Deng Chanyu was randomly waving her hands with Yunxiao, while Zhao Gongming had nothing to do and was wandering around aimlessly. As a result, he discovered a seed from ancient times in the frozen plain. He treated it as a treasure and followed the traces to search in the distance.
Honghuan is a world with a round sky and a square earth. The orderly rules of the world transform the chaotic gas outside the world at an average speed, converting it into a part of Honghuan. Therefore, the Honghuan world is constantly expanding, and there is actually no clear boundary around it.
Zhao Gongming, with his high arts and boldness, as a supreme deity of the Great Indigo Realm, did not believe that there were any other things that could threaten him in the Beihai region except for the Kunpeng. At this moment, he kept walking further and further, occasionally collecting some ancient plants. Finally, he arrived at a glacier that covered an area of thousands of li.
Vague and unsure, he felt as if something was attracting him. This attraction was different from that of spiritual objects or spiritual treasures, and it wasn't particularly strong either. However, he was quite certain that there was indeed something within this glacier.
He himself is the embodiment of Qingfeng, and at this moment, he only took a light breath and spat it out. The boundless hurricane scattered the floating ice on the glacier, plowing through the glacier like millions of blades and swords, scattering debris, and with a roll of wind, the huge ice body beneath was finally revealed.
The outermost layer of the ice body appeared with a large number of spiderweb-like cracks, and a vast amount of ice, frozen for countless ten thousand years, began to break off. Zhao Gongming had no fear in his heart; as he walked closer to take a closer look, he just in time saw a pair of newly opened fiery red eyes.
The owner of the eyes was originally in a state of nearly eternal sleep. It was Zhao Gongming's fierce wind that woke up this ancient creature. At this moment, this ancient creature, peering through the thick ice layer, looked at him with eyes full of madness and murderous intent.
Deng Chanyu, who was still practicing swordsmanship with Yunxiao, suddenly shrank her neck. Hmm? Why is it so cold here?
With the level of fire magic she possesses, one would think she wouldn't be afraid of the cold. What's going on now?
She looked up to the sky and saw the freezing air spreading from the extreme north, a streak of blue light traversing the sky, followed by vast blinding snowfall falling from the heavens. Snow like this would cause a significant delay in the internal magic when it comes into contact with the body, and they are still at the edge, in the deepest part of the frozen plain in the north. That is where the center of the snowstorm is.
Yunxiao felt Zhao Gongming's aura in the wind and immediately waved to indicate a halt: "My elder brother has encountered an enemy. I'll go check it out."
She rode on the sword light, swiftly heading towards the northern frozen plain.
Deng Chanyu also sensed a faint but familiar and unfamiliar aura from the ice and snow. She was certain that it wasn't Zhao Gongming, so who could it be?
She paused for a moment, then decided to follow as well.
"These young people, truly..." Zhen Yuanzi had long passed the age where he would rush off to wherever there was something new happening. In his heart, he was absolutely not one to meddle in others' affairs. But now, with the three of them having gone off, he sat still, which made him seem overly cold.
As a senior and the eldest brother, he couldn't bear to watch Deng Chanyu get into trouble right under his nose. Moreover, he didn't think there was anyone in the North Sea region who could withstand their foursome working together. So, he decided to follow them without hesitation.
Yunxiao had a head start and moved quickly with her sword light. Zhen Yuanzi, with his higher realm, was faster than Deng Chanyu's condensed essence technique for short-distance sprints. And after all, long-distance travel required solidly reached Saint Realm power, which Deng Chanyu was still lacking in. When she arrived at the scene, Yunxiao and Zhen Yuanzi had already been there for a while.
"Wow? It's her?" Seeing the figure of Zhao Gongming wildly fighting with someone in the wind and snow, she was somewhat surprised.
Zhao Gongming was not using the Dinghai Pearl but instead using the Qiankun Ruler to engage with the opponent.
A giant blue falcon with a wingspan of thousands of miles, able to lift snowflakes when flying and freeze everything when at rest, constantly circled around him, looking for openings to attack.
The fighting style was fierce to the extreme, and the murderous intent to tear Zhao apart was strong enough.
The giant falcon's blue feathers were covered in frost, and its seemingly pure body was riddled with large and small wounds. However, these were all superficial injuries. The real wound was below the falcon's neck, close to the heart, where there was a ferocious scar as if torn by powerful talons. The color around the wound indicated that it had been there for an extremely long time, seemingly delayed until now by freezing.
Once the giant falcon is unfrozen, her wounds start to deteriorate rapidly. It doesn't take much, just a cup of tea's worth of time, and she will die.
The giant falcon seemed completely unaware that her life was about to end. She attacked Zhao Gongming as if possessed, and Zhao had good eyes; he realized that the creature wouldn't survive much longer after coming out of the frozen state. He didn't rush to attack either but mainly focused on defense, aiming to buy time.
Yunxiao saw Deng Chanyu's expression change slightly and asked, "Do you know this friend of yours?"
Deng Chanyu thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is the fourth child of Yuanfeng Nine Sons, Xuehuang. She is a native snow essence from the beginning of time in the Hundred Realms. She was the first snowflake to emerge after the heavens and earth were created."
There are some things she didn't say. Xuehuang is the first snowflake in the Hundred Realms; that statement is both correct and incorrect.
Deng Chanyu searched her memories from the Phoenix bloodline, and vaguely remembered that the first snowflake in the Hundred Realms was a mixture of Pu Gao's sweat and the rising-phase Qi, which finally formed an ice crystal on the ground.
The actual first snowflake had been eaten by Yuanfeng.
Like the innate auspicious Qi within a Golden Phoenix, the old master Yuanfeng might have thought that this thing was not in line with his path. After eating it, he pondered for a moment and then extracted the essence from his body, which became the fourth child, Xuehuang.
All nine children of Yuanfeng, including the Phoenix, came from the same path.
Of course, the Dragon clan and Qilin clan do the same thing. Back then, Hongjun had not yet sorted out the three thousand great roads. Who knew which path suited oneself and which did not? Naturally, they would eat whatever they saw; if you didn't, it would be eaten by the ancestors of the dragons (Yuanfeng) instead!
To eat first and then vomit if it's not suitable.
The first breath exhaled by the Primeval Emperor after he opened the heavens was the Red Cloud Daoist, not only because it held the title of the first but also because of the extreme exhaustion during the heaven-opening period, a trace of Pu Gao's essence mixed in that breath. Therefore, Red Cloud's roots were extremely deep.
Yunxiao, Qiongxiāo, and Bixiāo, these three clouds, can also be related to Pu Gao. They are very far behind. Even Red Cloud had explored the Hundred Realms, while the three of them had not yet undergone their transformations.
Xuehuang's roots as the first snowflake in the Hundred Realms should be about the same as Red Cloud's, but they were trampled by Yuanfeng. Once consumed and then expelled, when Xuehuang reappeared, her roots were not even close to being on par with Red Cloud's.
This difference is in comparison to Red Cloud Daoist. If compared to the three sisters of Qian, Bao, and Jing, or Zhao Gongming, their roots are still quite similar.
Deng Chanyu made up her mind and took out the Phoenix staff, solemnly saying, "I have a friend who knows her well. Please, master Zhao and Yunxiao sister help me save Xuehuang."
