0p0 Chapter 405 Awakening & Breakthrough
Chapter 405 Awakening & Breakthrough
Hu Qing was chewing the last piece of bear meat, his eyes looking through the ice curtain hanging from the cave entrance at the gradually sparse hail outside.
The aroma of oil still lingered between his lips and teeth, and he shook his head with a hint of regret.
If the polar bear was willing to surrender, crossing the snow-capped mountains would indeed be much easier.
Suddenly, there was a faint noise behind me.
"Hey, why are you eating alone without calling me?"
A familiar voice sounded faintly, with a hoarseness that came from not speaking for a long time.
The next second, Hu Qing felt a pair of arms wrapped around his neck from behind, strangling him with neither light nor heavy force.
Hu Qing raised the corner of his mouth slightly, raised his hand and patted the man's wrist:
"Why didn't you tell me when you woke up? Your share is still in the storage ring."
He calmly took out the reserved bear paw from the storage ring and roasted it again over the charcoal fire.
Amid the sizzling sound of dripping grease, Gu Yang sat down beside him with a pale face. Although his complexion was not good, his eyes had regained their clarity.
"After being unconscious for so long, you finally wake up?" Hu Qing glanced at him sideways, but the movement of turning the bear paw in his hand was extremely careful.
Just as Gu Yang was about to answer, a purple figure pounced into his arms like lightning.
Xiao Zi swung his tail excitedly, the dragon head rubbed his chest affectionately, and a coquettish whining sound came out of his throat, completely ignoring the need to digest the surging bear meat and blood in his body.
"Alright, alright..." Gu Yang coughed twice and rubbed Xiao Zi's horns with a smile, "I almost fainted from you again."
The rat man huddled in the corner, cautiously observing Gu Yang who had suddenly awakened, and could only silently reduce his presence.
Please, one Hu Qing is already difficult to deal with, and if there is another one, I don’t know if I can handle it.
Hu Qing noticed that although Gu Yang's face was pale, the spirit between his eyebrows was more dazzling than before, and the aura flowing faintly around him became more unfathomable.
The bear paws on the charcoal fire gradually roasted until golden brown. Hu Qing sprinkled a handful of spices on them, and the rich aroma immediately filled the entire cave.
He handed Gu Yang a wooden bowl filled with thick white bear bone soup: "Drink some soup to warm your stomach first."
Gu Yang took the bowl. Amidst the steam, his eyes swept over the piles of bear skins and pieces of meat in the cave, then looked at the hailstones outside that had not yet stopped, his brows slightly furrowed.
"During the time I was unconscious, it seems a lot of things happened?"
He smiled and rubbed his shoulder that was hurt by Xiao Zi, then took the naughty guy aside.
Hu Qing couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene.
He looked at the seemingly weak Gu Yang in front of him and keenly sensed the aura of returning to nature in him:
"Have you...broken through to Dust Breaking?"
Gu Yang raised his lips to a wicked smile, and deliberately dragged out his tone: "Then - must - be..."
Before he finished speaking, a terrifying pressure suddenly erupted!
The gravel on the ground was instantly crushed into powder, and the flames of the campfire twisted and deformed under the invisible pressure, and the flames struggled and swayed unwillingly.
Xiao Zi and the rat man seemed to be under a spell of immobilization, their bodies stiff and nailed to the spot, unable to even move their eyeballs.
"Breakthrough!"
Gu Yang spoke word by word, with a smile on his face as if he had succeeded in a mischief.
At this moment, the bear paw on the campfire fell into the fire with a plop, splashing a string of sparks.
"Oops!"
Gu Yang, who was so imposing just now, suddenly became flustered, and the suffocating pressure disappeared without a trace in an instant.
He hurriedly used a branch to rescue the bear paw from the fire, and patted the charcoal ash on it with heartache.
"I was so scared! I almost couldn't eat the delicious bear paw..."
Gu Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and carefully examined the delicacy that was almost destroyed in the fire.
Hu Qing laughed dumbly and shook his head: "A great master in the Dust Breaking Stage is so panicked over a bear paw?"
"This is the bear paw you left for me!" Gu Yang retorted righteously.
The bonfire flickered, and the fat from the bear paws dripped onto the charcoal, making a sizzling sound.
Gu Yang took out a jar of aged wine from his storage ring, broke the mud seal, and the rich aroma of wine immediately filled the cave.
"Come, have a couple of drinks with me to warm yourself up." He poured a bowl for Hu Qing. The amber wine shone with an alluring luster in the firelight.
The two men clinked their bowls, and the liquor went down their throats. A warm current immediately spread from the stomach to every part of his body.
In this world of ice and snow, there is really no more pleasant enjoyment than this.
Hu Qing put down his wine bowl and asked curiously, "After breaking through to the Dust-breaking Stage, have you made any new discoveries?"
When this was mentioned, Gu Yang's face suddenly darkened. He put down the half-eaten bear paw and said gloomily:
"My Soul Devouring Blade is gone! After I woke up, I searched my storage ring and couldn't find even a tassel!"
Xiao Zi and Hu Qing looked at each other and laughed dryly at the same time.
"Um...your knife is not lost." Hu Qing touched his nose.
Gu Yang breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the bear paw again: "That's good..."
"It was when Xiao Zi saved me that it was smashed by Zhe." Hu Qing added quickly.
"Click——"
The bear bone in Gu Yang's hand snapped. He grabbed Hu Qing's neck with his greasy hands and shook him madly.
"Damn it, what am I going to use next?! We're all out of weapons. Are we going to fight the enemy with our bare hands?!"
Hu Qing was shaken until he felt dizzy, but he still explained with difficulty:
"At that time... the situation was urgent... Xiao Zi used your knife to block Zhe's fatal blow..."
Xiao Zi shrank her neck and quietly took a few steps back, fearing that she would be taken out on others.
Gu Yang let go of his hands and sat back on the ground dejectedly, looking at his greasy hands with a mixture of grief and anger.
Hu Qing rubbed his red neck and took out a cloth bag from his storage ring:
"Don't worry, I've got all the fragments. Once I find a suitable refiner, maybe I can reforge it."
Gu Yang took the cloth bag and opened a corner. Inside was indeed the familiar Soul-Devouring Blade fragment, but it had become dim.
Then he looked at the oil stains on Hu Qing's collar, then he let go of his hand with satisfaction and turned to rub Xiao Zi's head to vent his anger.
Xiao Zi whimpered a few times in grievance, but did not dare to resist, and let his master rub his dragon horns into a mess.
Hu Qing shook his head helplessly, stood up and walked to the cave entrance, grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed it on his clothes.
The amazing thing is that the oil stains automatically fall off when they come into contact with snow, and the clothes become clean again in an instant.
"Now that you're full," Hu Qing shook his robe, "come with us to the depths of the cave. That silly white bear's treasure might be hidden there."
Gu Yang's eyes lit up, and he threw the clean bear bones into the campfire, and the flames immediately jumped up a few inches.
Baby, he loves baby the most.
He flexed his wrists and followed Hu Qing enthusiastically: "You should have told me earlier. I love treasure hunting the most."
Xiao Zi and the rat man looked at each other and followed happily.
The depths of the cave are deeper than imagined. A thick layer of ice has formed on the rock walls, emitting a faint blue light under the illumination of the torches.
When they reached the end, they saw a cave entrance dug out under a stone wall, with clear claw marks on the edge.
The polar bear must have crawled out of this cave.
Hu Qing squatted down and shone the torch into the cave.
There was indeed a vague space on the opposite side, but the details could not be seen clearly in the dim light.
He was just about to jump down and follow the tunnel dug by the white bear, but Gu Yang grabbed him by the collar.
Hu Qing turned his head in confusion, only to see Gu Yang with an eager expression on his face.
"Leave it to me to pretend to be a big thirteen," Gu Yang flexed his wrist, his eyes gleaming with excitement, "I just reached the Dust Breaking Stage, and I happen to have a new skill that I haven't tried yet."
Hu Qing raised his eyebrows. According to his understanding of Gu Yang, this new ability was probably related to his unique skill "Breaking the Air" during the Jindan period.
Gu Yang took a deep breath and lightly punched the hard stone wall, shouting in a childish tone:
"It's decided to be you, Pokong!"
The seemingly weak punch landed on the stone wall, but it triggered a surprising change—
"Crack!"
The space shattered like a mirror, and a dark crack spread across the stone wall, revealing a gray unknown space behind it.
Unstable light flickered at the edge of the crack, and tiny space fragments were suspended around like sharp blades.
Gu Yang waved to Hu Qing proudly: "Come on, come on, let me show you my new skills."