The Blade-Wielding Legend

All that was visible was the rolling, sticky whiteness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face; even the biting cold wind seemed isolated and twisted by the dense fog.

"Be careful! This fog is strange!"

Wang Daoxuan tightly held the Compass, whose needle spun madly, and simultaneously operated his Qi Observation Divine Skill, frowning: "Evil Qi mixed with... extreme cold and a type of... chaotic death energy I’ve never seen before!"

"What should we do?" Sha Lifei quickly asked.

Li Yan looked towards the shore, speaking gravely: "These Ice Ghosts are being controlled, and our whereabouts have been revealed. Keep moving!"

......

The sea ship was completely lost, drifting between the thick fog and floating ice.

The ship’s body emitted a teeth-grinding moan, each scrape against the floating ice like the whisper of death.

More terrifyingly, sounds began echoing through the fog. Deep, like a giant beast grinding its teeth beneath the ice, sharp, as ice teeth scraping the ship’s hull, and vague, intermittent, malicious whispers that seemed to drill into one’s bones.

"Steady your spirits!"

Upon hearing the low call, Li Yan quickly raised the Ruyi Treasure Pearl, a barely detectable light shielded the group, barely resisting the pervasive cold and spiritual attacks.

Suddenly, "Boom!!!" A deafening crash accompanied the violent shaking and tearing of the vessel!

The ship tilted sharply, the keel letting out a desperate cracking sound.

It wasn’t a reef strike; instead, the hull had been entirely pierced by a massive, hard piece of black ice hidden in the fog.

Frigid, salty sea water, laden with a metallic taste, surged into the cabin at a speed many times faster than in warm seas!

"Abandon ship!" Li Yan decided swiftly.

The group hastily took what was essential, wrapped tightly in animal skins, and leapt into the bone-chilling, misty, ice-laden sea.

The cold stung to the bone within moments, almost freezing their blood.

The fog persisted, directionless, leaving them to struggle instinctively towards where they imagined land might be, with ice shards jostling their bodies, causing piercing pain.

Uncertain of how much time passed, just as their strength waned and consciousness started to blur, their feet suddenly found solid, icy ground.

They scrambled ashore, collapsing on the cold, snow-dusted ground, gasping heavily, their exhaled breath instantly crystallizing.

The biting cold nearly rendered them senseless.

The fog seemed to have thinned slightly, yet still draped the surroundings like a light veil.

Before their eyes lay a coast they had never seen before.

The beach wasn’t golden or grayish-white, but an eerie, metallic sheen of dark silver, mingled with thin snow.

The "reefs" by the shore appeared sinister, as black as ink, jagged, exuding a bone-chilling coldness, more like twisted giant beast bones or mineral deposits frozen.

In the distance lay a dense, suffocating forest.

The trees were unusually tall, their trunks thick and gnarled like dragons, covered in thick icy shells of moss that gleamed eerie green or deep purple.

Vines as thick as a child’s arm intertwined, frozen like giant serpents, weaving through the forest, covered in sharp ice spikes and vibrantly deadly looking ice fungi.

An overpowering scent of vegetation permeated the air, mixed with a decaying sweetness and a certain... intensely cold vitality.

There were no bird calls or insect chirps, only a deathly silence.

Yet beneath this silence, everyone could feel numerous eyes filled with malice in the icy cold.

"Is this... damn it, is this Ezo Land?" Sha Lifei’s teeth chattered, voice hoarse as he struggled to stand, only to find his legs numb from the cold.

"Watch out!" Lv San suddenly shouted, slicing with his longsword at the snow pile beside Long Yan’er with a sound like the wind ripping.

"Squelch!" A creature, lurking beneath the dark silver sand and thin snow, resembling a giant lizard but with three icy blue compound eyes and a scorpion tail, was cleaved in two.

Pungent green blood splattered onto the snow, sizzling as it corroded, emitting eerie white smoke.

The monster’s halved body continued to wriggle frantically, its scorpion tail darting erratically, madness flashing in its icy blue compound eyes.

As if it were a signal.

The dead, frozen jungle instantly "came to life!"

"Roar——!"

Deafening howls echoed from the forest, the ground began to tremble, snow falling down.

A gigantic beast burst through the ice-laden trees. Shaped like a massive bear yet larger, its body covered in thick, dark green armor.

The massive paws slapped the earth, sending ice chips flying.

The most terrifying was its eyes, blood-red, pure madness and destruction, contrasting eerily with its icy body.

The massive ice-armored bear beast was already charging, a frigid wind carrying it forward.

Boom!

Sha Lifei’s firearm thundered again.

"Thud!" Flesh and ice shards flew! The bear beast’s roar abruptly ceased, and its enormous body crashed to the ground, cracking the icy earth.

This creature, in the Shen Zhou Strange Record, would classify as a "Monster": unlike a demon which has wisdom, or a ghost which is formless, it lacks intellect, simply possessing immense physical strength and natural monstrous abilities.

However, ultimately it was still flesh and blood, unable to withstand gunpowder.

Yet, the danger was far from over.

In the fog-shrouded, frozen jungle, numerous blood-red eyes glowed, accompanied by the chorus of roars and the cracking of ice.

Monstrous birds with wingspans of several yards, feathers like ice blades, and beaks like hooks circled the ice-studded treetops; giant insects with numerous blade-like limbs and corrosive mucus dripping mandibles emerged from beneath the frozen foliage; even those seemingly harmless ice vines silently curled towards their numbed ankles, like venomous snakes!

"Form a formation! Back to back!"

Li Yan held the Duan Chen Blade before him, its edge flickering with arcs of lightning, his gaze sharp as a hawk’s, scanning the swarming horrors emerging from the dense fog and frantic, frozen vegetation.

The group quickly closed ranks, Sha Lifei reloaded his firearm, Kong Shangzhao’s longsword hummed lowly, Wu Ba wielded a heavy barrel like a hammer, Long Yan’er urged her Gu Worms to emit warmth, protecting the core, Lü San’s steel awl gleamed coldly, Wang Daoxuan’s talisman in hand, even the weakened Night Crying Man struggled to grip his dagger.

This was a land, vibrant to the point of eerie under extreme cold, saturated with deadly danger that left one in despair!

Every inch of frozen ground, every plant covered in ice spikes, every roaring creature, emanated wild, twisted, piercingly cold life force.

Blades flashed, firearms thundered.

Flying shrapnel and monster howls blended together.

Truthfully, compared to those Japan pirates’ masters, these creatures were nothing, though each crazier than the last, seemingly without any fear of death.

Thankfully, they were all experts, combined with Wu Ba expending his last scatter shot, allowed them to clear the surroundings like a plow.

"Roar!"

As they caught their breath, another series of beastly howls rose from the dense foggy forest, growing ever nearer.

Just as they braced for another terrifying assault, Wu Ba, while retreating, tripped over an unusually sturdy, ice-spiked vine, stumbling into a solid wall completely encased in thick icy vines.

"Crash! Crunch!"

The ice vine snapped, its entangled, frozen tendrils broken open, revealing part of the stone tablet buried under layers of ice and moss.

"What... is that?" Long Yan’er, sharp-eyed, pointed at the stone tablet.

Kong Shangzhao, being the closest, braced against the biting cold, gingerly chipping away the veneer of ice covering the stone tablet with his sword hilt, scraping off the thick moss and frozen roots.

As the covering was removed, three ancient yet monumental characters, weathered but still exuding a timeless majesty, gradually became clear to the onlookers.

Upon recognizing those three characters, even someone as steadfast as iron-hearted Li Yan, well-versed Wang Daoxuan, and knowledgeable Kong Shangzhao, every single person, including the struggling Night Crying Man glanced over, their pupils contracted sharply, filled only with extreme shock and disbelief!

Etched on the frozen stone tablet, shocking to behold —

Penglai Immortal Island!

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