The entire raid process was much faster than Shen Hao expected, and there was not much repetition. At least within the range that Shen Hao could see, no organized Baihua Valley disciples were found attacking the Blue Extreme Cliff Formation, that is, one after another. The gradually sparse spells were fired from a distance and bombarded the light shield.
Chen hour began, and only an hour and a half later, at the right hour, a group of forbidden troops and a Golden Sword Guard walked out of the blue cliff formation. From the outside, they did not look embarrassed, but they were filled with true energy. It was terrible, and there was a faint fishy-sweet smell emanating from them.
It was the smell of human blood.
"Master Shen, the attack is underway inside. Please come in."
Hearing this, Shen Hao stood up from his chair, nodded, led several guards and followed him into the formation.
The formation is still the same, and special techniques are needed to open an entrance and exit.
As soon as Shen Hao entered the formation, he felt a chill. The temperature inside was much lower than outside the formation. It even felt like it went from autumn to midwinter.
Why is there such a temperature difference?
This question in Shen Hao's heart was answered when he saw the ice sculptures standing in the valley.
A powerful method that Shen Hao didn't know affected the spiritual energy in a radius of more than a hundred miles, and then exploded in the Baihua Valley. The effect was the ice sculptures of once-living people he saw in front of him, and the accompanying generals. The temperature in the valley also dropped to freezing winter levels.
It was not that Shen Hao had never seen a living person frozen before, but this was the first time he had seen a person turn into an ice sculpture.
Ice is a branch of the five elements water attribute. Generally, monks who practice the five elements water attribute will dabble in the ice attribute, because "ice" is more direct and has more instant destructive power. Moreover, some advanced techniques can completely switch between "ice" and "water" at will. The combination of hardness and softness, both offense and defense, makes people hard to guard against.
But even ice magic is extremely difficult to freeze a living person instantly. Generally speaking, ice magic appears in the form of ice picks, ice knives, ice needles, etc. in attack spells, defense spells, etc. There are also ice armors, ice walls, etc., but very few people directly use ice magic to freeze people.
The reason is very simple, and it is easier to explain with the knowledge of another world, that is, the instantaneous temperature required to freeze a living person instantly is extremely terrifying, at least hundreds of degrees below zero is possible. And what if the target is not ordinary people but monks?
A thousand degrees below zero? Or lower?
At least Shen Hao couldn't imagine it. He has only seen people who were injured and unable to move turn into stiff ice corpses under the long-term erosion of ice magic. They were not enough to be called ice sculptures like the one in front of him.
That's not Shen Hao's exaggeration. Those ice sculptures are really crystal clear. Except for the clothes, some colors can still be seen on the bodies inside, the texture of the body parts can hardly be seen. They are really like ice sculptures. Same.
How is this done?
The temperature gets lower as you go into Baihua Valley, but Shen Hao has different feelings. For example, he thinks the scenery in Baihua Valley is really beautiful, especially when you go inside, the flowers are like ice sculptures. They sway in the wind, and some of them make a pleasant bell-like sound when they collide with each other, reflecting the sun in the sky, like a paradise-like blessed land.
Of course, if you include more and more ice sculpture corpses along the way, it would add a mysterious sadness and coldness.
However, Shen Hao still thought that the previous magic method that stirred up a hundred miles radius was simple. It was not until he entered the core area of Baihua Valley that he was shocked to his core by a group of palaces that were almost completely frozen.
It was an area of more than a hundred feet in and out. There were three or four exquisitely-shaped palaces in it. It could be seen that it was the core building complex of Baihua Valley. But at this time, these buildings were all covered with ice, and they actually reflected dazzlingly in the sunlight!
"The ancestor is in front, Lord Shen, please go on your own. Also, it is not suitable for your guards to follow you, and it is cold in front. Lord Shen, please do what you can."
As soon as they reached the front and took out the frozen palaces, less than 20 feet away, the Imperial Guards and the Golden Sword Guard who led Shen Hao all the way stopped, bowed slightly and gestured "please" , but it is clear that they will not continue to lead the way. I don’t know if this is what the “ancestor” meant.
"Um."
Shen Hao nodded and waved his hand to stop the guards from speaking. He was sure that even if there was danger ahead, it would not be fatal. It was probably out of "confidentiality" considerations that he prohibited the guards and the Golden Sword Guards who were leading the way from entering.
Among the guards, Teqin and the other three were allowed to do whatever Shen Hao told them to do. They had a blind obedience mentality towards Shen Hao. In addition, this place was now under the control of Fenghong Villa and the Forbidden Army. What danger could there be?
In addition, Commander Sanming made the secret guards of the Yamen unable to follow him. As for the five people from Fenghong Villa, they would naturally not refute what their ancestors meant.
So Shen Hao continued walking forward alone. After only walking about ten feet, he felt the difference in this place again.
cold! Colder!
If entering the formation feels like jumping from autumn to mid-winter, then continuing forward is like jumping into an ice hole in mid-winter.
An ordinary person in this environment would have stiffened his limbs within ten breaths and would find it difficult to move. However, Shen Hao had a lot of cultivation. He was at the fifth level of the Yuan Dan realm and he was also a practitioner of martial arts and physical training. He was not troubled by the low temperature and continued to move forward without stopping.
The temperature became even lower after entering the scope of those palaces. Even Shen Hao's body bones would inevitably tremble with low temperature. He didn't know what the temperature was here, but he was sure that it would not be strange if water turned into ice here.
After turning a corner and continuing twenty or thirty feet forward, I saw a square. There were obvious traces of a fierce battle on the square, and many of the surrounding frozen palaces had obvious collapse and damage.
And in the square, there were corpses everywhere, and the mutilated people... At this time, they all turned into pieces of clear ice sculptures, which were obviously refracted brilliantly in the sun, but they were so cruel that it made people's hearts tighten.
Shen Hao continued walking, and his eyes were quickly drawn from the broken limbs on the ground to the center of the square, where seven people were standing.
No, to be precise, he was standing with six ice sculptures and a living person with his back turned to him, his clothes rustling.
"Your Majesty, Shen Hao, has met the real Minghao!"
The person standing in the core square of Baihua Valley at this moment knew without guessing that it was Yang Shan, the ancestor of Fenghong Villa. Yang Shan now has no specific position in Fenghong Villa, so Shen Hao calls him by his nickname: Minghao.
The man turned around slowly. His appearance did not look old. It would not be inappropriate to say he was in his forties or fifties. He had black hair and beard, and his eyebrows were even quite heroic.
He waved to Shen Hao and said with a smile: "Come here and talk."
