Chapter 163: It's dark, it's time to come

Second-floor corridor.

A frost wolf had its four limbs entangled by white silk threads, its body had already been turned over, its abdomen facing upward, and it was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, trying to flip over.

Pfft...

A broadsword slashed over from the side, and the frost wolf's abdomen was instantly cut into two halves. Dark green blood exploded instantly, and the intestines and internal organs flowed all over the ground.

After Xia Chuan killed the enemy with one sword, the bulging veins on his hands gradually calmed down. He pulled out the broadsword and hurriedly turned his head to look at the north corridor.

Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, Zou Yuankai, and more than ten others were divided into three groups, each facing a frost wolf. The three groups were all handling it with ease. Yue Feng's side had even forced the frost wolf into a corner, and it looked like it was about to be killed.

"Yue Feng, take men to block the hole, leave this frost wolf to me!"

Xia Chuan leaped and sped, slashing horizontally at the frost wolf. While taking over the battlefield, he roared and ordered the four people, Yue Feng.

"Lord, it can't be blocked anymore, more than a dozen have already come up!"

Just as Yue Feng was about to take men to rush to the end of the corridor, Xu Ning's reminder came from not far away.

Xia Chuan swept the frost wolf away with his horizontal sword, glanced back, and his heart turned cold.

The two frost wolves that climbed up first had long been killed by him and the others working together. The four frost wolves they were dealing with now were the second wave that climbed up.

Four frost wolves were naturally more than enough for a dozen Earth-Digging Realm cultivators.

But the problem was that these four frost wolves had already caused them to miss the best time to block the hole.

In the corridor, more than a dozen frost wolves had already rushed in.

At the hole at the end of the corridor, there were still frost wolves constantly drilling in.

The moment those frost wolves poked their heads in, their eyes would quickly focus on the position of the fire furnace on the third floor, their pupils full of excitement and madness.

"Roar..."

The frost wolves that hadn't fully drilled in were already so crazy; one could imagine the reaction of those that had already entered the corridor and the one currently fighting with himself.

Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...

If it weren't for Xu Ning taking a few people to shoot arrows wildly to suppress them, the frost wolves in the corridor would have long since rushed to the main hall.

In the main hall on the second floor, all the women and children of the camp were surrounded at this moment.

"Take all the children to the third floor!"

Finally solving the frost wolf in his hand, Xia Chuan pulled out his broadsword, wiped the green blood on his face casually, and turned his head to speak urgently toward the middle of the main hall.

"Yes, Lord!"

Lin Wan, Shi Lu, and other women responsible for taking care of the children acted immediately upon hearing the sound.

"Children, hurry upstairs, hurry..."

"Alright!"

In the Frigid World, the average lifespan of a weak camp was only in its early forties, so there were no elderly people, and Does Does Da Xia was naturally no exception.

Does Does Da Xia had 1088 people. Excluding the sixty-seven Earth-Digging Realm cultivators and the five hundred or so Woodcutting Realm cultivators, the remaining four hundred or so children were basically under fifteen years old.

Under fifteen years old, there were also differences. Older children had already started practicing. Even if they hadn't broken through to the Earth-Digging Realm, their strength was mostly three or four thousand jin, while the smallest were still infants and had to be held in people's hands.

It was said that such a large-scale cold beast invasion would definitely make these children who had never gone out panic, but in fact, except for the crying sounds made by a few infants, not a single person in this group of children made any sound.

Older children even helped hold infants in their hands. Even five or six-year-old children just pursed their lips and followed the team upstairs quickly without saying a word, in an orderly manner, without needing Lin Wan and Shi Lu to worry at all.

Seeing the baring fangs and brandishing claws of the cold beasts, they naturally had fear in their eyes; some children like Luo An and Zou Ping had fathers fighting those cold beasts on the second floor. Besides fear, there was also worry for their fathers in their eyes; some women holding infants in their arms were also worried about their husbands...

Although there were thousands of emotions in their eyes, knowing that they couldn't help, the only thing they could do was to obediently follow the instructions of Xia Chuan and the others and not add trouble to others.

Therefore, no matter how afraid or panicked they were in their hearts, they just gritted their teeth and didn't make any sound, afraid of affecting those who were fighting with the cold beasts.

"Lord, there are more and more cold beasts in the wooden house, and there should be quite a few that have broken into the compartments. They are all rushing toward the furnace. Relying on us to block them won't work. If we don't extinguish the fire, it will be too late. I have already lit a pile of ordinary campfire with wood on the third floor, temperature is not a problem!"

Xia Chuan was blocking a frost wolf rushing toward the main hall in the north corridor. Hearing Shi Ping's loud shout at the stairs, a struggle suddenly rose in his eyes.

Shi Ping's voice was very loud, and all the Earth-Digging Realm cultivators who were blocking the cold beasts in the four corridors on the second floor turned their heads to look at Xia Chuan upon hearing the sound.

Noticing the struggle on Xia Chuan's face, everyone showed a trace of confusion on their faces.

Bang!

Blocking them was the medium-level thunder beast transformed by the wooden dummy.

The iron-smelting furnace ignited again, and the five wooden dummies naturally recovered as well.

The other four wooden dummies had already faced the four medium-level cold beasts respectively.

He Meng showed a manic look on his face, looking at his own people who were collapsing below, wanting to rush down to help.

But the thunder beast transformed by the wooden dummy didn't give him a chance at all, blocking him, and even blocking He Gang together.

Although both had broken through to the cold-resistant level, facing a medium-level thunder beast specializing in defense, it was still not enough.

The key was that because of the suppression of the furnace firelight, they couldn't exert their full strength, but the thunder beast transformed by the wooden dummy was different. Not only was its defense stronger than a real thunder beast, but it could also ignore injuries.

Under such circumstances, no matter how anxious the two were, there was no way.

They could only impact the thunder beast while watching their own people below being constantly shot and killed by Xia Chuan and the others.

"Luo Yuan and the hunting team come down with me, the others continue to shoot arrows, not one can be let go, kill!"

Seeing that the two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal camp had started to collapse and flee toward the outside of the west valley entrance, a ruthless look appeared on Xia Chuan's face. He pulled out his broadsword and shouted an order to the others, then jumped down first.

The sixteen members of the hunting team also followed behind him and all went down.

The remaining forty or so Earth-Digging Realm cultivators continued to use arrows to shoot and kill those who had run far away.

And on the other side, He Yuanhun had long been forced to the south side of the valley by Xia Hong.

The ceremonial sword slashed horizontally toward the pupils. He Yuanhun dodged backward, narrowly avoiding the blade. Seeing the black grease coated on the ceremonial sword, his pupils flashed with horror, and he was terrified in his heart.

"He guessed it was me early on, not appearing for so long earlier, just to find me. The fire furnace could have been extinguished long ago, but he deliberately didn't extinguish it just to confuse me, making me think that this fire furnace must be lit by someone!"

Bang...

He Yuanhun's expression was both shocked and afraid. After dodging the long sword, his chest was hit by Xia Hong, who was chasing closely.

That terrifying force made his chest collapse instantly, and he was smashed into the south mountain body like a cannonball again.

One must know that this place was not far from the iron mine cave, and the stones inside the mountain body nearby were far harder than other places.

But even so, this punch of Xia Hong still hit him seven or eight meters deep into the mountain body.

Pfft...

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, He Yuanhun looked at Xia Hong, who was pressing step by step. Besides ferocity and anger, there was more thick horror in his eyes.

Everything tonight was originally in his plan.

Controlling four medium-level cold beasts, launching this cold beast tide of four ethnic groups, impacting the Does Does Da Xia camp, forcing them to extinguish the fire of the iron-smelting furnace.

Relying on this scale of cold beast tide, it was unlikely to destroy Does Does Da Xia, he knew very well in his heart.

But forcing the other party to extinguish the fire was not difficult. As long as this step was achieved, he could easily defeat Does Does Da Xia with his two hundred or so subordinates.

Everything was very smooth. Even until half an hour ago, when he was hiding above the valley observing the situation below, he was discovered by Xia Hong, but he still felt that he was holding the winning ticket in his heart.

Until the moment Xia Hong revealed strength stronger than his own, his heart started to feel that something was wrong, but at this time, the fire was extinguished.

The moment the fire was extinguished, he truly felt that he was going to win.

Who knew, Xia Hong gave him such a surprising surprise.

The fire in that furnace didn't need anyone to light it at all, Xia Hong could control it at will.

"I was just about to break through to the cold-resistant level, and someone came to the camp to teach me, telling me about the battle body. How could there be such a coincidence in this world?

Creating such a large-scale cold beast tide, just to make me extinguish the fire, you can be considered to have racked your brains, it's just a pity..."

Xia Hong spoke easily, but in fact, it was also half an hour ago that he noticed the large-scale invasion of the Mirror Immortal camp, and then he completely confirmed that He Yuanhun was Gao Yu.

Before the cold beast tide came, Xia Hong had already broken through successfully and woken up.

He chose to hide behind the scenes and not appear, just to be able to solve it once and for all, lure the strange monster behind the Mirror Immortal camp out, and eradicate it in one fell swoop.

At first, he didn't connect these things with Gao Yu.

But half an hour ago, while searching for strange monsters around the valley, he discovered signs of large-scale invasion by people from the Mirror Immortal camp.

In this way, many things could be figured out at once.

This cold beast tide must have been created by the strange monster in the Mirror Immortal camp.

But thinking according to normal logic, a cold beast tide with a scale of more than five hundred, how could a mere Does Does Da Xia camp block it?

That strange monster didn't need to bring people over at all, just wait for the cold beasts to slaughter all the people in Does Does Da Xia.

But it still brought people over.

The reason was very simple, because that strange monster determined that this cold beast tide couldn't destroy Does Does Da Xia, or rather, the purpose of it creating this cold beast tide was not to destroy Does Does Da Xia at all.

The strange monster in the Mirror Immortal camp determined that the cold beast tide couldn't destroy Does Does Da Xia!

This itself was a huge doubt.

Before Xia Hong broke through to the cold-resistant level, Does Does Da Xia's true reliance was actually those five wooden dummies, but this matter was extremely secret, and not everyone in the Does Does Da Xia camp was clear about it. How did that strange monster in the Mirror Immortal camp know?

Combined with the fact that the cold beast tide was deliberately set near nightfall, it was clearly to prepare for bringing people from the Mirror Immortal camp over later.

Judging from the strength on the surface, the Mirror Immortal camp was several times stronger than Does Does Da Xia.

But the other party didn't dare to invade openly at night, knowing that the cold beast tide couldn't destroy Does Does Da Xia, yet still racked their brains so much, besides using the cold beast tide to force them to extinguish the fire, what other reasons could there be?

That is to say, the strange monster in the Mirror Immortal camp not only feared the fire of the iron-smelting furnace, but also knew about the wooden dummies, and at the same time was clear about the iron-smelting furnace's powerful attraction to cold beasts.

And during this period of time, the only one who had been to Does Does Da Xia, and at the same time had been in contact with the iron-smelting furnace, and might know about the wooden dummies, was that Gao Yu who claimed to be from the Shenwu Village east of Twin Dragon Mountain.

The Mirror Immortal camp, so far, the one who hadn't shown his face, was that big leader He Yuanhun, the strange monster who could make He Meng and He Gang resurrect, was most likely him.

Since that was the case, then Gao Yu, or He Yuanhun, was the strange monster behind the Mirror Immortal camp.

After confirming this point, Xia Hong still didn't rush to appear.

His goal was always the strange monster.

With the marking stone, any foreign life intervening within one kilometer of the valley, Xia Hong could perceive it through the system.

Half an hour ago, perceiving the invasion of two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal camp, he was already peeping in the dark.

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It was a pity that after discovering that all 271 of these people were Earth-Digging Realm cultivators, Xia Hong immediately realized that the strange monster was still hiding in the dark and hadn't appeared.

Coincidentally at this time, Shi Ping extinguished the fire of the iron-smelting furnace, and all the low-level cold beasts were attracted by the big fire outside the west side of the valley and ran out.

Only those four medium-level cold beasts didn't move.

And, He Gang and He Meng also appeared at this time.

These two things made Xia Hong completely certain that the strange monster must be near the valley.

Everything in the valley, it must have seen very clearly, so as soon as the fire of the iron-smelting furnace was extinguished, he immediately notified He Gang and He Meng to bring people into the valley.

And those four medium-level cold beasts, not only could they hold on for so long under the fire of the iron-smelting furnace earlier, but they could also violate common sense and not be attracted by the torches outside the valley.

That is to say, the four medium-level cold beasts were controlled from beginning to end.

But after confirming that it was near the valley, Xia Hong was still confused.

The marking stone could clearly perceive any foreign life form within one kilometer of the station. Since He Gang and He Meng could be detected, this strange monster was naturally the same.

The station was in the valley, and one kilometer around was nothing more than that small piece on the periphery of Red Wood Ridge. Xia Hong searched almost two or three times, but found nothing.

When he was most anxious, he was ready to appear directly.

He had always been paying attention to the casualties of the camp.

He saw everything Xia Chuan did; the rest of the camp working together to do this step was also far beyond his expectations.

If it was to find that strange monster, and it caused too many casualties, it wouldn't be worth the loss.

Just when he was about to give up, he inexplicably raised his head and looked at the top of the valley, the intersection of the north and south mountain bodies.

Only then did he suddenly realize that he had missed the most critical position.

The one-kilometer range detected by the marking stone included the sky and the ground, but the intersection of the two mountains at the top of the valley was more than two thousand meters high.

Sure enough, after Xia Hong quietly touched up, he discovered Gao Yu, who was in white clothes with silver light shining in his eyes.

The sneak attack was successful, but he also paid the price.

The wounds on his left face, the cracks on his left arm, and the ten or so blood holes on his chest were exchanged for knowing that the fatal point of this strange monster was its eyes.

Or rather, the ability of this strange monster was closely related to its eyes.

Xia Hong's daze was only for a moment. Gao Yu, who was kicked into the mountain body by him, was buried by the dust and smoke of the mountain body's vibration.

Seeing that Gao Yu hadn't made any movement for a long time, Xia Hong's expression condensed slightly, holding the ceremonial sword and walking slowly toward the mountain body, just as he was about to walk into the dust and smoke.

Whoosh...

A wisp of silver mirror light suddenly broke through the smoke and rushed toward his face.

Xia Hong's expression was shocked, he leaped backward violently, and blocked with his sword in a panic.

Ding...

That mirror light hit the ceremonial sword, only making a "ding" sound.

But the next second, the ceremonial sword forged with iron ore appeared with cracks as if it were a broken mirror, and it was constantly expanding and stretching.

Crack... crack... crack...

After three breaths, the ceremonial sword that had fought with Xia Hong for a long time shattered with a bang, turned into residue, and fell directly to the ground.

Xia Hong threw away the handle in his hand, turned his head and looked at his left arm with cracks, his expression solemn, but with a trace of luck.

"The same move, the second time, it won't work..."

Just now, the first hit on the mountain top, strictly speaking, was because he didn't understand.

The strength of this strange monster was, after all, still inferior to his.

"Big brother, catch the sword!"

Xia Chuan, who was beside the wooden house, noticed it as soon as Xia Hong lost his ceremonial sword.

With a loud shout, he threw a long sword toward him.

Xia Hong caught it with his hand, looked at the slender silver-white ceremonial sword in his hand, noticed the hundred-forged patterns on the side of the blade, and a flash of joy appeared in his pupils.

"Leader, I have more here!"

Mu Dong also threw two things over.

Xia Hong caught them with his hand as well. It was an iron-core bow and a quiver of iron arrows.

On the side of that iron-core bow, there were also hundred-forged patterns, and the bowstring was mixed with a touch of white in the transparency. Xia Hong saw at a glance that the transparent part was medium-level Teng Jiao tendon, and the white part was a thin thread. If he remembered correctly, it was obtained from killing He Meng that time.

Along with that quiver of iron arrows, every one of them had hundred-forged patterns!

Xia Chuan had actually forged three hundred-forged weapons for himself with his men.

It was just the pulling force of this bowstring...

"Big brother, that bowstring is made of Teng Jiao tendon and white silk mixed together, it can withstand a pulling force of one hundred thousand jin."

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xia Hong didn't have any hesitation, directly drew the bow and nocked an arrow, and shot it toward Gao Yu, who was just rushing out of the dust and smoke.

"Ah..."

Gao Yu, who was speeding toward the outside of the west valley, was hit in the right eye by the arrow, and instantly let out a scream.

The strong force caused his body to be smashed out for more than ten meters to the left.

This was not all, the key was that his right eye emitted fire.

"Came out, wanting to run again, it won't be so simple!"

The moment Xia Hong touched the iron arrow, he knew that the arrowheads had been coated with Fire-Condensing Oil in advance.

After a cold laugh, he drew his sword and rushed toward Gao Yu directly.

"Leader, you run first, we'll hold him!"

It was a pity that before he rushed to Gao Yu's side.

He Gang and He Meng, who had just tried to impact the thunder beast to save people, had already given up on the thunder beast and changed direction directly, blocking in front of Xia Hong.

"Brothers, can't let anything happen to the leader, the leader is not dead, the Mirror Immortal is still there, we won't die!"

Not just He Gang and He Meng, someone didn't know who shouted loudly, and the group of Earth-Digging Realm cultivators from the Mirror Immortal camp who were being chased and killed by Xia Chuan and the others also gave up fleeing and rushed toward He Yuanhun.

"Protect the leader, brothers."

"The leader is not dead, the Mirror Immortal is not destroyed, swear to protect the leader."

"Mirror Immortal people, not afraid of death."

"As long as the leader is there, we will be immortal forever."

"Fight Does Does Da Xia to the death, kill!"

Even many Earth-Digging Realm cultivators who had already escaped the valley returned at this time.

Looking at the black and dense group of Earth-Digging Realm cultivators rushing toward him with excitement, their mouths constantly shouting about protecting the leader, Xia Hong didn't have a trace of movement on his face, nor was he as appreciative as before.

In his eyes, there was only coldness and thick killing intent!

"Stubborn, from the moment I came out of seclusion, the Mirror Immortal camp has no need to exist!"

Xia Hong took a slight breath, raised the new ceremonial sword he had just obtained, and turned his head toward Xia Chuan and the others who were rushing toward him, waving his hand gently.

"I'm enough alone!"

Noticing that Gao Yu on the other side had already fled to the outside of the west valley, a faint light flashed in Xia Hong's eyes, and he didn't pay attention.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 166 =====

"Three!"

As soon as he counted to three, Mu Dong let go first, followed by over four hundred people. Although there was a sequence, the interval was no more than half a breath, which could almost be considered as letting go of the iron chains in their hands at the same time.

Clang... clang... clang...

The iron chains didn't have the strength of the crowd to gather, and instantly reset rapidly along with the iron materials at the key parts of the wooden house. The speed was too fast, and they even dragged out four long fire lines on the ground.

Bang...

Without those reinforced iron materials to maintain, the impact of the cold beasts outside was immediately reflected, and the walls on all four sides of the wooden house started the first round of collapse.

Now, not only the snow-maned beasts and magic sheep at the west main entrance, but also the Teng Jiao on the east side and the frost wolves on the north and south sides all rushed into the first floor of the wooden house along the collapsed wooden walls.

The tsunami-like cold beasts rushing in, how terrifying the vibration caused was, Xia Chuan and the others standing in the center of the main hall who couldn't stand still had the most say at this moment.

Everyone's faces were full of fear, looking at the cold beasts rushing from all four directions. Some desperate people even closed their eyes directly.

However, just when the wooden house collapsed to the middle part, which happened to be the position where the cold beasts rushed to within the last hundred meters of everyone.

Clatter...

The iron chains that had completely reset suddenly seemed to be stuck by something.

Half of the outer layer of the wooden house collapsed, revealing a fifty-meter-long cyan bamboo fence wall on all four sides, blocking those cold beasts.

Those bamboo fences were in an oblique cross shape, with a layer of sharp dense thorns more than twenty centimeters long on the surface. The moment the cold beasts tried to rush and hit, those sharp thorns shot toward them like raindrops.

Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...

Pfft...

The power of those sharp thorns was terrifying to the extreme.

Separated by the bamboo fence, seeing the cold beasts fall one after another, Xia Chuan, Yue Feng, and the others, the despair on their faces disappeared instantly.

Only Xia Chuan looked up at the completely dark sky, clenching his fists under his sleeves.

"It's dark, those beasts, it's time for them to come!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====