Chapter 135: New Discoveries Deep in Red Wood Ridge

The Frozen Abyss World is always filled with wind and snow.

This kind of wind and snow is different from ordinary winter days, accompanied by endless cold, wantonly depriving everything on the ground of its vitality.

Looking from inside Red Wood Ridge, the entire earth is nothing but snow, snow, and more snow.

Only huge trees covered in white snow stand still in between, looking from afar like white spires hung with countless icicles.

Trees are actually a form of life. Why are the trees in the Frozen Abyss World so thick? Actually, think about it from another angle and you can understand.

If the vitality is not strong, how can it survive in this cold winter world?

North of Red Wood Ridge, in the sphere of influence of the original Lu Shang camp, Xia Hong led fifteen people to patrol the periphery for one kilometer, and his heart relaxed slightly.

"Fortunately, no other people were found, and no traces of personnel activities were seen. The people from the Mirror Immortal camp should not have crossed the boundary yet."

Everyone nodded, and their expressions relaxed a lot.

Going out tonight, first coming here, was to see if the people from the Mirror Immortal camp had crossed the boundary. Since nothing was found, it was naturally a good thing.

"The distribution of cold beasts within this kilometer of the Lu Shang camp periphery is about the same as ours. Within five hundred meters, there are a few snow manes, frost wolves, and golden sheep. Beyond five hundred meters, there are only two soaring dragons, all low-level cold beasts. It seems that if you want to find intermediate-level cold beasts, you can only go deeper."

Xia Chuan spoke and roughly summarized the situation of the patrol just now, and then proposed to go deeper.

Everyone heard this and immediately turned their eyes to Xia Hong at the front.

"You can hunt the prey on the periphery yourselves when you have time. Let's go in!"

Xia Hong didn't talk nonsense either. The purpose tonight was clear: intermediate-level cold beasts. The prey on the periphery was no longer worth his time.

After all, it was the first time to go deep into the range of more than a thousand meters. Sensing that the environment began to become strange, Xia Hong and the crowd immediately slowed down their pace, kept the movement of walking as small as possible, and became vigilant about the surrounding environment.

Logically speaking, there were no measuring tools, and everyone originally could only estimate the distance of going deep by feeling. But in fact, only after truly walking in did they know that there was no need to feel at all; just look with your eyes and you will know.

Red Wood Ridge is deeper as you go, and the trees are thicker. Because these trees are too thick, the roots underneath are also strange, and some even protrude from the ground. The originally flat terrain also began to become complex.

"The trees with a diameter of more than ten meters on the periphery are already considered large. I didn't expect it to be more terrifying inside. This tree, the diameter is almost twenty meters, right?"

Luo Yuan couldn't help but sigh, which made everyone turn their heads to look at the tree he mentioned, including Xia Hong.

Seeing the shape of that tree, everyone couldn't help but click their tongues and shake their heads.

That tree is indeed big!

A tree with a diameter of twenty meters is very difficult for normal people to imagine.

But as long as you describe it like this, it is easy to understand: that tree, if you hollow out the middle, is a high-rise building, and it is the kind of high-rise building that can easily accommodate hundreds or thousands of people.

Although separated by a hundred meters, the sixteen people were still extremely small in front of that tree. It was also fortunate that everyone was a regular visitor to Red Wood Ridge and had seen many big trees on the periphery; otherwise, this tree alone could have caused them to have megalophobia.

"It's a pity it's just an ordinary Frost-Red tree. Are we not deep enough? The trees we've seen so far are all the same old ones. Leader, should we go deeper?"

Hearing Luo Yuan's proposal, Xia Hong withdrew his gaze, scanned the surrounding trees, and nodded lightly.

Although their main task was hunting, they would also pay attention to the tree species along the way. If they encountered any new varieties or precious trees, they would record them directly and make marks.

Logically speaking, these things were the task of the gathering team, but it was their first time going deep, and anyway, it was just a matter of convenience. First, do a good job of recording and marking, so that when the woodcutting team goes deep later, the task will be much easier to complete.

Xia Hong led the crowd to go deeper for more than a hundred meters. After roughly estimating that they had gone deep for 1300 meters, he immediately led the crowd to stop, and then continued to explore along the north and south directions.

Soon, everyone had new discoveries.

"Sss………… What a big Ice-Shuo tree!"

More than a hundred meters away to the north of the crowd, an Ice-Shuo tree full of transparent crystal fruits stood quietly on the earth.

That Ice-Shuo tree had a diameter of about seventeen or eighteen meters, and the crystal fruits on the tree were countless. A rough estimate was three or four thousand, which is one or two thousand catties when converted.

"Go and make a mark. It's the first time I've seen such a big Ice-Shuo tree."

Xia Hong led the crowd to the north side. After getting closer, he discovered that the Ice-Shuo tree in front of him was not only large in shape, but the fruit it bore was also a circle larger than other ordinary Ice-Shuo trees.

And under that Ice-Shuo tree, there was a large swamp, about fifty or sixty meters in diameter, just corresponding to the extension of the tree crown, emitting a fermented smell. One look and you know it was formed by the crystal fruits that fell from the tree year after year and rotted.

"This doesn't count as a swamp!"

Just now, looking from afar, it could be seen at a glance that it was a swamp because the ground in this area was not covered by snow, and it presented a light golden fluid state.

But after Xia Hong was the first to step on it, he discovered that although the ground was fluid, stepping on it only felt a little softer than normal ground, and there was a very obvious feeling of stepping.

"This is the first time I've stepped on such soft ground. Does the rotting substance of crystal fruit have such an obvious osmotic effect on the ground?"

Xia Chuan's unintentional sentence made everyone stand in place, their expressions stunned, and Xia Hong raised his head abruptly, his face full of surprise.

Seeing the expressions of the others, Xia Chuan also reacted.

If crystal fruit has this effect, couldn't they use this characteristic to soften the ground in the valley and transplant trees?

"Not necessarily, not necessarily. Don't be happy too early. If crystal fruit had this effect, how could predecessors not have discovered it for so long? Wait a minute, let me see what the situation is on the ground!"

Xia Hong quickly calmed down. He squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil on the ground with his hand.

Saying grab is not appropriate; it should be dig. But after digging several times, this soil, which was clearly fluid and much softer than normal ground, couldn't even be dug out in a small piece.

Xia Hong frowned, and his heart immediately began to drum.

His basic strength had already reached the limit of thirty thousand catties.

Even normal ground soil blocks, he could dig out.

This ground, which looks very soft, is actually so hard?

Xia Hong shook his head. This characteristic alone directly extinguished the idea that had just risen in everyone's hearts.

It looks soft, but it is actually so hard. What kind of transplanting is this?

"Forget it, just mark the location. Don't worry about this place, continue walking north!"

Transplanting was hopeless, and everyone lost interest. After marking, they followed Xia Hong and continued to search along this 1300-meter boundary to the north.

Although four cold beasts were discovered later, three were soaring dragons, and one was a Blue Moon Essence that had woken up, all of which were low-level cold beasts.

Hunting soaring dragons is more troublesome, so Xia Hong didn't take action; but that Blue Moon Essence that had woken up, I don't know if it was starving, but it jumped down to sneak attack when the sixteen people passed under the tree where it was entrenched.

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Having walked for so long, the crowd who hadn't found the shadow of intermediate-level cold beasts was a bit angry in their hearts. A low-level cold beast sent itself to the door to vent their anger, so naturally, they wouldn't give it a good face.

The Blue Moon Essence's body is not big, only one meter long, and its hair is as white as snow. Its strength is considered the weakest Xia Hong has encountered so far, not even as good as gnawing rats, but its speed is a few points faster than gnawing rats.

Small body, coupled with super fast speed, and that white hair that can blend with the snow on the ground and is difficult to distinguish. If it were placed before Xia Hong's basic strength had reached the limit of thirty thousand catties, it is estimated that that sneak attack could really have a certain effect.

It's just a pity that the one it hit was the current Xia Hong.

Going out to search for intermediate-level cold beasts tonight, everyone was vigilant in their hearts.

The timing of its sneak attack was really too bad.

There was no need for Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and others to take action. Xia Hong drew his blade alone, and before three moves, he solved that Blue Moon Essence.

"This Blue Moon Essence should be like other cold beasts, also having innate supernatural powers. It's a pity it met the Leader and didn't even have a chance to display it!"

Zhu Shun buried the Blue Moon Essence in the snow, marked the location, and couldn't help but sigh.

The others nodded upon hearing this, and thinking of the clean and neat three blades just now, looking at Xia Hong, their faces were full of admiration.

Xia Hong, who was lowering his head and thinking, heard Zhu Shun's words and remembered that everyone was seeing the Blue Moon Essence for the first time and didn't understand its characteristics, so he immediately said:

"Legs, the legs of the Blue Moon Essence can erupt with five times its usual strength in a short time. This should be its innate supernatural power. Just now, I fought with it too fast, so you couldn't see it. Remember this point when you encounter it in the future!"

Everyone finally understood and nodded one after another.

Xia Hong was also encountering the Blue Moon Essence for the first time, but he had read the Cold Beast Atlas left by Luo Ming, which recorded the characteristics of the Blue Moon Essence. During the fight just now, its leg strength did indeed have a moment that even he almost couldn't bear.

"Just now, searching all the way, besides four cold beasts, three Ice-Shuo trees, two Blue Jade trees, and several unknown plants were discovered. The harvest tonight is considered about the same."

Looking back at the eighty-plus Blue Condensing Grasses on Xia Chuan's back, and several other unknown plants, Xia Hong had the intention of returning.

"Leader, go in a little further, you will definitely find it."

"It's only been half a night. There are so many of us, and we are so well prepared. It's too much of a loss to just take this Blue Moon Essence and these dozens of Blue Condensing Grasses back."

"Yes, I also propose to go in a little further. No matter what, at least see what intermediate-level cold beasts look like, right?"

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Others clearly saw his thoughts and tried to persuade him one after another.

"Alright, then hide the things in your hands first, go in two hundred meters, and look for it. If you still can't find it, come again tomorrow night!"

The crowd was like this, so Xia Hong nodded in agreement.

Decided to go in two hundred meters.

After everyone hid the prey and Blue Condensing Grass and other vegetation, and made marks.

Xia Hong led them directly to the west, to a deeper position in Red Wood Ridge, and explored.

The position where intermediate-level cold beasts are entrenched is clearly much deeper than everyone expected.

After searching for more than an hour, everyone still found nothing.

Xia Hong at the front stopped directly, turned his head to look at the crowd:

"Forget it, stop here tonight. Go back and prepare first. Expand the search range tomorrow and search two kilometers directly inside. I don't believe……"

"Leader, look over there!"

"Leader, look quickly……"

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, who were closest to him, seemed to see something, pointed their fingers to the west, and interrupted him directly.

Xia Hong looked in the direction of their fingers, and his expression was stunned.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 136 =====