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Chapter 266 You face the snow, I face the world

Inside the culvert, Chen Xu summoned another shower of rain.

As a light rain fell upon this magnificent world of ice and snow, Chen Xu concluded his transmission of the Dharma.

The little snow spirit cried and jumped in the rain, even scooping up rainwater with its icy hands and eating it.

She tilted her head back, ecstatic, and said, "So sweet...so sweet, I love it. Brother Chen, will you stay and make rain for me to eat every day?"

"You can have all the snow I have here."

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Chen Xu smiled slightly and said, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Didn't you want to learn magic? Have you learned it yet?"

"How about I use this water method to exchange for some snow from the previous year?"

The little snow sprite laughed crisply in the drizzle, saying, "We promised you could eat all the snow here, ya ya ya, hee hee hee..."

Chen Xu was not greedy. He simply put two fingers of his right hand together and gently tapped them from a distance, instantly taking out one snowball from each of the piles of snowballs at the cave entrance.

Snow that lasts a hundred years, snow that lasts a thousand years, snow that lasts ten thousand years... each clump looks as big as a millstone.

This may seem like a lot, but compared to the entire snowdrift, it's really nothing.

Only the following year's snow, Chen Xu collected more; the melted snowballs were enough to fill a bucket.

He remotely collected all the snow into the kitchen, and the little snow spirit tilted its head to look at him.

Chen Xu cupped his hands in greeting and smiled, "It is truly a serendipitous encounter that we meet today. Fellow Daoist Snow Spirit is gathered from the snow-covered mountains and rivers, while I am about to depart for the mortal world."

Farewell, and I hope we will meet again someday.

Little Snow Spirit seemed to understand what he was saying, and a slight hesitation appeared on her face.

Before she could say anything more, Chen Xu, carrying a willow basket on his back and a spirit pouch at his waist, suddenly stepped into the Netherworld.

Borrowing a path from the netherworld!

His figure immediately disappeared into the strange and magnificent snow cave.

The little snow spirit was completely taken aback. She stood there stunned for a moment before suddenly realizing something and hurriedly ran towards the spot where the sunlight was shining through the snow cave.

Sunlight streamed in there, and a huge opening in the cave ceiling connected it to the changing seasons of the outside world.

The little snow spirit let out a few shrieks, then leaped out of the giant hole like a wisp of snow mist.

She cried out, "Brother Chen... Ah ah ah!"

His tone was melancholy and bewildered, and there seemed to be a sob in his voice.

Chen Xu only appeared in her life for a short time, but this brief encounter seemed to add countless colors to her life.

She hoped Chen Xu could stay by her side, not want him to vanish into the snow like the Empress.

"Ah, waah..." The little snow spirit leaped out of the deep cave and stood halfway up the mountain. She didn't cry, but she was very sad.

Halfway up the mountain, a waterfall creates a thunderous roar.

The roar of water echoed around the icy pool, and the little snow spirit was currently standing on the west side of the pool.

On the east side, a sika deer and a rabbit demon were carefully picking green needle grass.

Although the sword insects that accompanied the Jade Needle Grass had all disappeared, the two little demons still picked the spiritual grass very cautiously and slowly.

This is because the Emerald Needle Grass itself also contains a few sword energies like sharp needles. The two little demons are not very powerful, so they naturally have to be extra careful.

They picked slowly, while worrying about Chen Xu who had gone to the summit.

The two demons were discussing, "That person went to Jade Cold Peak. What if he encountered...that person?"

The one they were referring to was naturally the Snow Spirit who had been guarding the mountaintop year-round. The two little demons didn't even dare to call the Snow Spirit by her name, because wherever the Snow Spirit went, an area within a hundred feet could be frozen.

The bone-chilling cold contained within is so intense that even small demons with some magical power would usually be unable to withstand it, let alone ordinary wild beasts in the mountains.

The two demons were grateful that Chen Xu hadn't picked all the Emerald Needle Grass, but had left some behind, and were naturally worried about him now.

Unexpectedly, just as they were talking, they suddenly felt a bone-chilling cold.

The rabbit demon shuddered and hurriedly turned around. Upon seeing it, she immediately jumped up on the spot: "Ahhh! It's...it's Snow Goddess! Run! Sister Deer, run!"

The rabbit demon moves swiftly, as the saying goes, "moving like a rabbit," which is used to describe someone who is extremely fast.

From the moment the little rabbit demon saw the snow spirit to the moment it leaped dozens of feet away, all these changes and transitions happened in the blink of an eye.

The sika deer immediately realized what was happening and cried out in fright, "Ah—!"

In an instant, rabbits ran and deer galloped.

The sika deer is also very fast; it runs and leaps, almost using all its strength to chase after the white rabbit ahead.

For a moment, its afterimage lingered in the air.

Even at such a rapid pace, it dared not slacken in the slightest.

Three emerald needle grasses remained by the cold pool, but the two demons had no desire to pick any more.

They were only concerned with fleeing for their lives, wanting to get as far away from the chill behind them as possible.

Until they could no longer feel the chill behind them, they finally dared to stop for a moment.

The white rabbit collapsed to the ground, exhausted, while the sika deer gasped in alarm, clinging tightly to the cliff and looking back.

But below the cliff, beside the cold pool, the Snow Spirit was nowhere to be seen.

The other party's appearance was like a dream, arriving without warning and leaving without a trace.

The white rabbit said with lingering fear, "The Snow Goddess really did come to the edge of the Cold Pool! They said the Snow Goddess sometimes comes to the Cold Pool, and it's absolutely true..."

The sika deer was still shaken, and it sighed, saying:

"I'm afraid that person really did go up Jade Cold Peak and alarmed Snow Lady. Snow Lady may have come to the Cold Pool to chase after him."

Hopefully, the Snow Goddess hasn't caught up with him, otherwise... otherwise he might turn into a snow sculpture too.

The two little demons were unaware that the little snow spirit before them was not the "Snow Lady" they had been talking about.

The "Snow Goddess" had long since vanished into the vast snow-capped peaks along with the passing years. The little snow spirit that appears now can only be considered a snow spirit maiden.

Little Snow Spirit naturally doesn't possess the same destructive power as Snow Goddess.

Otherwise, whether Chen Xu could escape unscathed after climbing Jade Cold Peak is truly an unknown.

Most of the demons in the Lingxi Mountains know the legend of "Snow Lady" and know that Jade Cold Peak is a forbidden area that must not be entered lightly.

The sika deer and the white rabbit could never have imagined that Chen Xu had not only gone to Jade Cold Peak, but also to the bottom of the Cold Pool—

The snow-white cave that Chen Xu had previously visited with the little snow spirit was actually the bottom of the cold pool.

Chen Xu's final departure via the Netherworld was a stroke of genius.

In fact, if he had stayed in that cave a little longer, his meridians and spirit would have been at risk of being frostbitten.

Even though Chen Xu had only stayed in the cave for a short while, after leaving through the Netherworld, he suddenly sensed something was amiss.

Chen Xu used the Netherworld as a passage to leave the cave and appeared in a small mountain valley thirty miles away from the Cold Pool.

He stepped out of the dark, shadowy world and into the sunlight, but suddenly felt a chill.

(End of this chapter)