Chapter 419

The cold wind blew, and the ice and snow were vast.

Few cultivators know that in this golden autumn of September in the Yuding Domain, there is still such a place in the midst of ice and snow.

But such a place is not uninhabited.

On the contrary!

In that sky full of ice and snow, escape lights appear from time to time, revealing a trace of vitality.

With the return of the escape lights, an area with an architectural style completely different from the Yuding Domain gradually came into view.

Round at the bottom and pointed at the top, ice fortresses stood tall.

From the outside in, tall castles cast from cold ice became increasingly towering.

Several female cultivators descended from the sky and entered an ice fortress to submit their mission.

"Junior Uncle, this is the second-tier snow fox we three hunted together; it took a lot of effort."

"Right, right, this time Junior Uncle must give us more merit points!"

"What is this, isn't the fur very complete? Why deduct thirty percent of the merit points? Junior Uncle, you are really stingy."

Amidst the chatter, three female cultivators in the early Foundation Establishment stage walked out of the Miscellaneous Hall.

On each of their faces, there was some discouragement.

After finally hunting a second-tier snow fox together, they only got so few merit points.

When will this accumulate enough to exchange for Yulu Elixir!

"Legend has it that this Yulu Elixir has excellent effects for us female cultivators; I really want to exchange for a bottle to try!"

"This is not a legend. Do you know Junior Sister Shi Lan? How many years has she been in Foundation Establishment? Only ten years, right! Now she has already crossed the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, relying on the help of a large amount of Yulu Elixir!"

"Hiss, it has such heaven-defying medicinal effects?"

"Of course, it's not all the credit of the Yulu Elixir. Junior Sister Shi Lan is favored by Senior Sister Dantai and has the care of the Shi family elders. I heard she also has her own ways of making money, which is why she could advance to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment in such a short time."

"There is more than one person with such conditions. I think the main credit still goes to the Yulu Elixir."

"It's a pity that Yulu Elixir is now only specially supplied to true disciples, and it must be the most favored batch of true disciples under the major elders."

"The question is, Shi Lan wasn't very outstanding at the beginning, so why did she get the treatment of being supplied with Yulu Elixir in advance?"

"I know about this! She seems to have a very good relationship with the guest elder who refines the Yulu Elixir. Even after she established her foundation, the other party personally sent her a congratulatory gift."

Mentioning the guest elder who refines the Yulu Elixir.

A name naturally arose in the minds of the three.

Danchenzi!

That is an alchemy master-level figure who suppressed the new generation of the Seven Sons of Qingdan and is famous throughout the Yuding Domain!

Rumor even has it that he has terrifying combat ability, and in the Foundation Establishment stage, he can kill Jin Dan True Persons!

Such an existence, just hearing the name and chatting about his deeds, makes people feel respect.

If the other party came from some major sect, that would be one thing.

But it just so happens that the other party is a rogue cultivator by origin.

This makes people admire him even more.

"I have always heard that he is coming to our Ice Fortress, but I haven't seen him yet. I really want to see his style!"

"Do you want to see his style? I'm afraid you want to get close and get a few bottles of Yulu Elixir!"

"Dead girl, don't you want to? I'm afraid that when the time comes, your speed of sticking to him will be faster than mine!"

"Hee hee..."

A burst of laughter washed away much of the previous gloom.

After the three finished their mission, they had a long rest time, so they simply strolled around the sect.

When they walked to the foot of Tianshan, the three looked up.

Full of envy.

This Tianshan is the only third-tier spiritual land in the Ice Fortress.

The small peaks under the continuous mountains are scattered second-tier spiritual lands, on which corresponding second-tier caves have been opened.

But even these second-tier caves are definitely not something ordinary Foundation Establishment disciples can enjoy.

Unless you are promoted to a true disciple, you automatically own a cave.

Or rely on the annual rotation time to enjoy the blessing of the spiritual land for a while.

Or use a large amount of merit points to exchange for a certain amount of spiritual land cultivation time.

The foundation of the Ice Fortress is ultimately not as good as other major sects in the Yuding Domain!

Now that nine Jin Dan True Persons have been piled up, it is the limit of exhausting the foundation, and there is no possibility of further progress.

Suddenly!

A female disciple looked in surprise at a young man standing with his hands behind his back on a mountain peak.

"Which senior brother is that? Why have I never seen him?"

"Strange, I haven't seen him either. He is so young, and his cultivation base is not high, but why can he cultivate at that second-tier middle-grade cave?"

"Hey, I seem to know him. His surname is Xu, and he seems to be a subordinate of that Elder Danchenzi?"

Once these words were spoken, a strange look flashed in the eyes of the three.

"How about we go up and say hello?"

"That's not very good!"

"What's not good? He is standing outside the cave alone, clearly having no intention to cultivate, so it's just right to go up and chat and exchange cultivation insights!"

"Let's go, let's go. I also want to know what the cultivation world outside the Ice Fortress looks like now."

Thus, Xu Xiaoliu, who was waiting for a response from the Ice Fortress, welcomed the enthusiastic communication of three beautiful female cultivators.

Above Tianshan.

Two figures glanced at the scene below the mountain and didn't care much.

Looking up, they gazed at the boundless wind and snow in the distance.

In that boundless wind and snow, a black line was looming, and continuous snow-capped mountains could be seen.

That is the Great Snow Mountain!

Within it, the mountains are continuous, and there are countless snow-capped mountains.

In the extreme cold environment, it is said that there is a fourth-tier spiritual land.

"The promise of the Luoyun Sect cannot be trusted."

In the desolate wind and snow, an elegant voice rang out, like the light chirping of a sea monster, making people feel like they were listening to phantom music.

This person not only had a beautiful voice, but her appearance was also extremely beautiful.

Even True Person Yinyue, who has always been famous for her beauty and charm in the Ice Fortress, would have her appearance dimmed by three points in front of her.

However, what has always attracted the world's attention is not her appearance, but her strength.

Fairy Canglong!

The Supreme Elder of the Ice Fortress, a powerful existence at the ninth level of Jin Dan!

Rumor has it that she is infinitely close to the Jin Dan perfection and is only one line away from the Nascent Soul.

Fairy Jueqing, who was on the side, frowned upon hearing this.

"Could the Luoyun Sect's promise to help us take down the Great Snow Mountain be just empty words?"

Canglong smiled faintly, "They didn't set a time. Ten years counts as fulfilling the promise, and a hundred or a thousand years also counts. But after a hundred or a thousand years, when our generation passes away, can the Ice Fortress still reproduce today's extreme prosperity?"

Nine Jin Dan True Persons is already the limit of the Ice Fortress's exhausted resources.

Going further is impossible!

Even if there are one or two more Jin Dan, so what? We can't afford to raise them!

With the current foundation of the Ice Fortress, it simply cannot afford to raise so many Jin Dan True Persons.

At that time, in order to compete for internal resources, I fear the Ice Fortress itself will fight until heads are broken and blood flows.

Don't you see, with just nine Jin Dan cultivators, in the past hundred years, there have already been signs of internal strife in the Ice Fortress.

Nine people have split into five forces!

Placed within other major sects, it would be like a joke.

"Then what should be done?" Fairy Jueqing said worriedly.

If the Ice Fortress cannot expand, when the next generation of disciples, Bing Po and Dantai, successively condense their cores, I fear there will be a big mess inside the Ice Fortress.

Canglong pursed her lips, her slender fingers holding a piece of rice paper.

Under the cold sunlight, the handwriting on the rice paper seemed to still have the temperature left by the writer.

"Xiaorou, isn't this Danchenzi sending charcoal in the snow?"

Hearing the name Xiaorou, Fairy Jueqing's expression stiffened.

She said stiffly: "Do you want to help Luo Chen?"

"He is a guest elder of our Ice Fortress, and he has been bullied by the strong. Shouldn't we help him?" Canglong asked back.

After looking at Fairy Jueqing with a pair of graceful eyes, she couldn't help but shake her head.

"Xiaorou, with your temperament, I don't know how you encountered genius alchemists like Shang Hu and Luo Chen one after another."

"Don't mention that person!"

"Heh, okay, okay, I won't mention him." Canglong smiled slightly and gently unfolded the letter in her hand. The handwriting on it was clearly visible. "See, a hundred bottles of Yulu Elixir a year is far from his limit. In order to take revenge on the Yan Alliance, this time he offered the condition of refining one thousand bottles of Yulu Elixir for us every year!"

"One thousand bottles! And they are all top-grade!"

"You know better than I do what this means!"

Fairy Jueqing's long, narrow eyebrows twitched, "Distributed evenly, it can help hundreds of Foundation Establishment disciples accelerate their cultivation. If concentrated, it can allow ten Foundation Establishment true disciples to quickly cultivate to the Foundation Establishment perfection. Even more extremely, if we Jin Dan True Persons take action to help, we can allow disciples with excellent talent to forcibly reach Foundation Establishment perfection within ten years and charge at the Jin Dan stage!"

"Tsk tsk, it seems your understanding of alchemy has not fallen behind. That Shang..." Canglong shook her head and sighed: "An excellent alchemy master can indeed revitalize a sect. This time, you did very well."

Praised by her senior sister, who was both a teacher and a mother, Fairy Jueqing rarely showed a smile on her face.

However, before she could smile.

Canglong sighed again, "But you didn't do well enough! For talents like Danchenzi, relying on ordinary gentle means is completely insufficient."

Fairy Jueqing said dully: "The benefits I gave him are already quite a lot."

"But he has suffered grievances, many grievances! And, many times, he doesn't come to you when he suffers grievances." Canglong blinked, "Looking at it this way, do you think you did very well?"

Fairy Jueqing remained silent.

Some things cannot be said so clearly.

Regarding Luo Chen, her attitude is very complicated.

First, she hates men, but Luo Chen is indeed outstanding, turning the tide again and again, beyond her expectations.

Second, her lineage had been declining within the Ice Fortress, and slightly over-caring for Luo Chen would easily attract internal attention to him.

Even though she was careful again and again, Luo Chen was eventually discovered and became a guest elder of the Ice Fortress, no longer a vassal subordinate belonging solely to her Jueqing lineage.

As for the third!

That is not her problem.

It is Luo Chen's problem.

The other party is simply not a master who is willing to be under others!

When encountering problems, he might ask her for help, but if she uses a little means and wants to manipulate him.

The other party retreats in the face of difficulties and then relies on his own strength to solve the problem himself.

To put it bluntly, he is unwilling to rely on her too deeply.

Fairy Jueqing even felt that even in the previous battle of Danxia Luotian, if she hadn't been there, Luo Chen still had the means to fight to the death with that Qin Tairan.

In silence, she whispered: "Then this time, what should we do?"

"Send someone!"

Canglong said faintly: "Either you go, or Bo Shuang goes. She is very interested in Luo Chen and previously sent Qiu Liangyue to Tianlan to participate in the battle of Danxia Luotian. If you don't go, she should be very willing to go and help Luo Chen."

Thinking of that woman Bo Shuang, Fairy Jueqing felt a bit uncomfortable.

Since that man, Bo Shuang has liked to compete with her for things.

Even if she doesn't care about men now, how can she tolerate others coveting her things?

"I'll go!"

After giving the response, she asked with some doubts: "Don't we need to consider the reaction of the Sword Sect?"

The Yan Alliance is an ally of the Sword Sect, and it has been so for hundreds of years.

It is rumored that the Sword Sect's sword pills are refined with the participation of the Yan Alliance.

Canglong smiled mockingly, "No need to consider. In the first place, the struggles of the major sects in our new domain are not allowed to be personally participated in by the superior sects within five hundred years; it is only the Luoyun Sect that broke the rules. Moreover! They are very happy to watch us fight to the death!"

The only worry was removed by the senior sister in a few words.

Fairy Jueqing felt relieved.

After chatting for a few more sentences, she turned and went down the mountain.

However, halfway there, she felt vaguely that something was wrong.

"That's right!"

"Clearly, it was said before that the spiritual land of Tianshan cannot support too many Jin Dan, but the senior sister is enthusiastic about recruiting Luo Chen, entrusting him to cultivate many more Jin Dan for the Ice Fortress."

"If the Luoyun Sect helps to take down the Great Snow Mountain, it would be fine, but the Luoyun Sect cannot be trusted."

"Calculated this way, isn't the senior sister contradicting herself?"

Based on Fairy Jueqing's understanding of the senior sister Canglong, how could the other party make such a mistake?

She turned around and looked, that figure still standing on the top of Tianshan.

The boundless wind and snow could not cover her breathtakingly slender figure, only the thick black clouds that occasionally covered the high sky above her head made her figure dim.

Suddenly!

A shocking thought appeared in Jueqing's mind.

Nascent Soul!

Tianhuo Immortal City, in a second-tier low-grade cave.

The formation shrouded it.

Suddenly, the formation opened, and a golden invitation floated in.

The owner of the cave opened his eyes suddenly, and without seeing any movement, the invitation fell into his hand.

【The Zhenlong Auction will start in three days. At that time, there will be many special resources from the Yuding Domain. I hope fellow Daoists will grace us with your presence, and Zhenlong will be honored.】

After a simple sentence, there was a list of resources specially marked.

The cave owner's gaze slid down all the way, not caring much about most of the resources.

It was nothing more than magic treasures and elixirs that Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators were eager for.

Suddenly!

His pupils shrank, staring fixedly at an item.

【Hundred-Year Thunder Essence: Can be refined into a natal magic treasure to increase power, temper the Yang Spirit, and use it to cross the thunder tribulation, which will have unexpected effects!】

"Hiss!!!"

"There is actually such a treasure in the Yuding Domain!"

"Isn't the Thunder Essence controlled by the Yuding Sword Sect? Even ten-year Thunder Essence is rare. Where did the Zhenlong Black Market, backed by the Luoyun Sect, get the hundred-year Thunder Essence?"

"No, this treasure is destined for me, I must take it!"

Such a scene happened all over Tianhuo Immortal City.

Even, not just Tianhuo Immortal City, but also the nearby Daguang Immortal City and Yutao Immortal City, many Jin Dan stage cultivators received invitations from the Zhenlong Black Market.

And none of these Jin Dan cultivators came from the seven sects of Yuding.

Most of them were Jin Dan cultivators from nearby major domains like the Medicine King Domain and Tianfan Domain because of the Soul Transformation relic.

They were anonymous and disguised, sneaking into the Yuding Domain, wanting to take a peek at the Soul Transformation relic.

But because the two major superior sects closed their doors, they could not enter.

They were stranded in the Yuding Domain for a while.

Not long ago, the Luoyun Sect raided the Yan Alliance and slaughtered its sect cultivators.

These people moved upon hearing the news, leaning closer, wanting to fish in troubled waters and pick up some cheap deals.

Unexpectedly, there were really cheap deals to be picked up!

For a time, several outer domain True Persons rushed to Tianhuo Immortal City, trying to bid for the hundred-year Thunder Essence that was of great benefit to Jin Dan cultivators.

And in this process.

Luo Chen, who really brought out the hundred-year Thunder Essence, welcomed an old acquaintance.

"I thought it was which True Person who was so generous to put out the hundred-year Thunder Essence, which even Nascent Soul True Persons regard as a treasure, for auction. I didn't expect it to be you, fellow Daoist Luo."

Facing the visitor, Luo Chen's expression was a bit complicated.

But that unusual emotion flashed away.

He smiled, "Fellow Daoist Tianxingzi, all is well."

Tianxingzi shook his head, "I'm fine, but you, fellow Daoist, clearly have a feud with the Yan Alliance, yet you dare to enter its self-built immortal city. It's no less than entering a tiger's den, truly bold!"

"Don't you, fellow Daoist, know that there is a tiger in the mountain, yet you head toward the tiger mountain?" Luo Chen asked back.

Tianxingzi was stunned, and then he and Luo Chen looked at each other and smiled.

Everything is unspoken.

Begging for a wave of double monthly tickets!