"Zhenjun Liuyun, what are you..." Wei

Facing the calm Hexianren, Bai Qiyun subconsciously used honorifics.

Zhenjun Liuyun, who had stayed up all night, raised her head when she heard the sound. Her long, pitch-black ponytail hair mixed with some dark green slid down from her fair neck. The corners of her eyes were slightly darkened. It must be the dark circles left by staying up late for many years.

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But to be able to make the body of an immortal appear in such a state, this person really likes to stay up late.

"Oh, it's you. Let me see if I can use this thing in a defensive position."

True Lord Liuyun raised the incense burner with green smoke in his hand, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

"But it seems that it shouldn't work. This thing hasn't been on the ground for a long time, and the stock is too small."

She had told the boy before that this thing was a prop developed with the vitality of the World Tree and was extremely precious.

"Really? Then why not replace it with Liyue's magic barrier or something like that?"

Bai Qiyun doesn't know much about this kind of alchemy from the future. After all, he was a dabbler in the field of alchemy in the original timeline.

"This is an interesting idea, but the important thing is the vitality of the World Tree in this stove, so there is no point in using magic to replace the shell of the incense burner."

The young man's idea was rejected by Zhenjun Liuyun. She had experimented with similar ideas before, but in the end she could not get around the most important part of the experimental materials.

True Lord Liuyun shook his head and put away the incense burner in his hand.

"Forget about this, what do you plan to do next? Today you should explore Mianlong Valley. You should have a good idea of ​​what's nearby. Is there anything you need to be wary of?"

"I remember that the former Knights of the West Wind found the skeleton of a demon dragon nearby. If there is anything that needs attention, it is only that thing." Wei

Bai Qiyun recalled the information he learned from the Knights.

"But the advantage is that the Mianlong Valley is low and the terrain is open. Thunder cannons can hit there when the time comes."

"That's good news."

While the two were chatting, other people in the camp also came out one after another.

Except for the wounded soldiers from yesterday, everyone gathered in the center of the camp, even the injured Fuotailun was no exception.

"Our task today is to clear the area again and be on standby to assist the vanguard."

Ou Heng stood in front of everyone, his leadership qualities unmistakable.

A lot of falling snow had accumulated on his golden head, but he didn't bother to clear it away.

Ou Heng turned his head, looked at Bai Qiyun and others who had formed a team and nodded.

"I'll leave it to you from now on."

"No need to be so polite."

Bai Qiyun felt as if there was something extra on his shoulders, which made his breathing quicken in the cold wind.

The team responsible for leading the battle in Sleeping Dragon Valley only has five people, but they are all very strong. In addition to Kujo Kusaigiya and Bai Qiyun, they also bring along Vatalev, who is responsible for technical problems, and Keli, who has recovered her elemental power.

In the biting cold wind, the group headed for the road leading to Mianlong Valley.

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There is no direct path to the Mianlong Valley from the top of the snow-capped mountains, so one can only rely on the Wings of Wind to descend quickly in the air.

In the eyes of everyone in the air, a giant rib like a dead branch of a tree was inserted into the white ground, which was very eye-catching.

That is the remains of the demon dragon Dulin. Even if the world has undergone drastic changes, its existence has never been erased in this snowy mountain that has been frozen for thousands of years.

"Wow! It's big ribs!"

As soon as she landed on the ground, Keli ran towards the dragon's corpse with eyes shining brightly.

So this guy is no longer young, so why does he still act like a child?

Bai Qiyun couldn't help but sigh.

"Slow down, be careful there is danger ahead."

The boy was hung behind by Keli like an old mother, and he made a sound that almost every adult would make.

But fortunately there are no zero beasts around here, they seem to be dead.

"A child must have the energy of a child. No one like you will be as boring as an old man at such a young age."

Hu Zhaigong put his hands behind his head and raised his mouth.

Based on her age, Keli is a child...well, she does have this qualification. Wei

The white-furred fox seemed to be taking a walk, leisurely keeping up with Kelly's slightly cheerful pace.

In contrast, Vatalev began to explore the surrounding geology as soon as he landed on the ground.

In addition to detecting traces of Zero Beast, his mission is also responsible for exploring the location of minerals to facilitate subsequent mineral mining.

Kujo Shura was guarding everyone, ready to respond to possible crises at any time.

Bai Qiyun's eyes swept around the empty space and paused for a moment on a dark red stone.

"I remember this thing is..."

He picked up the stone and played with it in his hands. A faint force of life came from inside the stone.

This power is completely different from the pure and vibrant atmosphere on the World Tree, full of blood and heat.

Like lava flowing in a volcano.

Bai Qiyun could distinguish a familiar smell from it.

"The Demon Dragon Dulin?"

He exerted force with his hand and crushed the stone into pieces.

The scarlet aura contained in it disappeared in the wilderness in an instant like a breeze.

It seems that the magic dragon's vitality has been severely lost, and it can no longer even perform the most basic tasks of attaching itself to a human body.

"Mr. Bai, do you know this thing?"

Vatalef on the side saw this and quickly came over.

This kind of red ore did not exist in his knowledge, and it was really rare for it to maintain such a shape that was different from foreign objects even in this ice and snow.

"Ah, this thing is not actually ore in the strict sense, but the product of the vitality of the demon dragon corpse that once died here melted into the earth. As time goes by, this kind of thing will become less and less.

, At least a hundred years ago, this kind of ore contained powerful power that could even melt ice, but now they can't even protect themselves."

Bai Qiyun picked up another piece of red ore that was on the verge of breaking and explained.

"The scientific name of this thing was the Deep Red Stone. After crushing it, you can obtain the Deep Red Core, which can effectively provide the human body with the strength to resist the ice and snow weather in the snow-capped mountains."

In front of Vatalev, he once again crushed the deep red stone, but this time the power that emerged was greater than the previous one.

In order to make the demonstration more intuitive, Bai Qiyun used the power of the stars to forcibly retain this power in the palm of his hand.

Then, Bai Qiyun suddenly slapped the ground.

"Peng!"

After a muffled sound, a circular area with a diameter of one meter appeared directly on the originally smooth snow. The ice and snow on it disappeared instantly, and was replaced by a piece of brown land that was originally hidden under the white snow.

"Oh! It has such a unique effect. Oh, what a pity."

Watlef was surprised by the energy inside the ore, but he soon thought that this ore would disappear from the world soon, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed.

This feeling of watching an experimental subject go away is not a good feeling for any scholar. Wei

"Hey, you two, come and take a look!"

Keli's energetic voice came from the front, sounding a little anxious.

She saw a group of dead plants piled up in the cave in front of her, which looked a bit strange.

Bai Qiyun frowned and tried to pinch the branches of the plants with his hands, but when he touched them, the dead branches shattered on the ground like a dried corpse.

"Oh? This situation..."

Vatalev on the side also noticed something strange. He pushed down the glasses on the bridge of his nose, took some plant samples and put them in a disc-shaped instrument he carried with him to start analysis.

"Well, this is indeed a plant, but the signs of dryness are very strange." Wei

Not long after, Vatalev learned the information about the dead tree from the instrument.

The data is very strange. The decay rate inside this dead branch is much faster than that of ordinary plants.

Moreover, this is a snow-capped mountain, and the surrounding environment is extremely cold. Normally, even if plants die, they are unlikely to lose their vitality at such a rate.

"Perhaps... some kind of mutation affected it?"

"It's possible, but——"

Before Vatalef could finish speaking, everyone's feet shook.

"Ugh!" Wei

Keli spread her wings of wind behind her and instantly rose into the air.
To be continued...