There were absolutely no landmark objects to help her identify her location.
"The system needs to use a bit of the host's demonic qi to check the direction."
"Okay."
Yaohua's teeth chattered. She stamped her feet and finally waited for the system's reply.
"I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first, host?"
"Tell me the bad news first."
"The bad news is that this is the Ice Plains."
Everyone in the Divine Land knew that the Ice Plains was the place where sinful immortals were exiled. One could say that almost all the most heinous criminals in the Three Realms were gathered here.
This was truly extremely bad news!
Yaohua didn't hold out any hope. "What's the good news?"
"The good news is that no one here can use spiritual power."
What kind of good news was this?
"Others can't use spiritual power, and neither can I!"
The system stammered, "Then you'll have to improvise."
Right now, Yaohua was freezing to death. The top priority was to find a place to shelter from the cold. Otherwise, she would surely freeze to death!
There was no sunlight, no trees, and she couldn't even take out a magic tool to tell the direction. Yaohua was really in a difficult situation.
The system whispered, "Why don't you just pick a direction and go?"
There was no other way.
The sky gradually darkened. The wind and snow raged wantonly on the boundless Ice Plains. As the only color between heaven and earth, Yaohua even had snow piled on her eyelashes.
If this continued, she would surely freeze to death before she could find a place to take shelter!
At this moment, Yaohua didn't want to figure out why she had ended up in this place, because the most important thing was to survive first!
"System, let's make a deal."
Yaohua could no longer feel her lips. She stamped her feet in a leeward place.
"The system has very limited permissions on the Ice Plains. It can only use your demonic qi to exchange for a tent. Do you think that's okay?"
"O-Okay."
"It will probably consume half of your demonic qi."
At this time, having a tent to shield her from the wind and snow was already extremely good. How could Yaohua care about how much demonic qi it would cost?
She nodded repeatedly. As long as she could survive, she would be willing to exchange all her demonic qi.
"The tent has been issued. Please check, host."
In just a moment, a white tent suddenly appeared at her feet.
Yaohua immediately crawled inside.
Although there was nothing else inside, for Yaohua, not having to endure the wind and snow was already extremely good.
She sat cross - legged in the tent and circulated the meridians in her body to warm herself up.
In the middle of the night, the sudden howling outside made her open her eyes.
"It's the snow wolves howling." The system's voice became tense. "Don't make any noise."
As soon as the voice fell, there was a rustling sound on the rock above her head.
Yaohua subconsciously held her breath, her heart pounding.
The rustling sound gradually became more intense. Then a wolf howl rang out. This howl was like a signal, making all the wolves start howling.
"Are they going to keep howling like this?"
Without spiritual power to continuously support her body here, the only way to replenish energy was the most primitive one - sleeping.
If they howled all night, how could she rest?
Yaohua frowned.
Just then, the wolf howls suddenly changed. From the previous excitement, they became shrill and angry, as if their territory had been invaded by someone.
Yaohua became even more afraid to make the slightest sound.
The wind and snow drifted down from the rock.
The outside of the tent was almost completely covered by ice and snow, while there was still a bit of warmth inside.
Yaohua heard the sound of the wolf howls getting farther and farther away until she couldn't hear them at all. Then she let out a long sigh of relief.
Bang -
The sudden noise on the tent made Yaohua's pupils contract.
Could it be that those snow wolves hadn't really gone far?
"Why is this rock so soft?"
A young voice rang out. Yaohua's hanging heart immediately fell back to its place.
Thank goodness it was a person and not a snow wolf!
Although she didn't have a good impression of the people living here, at least people could understand what she said, while snow wolves might not.
"What rock? This is a tent! You're so ignorant."
Someone jumped to the ground and reached out to touch Yaohua's tent.
"There's a tent here, so there must be someone too?"
The initial voice rang out again.
"Hey, the person inside, come out quickly! Don't make us do it!"
Although she didn't know whether these people were good or bad, since she had been discovered, Yaohua had no choice but to show herself honestly.
"What do you two gentlemen want?"
She was dressed thinly, and the purple - blue marks on her wrists from the cold hadn't completely disappeared yet. So it was obvious to others that she wasn't from the Ice Plains.
"You're new here. What crime did you commit?" The man who looked a bit more steady sized Yaohua up suspiciously.
"I... I disobeyed my master."
Thinking of her master's face, Yaohua's eyes instantly dimmed.
Maybe she had been secretly plotted against and ended up here because of her disrespect for her master. It was probably a fateful calamity.
"Hey, how exactly did you disobey?"
The carefree - looking young man casually crawled into Yaohua's tent, found a comfortable sitting position, and looked at her curiously.
Yaohua thought for a while. It seemed that besides forcing medicine on her master and continuously having dreams of doing improper things to her master, she hadn't done any other disrespectful things.
"Why aren't you talking?"
Yaohua looked at them warily. "I should at least know who you are before I tell you."
"My name is Qingshi." The young man on the ground pointed at the other one. "His name is Bailu. We're brothers, born on the Ice Plains."
Qingshi seemed to have no ulterior motives. As soon as Yaohua asked, he told her everything.
"You were born on the Ice Plains? Where are your parents?"
It turned out that besides the exiled sinful immortals, there were actually aborigines on the Ice Plains.
"My parents are dead. It's just my brother and me now."
Qingshi pulled Bailu to sit down together.
Bailu looked helpless. He wanted to stop Qingshi several times but didn't know why he stopped.
"You're from outside. Do you know how to leave here?"
After Qingshi finished speaking, Bailu couldn't help but ask. His long, slender eyes stared intently at Yaohua without the slightest sign of moving.
Yaohua also wanted to know the answer to this question.
"System, do you know how to leave here?"
The system was silent for a long time. "Kill the Snow Demon."
Yaohua didn't directly answer Bailu's question. "Do you know who the Snow Demon is?"
The two brothers glanced at each other. Bailu slowly said, "The Snow Demon is the ruler of the Ice Plains."
Yaohua felt dizzy.
The ruler of the Ice Plains. Wasn't that equivalent to the God - Lord in the Three Realms?
As if thinking Yaohua's face wasn't pale enough, Qingshi continued to add, "The Snow Demon is the only one on the Ice Plains who can use spiritual power."
"System! Didn't you say that no one here can use spiritual power? Why is there an exception!"
The system pretended to be dead and didn't respond.
"Why do you ask about the Snow Demon? Could it be that only the Snow Demon can help us leave here?"
Yaohua nodded hopelessly. "Yes."
Although what Qingshi said was quite different from what the system said, the general idea was the same. The key to leaving here lay with the Snow Demon.