Chapter 0490 Ice Cave
The thick snow has existed for eternity, as if it will never melt in the future.
Hundreds of spirit monsters and ordinary monsters fought for nearly a month and dug an ice cave three hundred feet deep, but they didn't even see the shadow of soil, let alone the demon relics they had been looking forward to for a long time.
King Jin stood on the high ground near the ice cave. The north wind was howling, and he was soon covered with a layer of snow. The air exhaled from his nostrils turned into ice when it met the snow, and it stuck to his mouth like a string of transparent beards - horses don't have beards, so this made him look a little funny.
"It's been a month, and I haven't seen the demon relics yet. If this continues, we will all die." King Jin said, snorting hard, shaking off the ice beard on his mouth.
A snow pillar beside him shook twice, revealing the dragon demon inside. Because of the cold, her cheeks were a little red, but her smile was still clever and bright, "Don't worry, if the demon relics were so easy to find, they wouldn't have been left until now, right?"
"If we could use magic, we would have dug the hole to the end long ago." King Jin moved his two front hooves. He had a lot of divine power and various supernatural powers, but he couldn't use them.
"There's no way. The demons' things are more or less spiritual. They stay underground alone for a long time and don't like to be disturbed. Magic will scare them away."
King Jin has seen some demon relics, all of which are bones, ornaments, and armor. Although they have a wide range of uses, they don't show any spirituality. They are placed wherever they are and never move by themselves.
But King Jin just snorted softly and didn't argue. Among the entire team, only the dragon demon can detect the location of the demon relics - at least that's what she claimed - except to continue digging the hole, no one can judge whether her words are accurate or not.
A Tanyang spirit demon clumsily climbed out of the three-meter-diameter cave, facing the wind and snow, and walked towards a snow house with difficulty. He was too tired and needed to rest for a while.
"You should let everyone turn into human form, make some tools, and cooperate with each other, so that digging holes will be faster."
"No." King Jin refused bluntly. He had his own principles. Unless necessary, he would never turn into a human form. Spirit demons were spirit demons, and they would always maintain the form of their ancestors.
The dragon demon shrugged his shoulders and did not continue to persuade the stubborn King Jin. "I have a hunch that there will be a miracle today. Call me if you dig something. I want to go..." The dragon demon yawned loudly.
There is a circle of snow houses built around the ice cave. Half of these snow houses are on the ground and the other half are underground, which is a typical demon style.
There was already a person in the snow house that the dragon demon walked into, the only human in a group of demons.
Yang Qingyin stared at the pure white wall in a daze, as if thinking about an extremely complex and puzzling problem.
Dragon Demon walked over and gently pressed Yang Qingyin's shoulders with both hands, "Are you thinking about the past again?"
"No, memories give me a headache, I just feel... as if someone is digging a big hole in my heart, digging deeper and deeper, but can't dig to the end."
"You are tired, you stayed in the cave for three days last time, don't work so hard, everything is still in time." Dragon Demon pushed Yang Qingyin to the bed and asked her to sit down.
The so-called bed is a slightly higher snow platform, covered with a layer of hay and a whole bear skin.
Yang Qingyin still looked absent-minded, muttering: "I must do something, otherwise I will think more, and the hole in my heart will be deeper."
"Sleep, no thoughts, no matter who dug the hole in your heart, it will eventually end, sleep..."
Yang Qingyin closed her eyes, leaned on Dragon Demon's shoulder, and her breathing gradually became steady and slow.
Dragon Demon helped Yang Qingyin lie on the animal skin, stood up and stared at her for a while, his expression was as gentle as water, as if he was watching his child fall asleep, "It is always lucky to have a real heart, even if it has a big hole dug in it."
Dragon Demon walked to the door quietly, half of his body was exposed, looking at the back of King Jin and the ice cave that was still being dug, raised his right hand and pressed his heart, and after a moment, her palm, clothes and flesh became transparent, revealing a crystal heart, which was different from the heart of a living person, and it would not beat.
Dragon Demon never looked at her heart from beginning to end. After a long time, she put down her arm and her heart returned to normal, "It's time to end." She said, stepping on the steps to walk out of the snow house, and the moment she entered the ice and snow, she disappeared, and a few shallow footprints quickly appeared on the snow, and were soon covered by the wind and snow.
The whole camp was unaware of this.
King Jin was concentrating on the ice cave in front of him. His muscles were tensed and he had a clear premonition in his heart. This premonition came not only from good expectations, but also from the slight tremor coming from deep under the snow.
The tremor was very regular, like the breathing of a sleeping person. King Jin unconsciously kept pace with it, and his premonition became stronger and stronger. He could no longer bear it and was about to run to the cave entrance when a monster jumped out.
The beast monster Lao Zhuang did not crawl out by himself, and he could not fly. He was thrown out by other monsters. He fell to the ground with a bang, turned over, and his face was full of ecstasy.
"I dug it up." Lao Zhuang said to King Jin, his voice was a little trembling.
"I dug it up! Haha, damn it, I finally dug it up!" Lao Zhuang roared, shaking the surrounding snow houses to drop large pieces of wall skin.
The monsters who were resting ran out and gathered at the cave entrance.
"What did you find? Bones or armor?" King Jin was the first to run to the cave entrance. He looked down and saw many demons walking towards him along the spiral steps on the cave wall. Dozens of winged spirits flew at the top. They all had smiles on their faces, but they didn't dare to make loud noises. They had been reminded many times to be careful in the cave and not to disturb the buried things.
Lao Zhuang turned around several times, stood still and said, "I don't know, but it's a big one anyway."
King Jin's heart settled down. The most important ingredient of the demon pill was finally available. He saw the light, and the whole spirit demon clan also had hope.
The demons in the cave came up one after another, all relieved, but no one could tell what they had dug up. They had been ordered to come out immediately after finding the demon relics and not to dig without permission.
The last one to come up was a stallion with a golden tail. It was covered with ice chips and walked a little unsteadily. It came to King Jin and nodded majestically, "We dug it up. It seems to be a complete set of armor. Please go down and check it out, King Jin." King Jin also nodded and turned to look for the dragon demon among the monsters. She was an expert and could recognize the type of demon relics at a glance, but the dragon demon was not there, and the only human Yang Qingyin was not there either. They might still be resting and did not hear Lao Zhuang's cry. King Jin jumped and flew above the cave entrance, "Please wait for me here. I think we have succeeded this time, but don't make too much noise before we completely dig out the demon relics." More than 300 monsters were waiting around the cave entrance. Although they remained silent, they all looked happy. For a whole month, they starved in the desolate snowy area. The snow almost never stopped, and their excavation work never stopped. They could not cast magic or use too much force. They just dug little by little, all for this moment. "We have dug out the things, should we let go?" said the beast demon Lao Zhuang. He had lowered his voice, but it still spread far away and all the demons could hear it.
There were more than 200 spirit demons and more than 100 ordinary demons at the scene. The latter were captives who were taken all the way from Pangshan to here. They all regarded this excavation as their last task.
None of the spirit demons spoke. Lao Zhuang, who was tall, looked around at the demons and continued, "Give me a word. It took more than a month to walk from Pangshan to here, and another month to dig the hole. Every day I was given a piece of dried meat and a few balls of snow, which is worse than the treatment of human slaves. I've had enough."
"And we can't go north anymore." A demon soldier captive behind Lao Zhuang said, with a trace of fear on his monkey-like face, "I heard that there are some evil things in the north, and the demons there are fleeing to the south."
Lao Zhuang frowned and kicked the demon soldier away. He was A real demon would not accept lies even if they were useful to him. "Nonsense, isn't it just some 'Ice King'? That's all a story made up by the snow demon. They can't beat other tribes, and they are too embarrassed to admit it, so they said there is something strange in the north. Bullshit, we are demons, we are 'evil things', what's so scary about that?"
Lao Zhuang is big and has a bad temper. He often fights when he is a captive. No demon soldier dares to argue with him. The spirit demons don't know the rumors about the demons, nor do they care much. They still keep silent and strictly follow the orders of King Jin.
Lao Zhuang walked towards a Tanyang spirit monster with huge horns. This spirit monster was very old and was one of King Jin's right-hand men. "Are you going to let us go or not? We didn't cause any trouble along the way. We used all our strength when digging the hole. You should give us a clear answer whether to kill or let us go."
Tanyang glanced at the spirit monsters around. They had an absolute advantage. Not only were they more numerous, but they were also more powerful. "The monsters can go, but the demon pills must be left behind."
Not all demons can produce demon pills. After leaving Pangshan, the spirit monsters went north all the way, catching and releasing some on the way. Now, all the 100 captives have demon pills without exception.
Lao Zhuang was a beast demon, born with a demon pill. Hearing this, he subconsciously held his left wrist with his right hand - the wrist bone was his demon pill, "No, hand over the demon pill, won't we all become fools?"
Tan Yang Ling Yao said with resentment: "You forced us to eat the demon pill, and you stopped supplying it. Now that we have the demon relics and demon pills, we can make the demon pills ourselves."
Lao Zhuang raised his hand and scratched his short, thick and messy hair inexplicably, "When did we force you?"
"You are the subordinates of the Giant Demon King. You have to take responsibility for what he did."
"I can take responsibility, but I will never hand over the demon pill unless you kill me." Lao Zhuang clenched his fists.
Tan Yang Ling Yao used one of his front hooves to dig twice on the snow. Although he had dug an ice cave together, he still hated the ordinary demons and didn't mind killing them.
The joyful atmosphere disappeared instantly, and the two groups of demons stared at each other, and a life-and-death battle was about to begin.
King Jin suddenly rushed out of the ice cave, stood in the air, and looked at all the monsters, not noticing the tense confrontation between the two sides, "There is a demon at the bottom of the cave."
"What demon?" Lao Zhuang asked, even if he was killed, he wanted to know what he had dug out with great effort.
"A whole demon, wearing armor, and the body has not rotted yet." King Jin looked around, "Where is the dragon demon? Find her quickly, this demon is a bit weird."