Chapter 2226 - 2218: Ice Devouring Forest

Huang Xiaolong was secretly delighted.

This trip to Gujiao City was truly rewarding.

Otherwise, even in half a year, he would find it difficult to repair one-tenth of the Three Great Holy Veins.

Now, even without using the Three Great Dao Saint Forms, just relying on his Holy Body, he could easily kill a normal Dominator First Stage or Second Order Expert.

"Unfortunately, I don’t know where the Black Demon Sect headquarters is," Huang Xiaolong thought to himself.

Originally, he had performed a Soul Search on Qin Yuan earlier, hoping to find the location of the Black Demon Sect headquarters in the man’s memory, intending to make a trip to the headquarters and raid the Black Demon Sect’s Treasure Vault.

However, Qin Yuan’s memory did not contain any information about the Black Demon Sect headquarters.

The location of the Black Demon Sect headquarters is quite mysterious, known only to a few protectors and the main and vice sect leaders of the Black Demon Sect. Yet, the whereabouts of these individuals are unpredictable, even Qin Yuan had no idea of their specific movements.

Standing outside the cave entrance, Huang Xiaolong extended his Divine Soul, identifying the direction and then flew towards the Ice Devouring Forest.

Although a month had passed, the Jinyuan Kingdom was still fully barricaded. In the cities he passed, soldiers could be seen patrolling and checking everywhere.

As for these patrolling soldiers, Huang Xiaolong didn’t pay them any mind. Though his injuries weren’t fully healed yet, a mere Jinyuan Kingdom couldn’t possibly capture him.

The only thing that made Huang Xiaolong a bit cautious was the Beidou Sword Sect. Along the way, Huang Xiaolong saw many disciples of the Beidou Sword Sect—ordinarily rarely seen in the Jinyuan Kingdom. Their appearance in droves could only mean they were here because of Weng Siqi’s death.

The Beidou Sword Sect was one of the three Great Supreme Sects of the Biluo Dynasty, and its sect master was no ordinary Supreme Strong Person. Moreover, the Beidou Sword Sect had more than just one or two Supremes.

However, for one Weng Siqi, the Beidou Sword Sect wouldn’t mobilize a Supreme.

A few days later, as he passed through the royal capital of the Jinyuan Kingdom, Huang Xiaolong spotted several Dominator Realm elders of the Beidou Sword Sect.

During his one-day stay in the royal capital, Huang Xiaolong spent six million Holy Currency at the elixir and spiritual medicine trading market, purchasing spiritual herbs and elixir pills with the entire sum.

Spending six million Holy Currency at once didn’t pain Huang Xiaolong. After all, healing his injuries was of utmost importance.

After acquiring the necessary spiritual herbs and elixir pills, Huang Xiaolong continued on his journey.

On the road, he consumed spiritual herbs and elixir pills while cultivating.

Without significant mishaps, ten days passed, and Huang Xiaolong finally arrived at the Ice Devouring Forest.

Standing before the Ice Devouring Forest, Huang Xiaolong shook his head with a wry smile. In just ten days, he had refined all the spiritual herbs and elixir pills bought with six million Holy Currency.

Spending six million Holy Currency in ten days—there probably wasn’t anyone else in all the Holy Land with such a spending rate.

It seemed he still needed to figure out ways to earn money.

After arriving in the Holy World, Huang Xiaolong realized that he couldn’t convert the Spiritual Energy here into Spirit Stones, so he couldn’t treat money as mere dirt like he did in the Lower Realm.

Moreover, the Spirit Stones of the Holy World were far less valuable than Holy Currency.

Huang Xiaolong looked towards the Ice Devouring Forest, seeing spaces filled with clumps of ice and snow. The snow drifted around, giving the entire forest a pure white appearance that was almost devoid of any other colors.

The Ice Devouring Forest was not only home to ice-element fierce beasts, but all the trees within were ice elemental as well.

Each ice-element Divine Tree stood there, with leaves in a rare snow-white hue.

Some tops of ice-element Divine Trees even emitted clumps of snow.

Huang Xiaolong paused briefly, then flashed into the Ice Devouring Forest.

Quickly, he blended into the ice and snow within the forest.

After entering the Ice Devouring Forest, it wasn’t as cold as expected; the ice and snow felt refreshingly cool on his skin.

Huang Xiaolong didn’t linger on the forest’s outskirts; after entering, he headed straight towards its depths.

Though there were many spiritual herbs on the forest’s edge, their grade was too low to aid in healing Huang Xiaolong’s injuries.

The Ice Devouring Forest was vast; even with Huang Xiaolong flying at full speed, it took him a month just to reach the border near the forest’s depths.

It would take another three or four days to truly enter the forest’s deep area.

However, even before he reached the true depths, primordial-level spiritual herbs were already abundant, and Huang Xiaolong even discovered a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicine.

Although this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicine was only First Order, it still delighted Huang Xiaolong.

He didn’t immediately refine this First Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicine but tossed it into the Bright Commerce Treasure Vault, intending to gather a few more for refining later.

Two days later.

Huang Xiaolong landed in midair above a snow peak, and couldn’t help but smile when he saw a small grass on the cliff opposite.

This small grass was entirely emerald snow-colored, with a snowy shimmer and faint flashes of lightning.

"Thunder Snow Grass!"

A high-grade First Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicine!

However, just as Huang Xiaolong was about to collect this Thunder Snow Grass, a gigantic fierce beast suddenly soared down from high in the sky, its four giant claws lunging at Huang Xiaolong.

Huang Xiaolong raised his hand to block, flipping the giant fierce beast away. It looked like a phoenix with a phoenix head but had carving wings and a long tail covered in ice spikes.

"Phoenix Hawk!"

Huang Xiaolong was surprised.

The Phoenix Hawk was one of the Primordial Spiritual Beasts, and the current one was ice-elemental. Although it wasn’t a top-tier Primordial Spiritual Beast, it had an extremely fast flying speed.

"This will do!"

Huang Xiaolong thought.

Throughout this journey, Huang Xiaolong had been searching for a mount Divine Beast, and this ice-elemental Phoenix Hawk was perfect. Even though this Phoenix Hawk was only at Late-stage Fourth Rank Sovereign, its speed surpassed many Dominator Sixth Stage Divine Beasts.

At this moment, the ice-elemental Phoenix Hawk, knocked to the ground by Huang Xiaolong, let out an angry phoenix cry and lunged at him again.

Seeing this, Huang Xiaolong chuckled, dodged the Phoenix Hawk’s talons, and landed on its head, then pounded down with a punch.

With a "clang", the Phoenix Hawk was pounded into the snow by Huang Xiaolong’s punch, stars twinkling in its eyes.

Shaking its head clear, the Phoenix Hawk let out an angry shriek, ice surging madly from its whole body, its massive tail recoiling, aiming to stab Huang Xiaolong.

Huang Xiaolong raised a hand and punched, directly striking the tail back, causing snow and ice to scatter, the ice spikes on the tail trembling from the blow.

After a few minutes, Huang Xiaolong had subdued the ice-elemental Phoenix Hawk and collected the Thunder Snow Grass.

With the Phoenix Hawk now tamed, Huang Xiaolong sat cross-legged on its back, continuing to fly deeper into the Ice Devouring Forest.

With the Phoenix Hawk as his mount, things were much more convenient for Huang Xiaolong, and the bird was familiar with and knowledgeable about the surroundings, helping him avoid quite a few troubles. Most importantly, the Phoenix Hawk knew where nearby Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicines were located and could guide Huang Xiaolong directly to them.

However, these Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicines were usually guarded by Dominator realm fierce beasts, or powerful prohibitions surrounded them, making them not so easy to obtain.