Dozens of adventurous teams that came out of the ice desert town scattered and disappeared into the vast ice field like small water droplets.
After leaving the Ice Desolate Town, Lou's team of more than ten people, led by Lou Qing's fox lord, headed all the way to the depths of the Ice Desolate Ancient Land to search for the elusive Arctic Musk Ox.
Lou Yu, the King of Martial Arts, walked at the front of the team to clear the way.
On the way, most of the warrior princes in the team were silent, just carefully searching the snow for more than ten miles around for traces of various orcs. It is not easy to enter the ancient land of ice. Of course, you must hunt as many prey as possible and earn more yuan stones.
There had been a snowstorm almost all night last night, and it had just stopped in the morning. If there were any tracks of Padfoot on the snow, they must be the latest tracks.
Ye Fan doesn't talk much and doesn't care much about hunting. I only occasionally glanced at the distance dozens of miles away, and an invisible golden light flashed across my eyes and disappeared.
Lou Qing, a beautiful young martial arts cultivator, always sticks to Gu Xinyue's side. She has a very lively temperament and is always chirping and talking to Gu Xinyue non-stop.
Ever since Zixuan Imperial City came to this barren ancient land of ice, she had been suffocating for the past few months.
The environment in this ancient land of ice is harsh and cultivation is difficult. Most of the martial arts cultivators who practice here all year round don't pay much attention to appearance, only focusing on strength and hard fists.
The martial arts cultivators who stay here all the year round behave rudely, are bold and unruly, and often drink and eat meat. The women are also charming and gorgeously dressed.
This style of conduct is completely different from that of the two aristocratic sons of the Lou family who came from the Zixuan Dynasty.
Lou Qing didn't like the martial arts cultivators here, and there wasn't even anyone to chat with on weekdays. Her brother also has a dull head and only practices meditation.
Now that Gu Xinyue and Ye Fan appeared, Lou Qing was obviously very surprised.
Gu Xin Yue's phoenix eyes and starry eyes were as beautiful as a fairy, which made her feel astonished. Although Ye Fan is not handsome by any means, he is clean and refreshing, which is completely different from the martial arts cultivators who stay here all year round.
The more she talked to Gu Xinyue, the more they clicked together, and they couldn't stop talking.
Gu Xinyue just smiled lightly and listened patiently most of the time. Occasionally she would give a compliment or two, which made Lou Qing very happy and made her her confidant.
Ye Fan listened to their chat and quickly understood the situation of this Lou team.
This team is completely improvised.
The Lou brothers planned to hunt precious Arctic musk materials for their mother as a birthday gift. After arriving in the Ice Wasteland a few months ago, they roped in some Sanwuhou from the big inn, and over the course of a few months they pieced it all together. Such a loose team of adventurers.
Most of these Wu Hous used to hunt and practice alone in the outer fringes of the Ice Wasteland, and did not follow King Wu.
Now Lou Yu, a Martial King, is willing to take them and lead a team to hunt in the depths of the Ice Wasteland. Moreover, this Martial King does not want any other prey besides Arctic Musk. They are naturally happy and willing to join.
But Arctic musk oxen are not so easy to hunt. Even adventurers with decades of hunting experience in the ancient ice wilderness may not be able to find traces of them.
Lou's team enters the Ice Wasteland almost every month to search for the whereabouts of the Arctic Musk Ox, but unfortunately they have never been successful.
This time is probably the last time they will enter the ancient ice wilderness to look for traces of Arctic musk oxen.
If they can't hunt the Arctic musk ox this time, seeing that their mother's birthday will be coming in a few months, the Lou brothers and sisters may have to return empty-handed.
The ice wasteland and snowfield are more difficult to walk on than ordinary ground, and they also have to search for traces of orcs along the way, stopping and walking. At the end of the day, Lou's team had only traveled less than a few thousand miles.
In this ancient land of ice and ice, the sky is gloomy and the land is surrounded by snowfields. The map can hardly provide any guidance, and it is completely dependent on Hu Hou to lead the way.
What makes Ye Fan strange is that Lou Qing seems to have inexplicable hostility towards him.
She and Gu Xinyue were still chatting and laughing along the way, wishing they could be sisters. But when she turned to look at him, she immediately had a cold expression on her face, held her head high and looked rather dismissive.
This made Mark completely incomprehensible, wondering when he had offended this little woman.
Fortunately, he didn't intend to deal with Lou Qing, and he didn't bother to delve deeper into his willingness.
After listening to Lou Qing's chirping for a whole day, Ye Fan no longer cared about the situation of the team. While following the team, he focused entirely on understanding the ice martial arts.
He was surprised to find that in this cold ancient land of ice, the ice energy was very active. My mind has become very sensitive to the extremely active ice energy here.
This was very helpful for him to understand the secrets of the ice system.
Before Wu Hou, he awakened his ice bloodline and awakened his ice martial spirit, but this was purely the use of ice energy.
He has ice energy in his body, but he doesn't know what the ice energy is.
But the heart of martial arts already involves the understanding and awakening of the original true meaning of vitality. Only by understanding the secret of the heart of ice martial arts can one break through to the realm of the Ice Martial King.
This kind of understanding and awakening of the heart of martial arts cannot be awakened by the words of other martial kings. Like an ignorant newborn child, it is useless to tell him the simple truth that water is cold and fire is burning. He still does not understand the difference. Only if he touches it himself can he understand what it feels like.
This realization and awakening often happens in an instant.
The vast majority of Wuhou spent their entire lives unable to awaken their martial arts hearts and feel the true meaning of vitality.
Because of this, Ye Fan needs to comprehend with all his heart, use his spiritual thoughts to "touch" the active ice energy floating in the air as much as possible, and understand the true meaning of ice energy.
For several days in a row, Lou's team traveled thousands of miles deep into the ancient ice wasteland, tracking the traces of the beasts every day and hunting all kinds of ferocious beasts in the ancient ice wasteland.
The sky gradually darkened.
Everyone in Lou's team set up camp. They built a small circular village with a fence on the snowy field and set up more than ten tents. This fence has little effect on the martial arts cultivators above the Wuhou realm. It is mainly a habit of guarding against wild beasts in the wild.
Afterwards, the martial arts cultivators set up several bonfires to roast the high-level beast meat they had hunted. They drank spirits and ate barbecue to warm themselves up.
A bonfire was raised in front of Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue's tent, and the two of them were warming up beside the bonfire.
At this time, Lou Qing was seen running over from the tent not far away with a happy face, "Sister Xinyue, this is the snow rabbit meat that I grilled myself. I have been practicing barbecue for several months. Would you like to try it?" tasty!"
Along the way, neither Ye Fan nor Gu Xinyue took action to hunt the ferocious beasts, so naturally the team's hunted animal meat was not shared by either of them.
Lou Qing handed Gu Xinyue a piece of fragrant animal meat that she had baked by herself.
Then, she glared at Ye Fan fiercely, handed Ye Fan the bloody animal meat stuck on a dead branch, and said, "Here, this is your animal meat, roast it yourself!"
Afterwards, she seemed very proud that she had successfully despised Mark, and happily went back to continue the barbecue.
Ye Fan took the beast meat wordlessly.
"Why did you offend her?"
Gu Xinyue was surprised.
"I don't know either. This little girl has disliked me from the beginning and has never given me a good look. She is probably born with a conflict..."
Ye Fan shook his head and didn't care.
He didn't know at all, but she always complained because he didn't look at Lou Qing, who considered herself quite beautiful, in the eyes when they first met at the inn.
If he knew this was the reason, he would probably be so depressed that he would vomit blood.
"Forget it, let me help you bake it!"
Gu Xinyue took the raw meat from Ye Fan's hand, smoked it on the bonfire with concentration, and sprinkled some seasonings and salt on it. Not long after, the large pieces of animal meat began to smell fragrant.
"Xinyue, do you know how to barbecue?"
When Ye Fan asked about the scent, he couldn't help but move his index finger and said in surprise.
He used to practice in the mountains of Luyang and often barbecued meat by himself. As soon as he smelled the aroma, he knew that the roast was very delicious. It takes a lot of experience to be able to roast the meat of this beast with all the color, flavor and flavor.
I just didn't expect that Gu Xinyue, the master of the Beast Emperor Pavilion, who had so many subordinates, could actually cook his own barbecue.
"Of course! I used to bake a lot when I was little."
Gu Xinyue couldn't help but smile, her cheeks were smiling, and the glow was rippling.
Just as she was speaking, she seemed to remember the past again, feeling depressed, and said quietly: "Back then, my father failed in the fight for position within the Purple Phoenix Sect and was expelled from the Purple Phoenix Sect. My father's opponents in the sect even sent people to chase him all the way. Kill us. My father took me and I was forced to hide here and there, even living in the wilderness all year round. It was at that time that my father and I learned to barbecue. It was not until my father was seriously injured that they probably felt that he was not a threat. , then we gave up the pursuit, and we slowly established a foothold in the ancient land of the ancestors. That's all, let's not talk about this, when I become the Fengzu Martial Emperor, sooner or later I will avenge this for my father. This snow rabbit meat has been roasted Okay, try it."
She shook her head, smiled and handed it to Mark.
Ye Fan took it with a smile and took a bite. The barbecue was fragrant, tender and delicious.
He didn't say anything more about the barbecue, but he sent a message through his mind and said calmly: "Someone is following. The sky is very gloomy tonight. It is likely to snow, which is a good opportunity for a night attack. Be careful at night."
"Who's following us?"
Surprise flashed in Gu Xinyue's eyes. She was completely unaware that someone was following the team. I used my spiritual mind to explore the surroundings and found nothing unusual.
Ye Fan shook his head: "In the past few days, there has been a team hanging dozens of miles away. It has not appeared in our field of vision. It is normal that we have not noticed it. It is probably the martial arts cultivator in the inn in Binghuang Town. That place is a mixed bag of fish and dragons, everyone is there! I can't tell where they are coming from."
He used the Emperor Yin's Golden Eyes to find a few weak groups of vitality dozens of miles away. Ruojiruoli kept following them, and then he realized that Lou's team was being followed.
This distance exceeds the visual distance, and even King Wu's spiritual thoughts cannot detect it.
But since the other party can still follow him from such a distance, he obviously has the means to track him.
"Is that team coming for us, or the team of the Lou brothers and sisters?"
Gu Xinyue frowned slightly, with murderous intent.
If they were coming for her and Ye Fan, they were probably from the Purple Phoenix Sect. If so, the only option is to kill.
"I paid careful attention. Within the loose team of Lou's team, several Wuhou secretly left slight traces in the snow, like boot mud on their feet. It was a special gray grass ash with a special smell. Finally, The first day was enough to identify the snow we walked through without mistaking the tracks left by other teams in the snow.
There are also many stops and starts along the way, and the blood stains after hunting ferocious beasts are usually buried with thick snow to avoid being spotted by other people or beasts.
But they always took turns leaving small drops of blood on the snow.
These traces are very light. Even if they are caught, they can argue that they were left unintentionally and not for the convenience of the team behind them to follow.
These Wu Hous were already in Lou's team before we came to Binghuang Town, and they should be here for the Lou brothers and sisters. We just happened to be on this team! "
Ye Fan said calmly, "Don't rush to take action, let's check the situation first and then talk!"
Gu Xinyue understood. She and Ye Fan had just arrived in Binghuang Town, so the possibility of being targeted so quickly was not very high.
The Lou brothers and sisters have been in Binghuang Town for several months. The children of the aristocratic families who came from the Imperial City and acted in a more high-profile manner than them have long been targeted by some greedy martial arts cultivators here.
This Lou's team only recruited a dozen Wuhou in total, and a few of them were actually sneaked in by Wuhou's spies. It was really a failure.