NOVEL NEXT Chapter 140: Spell, Snowfall._4
All the Golden Core cultivators they had met along the way had restrained themselves; none had released their Divine Sense, clearly not eager to fight.
And because they were all at a considerable distance from each other, their faces were not clear.
Even though the scholar had set out later.
He still arrived at the Boundless Snow Mountain faster than most of the Golden Core cultivators who had set out earlier; after all, the scholar's sword was truly fast, plus his Bloodline Entry made him one of the few whose speed could compete with his.
...
It was only an hour's effort.
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Chen Qiu had already crossed Hundred Countries and reached the Boundless Snow Mountain. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, the mountain range stretching unknown thousands of miles seemed endless, like a moat separating heaven and earth!
The peaks reached into the clouds, and even his Divine Sense could not find the top of the mountain.
The entire mountain range from halfway up was covered with thick, heavy snow. You could feel a chill at first glance, with the air carrying a crisp frostiness.
At this time, it was not snowing.
The thick snow accumulated halfway up the mountain was from thousands of years of snowfall that had never melted, built up over many years.
"So this is the Boundless Snow Mountain."
Chen Qiu stood at the base of the mountain, feeling the majesty of heaven and earth. He suddenly felt very insignificant. People say that man is sure to win over nature, but to what level must one cultivate to shake this mountain range that stretches for tens of thousands of miles?
His pride in the Thunder Summoning Technique, even if fully unleashed, could blast a huge hole in this mountain range.
But to the mountain range, it might be like an elephant being poked by a toothpick, barely an itch.
No edge in sight, no peak in sight.
When he stood there, for the first time, he felt an intense sense of imprisonment, a feeling that was very mild inside Da Xia. After all, Da Xia was vast, with nineteen provinces to roam, but when you truly stood under the Boundless Snow Mountain.
The feeling of powerlessness was shockingly profound.
However...
"Where are the Snow Clan?"
Chen Qiu quickly calmed his mind and scanned his surroundings with some puzzlement. He hadn't forgotten his purpose, which wasn't to marvel at the grandeur of the Boundless Snow Mountain. He was here to deal with the Snow Clan invasion.
Wasn't it said that the Snow Clan was invading?
Yet, so far, not a single Snow Clan member was in sight.
At this time, there were also quite a few people standing below the Boundless Snow Mountain range. Most were Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Golden Core cultivators from Hundred Countries, with only about a dozen Golden Core cultivators from Da Xia Country because the Snow Clan crisis had first struck Hundred Countries, so naturally, they were more proactive.
But just then—
"BOOM!!"
A deafening sound like thunder suddenly erupted above the Boundless Snow Mountain. Then, a layer of snow that hadn't melted for thousands of years suddenly collapsed from halfway up the mountain and slid down to the base.
"No way..."
Fat Long's eyes flickered with shock, his lips twitching slightly.
Immediately after!
One piece, two pieces, three pieces!
Countless layers of ancient snow from the mountain top of the Boundless Snow Mountain, stretching unknown thousands of miles, slid toward the base.
An avalanche!
And it was an avalanche from a snow mountain stretching thousands of miles, all at the same time!
The snow on the Boundless Snow Mountain had not melted for who knows how many years. Such a violent and exaggerated avalanche could even engulf ten or twenty or even more countries within Hundred Countries!
Luckily, only a few thousand miles of this mountain range tens of thousands of miles long had avalanched. Unfortunately, even this few thousand miles of avalanche was enough to cause countless deaths and injuries in Hundred Countries.
This was a natural disaster.
It simply couldn't be stopped by human efforts.
"Let's go!"
Chen Qiu immediately prepared to turn around and leave this place, rushing towards the nearby Hundred Countries at top speed. It was certain he couldn't escape, as those ordinary people's speeds couldn't match that of the devastating avalanche.
But finding a place to hide might still allow them to dodge this calamity and wait for rescue after the avalanche had stopped.
He couldn't block it.
This was a natural disaster, not something that human strength could withstand.
If he were a Nascent Soul cultivator, he might have been able to withstand it, but he knew that as a Golden Core cultivator at the peak of Great Perfection, he definitely could not withstand this disaster; it wasn't a crisis that a Golden Core cultivator could resolve.
He had originally thought that the invasion of the Snow Clan was similar to that of the Sea Clan – a demon beast invasion. He hadn't expected it to actually be a natural disaster.
But just as he was about to turn away,
"Brother Qiu... look."
Fat Long stood rooted to the spot, his face full of shock, pointing towards the middle of the Boundless Snow Mountain.
The avalanche rolling down from the mountain, accompanied by a flurry of snow splashing into the air, brought a chill that everyone beneath the mountain felt. Suddenly, those snow blocks transformed into human forms.
They turned into snowmen wielding ice swords, charging toward them.
This wasn't an avalanche.
The snowflakes had formed into snowmen, a creature they couldn't understand; they weren't even aware that snowmen existed, usually blending in with the heavy snow and living on the Boundless Snow Mountain.
Or was it that after the "Snow Clan invasion" started, this heavy snow had begun to morph into snowmen?
But Chen Qiu knew one thing.
That was, once the avalanche that seemed like the sky falling had turned all its snow into snowmen, the originally unstoppable force of nature carried by the avalanche disappeared, turning into groups of snowmen continuously rushing down from the mountain top towards them.
If it were an avalanche, he indeed couldn't do anything.
But if it were snowmen... then he didn't need to leave.
...
Chen Qiu faced the countless snowmen charging down from the Snow Mountain, stopped in his tracks, and spiritual energy surged within him as he fully activated "Snowfall," a spell he had recently learned.
In an instant.
A massive amount of goose feather-like snow covered hundreds of miles.
The arrival of this snow was extremely sudden, but as soon as the cultivators felt the snow freezing their inner spiritual energy, many of them realized it wasn't real snow but the spell "Snowfall."
Many recognized this spell—it was, after all, a signature spell of Magic Practitioners.
However... the cultivators looked towards Chen Qiu with complex expressions. They had never seen a Magic Practitioner use this spell to cover hundreds of miles.
While airborne, Chen Qiu kept teleporting to replenish his spiritual energy while observing how the snowy figures reacted to the falling snow.
He was just trying it out.
To see if "Snowfall" would have any effect on these snowmen, and indeed it did, but the effect was weak; basically, it was negligible since snowmen were originally made of snow and naturally had high immunity to attacks from such spells made of heavy snow.
However...
The experiment was done.
Chen Qiu glanced around at the hundreds of miles covered in goose feather snow, his expression quite satisfied as he chuckled lightly. The range of the spell was indeed vast, mainly because he had released it many times.
A normal Cultivator couldn't achieve such an extensive range.
The snowflakes were also quite dense, making it quite a beautiful sight.
It just wasn't very suitable to use at this time.
This spell could only last for three hundred breaths; after three hundred breaths, it would dissipate.
After three hundred breaths, Chen Qiu's inner spiritual energy would also be fully restored, accompanying his spiritual energy as it surged out wildly.
Suddenly, a massive cloud appeared high in the sky, but this cloud was only as high as halfway up the mountain, much lower than the Boundless Snow Mountain.