowstorm, the two dared not overuse their spiritual power, relying only on their physical bodies to withstand the snow and cold.

Mu Chang, being in the Realm of Perfection, could barely manage to endure it.

He Zhongyi, with cultivation only at the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer and having a fire attribute spirit root, found the snow and cold especially suppressive to his spiritual qi and spirit root, causing him severe discomfort.

An immortal cultivator, now chilled to the lips turning blue, with weakened breath.

Mu Chang dared not persist further, fearing that continuing on would lead to He Zhongyi being frozen to death.

Forcefully maintaining the spiritual power shield, Mu Chang pulled He Zhongyi beside him, scanning the distance for a place to temporarily shelter from the snowstorm.

”Elder Mu! That is...”

With the protection of Mu Chang’s spiritual power shield, He Zhongyi finally caught a breath and, looking around, suddenly saw something not far on the ground to the front left.

”It looks like a person!”

Following his direction, Mu Chang squinted slightly, vaguely seeing a person collapsed in the snowstorm.

The two hurried over, lifting the person half-buried in ice and snow.

”It’s one of the lads who traveled with Wu Yi.”

Mu Chang looked at the corpse that had been frozen into an ice sculpture, his expression somewhat heavy.

A year ago, Wu Yi was ordered to lead a hundred-man team to explore the Western Wilderness.

In the initial months, they frequently sent messages to the mountain camp reporting their experiences and discoveries along the way.

But three months ago, the messages ceased.

This time, he and He Zhongyi ventured deep into the Western Wilderness, partly to find traces of Wu Yi and his group.

”Elder Mu, he has something on him.”

He Zhongyi inspected the barbarian warrior’s corpse, noticing a bamboo tube hanging from his waist.

It was precisely the tool clan soldiers used to carry documents and transmit messages.

Hearing this, Mu Chang detached the bamboo tube frozen together with the barbarian warrior’s body, opened it, and took out a letter well-preserved.

After glancing at the general content, he handed the letter to He Zhongyi with a serious expression.

”Young Master, it seems that Wu Yi and his group have already met with disaster.”

He Zhongyi took the letter and read it carefully, discovering that the message brought by this barbarian warrior indicated that Wu Yi and his men encountered a group of strange cultivators filled with malevolent energy.

Their strength was formidable, and their methods were exceedingly strange.

A brief conflict erupted between the sides, and Wu Yi with his hundred-men team was no match at all, barely breaking through at the cost of over sixty lives.

Fortunately, those strange cultivators appeared to have something important to attend to and did not pursue, otherwise the rest would have had no chance of survival.

”Elder Mu, the two places mentioned here...”

He Zhongyi pointed to the two words resembling place names on the secret letter, frowning as he looked at Mu Chang.

Mu Chang nodded slightly, ”These two places are precisely the Flame Lake Ridge and Frost Moon Mountain mentioned in the ’Water Grass Chant’ sung by my subordinate earlier.”

”The Flame Lake Ridge is a thousand miles away from the Muhe Tribe’s gathering place, where hot lava flows like lake water year-round.”

”The Muhe Tribe’s people would occasionally go to Flame Lake Ridge to find some ores to forge curved sabers and daily necessities.”

”Frost Moon Mountain is also seven or eight hundred miles from the Muhe Tribe, its peaks not high, and on certain days, the moon rises from the summit, making the entire mountain seem covered in thick frost.”

Mu Chang spoke, suddenly flipping the secret letter over, indeed finding a simple map on the back.

The map showed the locations of Frost Moon Mountain and Flame Lake Ridge, with a scarlet marker in the lower-left corner from both places.

”Wu Yi and his group encountered those cultivators here!”

Mu Chang’s face turned somewhat grim as he swiftly stood up, looking towards the distance.

”Elder Mu, what’s wrong?”

Mu Chang’s eyes carried a trace of panic, speaking in a deep voice, ”The place where Wu Yi and his group encountered those cultivators is less than two hundred miles from the Muhe Tribe’s gathering place.”

”Young Master, I’m worried...”

He Zhongyi understood his implication.

In his heart, Wu Yi described those cultivators as ruthless and strange.

The location of their conflict being so near the Muhe Tribe, Mu Chang was worried that should those cultivators discover the Muhe Tribe, their people would be slaughtered.

”Elder Mu, we mustn’t delay any longer, let’s hurry over and see first.”

He Zhongyi spoke, immediately slashing a flame blade, leaving a deep pit in the ground, placing the frozen warrior into the pit.

After all, the man died for the Shen Family, and unable to return his body, they could not let it be exposed to the wilderness.

After doing all this, Mu Chang gritted his teeth, grabbing He Zhongyi and dashing through the blizzard towards the distance.

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Danzhou Barrier.