Chapter 840 - 282: Scheming for the Immortal Mansion
Northern County.
A figure dressed in a moon white long skirt walked barefoot across the vast snowfield.
In front of the figure, an enormous Golden Toad sprinted a few steps over the ice that had been frozen for unknown years, then suddenly lifted all four legs, and with inertia, slid over a hundred meters with its belly against the ice.
"This place is so interesting!"
"Master, can we stay in this Northern County for a longer time?"
The Golden Toad, having slid hundreds of meters away, returned to Shen Li’s side, lifted its head, and squinted its eyes.
Shen Li glanced at him and spoke softly.
"If you like it here, I’ll leave you here to play your fill after I leave."
Upon hearing this, the Golden Toad immediately drooped its head, losing interest in continuing to play.
It moved its body and continued forward with Shen Li.
"Little Green, have you sensed the position of the Profound Ice Marrow?"
While progressing, Shen Li spoke softly to the Celestial Capital Grass Sword Insect in her palm.
This gentle attitude indeed made the Golden Toad following behind very envious.
The inch-long Celestial Capital Grass Sword Insect lifted its head, sensed carefully for a moment, but only beeped strangely twice.
It was evident that the Profound Ice Marrow was too deeply hidden; even though they were not flying in the sky and were walking on the ground, the Celestial Capital Grass Sword Insect found it hard to clearly determine the position of the Profound Ice Marrow.
The Profound Ice Marrow was critical for the Celestial Capital Grass Sword Insect’s transition from the larval stage to the growth stage, and Shen Li had been searching in Northern County for quite a while.
"Master, should we try to capture a demon beast in the snowfield to ask for information?"
"There must be something unusual where the Profound Ice Marrow exists."
After traveling for a while, the Golden Toad realized that this wasn’t working and, after some thought, spoke up.
Shen Li paused in her steps, then nodded and said, "Leave this to you, go ahead and see if you can find some demon creatures."
"Remember, don’t venture too far."
"The depths of this snowfield harbor many extremely subtle auras; if you accidentally provoke something you shouldn’t, I won’t save you."
The Golden Toad pouted, said nothing, and directly turned into a stream of light flying towards the distance.
Northern County was previously Yu Country’s largest county, with a depth exceeding five thousand miles; the Extreme North Snowfield alone occupied ninety percent of Northern County’s area.
The further northwest one goes in the snowfield, the colder it becomes; even before the Spiritual Qi Revival, this snowfield was a forbidden area for living beings.
After the Spiritual Qi Revival, the cold intensified, making even cultivators reluctant to easily venture here.
Therefore, wanting to find a demon beast in this vast snowfield to inquire about the whereabouts of the Profound Ice Marrow was undoubtedly no easy task.
One human and one demon searched the snowfield for several days.
Just when the Golden Toad was about to give up, it suddenly spotted a giant ice pillar several hundred meters tall not far ahead.
Under the sunlight, the Golden Toad vaguely saw numerous lights flashing on the surface of the ice pillar.
Upon suddenly seeing this, the Golden Toad believed there must be Heavenly and Earthly Treasures in the ice pillar, getting quite excited.
Its body accelerated sharply, directly transforming into a golden light rushing towards the ice pillar.
The distance of a thousand meters was covered in the blink of an eye.
When the Golden Toad’s body landed not far from the ice pillar, it found all the flashes it had seen earlier from afar vanished.
The entire ice pillar stood in the cold wind, showing no peculiarities.
"Strange, could it be an illusion?"
The Golden Toad was somewhat unwilling to give up, cautiously approached the ice pillar, examining it up and down, back and forth for a long time, but found nothing out of ordinary.
It scratched its head with its front claw, puzzled, just about to turn and leave, when the ice pillar several hundred meters behind suddenly moved.
Before the Golden Toad could turn around, the entire ice pillar melted away like flowing water!
Some rolling ice blocks suddenly extended slender legs carved like ice, and two eyes flashing with scarlet light appeared at the forefront resembling the head!
In an instant, the hundreds of meters tall ice pillar turned into over a thousand oddly shaped ice spiders!
These ice spiders scattered like a tide, quickly surrounding the Golden Toad.
The Golden Toad’s eyes flashed with a hint of amazement, nervously surveying the over a thousand ice spiders of varying sizes around him.
It was quite puzzled.
To know, earlier, it had checked the ice pillar carefully, nearly face to face, without discovering anything unusual.
Who would’ve thought the entire ice pillar was composed of these peculiar ice spiders?
These creatures were exceptionally skilled at concealing their aura!
Chirp! Chirp!
Chirp!
Once the thousand ice spiders surrounded the Golden Toad, numerous scarlet eyes were fixedly staring at its massive body.
The snowfield was rarely inhabited, and for these ice spiders, the suddenly appearing Golden Toad was heavenly-gifted food, they certainly wouldn’t easily let it go.
The thousand ice spiders, led by a few huge ones with obviously late-stage Fetal Breathing auras, continuously advanced towards the Golden Toad.
In response, the Golden Toad’s eyes didn’t show much fear.
This was because its current strength had reached the realm of Perfect Fetal Breathing, and its master at the Golden Core Realm and the unusually powerful Celestial Capital Grass Sword Insect were only tens of miles away.
As for these ice spiders ahead, the strongest among them was no more than late-stage Fetal Breathing, while the ones only the size of a head were merely at the Qi Refining Stage, utterly not a concern.
As these ice spiders closed in, the demon origin power within the Golden Toad was instantly stirred.
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