Lonely Swordsman - C43

Early in the morning, a red sun slowly peeked out from the eastern edge of the plateau. The nearby rivers and grasslands were still submerged in a faint grey light, while the continuous rise and fall of the snowy peaks on the western side was dyed a bright red. These colors were ever-changing in the blink of an eye, forming a colorful picture.

At the top of a snowy mountain in the north of the center, a slim figure was standing there, looking exceptionally beautiful. The strong mountain wind blew her long hair in a slanted direction. When paired with her curvaceous body, how could the word ‘beautiful’ be enough to describe her?

“Ao …” A long howl rang out, accidentally exposing her identity. It turned out that this was exactly what Yang Xue was feeling in her heart, as she extended her arms, as if she wanted to embrace this rising sun.

Ever since he had missed out on the deep purple snow leopard last year, Yang Xue had been diligently searching for him on this snowy peak. After all, Yang Xue had never given up on this habit. However, Yang Xue had been searching for more than half a year, and the snow leopard had still not returned. It was as if it had never existed in this world.

Today was another sunny morning. After Yang Xue had expressed her feelings at the top of the mountain, she prepared to go down the mountain to find food. Who knew that Yang Xue’s howl just now had triggered an avalanche?

In front of this destructive power of nature, even though Yang Xue already possessed the strength of a peak Third Order, she was still unable to put up any resistance. Thus, Yang Xue majestically rushed into the valley along with the collapsed snow.

More than an hour later, the rumbling and roaring finally died down. The thousand-meter-deep valley was half filled with rolling snow and ice. The pure white of the snow reflected the blinding sunlight. After a long time, there was finally a trace of movement. In a corner of the valley, the sparkling and reflective surface of the snow began to move. It was something that was moving upwards, but it was not Yang Xue.

Where is Yang Xue?

At this moment, Yang Xue was struggling at the bottom of the four to five hundred meters of snow. When the avalanche just now, Yang Xue coincidentally rolled to the bottom of the valley, but coincidentally fell at the bottom of a huge block of ice. Because of the support of the ice, she wasn’t crushed into a meat patty by the weight of the snow on the top.

It was a pity that most of the surrounding snow had been crushed into solid ice, so Yang Xue could only meandering through the few layers of snow. After a few hours, Yang Xue had also created a tunnel of about a dozen meters wide, but it was so dark that Yang Xue couldn’t tell east, west, south, and north. Furthermore, Yang Xue could only dig from where it was, so where was she? Even up or down Yang Xue is not clear.

It was supposed to be Yang Xue’s breakfast time, but after the avalanche and a few hours of digging, Yang Xue was already exhausted and hungry.

After digging for another hour or so, Yang Xue finally heard a sound coming from the bottom right. Twenty minutes later, Yang Xue caught a furry animal. This animal was called a ferret, and it weighed more than three pounds. It was a type of alpine animal that lived on a snowy peak. “The marten had been hunting at the bottom of the valley when the sudden avalanche buried it at the bottom.

Yang Xue naturally didn’t know what a stone marten was. Of course, Yang Xue also didn’t need to know. The most important thing was to cure her stomach, which was rumbling with hunger.

After Yang Xue had eaten all the hair from this three pound stone marten’s belt, she was finally able to resolve her hunger. Her strength had also recovered quite a bit, so she naturally continued to dig her own escape tunnel.

Of course, it’s not that Yang Xue lacked strength, it’s just that the front, top, and even the left and right sides of her were all made of solid ice. There was no other way around it, Yang Xue could only try her best to dig downwards, but she did not expect that she could only dig a straight path downwards. After digging for about ten meters, a crisp sound suddenly rang out, just like the avalanche, Yang Xue fell down together with the ice and snow.

With a splash, Yang Xue fell into a bone-chilling, ice-cold pool. This was a huge cave formed by the erosion of water. Due to the compression of the Indian subcontinent plates, the Himalayas rose year by year, causing the cave, which was originally buried deep underground, to gradually emerge from the ground and open a small window at the bottom of the valley. Who knew that Yang Xue had coincidentally dug out from the top of the cave. As the layer of snow thinned down, Yang Xue’s weight finally crushed the layer of snow covering the cave, causing Yang Xue to fall together with the snow into the bottom of the cave.

There were many cracks and caves in the surroundings, and quite a few cracks and caves were continuously pouring the ice-cold snow water into the cave. As a result, a large pool of water was formed at the bottom of the cave, but this pool of water was not stagnant water. On the right side, near the cave wall, there was a huge whirlpool, constantly sucking away the snow water.

At this moment, Yang Xue was floating on the water like a dead pig, slowly drifting towards the huge whirlpool along with the snow that fell from her hands.

As for Yang Xue, when she fell into the karst cave, her head bumped into a rock at the bottom of the pool. Although it was unlikely for her to injure Yang Xue, who was at the peak of the Third Order, the huge impact caused her to fall unconscious. At this moment, Yang Xue felt like a mountain was pressing down on her chest. The stifled Yang Xue felt extremely uncomfortable. Despite all her efforts, it was still difficult for her to turn around.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, the feeling it gave Yang Xue was that it was incomparably long. Following another “bang”, Yang Xue felt herself falling into a deeper abyss, but fortunately, Yang Xue finally woke up.

After taking a big gulp of ice water, she tried her best to jump out of the water. Who knew that she would hit her head on a hard rock, only then did Yang Xue find herself in a secret passage filled with ice water, how could she jump out of the water? What should he do?

Fortunately, Yang Xue had already reached the meat refining stage, so after holding her breath for a while, her body’s functions began to adjust automatically. It turned out Yang Xue had never cultivated in internal energy, so the energy in her body couldn’t be stored in her Dantian like Chen Jing, but there was still a large amount of energy in her body. This energy wasn’t all stored in her Dantian, but in each acupoint. When Yang Xue’s body lacked the chemical energy needed to live due to the lack of oxygen, the extremely thirsty tissues would feed the information to her brain, and the brain would instruct the energy stored on the acupoints to flow into the cells in her body to replace the chemical energy required for life. In fact, this was also the reason why Chen Jing’s internal energy operated automatically under water. Of course, this process would take time as well. A few seconds? A few minutes? Perhaps longer, depending on the limit of the individual’s body tissue.

Not long after, Yang Xue’s stifling feeling finally disappeared, leaving only bone-piercing cold. After all, who would feel comfortable naked in the ice-cold water? Fortunately, all the cells in Yang Xue’s body had gone through the energy tempering process and had already become steel tendons. There was no possibility for them to freeze to death, and she was already used to the feeling of being cold for a long time.

After getting used to the cold, Yang Xue discovered that her stomach was very hungry, so she went into the underground river to investigate. Although the underground river was sparsely populated with life forms, there were still small amounts of fish, amphibians, and so on. These naturally couldn’t escape Yang Xue’s X-ray like eyes, and not long after, Yang Xue caught some degenerated fish and some snake-like creatures.

The other problems were slowly resolved, but there was one thing Yang Xue could not do anything about, and that was boundless darkness! Yang Xue was busy with her livelihood at the beginning, so she didn’t pay much attention to this. But after a few days, the endless journey and endless darkness pressed down Yang Xue to the point where she was about to go crazy. So where was the hope?

God said, there must be light!

Finally, one day, Yang Xue rushed down a long passage and entered what Yang Xue thought was an endless sea. Jumping out of the water, what entered his sight was a multicolored glow. Through the gauzy mist, the world before him seemed to be covered with layers of mountains and grass.

“Bang!” Yang Xue felt the shackles in her brain explode. At that moment, Yang Xue felt incomparably relaxed. That was the feeling of freedom, that was the feeling of her thoughts being released, that was the memory of a pink and romantic flight in her dreams …

At that moment, Yang Xue had entered a whole new realm. This was a breakthrough that was more important than ever before. At that moment, Yang Xue clearly felt that some extremely important things in the depths of her soul would slowly awaken.