114: Chapter 114 The Snowman

The auction ended. Jiang He and his companion followed Fire Phoenix to the hotel.

"Brother Chuan, I might need some time to pay you back the gold coins you advanced for me earlier," Fire Phoenix said, looking troubled.

"Hmm, no rush." Jiang He waved his hand dismissively.

He did not help Fire Phoenix without reason.

To gain early access to the barrier and return to Chang'an, he needed to find eight reliable people.

Once they reincarnated, they would travel together to the Sea of Death. Fire Phoenix and North Wind were the people he had his eye on.

"Brother Chuan, might I ask which great family you are a young master of?" North Wind stepped forward and asked, cupping his hands in a salute.

"Uh... well... it's not really convenient to say." Jiang He felt a bit awkward.

He couldn't exactly say, "I'm a Viscount of Chang'an City, damn it!"

Seeing that the other party was unwilling to say, North Wind let the matter drop. At this moment, Fire Phoenix asked with a face full of confusion, "Brother Chuan, how are you only level 45?"

"Hmm? Is my level embarrassing?"

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant. I mean, how are you so powerful at level 45? And he is the same..."

As Fire Phoenix spoke, she pointed at Xie Yunzhou, who was standing to the side. The strength of these two had long since far exceeded their current level.

Jiang He's ability to paralyze in melee combat and apply poison from a distance was already enough to amaze her.

"Uh... well, that's also not very convenient to say."

Fire Phoenix was speechless for a moment. Why was everything he was asked about "not convenient to say"?

Jiang He smiled and asked, "By the way, what's the deal with that Liefeng and Yunque earlier?"

"Hmm? You don't know them?" Fire Phoenix was even more confused.

Logically speaking, these two were very famous in the Crystal Capital, especially Yunque; almost everyone knew her.

But why did it feel like the Chuan Liu Bu Xi in front of her didn't know anything at all?

"Well, my brother and I rarely log into the game. When we do, we just grind monsters in the wild, so we don't know much about what happens in the city."

"Oh, I see."

"That Liefeng is not a good person," Fire Phoenix said, pouting.

Jiang He understood after hearing Fire Phoenix's explanation. It turned out that besides being a bully, Liefeng was also notorious in the Crystal Capital. He was the same type of person as Zhang Zixuan.

Previously, when the Crystal Capital encountered a beast tide, Liefeng had chosen to log off with his trusted followers to avoid the chaos of war.

After that battle, the Wings of Dawn guild and Yunque's War Wolf Gang suffered heavy losses. Liefeng took advantage of this opportunity to suppress them severely.

However, fortunately, a few months ago, Yunque encountered a special quest in the wild. That was what made Liefeng restrain himself a lot.

"A special quest? What is it?" Jiang He asked curiously.

Fire Phoenix shook her head. "I don't know the specific details, but ever since that time, Big Sister Yunque has become the only countess in this Crystal Capital."

"A countess?" Jiang He was greatly surprised. He was only a Viscount, yet this young woman already had the status of a countess?

It seemed there was a reason why the Treasure Pavilion belonged to the War Wolf Gang and why Liefeng was so wary of the other party.

No matter how high the level or how strong the combat power, within this city, even just a first-level noble status was enough to make people afraid to provoke them easily. This was the symbol of power.

After chatting for a while, Fire Phoenix planned to leave. Jiang He also prepared to take Xie Yunzhou out of the city to continue leveling up.

Before leaving, Fire Phoenix reminded him repeatedly, "If you encounter people from the Blazing Fire Gang, you must try to avoid them. They hold grudges."

Jiang He agreed immediately and then left the hotel. Before long, the two left the city and continued toward Winterspring Valley. He figured that since they had been delayed for so long, the monsters there should have respawned.

"Quick, send a message to the guild leader, say that person has left the city."

"Mm-hmm."

At this time, two players were secretly following behind Jiang He and his companion. They followed all the way to the outskirts of Winterspring Valley. One of the warriors asked with a troubled expression, "Should we keep following?"

"Are you stupid? This is an level 85 map. If you want to seek death, don't drag me into it. I'll just wait here for the guild leader to come."

After entering the map, hundreds of Frost Blade Panthers had respawned here and there. Jiang He raised his hand and took one down.

Originally, he had wanted to challenge a level 90 map, but he had always felt that there was a place here he had overlooked.

When he killed the Ice Dragon earlier, he noticed a problem. That Ice Dragon was in its growth phase, not its mature phase?

Before coming back, he had also asked Fire Phoenix about it. No one had ever truly explored deep into this Winterspring Valley, and no notification of any boss being killed had ever popped up.

If that was the case, he could basically be certain that the Ice Dragon was definitely not the only boss.

The Frost Blade Panthers were quickly cleared out by him. The two continued to head deeper into the area, where they discovered new monsters.

Fat snowmen were crawling on the ground. Their appearance seemed simple and honest. They were round, white, and clean, looking very cute.

However, their HP was terrifyingly high. [Snowman · Level 86] HP: 120,000

He really didn't know what kind of price Fire Phoenix and her group had paid to reach the Ice Dragon.

When Jiang He stepped into the monsters' aggro range, all the snowmen around him turned toward him instantly. Their originally deep, pitch-black eyes suddenly erupted with blood-red light.

Immediately after, they opened their mouths to reveal fangs. Jiang He immediately retracted his previous evaluation.

"Shit, they aren't cute at all."

He saw the snowmen instantly shrink into giant snowballs, rolling toward Jiang He at high speed. Their speed was extremely fast. While rolling, the snowballs grew limbs again, leaped into the air, and pounced at Jiang He.

"Awooo—" they let out bursts of roars from their mouths.

"Damn, they can do that?" Jiang He immediately retreated to dodge, jumping back several steps.

The spot where he had originally been standing was smashed into deep pits by the snowmen.

"Boom—" the snowmen transformed back into their attack form and assaulted Jiang He.

"They're really troublesome." He backhanded several Blood Speech Techniques. But the next second, he was stunned.

The Blood Speech Technique hit the snowmen, but not only did they not get poisoned, they didn't even lose a drop of HP?

At this moment, Xie Yunzhou, who was on the side, had already joined the battle. He suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Brother Jiang, these guys don't take magic damage. Use your blade to hack at them; it's super easy to fight them that way."

"Swish—" after saying that, he swept his blade horizontally, knocking back a snowman. Jiang He felt helpless.

The infinite-cooldown Blood Speech Technique, plus the poison effect, was supposed to be his strongest trump card. But in front of these snowmen, it was completely ineffective?

Then he sighed, gripped his dagger tightly, and rushed up. With one strike, the dagger stabbed into the snowman's body, feeling soft and squishy.

Although the opponent lost HP, this feeling was just too weird.

Moreover, according to Jiang He's combat habits, after stabbing in, he should have kicked off to use the reaction force to push himself away.

As a result, when he kicked out, his entire leg sank directly into the snowman's soft body.

"Damn, are they really made of snow?"

"Awooo—" the snowman in front of him opened its bloody maw and bit toward him.

Jiang He was startled and hurriedly backhanded with his blade. He forcefully slashed a large gash into the snowman's mouth.

But the next second, the snowman's mouth was actually recovering rapidly.

"How is this even fightable?" Jiang He couldn't help but shout.

He used a lot of effort to pull his leg out of the snowman's body. Then he turned and ran into the distance, just in time to bump into the equally disheveled Xie Yunzhou.

"Brother Jiang, I retract what I said earlier while showing off. These guys are also hard to deal with in melee combat."

Jiang He looked at the dark mass of snow monsters ahead. "Let's go, we can't handle these monsters."

"Mm."

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