Chapter 1371: Extreme Cold Wind Cannon
But since Lady Snow had given such instructions, Hart dared not be careless in the slightest!
Hart stared at Jiang Tianqing and his group, his eyes icy cold!
Bel, however, let out a derisive snort and began to speak.
(๑¯ิД¯ิ) "Bai Kou! Don't forget I still have two pieces in my hand!"
"Don't think you've already won! I know very well what the upper echelons of Goose Country are preparing, what the Deep Space Bureau is up to, and what's happening up there!"
"Without the Star Ring, the plan can't be implemented, right?"
Bai Kou glanced indifferently at Bel but said nothing.
Jiangnan, however, found himself intrigued.
He could almost confirm that Bai Kou wanted the Star Ring to land on the moon.
Even back in the Ancient Su Era, the ancients had already built the Star Ring in preparation.
The Handwritten Ancient Decree also mentioned it.
The reason for such urgency was likely that the higher-ups in Goose Country already knew about what was happening on the moon.
And Jian Ge hadn't sent him a message yet.
Jiangnan's eyes darted around. If they took the lead, then the treasures up there would be none of his business.
Bel continued, "If you want the Star Ring, fine! But cut me in! I want to hold the initiative in the plan, and the Star Ring must also be under my control!"
"Otherwise, you won't get it. Everyone in the world fears you, Bai Kou, but I, Bel, am not afraid of you!"
Bai Kou didn't even glance at Bel and let out a cold laugh.
(❅‾́～‾́) "Ignorant! What do you know? You know nothing! Short hair, even shorter insight!"
She hadn't come to this Oracle Spirit Ruins solely for the Star Ring.
She already had one complete Star Ring in her possession, but the Star Ring needed two pieces to work together.
Even if she couldn't get the second piece, she could use the first one as a template to replicate it.
It would just take a long time.
The Star Ring fragments weren't absolutely necessary, but time was tight now, and there was no room for further construction.
The most important thing on this trip was the treasure used to drive the Star Ring.
Bai Kou racked her brain, trying to make her memory clearer.
Bel ground his teeth: (ꐦ°᷄皿°᷅) "Fine! Very good! Not taking me along, huh? Once I've gathered all the Star Ring pieces, the people up there will naturally be willing to negotiate with me!"
"Since that's your attitude, let's meet inside!"
Bai Kou still ignored him, quietly staring into the void.
Another ten-plus minutes passed.
Jiang Tianqing, Pocket Rabbit, Lan, and Mo Mo all looked toward the void at the same time.
Mo Mo said excitedly: (ง●ꇴὅ)ง "Ah ba!"
The next instant, a violent spatial fluctuation erupted from the void.
The space suddenly split open, revealing a massive spatial gate five to six hundred meters long.
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they stood up, ready to charge in.
And Aka's stronghold was the closest to the spatial gate.
It was also a spot Yin had deliberately chosen. Yin's eyes flickered as he nodded at his teammates. Everything was understood without words.
Just as everyone was staring at the spatial gate, an endless stream of powerful wind cannons blasted out from within.
It sounded like wailing ghosts and howling wolves.
The wind cannons were a shimmering white, with wind speeds so terrifying they could tear through steel. In an instant, they shredded all the ice pillars in the ice cavern.
Then, an extreme cold radiated outward, dropping the temperature to over two hundred degrees below zero.
At such temperatures, even blood could freeze.
The first to bear the brunt were Aka's underlings closest to the gate.
The moment they were enveloped by the wind cannon, they froze into pristine ice sculptures.
Then they were mercilessly torn apart by the violent wind, scattering everywhere.
This extreme cold wind cannon blowing out from the Oracle Spirit Ruins stunned everyone.
Just then, Yin suddenly launched an attack.
"Mercury Thorn Barrage!"
Yin instantly turned into liquid mercury, and countless mercury spikes erupted outward from him.
They sent Niki flying.
Yin roared: (#･᷅口･᷄) "Kelly! Griffin! Cullen!"
The next instant, Yin's teammates all exploded into action, using the chaos of the wind cannon to quickly break free of their restraints.
Cullen transformed into a massive white polar bear over sixty meters long.
He grabbed Bai Lian in one hand and charged straight into the wind cannon, plunging into the spatial gate.
Lilith, meanwhile, unleashed a mental storm, blasting the nearby Aka underlings until blood flowed from their seven orifices.
Griffin turned into a snow-white frost giant wolf, radiating cold air from his entire body.
He grabbed Lilith in his jaws and rushed inside.
Kelly, on the other hand, ignited her body with blue, extreme-cold flames, wrapping Yin tightly.
Yin's team members all had considerable resistance to extreme cold. They had been waiting for this moment.
Yin, surrounded by blue flames, burst out laughing.
He made a big leap into the spirit ruins, then turned back to flip the bird.
ﾚ(Oಡᗜಡ)凸
"Captive my ass! Cooperation? Why bother when I can do it myself? Freeze to death, you bastards! I'm standing up today!"
"Aka! Piss-Your-Pants Qing! Just you wait! See you inside the spirit ruins!"
With that, he vanished into the extreme cold wind cannon.
Niki's face twisted in rage.
(･`益･´ꐦ) "You scumbag Yin! Don't let me run into you inside!"
"Boss! 3D!"
The extreme cold wind cannon was so strong that Niki could barely open his eyes. He felt his entire body freezing, covered in frost.
If even he was in this state, forget about the underlings.
Many of them had already been frozen into ice sculptures.
Bel opened his mouth wide, sucking in the endless wind cannon into his stomach, a red glow flaring up on his body again.
٩(ʘ̆口ʘ̆ꐦ)و "This little ice cream's got some kick! Charge with me!"
Bel swallowed the wind cannon wildly, carving a path for his underlings behind him, and charged straight into the spirit ruins.
The scavengers weren't so lucky.
The wind cannon blasted out of the spatial gate, sweeping through the labyrinth of ice tunnels beneath the glacier with unstoppable force.
Countless people were frozen solid, then carried by the violent wind out through the open shaft Bai Kou had created.
They were blasted over a kilometer into the air before falling and smashing to pieces.
They didn't even know how they died.
The situation in the other ice caves wasn't much better.
As the extreme cold wind cannon came rushing toward them, even before it touched them, the chill was already making Jiangnan and his team shiver.
Apart from Xiao Jiuwo, who had an ice attribute, almost no one on the team had any resistance to extreme cold.
Let alone such a terrifying wind cannon.
Zhong Yingxue stomped her foot.
"Nine-Headed Phoenix Phoenix • Flame Garment!"
Zhong Yingxue's body erupted with towering flames, radiating astonishing heat.
In an instant, she conjured a sixty-meter-tall Nine-Headed Phoenix.
It enveloped everyone on the team. Though surrounded by flames, under Zhong Yingxue's control, the heat didn't burn them; instead, it provided warmth, making it feel like spring.
When the extreme cold wind cannon slammed into them head-on, the massive flaming Nine-Headed Phoenix was instantly shrunk to just over ten meters.
It was like a candle flame in the wind, as if it could be extinguished by the extreme cold at any moment.
The howling wind ceaselessly stripped away incredible amounts of heat.
Zhong Yingxue said urgently: (งᵒ̌⌂ᵒ̌)ง "I can't hold out much longer! Hurry! This storm is too terrifying!"
Jiangnan raised his hand and shot out spiritual threads, wrapping them around everyone's waists.
"Lan! Teleport us inside!"
The next instant, the group vanished from the ice cavern.
Meanwhile, Bai Kou was in no hurry. Hart, worried about losing people, directly released a thermal nuclear domain covering several kilometers. Everyone inside the domain was dried out by the heat, sweating profusely.
Where the orange light reached, the extreme cold melted away. Hart was a natural counter to extreme cold.
But his spiritual power was also draining wildly, making his expression change.
"What the hell is this snowstorm? Even a natural disaster couldn't reach this level, right?"
Bai Kou's brows furrowed slightly, and confusion filled her big eyes.
(❅•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Strange, it wasn't here before? How terrifying time can be."
"Stay close behind me. Don't get lost."
With that, Bai Kou flew out of the thermal nuclear domain. The moment the extreme cold wind cannon touched her, it dissipated into nothing.
The scavengers weren't so fortunate. They had to survive this wind cannon first before they could even qualify to enter.
...
Inside the Oracle Spirit Ruins.
The sound of howling wind filled their ears, like a cannon blast going off right beside them.
Lan had been teleporting the group deeper for over a minute. Although her teleportation distance wasn't far, after so many jumps, they had already gone deep.
But everything was still a blinding white; they couldn't tell east from west, north from south.
Now they understood why Yin called this thing a "snow cannon."
Jiangnan and the others were completely enveloped in the extreme cold snowstorm.
The Flame Garment formed by the Nine-Headed Phoenix had shrunk to the point where it could barely cover everyone.
Even tiny ice crystals were forming on the edges of the flames.
Zhong Yingxue had already started eating Durian Pulp to recover her spiritual power. She shouted loudly.
(ง˃᷄⌂˂᷅)ง "How much farther until we get out? I can't hold on much longer!"
Jiangnan yelled: (❀╹□╹) "What? What did you say? I can't hear you!"
The wind, loud as a cannon blast, drowned out almost all sound.
Xia Yao urged: "Get out already!"
Even Jiangnan was unnerved by the endless snowstorm. If not for Xuexue, he'd probably have been frozen into an ice sculpture too.
The environment inside the Oracle Spirit Ruins was so harsh—had the ancients really lived here?
Were they out of their minds?
"A spirit ruin is a closed environment. For such a high-speed wind cannon to form, it can only be a rotating vortex."
"This should be a super-massive tornado. As long as it's a tornado, it has an eye."
"If we get into the eye, we'll be safe. Pick a direction, keep the wind cannon hitting us from the side, and push inward—we'll break through eventually."
"Everyone stay close! Don't fall behind!"
Relying on Lan's teleportation would take who knows how long to break through the extreme cold wind cannon. Better to do it himself.
Jiangnan made a sudden teleportation.
He went straight to a spot ten thousand meters away, then frantically led the team toward the storm's core.
The more he teleported, the more alarmed Jiangnan became.
Damn it! He'd teleported over thirty times and still hadn't broken through?
Just how large an area did this extreme cold wind cannon cover?
Given the size of the spirit ruin, the weather system it formed couldn't possibly drive such a massive storm!
So what was the power source of this extreme cold snowstorm?
Something was wrong!
Just as Jiangnan teleported the team to a new spot, a spatial rift suddenly opened beside him.
Jiangnan: !!!
Before the rift could pull them in, Jiangnan teleported the group away again.
His liver nearly jumped out of his throat. They had almost been thrown into the dimensional gap!
What the hell? The space inside this Oracle Spirit Ruins was this fragile?
A Diamond-rank teleportation could accidentally tear the space here open?
Even more fragile than the ninth layer of the Abyss?
What was going on?
Just then, Xia Yao suddenly pointed upward, her eyes full of shock.
∩(꒪ͦ⌂꒪ͦ) "What is that?"