Chapter 443 - 441: Snow Wolf
After Jiang Chen stepped into the Teleportation Passage, the space around him seemed to twist and distort, and he felt a strange sense of weightlessness.
He hated this feeling of losing control over his own body.
Fortunately, the process was over quickly...
A white light appeared at the end of the spatial passage. Jiang Chen took a step forward and found himself in a strange new world.
This was an Ice and Snow World.
Heavy snow drifted everywhere amidst howling gales. The shrieking, crane-like cry of the wind was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
"This damn place is freezing!" Jiang Chen couldn’t help but rub his hands together.
ROAR!
A white figure suddenly emerged from the snow and ice—a massive white bear, charging straight for Jiang Chen.
Its huge paw whistled fiercely through the air.
It was like a small mountain.
Jiang Chen grinned and sent out a casual palm strike.
BOOM!
His palm of flesh and blood collided with the enormous bear paw.
A perfect, head-on collision!
The immense force sent the white bear flying, and it crashed heavily into the snow. Jiang Chen shot after it, extending a finger. "Star-Breaking!"
Starlight condensed, forming a bolt of energy that streaked across the sky.
The single finger-strike blew the white bear’s head apart.
The white bear let out a piteous cry as its blood stained a large patch of the ground red. Jiang Chen grinned. "I was just getting hungry, and you served yourself up. I’ve heard Ice Beast meat is good raw. I might as well give it a try!"
Jiang Chen glanced around.
He cut off the white bear’s two paws, found a nearby mountain peak, and blasted open a cave.
Shaking the drunken Little Black on his shoulder, Jiang Chen said, "Wake up, it’s time to eat!"
"Eat what?"
The Black Emperor looked at Jiang Chen in a daze, his nose twitching. His eyes fell on the two bear paws, and he instantly perked up. "Damn, where’d you get such huge paws? Jiang Chen, this stuff is great for cultivation! Hurry up and give this Emperor one!"
"If you want to eat, get it yourself!"
Jiang Chen took out the Spirit-Slaying Sword and sliced off a thin piece of meat from a paw.
The meat was glistening and translucent.
With his exquisite Swordsmanship, Jiang Chen carved off a transparent slice and placed it in his mouth, chewing slowly.
The paw meat was exceptionally smooth and tender. It was cool in his mouth, but after chewing, it revealed a faint sweetness.
"Delicious!"
Jiang Chen began to feast.
The Black Emperor salivated watching him, then dived onto the other paw and began to wolf it down.
A short while later...
The man and beast had finished both paws.
The Black Emperor patted his stomach and said, "Jiang Chen, what is this godforsaken place?"
He had drunk a great deal of Brother Zhen’s Wind Emperor Fire Brew and was completely plastered, so he had no idea they had already entered the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm.
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes. "We’re in the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm... Pull yourself together. We need to set out and find Hong Luan and Hanshuang."
"Oh!"
The Black Emperor nodded, flapped his wings, and flew onto Jiang Chen’s shoulder.
Jiang Chen advanced rapidly through the snowstorm.
Even though the blizzard was so dense that even a Union Palace Realm expert would have trouble seeing a hundred meters ahead, Jiang Chen had his Divine Thought to scout the path.
The snow and wind were no obstacle for him!
"Someone passed through here, but I don’t know who," Jiang Chen said, glancing at the corpse of an Ice Beast mostly buried by the snow.
The Black Emperor had already shrunk from his shoulder into the collar of his robes, poking his head out to say, "This Ice Beast has only been dead for about half an incense stick’s time. The others don’t have Divine Thought to guide them, so they can’t be moving very fast. If we hurry, we should be able to catch up to them soon!"
"Mhm!"
Jiang Chen nodded, confirmed the direction, and quickly gave chase.
...
In the Ice and Snow World, five figures walked side by side. They looked rushed, occasionally glancing around with fearful eyes, as if on guard against something.
The group consisted of four men and one woman.
They hailed from an Upper Grade Dynasty called Jing Country. The five were all disciples of the same sect and had gathered together after exiting the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm’s Teleportation Passage.
"Junior Sister Jiao, stay in the middle with us and be careful!" one of the young men said.
Junior Sister Jiao was the only woman in the group.
Her name was Jiao Yan. She was quite beautiful, with a delicate and fragile expression.
Jiao Yan bit her red lip gently and said, "Senior Brother Songg Yike, that pack of Snow Wolves... they won’t chase us all the way here, will they?"
The young man named Songg Yike gave a bitter smile. "I wish they weren’t, but Snow Wolves are Ice Beasts that hold a serious grudge. If you hadn’t killed that one Snow Wolf, they might not have pursued us this far. But you did kill it, and now the pack will never let us go!"
Jiao Yan’s lips, still caught between her teeth, turned a little purple. She said with a self-reproachful expression, "It’s all my fault..."
"Of course it’s your fault!"
Geng Qin, the young man at the front of the group, retorted in displeasure, "I told you not to act on your own and to listen to our commands, but you just wouldn’t listen. Now you’ve brought this disaster upon us. If that wolf pack catches up, I’ll throw you to them myself."
Aside from Songg Yike, who looked a little sympathetic, the other two men remained silent, clearly agreeing with Geng Qin’s words.
A wronged expression appeared on Jiao Yan’s face, and tears welled up in her eyes.
AWOOOO...
A chorus of howls suddenly rose.
The faces of all five disciples changed at once.
Pairs of gleaming green eyes were the first to appear through the blizzard, followed by the figures of more than a hundred enormous Snow Wolves emerging from the storm.
The Snow Wolves were extremely cunning. They formed a circle, trapping Jiao Yan and her group in the center.
’We’re finished.’
’Over a hundred Snow Wolves... what are we going to do?’
Snow Wolves!
Tier Four Middle-Level Demon Beasts, and their Snow Wolf King was a Tier Four High-Level Demon Beast.
Furthermore, Snow Wolves were Ice Beasts exceptionally skilled at pack attacks. Against more than a hundred of them working together, even an expert at the Union Palace Realm Ninth Stage could only flee in disgrace.
And the strongest among them, Geng Qin, was only at the Fifth Stage of Union Palace Realm!
"Senior Brother Geng, what do we do?" Songg Yike asked.
A vicious glint appeared in Geng Qin’s eyes. "I’ll try to communicate with the Snow Wolf King. Let’s see if it will let us go if we hand over the one who killed its kin!"
"Senior Brother Geng, no..." Jiao Yan pleaded desperately.
Geng Qin didn’t even glance at her.
Jiao Yan looked anxiously at the other three, but they all turned their heads away.
Jiao Yan’s eyes filled with despair.
A moment later...
Geng Qin walked back, a look of joy on his face. "The Snow Wolf King agreed! As long as we hand over Jiao Yan, it’ll let us go!"
"That’s great!"
"Jiao Yan, get out of our group, quick!"
Faced with the others’ urging, Jiao Yan looked despairingly at Songg Yike, who had been pursuing her for some time. "Senior Brother Songg, save me."
Songg Yike turned his head to the side.
Tears streamed down Jiao Yan’s face.
"Get out!"
Geng Qin shoved Jiao Yan out of the group and shouted to the Snow Wolf King, "Snow Wolf King, I’ve handed over the killer of your pack member! Can we go now?"
"AWOO!"
The Snow Wolf King nodded and let out a low growl.
The Snow Wolves blocking their path immediately moved aside.
Geng Qin and the others, their faces alight with joy, fled the encirclement of the Snow Wolf pack at top speed.
Only Jiao Yan was left, facing more than a hundred Snow Wolves alone.
She sat in the pristine white snow, her face a mask of despair, watching as the massive Snow Wolves closed in on her.
AWOO!
A Snow Wolf opened its bloody maw and lunged at her.
"AHHH..."
Jiao Yan, scared out of her wits, screamed in terror.
Just as the Snow Wolf was about to reach her, a brilliant beam of light shot down from the sky. With a PFFT, it sent the Snow Wolf flying. It landed in the distance, its body twitched once, and then it was dead!
As Jiao Yan stared in utter astonishment, the figure of a young man appeared before her like a Divine Spirit descending to the mortal world. His gentle voice was like a refreshing spring breeze...
"Are you all right?"