Chapter 1586: Crushing Intelligence

The cold wind wailed like a ghost, and the flying snow across the sky made visibility less than two meters.

With a crisp *crack*, a palm wrapped in a light blue crystal layer pierced through the hard ice, five fingers hooking into the ice layer like hooks.

Su Xiao could no longer know how low the surrounding temperature was. After climbing 50 meters, the temperature began to drop sharply again.

Su Xiao's left hand pierced into the hard ice, suspending his body on the iceberg. A small canister of compressed oxygen appeared in his hand.

Biting the bottle mouth, Su Xiao took a deep breath. He wasn't inhaling oxygen due to altitude sickness, but because after arriving at the Eternal Frozen Sea area, there was no oxygen in the air. The low temperature of over minus 200 degrees caused the structure of oxygen molecules to change, beginning to turn into liquid. As long as there was enough pressure, liquid oxygen could be formed.

Su Xiao had just taken a deep breath when the miniature oxygen canister in his hand was covered with cracks. After a crisp sound, it split open.

In this ghostly place, he didn't know how the Moi family people overcame it. It was no wonder they were so at ease with the Land of Death. Without careful preparation, even a Fifth-Stage witch would have no return.

Su Xiao threw away the miniature oxygen canister in his hand, and a light blue crystal layer clung to his right hand.

*Crack, crack... *

Su Xiao continued to climb upward. Unknowingly, he had already climbed over a hundred meters, but for this iceberg that was several thousand meters high, this was just the beginning.

Su Xiao wasn't having an easy time, but Amu, hanging below, was very leisurely. Ignoring the low temperature, it began to look around. It wasn't time for it to exert effort yet.

Ice chips splashed, appearing exceptionally crystal-clear in the flying snow. Having climbed only over a hundred meters, Su Xiao began to feel cold—bone-chilling cold. This wasn't a metaphor; the cold wind blowing was like razors, cutting across his bones.

Su Xiao looked up toward the top. Everything he saw was a vast expanse of white, and he could faintly see the ice layers hanging down from high above.

After 275 meters of height.

Su Xiao hung on the reverse-sloping ice layer like a gecko. Just at this moment, a feeling of warmth came from within his body. As soon as this feeling appeared, he stopped climbing immediately.

People who freeze to death don't feel cold, but rather feel warm. This is a false signal sent to the brain by the nervous system due to extreme cold.

Su Xiao hung on the ice layer. Except for his right hand hooked into the ice layer, his body was completely suspended in the air. It was Amu's turn to appear.

"Amu."

Hearing Su Xiao's shout, Amu, ten meters below, let out a low roar. It began to swing back and forth.

With a crisp sound, Amu climbed onto the iceberg. Su Xiao released his arm, and his body fell freely. When he descended to the same height as Amu, he grabbed the horns on Amu's head.

The first thing to be replaced was the lanyard. In this low temperature, even a rope woven from hundreds of thousands of fiber filaments couldn't be completely safe and needed to be replaced regularly.

After replacing the lanyard, Su Xiao released his arm.

*Ding! *

The lanyard was pulled straight. Su Xiao's falling figure stopped abruptly, and Amu began to drag him to climb the iceberg.

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't hang in mid-air and do nothing; this would instead accelerate the loss of his body temperature. The current enemy was the environment, the extreme cold climate. This was an enemy that couldn't be seen and couldn't be eliminated.

Su Xiao took out three pieces of cold-protection clothing and wrapped himself tightly. This wasn't the end; he took out an arm-thick test tube and poured the liquid inside onto the outside of the cold-protection clothing.

*Crack, crack, crack... *

In less than two seconds, the three layers of cold-protection clothing were frozen into an ice lump. Su Xiao retracted his hand into his sleeve and took out a pendant. This pendant was emitting gentle heat.

This heat didn't make Su Xiao feel warm, but instead, a stinging pain came from his body surface. Soon, the stinging pain faded, and his body, which had almost been frozen stiff, regained sensation, giving him the feeling of coming back to life.

Su Xiao exhaled a long breath of white air. If he had the complete Moi family heirloom, he wouldn't be struggling like this. Unfortunately, the situation in the Mist Valley was too critical at the time, and he didn't have the chance to obtain the Moi family heirloom.

Amu dragged Su Xiao to climb the iceberg rapidly. It could ignore the cold, but Su Xiao wouldn't let Amu do all the work. It wasn't that he wanted to complete the 'Extreme Cold Trial', but he had to let his body gradually adapt to the surrounding temperature, otherwise, he might be frozen to death by the time he reached the top.

Amu's climbing speed was much faster than Su Xiao's. In a short while, it had climbed nearly a thousand meters.

"Moo~"

Amu's roar came from above. Su Xiao stretched his arms outward. With a crisp *snap*, the three layers of cold-protection clothing wrapping him exploded into fragments across the sky.

The cold wind struck. Su Xiao began to swing back and forth. When he climbed onto the hard ice, Amu above began to free-fall.

Replacing the lanyard, Su Xiao dragged Amu to continue climbing upward. A layer of fine ice crystals gradually appeared on his body surface.

Just as Su Xiao and Amu were cooperating to climb the iceberg, below the iceberg, a figure over three meters tall walked out of the wind and snow. Zango, originally four meters tall, curled up his body, and icicle-shaped snot hung from his nose.

"F-f-found, y-y-you."

Zango looked at Xiang Bubu Wang under the iceberg. Xiang Bubu Wang was also shivering, not because of fear, but because it was frozen.

*Tut-tut-tut... *

*Tut-tut-tut... *

Xiang Bubu Wang and Zango *tut-tutted* at each other for a while. The sound of their teeth colliding seemed to form a symphony. The surroundings were dead silent, only that 'eerie' *tut-tut* sound remained.

"Woof~"

Xiang Bubu Wang barked low, meaning: "Are you sick? You're almost frozen into a fool and you still chase after me."

Zango didn't understand Xiang Bubu Wang's meaning. The gills at his jaw inhaled a large amount of gas; this was an organ he had temporarily evolved not long ago.

Just as Zango was preparing to slaughter Xiang Bubu Wang, Xiang Bubu Wang gradually integrated into the environment. For Xiang Bubu Wang in this state, Zango had no way at all, so he decided to climb the iceberg to continue pursuing Su Xiao.

Just as Zango's hand pierced into the ice layer, Xiang Bubu Wang bit his butt and then disappeared.

Clearly, in a low-temperature environment, Zango's strength was greatly reduced, but in this environment, Xiang Bubu Wang's intelligence climbed geometrically, unlocking to an overloaded level.

Zango ignored Xiang Bubu Wang and continued to climb the iceberg, but before he had climbed a few meters, a huge force came from his hand.

*Boom! *

The ice layer Zango grabbed was shattered, and the impact sent him into mid-air. For this level of explosion, Zango didn't care at all; the cold environment greatly reduced the power of the explosion.

Just as Zango fell onto the snow, an impact came from under his butt, blowing him forward and face-planting.

With a *splash*, Zango only felt his body cool; it seemed like ice fragments were splashed on him. That was fresh water sprinkled by Xiang Bubu Wang, but because the temperature was too cold, it froze before it even landed on Zango.

A flame sprayed toward Zango's head. Zango didn't dodge or evade, meeting it head-on. In the flames, his body, which was almost frozen stiff, recovered rapidly.

Was Xiang Bubu Wang helping the enemy recover? Not at all. The flames melted the ice crystals beside Zango, turning them into puddles of water that fell on him.

The flames stopped abruptly. Xiang Bubu Wang threw away the flame thrower and compressed air bottle in its hand. Now, it even considered that this was an oxygen-free environment where flames couldn't burn.

The cold wind blew, and Zango shivered. The bone-chilling cold spread from all parts of his body, beginning to spread into his body.

*Tut-tut-tut... *

Zango, almost frozen into an ice man, confronted Xiang Bubu Wang. The two continued to *tut-tut* at each other. Xiang Bubu's series of slick operations just now made Zango afraid to continue climbing the iceberg. If he dared to underestimate Xiang Bubu Wang, he might even die here. ===== CHAPTER 1587 =====