# Chapter 1372: That's Too Much Work, No Way
Xia Yao's exclamation immediately drew everyone's attention!
In the blinding white snowstorm, a vast silver torrent suddenly appeared!
It flew downwind at an astonishing speed!
As the silver torrent approached, the snowstorm grew even more terrifying!
The freezing wind was like a bone-scraping steel blade, leaving large gouges in the ice layer!
It was moving so fast that before Jiangnan could even see what the torrent was, it was already hurtling toward them!
The Nine-Headed Phoenix Garment was nearly extinguished, and an extreme sense of crisis surged through his heart!
He turned and roared: "Mila!"
Mila's golden light wings spread open, and a three-meter-diameter light sphere instantly formed, enveloping them all!
But it was still too late—a startled cry rang out!
Two enormous claws reached down, and Katerina was grabbed before she could get into the light sphere!
Her body was instantly pulled away, disappearing into the wind and snow!
And in that moment, Jiangnan finally saw clearly!
That thing was actually a massive silver falcon with a wingspan of nearly 70 meters!
Its body was covered in beautiful silver feathers, and under the force of the strong wind!
Its speed exceeded the limit the naked eye could capture!
That wasn't some silver torrent at all—it was a massive flock of silver falcons gathered together!
Seeing Katerina captured!
Jiangnan's heart tightened. If she was taken away by those things in this snowstorm, separated from the protection of the Flame Garment!
Within 30 seconds, Katerina would be frozen into an ice sculpture!
"Spatial Displacement!"
Jiang the Reserve-hand always kept a spare move!
The next instant, Jiangnan disappeared from his spot, replaced by Katerina, who was covered in frost with blood on her shoulder!
(ง˃᷄皿˂᷅)ง "Ahhhh—die! I'll poison you to death!"
At this moment, Katerina was shivering, about to release poison!
But she felt warmth around her—she was back in the Flame Garment?
(⌯꒪꒫꒪) What's going on?
Wasn't she just snatched away by something?
"I... how am I back? Where's Pee-Pants Qing?"
Everyone's mouths twitched, and Lan quickly raised her hand to explain!
(๑◔₃◔ิ๑)ฅ "I swapped you back with my space cube, and sent Tianqing over instead!"
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao finally relaxed—it had to be Lan, clever since she was little!
But Katerina's heart leaped to her throat!
"Those are Silver-Winged Wind Falcons! They're extinct spirit beasts—why are there so many here? Can Pee-Pants Qing handle it?"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Wind Falcons kept diving out of the silver torrent, shooting in like thrown knives or bullets!
Their speed exceeded ten times the speed of sound—their eyes couldn't keep up!
Sharp claws grabbed at the golden light sphere but were instantly frozen still!
From extreme motion to extreme stillness, the Wind Falcons' bodies couldn't withstand it, and both claws were torn from their bodies!
Their massive forms tumbled far away in the wind!
In no time, seven or eight silver claws had appeared on the light sphere!
Meanwhile, Jiangnan was caught by a massive Silver-Winged Wind Falcon, flying at hypersonic speed!
The wind roared in his ears, but Jiangnan looked completely calm!
"Spatial Barrier • Air Slash!"
In an instant, six hundred-meter spatial barriers formed, slashing through this Diamond Eight Silver-Winged Wind Falcon!
Blood splattered everywhere, and its body was covered in huge blade wounds!
"Void Black Hole!"
"Boom!"
With an explosion, a black hole formed, clearing a three-hundred-meter radius!
The Silver-Winged Wind Falcon was compressed down to just its head, which Jiangnan fished out with a wormhole—spirit pearl in hand!
"Mark Teleport!"
In the blink of an eye, Jiangnan was back behind Lan, shivering from the cold!
(๑ŏ▿ŏ) "Eh? Why so many chicken claws? Are they for dinner?"
Seeing Jiang Tianqing shivering as he walked back into the Flame Garment!
Katerina's eyes went wide!
(❍ฺ⌂❍ฺlll) "What chicken claws? Those are Silver-Winged Wind Falcon... s-sigh—you're back? That fast?"
Jiang Tianqing's gaze shifted!
(๑◔₃◔ิ๑) "Just a little bird? Easy kill! All Lan's doing! Here—keep it to play with!"
He handed the spirit pearl to Lan! Lan beamed!
(ʃƪᵒ̶̶̷̀◡˂̶́) "Thank you, Sister Tianqing!"
Xiong Er: (≖㉨≖)...
Jiang Tianqing coughed lightly: (⇀ก↼‶) "Ahem—let's get out of the storm first! Lan!"
He called for cover, then teleported them away. After more than a dozen teleports, they finally broke out of the extreme cold snowstorm!
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
They were finally out!
The sky was clear blue, without a single cloud. The blazing sun shone down on them, and there was even a hint of warmth!
Inside the eye of the storm, everything was calm!
The tall stone mountains ahead had been eroded by the harsh wind into all sorts of bizarre shapes!
The ground was littered with black gravel, sand, and thick patches of snow!
The peace before them felt strangely disconnected from the extreme cold storm they'd just experienced!
Not far behind them was the extreme cold storm, its thunderous roar deafening!
Jiangnan grinned: "Little Poison Tongue? What did you say that spirit beast was called?"
Katerina clutched her shoulder, still shaken!
"They're Silver-Winged Wind Falcons, extremely rare spirit beasts. A small group appeared in the polar ice fields years ago, and they were all hunted to extinction. I didn't expect there to be so many in the Oracle Spirit Ruins!"
"This must be one of their racial skills—Blizzard! One beast using this skill would just be powerful!"
"But the problem is that this racial skill can fuse and stack! When the flock uses it together, their skills merge, making it terrifying!"
Wu Liang's eyes bulged!
(|||ಠ(エ)ಠ) "Holy crap! You're saying the extreme cold snowstorm that blankets the entire Oracle Spirit Ruins is the product of the Wind Falcon flock's fused skills?"
"How many Wind Falcons would that take?"
Those countless Wind Falcons were the power source of this extreme cold snowstorm?
Zhong Yingxue's expression was serious: "It's not just numbers! There must be a terrifyingly high-level Wind Falcon ruling the flock! Otherwise, no matter how much they stacked, they couldn't reach this scale!"
"This Blizzard skill of the Wind Falcons is similar to the Flame Spirit of the Flame Sky Flying Dragons!"
"This should be the flock's hunting behavior. If it's not necessary, try to avoid entering the extreme cold storm—it's too dangerous!"
Jiangnan also remembered when he'd encountered the Flame Sky Flying Dragon swarm, their Flame Spirits fused into a massive Flame Dragon that gave Fatty Orange a hard time!
Xia Yao was already observing the terrain of the Oracle Spirit Ruins!
"This spirit ruin is huge. The Star Ring must have shattered into countless pieces buried somewhere. How long would it take to dig them all up?"
Jiangnan blinked: (•︠ˍ•︡) "Dig? We're not digging!"
He waved his hand!
(งᵒ̌◡ᵒ̌)ว "Come on—let's explore and have fun! See if there are any ruins or something! Maybe we'll find some treasure!"
Wu Liang was stunned: "Huh? Didn't we come in looking for Star Ring fragments? We're not looking anymore?"
Jiangnan shrugged, as if it were the most natural thing in the world!
ʅ(･´‸･｀)ʃ "Looking for what? This place is huge. How long would it take the few of us to dig up fragments everywhere?"
"That's too much work—no way. When someone else digs them up, we just take them directly!"
"Arka, flare gun. Tens of thousands of scavengers have flooded in. With so many treasure-digging machines working for us, why should I bother digging treasure myself?"
At this moment, everyone stared blankly at Jiang Tianqing!
Only you could say it so casually, so righteously!
You've been planning to rob people from the very beginning, haven't you?
No wonder you weren't upset when Silver leaked your location!
Jiang the Bandit has arrived!
Katerina worried: "But what if Snow Girl and Bell find them, and we can't take them?"
Jiang Tianqing grinned slyly!
(•́.̫•̀) "Simple! Don't forget—I've still got one piece. If we can't take it by force, we'll negotiate!"
"Anyway, they can't use the Star Ring without my piece. And all I want is a small segment of information!"
Zhong Yingxue, Wu Liang, and the others covered their faces. So Jiangnan had already planned this all along?
No matter how you looked at it, he had the absolute advantage!
But that plan was a bit too careless though!
Still, the snowstorm was extremely dangerous, and those treasure-digging machines would have trouble getting through!
And waiting for them to dig up the treasures would take some time!
With nothing else to do during the wait, they might as well follow Jiangnan and explore the Oracle Spirit Ruins!
Xiao Jiuwo carried everyone high in the sky, searching around, taking in the surrounding terrain!
...
At this moment, Bai Kou had already led her group through the extreme cold storm, arriving at a vast, endless snowy plain!
They hadn't entered the eye of the storm but had directly escaped the extreme cold storm!
She furrowed her brow!
(❅･᷄～･᷅) "Messenger Falcons? Hmm—unexpected."
These spirit beasts, originally domesticated for delivering messages, had grown to such a scale?
At this moment, Hart and Momo, along with the other flare gun members, were also stunned!
Because extreme cold snowstorms of this level were far from the only ones in the Oracle Spirit Ruins!
They'd just walked out of one, and as far as the eye could see, there were at least two more!
But Snow Girl was rubbing her temples, staring at the bizarrely shaped snowy mountains ahead, as if trying to match them with her memories!
She led them straight to the foot of a mountain, confusion in her eyes!
Behind her, a massive ice wing unfurled, completely made of snowflakes!
*⁂꒰ঌ(❅ᵒ̌～ᵒ̌❅)໒꒱⁂*
Bai Kou spread her wings, and the snowy plain began to tremble violently. The dozens of meters of accumulated snow beneath their feet parted to both sides!
As if invisible giant hands were tearing it apart!
All the snow was pushed aside, revealing a massive complex of black stone structures below!
The area was enormous!
The architectural style was strange, and the structures had already collapsed into rubble, impossible to recognize their former appearance!
But the intricate patterns carved into the walls spoke of their past glory!
Bai Kou stood silently before the ruins for a long time. Though the veil hid her expression, Momo could still feel it.
She was completely immersed in a mood of sorrow!
Hart's eyes flickered. How did Lady Snow Girl know so clearly that there would be ruins here?
No one should have entered except Silver!
Could it be that the rumor about Lady Snow Girl in the Blood Capital was true?
Was she not a person of this era?
But from the Ancient Su Era?