Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1369: Chapter 443: White Phoenix Forest of Snow Phoenix Mountain, Five-Colored Demon Sound Rabbit, Playing Mind Games with Me?

The Caiqiu Calendar year 297, February 15, daytime.

Thirty miles northeast of Qinghua City, there’s a towering mountain, named Snow Phoenix Mountain because a clan of Snow Phoenix Cold Beasts has long occupied the summit.

The most famous things about Snow Phoenix Mountain, apart from the Snow Phoenix tribe, are the special plants known as Ice Sword Trees.

As their name suggests, Ice Sword Trees have a single straight and erect elliptical trunk like a sword blade, without any branches. Their diameter is usually only three to five meters, but their height can reach an astonishing thousand meters or more. Sunlit during the day, the ice crystals attached to the outer layer emit a layer of cold light, providing a visual effect akin to a longsword piercing the sky, hence their name.

Snow Phoenix Mountain itself is only two hundred meters tall, but because it is covered with Ice Sword Trees, its visual height is forcibly elevated five to six times.

The Snow Phoenix is a unique flying cold beast of Qinghua City, most fond of perching atop Ice Sword Trees. Its body is covered in icicle-like white feathers, it has a white hooked beak, two limbs on its belly, and sharp, lethal claws at the end.

A low-level Snow Phoenix has a wingspan of about 6 to 10 meters; intermediate ranges from 25 to 30 meters; advanced ones, in combat mode, have a minimum wingspan of 80 meters and up to 120 meters.

Interestingly, when perched atop Ice Sword Trees, the Snow Phoenix likes to fully spread its wings, pairing with the Ice Sword Tree, and from afar, they resemble a hilt of a longsword.

"A masterpiece of nature, akin to Ice Abyss. In regular places, how could such unique vegetation grow? Also, these Snow Phoenixes, relaxing with wings spread out, this entirely violates the biological habits of birds..."

The cold wind howled, Xia Hong stood atop an Ice Sword Tree over a hundred meters high, with the Shattered Star Sword in his left hand and a Snow Phoenix only two meters long in his right. The Snow Phoenix’s neck was completely severed, its beak sliced off, head drooping, evidently dead for quite some time.

Xia Hong looked up at the heights of Snow Phoenix Mountain, filled with admiration for the natural wonders of Ice Abyss.

A single, ten, even a hundred Ice Sword Trees are nothing, but when thousands and tens of thousands are clustered together, covering the mountains, it becomes an incredible scene.

The entire Snow Phoenix Mountain was filled with longswords piercing the heavens, like a perfectly shaped natural sword tomb, both perilous and uniquely beautiful, causing a mix of anxiety and inexplicable aspiration.

Suddenly, Xia Hong vaguely sensed a few sharp gazes from the mountain summit focused on him, his face immediately flashing with caution.

"Beast King... no, this kind of dangerous sensation is beyond the Beast King level! Above Beast King level, it should be the Five Luminaries Realm, or Emperor Level Fierce Beast!"

Having stayed in Qinghua City for almost a month, although unable to openly inquire, Xia Hong still gathered useful information through indirect means, such as the classification of cold beasts and deceitful monsters.

"Emperor Level Fierce Beast, also known as Five Luminaries Realm, because when cold beasts ascend to Emperor Level, they generally correspond to the five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, while Emperor Level Fierce Beasts possess both core items for Xianyang level breakthrough in Tribulation Body Realm and key resources for cultivation at Tribulation Body Realm."

Xia Hong’s brow furrowed as he glanced at the sky above Snow Phoenix Mountain one last time, suppressing the greed in his eyes before leaping off the Ice Sword Tree to land below in White Phoenix Forest.

"Brother Hong is truly amazing, this advanced Snow Phoenix, its speed comparable to Xianyang level; previously in Qinghua City apart from the Four Great Commanders, the two Deputy City Lords, and my father, hunting one was impossible for anyone else, and now Brother Hong joins them."

As Xia Hong landed, Cai Mengya noticed the advanced Snow Phoenix corpse in his hand and exclaimed in surprise, her slender and charming fox-like eyes fixated on Xia Hong, her gaze fluttering with admiration, almost writing the word adoration on her face.

"Hahaha, Miss Mengya flatters me, as mighty as it is, it’s just an advanced cold beast, trying to act arrogant in front of a princely heir is not that simple!"

Xia Hong responded with pride, basking in Cai Mengya’s adoring gaze, laughed heartily, and continued, "But Miss Mengya, what exactly is the Rabbit Fur Beast you mentioned? We’ve already ventured halfway up Snow Phoenix Mountain and haven’t encountered it yet; going further might not be as safe."

Speaking of catching Rabbit Fur Beast, it’s partly Xia Hong’s own doing.

Last month, upon arriving in Qinghua City, Cai Yunzhou hosted a banquet in his honor, inviting almost all the city’s dignitaries and aristocrats, and also his youngest daughter, Cai Mengya, to personally accompany him.

With Xia Hong’s abilities, he naturally deserved such treatment and felt little discomfort, but the banquet gradually took an unexpected turn.

This Cai Mengya frequently sent covert glances towards him during the banquet which he couldn’t dismiss, so to maintain his persona, he went along with the flow.

Yet, this decision to go with the flow marked the beginning of trouble.

Cai Mengya is City Lord Cai Yunzhou’s youngest daughter, incredibly talented, and deeply cherished by her father, attracting many suitors. Among the Four Great Commanders, two are suitors, not to mention numerous other city talents.

Xia Hong, a newcomer, quickly won her favor, naturally becoming a thorn in her numerous suitors’ sides, and thus they began to frequently challenge him at the banquet.

Initially, Xia Hong wasn’t inclined to react, but with the persona of a princely heir of powerful lineage already established, continued retreating would lead to suspicion, leaving him with no choice but to meet the challenges head-on.