Chapter 553: Chapter 553

The announcement made by the Hall Guardian was seen by all. Because of this the cultivators from the righteous faction had heightened their guards towards strangers as the possibility of them being a demonic cultivator was high. The numbers of evil cultivators doing the trials for the God of Spirits and God of Death had diminished quite a bit after this announcement.

But those who were doing the trial for the God of Love, they most likely able to collect most points but it is almost impossible for one to find a dao companion within three days, unless an evil cultivator already had a relationship with a righteous cultivator and was hiding this fact until now.

The death count after the announcement was made had lowered. Though no one actually notices this, it’s an undeniable truth which is a result of someone informing others of the danger strangers can bring, especially since the opponents were from the evil faction

Finally, the third and last day for the treasure hunt trial of the Hall of Nature had arrived.

There are still those who are looking for treasure on this day and some demonic cultivators trying to complete their trials. Who would have thought that on this day, the four corners of the hall would show a heavenly phenomenon that happens to be seen only when a treasure blessed by the world would awaken or ripens.

A part of the artificial sky above them has four auspicious phenomena. A rainbow light pillar from the sky from the west. From the north an Ice dragon flying from the forest to the sky, rain of magma in the south and lastly, a purple fume with golden shade from the east.

Once these heavenly signs in the sky had descended, a lot of cultivators made their moves. After all, the one who can get this can instantly get 100,000 pts. If someone is watching the sky, they will see cultivators flying and splitting into four locations. The faster they flew the stronger they would be.

The Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor were on their way to the North when this happened. Yue Xuexia noticed Xiao Jin, in her arms trembling towards the location where the purple fume is, Shen Jueyang also noticed this.

Shen Jueyang said, "Did it want to go to the east? Is that newly born treasure useful for it?"

"Maybe... Jueyang, you head to the north and get the snake. I want to check the east for Xiao Jing. Don’t let them die okay?" The Moon Goddess was walking about the couple, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue, who is most likely heading to the north because of her words.

The Immortal Sun Emperor, learning that they need to split, can only sigh and say, "Alright. Once I am done with it, I will find you right away."

The two of them also split up like the others. Shen Jueyang flew faster than the others heading to the north and some cultivators recognized him. Those who are afraid of death halted in the sky, hesitating whether to still head in the North and fight against this deity who can easily kill them all.

"Is that the Immortal Sun Emperor!?"

"Is he heading to the north?"

"Are we still going to head there?"

"Do you think you can fight someone like him?"

"Impossible! Not even a Huashen Realm and even the Moon Goddess can defeat him!"

"Let’s just try other places."

"Hey! I... I think I just saw the Moon Goddess heading to the east just now."

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"How about avoiding the east as well?"

"No choice then. To the south or west?"

"Someone told me that the Buddha’s heir is heading to the west and the Hidden Hermit at the south."

"Actually, I saw some Huashen Realm Demonic Cultivators heading in those areas as well."

"Brother, are we still going?"

After the third silence descended most of the cultivators had descended and had a family conversation. With four locations being targeted by Huashen Realm Cultivators, things would never be easy.

"Let’s avoid the north. The one heading there is only kind to the Moon Goddess and the others will definitely be treated worse."

"The south and west will definitely be full of fighting between the righteous and the evil. I don’t want to get collateral harm between the two Factions."

"Let’s just head to the east. The Moon Goddess is kind. As long as we let her pick the most important treasure she should care about the rest."

"Hm. Let’s head east. But remember to only fight when the Moon Goddess has taken her leave."

"Okay, we understand, Brother!"

This group of Yuanying Realm cultivators chose to head to the east where the Moon Goddess had headed. After all, compared to the other places which scream danger at least the Moon Goddess will not move a hand against them unless they offended her.

This area is a forest made of ice trees where almost everything born in this region was ice attributed. Thanks to this, even the leaves of ordinary trees in this location possess a blue shade and one touch is enough to feel frost on one’s fingers. The ground was covered with thick ice and the season is always winter.

The tallest area in this region is the icy peaks in rows. Even though the ground is covered in snow, the peaks of these mountains were covered in ice. With this area covered in snow and neverending winter, the temperature in this area is colder compared to the other location. However, for the couple, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue, even though it is snowing, this temperature is no different with them under the sunny sky.

The two wearing a couple matching white robes had arrived in this location half a day earlier. However, they couldn’t find any traces of the Ice Phoenix Herbs the Moon Goddess had told them or the Snow Leopards that are supposed to be guarding this special type of herbs. Ice Phoenix Herbs is a high-grade ingredient for making Ice attributed pills and more. However, its real use was for those who were born with Ice related physique to instantly boost their qi to another level and also the most helpful immortal herb capable of stabilizing the ice phoenix blood in their bodies and increasing the purity of their bloodline.

This is the most important herb for those descendants with an ice phoenix bloodline in their veins like Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue.

Tan Bingyu looked around the location and was welcomed with thick snow and small piles of it. From the distance it looked like snowmen of different sizes. No one knew if these shapes were intentionally created in such a way or nature created it that way.

Xue Renxue said, "The shape of this snow is strange."

"Yea. They look a bit like snowmen in the Mortal Realm," Tan Bingyu said.

Xue Renxue asked curiously, "What’s a snowman?"

"In the Mortal Realm, humans, especially children, entertain themselves during winter by creating snowmen. Just like that, stack two different sized round shaped snow then add some eyes, nose and mouth on the smaller snow ball and stack two tree branches on each side as its arms. For eyes, nose and mouth, you can use stones or something else," Tan Bingyu explained.

Xue Renxue looked even more confused now, "So what’s its use?"

"For entertainment," said Tan Bingyu. "However, these shapes are indeed weird."

It just took a few minutes for answers to be given to them. As they suddenly noticed a huge shadow above their heads about to fall down on them. Xue Renxue was the first one to notice this and pushed Tan Bingyu away with him. They’ve dodged the big snowball that fell from the sky itself.

Xue Renxue complains, "What is this? Don’t tell me this is the size of snow in this region? How could it be this big!?"

"Stop playing. Let’s find the Ice Phoenix Herb before others do. This is the last day of treasure hunting. There would be more people desperate for treasures," said Tan Bingyu.

Xue Renxue said, "I found the herb. Isn’t it that?"

He pointed at an ice wall before them. This wall is part of the mountain they had just hiked this whole time. Unfortunately, there is a problem. Not far from it, a cave on the ice wall can be found. This wall where the Ice Phoenix Herb is growing is just beside it.

Tan Bingyu scrutinized the hole on the wall and noticed something dangerous was peering at them from the inside. Like the Moon Goddess said, the owner of these eyes is at least Early Huashen Realm which is just a level lower than Tan Bingyu’s realm at Peak Yuanying Realm.

She turned her head to look at her dao companion and said, "Do you want it as your mount?"

"Bing’er, do you think it would come down if I cooked that barbeque we’ve prepared?" Xue Renxue asked.

"..." Tan Bingyu was speechless and took a while to answer. It peek at the eyes staring at them without moving. Obviously, observing the two of them from a distance.

This princess of the Hidden Tan Clan can only say, "How about you try making it come out of the cave first?"

"But I think baiting it with meat would work? Maybe?" Xue Renxue said.

Tan Bingyu had no other choice but to let this dao companion of hers try.

She said, "Alright. We can... Try it?"