Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The main reason humans can't withstand the daytime cold is the sunlight.

The sun in the Ice Abyss World clearly has a problem.

The light it emits contains a piercing chill.

Ordinary human skin simply cannot resist it. As long as they stand in the sunlight, their skin will be penetrated by the frigid light in a few breaths, and the blood in their bodies will freeze. The final outcome is to turn into an ice sculpture and welcome death.

Staying hidden during the day and coming out at night applies to all humans who haven't reached the Cold Resistance level.

The strange creature behind the Mirror Immortal Camp chose to unleash this wave of frigid beasts at dusk, and its intention is already very clear.

It's forcing them to extinguish the fire in the iron smelting furnace, and then, when night falls, the group of Earth Diggers below the Mirror Immortal Camp can come over.

"Knowing that the fire source of the iron smelting furnace can attract frigid beasts, it probably also knows the function of the torches!"

Although the effect of the Green Bamboo Fence is strong, it successfully resisted the initial wave of low-level frigid beasts, but the problem is that there are simply too many frigid beasts.

Not counting the dozens that climbed up to the second floor along the wooden walls, at least nearly four hundred frigid beasts charged in from all sides of the first floor. At most, only fifty or sixty fell in front of the Green Bamboo Fence's sharp thorns.

With just a glance, Xia Chuan roughly estimated that there were at least three hundred frigid beasts rushing towards him across the Green Bamboo Fence.

At this number, the difference between low-level and mid-level is not significant.

With their dozen or so Earth Diggers and five hundred Lumberers, not to mention blocking them, as soon as the two sides made contact, their group would immediately be crushed into powder.

Xia Chuan turned his head and glanced around the wooden house, his expression extremely gloomy.

After the five hundred Lumberers on the first floor released the iron chains, the entire wooden house, all four walls, had already been collapsed by the frigid beasts.

The battle between the four mid-level frigid beasts and the wooden training dummies had completely destroyed the interior of the wooden house.

The second floor had also long been riddled with holes by the frigid beasts that had previously burrowed in.

Currently, only the staircase in the central hall and the surrounding area of more than ten meters are still standing, but they are basically crumbling and on the verge of collapsing.

"Shi Ping, extinguish the fire first, then light it!"

At the critical moment, Xia Chuan raised his head and shouted upstairs.

Upstairs on the second floor, Shi Ping, who was desperately blocking a Frost Wolf, immediately changed his expression when he heard Xia Chuan's voice.

"You go up first, I'll hold them off here!"

A broadsword slashed across from the right. Luo Yuan, ignoring the Snow Mane still chasing him from behind, slashed at the Frost Wolf in front of Shi Ping, and shouted sharply, signaling him to go upstairs first.

"Okay!"

Seeing that Luo Yuan was fighting two enemies and was in a precarious situation, Shi Ping knew that now was not the time to be soft-hearted. He gritted his teeth and directly climbed up to the third floor, stepping on the shattered wooden ladder.

The entire wooden house, only the middle part of the hall on the third floor was still considered intact, but the main structure was already crumbling. Even if it hadn't been ravaged by the frigid beasts, it had begun to shake constantly, and many parts had already begun to crack and collapse.

In the middle of the hall on the third floor, four or five hundred children were gathered together. Lin Wan, Shi Lu, and some of the female Lumberers from the camp stood on the periphery, protecting the children in the middle. When Shi Ping went up to the third floor, everyone looked at him nervously.

"Brother Shi Ping, are we going to die?"

On the outermost edge, Luo An, who was only six years old, although his expression was also very nervous, protected the people inside like a little adult. When he saw Shi Ping, he couldn't help but ask in a crisp voice.

It's a pity that Shi Ping didn't have the mind to pay attention to him at all. He rushed to the stove in the center in one stride, took off his clothes, and quickly extinguished the flames.

Then, he took out the iron-bodied bow that had been hanging on his back, and while walking towards the west side, he shouted: "Don't be afraid, none of us will die!"

Luo An, Zou Ping, and the rest of the children immediately showed hope on their faces when they heard Shi Ping's voice.

However, the adult women such as Lin Wan and Shi Lu were not as simple as them. They just put on a smile, but their eyes were still full of despair.

Many of those holding babies in their arms even began to sob softly.

… … … … … …

The moment the iron smelting furnace was extinguished.

Inside the entire wooden house, the madness on the faces of all the low-level frigid beasts instantly disappeared.

"These frigid beasts don't seem as fierce as they were just now!"

"It's night, they are supposed to weaken at night."

"No, it's not just that, they don't seem to... look upstairs anymore."

… … … …

Luo Yuan and the others who were entangled with the frigid beasts in the hall on the second floor felt this the most deeply.

Especially Luo Yuan, he had already turned over and ridden on the back of a Frost Wolf. Although the Frost Wolf had been slashed several times by him, it still dragged its injuries and rushed to the staircase.

But just now, the Frost Wolf seemed to have crashed. The action of rushing upward stopped abruptly. Then, it gave up going upstairs, turned around, and focused on fighting him.

"It should be the iron smelting furnace that has been extinguished!"

A glimmer of hope rose in Luo Yuan's heart. He slashed his broadsword into the spine of the Frost Wolf, turned his head to look outside the west side of the valley, his eyes full of anticipation.

… … … …

"Upstairs, go upstairs first!"

The moment the iron smelting furnace went out, Xia Chuan on the first floor also clearly sensed it.

The reason was very simple. The three hundred or so frigid beasts that had crossed the Green Bamboo Fence also suddenly stood still and crashed for a moment. The madness in their eyes was obviously reduced a lot, and their gazes all shifted from the top of the building to their group.

The fire of the iron smelting furnace was extinguished, and their target naturally became humans.

When the crowd heard Xia Chuan's voice, they quickly went up the stairs, but after all, there were more than five hundred people, no matter how fast they were, it was impossible for them all to go up at once.

At this time, the frigid beasts, which had just crashed for a moment, rushed towards them again.

"Separate, protect the stairs, hold on for a while, just for a while!"

Xia Chuan ordered Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the other twelve Earth Diggers, and he directly blocked the west side of the stairs.

The others also quickly dispersed, surrounding the five hundred or so people who were going up the stairs in the middle, resisting the few frigid beasts that had already rushed over.

You must know that Luo Yuan on the second floor, leading more than fifty Earth Diggers, had an extremely difficult time guarding only dozens of low-level frigid beasts.

On the first floor, Xia Chuan only had thirteen people, including himself.

But there were three or four hundred frigid beasts rushing towards them.

How could they possibly hold on!

A Snow Mane suddenly slammed into Xia Chuan's chest, and its sharp fangs directly pierced through his right shoulder.

Xia Chuan's eyes darkened. He noticed that the Snow Mane was opening its mouth and sticking out its tongue at him. He moved his hands slightly, and transparent silk threads instantly flew out of his hands, tying up the long tongue that the Snow Mane had just stuck out, and then pulled it to the side.

Although the Snow Mane was pulled away, he could no longer exert any strength in his right shoulder.

Xia Chuan gritted his teeth and changed the broadsword in his hand to his left hand, and suddenly slashed horizontally at the Snow Mane's unclosed bloody mouth.

The Snow Mane's mouth was directly split open, the wound extending all the way to the back of its head, and its body was also chopped three or four meters away by the tyrannical force of this slash.

After killing the Snow Mane with one slash, Xia Chuan's expression not only did not relax, but became even more nervous.

It was only because the frigid beasts had already surrounded them.

On the other side, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the other ten Earth Diggers were all surrounded by frigid beasts. Not only was his shoulder pierced by the Snow Mane, but the others had also suffered injuries to their bodies, and they were basically more serious than him.

But only half of the more than five hundred Lumberers had gone up the stairs.

Those on the periphery who hadn't gone up yet were already helping them deal with those frigid beasts, but their strength was only that of Lumberers, and the damage they caused to the frigid beasts was minimal, at most, it only played a delaying role.

The situation was precarious, and Xia Chuan directly raised his head and roared at the third floor:

"Why isn't it ready yet, where's the fire? Where's the fire? Shi Ping, what are you doing!"

Boom… … … … … …

At the same time as he roared, the west side of the wooden house, that is, outside the valley entrance, suddenly made a booming sound.

Outside the west side of the valley, a giant pillar of fire with a diameter of five or six meters suddenly rose into the sky, soaring all the way up to a height of more than a hundred meters.

The moment the flames soared into the air, the pupils of all the low-level frigid beasts inside and outside the wooden house suddenly contracted. Just like when they looked at the iron smelting furnace when they first drilled into the wooden house, their eyes instantly turned to the flames.

"Roar… … … …"

On the second floor, a Demon Sheep that was fighting Luo Yuan suddenly shook its head, knocked him away with its sharp horns, and then directly turned its head to look at the flames outside the valley. Its eyes instantly became bloodshot, and then, regardless of everything, it jumped off the wooden house and rushed towards that side.

This Demon Sheep was just a microcosm. On the second floor and the first floor, all the frigid beasts instantly gave up fighting with Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and others, and all rushed towards the pillar of fire on the west side of the valley.

On the third floor, at the end of the west side, Shi Ping was still holding the bowstring without resetting it. Seeing that all the low-level frigid beasts in the wooden house were rushing out, extreme ecstasy appeared in his eyes.

"Lord, Lord's method really worked, hahahahaha, the frigid beasts are gone, the frigid beasts are all gone!"

Taking the opportunity to loudly inform everyone in the building, Shi Ping also completely vented the emotions in his heart.

From the beginning of the frigid beast tide, he had always been the one in charge of the iron smelting furnace. Whether he was following Xia Chuan to shoot arrows in the corridor in the front, or guarding the stairs with Luo Yuan in the middle, his attention had always been on the iron smelting furnace.

He did forget about the wooden training dummies when he took the initiative to remind Xia Chuan to extinguish the fire earlier, but a more important reason was that he knew that on the big tree outside the west side of the valley, there was a backup plan that Xia Chuan had left in advance.

The pillar of fire more than a hundred meters away outside the west side of the valley was a tree.

The difference was that the tree was covered with small torches produced by the system.

"Hahahahahaha, good, good, good!"

Xia Chuan on the first floor, seeing the ferocious Cold Beasts just now retreating westward like a tide, burst into hearty laughter, repeatedly saying "Good!" three times. His nerves, which had been tense for over an hour, finally relaxed.

Three days ago, a large number of Cold Beasts disappeared. From the premonition to the moment he sensed that the strange creature in the Mirror Immortal Camp was going to use the Cold Beasts for some scheme, Xia Chuan had already begun preparing in advance.

With Great Xia's current strength, there was absolutely no possibility of directly withstanding a wave of Cold Beast tide.

Stacking wood to thicken the outer perimeter, reinforcing the wooden house with iron, moving the green bamboo fence indoors… all of these were equally wishful thinking.

Driving the Cold Beast tide away or guiding it away was the only feasible method.

Just like the Gnawing Rat swarm on the north slope of the mountain wall earlier, strictly speaking, the method used in the end was also to drive them away, rather than confront them head-on.

It just so happened that Xia Chuan noticed a large tree with a diameter of more than five meters about a hundred meters outside the valley.

The Mirror Immortal Camp created this Cold Beast tide for nothing more than to force them to extinguish the fire in the iron smelting furnace. Since that was the case, he would use their plan against them, taking advantage of extinguishing the fire in the iron smelting furnace to start another fire and lure all the Cold Beasts away.

More than ten thousand torches, almost half of the camp's inventory, were used.

This fire was indeed worth it!

With the Cold Beasts retreating, next should be…

Bang!

Xia Chuan had just put away the joy on his face, and his expression had just turned serious when a loud noise came from overhead.

He looked up and his expression immediately froze.

Teng Snake, Snow Mane, Demon Sheep, Frost Wolf—four Intermediate Cold Beasts actually charged up from four directions, surrounding everyone in the middle of the main hall.

"I forgot that these four Intermediate Cold Beasts are being controlled!"

Just now, Xia Chuan had noticed that the moment the flames in the iron smelting furnace were extinguished, the eyes of the four Intermediate Cold Beasts clearly changed from the previous white, fluid state back to their normal blood-red color.

At this moment, their eyes looked no different from those of normal Cold Beasts, but these four Intermediate Cold Beasts were not attracted by the flames outside the valley. They were just staring straight at everyone in the main hall.

"Shi Ping, light the fire!"

All the Cold Beasts around the wooden house that could move had already retreated to find the large tree filled with torches on the west side.

Lighting the iron smelting furnace again for a while now shouldn't be a problem.

While shouting for Shi Ping to light the fire, worried that he wouldn't understand his meaning, Xia Chuan quickly rushed upstairs.

"Once the fire is extinguished, it won't be so easy to light it again!"

However, a rampant voice suddenly rang out from upstairs.

Xia Chuan's expression froze instantly. Not only him, but Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the members of the Great Xia Hunting Team all had their expressions almost frozen.

Bang…

"Pfft!"

Shi Ping's body fell from the third floor like a cannonball. The wooden house was already riddled with holes. Xia Chuan, who had just rushed up the stairs, caught him, but found that he couldn't bear the force at all, and his body retreated six or seven meters.

Luo Yuan and the others also rushed to his side, helping to lift Shi Ping up. Seeing the footprint on Shi Ping's chest, they immediately realized that it was the person who had just spoken who kicked him down.

The group of Digging Realm cultivators on the second floor looked up to the third floor. The others didn't react much, but the seventeen members of the Hunting Team, including Xia Chuan, had their pupils shrink suddenly, their frozen expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

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Standing next to the iron smelting furnace on the third floor were two people.

It was actually He Meng and He Gang!

The seventeen members of the Hunting Team remembered very clearly that it was on the twenty-fifth of last month.

He Gang was cut into two pieces by Xia Hong with a single slash; He Meng was kicked in the abdomen by Xia Hong, and then beheaded with another slash.

It was to avenge the eight Lumbering Realm cultivators who were killed in the camp. The scene was quite satisfying at the time, and the seventeen people remembered every detail clearly.

The two people who were clearly dead beyond dead actually appeared before their eyes.

No, not only that…

Under the darkness, He Meng's skin even emitted a faint luster. Combined with the power he felt when he caught Shi Ping just now…

Not only were they resurrected, but they had even broken through to the Cold Resistance level!

Although he had previously learned from Xia Hong that the strange creature in the Mirror Immortal Camp could resurrect the dead.

Knowing and actually seeing it were two different things.

Xia Chuan and the Hunting Team instantly felt extremely heavy in their hearts.

Even if the other Digging Realm cultivators of Great Xia didn't know the specific situation, they could still feel his hostility from He Meng's expression at this moment.

"Brothers, you can all come out!"

He Meng gave an order to the outside of the valley, and a large wave of black-clothed people holding longbows and broadswords poured into the destroyed west side of the valley entrance.

Xia Chuan only glanced back and immediately found many familiar faces in the front row, all of whom were in the same batch as He Meng and had been killed by Xia Hong.

The wooden house had actually completely collapsed, and only the central staircase structure was still barely supporting it. Almost everyone in the Great Xia camp was gathered in this small area of the main hall near the stairs.

More than two hundred people from the Mirror Immortal Camp instantly surrounded everyone, and all raised their longbows, nocked iron arrows, and aimed at Xia Chuan and the other Digging Realm cultivators on the second floor. Obviously, they all knew that the only threat to Great Xia at the moment was this group of people.

The joy of the Cold Beast tide retreating had not yet completely dissipated, and less than dozens of breaths of time had passed before they were plunged into such a dead end again.

Whether it was Xia Chuan and the other Digging Realm cultivators, the five hundred Lumbering Realm cultivators, or the children huddled together on the third floor, despair flashed in their eyes.

"Don't worry, we won't kill you, but…"

He Meng had a cruel smile on his face. He turned his head, shifted his gaze from the children, stared at Xia Chuan and the others for a while, and frowned:

"Where is your trash leader? Let him come out. As long as he obediently dies today, we can spare the rest of the Great Xia camp. Not only will we not kill you, but you can become a member of my Mirror Immortal Camp in the future!"

No one answered He Meng's words.

From the Hunting Team and the Digging Realm cultivators in the camp to the children on the third floor, even those who were only five or six years old, were just quietly looking at He Meng at this moment. Although no one spoke, their eyes full of hatred had already explained everything.

"Very good, very good. It seems that you are very loyal to that trash, but it's a pity that he acted like a coward today and doesn't seem to care about you people…"

The reaction of the crowd made He Meng laugh in anger. He then turned his head to look at the group of children closest to him, drew a dagger from his chest, and threw it violently at a child in the crowd who was glaring at him.

"Xia Hong, get out here!"

Whoosh…

"An'er!"

Luo Yuan on the second floor saw the direction the dagger was flying and his face was immediately filled with horror, because the child who was glaring at He Meng was his son, Luo An.

He subconsciously ran wildly upstairs, but that was completely futile.

With He Meng's strength, even if it was just a casually thrown dagger, he couldn't possibly catch up.

In the Ice Abyss World, death is a constant companion to humans.

Six-year-old Luo An also had a concept of death.

Watching the dagger fly towards him, although he was afraid, he still subconsciously stood in front of a younger child next to him.

Clang…

At the critical moment.

A cold light suddenly flew from directly above the valley.

It was a long saber, a long saber that everyone in Great Xia was extremely familiar with.

The narrow, five-foot-long blade fell vertically in the air, and the exaggerated force and speed almost created a snow-white stream of air.

The stream of air broke through the air and fell, directly hitting the dagger.

The dagger was actually nailed to the floor by the tip of the saber.

With the force of the long saber falling, how could a mere floor possibly stop it?

There was only one explanation: the person who threw the long saber used skillful force.

He only wanted the effect of nailing the dagger.

Everyone in Great Xia raised their heads to look at the sky, their eyes full of hope.

He Meng and the others were not. They raised their heads, and their expressions tightened slightly.

"Boom… Crack…"

After the long saber fell, there was a huge explosion.

Above the valley, the two originally intersecting mountain bodies seemed to have signs of fracture, and countless rubble fell downwards, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

"Uh… Ah…"

A shrill scream came from above. Xia Chuan and the others looked a little suspicious at first, but when they noticed the worried expressions on He Meng and the others' faces, they quickly reacted, and their hearts suddenly began to stir.

"Your strength… how could it be… how could it be…"

After the scream, the person tremblingly opened his mouth, obviously discovering something he couldn't accept, his voice full of horror and dread.

"Didn't you deliberately come to the valley to tell me about the Battle Body? Lower, Middle, Upper—take a look, which level does my Battle Body belong to?"

Xia Hong's voice came from above, and the faces of everyone in the Great Xia camp below were immediately filled with ecstasy and excitement.

Everyone raised their heads, looking at the sky, their eyes full of anticipation.

Bang…

Another sound of air explosion came.

A white figure fell from the sky above like a cannonball.

The person directly smashed into the stone wall on the north side of the valley, going in at least three or four meters. The rubble that flew out could pierce the ground, which shows how terrifying the power this person had just endured was.

Although the smoke from the air explosion completely obscured the scene above, the eyes of the Great Xia people below were still fiery and expectant.

In everyone's sight, a right leg first pierced through the smoke.

Then, Xia Hong, clad in a black cloak, burst out of the dust cloud, panting heavily, and plummeted from a height of several hundred meters.

Bang…

"Big brother!"

"Leader."

"Leader, are you alright?"

…

The moment they saw Xia Hong clearly, the anticipation in everyone's eyes vanished, replaced only by worry and horror.

Xia Chuan, in particular, couldn't help but rush towards Xia Hong.

Xia Hong's black cloak was tattered and torn, and his entire body was almost soaked in blood. His exposed left arm had countless tiny cracks, like shattered pottery or the cracked earth after a drought. The bright red blood exposed within the cracks was exceptionally conspicuous, making for a terrifying sight.

He had two wounds on his left cheek, and more than a dozen bloody holes in his chest, all of which were seeping blood.

Even on his thigh, a large chunk of flesh was turned outwards.

"I'm fine!"

Despite his severe injuries, Xia Hong turned to look at the others, gave Xia Chuan and the others an approving look, and then, suppressing his injuries, turned to gaze intently at the position of the mountain wall.

"Heh heh heh heh… So you've discovered it, so what? Can you still light the fire in this furnace? You're all going to die, all going to die!"

The white-clothed man flew out of the mountain wall, not even bothering to pay attention to Xia Hong below. Instead, he leaped and ran directly to the furnace on the third floor.

"Brothers, kill!"

The moment the white-clothed man flew out, the worry on He Meng and He Gang's faces vanished, replaced by a touch of ruthlessness. They directly addressed the two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal Camp on the periphery.

The four menacing intermediate Frost Beasts also began to move.

"Who told you that my furnace needs someone to light it?"

Xia Hong's rhetorical question stunned the white-clothed man, He Meng, He Gang, the two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal Camp, and even the four intermediate Frost Beasts.

Sizzle… Sizzle… Sizzle…

The sound of flames igniting, though extremely faint, sent a jolt through the bodies of the white-clothed man, He Meng, and He Gang.

The originally extinguished iron-smelting furnace actually began to burn again out of nowhere.

A wave of warmth rapidly spread to a radius of a hundred meters.

The firelight instantly enveloped the white-clothed man, He Meng, He Gang, the four intermediate Frost Beasts, and the two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal Camp.

"Ah… Ah…"

The two hundred or so people from the Mirror Immortal Camp on the periphery were the first to let out horrifying screams. Their eyes instantly transformed into a silvery-white fluid, and as the firelight shone on them for longer and longer, silver liquid began to flow out.

Next, the four intermediate Frost Beasts also showed expressions of pain.

Then came He Meng and He Gang.

Finally, even the white-clothed man's expression began to distort, and his eyes underwent the same change.