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"Ling!"

A crisp phoenix cry rang out. The air suddenly became bright and red. The snow that had been drifting about was instantly evaporated into water droplets. In the air appeared a flaming bird, its entire body covered in scarlet flames.

The Vermillion Bird that Bai Li summoned was huge. With a flap of its fiery wings, it instantly arrived in front of Bai Li to block the White Impermanence's attack.

Puff.

However, when its life was smashed against the Vermillion Bird, it was like hitting a sponge, and did not cause any harm to the Vermillion Bird. On the other hand, the Vermillion Bird was provoked by White Impermanence's attack and gave out another "Ling" sound. He opened his mouth and a stream of fire flowed out from it. A bright light flashed in Bai Li's eyes as he raised his left hand and clenched it in front of White Impermanence. The moment he clenched his hand, the fiery rivers that were circling in the air suddenly merged together and turned into a giant hand that grabbed towards White Impermanence.

White Impermanence only revealed half of her body to begin with, and was unable to dodge. When she saw the hand of fire reaching towards her, her expression couldn't help but change, and she screamed like a woman, "Black Impermanence, help me!"

At that moment, the fire hand was only around thirty meters away from White Impermanence, and was about to grab him. Suddenly, Black Impermanence threw the 'Soul Chaser' chain in his hand out. With a wave of his hands, the 'Soul Chaser' chain tightened and spun in the air, trapping the huge fire hand. However, Black Impermanence did not stop and pointed at Bai Li, who was controlling the Vermillion Bird below.

The Fire Hand that was trapped by the "Soul Chaser" chain trembled continuously. It wanted to struggle free from the chain, but suddenly, a strong force pulled the giant hand towards the ground.

Bai Li naturally knew Black Impermanence's thoughts. With a sneer, he waved the Pangu Banner in his right hand.

With a "Ling" sound, the Vermillion Bird transformed into a sea of flames along with the giant hand, naturally escaping from the Soul Chasing Chain. Bai Li suddenly opened his mouth and acted as if he was going to eat something.

"Wu!"

The sea of fire suddenly churned violently, and soon after, a human face appeared. After that, it shook a few times, then it opened its big mouth and maliciously swallowed the Black and White Impermanence.

The Black and White Impermanence were the Yin Commanders of the Underworld. The body that came this time was only made up of Yin Qi. How could they possibly battle with Bai Li, who was holding the Pangu Banner? The two people's expressions changed. They looked at each other, then Black Impermanence said in a deep voice, "Mortal, in twenty years, we will settle this debt again!" With that, the two of them shrunk and disappeared into the dark clouds.

After the two of them left, Bai Li didn't feel anything amiss. Instead, he retracted his flames and Vermilion Bird. He turned around and thrust the banner into the thick layer of ice.

"Soul Summoning, Soul Gathering!" His voice was low, but it sounded like a heavy Kui Cow Drum that had traveled far.

Woo woo …

The cold wind suddenly grew eerie, and gradually, the heads of countless ghosts could be seen appearing and disappearing in the wind. Anyone who saw this scene would be scared to death.

However, when Bai Li saw this, he nodded his head and moved his palm. It was as if he was holding the cold wind that filled the sky. With a light push, countless ghosts flew towards the ten giant chunks of ice.

"Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Heavenly Queen, Tai Ying, Tai Chang, Gou Feng, Soaring Snake, Sky, Ten Spiritual Gods, bring him back to his original position!"

"Wuuu …"

The Yin wind suddenly rotated, ten shadows of different shapes suddenly appeared in the air, stepping into the Yin wind, dragging out ten hollow souls, each flying into an ice block.

After seeing the Ten Spiritual Gods pull the souls back, Bai Li turned his palm into a finger and drew a strange rune on Pan Gu. The instant he finished, the corner of Bai Li's mouth suddenly twitched. He let out a cold laugh and with a flick of his left hand, he threw a snowflake made of polygon onto the rune. As soon as the snowflake touched the symbol, it immediately melted into the snow without anyone noticing.

"Soul-realm, open!"

With a burst of crackling sounds, a weird long river made of black fragments suddenly appeared in the air. The river was filled with dense black fragments. Some of them seemed to be attracted by something and slowly floated out of the river, flying towards the ten pieces of ice.

At this moment, Bai Li's face suddenly flushed red. Even the blood vessels around his body seemed to be affected, anxious to burst his blood vessels and erupt.

When half of the flying black piece of debris entered the ice, Bai Li finally could not hold it in and spat out a mouthful of blood. The moment the fresh blood came out, Bai Li felt a large portion of his spiritual energy being drained from his body. His expression changed as he hurriedly took out a wooden bottle from his chest and threw out a handful of medicinal pills, swallowing them. Afterwards, he didn't dare to be negligent and focused on controlling the fragments to flow into the ice.

After a few hours of this, Bai Li finally sent the black fragments into the ice. He exhaled, gathered the Ten Spiritual Gods and pulled out the Pangu Banner. He glanced at the sculpture-like pieces of ice, then walked away without a pause.

And 10 miles away, a dark profound energy was quietly sitting on a boundary of ice. Beside him was a woman wearing a purple muslin dress, holding a long sword in her hand.

"Little Qing, do you think this Bai Li is already so powerful when he's already a ten-style god? How strong is he now when he's an eleven-style god?"

The woman shook her head and whispered, "Little Qing doesn't know."

Mystic One seemed to be very fond of this woman. Hearing her say this, she laughed and said, "You always say that sentence, can you change it to another sentence?"

"Little Qing wouldn't."

There was only one expression on her face, and that was a faint sadness. Her eyebrows, her mouth, even all her features, seemed to be inscribed.

It was as if she wasn't a human but a puppet.

Dark Mystery stood up, leaped up, and rode his sword into the middle of the ten chunks of ice. Xiaoqing did not follow, nor did the sword in her hand.

Bai Li seemed to know what the Dark Profound was about to do, so after summoning his soul, he gathered his soul and left.

The people inside the ice block were no different from before. However, there seemed to be some color on their faces compared to before. After using his spirit energy to check if any of the people in the ice had a soul, he smiled in satisfaction. He lifted his own hands and looked at them as if he was seeing them for the first time.

His eyes began to emit blood-red rays of light, and after the light shone on his hands, they began to expand. Suddenly, a long, sharp bone grew from the back of his hand. There was flesh on the bone, and the smell of blood spread in the air.

He turned over the back of his hand and licked the blood and minced meat off the bone spikes. He mixed his mouth with the aftertaste and felt an endless aftertaste. At this time, his hands had already become ten times more rough than usual. There were even some scabs growing on them, just like the back of a toad.

Even though it looked disgusting, Mystic One was still smiling and feeling extremely satisfied. He came to the side of one of the ice cubes and looked at the person sealed in it. He reached out a hand and tapped it.

With a "pa," the ice instantly shattered, and even the frozen person within it turned into a pile of debris. The layer of ice was instantly covered in blood and a fishy smell spread out in all directions along with the wind.

If a normal person smelled this, they would immediately vomit. However, Dark Mystery enjoyed this very much.

"The era of our demon race is coming …"

"Why haven't we met anyone along the way?" Ji Yuanmeng stretched out her jade-like hands and pulled open the curtain as she asked Ding Hong, who was in the middle of driving the carriage.

"Who would want to run out on such a cold day?"

Ding Hong was completely focused on driving. Ever since they left Chao Yang City, Ding Hong had been a coachman for almost two months. He was gradually becoming more familiar with driving a horse carriage.

The snow still did not stop. Ding Hong could not help but wonder if it was caused by some other reason. If it continued to fall without rest, who knew if it would stop his journey. They had already left Yao Valley Pass a day ago. Although Zhang Shun had made a grand visit on the way, he was rejected by Ji Yuanmeng. In order to avoid trouble, they left Yao Valley Pass early in the morning.

There were six routes to the southwest after they left the Yao Valley Pass.

A mountain road, a water road.

Since the mountain road was a bit dangerous, Ding Hong decided to bring the two of them to the water path. However, in order to go down the river, one had to first walk northwest for half a day, detour around a small mountain, and then enter the Witchriver from the southwest.

At first, Ding Hong was worried that he would run into a large group of spirit demons on the way. However, once he recalled that the Zhou Dynasty army was out on a expedition, he should be able to ensure that he would be able to travel for half a day. Furthermore, based on his own strength, it seems like Suo Bing had some ability.

It was not that Ding Hong had not considered the other mountain paths, but it was just that according to the rumors, there were two paths. The Yao Valley Road and the Ghost Valley Road were already in disrepair, and the Chen-Xiang Road and the Yang No.Road were too dangerous, and the safer ones were too far away.

With these factors combined, Ding Hong finally decided to take the underwater route.

After walking for several hours, Ding Hong arrived at a valley of ice. The layer of ice in the valley was very thick, covering an area of several miles. It was unknown what it was recently formed into. Because the carriage wheel was wrapped in a layer of antiskid sanding cloth, it didn't seem to be skidding in the snow. However, the ice of this valley was crystal clear and smooth. Not to mention whether the carriage could move about on it, just the fact that the ice was so thick was quite worrisome.

Ding Hong got off the carriage and looked around to see if there was a path that could bypass this valley. Ji Yuanmeng was bored, so she got up when she saw Ding Hong wandering around. She got off the carriage and followed behind him, imitating his actions.

Ding Hong was a little depressed, so he did not pay any attention to Ji Yuanmeng, who was following behind him. After playing around for a while, Ding Hong was still unable to come up with a solution. When he found Ji Yuanmeng following behind him, he said in a daze, "It's so cold, why are you following me?"

Ji Yuanmeng's two cheeks were flushed red. Due to being exposed to the ice for so long, her feet were jumping up and down. She rubbed her hands together and kept exhaling. She stuttered, "Didn't you play outside?"

Ding Hong shook his head and said, "Ai, with your current appearance, you're still getting married..." Carry her back to the carriage, ready to turn around and find some other place to go.

But when he turned around and walked away for a while, he couldn't help but frown.

"Phew –" The carriage came to a halt. Ding Hong realized that he had been circling around! In other words, either someone had set up a Dao technique or a monster was causing trouble for them!

"Interesting." Ding Hong sneered. On his way here, he had indeed seen many first class ghosts. This monster was really something he had never seen before.

"Xuan Sword Formation, activate!"

"He summoned his eight Void Blades and flew in all directions, guarding a few spots." Suo Bing, take care of her. "

"Yes, young master." Suo Bing replied from inside the carriage.

"I want to leave …" Ji Yuanmeng had only said one sentence before she stopped. She was probably stunned by Suo Bing...

Ding Hong got off the carriage and sensed the surroundings with the eight swords. Suddenly, from the southeast direction, the sword showed some reaction. It picked up the Heavenly Jade Flute and ran towards that direction.

Running on the ice was originally extremely difficult, but by controlling the surrounding spiritual energy to create a suction force, it became much more convenient. Naturally, this was not as convenient as controlling the sword. Thinking about how she didn't ask if Suo Bing had already mastered the Imperial Sword Technique, it would be much more convenient for her. But, it has only been a day since she gave Suo Bing the method to wield the sword.

Cough, cough, isn't this speed a bit too terrifying?

In such a short period of time, Ding Hong had also arrived at the place where the [Pi Ze Sword] was. The sword stabbed into the ice and emitted light. The ground was not covered with a thick layer of snow, but crystal clear ice. However, the snow would show a series of footprints, each with three fingers, about half the size of an ordinary person's foot. Even though it seemed like he hadn't stayed for long, he couldn't see clearly through the snowflakes anymore.

Ding Hong frowned and thought, "These footprints do not look human. Could it really be a demon soldier?" With a thought, he retracted the sword that was divided into seven different locations. Before the footprints disappeared, he followed the place the middle-aged man pointed to.

The journey was not long, because after walking for a while, all the marks were covered by the snow and could no longer be identified. Ding Hong frowned. When he was about to open the profound formation to search, he suddenly heard a burst of crying sounds.

Judging from the voice, it should be a child. However, why would there be a child's crying sound on this ice mountain? Most likely, this was caused by a monster's disturbance and a deliberate action. However, Ding Hong was not afraid. On the contrary, he was pleasantly surprised. He thought about how to find a demon according to this place. Without hesitation, he decided to rush in the right direction.

It was a dilapidated thatched cottage with a thick layer of accumulated snow on the roof, and it felt as if it was going to collapse under the pressure. The cries of children could still be heard.

Ding Hong infused his sword qi into the Skyjade Xiao, slowly closing in step by step. The structure of the house was very simple. The walls were made of mud, but because of the cold and the frost, it looked much harder than usual. After entering, Ding Hong also saw the source of the wailing.

It was indeed a child, but the shadow of the child was flickering. It turned out to be a vengeful spirit! Seeing this, Ding Hong did not know if it was a trap. He tightened his grip on his Heavenly Jade Flute and asked, "Who are you?"

"Wu, mother, mother." The child looked at him and cried.

Ding Hong frowned and asked again, "Who are you?"

"I'm in the Red Competition." He stopped crying. "Who are you? Do you know where my mother is? " His body, which was somewhere between real and fake, did not have any tears to begin with. Once he stopped crying, it would be impossible to tell that he had ever cried again.

"I am Xiaofeng. I don't know where your mother is." He felt that he did not have the usual malicious thoughts of a ghost, and the strength in his hands gradually relaxed.