Windless Zone

Hearing this, Xu Mu also turned to Zilan Yin. “You mean the snow monsters might destroy my car?”

“Exactly. Snow monsters possess fifth-stage Boundary-Breaking strength. The shock waves produced when fighting them could easily destroy the car.”

Zilan Yin continued, “And the cold at night seems different somehow, though I can’t quite explain how.”

“It’s fine. We’ll deal with whatever comes our way.”

Xu Mu raised his hand and felt the wind sweeping in from all directions. It had already changed from the gentle breeze at the beginning into a powerful gale.

The wind lashed his face like a whip, its icy bite causing sharp pain.

Xu Mu looked at the frost gradually forming on the back of his hand and sensed that something was wrong.

He touched the frost with one finger, and it melted into water.

No wonder Zilan Yin had said that the cold current at night was different from the one during the day. This time, it felt like genuine cold—it wasn’t coming from the formation.

To confirm his theory, Xu Mu took out the phone he had used earlier.

During the day, the phone’s battery had been full, and he could use it freely.

But now, the moment he took it out, he discovered that it could no longer be turned on. Not only that, even the area around the power button had been completely frozen solid.

“Xu Mu, this doesn’t look good!” Li Hongdou had noticed the situation as well.

“That’s right. This cold is different. There’s water in the air.”

Xu Mu said, “In these conditions, my car probably won’t start either.”

Upon hearing this, Li Hongdou and Zilan Yin were both filled with despair.

“Am I going to be frozen solid again, just like yesterday?”

Zilan Yin clenched her fists tightly. Just as she finished speaking, several roars came from the distance.

Before long, four enormous white gorillas appeared in front of them.

They had blue eyes and ten-centimeter-long fangs. Each one stood a full five meters tall.

“Roar!”

One of them raised both hands and pounded its chest.

The other three immediately charged at Xu Mu and the others.

“Xu Mu, it’s best not to fight them. Just dodge them. These monsters can’t be killed for good. Fighting them will only get us frozen solid for nothing.”

Zilan Yin quickly warned him.

Xu Mu used his perception to examine the monsters.

His perception had now received a monumental boost. Before, he had been completely unable to sense these lifeless creatures.

But things were different now. Even objects without life could be peeled apart layer by layer within his perception.

Through his senses, he saw the monsters attacking them.

After peeling away the layer of fur covering them, Xu Mu discovered the patterns of a formation inside their bodies.

Since they were created by a formation, things became much easier. There was no need to waste time fighting them directly.

“You two stay back.”

Xu Mu drew his red sword and charged toward the monsters.

Hum!

He activated the formation. His figure flashed around the monsters, and in the blink of an eye, all four had been eliminated by Xu Mu.

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Li Hongdou and Zilan Yin were both stunned. Just how powerful had Xu Mu become? It was terrifying.

The monsters’ speed and the power radiating from their bodies were all at the fifth-stage level.

Granted, they could be said to be mindless and were no match for true experts of the same realm. Even so, Xu Mu had killed them far too quickly.

“We need to hurry! Once they die, more of their companions will keep coming after us.”

Zilan Yin reminded him from the side.

“There’s no need to rush. Have you forgotten? Our goal is to leave this formation, not survive here.”

Xu Mu raised his hand and looked at the frost that had already formed on the back of it.

His body itself was completely unharmed. The ice covering him was simply moisture from the air settling on his skin before freezing solid.

This meant that, in the formation’s current state, a genuine source of water had appeared.

Based on the formation knowledge he had acquired, this period was the key to escaping the formation.

Xu Mu pressed his hand against the ground and carefully investigated.

Then he closed his eyes and focused on sensing the direction of the wind. Finally, he pointed into the distance.

“Quick! We’re going that way.”

The two women immediately followed Xu Mu.

Every so often, more monsters appeared ahead of them.

However, Xu Mu did not let the women attack. He relied entirely on his formation weapon to eliminate the monsters.

When he felt his body beginning to reach its limit, he used a divine-level technique to turn himself ethereal for a moment, then continued slaughtering the monsters.

Xu Mu and the two women pressed onward. As the number of monsters ahead grew larger and larger, he could tell that they had probably chosen the right path.

After killing the mindless monsters for some time, Xu Mu suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

He immediately expanded his perception and discovered that Li Hongdou and Zilan Yin, who had been following behind him, had both stopped.

The two women had been frozen into ice sculptures. Every inch of exposed skin was covered in a thin layer of ice.

“Damn it!”

Xu Mu immediately turned back and grabbed them by the shoulders.

Within his perception, he had already spotted a vent ahead. The monsters were emerging from there.

Now that they had reached this point, he certainly couldn’t turn back. Dodging the monsters along the way, he continued toward his destination.

At last, he arrived at a mountain peak. This was a wind vent.

There was no actual opening, but the storm here was extremely violent.

The giant gorilla monsters were formed from ice shards blown out of the vent. Eventually, they would be carried away by the wind.

Xu Mu grabbed the two women and flew toward the vent. In an instant, he and the women were completely frozen solid.

He unleashed his strength, shattered the ice, and retreated.

If he carried the two women, Xu Mu couldn’t turn ethereal. Once his body became intangible, the two women in his hands would be blown away.

This alone was enough to prove that, given the realms of the three of them, they should have been completely incapable of passing through this Battlefield of the Gods on their own.

Xu Mu opened his spatial storage and tossed the two women inside.

Then he released a black shadow, causing it to appear directly in the very center of the vent.

Xu Mu transferred himself over as well, placing himself at the center of the wind vent.

Hum!

Once he arrived, he discovered that the central area, within a diameter of two meters, was actually a windless zone.

It was still extremely cold, but compared to the outside, it was much better.

Xu Mu checked on the two women inside his spatial storage. Nothing had changed. They remained frozen in the form of ice sculptures.

He had no choice but to pull them out again.

The windless zone was only two meters across, so he couldn’t even take out his car.

Xu Mu continued searching through his spatial ring and found several wooden chairs.

He then found several books, ignited them with qi, and placed the chairs over the flames.

Within the windless zone, the fire was completely unaffected.

Seeing that the two women still couldn’t move, Xu Mu took a deep breath and tore away the ice covering their bodies with his bare hands.

Their frozen clothing shattered along with it.

Although Xu Mu had previously examined Li Hongdou through his perception, seeing her with his own eyes gave him an entirely different impression.

Zilan Yin was by no means small either, but compared with Li Hongdou, she seemed utterly dwarfed.

“Why does it feel like even thunder has frozen solid? This formation really is terrifying!”

Xu Mu had each of them lean against him, then wrapped them both in blankets.

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Meanwhile, Freya, nearly frozen stiff, appeared nearby as well.

To her surprise, she spotted what seemed to be traces of firelight at the center of the storm ahead, and hurried toward it.