Chapter 199

The Frozen Moon Cold River is very far, and it doesn't even border the Great Qian.

The vast areas in the north of the Great Qian are all demon territories, with vast land and sparse demons.

To the west of the Great Qian is the Tianshuang Kingdom. The northern part of the Tianshuang Kingdom also borders the demon territory, and the Frozen Moon Cold River is to the west of the demon territory.

Flying west from Xiazhou, gradually there is no human smoke below.

The climate of the entire Tianshuang Kingdom is much colder than the Great Qian. It is currently May, but winter scenes can often be seen within the borders of the Tianshuang Kingdom below. The further north you go, the more obvious it is, and the mountains and rivers are covered with frost.

Ye Tinglan sent Dugu Qingli to the Tianshuang Kingdom to investigate the situation, also because this place is very suitable for her.

The Tianshuang Kingdom not only has different customs and climate from the Great Qian, but even the system is very different. Because the world is huge and the journey is long, Lu Xingzhou hasn't researched the specifics very carefully. He only knows that it is more similar to a general immortal world, where each sect does its own thing, the presence of the imperial court is very low, and towns are attached to sects.

This situation is generally because the imperial court is weak and does not have a particularly strong power to unify. As a result, it is called a country, but in fact, it is closer to a sect alliance system, and the monarch is like an alliance leader. Their main enemy is also the demon race, and they are considered allies with the Great Qian.

Because the journey is long, the climate is bad, and the immortal sects are unruly, the Great Qian side has never thought about bringing the Tianshuang Kingdom under its rule, which is completely thankless. Therefore, there is no conflict between the two countries, and both sides of the border don't even have troops. If there is a conflict, it is more of a sect conflict between immortal sects, which cannot reach the national level.

There are no people for hundreds of miles around the border between the two countries, all of which are poor mountains and bad waters, becoming a good place for many fugitives and villains to hide. The lairs of some demonic sects are also hidden here, and the Joyous Sect of the Enchantress is one of them.

Therefore, the Joyous Sect of the Enchantress is relatively not far from Xiazhou, which is why Pei Chuyun's first stop after coming out of the mountain was Xiazhou.

Entering the Tianshuang Kingdom and flying north for several days, it is the southern end of the Frozen Moon Cold River.

Looking around, it is a vast expanse of white, thousands of miles of glaciers, nothing special except for the cold. In fact, there are many ancient ruins covered under the glaciers here. Not to mention anything else, at least there are many ancient tombs.

Of course, given its vast territory, the so-called "many" is also extremely difficult to find. For hundreds of years, cultivators have been looking for opportunities in this ghost place, and not many have really found anything. Gradually, fewer and fewer people come here.

Dugu Qingli has lived here since childhood. The territory is so large and few people come, which leads to the fact that even if there are people, they may not be seen. For so many years, she has almost never seen people a few times.

The small boat flew in the sky, Lu Xingzhou touched his chin and looked at the ice sheet below, very puzzled: "Strange, the National Teacher threw little white hair alone in this kind of place, she was just a child then! Is this a trial or an exile?"

Ye Tinglan sat cross-legged on the bow, ignoring him.

"How did she survive? What did she eat?" A Nuo also said: "There are not even a few animals here, right?"

Ye Tinglan finally opened her mouth unpleasantly: "Dugu Qingli's situation is very special. If she didn't live here when she was a child, she wouldn't have survived in other places. She survived on the ice-cold qi, and only became normal after her cultivation was high."

Lu Xingzhou said: "According to this, some people think she looks like a demon, which is not completely baseless."

"Of course not a demon. People today have little knowledge and don't know some special innate holy bodies. Dugu Qingli's Ice Soul Sword Body is rare in ten thousand years."

"Then you can't let a child live alone; the National Teacher is going too far."

"Not alone. The Tianyao Holy Land has always had people observing in this area, and Qingli's situation has always been someone responsible. Actually, I... also know that the National Teacher has a soul clone by her side, otherwise how to point out cultivation? Is it a master-disciple relationship just by throwing it here?"

"A portable old grandpa?"

Ye Tinglan heard this term for the first time, but felt it was appropriate, and laughed: "Almost."

"True heroine treatment." Lu Xingzhou said: "Then what does she eat?"

"It's not that there is nothing to eat here. Look, look."

Following Ye Tinglan's pointing, Lu Xingzhou indeed saw a cluster of ice-crystal-like plants, from leaves to fruits, all looking like art pieces carved from ice.

Lu Xingzhou and A Nuo's eyes lit up: "Fun."

Learned something. "This is ice crystal fruit, which does not exist in the outside world. Not only plants, but also animals, all are exotic beasts. Exotic beasts will attack you, but they also have many uses for medicine refining." Ye Tinglan said: "These things, some of them will be seen in some high-end auctions in the Great Qian, and more of them cannot be seen at all. You are alchemists, but you have never seen these special things that do not exist in the Great Qian. You are just frogs at the bottom of the well. What kind of alchemists are you? This is the trial you need."

Lu Xingzhou touched his chin: "Is it a huge profit to let people collect these things here and sell them back to the Great Qian?"

"So why do you think the Tianyao Holy Land has people stationed here to observe? Of course, they won't sell them to the Great Qian; they are all stored and used by the Tianyao Holy Land itself. Other forces, the Great Qian basically doesn't have them, but there are many forces in the Tianshuang Kingdom that will do this. Do you think Dugu Qingli only dealt with exotic beasts for so many years? Of course, there are also humans."

While discussing, suddenly a biting cold wind swept past, piercing the outer shield of the small boat and stabbing at Lu Xingzhou's face.

Lu Xingzhou waved it away casually, and the cold wind poured in through the crack in the shield, and his hair was covered with frost in an instant.

Ye Tinglan pressed the bow and fell to the ground: "There will be frost wind roaring from time to time here, ice-cold like a blade, and the power is quite strong. Hmm, just like the kind of accidental attack you felt in the Demon-Suppressing Domain."

"Wind knife and frost sword, this is." Lu Xingzhou landed on the ground and looked around: "In the Demon-Suppressing Domain, it was because of the ownerless energy running around after the demons died. What is the reason here?"

"There is no reason, it's just common wind. It's just that the wind contains strong ice-cold energy, which leads to a certain degree of aggressiveness. The deeper you go into the center, the denser and stronger it is, so ordinary cultivators cannot enter the core area."

"Has Qingli entered?"

"How would I know? I'm not her portable old grandpa." Does a portable old grandma count... Ye Tinglan rolled her eyes at him: "You are here to visit Dugu Qingli's former residence, right?"

Lu Xingzhou: "..."

"If you visit the former residence, maybe there really is one. If you see a small house built with ice cubes cut by a sword, that's probably it. After she practiced during the day, she would cut ice cubes to build a house to live in at night."

A Nuo imagined the scene of a white-haired little girl about her size building a house by herself, and her small face flattened: "So pitiful..."

"No way, extraordinary people can only do extraordinary things. If the Tianyao Holy Land hadn't discovered her, she would have been gone..." Ye Tinglan thought of the pitiful appearance of her good disciple when she was a child, and also sighed a few times: "What is truly confusing is her origin. How could a child be abandoned in the Frozen Moon Cold River... Can't it be just because she has white hair and blue eyes?"

Lu Xingzhou was silent for a moment: "It could be a force in the Tianshuang Kingdom."

"Hmm." Ye Tinglan let Dugu Qingli come to the Tianshuang Kingdom, of course, also with the meaning of letting her good disciple find her origin, but there was no need to tell Lu Xingzhou about this: "Let's go, let's look at the ice crystal fruit first."

The three of them put away the small boat and walked towards the cluster of ice crystal fruits.

Just as they approached, with a "swish," an ice snake darted out from under the fruit tree, quietly going to bite A Nuo's foot.

A Nuo stepped on the seven inches of the ice snake, the ice snake twitched twice, and strands of ice-cold radiated from its body, dead thoroughly.

Ye Tinglan said as if nothing had happened: "Collect it, look at the medicinal use."

A Nuo: "..."

"So don't think that this thousand-mile glacier is visible at a glance, as if there is no danger. In fact, there is danger at every step here, and murderous intent can emerge from anywhere unexpectedly. And... do you feel that your blood circulation is becoming more and more sluggish, and even your true qi is very stagnant?"

"Hmm..."

"This is also a trial in cultivation. This is just the edge. I also really want to know, with your level, how many miles you can go deep into this Frozen Moon Cold River."

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ps: A little less, just make do, more in the evening.