Luo Xiu stepped into the sphere of influence of the Cang Lin Palace with uncertainty about the future. However, as soon as he entered the area, Luo Xiu was surprised. This was because the area was strangely quiet. It was too quiet, so quiet that it was frightening. Even with the help of the system, Luo Xiu found that there were no living creatures within a radius of 100,000 kilometers. Whether it was humans, ordinary demon beasts, or even some insects, they had all disappeared. Such a strange place made Luo Xiu wary.
It was too abnormal. The environment here was frighteningly quiet. Not only was there no human presence, but there were no traces of battle left behind in this area. Such a strange situation was definitely abnormal.
After all, this place was close to the Cang Lin Palace. According to Luo Xiu's knowledge, there were originally millions of human cultivators living in this area. Now, there was not a single human cultivator. How could such a strange situation not make him vigilant? It should be known that the people living in the vicinity of the Cang Lin Palace were not ordinary people. They were the descendants of the top experts of the Cang Lin Palace. Many of them had already formed aristocratic families of cultivators. Although their cultivation was not necessarily comparable to the official disciples of the Cang Lin Palace, their cultivation was not much weaker than some of the smaller sects. In order to destroy such a huge force, there must be a battle. Once a cultivator attacked, whether it was in the air or the environment, there would be traces left behind. However, when Luo Xiu entered the forest, what he saw was almost the opposite of what he had imagined. The surrounding environment was preserved very well. Those towering trees that reached into the clouds did not suffer any damage. This was very strange.
All of this indicated that the situation here was somewhat strange. Luo Xiu even guessed that there was no problem with the Cang Lin Palace at all. The strange situation he saw was deliberately created by someone. Even the destruction of the Cang Lin Palace was fake news released by someone else.
However, when he looked into the depths of the forest, he rejected his own unreliable speculation. Clearly, there was something else going on here, something he did not know about, that had wiped out all life.
Otherwise, there was no way to explain everything that he had seen. No matter how powerful the Grand Elders of the Cold Winter Palace were, it was impossible for them to have done this. They had silently killed everyone and let all the plants go. This made Luo Xiu feel inexplicably horrified. In such a quiet environment, Luo Xiu could even hear his heart beating faster. This made Luo Xiu feel an inexplicable sense of vigilance. He was very sure that behind the destruction of the Cold Winter Palace, there was definitely an inside story that he did not know about.
Luo Xiu moved forward carefully. He knew very well what he was going to face next. Therefore, he was especially careful with every step he took. To him, if it was not for the persistence in his heart and the fact that he had the system to help him monitor danger at all times, he would not have dared to step into this strange area so recklessly.
Within a radius of tens of thousands of miles around the Cang Lin Palace, there was no sign of life. Luo Xiu did not believe that the other forces would not be curious about such a terrifying scene. However, this was already the eighteenth day he had entered the territory of the Cang Lin Palace and he had not seen a single person. Such a strange situation clearly told Luo Xiu that this place was not safe. Luo Xiu even guessed that it was not that no one dared to come here to look for opportunities, but that the people who came here had already been killed. This made Luo Xiu have a bad feeling.
Luo Xiu believed that with the strength of the Cang Lin Technique, since Laozi had already been destroyed, the remaining opportunities would definitely attract the crazy attention of the Loose Practitioners. However, along the way, not only had he not seen a single Loose Practitioner, but there were also many ordinary people within a radius of millions of miles. How could such a strange situation not make him vigilant?
Putting everything else aside, Luo Xiu believed that those rogue cultivators would be like sharks that smelled blood. They would come to the Cang Lin Palace one after another in search of opportunities. There were definitely many people who had the same idea as him. However, Luo Xiu was extremely surprised. Within the Cang Lin Palace's sphere of influence, not a single rogue cultivator had appeared here. There were no traces of human activity within hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Under such a strange situation, Luo Xiu simply did not dare to imagine what kind of existence could make these selfish Loose Practitioners of this world give up such a huge fortune like the Cang Lin Palace. It was obvious that there was a huge danger here and there was even a dangerous existence that could annihilate everything.
The surroundings were quiet. Luo Xiu flew carefully in the air. He did not dare to land in this incomparably quiet forest. For him at this moment, any risk had to be minimized. Only by standing on a high ground could he look down on everything below. At the same time, he also raised the vigilance of the System in his mind to monitor the surroundings for him. If there were any unforeseen circumstances, Luo Xiu would be able to react in time.
Just like this, Luo Xiu had not flown more than a hundred miles when he felt his entire body turn cold. All the hair on his body stood on end and his pores opened instantly. It was as if he was lacking in oxygen and his body could not move half a step forward. At this moment, his entire body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. Large beads of cold sweat slid down his face rapidly. In such a terrifying situation, Luo Xiu did not dare to be negligent. He hurriedly activated the Lunar Scripture and controlled the Primordial Purple Qi in his body to release energy to envelop his Primordial Spirit and resist the terrifying pressure from all over his body.
However, what was even more frightening was that Luo Xiu discovered that his entire body was rapidly stiffening. Even the energy in his body was unable to expel this coldness. If not for the Primordial Purple Qi protecting his Primordial Spirit, Luo Xiu would have been able to maintain his movements. At this moment, Luo Xiu would have already turned into an ice sculpture and fallen from the sky.
Even so, Luo Xiu still felt very uncomfortable. For Luo Xiu, this scene in front of him was something he had never experienced before. Even when he was at his weakest, he had never experienced this. This bone-chilling coldness almost made Luo Xiu lose control of the Lunar Scripture in his body. Luo Xiu could feel the energy circulation in his body becoming slower and slower. He could not help but shake his head with a bitter smile. No matter how heaven-defying the Lunar Scripture was, it was still powerless in the face of such a strange situation.
Luo Xiu forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart. He bit the tip of his tongue and no longer held back. He rapidly increased the energy in his body and flew away from this area at an even faster speed. When he had completely retreated a hundred kilometers, he let out a long sigh of relief. Now, the energy in his body was operating normally. If it were not for the wet clothes on his body, Luo Xiu would have thought that he had just had a nightmare.
However, the ice shards on his clothes showed everything that he had experienced earlier. To Luo Xiu at this very moment, the scene that had happened before his eyes was too shocking, to the extent that he simply did not dare to believe that he would encounter such a situation.
It should be known that even with his powerful cultivation and terrifying physical body, he had almost been frozen on the spot, let alone others. Thinking of this, Luo Xiu finally understood why no one dared to approach this area. It turned out that the root of everything was this strange invisible icy force field.
It would be a lie to say that Luo Xiu was not curious at this moment. However, when he thought of his previous experience, Luo Xiu forcibly suppressed his curiosity. The area in front of him was really too terrifying. If he had not acted quickly and with the help of the Innate Hong Meng Immortal Qi, he would have been a dead man by now.
Resisting the violent trembling of his body and the bone-piercing cold, Luo Xiu forcibly controlled the Lunar True Scripture to expel the bone-piercing cold in his body bit by bit. At this moment, his face was full of lingering fear.
Luo Xiu was extremely clear in his heart that if he did not have some trump cards, he would already be a dead man. Such a frightening coldness was actually able to freeze everything. Even the system in his mind was helpless in the face of such a strange cold energy. In Luo Xiu's opinion, this was somewhat inconceivable.
Most of the time, Luo Xiu could rely on the system to expel any negative state in his body. However, this time, the system did not respond at all. This made Luo Xiu realize what he had experienced just now!
Slowly exhaling, Luo Xiu suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the area in the distance with a dignified expression. When he approached just now, he seemed to have triggered the strange force field there, causing an iceberg to form around him. Such a terrifying scene was simply horrifying. Looking at the lifelike frozen trees of various colors, Luo Xiu was somewhat fearful at this moment.
It couldn't be helped. The scene just now had a huge impact on Luo Xiu, making him even more vigilant. It was also at this moment that Luo Xiu came to a realization. He roughly understood why there were no signs of human habitation within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers. It turned out that everything was happening in the huge strange area he had just experienced.
Looking at the area in the distance, Luo Xiu couldn't help but secretly exclaim. What kind of heaven-defying method was it to be able to set up a strange area that could freeze all things? Although Luo Xiu also thought that it was a kind of formation, he didn't feel any abnormality in the flow of Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi. This was something he didn't notice at all. It was also the real reason why he was almost killed on the spot by this strange icy power.
"System, what the hell were those things just now?
Why were they so terrifying?
Even with my current physical strength, I was almost frozen by this bone-piercing cold on the spot. Just what is this thing that could be so terrifying? Also, why didn't you give me any warning before? Could it be that this strange region is really caused by the Extraterrestrial Demons? Why do I feel that it's a little strange? Also, system, do you have any way of investigating the depths? I suspect that my uncle-master, Supreme Hao Yue, is also trapped in this region! "
Wiping away the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead, Luo Xiu slowly opened his eyes. At the same time, he could not help but ask the system in his mind.
At this moment, Luo Xiu was actually somewhat alarmed. The scene just now was too dangerous and had almost taken his life. Even with Luo Xiu's willpower, he still felt some lingering fear from the dangerous situation just now. After all, Luo Xiu himself was an existence at the peak of the Saint Realm. His physical strength had even reached the limit of what he could achieve. Compared to those supreme emperors, Luo Xiu's physical strength was even stronger than some cultivators at the Soul King Realm. But in that strange environment just now, he had actually been unable to prevent himself from being frozen. How could he not feel cold in such a terrifying situation?
At this moment, when Luo Xiu thought of the scene just now, he still felt a chill all over his body. His whole body was abnormally cold and his spirit was not right. For him, this was a very rare situation.
Even in the thousands of years that he had cultivated, such a terrifying scene had never happened before. Luo Xiu had never experienced that kind of powerless feeling of freezing everything in the blink of an eye. Now, he was still feeling lingering fear and did not want to experience that kind of scene again.
Previously, he was still interested in some of the things left behind by the Cold Palace. But now, he was worried about the safety of Supreme Hao Yue. Since entering this area, Luo Xiu had tried to get in touch with Supreme Hao Yue, but to no avail. One must know that Supreme Hao Yue had arrived here many days before him. Now, he could not get in touch with him at all. Who knew where he was trapped now? Even Luo Xiu had a bad feeling. If Supreme Hao Yue were to perish, where would he go? At this moment, Luo Xiu could not help but fall into deep thought.
Luo Xiu couldn't help but feel slightly fortunate when he thought of his experience from before. If it wasn't for his reaction being sufficiently timely, coupled with a little bit of luck, and the Primordial Violet Qi in his mind that protected his soul, Luo Xiu would probably have been left there completely at this moment and become an ice sculpture. Even if the most horrifying situation hadn't occurred, he still felt extreme fear at this moment, and it was even to the extent that he was slightly frightened. At this moment, he was even hesitating in his heart about whether he should continue going deeper and investigate exactly what sort of monstrous secrets were hidden there.
At the same time, Luo Xiu even suspected that the destruction of the Cold Palace was inextricably linked to this strange coldness. Otherwise, there was no way to explain everything that was happening in front of him. At this moment, Luo Xiu even guessed that all the Extraterritorial Demons that had descended in the Cold Palace in the entire Green Cloud Great World had fallen under the control of the Extraterritorial Demons. For example, the Extraterritorial Demons controlled the bodies of the living creatures in this world, crazily plundering the blood and Qi for them.
At this moment, even Luo Xiu was frightened by his own guess. There was no other way. If his guess was true, then it was too terrible. If it was really as he guessed, then he would be in big trouble. If the bodies of all the practitioners in the Cold Palace had been taken over by the Extraterritorial Demons, and even the disciples of the Cold Palace had all become the residence of the Extraterritorial Demons, the consequences would be really frightening.