Chu Zhiyuan, embracing Xiao Ruoling, floated backward. Four streams of light shot from his sleeve, flying towards the pangolin's eyes and ears.
"Ding ding..." "Oof!"
The pangolin ignored the throwing knives, continuing to charge towards the two, intent on smashing them to pieces.
The four throwing knives were knocked away, rising crookedly into the air before shooting down again. Chu Zhiyuan pulled Xiao Ruoling, swaying to barely avoid this impact.
The four throwing knives almost simultaneously shot towards the pangolin's eyes and ears again, and then were once again knocked away. Chu Zhiyuan and Xiao Ruoling avoided the pangolin's charge again and again, the throwing knives bounced away again and again.
Xiao Ruoling found it strange.
Clearly, these four throwing knives couldn't harm it, so why continue to attack fruitlessly, time and time again?
But she also knew that Chu Zhiyuan was far more calm than the average person, and would never act rashly or stubbornly against reason.
Therefore, there must be a reason.
The pangolin charged again and again, avoided again and again, its speed becoming faster and faster. And the four throwing knives continued to attack it, especially its eyes and ears.
Suddenly, a phantom image flew out from Chu Zhiyuan's sleeve, silently burrowing into the pangolin's lower jaw. There was a faint white line on its lower jaw, and the phantom image accurately burrowed into the white line.
The pangolin's forward momentum suddenly slowed, and then it fell heavily, sliding more than ten steps on the thick snow.
Three throwing knives hovered above it, ready to strike at any moment.
But it was already still, its eyes closed, its breath stopped, its body twitching slightly. Fresh blood slowly seeped from its nose and neck.
Chu Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
This was a big fellow, and impervious to knives and spears, qi energy couldn't penetrate it either. Only the Qiankun Six Absolute Palms could hurt it.
But its body was too large, and to kill it with the Qiankun Six Absolute Palms required sufficient skill and strong cultivation.
He could only find a flaw on its body, and finally found the weakness on its neck, killing it with one strike.
Xiao Ruoling looked around in surprise, never having seen this kind of demon beast, and more importantly, it had actually directly attacked her.
Chu Zhiyuan thought for a moment, then reached out his hand and said, "Give me the Snow Ginseng."
Xiao Ruoling took out the jade box from her sleeve, the Snow Ginseng inside, and handed it to Chu Zhiyuan. Chu Zhiyuan put it into his own sleeve, actually placing it into the iron ring space.
This way, he could isolate the fragrance and avoid attracting and stimulating these demon beasts.
Only two kinds of demon beasts had appeared so far, and they were getting stronger and stronger. It was likely that the next demon beast would be even stronger.
This pangolin was already extremely strong and difficult to deal with. If an even stronger one came, they wouldn't be able to withstand it. Xiao Ruoling said softly, "These demon beasts are attracted by the Snow Ginseng?"
"Most likely," Chu Zhiyuan said, "I have a treasure to conceal my aura, let's see again this time." The two came to the pangolin's side, examining the changes in its corpse.
Its corpse was rapidly hardening, and the black, shiny scales were quickly dimming, losing their luster.
Chu Zhiyuan took out the Bright Moon Blade from his sleeve and gently sliced. The pangolin was immediately split in two.
The defensive power of a living pangolin and a dead pangolin were vastly different.
Just like a grandmaster with qi protecting their body, a living pangolin also had power protecting its body, and not just relying on its physical body.
The tip of the Bright Moon Blade lightly sliced through, picking up a fist-sized demon crystal.
The demon crystal fell onto the snow, rolled around, burrowed into the snow, and then shot out with a "bang," already clean.
It was not colorless and transparent, but light yellow, giving Chu Zhiyuan a sense of familiarity. Chu Zhiyuan concealed his emotions, nodding calmly: "Not bad."
He felt that cultivating the Emperor Heaven Empress Earth Sutra would be twice as effective with half the effort. This demon crystal was different from the demon crystals of those black insects, of higher quality and with more special power.
Chu Zhiyuan contentedly put the Snow Ginseng into his sleeve. Xiao Ruoling curiously glanced at his sleeve.
Only they existed between heaven and earth.
The mountain peak beneath their feet was cast in ice and snow, the highest peak, a large section taller than the surrounding dozens of peaks.
They had searched more than a dozen peaks, but found nothing, no natural treasures, no cave dwellings.
She felt it was natural, who would put a cave dwelling in such a place? Too desolate, too bleak.
"Eh, is it snowing?" Xiao Ruoling suddenly raised her head, reaching out her jade hand to catch a snowflake.
The large snowflakes were the size of a baby's fist. Xiao Ruoling looked at them in surprise: "Such big snowflakes." Chu Zhiyuan raised his head to look at the sky, saying, "We have to go back."
"Then let's go back."
They didn't encounter any more demon beasts along the way, nor did they find any natural treasures, it was quite uneventful. Just as the two floated down the snowy peak, the heavy snow began to fall rapidly, and the white snow on the ground quickly thickened. They could no longer see the footprints on the ground, they had completely disappeared.
"We can't go back," Xiao Ruoling said.
It seemed that sooner or later they would have to use the distress signal. Her jade hand gripped the thin tube. Chu Zhiyuan said, "Keep going."
"But..."
"I know the way," Chu Zhiyuan said.
The snow did not prevent him from seeing his and Xiao Ruoling's footprints, they were incomparably clear.
Xiao Ruoling saw that he was certain, so she did not set off the distress signal, and continued to walk back through the vast snow. The snow fell rustling, as if砸落 down, there was an inexplicable pressure, preventing them from continuing to walk.
Chu Zhiyuan and Xiao Ruoling had qi protecting their bodies, ignoring the falling snowflakes, and used their lightness skill to float along.
After a while, they passed the place where the pangolin's corpse was, and found that the pangolin's corpse was no longer there.
It had disappeared cleanly, as if it had never appeared. Chu Zhiyuan shook his head.
There were many demon beasts around here, most of them were hidden underground and did not come out, and those that did come out were often extremely dangerous.
Those black insects were too close, smelling the fragrance of the Snow Ginseng, they were not strong.
Other demon beasts that could smell the fragrance of the Snow Ginseng, even through such deep underground, could smell the fragrance of the Snow Ginseng, and they were all powerful beings.
The two appeared on the cliff, Xiao Ruoling breathed a long sigh of relief, looking into the distance, revealing a smile. It was too depressing in the white snow world before, it was still better in the Moon Invitation Palace.
The scenery was picturesque, full of greenery. Yun Qiuhua opened her eyes from the futon, looking at Xiao Ruoling and Chu Zhiyuan with a smile, casually asking: "Did you find any good things?"
Chu Zhiyuan took out the jade box from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Ruoling. Xiao Ruoling hurriedly gave him a meaningful look.
Chu Zhiyuan, however, had no intention of keeping it, directly stuffing it into Xiao Ruoling's hand. Xiao Ruoling's face showed a helpless expression.
She originally wanted Chu Zhiyuan to take this Snow Ginseng for himself, and not have to take it out for the Moon Invitation Palace. But Chu Zhiyuan was so honest, he took it out, and now there was no way to take it for himself. Chu Zhiyuan did not want to take this Snow Ginseng for himself.
He had thought it through carefully, and was not acting on luck or impulse.
The Moon Invitation Palace's elixirs were more practical and important than this Snow Ginseng, and moreover, he still had to continue to increase the Moon Invitation Palace's goodwill.
Xiao Ruoling opened it.
