Chapter 501 Silver Fish? Silver Dragon!
In the space, the fire phoenix and the silver fish are talking in circles. However, Lin Luoran has no idea about it and she is hurrying on with her journey in the northeast direction.
The paper crane was destroyed by someone secretly. Lin Luoran continues her flying in the northeast direction that the paper crane headed for before. White Fairy stays by her side. With the help of 10,000-year Hollow Azurite, White Fairy has consolidated its body and soul and fears not of the erosion of turbid Qi in the real world, not to mention in such a place with abundant Reiki like the Green Mountains.
When heads eastward, Lin Luoran doesn't forget to throw special plants she encountered into the space. Head north, the spring scenery leaves and there is a field full of ice and snow. From the warmth of spring to the chilly icy snowfield, there is no transition at all. The snow and ice line spread to the southwest at a noticeable speed. When Lin Luoran picks up a dead kingfisher frozen in ice, she kind of understands the situation. There is a crisis in the Green Mountains world.
Will the ice and snow seal the entire Green Mountains world?
If the ice and snow continue, no life will survive for sure. The Green Mountains world that the Nine-tailed Fox Family has tried so hard to preserve will end up with a situation not much better than the Earth today.
No wonder the paper crane sent the message saying that the Green Mountains were in danger... but where are cyan little fox and Liao now? What is waiting for her at the endpoint of the snow? Lin Luoran doesn't want to find a fox that turns into an ice sculpture and Liao who is no longer chattering by the end.
Moving on further, White Fairy next to her can't hold on. For the first time, Lin Luoran knows that besides fire, souls of departed are also afraid of ice.
"This snow can freeze people's primordial spirit. Be careful."
White Fairy's face turned pale. Lin Luoran's primordial spirit hiding in the central pubic region hasn't felt anything different yet. However, White Fairy is directly exposed to the ice and snow with the body of a soul. Its shoulders are covered with ice and snow while its face is covered with frost.
When it is asked to return to the space by Lin Luoran, White Fairy feels its hands and feet have turned stiff.
This strange ice and snow can hurt souls of departed. Lin Luoran shrinks her neck awkwardly. She has to reach the destination as soon as possible before her flesh body can't stand this.
The blizzard roaring, Lin Luoran speeds up. The white snow is concrete and shows no traces of melting. Lin Luoran's shoulders and hair quickly become snow-white. She is like a moving snowman now. Lin Luoran witnesses more and more stiff and dead animals along the way. Some low plants on the ground have long been submerged. Only towering trees can stand proudly on the snowy field, keeping their posture in the snow. It is like the Harbin Ice Sculpture Festival before the New Era... However, with a light touch, a towering icy tree falls to the ground and turns into pieces on the snowy field. When it collapses, it is a domino effect. The chain effect makes snow fly above the snowy field. The place which might be a dense forest all collapses.
No one can remember how the frozen plants and animals looked when they were alive. They are all buried in the snow on the ground.
Ice and snow here are really horrible. Lin Luoran feels that her hands and feet are stiff. Her eyelashes are gradually stuck by the falling snow and she can hardly open her eyes.
Fire Meta wanders around, hardly driving away the cold Qi flowing in her meridians. Lin Luoran finally sees an ice mountain far away before her whole body is frozen.
The floating clouds are only halfway up the ice mountain, which shows the height of the mountain. Snow is flaking and dancing for miles and miles. It is reasonable to say that it is also a place of immortals. However, the white clouds halfway up the mountain seem to be frozen by the ice and snow. It looks a bit sluggish and the beautiful scenery has become lifeless.
At the foot of the iceberg, many small flowers are found have not been turned into ice sculptures and swallowed by ice and snow yet. They are crystal and lovely. Lin Luoran is no stranger to them since she once saw them in the remote mountain villages. It's said that these flowers can realize people's wishes. However, now they are too fragile to stand up with a little move... They will soon turn into powders in this snowy field—they can't even save themselves, let alone help others realize their dreams.
Lin Luoran's spiritual mind expands. The entire ice mountain is silent with no signs of life.
She is kind of disappointed. However, with the state of mind of the Gathering Vitality, she is no longer the little girl who lost her sanity when her impulses got the best of her. Lin Luoran still carefully searches the entire area.
Her spiritual mind explores cautiously. Someone has destroyed the paper crane's tracing technique and her enemy who has been lurking in the dark has not shown up. This is obviously not a happy thing for her. Wait, there are some abnormal fluctuations after the ice mountain!
Lin Luoran hesitates for a moment, and then she walks away by the wind.
After she disappears in the deep, freezing, and sluggish clouds of the mountain, a jackdaw which was also frozen in ice opens its eyes, squatting among the branches at the foot of the mountain.
The sun shines on the jackdaw's white eyeballs with a terrifying and strange light.
...
The closer she gets to the top of the mountain, the more frightened Lin Luoran feels. It's like her soul is about to be frozen. Lin Luoran frowns instinctively. Before reaching the top of the mountain, she changes the route and walks around.
When the fear fades, Lin Luoran feels that she has dodged some unknown dangers.
She goes beyond the ice mountain from one side, and walks in the direction where she previously discovered the fluctuation. On the other side of the ice mountain, there is an endless ice field which looks nothing special.
After Lin Luoran hits a large "ice sculpture tree", she realizes something and finally finds something wrong.
This ice field is too flat.
Although the snow has covered everything, the ice mountains are rugged and the ground is filled with towering ancient trees and dead animals. Only the spacious ice field that Lin Luoran sees at this moment is as flat as a mirror deliberately polished by a craftsman.
No, it's not a mirror but a lake!
This was a Lake District?
Lin Luoran feels the fluctuation carefully. Under the thick ice layer, there are indeed fluctuations different from those water Reiki.
"Fire phoenix, is there a way to go down?"
Lin Luoran subconsciously discusses it with fire phoenix. This kind of ice is very difficult to melt even using Meta. She doesn't expect that fire phoenix will meditate for a while and then nods.
"Water and fire are incompatible. I can't deal with this, but sister silver fish can help."
Little silver fish? Lin Luoran has seen the Fire of Nirvana of fire phoenix and the cunning arts of nature of wood wolf. However, based on the deep-rooted first impression of being muddle-headed, little silver fish has never be considered as "powerful" by Lin Luoran.
When Lin is distracted, fire phoenix drags a skeleton out of its room wearing an expression of parting reluctantly with its treasures.
Lin Luoran thinks it is kind of familiar. After thinking for a while, she pats her head. Isn't it the dragon bone she got in Dongting Dragon Palace? Fire phoenix asked her to give the bone to it but hasn't done anything to it. She almost forgets it after all these years.
"What is the relationship between dragon bones and silver fish?"
Fire phoenix smiles like a sorcerer, "Haven't I told you that there is a way for the three of us to get out of the space temporarily?"
Lin Luoran's eyes flash with flames—she is sure, very sure that fire phoenix hasn't said anything!
Fire phoenix avoids Lin Luoran gaze which looks like she is going to kill someone. It murmurs with the silver fish. The muddle-headed feeling on the silver fish's face dissipates a little bit. Trusted by fire phoenix, it nods its head seriously.
The wood wolf moves forward to see what is going on, but it is flapped away by the wings of the fire phoenix.
Lin Luoran feels that fire phoenix becomes very strange after entering the Green Mountains world. This guy would never take the initiative to explain things for her before. When the paper crane technique was destroyed, fire phoenix talked about the old stories voluntarily. It now even tells her that the three residents of the space can go out. Things that Lin Luoran has never thought of come to her one by one. Everything is as strange as the Green Mountains that seem to be swallowed up by ice and snow.
Not until Lin Luoran figures out why the fire phoenix becomes so strange, the silver fish's half-solidified body has leaped to the dragon bones.
Lin Luoran is dumbfounded. Even White Fairy is not calm any more.
After the little silver fish disappears in the dragon bones, light contracts with the frequency of heartbeat on the skeleton whose age no one knows.
Some flesh and blood appear on the skeleton inexplicably, evolving towards perfection.
Muscles are growing out of white bones?
Lin Luoran has seen many strange things since starting personal ability enhancement. The dragon bone in front of her grows flesh and gradually has a full figure. It is then covered with silver dragon scales and becomes a real dragon. Seeing this scenery by herself, Lin Luoran still secretly pinches her thigh.
Silver dragon opens its eyes. Its eyes are clear but also a little confused. Lin Luoran can't be more familiar with this kind of look. It is definitely the little silver fish!
Lin Luoran doesn't understand how the little silver fish merges with the dragon bones. The dragon in front of her is not an illusion spell but with the flesh and blood. White Fairy also cannot find anything wrong.
"Hurry up. Sister Silver Fish won't keep this long."
Lin Luoran nods and sits on the dragon's head, clutching the dragon's horns with both hands. The huge silver dragon coils its body and takes Lin Luoran pass through the thick misty space.
Lin Luoran is surrounded by the feeling of stickiness and suffocation. She suddenly realizes that even if the silver fish is attached to dragon bones, it is still extremely difficult for it to leave the space. At least, as the space owner, Lin Luoran only has to trigger her spiritual power and she doesn't have to be so laborious when she enters and exits the space by herself.
Getting rid of the sticky feeling which bounds her, Lin Luoran rides a silver dragon out of space.
The cold air shocks her. Does the blizzard come here again?
Now she is riding on the dragon's head, hovering far away from the surface of the ice mirror lake and passing by the sluggish floating clouds. Silver dragon looks up to the top of an ice mountain and it seems to notice the abnormality.
"Hold on to dragon horns!"
Lin Luoran squints her eyes. Both the Silver Dragon and she notice something coming at a very fast speed after the raging snowstorm. She doesn't get much time to think about it. The Silver Dragon hovering in the air has already dived and crashed into the ice surface.
Chapter 502 The Song of Ice and Fire (I)
The blizzard is raging. Lin Luoran clutches the dragon's horns tightly. The wind and snow arrive just before the silver dragon rushes into the ice. Lin Luoran frowns. She instinctively throws out a ball of true fire which only people of Gathering Vitality period can make. It soon disappears into the blizzard.
When the cyclone stops, she has seized the dragon's horns and dived into the ice lake.
The ice lake that like a mirror cracks soon and crushed ice whizzes past Lin Luoran's cheeks. Since the Dragon nationality is the king of water, these strange ice and snow don't have the nerve to make any trouble in front of a silver dragon and leave ways for it.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Luoran has already been underwater. When she notices the trembling of the dragon tail, she gets anxious, wondering if the blizzard has caught her?
The silver dragon has already taken her all the way to the deep water before Lin Luoran takes another move. To her surprise, the water is not cold and leaves rooms for them automatically. Soon the lake is frozen up again and the unknown blizzard fails to catch up.
When Lin Luoran looks back, she finds that the silver dragon's tail is covered with hoarfrost. It seems that it was hurt earlier.
The thickness of ice on the lake has reached over ten meters. The silver dragon takes Lin Luoran into the ice. They have traveled for so far but they still can't see the bottom. At the bottom of the lake, they can't see any algae, not to mention fish. Lin Luoran also can't find a clue for the fluctuation she noticed before.
She rides a silver dragon to search the vast lake but now she can't even find a shellfish. Lin Luoran's instinct can't go wrong. She reflects that something was ignored and asks the silver dragon to stop temporarily.
Below the sunlit surface waters, there is a dimly lighted place. The swimming silver dragon stirs up some mud from the lake bottom and everything turns blurred. The view broadens when the lake mud sinks down. Lin Luoran keenly senses the gloomy light radiating from a certain part of the lake bottom.
It's like someone hiding a bright moon in the water. Seeing the rippling water, Lin Luoran feels that the scene before her is quite familiar.
Lin Luoran ponders for a while, she reminds that Yang Guo jumps down into a cold pool in the book Condor Hero. He finds another place under the water. She suddenly has an idea and pats the silver dragon's forehead.
"Go to that place!"
The silver dragon shakes its body to show it has understood. A person and a dragon swim towards the light source at the bottom of the lake. She and the silver dragon drill into a group of blue light.
The light path is so long and endless. It is extremely difficult for the silver dragon to enter and exit with its huge body. Lin Luoran doesn't want it to get hurt. When she understands that the small silver fish attached to the dragon bone can still come out later, she let it go back to space.
Lin Luoran walks along the tunnel and finally sees the end after half a day. Behind the translucent light door, she faintly hears the noise from the other side.
She hesitates for a while, but still walks through the door.
At that moment, Lin Luoran has pictured that something is waiting for her behind the door. However, it can only say that life is always more dramatic than novels and the weird world of cultivation—
Demons are dancing in disorder. An encirclement is formed by the various kinds of half-demon and half-men who have undergone the complete transformation, including demons who have a snake body and human head, a tauren face, a long tail and short ears.
It's easy to see the angry emotions on their faces. What surprises Lin Luoran is the two people standing in the middle of the circle.
One is Baojia who entered the Green Mountains world together with her! She blushes with a complex expression on her face Another embarrassed old man holding Baojia's right leg is Liao.
Lin Luoran feels her temples begin to throb again.
She steps across the light gate, and makes some noise. Baojia breathes a sigh of relief as everyone looks at Lin Luoran. In the meantime, Liao seems to be strangely resentful.
He is no longer a red-nosed alien now, but the simple old fisherman she saw before in Dongting.
"Nephew, it's so good that you are here... " Liao bursts into tears and snots. The armed half-demon and half-men all look at them with hatred.
Liao does not jump here yet, a demon with tauren face throws a metal rod to Lin Luoran.
Lin Luoran feels extremely troublesome. After she escapes an attack from the demon with a tauren, another demon with snake's tail tries to entangle her. Seeing that the situation turns chaotic, Liao wants to sneak away but is caught by Baojia.
"Settle the troubles you made as soon as possible!"
Liao is grabbed by the collar, and his face turns into eggplant color for a while due to the shortness of breath.
"The old man is trying to take flight! Catch him!"
"They are a team. Don't let them go."
"Yes. Human race is the most cunning..."
It turns a chaotic messy when spells burst out all kinds of colors and all kinds of magic weapons are used to attack. Lin Luoran thinks for a while, and she takes out a few "stinky mushrooms" from the space and throws them everywhere. As expected, this place is then filled with sounds of vomiting. As her fingertips move in order, the white mist becomes too thick to distinguish things. She also casts a few arts of nature as bewitchment. Lin Luoran then takes Baojia and Liao away in chaos.
After hiding under the soil for a long time, Liao yells that he is almost suffocated. Lin Luoran finally takes the two out of it.
It is summer here, different from the miles of ice-covered place outside the lake. The deep mountains where they are now are full of the sound of birds. Red berries hung among the branches, apes and monkeys are attracted to climb and pick and birds to peck. This is a harmonious place where the air is so fresh that people can't help but take two more breaths.
Unlike Lin Luoran and Baojia who stand in the forests gracefully, Liao is very awkward now. He is messy and has a few rotten leaves on his head. He sits on the tree trunk to count ant nests embarrassingly.
Baojia frowns and then stop frowning again for several times. "Is he your uncle?"
Uncle? Lin Luoran recalls the scene of Liao holding Baojia's leg. She really wants to pretend to be unfamiliar with this old man. Seeing Liao's eyes rolling around, Lin Luoran also wonders "Why did he hold on to you?"
Baojia turns round to look at Liao, "What kind of history does he have? He still looks the same after so many years."
Lin Luoran is stunned, and she soon understands what Baojia means. So they were old acquaintances too?
Liao is looking at the sky, Lin Luoran slightly frowns after hearing it. Did Baojia meet Liao when he was out of the earth? The two even travel to the Nami Alliance together... It's nothing to be separated for some reason. However, how could Liao just happen to sell The Book of the Dao to her in the N2 planet variety store?
"What else are you hiding from me?"
After Liao finishes counting the ants, he hums, "Now our focus is the cyan little fox. If you can't come up with a solution, it will become an ice sculpture."
Liao is really good at changing the subject. He fully understands what Lin Luoran wants to know the most. She looks at the mountains and forests surrounded by deep clouds and mist. "I came here after receiving your paper crane. Is this the Green Mountains world? Where is it outside the ice lake? "
Liao drives away a dull golden monkey with long tail. He picks up a pear in the wild and chews it, "Here and the place outside of the lake both belong to the Green Mountains. Now considering the snow and ice, that little fox will die sooner or later if it can't become an Arctic fox or we can't come up with a solution."
This is the Green Mountains world!
Lin Luoran looks at the mountains. They are really primitive, but the monsters' personal ability is kind of bad, so none of them can completely humanize. She can also understand why those half-demon and half-men without "Diliu Syrup" look so strange.
"We can talk about what happened when you guys entered the Green Mountains world later. Now I just want to know what the ice and snow outside is? Where is cyan little fox now? "
Liao is a little bit upset, "I'm the one to be blamed for. Nothing would happen if I ignored that Temple. The cyan little fox is now trapped in the Temple, which causes the ice and snow here. Now it is impossible to return this thing back! "
Liao searches in his arms for a long time and then he takes out an egg-sized and diamond-shaped red crystal. A few steps away from him, Lin Luoran can still feel hot.
Seeing that Liao doesn't feel hot, Lin Luoran touches it with her hand, and she is surprised at the abundant fire Reiki in the diamond crystal.
If the crystal with so abundant Fire Reiki is smashed, the whole Earth will be burned to the ground. How could Liao get this big killer?
"The temple you are talking about is located on the ice peak outside, right?"
Liao nods. Lin Luoran points to the diamond-shaped crystal in her hand and asks, "Are you the one who stole this crystal to trigger the ice and snow?"
She has always known that Liao is kind of unreliable, but not the kind dare to make such a big mistake. Just like what written in the Song of Ice and Fire... how dare he touch this kind of fire crystal in the temple casually?
Liao's face turns into the color of purple eggplants again, "How could it be possible! When Cyan little fox and I went to the temple, this fire crystal has fallen from the altar!"
Chapter 503 The Song of Ice and Fire (II)
"Fallen thing" is not a good signal and it has always been a cliche in numerous novels and movies. If something is related to some words like "temple" and "altar", there will definitely be some suppressed dark creatures.
Lin Luoran thinks of the raging snowstorm which is really terrifying. It really makes her feel uncomfortable. It's a pity that her ocean of consciousness is unstable now because of the matter of developing the Taoist root. She now can't cast arts of nature casually and she is not so confident anymore.
Liao has the power to travel through "worlds" and it turns out that he had been pestering cyan little fox. Cyan little fox couldn't stand him and just agreed his plan. Lin Luoran was still busy dealing with the moonstar and the "Miaoyin Spell Conference" when the man and the fox returned to earth and the Green Mountains first.
Cyan little fox was once lost in the Green Mountains. It was not that it didn't want to come out. The truth is that it's easy to get in the Green Mountains but hard to get out. When it worked very hard to cultivate a second tail to leave the Green Mountains, the earth had long been a scorched place. It couldn't find the former Lin family so it could only stay in the Kalahari Desert.
Back to the Green Mountains again, cyan little fox had a little personal ability. It didn't have to run away with its tail between its legs like it did three hundred years ago. Liao encouraged it and they walked all over the Green Mountains. Finally, they climbed to the highest peak and saw a temple.
No one knows why there is a temple in the Green Mountains world. The cyan little fox didn't dare to come here three hundred years ago. Now it is here but it still couldn't figure out which god is worshiped here. It's well-known that the Nine-tailed Foxes Family in the Green Mountains world can cultivate to become heaven foxes. Many of them can preach with monster bodies. Why do they have to worship other gods? They are actually the "gods" of the Green Mountains world.
Liao took the cyan little fox to the peak. It was a temple of god but it was totally abandoned. Everything was normal. This place had been the nest of nine-tailed foxes and it occupied the highest place in the Green Mountains world. Cyan little fox never thought that there would be insidious things in this dilapidated place. As for Liao, he was gregarious. After seeing the temple, he felt so disappointed and he and the fox agreed to leave.
"I don't know why. We hadn't stepped out of the broken hall when the mountain suddenly trembled. The temple was totally broken and the altar collapsed immediately, revealing this damn crystal."
How could there happen to be an earthquake? Lin Luoran stares at the diamond-shaped crystal and she is annoyed, "Uncle Liao, why didn't you return it after you picked it up?"
Liao stares at her without a word, and Lin Luoran blushes.
The world of cultivation is not a world free from greed. There are many cultivators, including her, would have the same idea as Liao. The things that people get for free are all called "lucky chance". When Liao picked it up, he would never expect this thing to be so troublesome.
Seeing that Lin Luoran doesn't blame him, Liao continues, "The cyan little fox realized something abnormal. It asked me to return the damn crystal."
Of course, it was too late to return. Lin Luoran sighs.
Liao picked up the crystal, and cyan little fox seemed to remember something. It asked him to return the crystal quickly. Liao didn't have the time to do it yet when a cloud of white light burst out from the broken altar.
"The cold air is permeating. The little fox was swept away in the blink of an eye. I wanted to reach out to get it, but I almost froze my fingers. It's lucky that I reacted quickly and threw a treasure to protect it! "
Liao talks about this part proudly and he doesen't talk about the rest story of running away awkwardly. Lin Luoran knows it and doesn't push him. She only asks him what treasure he threw in.
"It's a collar." Liao is very proud. It is not an ordinary collar. He woke up from the broken world of immortals and tried very hard to get it from a pile of rubbish. After years of experiment, he realizes it does have some magical effects.
Collar? What kind of collar? Lin Luoran feels so creepy when she hears it. She thinks something is wrong and suddenly remembers a collar she found at Ethereal Palace. She fumbles and gets it to Liao.
Liao praises, "This thing is not as good as mine. My treasure can trap mythical monsters like unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes. It's very amazing."
"So, cyan little fox was suddenly caught and you threw an animal trap on it?"
Liao nods, "It is totally worth it. Without the owner, ordinary people can't get close to cyan little fox. Therefore, it can be considered as a protector."
Lin Luoran is speechless. As the saying goes, the skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. An animal trap from the immortal world must still be very magical. Liao was absurd but he still did it for the cyan little fox... Even it is this case, when Lin Luoran thinks of cyan little fox being trapped by the collar, she thinks it might want to die rather than being protected in this way.
That is a proud fox!
"After that, you took this crystal and hid it by the lake. That is the reason why the outside world is covered with ice and snow."
The blizzard chases to the ice lake and then suddenly stops. It is not because the lake water is strangey, but because it is afraid of the crystal in Liao's hand on the side of the lake. But seeing that the thickness of the ice layer of the lake, it is just a matter of time that "it" chases over and turns the paradise here into a frozen world.
Although crystal is a thing that restrains ice and snow, everything in the world follows the rule of one side gaining while the other side losing. Fire can suppress water, and water can also extinguish fire. When the force of ice and snow reaches a certain level, the crystal cannot control the situation no matter how powerful it is... The important thing now is that the cyan little fox is still in the hands of the unknown being.
Lin Luoran clears her thoughts, and then turns to ask Baojia, "How did you get here? Did you see the Acacia tree monster?"
Baojia shakes her head, "I woke up in the midst of the mountains, and then I fought with those monsters for several rounds. Later on, I met Uncle Liao."
Lin Luoran smiles bitterly, "Uncle Liao, what did you do to make monsters, heaven, and people all become angry?"
Liao changes his previous wretched appearance. He sits straight and takes out a lot of things from his arms. There are some things similar to the teeth from a certain monster, spirit herbs, and ore. No one can know how many things are gathered here. Lin Luoran and Baojia are both dumbfounded.
"...you couldn't steal them!"
It must be so. No wonder angry monsters all besieged him. For the first time, Lin Luoran thinks she is siding with the bully.
Baojia and Liao have spent some time together. She thinks of something, "You stole these things to irritate those monsters. Isn't it because you want to lead them to save cyan little fox?"
Liao's idea is revealed and he laughs twice.
Lin Luoran feels a little guilty for blaming Liao by mistake. After thinking about it, she shakes her head, "The ice and snow are so powerful. These monsters are safe and sound now but I'm afraid it's just because you are holding the crystal and hiding on the side of the lake. Relying on them to deal with the unknown being is no chance of winning."
The solution is very simple. They have to return the crystal and place it on the altar of the temple—provided that the crystal can still restrain the powerful ice and snow which has become extremely powerful.
The question is, who can put the crystal back?
Lin Luoran thinks of her palpitations when she approaches the top of the ice peak. She suddenly shivers out of no reasons.
...
Facts have proved that Liao's plan of trying to provoke angry monsters to go to the temple is not very successful. If Lin Luoran didn't show up timely, he would be killed by monsters, and Baojia may also get involved in it.
Compared with conspiracy, Lin Luoran prefers fighting fair and square.
She takes Liao back to the previous battlefield and displays the things Liao stole before. Monsters come here one after another. No one knows what Lin Luoran is trying to do.
Lin Luoran returns the things without instigating or adding the trimmings. Of course, she will not tell them that everything is fine now.
She just tells these monsters of the crisis faced by the Green Mountains world at this moment. They can choose to stand with her to fight. They can also choose to wait cowardly for the ice and snow to suppress the power of the crystal and then die eventually. These monsters should understand the priority.
"Despicable human race, how can we know whether you are lying or not?" A lark is chirping. Liao stole its eggs, which is really vicious. No wonder it is so wary.
"Besides, outside the lake, it is just the subsidiary of the Green Mountains. The Green Mountains is evergreen in all seasons. What kind of snow and ice can spread here?"
These monsters are isolated. Human race does not exist in the Green Mountains and monsters here are very simple. The first human they know is Liao and he left them a bad impression. Hearing the words of the lark, the monsters all look at Lin Luoran suspiciously.
Lin Luoran does not refute. She just puts the crystal back to space in public.
Monsters are standing very close to the light gate of the ice lake. Without the crystal, everyone shrinks their necks because of the cold air from the shimmering and twisted wall.
A lot of moss grows on the moist ground, and the vibrant moss has been covered with a layer of hoarfrost in just a few minutes.
The air of ice and snow ignores the barriers of the lake, making people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.
They finally understand what Lin Luoran said is true. The Green Mountains are facing the choice of life and death. If fire doesn't suppress the white snow, the evergreen Green Mountains in all seasons will turn into a deserted snow world.
This is a battle song of ice and fire. All monsters have heard it in their mind.
Monsters look at each other. The place is silent for a moment.
Chapter 504 The Bewitching Lark
The atmosphere is subtle and complex. Monsters and the three of Lin Luoran are all waiting near the light door.
The crystal has been taken out again long ago. This place is now warm again, which remains unchanged throughout the year. The hoarfrost on the moss disappears and the moss turns green.
How to do?
This is the common question in the mind of the monsters and the three of Lin Luoran. It is a pity that the two sides just made peace not long ago, and the atmosphere is so serious that they can't talk casually for a while.
Monsters and cultivators can skip meals. However, Liao has a long lifespan but he is actually the same as a mortal. After running for life for so long, Liao's stomach growls when no one makes a sound.
He feels very embarrassed. Lin Luoran takes out some fruit and throw them to Liao. The fruit is fleshy with soft skin. After one bite, the fragrance of fruit fills the surrounding area. The lark turns its head. Its round eyes roll a few times, and then it lowers its head and combs the feathers on its wings.
The lark doesn't run around with an unhumanized body like other monsters. It still has its original body with a beautiful crown on the head and a small and conical mouth. Its wings are long and pointed while its tail is a little short. Its grayish appearance has nothing to do with beauty or deterrence. Only its voice is excellent. It talks endlessly, but it is not annoying.
The bird is looking at Lin Luoran secretly, and Lin Luoran is also looking at it.
Compared with those monsters, the lark looks very weak. However, it can stay here safe and sound. No one can deny its wisdom. Its words are sharp, but Lin Luoran always feels that they are the protective color of the bird.
These monsters have plenty of time to think about it, but Lin Luoran doesn't, because cyan little fox is still in the hands of "blizzard". No one knows how long the animal trap Liao threw out casually can stand.
The three of them absolutely have no way to reach the ice peak by themselves. However, how can monsters unite?
The lark on the opposite side is looking at her secretly again. Lin Luoran thinks for a while and takes a handful of cherries out of space with sweet potato leaves. She doesn't say anything. Others only think she takes something out of the storage space. Although the cherries are a little bigger and reddish, they are nothing strange in the eyes of these monsters.
However, after Lin Luoran invites the lark to taste the cherries produced by space, she actually gets in touch with the lark.
Lin Luoran is surprised by the bird's wisdom hidden under the twitter. As soon as she begins to talk, the lark interrupts her plan of encouraging the monsters to act. It eats the cherries while talks about ancient legends casually.
"The Green Mountains world used to be the home for all races. However, now it's a rare thing that a human race appears." The lark spits out a cherry pit. It looks around for a while, and then lowers its voice to whisper in the ear of Lin Luoran, "Monsters look down on the mountain outside, but I heard that an evil spirit is suppressed there."
Evil spirit? Lin Luoran rolls her eyes to the lark. Even the cultivators of the Gathering Vitality period is afraid of that thing. How can it just be an ordinary evil spirit. Soul and spirit are the weakest. When White Fairy was under the abyss, it was even afraid of the Taoist wind. Common soul and spirit can not even withstand a Fire Ball spell from cultivators. Compared with cultivators pursuing Tao of nature, Taoists who hunt ghosts just play some little tricks.
But what the lark says is also a clue.
Liao comes forward brazenly, "Then maybe the thing suppressed there is my old acquaintance."
Speaking of this, he takes a sneaky look at Baojia and then sits down seriously.
Lin Luoran suddenly thinks of something. Liao came here earlier before them, and he is an old monster who has lived for countless years. Although he does not have any personal ability, he is never an "illiterate" in knowledge... If you must compare him to something else, you can say that it is a mobile library of the world of cultivation.
Why is Liao taking a peek at Baojia? If the group of "blizzard" under the altar is an old acquaintance, it can only be Liao's old acquaintances. How does it have anything to do with Baojia?
Lin Luoran shakes her head, trying to shake this absurd idea out of her mind. Liao then silently mouths words to her.
After guessing for a while, she finally catches the silent syllable that Liao doesn't utter... Kuizang? What the hell! Lin Luoran has nothing to say with Liao. She turns her head and talks to the lark again, and then she is suddenly stunned.
Liao is not talking about "Kuizang", but Gui Zang!
Old acquaintance, Baojia, the Green Mountains—there is an old saying from Gui Zang·Qishi, "Chiyou came from Yang River with eight arms, eight toes, and sparse hair. It reached Jiunao to get Kongsang. However, the Yellow Emperor killed it in the Green Mountains." How can she forget this?!
In the legend of Huaxia, the Yellow Emperor tribe lived in Kunlun Hill with the nine-tailed fox "Lu Wu" as their god of protection protector.
In addition to ordinary mortals, the Jiuli tribe and the Dongyi tribe also live here. They also worship nine-tailed foxes as the god of protection.
When the mist is unveiled, thoughts can easily diverge from a certain point. Lin Luoran narrows her eyes and thinks a lot. Baojia is a descendant of the Jiuli tribe. The fake saintess is "the saintess of the Jiuli Tribe". Nine-tailed fox is the protector of the Jiuli tribe... No wonder when the fake saintess was about to leave the earth with jade stairs, she wanted to take the cyan little fox with her... Although cyan little fox didn't know her, the fake saintess had probably known its family.
Chiyou came from Yang River... The Yellow Emperor killed it in the Green Mountains.
Is it possible that the "blizzard" running out from the altar is related to Chiyou?
—or maybe it's Chiyou!
Liao winks for some reason. If the thing comes out of the altar is actually the ancestor from the family of Baojia, this matter may have something to do with Baojia—however, if Lin Luoran and Liao make a mistake in judgment, Baojia's life may be in danger!
Lin Luoran hesitates and Liao's eyes roll quickly. He tries his best to please Baojia. Baojia touches her own face—there is nothing dirty on her face but she always feels that the two people stare at her with a weird look.
Seeing Lin Luoran's hesitation, the lark is anxious, but it doesn't show it on its face. It jumps back to the monsters.
As a lark with extremely bad natural abilities, it can be the bird it is now not only because of excellent lucky chance but also its wisdom.
Lin Luoran is here just for saving cyan little fox. However, for these monsters living in the Green Mountains, they will really be dead if the vegetation withers.
Stared at by Liao, Baojia is fidgeting. She runs into the forest with an excuse for breathing fresh air. Someone breaks the silence, and the monsters begin to chat loudly. Some are irritated and say that they can kill all the way to the peak of the Green Mountains. Some say they can work together to break the boundary of the Green Mountains and then go to the human world... Lin Luoran does not refute the opinions. She only calmly tells them the current status of the earth. Monsters are now even more anxious.
They can't move further nor step back. Does the Tao of nature want to kill all monsters of the Green Mountains?
Lark tilts its head and gets an idea. Taking advantage of the monsters' commotion, it sneaks along the direction of Baojia.
...
Nolan...wrong, her name is Qin Baojia.
A finger-wide blade of grass entangles her fingertips. Even if she doesn't admit it, she can't change the fact that "Nolan Mancia" and "Baojia" are the same person.
"Bao" and "Jia" both have very good connotation in the language of Huaxia. Her birth must be a treasure for the Qin family. She has completely forgotten her history. About this, Baojia feels afraid and envious at the same time. She has been with Lin Luoran in Nami Star so she knows how much Lin Luoran values her friendship with "Qin Baojia". She is very envious of "Qin Baojia" having such a friend. However, she just wears the shell of "Qin Baojia", and the core and personality are completely different.
It is not difficult to know from Lin Luoran's description that "Qin Baojia" is a reckless and enthusiastic person, like fire. However, "Nolan Mancia" is ignorant of her new life. She drifted across the stars and then was adopted. She has no way to be a reckless person.
Does she deserve the friendship of "Qin Baojia and Lin Luoran"?
The grass blades are rubbed by Baojia and now it's hard to tell they are blades. Light in Baojia's narrow eyes flashes. Her Snow Sword suddenly unsheathes and cuts to a big tree aside. The blue light disappears, and there is a sharp cry of a bird from the dense branches.
"You!"
A few feathers fall down with the leaves. The lark is very angry.
Baojia stands there holding the sword. She is not angry but smiles, "You follow me sneakily. Why can't I cut you with my sword?"
The lark feels heartbroken because of the falling feathers. It is jumping up and down while chatting with Baojia. Seeing Baojia's face full of impatience, it leans forward to bewilder her with words,
"I mean... you are so powerful. Why don't you help your friends?"
Friends? In the eyes of the monster, she and Lin Luoran are friends?
Forgetting this, when it comes to power, how can the Bearing Essence Period compare to the Gathering Vitality Period! Seeing Lin Luoran's frowning brows, she knew that this matter will be very difficult to handle. This bad bird actually comes to amuse her!
The lark coos twice, "Don't look at me with that look. Just now, the other girl and the old man who stole my egg secretly talked a lot. It must be something related to you... and the ice mountain outside!"
Baojia restores the Snow Sword to a hairpin and inserts it back into her hair. She lowers her eyes and no one knows what she is thinking.
"Maybe I am wrong?" The lark sighs and wants to fly away. Baojia suddenly looks up and smiles.
"You are bewitching me to go to the ice peak. What do you know?"
Chapter 505 Resurrection?
The monsters have been arguing for a long time but they still can't figure out what the priority is at this moment. Lin Luoran has to count on these mobs to go to the peak—She feels so stressful and gloomy.
Lin Luoran squints at Liao. Liao's face turns blue and purple, and then turns from red to white, like a color palette knocked over—he is very anxious now. He thought about pushing these monsters to the ice peak. From the current situation, It is clear that they will never be helpful.
"Shut up!"
Facing disunited and angry monsters, Lin Luoran also can't have a good temple. She just rewards the monsters with a pepper rain. In the sound of sneezing one after another, they finally focus on one person... Lin Luoran feels a little nervous. They are looking at her ferociously but it still means that they finally look at her.
"In fact, what happens to the Green Mountains world has nothing to do with me. If you continue to fight, I will leave with the crystal stone which can stop ice and snow. We can just separate. You are willing to be ice sculptures for ten thousand years and it is none of my business."
This is totally a threat!
Many monsters grind their teeth in front of Lin Luoran and she just ignores them.
If they want to go to the ice peak, they can only do it when the unknown being is unprepared. After a long delay, Lin Luoran has had something in her mind. She even comes up with a very bold plan.
"There is an altar in the temple of the ice peak. We have to place the crystal on the altar. I don't know if the Green Mountains world can restore in this way, but at least, the ice and snow will stop spreading."
The crystal stone lays quietly in her palm. The weather is good and it shines brilliantly like coloured glaze in the sun.
What if there is more than one crystal stone?
Lin Luoran's heart beats like a drum because of this bold and adventurous idea. If she uses a fake crystal as a cover with monsters going up the mountain from different directions... can this fool the "blizzard"?
Lin Luoran doesn't say anything yet when the lark flies from the dense forest with panic in its eyes.
"Your friend... went up to the mountain alone!"
Lin Luoran's pupils shrink and she catches the slender neck of the lark, "What did you say to her?!"
For no reason, why did Baojia go to the ice peak alone? She has been guarding the light door. How can Baojia go there?
Monsters and humans are in different camps. Although the lark has been nagging and annoying, all monsters will still support the lark as soon as Lin Luoran turns hostile. A war is coming. Dew from trees is all condensed because of the monsters' momentum, suspending there but not falling down. Compared to Liao's profusely sweating, this scene is like the climax of a mime.
Liao tries his best to rescue the lark from Lin Luoran. He is so nervous that his face turns green.
"Keep cool. Keep cool."
The lark hides behind Liao. It screams, "I can't stop her if she wants to go!"
...
Baojia leaves from the bottom of the lake.
It's an underground tunnel that leads directly to the ice peak. The entrance is in the territory where larks have lived for generations. That place smells like a big dung pond. No wonder larks know the tunnel leading to the outside world of the Green Mountains, but they have never taken this shortcut for hundreds of years—it's smelly. Besides, it's so dirty that people don't know where to step on.
Lin Luoran gives the fire crystal which born with the Strange Fire to the lark. "I take the real crystal. If you don't cooperate, the only way left for us is to die together. If we just hide here, it's just lingering on with our last breath of life."
The faces of the lark and the monsters change.
Even though their faces turn red, they can't vent their anger because Lin Luoran is telling the truth.
Liao is dragged down the cave by Lin Luoran and he almost faints on the spot. He has lived for so many years. In his worst days, he was trapped in the gobi desert and hid in a burrow for half a year. He even once ate scorpions and spiders and drank mice blood. However, facing such a smelly tunnel... Liao tries his best to control the sickness feeling from his stomach. He turns to look at Lin Luoran next to him.
Linny is really powerful. She takes filth as nothing, and she can stay calm in such an environment, which impresses knowledgeable Liao.
His legs are covered by dung but Lin Luoran is not stained at all. They are all human beings. How can they be so different?
Liao finally notices the glimmer around Lin Luoran's body. She doesn't even step on the ground!
Liao pinches his nose and accepts the situation. He secretly despises "cultivators" for a hundred times. At this moment, Lin Luoran suddenly hands him a plant like a crinitum.
"What is this?"
"Chew and eat it. Or maybe you can just walk over by yourself?"
Linny is such a nice person! Liao grabs the crinitum and throws it into his mouth to chew. It is full of flavors—sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. He sheds streams of tears and snivel. Liao points at Lin Luoran and he can't utter a word.
Lin Luoran is not in a good mood, so she only keeps her head down to hurry on with her journey. She has no time to comfort Liao's complicated heart.
Liao feels sorry for himself for a while. After his exploding taste buds calm down, his mouth is totally numb. What kind of spirit herb is this? This is totally a poison! But his nose really can't smell anything after the stimulation.
As they go far, the smelly tunnel is actually a different place.
Maybe they have been under the ice lake. The air inside the tunnel is wet and cold. In the meantime, it's bright and shining here. This place is inlaid with many gems of various colors. Maybe this is because of a lark which loves money.
Taking any one of them out, people can get a large sum of money at auction on the earth before the new era. The timing is wrong and they are not spirit stone. Therefore, Lin Luoran doesn't even look at them, not to mention Liao. He has no personal ability. It's useless for him to get spirit stone, let alone ordinary gems.
Lin Luoran walks on while taking time to spread her spiritual mind into the space.
There is a dragon body on the ground with flesh and blood and dead eyes.
"Where is the little silver fish? Is it okay?"
The dragon is the king of Shui nationality. Small silver fish can almost cast amazing arts of nature with a complete dragon nationality skeleton. It was free from the shackles of space. "Phoenix" has already been the top among birds. Fire phoenix can't leave space unless Lin Luoran can provide a set of phoenix bones for it.
Hearing Lin Luoran's question, the dragon tries its best to open its eyes. In the blink of an eye, the lifeless dragon body becomes alive again.
It turns out that the little silver fish is still inside the dragon.
"Linny... it will be dangerous... don't go... "
The soft voice of the small silver fish does not match a giant dragon body. Lin Luoran can hear the worry in its words.
Among the three monsters, she spends the most time with fire phoenix and silver fish. Fire phoenix is often mean, but it is actually the one who is most concerned about Lin Luoran. The little silver fish is innocent but it doesn't mean that it is a fool. If it says something is dangerous, then it must be really dangerous.
Is it dangerous?
Since stepping on the road of personal ability enhancement, she hasn't lived a peaceful life for so long. People with personal ability fight against the heaven. Why should Lin Luoran be fear of such kind of danger?
Soothing the little silver fish, Lin Luoran withdraws her spiritual mind out of the space.
The tunnel suddenly narrows and the bright light from the gems all the way disappears. The darkness in front makes people feel a sense of coldness which can swallow everything. Liao's heart beats a little faster unconsciously, and his pace has slowed down.
"Wait!"
It can easily know that absurd Liao now also hesitates. After hesitating for a long time, he takes out two pieces of yellow paper folded into squares from his arms reluctantly. Tied with a red string, one of them is hung around his neck while the other is given to Lin Luoran.
"Safety Figure?"
Lin Luoran just takes it. It's made of ordinary yellow paper without any Reiki. However, Liao has an extraordinary background. The things he collects will definitely not be ordinary. Lin Luoran also follows him to hang it on her neck solemnly.
"This is the exorcism figure painted by the first Heaven Taoist Zhang himself."
Liao just tells the history of the yellow figure casually. Since the world of cultivation declines, some side bunches like Heaven Taoism also have no way out. It is really an amazing thing that the exorcism figure painted by the first Heaven Taoist Zhang himself can be kept until now.
However, Liao only talks about it casually, which is really not matched with his personality of showing off. Lin Luoran suddenly realizes it. Hanging the exorcism figure on his neck, Liao doesn't feel confident at all.
"That thing is completely awake now." Liao mutters.
The black hole not only swallows light, but also the courage and fearlessness deep in people's hearts. Lin Luoran feels that if they are still so hesitant, even she will lose the courage to move forward, not to mention Liao.
Lin Luoran takes the lead and steps out. She soon disappears in the dark cave.
Liao sighs and soon follows in.
In fact, it is completely different from what they think. It is a short but wide tunnel without darkness. The green gravel path winds upward. No one knows where it leads, but the whole environment is refreshing and reassuring.
"This is the uphill side?"
Does the tunnel lead directly to the uphill side of the ice peak? Everything changes so fast that Lin Luoran doesn't believe it.
Liao opens his eyes wide. He pinches and bites the glazing rock and his voice is trembling.
"Linny, come and look..."
In this boundless universe, wonders never cease. She is no longer a little rookie at that time who made a fuss when seeing shiny rocks. Liao asks her to see it, and Lin Luoran finally notices the rock with green light.
It feels smooth without sanding, and the texture is like jade. The most important thing is that Lin Luoran knows this thing—
"10,000-year Hollow Azurite?! "
Oh my God! Is this whole mountain made of 10,000-year Hollow Azurite? The small piece of 10,000-year Hollow Azurite that she once got from Danling Taoist is extremely precious. Its powder can be dissolved in the alchemy furnace to upgrade elixirs. Everyone in the world of cultivation will fight for such a good thing and White Fairy also values it... she has to dig a big piece for White Fairy. It will almost fulfill the commitment she made before.
Liao's face trembles, and he suddenly realizes something. There is shock and fear in his eyes.
"No wonder there is less and less 10,000-year Hollow Azurite in the world of cultivation. Even if the Green Mountains world is not separated, the earth cultivators will not find it... Who will know that someone will use 10,000-year Hollow Azurite as a mountain to fight against the heaven."
"Against the heaven?" Lin Luoran feels terrified because of his words. Liao holds a small piece of 10,000-year Hollow Azurite in his hands. What he sees in his eyes is the endless winding road.
"10,000-year Hollow Azurite, also known as Green Mountains stone, is a magical restorative associated with the Green Mountains world. Cultivators use it to make elixirs but this is just a little trick. In fact, its most important effect is to coagulate spirit and soul. "
Coagulate spirit and soul?!
No wonder White Fairy wants to get 10,000-year Hollow Azurite.
Wait, coagulate spirit and soul? Lin Luoran thinks of the cold blizzard and the possible identity of the "blizzard". She now also feels very worried.
"Coagulate spirit and soul... Am I right about the situation?"
When Liao sees her expression, he knows she has understood. The old rascal is even about to cry.
"Yes, this is all because the thing wants to be resurrected—"