0p0 Chapter 410 Crisis in the Snow
Chapter 410 Crisis in the Snow
The sound was not as beautiful as the chanting just now, but instead had a harsh feeling like the friction of metal.
What’s even more creepy is that even though they are speaking a strange language, people can still understand their meaning directly.
Hu Qing's back suddenly tensed up, and he could clearly feel the eyes of all the white figures on the ridge locked on him.
The spiritual consciousness frantically issued a death warning, like millions of fine needles piercing the skin.
He swallowed dryly, his Adam's apple rolling, trying to ease the dryness in his throat.
"We went up the mountain just to look for treasure, we have no ill will towards you!"
Hu Qing shouted towards the ridge, his voice sounding a little thin in the wind and snow.
The leading white shadow suddenly trembled and let out a shrill laugh.
"Hahahaha... treasure hunting..."
The laughter was like the breaking of ice, echoing among the snow-capped mountains.
The laughter actually triggered an avalanche on the farthest mountain, and a faint rumbling sound could be heard.
"The High Priest has already driven you away—"
The hoarse voice exploded in everyone's mind again, and every word was like an ice pick piercing their temples. "Why didn't you listen? Why did you insist on going up the mountain? The Holy Mountain does not welcome you!"
As soon as the words fell, Bai Ying raised his arm and swung it down suddenly.
In an instant, the snowflakes that had been still in the sky began to fall again.
At first there were only one or two flakes, but in a blink of an eye they turned into a blanket of snow.
Hu Qing subconsciously put up a spiritual power shield, but found that these snowflakes were just ordinary ice and snow and were not aggressive.
The world in front of them suddenly turned white, and visibility was less than three feet.
"Be careful! Don't get lost!" Gu Yang shouted and grabbed Xiao Zi beside him.
When the wind and snow subsided a little, everyone looked up—
The ridge was already empty, and those white shadows seemed to have never appeared.
Only a large number of messy footprints left on the snow proved that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.
Hu Qing's eyes were still fixed on the ridge where the white shadow disappeared, as if he wanted to see through the thick snow curtain.
"High Priest? He also drove us away?" Gu Yang frowned, "When..."
The Rat Man suddenly remembered the strange snowstorm and hailstorm when he entered the mountain, as well as the strange sleep and mysterious footprints last night. His face suddenly changed:
"Sir, are these the heavy snow and hail when we entered the snowy mountains, and the footprints from last night?"
"Maybe it really is, damn! The snow is getting heavier!"
Gu Yang cursed angrily. The snow had already reached his knees, and every step was extremely difficult. "What on earth are those white-haired monsters? They can actually control the weather!"
Hu Qing stood there, cold sweat oozing from his palms, which were almost frozen in the extreme cold.
He stared intently at the direction where the Snow Witch disappeared, and the terrifying aura just now kept replaying in his mind.
The leading Bai Ying definitely has the strength of the late Duan Chen realm, and may even have surpassed Duan Chen and reached the legendary realm.
"A Qing? What's wrong with you?"
Gu Yang turned to look at Hu Qing, but found that he was standing there motionless as if he had lost his soul, staring into the distance with empty eyes, "Ah Qing!"
Got no response.
The rat man struggled desperately in the snow, which had already reached his chest. He thrashed about like a drowned rat.
"Help... Help! I'm getting buried alive! I can't fly!"
Xiao Zi swooped down, grabbed the back of its neck and pulled it out of the snow pile.
Then it circled in the air, its purple scales covered with snowflakes, anxiously looking for shelter from the snow.
But looking around, there was only endless white, and not even a protruding rock could be found.
"Hu Qing! What the hell are you staring at?"
Gu Yang rushed over and grabbed Hu Qing by the collar, but found that his body was frighteningly cold, and there was even a thin layer of frost on his skin. "Wake up!"
Hu Qing's eyes slowly turned, finally focusing on Gu Yang's face. His lips trembled, and the white air he exhaled was tinged with ice crystals:
"I...just used my foresight and saw..."
"What did you see? Tell me!" Gu Yang was so anxious that he jumped up and down, while picking up the rat man from the snow and throwing him on Xiao Zi's back.
Hu Qing raised his trembling hand and pointed at the snow-capped peak in the distance: "If we go any further up the mountain, we'll all die!"
"Ah Qing! Are you okay? Why are you talking nonsense?"
Gu Yang placed his hand on Hu Qing's forehead and was about to check on his condition when a burst of intense crackling sounds suddenly came from the sky.
Hailstones the size of eggs poured down and hit Hu Qing's head hard, making a dull "bang" sound.
This woke him up completely. He shook his head and ice crystals fell from his hair.
"I'm fine!" Hu Qing looked at Xiao Zi and the rat man who were desperately trying to avoid the hail, and felt a pang of self-blame in his heart.
At this critical moment of life and death, I actually got distracted.
Gu Yang waved his fist as big as a sandbag, smashing the incoming hailstones one by one:
"There's not even a ghost nearby. What should I do now?"
Hu Qing immediately expanded his spiritual sense to survey the surroundings, and his expression suddenly changed: "Let's go! Get out of here!"
Before he finished speaking, a sharp sound of breaking air was heard in the sky.
A giant hailstone as big as a human head roared out from the hail group and headed straight for the crowd!
"Quickly open!"
Several people rushed in different directions in panic.
The giant hailstones brushed past Xiao Zi's wings and crashed into the snow, making a deafening roar.
The snow splashed like waves, revealing the hard permafrost underneath.
The hailstones actually smashed a half-meter-deep hole in the frozen soil!
"Is this hail or a cannonball?!" Gu Yang climbed out of the snow pile and cursed in shock.
Hu Qing's expression grew increasingly serious. "This isn't naturally occurring... Someone is manipulating these hailstones!"
As if to confirm his words, the sound of breaking air could be heard again in the sky—
This time, there were three giant hailstones of the same size, coming towards them in a V-shape!
"Hide!"
The biting cold wind whistled past, carrying ice particles, and the dark clouds in the sky rolled like ink.
The originally fine hail gradually condensed into ice balls the size of a head, hitting the ground with a dull thud.
Gu Yang looked up with a frown on his face. The hail was getting stronger and stronger. If it continued like this, even with their cultivation level, they would be injured if they tried to resist it.
Now the smallest one is as big as a fist, and the largest one is even as big as a millstone.
He looked around anxiously, but there was not even a protruding rock in the vast snowfield.
"Since there's nowhere to hide," Hu Qing suddenly said in a deep voice, "then let's build one ourselves!"
Before he finished speaking, he put his fingers together to form a sword, and dozens of white sword energies whizzed out, carving deep grooves in the frozen soil like plowing the ground.
The snow was blown away by the sword energy, revealing the hard permafrost underneath.
The rat man immediately understood what was happening and pounced on the frozen ground with his sharp claws.
Its claws were even more efficient than Hu Qing's sword energy, and the frozen soil fragments it dug out flew back like raindrops.
Xiao Zi cooperated by spitting out dragon breath, melting the surface of the frozen soil and then quickly freezing it to form a solid cave wall.
Gu Yang soared into the air, his fists as fast as the wind, smashing the incoming giant hailstones one by one.
Amidst the flying ice crystals, he stood above everyone like a god of war, buying time for the excavation work.
"Hurry! Seize the moment!"
Gu Yang smashed the oncoming hail with one punch, his arm numb from the shock, "These hailstones are getting bigger and bigger!"
Underground, the cave is expanding at an alarming rate.
The ratman's claws had dug out a three-meter-deep tunnel, and Xiao Zi's dragon breath had repaired the entrance into an arch shape.
Hu Qing took out the wooden boards he had prepared in advance from his storage ring and quickly reinforced the cave ceiling and walls to prevent collapse.
"Guyang! The cave is ready!" Hu Qing poked his head out and shouted.
In the sky, Gu Yanggang smashed a hailstone as big as a millstone, and immediately swooped down upon hearing the words.
Just as he was about to enter the cave, a giant hailstone glowing blue all over came roaring towards him!
"careful!"
At the critical moment, Xiao Zi suddenly jumped up and took the blow with his back.
Hail exploded on its scales, and the flying ice crystals were mixed with a few drops of purple dragon blood.
Gu Yang took the opportunity to rush into the cave, broke the air with his backhand, shattered the hailstones and sealed the cave entrance.
Almost at the same time, the terrifying sound of hail hitting the ground was heard outside, and the entire cave trembled.
"Xiao Zi! How are you?"
Gu Yang hurriedly checked Xiao Zi's injuries and found that several scales on its back were broken, but fortunately, no bones were injured.
Hu Qing lit a spirit stone lamp, and the dim light illuminated this temporary shelter.
Although the cave is simple, it is large enough for four people.
The most amazing thing is that after the frozen soil on the cave wall was repeatedly melted by Xiao Zi's dragon breath, it actually formed a layer of crystal ice shell, completely isolating the cold air from the outside.
"It's safe for now." Hu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and took out medicine from the storage ring to apply to Xiao Zi.