Chapter 575 - 235: Reckless Self-Sacrifice

Chapter 575: Chapter 235: Reckless Self-Sacrifice

"Elder Zuo, look, why is there a forest frozen over on Cyan Lotus Mountain?"

At the base of Cyan Lotus Mountain, people from the Celestial Fall Sect were staring in astonishment towards the mountain top.

They had been waiting here for three days without seeing any sign of the beautiful sect fairies, not even a single hair.

Tonight, a group of them was falling asleep, unable to stay awake any longer.

Then, suddenly, it started snowing heavily. These were cultivators, who shouldn’t be afraid of the cold, but for some reason, this eerie snow made them shiver uncontrollably.

Fortunately, the snow stopped after a short while. As they wondered about it, they saw a forest at the top of the mountain frozen solid.

Zuoqiu’s beast eyes widened: "Is this... Profound Ice?! Could it be Xia... Xia Qinglian?!"

On hearing this name, those around him jumped up like their pants were on fire, quickly scattering in all directions:

"Xia Qinglian is here! Run!!"

"Stop right there!" Zuoqiu quickly called out to them:

"This isn’t Xia Qinglian; it must be someone else’s cultivation technique!"

The group halted their frantic escape, turning back with suspicion in their eyes:

"Really? Elder Zuo, you better not be lying to us."

Zuoqiu, incensed, blew out white breath from his nostrils: "Xia Qinglian is dead; could she possibly come back to life?!"

The guy who cultivated the Celestial Beast Record, turning into a Gudiao, flapped back cautiously, saying:

"Could it be Xia Qinglian’s... ghost?"

Sss!

Upon hearing this, there was a collective gasp from those around.

Zuoqiu raised a robust beast hoof and gave him a swat: "What nonsense are you spouting?! Where in this world are there ghosts? Even if a cultivator in the Divinity Transformation Realm could become a residual soul, it couldn’t be Xia Qinglian; she was only at the Nascent Soul Peak!"

Someone muttered under their breath: "At that Nascent Soul Peak, she could probably slay even those in the Divinity Transformation realm."

The others nodded, finding it very believable.

"Shut up!" Zuoqiu glared at them, his beast eyes darting around before he suddenly said,

"Let’s go up and take a look."

"Huh?" The group immediately recoiled into a huddle.

"Look at you cowards. If there is trouble on Cyan Lotus Mountain right now, it’s against those Zhenyang Sect folks. We can take advantage of the chaos; maybe there’ll be some benefit for us!"

"If we really catch some sect fairies, I’ll let you have some fun before I devour them."

Hearing this, the others’ eyes lit up: "We pledge our lives to follow Elder Zuo!"

Quickly, this band of people began to stealthily make their way up the mountain top.

...

"What’s going on? That forest is actually frozen?!"

At this moment, at the peak of Cyan Lotus Mountain, Su Xin, Jian Yue, and Wei Wan looked aghast at the forest covered in white frost.

"This was caused by the power of extreme cold."

"Looks like it really was that ghost’s doing."

Wei Wan started walking towards the forest, Zhang Zheng hurried to stop her: "Junior Sister Wei, what are you doing?"

Wei Wan revealed the Qingbo Sword in her hand: "Junior Brother He and others are inside."

She couldn’t let He Zhiqiu and the others die here, or how could she look for her birth parents?

"Such extreme cold is exactly what restrains our cultivation techniques. Junior Sister Wei must not go!"

Chen Yunfeng recalled the chilling scene he faced with Xia Qinglian on Celestial Ridge Mountain, and his face instantly turned a few shades paler.

Jian Yue furrowed her eyebrows, also unsheathing her long sword as she approached the ice-frozen forest.

The Soul-devouring Pill inside her was linked to Qin Gengyun’s life, so for her, Qin Gengyun couldn’t die either.

"Junior Sister Ye, no!"

Chun Ningzhi quickly moved to stop Jian Yue.

Suddenly, a whistling sound came from afar as a hammer fell from the sky with a boom, creating a large pit in the ground.

A seemingly ordinary little girl was sitting on the hammer, eyeing the frost-covered forest with excitement:

"Wow, what is this? It must be fun to fight it!"

"Hey Jian Xiyue, no snatching with me!"

Saying this, she bounced ahead holding her hammer towards the forest.

...

Within the forest at this moment.

"Xia... Xiaolan, it’s so, so cold... Achoo!"

Liu Su was shivering all over, unable to move a muscle.

"If we’re this cold, can Qin Gengyun and Sister Qiu resist it?"

Mo Xiaolan worriedly looked at Qin Gengyun and Qiu Zhihe, frozen into ice sculptures, with white frost falling from her eyelashes.

Crack!

At this moment, the ice enveloping Qin Gengyun and Qiu Zhihe suddenly cracked open.

Then, the gap widened, slowly cracking further until with a crash, the ice broke apart, revealing the two inside.

"Wow?!"

In Liu Su and Mo Xiaolan’s exclamations, they saw Qin Gengyun’s whole body engulfed in flames, clinging tightly to Qiu Zhihe, with the crimson flames continuously melting the surrounding frost.

The temperature of the entire forest was rising.

Mo Xiaolan and Liu Su felt warmer too. Liu Su suddenly raised her hand, exclaiming in surprise:

"I can move now!"

Mo Xiaolan realized she could move too, and immediately rushed towards Qin Gengyun and Qiu Zhihe, pressing tightly against Qin Gengyun’s back.

At this point, Qin Gengyun was in the center, facing Qiu Zhihe and with Mo Xiaolan at his back.

Although Qin Gengyun’s flames didn’t harm Qiu Zhihe, Mo Xiaolan couldn’t resist it, and her clothes soon caught fire, with the flames spreading to her skin.

Mo Xiaolan’s body trembled, unable to maintain Lan Yin’s appearance, reverting to her true form.

There was a sharp pain on her valiant and pretty face, but she didn’t utter a sound. A flower flew from her hand onto Qin Gengyun, the flower burnt by the flames, trembling continuously.

The spiritual power within the flower kept pouring into Qin Gengyun’s body, aiding him in battling the residual soul inside.

"Xiaolan!!"

Liu Su was shocked, never expecting Mo Xiaolan to be so selfless, and quickly used the Mist Spirit Eye. The light-blue glow fell onto Mo Xiaolan, shielding her from most of the Divine Phoenix Flame’s burning.

Mo Xiaolan’s face was pallid, but her expression was unwavering. She pressed tightly against Qin Gengyun’s back, continuously channeling her spiritual power into him.

At the same time, she used her own body to help Qin Gengyun withstand that power of extreme cold.

Liu Su gritted his teeth, fiercely protecting Mo Xiaolan from the Divine Phoenix Flame while directing some of the Mist Spirit Eye’s energy into Qin Gengyun to assist in fighting Nalan Yan’s residual soul.

The four remained stuck in their stalemate.

At this moment, a figure wielding a large hammer jumped over. Seeing the scene, she was stunned:

"Hey you guys... Mo Xiaolan? It’s actually you?!"

She realized Lan Yin was actually Mo Xiaolan and was suddenly enlightened, pointing at Liu Su: "You are that maid, right? You can change faces!"

At this point, Su Xin, Chun Ningzhi, and others had arrived. Little Hammer’s eyes darted around before soaring up, swinging her huge hammer to block the way.

"Hey, you can’t go in!"

Su Xin and the others noticed the frost in the forest had dissipated and naturally wanted to go in to check, but were inexplicably blocked by Little Hammer, prompting them to frown:

"Fairy Su, what do you mean by this?"

Little Hammer snorted, rotating the large hammer smoothly, and her eyes flickered:

"They’re busy, naked in there, you can’t go in!"

"Huh?"

The commanding disciples were bewildered, Jian Yue’s eyes flashed slyly, while Wei Wan remained silent.

Chun Ningzhi snorted coldly: "Fairy Su, that’s quite the ridiculous lie. This is a matter of our Zhenyang Sect, please step aside!"

"Step aside, you hammer!"

"Fairy Su, if you continue to obstruct, we won’t go easy on you."

As tensions arose, a calm voice from Qin Gengyun suddenly echoed from the forest behind:

"Thank you, senior brothers and sisters, for your concern. This wicked thing has already been dealt with by us."