Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The iron furnace is a building within the system that can be lit or extinguished at Xia Hong's will.

Luo Yuan, Zhao Long, and those who joined Great Xia later might not know this.

But Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the rest of the earliest members of Great Xia knew.

The initial version of the iron furnace was a small fire pit.

The first time they dealt with the wooden puppet in the cave, Xia Hong summoned the fire pit out of thin air in front of them.

"Did Big Brother not appear earlier for the sake of this moment!"

Although Xia Chuan had some vague guesses in his heart, seeing the terrifying injuries on Xia Hong's body, he immediately knew that it wasn't entirely the case.

Xia Hong had clearly been fighting this man in white for a long time.

No, not just some man in white.

But Gao Yu.

Or rather, He Yuanhun!

As the flames of the furnace rose, everyone in Great Xia, including Xia Chuan, clearly saw the appearance of the man in white beside the furnace.

The man in white was none other than Gao Yu, who had briefly come to the valley to stay for a few days on the twenty-fifth of last month.

At this moment, Gao Yu's appearance hadn't changed, but his face lacked any of the previous composure and gentleness, replaced only by ferocity and brutality.

A black aura surrounded his body, coupled with his silver-white pupils and the seven or eight slender cuts beside his eyes, his temperament was extremely evil.

The effect of the furnace on the Mirror Immortal Camp was clearly different.

The two hundred or so Digging Realm cultivators on the periphery reacted the most violently, constantly shedding silver-white liquid from their eyes while screaming miserably; the four intermediate Frost Beasts did not wail, only revealing expressions of pain; then there were He Gang and He Meng, who had broken through the Frost Resistance level, and He Gang, who was weaker than He Meng, reacted more strongly.

As for the man in white, He Yuanhun, he merely had a distorted expression, the pain on his face far less than the others, staring intently at Xia Hong on the ground, his eyes full of resentment.

The stronger the strength, the smaller the impact.

"Their eyes are their weakness, use solidified fire oil!"

Seeing the Mirror Immortal Camp show such a painful reaction as the furnace ignited, Xia Hong naturally seized the opportunity to strike quickly.

He gave a reminder to the others with a command, and suddenly rushed towards He Yuanhun on the third floor, not forgetting to draw out the ceremonial saber along the way.

Xia Chuan also reacted at once, the cuts around He Yuanhun's eyes must have been made by Xia Hong when he fought him just now.

"Everyone take bows and knives, use solidified fire oil, attack their eyes!"

Not to mention the Digging Realm cultivators, even the five hundred or so Lumbering Realm cultivators in the camp, and some of the older children, all immediately began to take action upon hearing Xia Chuan's order.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the other Digging Realm cultivators already had their knives and bows in hand, and immediately drew their bows and shot arrows at the two hundred or so Digging Realm cultivators of the Mirror Immortal Camp who were still immersed in pain.

The target, of course, was their eyes.

Swish… Swish… Swish…

Zhao Long, who had the best archery skills, took the lead in shooting one person's eye.

That person's eyes were already streaming with a large amount of silver-white liquid, and after being hit by an arrow coated with solidified fire oil, the pupils instantly emitted a puff of thick smoke, followed by flames suddenly igniting from within the skull, immediately letting out a scream that was even more painful and intense than before.

"Ah…"

The flames spread rapidly, and in less than five breaths of time, the person's body was completely burned away, turning into black smoke and dissipating before everyone's eyes.

Seeing this person being swallowed by the flames brought by the solidified fire oil, Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the people of the Great Xia camp were immediately filled with excitement.

As long as there is a way to deal with it, then it is not a problem.

"Run, run quickly!"

But at this moment, He Meng and He Gang on the third floor actually rushed towards them, shouting loudly, signaling the people on the periphery to escape.

Although controlled, they had not completely lost their minds, and their combat power had not been completely lost either.

Xia Chuan only glanced back at He Meng and He Gang, and after coming to this conclusion in his mind, he immediately spoke to the others: "Ignore them, continue to shoot and kill these monsters!"

Bang…

He Meng and He Gang, who were rushing towards Xia Chuan and the others, were knocked away by a dark, huge horn before they could get close.

"Roar…"

Blocking them was the intermediate Thunder Kui transformed from the wooden training dummy.

With the iron furnace reignited, the five wooden training dummies naturally recovered as well.

The other four wooden training dummies had already respectively engaged the four intermediate Frost Beasts.

A touch of mania appeared on He Meng's face, watching his own people collapsing below, wanting to rush down to help.

But the Thunder Kui transformed from the wooden training dummy did not give him a chance at all, blocking him and even blocking He Gang as well.

Although both of them had broken through the Frost Resistance level, it was still a bit insufficient to face an intermediate Thunder Kui specializing in defense.

The key was that, due to the suppression of the furnace's firelight, they could not exert their full strength, but the Thunder Kui transformed from the wooden training dummy was different, not only was its defense stronger than a real Thunder Kui, but it could even ignore pain.

With this ebb and flow, no matter how anxious the two were, there was nothing they could do.

They could only attack the Thunder Kui while watching their own people below being constantly shot and killed by Xia Chuan and the others.

"Luo Yuan and the hunting team come down with me, the rest continue to shoot arrows, we can't let a single one go, kill!"

Seeing that the two hundred or so people in the Mirror Immortal Camp had already begun to collapse and flee towards the west side of the valley entrance, a look of ruthlessness appeared on Xia Chuan's face, he drew out his broadsword and shouted an order to the others, then took the lead in jumping down.

The sixteen members of the hunting team also followed behind him, all going down.

The remaining forty or so Digging Realm cultivators continued to shoot and kill those who had already run far away.

…

As for Gao Yu on the other side, Xia Hong had already forced him to the south side of the valley.

The ceremonial saber slashed horizontally towards his pupils, He Yuanhun dodged sideways, barely avoiding the edge of the blade, and seeing the black grease smeared on the ceremonial saber, a look of horror flashed in his pupils, his heart filled with fear.

"He guessed it was me long ago, not showing up for so long was to find me, the furnace could have been extinguished long ago, deliberately not extinguishing it was to confuse me, making me think that this furnace must be lit by someone!"

Bang…

He Yuanhun's expression was both surprised and fearful, after dodging the long saber, his chest was hit by Xia Hong, who was relentlessly pursuing him.

The terrifying force caused his chest to collapse instantly, and he was once again smashed into the southern mountain like a cannonball.

It should be known that this place is not far from the iron ore cave on the south side, and the stones in the nearby mountains are far harder than other places.

But even so, this punch from Xia Hong still knocked him seven or eight meters deep into the mountain.

Pfft…

A mouthful of reversed blood spurted out, He Yuanhun looked up at Xia Hong, who was pressing closer step by step, his eyes filled not only with ferocity and anger, but also with deep horror.

Everything tonight was originally in his plan.

Controlling the four intermediate Frost Beasts, launching this Frost Beast tide of four ethnic groups, impacting the Great Xia camp, forcing them to extinguish the fire in the iron furnace.

He was very clear in his heart that this scale of Frost Beast tide was unlikely to destroy Great Xia.

But forcing the other side to extinguish the fire was not difficult, as long as he could do this, he could easily defeat Great Xia with his two hundred or so subordinates.

Everything went smoothly, even half an hour ago, when he was hiding in the sky above the valley, observing the situation below, and was discovered by Xia Hong, he still felt confident of victory.

It wasn't until Xia Hong revealed strength even stronger than his own that he began to vaguely realize something was wrong, but at this time, the fire was extinguished.

The moment the fire was extinguished, he truly felt that he was bound to win.

Who knew that Xia Hong would give him such an unexpected surprise.

The fire in that furnace didn't need to be lit by anyone, Xia Hong could control it at will.

"I was just about to break through the Frost Resistance level when someone came to the camp to teach me, telling me about the situation of the battle body, how could there be such a coincidence in this world?

Creating such a large-scale Frost Beast tide just to make me extinguish the fire, you can be considered to have put in a lot of effort, but unfortunately…"

Xia Hong spoke easily, but in reality, it was only half an hour ago that he noticed the large-scale invasion of the Mirror Immortal Camp that he completely confirmed that He Yuanhun was Gao Yu.

Xia Hong had already broken through and awakened successfully before the Frost Beast tide arrived.

He chose to hide behind the scenes and not show his face in order to eradicate the monster behind the Mirror Immortal Camp once and for all.

At first, he didn't associate these things with Gao Yu.

But half an hour ago, while searching for monsters around the valley, he discovered signs of a large-scale invasion by the Mirror Immortal Camp.

In this way, many things could be understood at once.

This Frost Beast tide must have been created by the monster in the Mirror Immortal Camp.

But according to normal logic, how could a Great Xia camp possibly withstand a Frost Beast tide of over five hundred heads?

There was no need for that monster to bring people over, just wait for the Frost Beasts to slaughter all the people of Great Xia.

But it still brought people over.

The reason is very simple, because that monster knew that this Frost Beast tide alone could not destroy Great Xia, or rather, the purpose of creating this Frost Beast tide was not to destroy Great Xia at all.

The monster in the Mirror Immortal Camp was sure that the Frost Beast tide could not destroy Great Xia!

This itself was a huge point of suspicion.

Before Xia Hong broke through the Frost Resistance level, Great Xia's real reliance was actually the five wooden training dummies, but this matter was extremely secretive, and not everyone inside the Great Xia camp was aware of it.

How did the monster in the Mirror Immortal Camp know?

Combining this with the fact that the Frost Beast tide was deliberately arranged to occur before nightfall, it was clear that preparations were being made for bringing the people of the Mirror Immortal Camp over afterwards.

Judging from the overt strength alone, the Mirror Immortal Camp was several times stronger than Great Xia.

But the other party didn't dare to openly invade at night, knowing that the cold beast tide couldn't destroy Great Xia, yet they still plotted so meticulously. Besides using the cold beast tide to force them to put out the fire, what other reason could there be?

In other words, the strange creature in the Mirror Immortal Camp not only feared the fire of the iron smelting furnace, but also knew about the wooden training dummies. At the same time, it was also clear about the powerful attraction of the iron smelting furnace to the cold beasts.

And during this period of time, the only one who had been to Great Xia and had contact with the iron smelting furnace, and who might know about the wooden training dummies, was Gao Yu, who claimed to be from Shenwu Village east of Shuanglong Mountain.

In the Mirror Immortal Camp, the one who hasn't shown his face so far is the big leader, He Yuanhun. The strange creature that can revive He Meng and He Gang and the others is likely to be him.

If that's the case, then Gao Yu, or rather He Yuanhun, is the strange creature behind the Mirror Immortal Camp.

After confirming this, Xia Hong still didn't rush out.

His target was always the strange creature.

With the marker stone present, Xia Hong could sense any foreign life entering within a kilometer radius of the valley through the system.

Half an hour ago, when he noticed more than two hundred people from the Mirror Immortal Camp entering, he was already lurking in the dark, spying.

It's a pity that after discovering that all two hundred and seventy-one people were in the Digging Earth Realm, Xia Hong immediately realized that the strange creature was still hiding in the dark and hadn't appeared.

Just at this moment, Shi Ping extinguished the fire in the iron smelting furnace, and all the low-level cold beasts were attracted by the fire outside the west side of the valley and ran out.

Only the four intermediate-level cold beasts remained motionless.

Moreover, He Meng and He Gang also appeared at this time.

These two things made Xia Hong completely certain that the strange creature was definitely near the valley.

It must have been able to see everything in the valley very clearly, so as soon as the fire in the iron smelting furnace was extinguished, it immediately notified He Gang and He Meng to lead people into the valley.

And the four intermediate-level cold beasts not only managed to withstand the fire of the iron smelting furnace for so long before, but also defied common sense later and were not attracted by the fire outside the valley.

In other words, the four intermediate-level cold beasts were being controlled from beginning to end.

But even after confirming that it was near the valley, Xia Hong still couldn't figure it out.

The marker stone could clearly sense any foreign life within a kilometer radius of the garrison. Since He Gang and He Meng and the others could be detected, then this strange creature would naturally be the same.

The garrison was in the valley, and the one-kilometer radius was just that small area outside Red Maple Ridge. Xia Hong had searched it almost two or three times, but he found nothing.

At the most anxious time, he was ready to show himself directly.

He had been paying attention to the casualties in the camp.

He had seen everything Xia Chuan had done, and the fact that the rest of the camp had worked together to achieve this step far exceeded his expectations.

If finding the strange creature caused too many casualties, then it would be counterproductive.

Just as he was about to give up, he inexplicably looked up at the top of the valley, the intersection of the two mountain bodies in the north and south.

Only then did he suddenly realize that he had missed the most crucial location.

The one-kilometer radius detected by the marker stone included the sky and the underground, but the intersection of the two mountains on top of the valley was more than two thousand meters high.

Sure enough, after Xia Hong quietly crept up, he found Gao Yu in a white robe with silver light glowing in his eyes.

The ambush was successful, but he also paid the price.

The wound on his left face, the crack in his left arm, and the more than ten bloody holes in his chest were exchanged for knowing that this strange creature's fatal weakness was its eyes.

Or rather, this strange creature's ability was closely related to its eyes.

… … … … … …

Xia Hong's daze was only for a moment. Gao Yu, who had been kicked into the mountain body by him, was buried by the dust and smoke from the mountain's vibration.

Seeing that Gao Yu hadn't made any movement for a long time, Xia Hong's expression slightly condensed. Holding the ceremonial saber, he slowly approached the mountain body, just as he was about to walk into the dust and smoke.

Whoosh … … … …

A wisp of silver mirror light suddenly broke through the smoke and sped towards his face.

Xia Hong's expression changed in shock, and he leaped back abruptly, hastily raising his saber to block.

Clang … …

The mirror light struck the ceremonial saber, only making a clang sound.

But in the next second, the ceremonial saber, made of iron ore, developed cracks like shattered glass, and they continued to expand and stretch.

Crack … … crack … … crack … …

After three breaths, the ceremonial saber that had fought with Xia Hong for a long time suddenly shattered, turning into debris and falling directly to the ground.

Xia Hong dropped the hilt in his hand and glanced at his left arm with the cracks, his expression solemn, but also with a hint of relief.

"The same trick won't work a second time … …"

He was caught off guard the first time on the mountain top, mainly because he didn't understand.

After all, this strange creature's strength was still inferior to his.

"Brother, catch the saber!"

Xia Chuan, who was by the wooden house, noticed that Xia Hong had lost his ceremonial saber.

With a loud shout, he threw a long saber over to him.

Xia Hong raised his hand and caught it. Looking at the slender silver-white ceremonial saber in his hand, he noticed the hundred-forged patterns on the blade, and a hint of joy appeared in his pupils.

"Leader, I have more here!"

Mu Dong also threw two things over.

Xia Hong also reached out and caught them. It was an iron-bodied bow and a quiver of iron arrows.

There were also hundred-forged patterns on the side of the iron-bodied bow, and the bowstring was transparent with a hint of white. Xia Hong could tell at a glance that the transparent part was intermediate-level Tengjiao tendon, and the white part was made of fine threads. If he remembered correctly, it was from killing He Meng last time.

Including the quiver of iron arrows, each one had hundred-forged patterns!

Xia Chuan had actually led people to forge three hundred-forged weapons for himself.

It's just that the bowstring's tension … …

"Brother, that bowstring is made of Tengjiao tendon and white silk mixed together, and it can withstand a pulling force of 100,000 jin."

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xia Hong no longer hesitated and directly drew his bow and nocked an arrow, shooting it at Gao Yu, who had just run out of the dust and smoke.

"Ah … … … …"

Gao Yu, who was speeding towards the west side of the valley to escape, was shot in the right eye by the arrow and immediately let out a miserable scream.

The tyrannical force sent his body smashing out more than ten meters to the left.

That wasn't all. The key was that his right eye was emitting fire.

"He's out. It won't be so easy to run away now!"

The moment Xia Hong touched the iron arrow, he knew that the arrowhead had been coated with solidified fire oil in advance.

After a cold laugh, he drew his saber and rushed straight towards Gao Yu.

"Leader, you run first, we'll hold him back!"

It was a pity that before he could rush in front of Gao Yu.

He Gang and He Meng, who had just tried to charge at Lei Kui to save people, had already given up on Lei Kui and directly changed direction, blocking Xia Hong's path.

"Brothers, we can't let anything happen to the leader. If the leader doesn't die, the Mirror Immortal is still here, and none of us will die!"

Not only He Gang and He Meng, but someone shouted, and the group of Digging Earth Realm cultivators from the Mirror Immortal Camp who were being chased and killed by Xia Chuan and the others also gave up on escaping and rushed to Gao Yu's side.

"Protect the leader, brothers."

"If the leader doesn't die, the Mirror Immortal won't be destroyed. We swear to protect the leader."

"Mirror Immortals, fearless of death."

"As long as the leader is here, we will be immortal."

"Fight with Great Xia, kill!"

… … … …

Even many Digging Earth Realm cultivators who had already escaped the valley returned at this time.

Looking at the crowd of Digging Earth Realm cultivators rushing towards him with excitement and constantly shouting to protect the leader, Xia Hong's face didn't show a trace of emotion, nor did he praise them as before.

In his eyes, there was only coldness and a strong killing intent!

"Unrepentant, from the moment I left seclusion, the Mirror Immortal Camp has had no need to exist!"

Xia Hong took a slight breath, raised the new ceremonial saber he had just obtained, turned his head, and gently waved his hand at Xia Chuan and the others who were rushing towards him.

"I alone am enough!"

Noticing that Gao Yu on the other side had already fled towards the west side of the valley, a faint light flashed in Xia Hong's eyes, and he ignored it.