Strange mountains and rivers

After the rain, the sky cleared up and the two continued on their journey. They soon arrived at the foot of the mountain where the Ice and Fire Lake was located.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, you can feel the uniqueness of this holy mountain of ice and fire.

There were bursts of heat coming from the soil on the ground, and the grass was green and the vegetation was lush. The strong spiritual energy made all kinds of spiritual plants grow around here, but mainly tall trees.

You have to continue up to the middle of the mountain before you can see shrubs starting to take over.

After passing the mountainside, the shrubs turned into grass, and then moss, and many of the ice and fire spiritual plants that Chen Huaisheng had seen in Yefenggou could be seen.

Blue moss, red moss, ice mushrooms, Taiyin white ganoderma, Chunyang purple ganoderma, fire mushroom, and golden flame beans are all growing freely under your feet, and they are all on the same piece of land. You can't help but admire this as a wonder of nature.

It is indeed a treasure land. No wonder the Holy Fire Sect regards it as its foundation. Those spiritual plants and trees are the best materials for building magic arrays and palaces. There are also a lot of edible spiritual foods in the shrubs, not to mention these mosses.

The abundant spiritual energy allows for the growth of a variety of spiritual plants with different properties throughout the year due to the different altitudes and the range of the ice and fire spiritual power.

Seeing the envy in Chen Huaisheng's eyes, Yan Yunxing could understand.

After all, this kind of place where ice and fire coexist is too rare, which has led to the prosperity of various spiritual plants in the spiritual land. Every ten or twenty days, people from Peach Blossom Island come to pick some for the sect to eat.

However, the only regret is that there are almost no spiritual beasts on the island, and spiritual birds rarely come here.

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was already covered with snow, and only near the pass was there a strange sight.

White mist covered the mountain pass with a diameter of about two hundred feet, which was a distance that could only be roughly estimated. The surging water vapor swirled around the mountain pass, and as the mountain wind blew, it was swept away and disappeared, and then water mist continued to emerge, over and over again.

Chen Huaisheng walked closer to the mountain wall and looked down.

It was not the majestic and towering scene he had imagined, but a chaotic and broken one.

"About two hours, but the scenery along the way is quite special. There is no sunshine all year round, and it is often shrouded in the mist from the Ice and Fire Lake. There are also many unique spiritual plants. You might as well pick one or two. They can be very useful for refining pills." Yan Yunxing said with a smile.

The further down we went, the darker it got, and the denser the mist became, almost soaking our entire clothes.

Yan Yunxing guided Chen Huaisheng to pick some spiritual plants and introduced them along the way, so he didn't feel lonely.

The further down they went, the thicker the fog became, to the point where it was difficult to see anything more than ten feet away. The two of them moved slower and slower, and the feeling became more obvious.

The coldness from the mountain wall behind penetrated into the lungs, making people feel pain in their hearts, while the lake in front of them was warm, and the burning force made their face hot and their eyes could hardly open.

"Almost there, I remember this place." Yan Yunxing suddenly stopped and looked carefully at a stone next to him, "It will take less than half an hour to reach the lake. This is the mark I made..."

"It will take another half an hour?" Chen Huaisheng was surprised. "Now the power of the ice and fire is so strong, by the time it reaches the bottom of the lake, it will be..."

Yan Yunxing was also a little hesitant. He stopped, looked around, and then touched the ice wall behind him with his palm to examine it carefully.

"I remember that the last time I walked here, the intensity difference between the two sides didn't seem to be so great. Am I feeling it wrong? Or is it the change brought about by the high tide period? It shouldn't be so great."

Chen Huaisheng was startled. "Has the ice wall changed?"

"I can't tell, but it seems to be more humid, and the cold is very strong..." Yan Yunxing thought for a while, "We can only go down a little further and see. If the change is really too big, Huaisheng, we have to be careful. Don't let what we say come true. If the fire scale monster maggots and cold aphid moths emerge, we will be in trouble."

Chen Huaisheng had a bad feeling in his heart.

Although the fire-scale monster maggots and the cold aphid moths are rarely seen, they have appeared before. Yan Chixing encountered them thirty years ago, but that was not the peak tidal period. Perhaps the intensity of the earth dragon's vibration was a little bit greater, which opened up the cracks in the ice wall and the fissures in the igneous rock, allowing these monster insects to drill out.

This time, the tidal wave is probably more powerful than that of ordinary earth dragons, and the spiritual power released is also stronger. Maybe even more powerful demon insects will emerge, which would be very interesting.

However, having come this far, there is no way Chen Huaisheng would give up. He had to see the wonders of ice and fire, and get a few pieces of the Diyang Fire Rock.

Perhaps feeling the seriousness in Chen Huaisheng's expression, Yan Yunxing's steps became cautious.

In this way, the two of them continued to meander down the rugged mountain path. Every time they walked a distance, Yan Yunxing would observe the ice wall to see how it was changing.

According to him, if there are slight cracks, you may need to be careful.

The cold aphid moth emerges from these cracks, and is only as thick as a little finger. Once it emerges, it will quickly transform into an aphid moth the size of a cattail leaf fan, with ice-essence scales all over its body.

Once the ice essence scale powder is fanned by the wings of the aphid moth, it will fly and spread everywhere. As long as the ice essence scale powder soaks into the body, even a cultivator with fire spiritual roots below the foundation building stage will instantly freeze into a zombie and will not be able to hold on at all.

Seeing Yan Yunxing's increasingly gloomy face, Chen Huaisheng also estimated that the situation might not be good, "Master Xiaoyan, is there anything unusual?"

"Well, there are cracks in the ice wall, but it hasn't completely split open, and the gap is still small. Although the pupa of the cold aphid moth is small, it is still as thick as a finger, so it hasn't reached that point yet. But if we go further down, it's hard to say. Huaisheng, if it really comes to that, what are you going to do?"

Yan Yunxing had to remind him.

If a large number of cold aphid moths emerge, even if both of them are Purple Mansion True Lords, they may not be able to resist them. Killing a few of them will not make much sense unless they can kill them on a large scale.

The key is that once you are attacked by these evil insects, you may not even have time to escape.

Chen Huaisheng also found it difficult to answer this question. After all, it concerned the safety of both of them. He couldn't just think about his own thoughts and ignore other people's concerns.

"Master Xiaoyan, how about this? Let's go down the road and see. I don't think these aphid moths would appear in a swarm. I'll try my magic to see how well it can kill these monster insects. If it doesn't work, we'll go back home immediately. If it does, we'll talk about the next thing. How do you think?"

Yan Yunxing was very satisfied with Chen Huaisheng's caution and nodded: "Let's do as you say. If it doesn't work this time, we can come back later. There's no need to rush."

As they continued to move downward, the speed slowed down, and cracks finally began to appear. When Chen Huaisheng thought they were about to reach the lakeshore, the scorching fire had already exploded, and even the ends of his hair began to curl. Yan Yunxing finally shouted, "Be careful, the aphid moth is coming!"

Before Chen Huaisheng could see clearly, two gray shadows flashed by, bringing with them a strong cold wind, whistling and rolling up cold air waves that surged on the mountain wall.

The biting cold almost made Chen Huaisheng's whole body numb even though he was ten feet away. Fortunately, he had the Ice Silkworm and Fire Shark Robe to protect his body and resist some of the coldness, otherwise Chen Huaisheng would have found it a bit tricky.

Yan Yunxing has already made his move, clasping his hands together, and black vines with barbed spikes suddenly rolled up from the air and strangled a grey shadow. The grey shadow screamed, and its wings flapped wildly, and blue-grey scales whistled in the air and flew everywhere.

Chen Huaisheng did not dare to delay and activated his thunder method, using the first attack style of the advanced level of thunder method, the Flame Sea Thunder - Nine Revolutions Mysterious Thunder!

The dark blue lightning patterns spread out in all directions, constantly transforming and expanding, and finally reaching their peak, the lightning patterns formed talismanic light and shadows, surging around the ice wall, transforming into electric arcs, and instantly splitting into seven light spikes, hitting another cold aphid moth that was almost the size of a dustpan.

The electric arc hit the aphid moth, sparking thousands of arcs of light, which spread out and created infinite waves of cold power!

That scale powder can actually resist lightning strikes? !

Chen Huaisheng could hardly believe his eyes. If this aphid moth was so powerful, he should escape for his life as soon as possible. He could worry about seeing the world and salvaging the Yanghuo Rock later.

The silhouette of the aphid moth suddenly dimmed, and the flying gray shadow became staggering.

It seems that the aphid moth is not immune to all poisons. Although the lightning magic is blocked by the scales and powder it emits, the electric arc still penetrates and pierces continuously, breaking through the cold force barrier formed by the scales and powder and hitting the aphid moth's head. However, the tentacles on its head seem to be able to conduct electricity and actually withstand the attack of the lightning arc.

Chen Huaisheng was also surprised and used thunder magic again, the second attack style of Flame Sea Thunder - Nine Nether Yin Thunder!

The magic power of thunder and lightning rolled and spun in the air, and suddenly shrank, as if it was compressed to the extreme, and suddenly exploded under the belly of the cold aphid moth, and nine layers of chain bloomed one after another.

The dark blue lightning patterns merged together again and transformed into arcs of light, forming a series of overlapping light rings that hit the abdomen of the aphid moth.

Finally, the aphid moth could no longer bear it, and its body exploded, with its scales and limbs flying everywhere. The entire area within three meters was shrouded in a polar cold fog.