Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 3: Giant Frost Tree
Zhou Leng took out the engineer shovel, followed the direction indicated by the wild boar, cut through the weeds and dead branches, climbed up, and observed the ground.

After walking for a few minutes, Zhou Leng shrank his body and looked around in confusion.

The cold here is very strange. It is not like the severe cold in winter, but a kind of cold that goes straight into the bone marrow and blood.

Put on your windbreaker, slowly circulate your Qi, and keep moving forward.

Soon, Zhou Leng's breathing became heavier and he walked with difficulty.

It's getting colder ahead. What if my energy runs out?

Suddenly, Zhou Leng's eyes lit up.

There were messy claw marks in the mud ahead.

Zhou Leng shouted loudly: "Da Huang! Da Huang!"

I listened carefully, but there was no sound of Dahuang calling out.

After calling a few more times, Zhou Leng climbed in the direction of the claw marks.

After parting the trees and weeds, a rock crevice more than two people wide appeared in front of us, like a small cave.

Dog paw prints are clearly visible on the mud in front of the crevice.

The cracks in the rocks emanated a stronger chill.

Zhou Leng frowned.

He looked around, called out to Dahuang twice, hesitated for a few seconds, and walked into the crevice.

After taking a few steps, it was dark and damp. After taking a few more steps, Zhou Leng suddenly bumped into a layer of water film.

After passing through the water film, the view in front of you suddenly becomes clear.

The dense woods block out the sky, and the antiquity and vicissitudes of the primeval forest come to the fore.

The trees are so thick that it takes dozens of people to hug them, and their height is over twenty stories high.

The trunk is like a giant pillar, and the leaves look like pine needles from a distance, but are about the size of an adult's arm when you get close.

Zhou Leng's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly realized that this was definitely not Rucheng, and definitely not Ruge Mountain, but rather another world.

He took a half step back towards the crevice, but looked back towards the forest unwillingly, searching for clues on the ground.

There is a clear indentation in the leaves in front.

Following the traces that might have been left by rhubarb, I walked towards the forest.

Zhou Leng circulated his true energy, lifted and lowered his feet lightly, secretly practicing the Bagua footwork, and constantly observing his surroundings.

After taking a few steps, the coldness grew worse and the consumption of his Qi became more intense.

If it were an ordinary person without true qi, he would freeze to death within three minutes even if he wore the thickest down jacket.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Zhou Leng suddenly raised his hand.

Both hands were red with purple tints and slightly swollen.

My left toes are numb and itchy.

Even at the South Pole or the North Pole, it can't be this cold.

"Look ahead, look ahead, I've grown up and can't hide behind Da Huang all the time..."

Zhou Leng took out a thermal blanket to cover his body, and walked in the forest with slow steps.

White frost slowly formed on his eyebrows and his body trembled slightly.

He walked around a huge black tree that required dozens of people to hug it, his body swayed, and he reached out to hold onto the trunk.

His legs were numb, his whole body was stiff, and his hands were covered with flesh-red wounds.

"Is that the end of it..."

Zhou Leng slowly raised his head and looked forward.

Through the gaps between the trees, Zhou Leng saw that the end of the forest was ahead.

Outside the end of the forest was a clearing covered with white grass, and not far from the clearing stood a huge white wall.

A sturdy yellow-haired Chinese native dog lies under a huge white wall.

"Dahuang..." Zhou Leng was overjoyed.

The next moment, there was a loud roar, thousands of trees fell down, the earth cracked, and endless darkness came.

It was as if I saw the starry sky collapsing, rain falling from the sky, and the entire universe crashing down on me.

The world collapsed.

I am so insignificant.

Fear erupted.

In despair, there is only one feeling left.

dying.

It doesn't matter if I die...

At the moment when darkness came, Zhou Leng vaguely saw Da Huang looking over, then standing up, raising his front paws, and barking wildly at the huge white frost wall.

Maybe it's an illusion...

Baji... Baji...

Zhou Leng dreamed that he fell headfirst into a pond. When he opened his eyes, he saw bright white light.

Dahuang’s dog’s head was hanging in front of him.

It stretched out its big bright red tongue and licked Zhou Leng's face.

"Dahuang!" Zhou Leng reached out and hugged Dahuang.

"Ahh..." Dahuang was like crazy, drilling straight into Zhou Leng and kicking his four legs wildly.

Dahuang always behaves like this when we haven’t seen each other for a long time.

At this time, Dahuang was like a dog meat rotating drill, and there was no way to hold him.

"Okay, okay..." Zhou Leng said.

Dahuang suddenly jumped out and ran back and forth, extremely excited.

Dahuang stopped, looked at Zhou Leng again, shouted, and ran back and forth excitedly.

Like a little lunatic.

Zhou Leng stood up, brushed off the dust on his body, and looked at the healthy Dahuang, his heart settled down.

found it.

Zhou Leng suddenly stared at Da Huang carefully.

Dahuang is an old dog. In recent years, his fur has become dull and his movements have become slow.

But now, Dahuang has not only grown bigger, his fur is even sleeker than a few years ago, and he runs as agilely as when he was a child.

No, more agile.

I first looked around myself carefully, and found nothing unusual. Even my frozen hands had returned to whiteness. Everything before seemed like an illusion.

Looking around, on one side was a dense forest of pointed leaves, which looked like where I came from.

On one side is... at first glance it looks like a white wall, but looking into the distance, the wall has a curve.

Zhou Leng looked up.

A huge tree stands in front.

The so-called white wall is the trunk of a big tree.

The tree is all white, as if carved from frost. Its trunk is so thick that it stretches as far as the eye can see, and its branches are densely packed.

The branches are hung with all kinds of snowflake-shaped leaves, the small ones are more than ten meters long, and the large ones are hundreds of meters long.

The area occupied by this big tree is larger than the entire Xiaoru Village.

It is taller than Ruge Mountain, with a canopy like a mountain and as majestic as the sky.

Zhou Leng looked around and found nothing here except... let's call it giant frost trees and forest grassland.

There wasn't even any insects or birds chirping.

My thoughts were churning.

Zhou Leng raised his hand and was about to wave to Da Huang to leave, but then slowly put it down.

There is not much true energy left in the body.

"Da Huang, help me protect the law. I will practice Qigong to recover my Qi first, and then go home."

"Woof!" Dahuang ran over, sat down next to Zhou Leng, and looked around carefully.

Zhou Leng meditated on the spot, practicing the Xuanchao Jue.

At the moment when the Xuanchao Jue was activated, Zhou Leng's eyelids twitched suddenly.

This time, the flow of true Qi was much faster than before and produced an indescribable feeling.

It was as if I had turned into a black hole, absorbing the power around me.

This feeling is extremely comfortable, even a little euphoric.

More beautiful than ever before.

A quarter of an hour later, Dahuang got up, walked around wagging his tail, approached Zhou Leng, and sniffed him.

It grinned and laughed, its tail wagging rapidly.

Dahuang walked to the giant frost tree, raised his two front paws and placed them on the trunk, raised his head and stuck out his tongue, narrowed his two dog eyes and revealed a flattering smile.

It extended its left front paw, pointed it at Zhou Leng, then retracted it, clasped its paws together, and shook it back and forth, as if praying to the giant tree.

Nothing happened.

Dahuang whined softly, fell to the ground, curled up his front legs, showing his white belly, turned over and rubbed against the roots of the tree, just like he was acting like a spoiled child at his owner's feet.

Still nothing changed.

Dahuang suddenly stood up, bared his teeth at the big tree, then pointed at Zhou Leng and then at the big tree. He rolled his eyes, his tongue hanging out of his mouth, and fell to the ground, his four legs shaking as if he had been electrocuted.

Then, Dahuang stood up, put his two front paws on the tree again, smiled flatteringly again, and shook his little butt and tail wildly.

After a long while, a gust of wind blew, and the snowy leaves of the giant frost tree swayed gently.

A little bit of white light fell from the snowflakes and leaves, slowly drifting towards Zhou Leng and Dahuang.

A small half fell on Dahuang, and a large half fell on Zhou Leng's head and disappeared.

Dahuang let out an excited humming sound from his throat, rolled and rubbed himself hard at the roots of the tree, then rushed out madly, running back and forth.

After running for a while, it stood up, stretched out its two front paws, put them together, and rocked back and forth, worshiping the giant frost tree.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Leng slowly opened his eyes, an expression of disbelief appearing on his face.

I glanced down at my abdomen, and my stomach felt as if it was being clenched with a fist, and I felt a strong sense of hunger.

Suppress the hunger, close your eyes again and look inward, observing your Qi.

The Xuanchao true qi, which had not changed for half a year, broke through two levels from the original small level.

The third level of minor achievement.

Zhou Leng looked around.

Is this a magical city in a spiritual place?
But why is there no spiritual light as described in the book?
Zhou Leng stood up and looked around carefully, but had no clue. Could it be another world?
Dahuang looked at Zhou Leng happily, sat on the ground with his tongue sticking out, and swayed his tail from side to side, making crackling sounds on the ground.

Zhou Leng thought about it, opened his backpack, took out compressed biscuits and sausages, and gave Dahuang a sausage and half a bottle of water.

In just a few bites, Zhou Leng finished all the food he brought and drank all the water.

The hunger didn't lessen at all.

This time, the feeling of hunger was stronger than before.

Dahuang lay on Zhou Leng and used his right front paw to pull at Zhou Leng's hand.

"Still want to eat?"

Dahuang nodded vigorously.

"Gone."

"Woo..." Dahuang cried out angrily, and walked around the backpack, sniffing constantly, but did not reach out to grab anything.

Zhou Jing thought calmly.

"Let's go home."

He glanced around and strode towards the woods with his backpack on his back.

Da Huang turned his head to look at the giant frost tree and called out twice.

"Wang Wang..."

The breeze blows, and the snowflakes and leaves sway gently, which is beautiful.

Zhou Leng looked at Da Huang in confusion, then looked at the giant frost tree.

Dahuang quickly turned around, shook his head and tail and rushed out, rushing in front of Zhou Leng.

Walking into the forest again, Zhou Leng's eyes moved slightly.

This time, I didn't feel any cold.

The trees on the road remained the same, and there were no cracks in the ground.

What I saw before I fell into a coma was more like a hallucination.

Passing through the cracks in the rocks, shrouded in mist, we see Ruge Mountain again.

I still didn't feel cold, and even felt stuffy, so I took off my jacket.

Zhou Leng stood there, thinking silently.

Finally, he sighed.

"What if that unknown world is a monster's lair..."

Zhou Leng was hesitating when a huge white shadow of a giant frost tree flashed across his eyes.

He blinked, confused.

"What were you thinking about just now?"

Gululu...

Zhou Leng touched his belly.

"walk home!"

"Woof!" Dahuang responded loudly.

After walking a few steps, Zhou Leng took out his cell phone, but there was no signal, so he suddenly stopped.

Da Huang raised his head and looked at Zhou Leng with watery eyes.

The time is displayed on the mobile phone screen.

5: 23.

7 month 8 day.

I entered in the evening and came out in the early morning, and actually stayed in the mysterious forest of the unknown world for the whole night.

Zhou Leng pondered for a moment, lowered his head and touched the big yellow dog's head, then went down the mountain and returned to Xiaoru Village.

The mountain village was quiet in the early morning. The old man who got up early was very happy to see Dahuang coming back, and Dahuang also jumped up and down excitedly.

There was a signal in the village, and Zhou Leng sent a voice message to Li Linhan to let him know he was safe.

"Well, let's go home for dinner." Li Linhan only said one sentence.

(End of this chapter)