Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Bang… … … …

Xia Hong's veins were still bulging all over his body.

He had no idea how many punches he had thrown, only that his hands alternated, constantly restraining the Snow Mane, preventing it from getting up.

Despite the Snow Mane's enormous body, over twenty meters long, looking quite terrifying, its strength was clearly a level below Xia Hong's, causing it to be unable to break free from Xia Hong no matter how it struggled.

Several times it almost flipped over, but Xia Hong forcibly twisted it back.

Bang… … Bang… … Crack… …

After a few more consecutive punches, a crisp sound of bone shattering rang out.

Xia Hong looked at the Snow Mane's right arm joint, his gaze instantly focusing.

He had been hitting the same spot just now, and after so many consecutive punches, the area around the Snow Mane's right arm joint was already a bloody mess.

Beneath the blurred flesh and blood, the jade-colored bone was clearly visible.

He had been clamping down on the Snow Mane, refusing to let go, because the opponent's resistance and struggling power had not decreased from beginning to end, maintaining an extremely high intensity.

Having dealt with cold beasts, Xia Hong could be considered a veteran.

Since the opponent's struggling power did not decrease, it meant that his punches just now had only suppressed it and had not caused any actual damage.

But after the sound of bone shattering rang out, Xia Hong clearly felt that the Snow Mane's struggling power immediately decreased by about twenty percent.

“Bones are the key!”

A fierce look flashed in Xia Hong's eyes.

Realizing the crux of the problem, he took the broken knife he had been holding in his mouth into his hand while he still had a chance to attack.

“Roar… … … …”

Realizing that the strength in Xia Hong's hand had weakened, the Snow Mane, lying on the ground, had a fierce glint in its eyes.

Seizing the opportunity, it let out an angry roar and suddenly flipped over and stood up.

Having finally stood up, it did not waste time.

While spitting out nine long tongues, its enormous body, like a mountain range, came crashing down on Xia Hong with overwhelming force.

Pfft… … … …

The nine long tongues successfully entangled Xia Hong.

Just as a bloodthirsty smile had appeared on the Snow Mane's enormous face, it instantly froze, accompanied by the sound of tearing flesh.

Xia Hong held the broken knife straight, sprinting forward like a cannonball, pulling on its nine long tongues, directly pressing against its right shoulder.

The broken knife was fiercely inserted into the pile of blurred flesh and blood of its right forelimb.

“Roar… … … …”

The Snow Mane obviously realized something, letting out an angry roar.

The nine long tongues suddenly entangled and exerted force, like nine thick, icy giant pythons, almost completely wrapping Xia Hong's body, and then suddenly straightened.

Chih… … … …

“Damn, the power of those long tongues…”

“The leader is in danger, go help!”

“Take bows and shoot its eyes, save the leader!”

… … … …

Yu Wentao, Hong Guang, Meng Yi, Yue Feng, and the more than two hundred people who had just fled from the wooden house all showed a worried look on their faces when they saw the long tongues completely wrapping Xia Hong.

They all roared and rushed towards the Snow Mane, scrambling to be the first.

With the strength of this advanced Snow Mane, they certainly knew that their help was just a drop in the bucket.

But Xia Hong was in danger!

They all rushed over without hesitation.

“Don’t come over!”

However, the next moment, Xia Hong's violent roar rang out from within the nine long tongues.

Everyone immediately stopped and looked at the Snow Mane with hope on their faces.

Crack… … … …

“Roar!”

The crisp sound of bone breaking rang out, and the Snow Mane let out a hysterical and violent roar.

The nine straightened long tongues loosened as if they had lost their strength.

As the long tongues loosened, Xia Hong's blood-soaked body appeared.

In fact, half of his body had been embedded into the flesh and blood inside the Snow Mane's shoulder.

The broken knife in his hand was inserted into the jade-colored bone under the flesh and blood.

Even though they were more than a hundred meters away, Yu Wentao and everyone else could see at a glance that there was a huge crack in the bone under the broken knife.

“The leader was deliberately entangled by it just now!”

“The target is the bone under the flesh on its shoulder.”

“A hundred-forged weapon can't even break through its flesh, how could it possibly break through its bones, this… … … …”

“The flesh on its shoulder has already been smashed by the leader, and the bone underneath should have already had cracks.

The leader's action of sticking to its body just now was to find the bone seam and insert the broken knife into it.”

Hearing Yue Feng's explanation, Yu Wentao suddenly understood, looking at Xia Hong, he clenched his fists slightly, his eyes filled with admiration.

And after speaking, two words instantly popped into Yue Feng's mind:

Strength!

Xia Hong's grasp of timing and his extreme sense of hunting opportunities were certainly important, but the most crucial thing was strength.

He could use brute force to break through the Snow Mane's flesh and bones, and his skin had enough defensive ability to withstand the strangulation of the nine long tongues.

This was the key to Xia Hong being able to do what he had done.

If someone else came, even if their combat sense was stronger than Xia Hong's, they would not be able to do it if they didn't have enough strength.

“Heh… … Ah… … … …”

The crowd's astonishment was interrupted by Xia Hong's violent roar.

Everyone looked up, their gazes instantly becoming extremely horrified.

Xia Hong held the broken knife and pulled it back fiercely.

“Crack… … … …”

The Snow Mane's body was more than twenty meters long, and its right forelimb was more than ten meters above the ground.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a towering pillar, and Xia Hong's battle had been hanging in the high sky, so everyone could see it so clearly.

The broken knife in Xia Hong's hand was only seventy centimeters long.

Compared to the Snow Mane's body, it could be said to be insignificant.

But it was this insignificant broken knife that actually cut off the bone under the Snow Mane's right forelimb.

Chih… … … …

An amazing scene appeared.

After the Snow Mane's bone was cut off, thick smoke billowed out, but the smoke was neither white nor black, but green like the bone.

Swoosh… … … …

Once the bone was broken, the connection between the Snow Mane's right forelimb and body was only half flesh and blood, almost hanging in front of its chest.

How could this little blurred flesh and blood be able to withstand Xia Hong's knife?

Xia Hong's eyes were fierce, and he suddenly jumped up, falling from mid-air, and the broken knife in his hand slashed out a strong blade, directly cutting off the surrounding flesh along the broken bone.

Bang… … … …

The Snow Mane's right forelimb crashed to the ground, making a loud noise, the green smoke rippled, and the Snow Mane's wail after its arm was broken followed closely behind.

“Roar… … … …”

This roar no longer had the arrogant aura it had just had.

The Snow Mane looked at Xia Hong at this moment, its pupils filled with fear and panic.

Its eyes began to flicker, and it showed an obvious intention to retreat.

“Want to run, it’s not that easy!”

How could Xia Hong hide the retreat in the Snow Mane’s eyes?

Ignoring the broken knife in his hand, he rushed towards the Snow Mane’s left forelimb.

The intention to repeat the old trick was obvious!

This time, the Snow Mane did not dare to be careless.

Not only did it quickly retract its nine long tongues, but its body also retreated frantically, not giving Xia Hong a chance to get close.

Chih… … … …

At the same time, a strange sound came from the Snow Mane’s body, and its head, limbs, and body began to shrink frantically.

In just three or four breaths, its enormous body returned to its original length of more than one meter, except that its severed right forelimb was still missing.

Xia Hong pounced in vain.

Seeing the Snow Mane return to a one-meter size, his pupils condensed slightly, and he turned to look at the severed arm on the ground.

Sure enough, the severed arm had also shrunk to a few tens of centimeters, exactly the same as the Snow Mane’s current size.

“Miniature is its normal form, expansion is the combat state!”

As this thought flashed through Xia Hong’s mind, the Snow Mane had already turned into a black light and ran towards the arrow bamboo forest to the south.

Xia Hong quickly got up and chased after it, but after chasing out only a hundred meters, he looked up and his expression immediately condensed.

After hesitating for a moment, he stopped.

Although the beast tide in the arrow bamboo forest to the south had subsided, there were still sporadic cold beasts passing through.

Just now, he had taken advantage of the thinning of the beast tide to cross the arrow bamboo forest to reach Jinggu.

At that time, he was still a little palpitation in his heyday, and it was not certain whether he would have such good luck if he passed again now.

“Leader!”

“Leader.”

… … … …

Seeing that the Snow Mane had already escaped, Yu Wentao, Yue Feng, and the others all gathered around at this moment, looking at Xia Hong, who was covered in blood, with some worry.

Crack… … … …

Xia Hong turned around, just as he was about to speak, the ceremonial knife in his hand, which was only one-third of its original length, directly shattered and fell to the ground, leaving only a hilt in his hand.

“Huff… … … …

Xia Hong threw away the hilt in his hand, looked back at everyone, and waved slightly:

“I’m fine, gather together and count the wounded.

Don’t run around before the beast tide passes.

I’ll stay here for the next few days.”

After speaking, Xia Hong walked directly to the side of the wooden house, picked up a piece of the Snow Mane’s severed arm from the ground, and jumped onto the roof.

Yu Wentao and the others looked at each other, and only after seeing Xia Hong jump onto the roof and apply golden sore medicine to himself did they breathe a sigh of relief.

“The leader should be fine, let’s count the wounded.

There should still be some people who haven’t died, go and save them quickly.”

“I’ll take people to treat the wounded, please count the casualties.”

“Okay.”

Yu Wentao and Yue Feng divided their work and each took a part of the people to start the aftermath.

… … … …

“Not only is the strength as high as ten manes, but it can also expand and double its body.

Whether it is the barbs on its back, or the nine long tongues, or even the wisdom, the combat talent is also far stronger than the intermediate and low levels.

This is the advanced Snow Mane, no wonder, no wonder even He Yuanhun has to cooperate with others to be qualified to hunt!”

Xia Hong, on the rooftop, pulled open his clothes, revealing his body covered in wounds. His face showed astonishment, and his eyes were filled with uncontrollable horror.

He won this battle, it's true.

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But the victory wasn't exactly glorious!

His current physical strength had reached twelve 'zong,' surpassing that of the advanced Snow Zong. With the advantage in strength, he had sustained so many injuries and still failed to keep the Snow Zong from escaping.

Xia Hong had a certain confidence in his combat talent.

Having lived two lives, the four routines of Changquan had practically become ingrained in his bones. Twelve 'zong' was just the base strength; coupled with techniques for force exertion, he knew very well that his instantaneous explosive power could exceed his physical limits by twenty percent.

In other words, he was actually facing the Snow Zong with the power of fourteen 'zong'.

To end up like this, with a strength advantage of more than forty percent over the Snow Zong...

This meant that, if their strengths were equal, he would most likely be unable to defeat the Snow Zong, and might even be killed…

“That's not right either. Without a suitable weapon, facing an advanced cold beast for the first time, and not understanding its characteristics, these were also decisive factors. Moreover, its speed wasn't particularly fast. If it hadn't fled towards the arrow bamboo forest, and I had continued to pursue it, the final result would have been hard to say!”

After making this combat summary in his mind, Xia Hong's brow relaxed slightly.

Although he had sustained quite a few injuries, they were mostly external. With his current physique, after applying Golden Wound Powder, he would probably recover in just over ten days.

To understand a portion of the strength of advanced cold beasts at such a small cost was definitely worth it. And the most important point was that Xia Hong had seen clearly where his limits truly lay.

Since breaking through the Cold Resistance level, except for the battle with He Yuanhun, Xia Hong had basically not had such a hearty and unrestrained battle.

This life-and-death struggle allowed him to regain some of the feeling he had when he was weak, hunting cold beasts in the wilderness.

This feeling captivated Xia Hong greatly, because he knew that every time such a feeling appeared, his combat experience would rapidly improve.

Ultimately, strength was a combination of cultivation realm and combat experience, and the two were indispensable. This was also the reason why Xia Hong was so fascinated by this kind of fighting.

“Of course, there's also one biggest gain… … … … ”

Xia Hong's eyes flickered slightly as he picked up the severed arm of the Snow Zong and began to examine it.

The meat of low-level cold beasts was azure blue, but because the blood was crimson green, the meat would appear slightly cyan before being peeled.

The meat of mid-level cold beasts was also blue, but because the blood was red, the meat would appear slightly purple before being peeled.

And the flesh at the joints of this severed arm presented a black color.

Xia Hong cut open the flesh with a knife, revealing a small section of cyan jade-colored bone inside, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

The meat of advanced cold beasts should still be blue, but due to the influence of the cyan bones and rose-red blood, the various colors mixed together, turning it black.

Xia Hong tore off a piece of flesh and put it directly into his mouth. After chewing it a few times, a flush of crimson appeared on his face, and his eyes immediately lit up.

“The difference between mid-level beast meat and low-level beast meat is only in the texture. This advanced beast meat, not only in texture, but also the energy contained in the meat far exceeds the previous two. This one bite is almost equivalent to a hundred pounds!”

That's right, the body of the advanced cold beast had become so small. If the meat was still the same as mid-level and low-level, it would obviously be unreasonable.

“However, ordinary Earth Digging Realm cultivators probably can't eat this meat. At least, they need to be at the limit of the Earth Digging Realm to withstand such a huge amount of energy.”

Xia Hong drew a dagger and cut off all the flesh from the severed arm, leaving only a section of cyan jade-colored bone that was more than sixty centimeters long.

“This… is less than half a pound, right?”

Slightly weighing the bone's unreasonable weight, amazement appeared in Xia Hong's eyes, along with a strange longing.

“This jade bone should be the key to cultivating at the Cold Resistance level!”

When he saw the bones inside the Snow Zong's body for the first time during the battle, Xia Hong realized this, but… … … …

“How should it be used?”

Xia Hong looked at the jade bone, his eyes full of confusion.

Beast meat could be eaten directly, and beast blood could be applied to the body.

Could this bone be chewed directly?

“Chief, the casualty count is out.”

Just as he was troubled, Yu Wentao and Yue Feng came onto the roof together.

Holding the jade bone, Xia Hong turned to look at the two and asked: “How many died?”

Yue Feng cupped his hands and said heavily: “128 people died, 12 of them were at the Earth Digging Realm, and the rest were members of the collection department. There are still 98 people injured, and more than a dozen seriously injured have been settled. We can't send them back for now, so we can only wait for the beast tide to subside.”

Beast tide subsiding.

Xia Hong immediately turned to look at Yu Wentao.

“Usually, each beast tide lasts about seven days. After seven days, a small number of cold beasts will gradually return to Redwood Ridge from the arrow bamboo forest during the day. As long as you are careful at night, crossing the arrow bamboo forest is not a big problem.”

Hearing Yu Wentao's answer, Xia Hong nodded first, then realized something, his expression suddenly stiffened, and he asked rhetorically: “A small number?”

Xia Hong had just crossed the arrow bamboo forest, taking advantage of the thinning of the beast tide to seize the opportunity to come over. But just from that moment, he could basically judge that the scale of this beast tide was at least eight or nine thousand, or even tens of thousands.

So many cold beasts migrated from Redwood Ridge to the arrow bamboo forest at the same time, and only a small number returned in the end. What did this mean?

Yu Wentao obviously knew what this meant as well, and nodded with a solemn expression:

“Indeed, it's a small number. We lived in the Boundary Valley for many years before, and experienced many beast tides, so we know very well that after each beast tide, at most one-third of them can return to Redwood Ridge, so… … ”

Xia Hong suddenly turned to look at the arrow bamboo forest on the south side, his gaze instantly becoming serious.

Each beast tide, tens of thousands of cold beasts passed by, and only one-third returned.

It should be known that this beast tide came with the maturity of the Ice Shuo tree.

Once every four months, three times a year.

In other words, after three waves of beast tides a year, at least twenty to thirty thousand cold beasts entered the arrow bamboo forest. How many would have accumulated over the years?

Where did these cold beasts go?

Either there was some big secret inside the arrow bamboo forest;

Or, behind the arrow bamboo forest, there was also an extremely vast space connected, otherwise the 140 square kilometers of the arrow bamboo forest would not be able to accommodate so many cold beasts.

Xia Hong came to these two conclusions in his mind, and his gaze towards the arrow bamboo forest suddenly changed.

“Your strengths are a little lacking for the time being. Stop exploring the arrow bamboo forest for now. Take the current depth of exploration as the standard. In the future, just operate within this range and don't let anyone go further in.”

“Yes, Chief!”

Hearing this, Yue Feng's expression was somewhat frustrated, but knowing that Xia Hong was thinking of their safety, he could only nod and obey.

Their strengths were indeed too weak.

It could be seen from what just happened. When Xia Hong was fighting with the Snow Zong, not only did they not have the qualifications to intervene, but even watching, they had to stay far away.

“Yu Wentao, do you recognize advanced cold beasts?”

Seeing Yu Wentao staring at the beast bone in his hand, and remembering that he had just reminded him of the Snow Zong's characteristics, Xia Hong's expression moved, and he immediately asked.

Hearing this, Yu Wentao immediately shook his head and said: “I haven't seen them before. The reason I could recognize that Snow Zong earlier was because I remembered something my father said: The smaller the species in the Ice Abyss world, the more careful you have to be.”

The smaller the species in the Ice Abyss world, the more careful you have to be!

Xia Hong's body trembled slightly when he heard this sentence.

It has to be said that this sentence could withstand scrutiny.

Because of the extremely cold climate of the Ice Abyss, the trees, vegetation, cold beasts, and even the mountains and terrain were unusually large, and even the human body was obviously larger than the humans in the normal world in his previous life.

This was also normal. The extremely cold environment meant that more energy was needed to maintain the body, so whether it was humans, plants, or animals, they would naturally evolve to have larger bodies.

Species that could maintain a smaller body and survive in this environment were definitely not simple.

“Chief, can I take a look at that jade bone!”

Hearing Yu Wentao's words, Xia Hong directly threw the jade bone over.

Yu Wentao took the jade bone and examined it carefully for a while, then immediately looked up and said:

“It's this. Chief, I've seen He Yuanhun use this.”

“Oh, how did he use it?”

Xia Hong's eyes immediately lit up and signaled Yu Wentao to continue.

Yu Wentao nodded and said: “Last year, He Yuanhun brought back a few sections of bone that we had never seen before. Now that I think about it, it was this cyan jade color. It should be advanced beast bone.

I remember he ordered us to get a lot of coal stones at the time, and then threw the bones and a few other things into the pot and boiled them for about five or six days. In the end, it became a pot of soup. I was the one who took people to deliver the soup to him, and it smelled very fragrant, so I have a particularly deep impression.”

Boiling, but you have to add a few other things… … … …

Looking at the jade bone in his hand, the hope that had just ignited in Xia Hong's eyes suddenly went out, and he shook his head and fell into thought.

Speaking of which, not only was he unclear about the cultivation method of the Cold Resistance level.

He only knew a lower limit for the strength division of the Cold Resistance realm. Where the upper limit of the Cold Resistance level was, whether there were specific stage divisions within the same realm, he didn't know at all.

Apart from hearing from Yu Wentao that the next realm was called the Manifest Yang Realm, he knew nothing else.

It was not a trivial matter when it came to his next cultivation process!

"Alright, you guys go ahead and get busy. I'll be staying here for the next few days to wait for the beast tide to end. Take good care of the injured and do a good job with the aftermath."

"Yes, Chief!"

Xia Hong frowned, dismissed the two men, and continued to ponder.