Chapter 445

Cai Qiu Year 297, February 15, daytime.

Thirty li northeast of Qinghuacheng, there is a high mountain. Because a group of Snow Luan flying cold beasts has long occupied the top of the mountain, it is named Snow Luan Mountain.

The most famous things in Snow Luan Mountain, besides that Snow Luan group, are a special vegetation named Ice Sword Tree.

Ice Sword Tree, as the name implies, has only one oval main trunk that is straight and upright like a sword body, without any branches. Its diameter is generally only three to five meters, but its height can grow to an astonishing thousand meters or more. Coupled with the ice crystals attached to the outer layer being illuminated by the cold sun during the day, it emits a layer of transparent cold light, giving people a visual impression that is indeed like a long sword piercing the sky, so it got this name.

Snow Luan Mountain itself is only two hundred meters high, but because the mountain is full of this kind of Ice Sword Tree, its visual height is forcibly raised by five or six times.

And Snow Luan is a flying cold beast unique to Qinghuacheng. It likes to occupy the top of the Ice Sword Tree. Its whole body is covered with snow-white feathers in the shape of ice crystals, its mouth has a white sharp beak like a hook, its abdomen has two limbs, and the ends of the limbs have two sharp and deadly claws.

Low-level Snow Luan wingspan is about 6 to 10 meters; mid-level 25 to 30 meters; high-level releases combat form, the lowest is 80 meters, the highest can reach 120 meters.

Interestingly, when Snow Luan occupies the top of the Ice Sword Tree, it likes to spread its wings completely. When matched with the Ice Sword Tree, looking from a distance, it just happens to look like the hilt of a long sword.

"Ghostly workmanship, this is the Ice Abyss. In a normal territory, how could such special vegetation grow? And this Snow Luan, it actually likes to spread its wings when resting, this completely violates the biological habits of flying birds......"

The cold wind howled. Xia Hong stood on the top of an Ice Sword Tree more than a hundred meters high, holding the Star-Shattering Sword in his left hand and a Snow Luan only two meters long in his right hand. The Snow Luan's neck was completely broken, its sharp beak had been cut off, and its head was drooping half-hanging, obviously dead for a long time.

Xia Hong looked up at the high place of Snow Luan Mountain, his heart full of admiration for the ghostly workmanship of the Ice Abyss.

One, ten, or even a hundred Ice Sword Trees are nothing, but if thousands or tens of thousands are placed together, and the mountains and plains are full of Ice Sword Trees, the picture is a bit shocking.

The entire Snow Luan Mountain is full of long swords piercing the sky, just like a natural sword tomb with a perfect shape. It is treacherous and carries a unique beauty, making people palpitate while inexplicably producing some yearning emotions.

Suddenly, Xia Hong vaguely noticed that several sharp gazes on the top of the mountain were focusing on him, and a look of fear immediately flashed across his face.

"Beast King...... no, this dangerous feeling, the Beast King can't give it! Above the Beast King level, it should be the Five Luminaries Realm, which is the Imperial-level fierce beast!"

He had been in Qinghuacheng for almost a month. Even if he couldn't go to inquire about people casually, but through side-attacks, Xia Hong still learned a lot of useful information, such as the classification of cold beasts and strange monsters.

"Imperial-level fierce beasts, also known as the Five Luminaries Realm, because after cold beasts are promoted to the Imperial level, they generally correspond to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the Imperial-level fierce beasts have both the core items for Manifesting Yang level breakthrough to Tribulation Body Realm and the key resources for Tribulation Body Realm cultivation."

Xia Hong's brows flickered. After looking at the sky above Snow Luan Mountain for the last time, he suppressed the greed in his pupils and jumped off the Ice Sword Tree directly to the White Phoenix Forest below.

"Lord Hong is truly too powerful. This high-level Snow Luan's speed is comparable to the Manifesting Yang level. In the past, in Qinghuacheng, except for the four commanders, the two deputy city lords, and my father, it was impossible for others to want to hunt it. Now there is Lord Hong."

As soon as Xia Hong landed, Cai Mengya saw the high-level Snow Luan corpse in his hand and exclaimed in admiration. A pair of long and charming fox eyes stared at Xia Hong, her eyes full of autumn waves, almost writing the word "worship" directly on her face.

"Hahahaha, the little master Meng Ya is over-praising. No matter how powerful it is, it's just a high-level cold beast. Wanting to be arrogant in front of this prince, it's not that simple!"

Xia Hong laughed proudly when he heard this, and for Cai Mengya's worshipful eyes, he was completely in a posture of enjoying it to the extreme. After laughing a few times, he continued: "However, what is the rabbit fur that the little master Meng Ya mentioned? We have already penetrated to half the depth of Snow Luan Mountain, and that rabbit fur beast hasn't appeared yet. If we go further forward, it won't be that safe."

Speaking of catching rabbit fur, it's Xia Hong's own fault.

When he first arrived in Qinghuacheng last month, Cai Yunzhou held a banquet to entertain him, not only calling almost all the dignitaries in the city, but also calling his little daughter, the Cai Mengya in front of him, to accompany him personally.

With his strength, he naturally deserved such treatment. Xia Hong didn't have much discomfort in his heart, but the banquet started to taste a bit wrong as he ate.

This Cai Mengya frequently sent him autumn waves at the banquet. He couldn't push it away, so in order to maintain his persona, he could only go with the flow.

It was this going with the flow that became the beginning of trouble.

This Cai Mengya is the little daughter of City Lord Cai Yunzhou, and because of her outstanding talent, she is extremely favored by her father Cai Yunzhou, so there are many pursuers. Just in the four commanders, there are two, and other talents in the city are countless.

Xia Hong, an outsider, became hot with her as soon as he came, naturally becoming a thorn in the eyes of Cai Mengya's pursuers. Thus, a group of people at the banquet began to make things difficult for him frequently.

At first, Xia Hong didn't intend to take the move, but the persona of a prince from a powerful family had already been established. Constant retreat would inevitably arouse suspicion, so he could only take the move.

Cai Mengya happened to propose to go to the White Phoenix Forest to catch rabbit fur. Two major commanders at the banquet took the lead to make things difficult, using some slightly humiliating words to stimulate him, satirizing that he definitely didn't dare to come to the White Phoenix Forest.

"This prince is a disciple of Great Qin. In this mere Cai Qiu, what place can bluff me? Little master Meng Ya, rest assured, when catching rabbit fur next month, you can come to notify this prince!"

Thinking of the persona he pretended at the banquet, Xia Hong couldn't help but have a strange expression.

After that banquet, he could be considered to have established his persona firmly in front of Cai Yunzhou and a group of Manifesting Yang level experts in Qinghuacheng.

A fool who comes from a noble background, has outstanding talent, has Manifesting Yang level cultivation, but doesn't have much experience or intelligence, and is easily angered......

While Xia Hong was pondering, Cai Mengya's eyes flickered. She turned her head to look at the depths of the White Phoenix Forest and answered with a smile: "Lord Hong, rest assured, this rabbit fur beast likes to eat Snow Luan the most. We have already lured the Snow Luan in the outer area over, and killed quite a few. The rabbit fur beast will appear very soon!"

Xia Hong glanced at Cai Mengya with his peripheral vision when he heard the sound, his brows narrowed slightly, and then he turned his head to look two kilometers ahead, and couldn't help but show a look of admiration on his face.

A thousand-man army wearing ten-thousand-forged iron armor was entangled with two or three hundred Snow Luan soaring in the sky. Although the soldiers of the army did not have the ability to fly, more than half of them held strong bows in their hands, shooting continuously at the Snow Luan in the sky, cooperating with the other small half of the soldiers holding long spears and long daggers, they actually beat the group of Snow Luan into retreat, and could hunt a few down from time to time.

"This upper level of Cai Qiu is truly extravagant to the extreme! A mere daughter of a city lord, just for her own hunting, can actually mobilize a thousand-man scale County Guard Army at will......"

Thinking of this, Xia Hong's eyes became solemn. Extravagance is one aspect. From another perspective, Cai Mengya's behavior can also prove Cai Qiu's strength from the side.

These soldiers all have Cold-Resisting level cultivation, and wear uniform ten-thousand-forged iron armor. The County Guard Army is so strong, then how strong must the Garrison Guard and Silver Scale armies above them be?

The key is that the mobilization authority of such a strong army is not high. According to Xia Hong's understanding, although Cai Mengya is a descendant of the Fangbo lineage, in the entire Cai Qiu, there are at least hundreds of Cai family disciples like her. Even if her status is relatively high, it can explain the problem very well.

Swish......

"Lord Hong, a Beast King-level Snow Luan is coming!"

A sharp breaking sound suddenly came from above.

There was no need for Cai Mengya to remind him at all. Xia Hong noticed it at the first moment. He turned his head fiercely to look above the army, and his pupils narrowed slightly.

A giant Snow Luan with a body length of nearly a hundred meters. Its wings were fully spread, a full four or five hundred meters. Its huge body covered the sky and the sun as it rushed toward the direction of the army on the ground, blocking the cold light of the day, forming a large shadow on the ground, instantly covering all the army soldiers.

Obviously, this is a Beast King-level Snow Luan.

"Whoosh............"

The Snow Luan was still a li away from the ground when it suddenly folded its wings and flapped fiercely, fanning out a powerful cold current, blowing directly toward the ground.

Rustle rustle rustle......

The arrows shot by the hundreds of County Guard soldiers into the sky were immediately blown to the ground. Not only that, their bodies also kept retreating backward. Some soldiers who were not prepared enough were blown down by the strong wind, and the batch of people with the weakest strength had their faces exposed to the outside covered with a layer of frost, and they hadn't persisted for three or four breaths before they were frozen to death directly.

And the cold current was just the first hand of that Beast King-level Snow Luan.