Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

"Headman Xia Hong, we three thousand people haven't worshiped the Mirror Immortal. The other nine thousand in the camp have already been bewitched to commit suicide. It must be preparing some kind of ritual. Be careful!"

Hearing Yuwen Tao's voice, Xia Hong's pupils shrank violently.

In fact, he had been at the Mirror Immortal's base for a while. Because he was unclear about the internal situation, he made some other preparations first to ensure safety, which delayed him for some time.

In just a short while, more than nine thousand people had all been bewitched to commit suicide!

Of course, shocked as he was, Xia Hong immediately responded to Yuwen Tao's warning, gratefully saying in a deep voice, "Thank you, Brother Yuwen. You take the three thousand people and escape first. Leave this strange monster to me!"

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Tao's face immediately lit up with joy.

The first thing he said was to make it clear that his three thousand people were fine. He was just worried that Xia Hong and the others would mistakenly think they were also related to the strange monster and would stop them from escaping.

Xia Hong obviously understood his meaning and directly told them to leave.

More than three thousand people had already woken up, and the ones in front were already running out of the passage like headless flies. Yuwen Tao looked up at the sky, then looked at the people of Great Xia on the other side, and immediately began to deploy.

"Uncle Hong, you take these people and run to the periphery of the Arrow Bamboo Forest. Find a place to hide, don't enter the bamboo forest, and don't go too far. The rest of you stay with me and help the people of Great Xia."

He was currently surrounded by forty-one people, all with Earth Piercing Realm cultivation. Among them, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan were even stronger than him. They were all old subordinates of his father, Yuwen Hu.

"Tao, we were almost… Can Great Xia's people deal with He Yuanhun? Why don't we escape together!"

Hong Guang was about to turn around and leave, but he glanced at the people of Great Xia, frowned slightly, and immediately reminded Yuwen Tao.

Hong Tian, Meng Yi, and the other four did not speak, but they also frowned when they looked at the group from Great Xia, obviously agreeing with Hong Guang's suggestion.

There were only sixty-seven people from Great Xia. Apart from Xia Hong's strength, which they couldn't see through, some of the others hadn't even reached the limit of the Earth Piercing Realm.

Just now, their three thousand people were almost bewitched by He Yuanhun to commit suicide. How could so few people from Great Xia fight He Yuanhun?

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Tao hesitated for only a moment before speaking in a deep voice:

"It's almost dawn. We can't run far with three thousand people. Besides, if He Yuanhun wins, we'll all be dead anyway. We have to stay here and help them.

Have you forgotten who forced He Yuanhun to this point? Don't underestimate the people of Great Xia. They dared to chase after him, which proves they must have confidence. Listen to me, don't waste time. Uncle Hong, hurry up, the people in front are about to scatter."

Everyone was instantly awakened by Yuwen Tao's words, and their expressions changed.

"Okay, I'll go now!"

After Hong Guang spoke, he was the first to turn around and rush towards the front of the crowd.

The others who had reacted also followed behind Yuwen Tao, moving closer to the location of the Great Xia group.

"This is Condensed Fire Oil. Smear it on your weapons, it can hurt the strange monster."

Yuwen Tao had just approached and hadn't even spoken when Xia Chuan, who was shooting arrows, threw him a leather bag.

Opening the leather bag and seeing the fist-sized black oil lumps inside, realizing that this might be the magical item Great Xia used to deal with strange monsters, Yuwen Tao's pupils shrank slightly, and he immediately distributed it to the people around him.

With the people of Great Xia setting an example, Yuwen Tao and his group also began to smear it on their respective weapons and iron arrows. After smearing it on, they immediately followed Xia Chuan and the others, continuously shooting arrows at the ancient mirror in the sky.

Xia Chuan, who was in the front, turned his head to look at Yuwen Tao, a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

Big brother was right, he is indeed a smart man!

He had heard Yuwen Tao's words just now.

"More than nine thousand people all died beside the bamboo building?"

At the front of the crowd, Xia Hong, after shooting half a quiver of arrows, turned his head to look at Yuwen Tao and asked.

Yuwen Tao quickly nodded in response: "Most of them did. A small number should have committed suicide before reaching the bamboo building…"

After answering, he immediately realized why Xia Hong was asking this and quickly continued: "He Yuanhun just tried to bewitch our three thousand people to continue committing suicide. He should still be seriously injured. No matter what those nine thousand people were used for, it shouldn't be healed so quickly!"

A smart man is efficient to communicate with.

Xia Hong's expression flickered, and he immediately ordered everyone:

"Follow me inside, leave half a quiver of arrows, and be careful!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Chuan and the others nodded, immediately slung the iron-wrought bows behind their backs, drew out the sabers from their waists, and followed behind Xia Hong, entering the Mirror Immortal's base from the passage.

"Uh… Ah…"

Above the bamboo building, the raging fire on those two mirrors was still burning, and billowing black smoke continuously overflowed from below, shrouding the entire basin.

Even though Xia Hong and the others had stopped shooting arrows, He Yuanhun's wails and screams never stopped and continued.

"Condensed Fire Oil ignites upon contact with strange monsters. Those two mirrors should be the main body of the so-called Mirror Immortal. That also means that He Yuanhun is being controlled!"

Xia Hong, who took the lead in rushing into the base, looked up at the two strange mirrors above the bamboo building, a glimmer of light flashing in his pupils, and suddenly turned sideways, his long saber swinging violently.

Clang…

An iron arrow was knocked to the ground by Xia Hong. From several wooden houses next to him, hundreds of people instantly rushed out.

They were all holding sabers, expressionless, looking like puppets, but their movements were not slow at all, and they quickly rushed in front of Xia Hong and the others.

Swish… Swish… Swish…

Not only did these hundred or so people rush out, but hundreds of silver pupils lit up in the shadows of the upper floors of the wooden houses. Immediately afterwards, thousands of iron arrows were suddenly shot at them.

"Find cover, they are all at the Earth Piercing Realm!"

Xia Hong knocked down the first iron arrow and quickly drew his saber to meet the two people in front of him. His ceremonial saber swung suddenly, and although he cleanly beheaded the two, realizing that the basic strength of these people was all above ten thousand pounds, his expression changed suddenly, and he quickly reminded Xia Chuan and the others behind him.

"They were all ordinary people from the camp before. They all committed suicide just now. He Yuanhun resurrected and controlled them."

Yuwen Tao's reminder from behind was a bit redundant. Noticing the number of people in the wooden houses, Xia Hong immediately had an answer in his mind.

There were only more than three hundred Earth Piercing Realm cultivators in the Mirror Immortal camp before. Now, there are at least five or six hundred people in the wooden houses on the left and right, which is obviously not right.

"Follow me!"

Xia Hong's body was like lightning. As the ceremonial saber danced, it brought out streaks of cold light, not only knocking down dozens of arrows, but also killing more than a dozen people blocking his path.

If the long saber happened to slash the eye area of those people, it would immediately ignite their heads, just like before in the valley.

Breaking through the obstruction of the human wall in front, Xia Hong led everyone directly into a wooden house on the left.

Whoosh…

The moment the door was kicked open, dozens of saber lights came head-on.

Xia Hong, who was already prepared, cleverly kicked the door panel towards the front.

If it were normal force, Xia Hong's kick would have pierced through the wooden door. It was different with skill. The entire wooden door flew backwards, directly hitting dozens of people behind it against the walls of the house.

Bang…

With a loud crash, a large area of the wall collapsed directly.

The people in the front who were directly hit by the wooden door were instantly torn apart, unable to piece together a complete piece. Even those who were only affected by the aftermath spat blood all over the ground and completely lost their ability to move.

"This…"

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the other Earth Piercing Realm cultivators of Great Xia had already witnessed Xia Hong's strength in the valley, so they were not surprised to see this scene.

But Yuwen Tao, Hong Guang, and the forty Earth Piercing Realm cultivators beside him were different. Everyone couldn't help but gasp, their eyes filled with horror and shock as they looked at Xia Hong.

Many of them had seen Xia Hong's battle with Yuwen Hu before.

At that time, although Xia Hong almost made Yuwen Hu suffer a loss by being bold, at most it could only be said that the two were evenly matched.

But the scene before them at this moment was different.

Hundreds of people charging the formation, and Xia Hong calmly opened a gap, not to mention that. Kicking the door panel away and knocking dozens of Earth Piercing Realm cultivators behind it into the air, killing and maiming them, this was not something that could be done simply with high basic strength.

That was just a wooden door after all. Not to mention anything else, even a Woodcutting Realm cultivator could break it open directly with a saber, let alone the dozens of people behind the wooden door who were all at the Earth Piercing Realm.

"Flawless Qi Muscle, Tendon Bone Force Control, this is the ability that only comes with breaking through to the Cold Resistance level after Skin Membrane Perfection. Breaking through is not strange, but to be able to defeat He Yuanhun, who possesses the strength of three bristles, as soon as he breaks through, is Xia Hong an Extraordinary Battle Body?"

Yuwen Tao's pupils suddenly contracted. Recalling what his father had said before, that once an Extraordinary Battle Body broke through, their basic strength would increase to at least three bristles, looking at Xia Hong, his eyes were immediately filled with envy.

Not only him, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and the other five older people noticed that when Xia Hong exerted his strength, there was not a trace of movement in his body's aura and muscles, and they immediately understood something, their expressions becoming exactly the same as Yuwen Tao's.

"Extraordinary Battle Body, extremely rare even in village-level camps. It's unbelievable that it could appear in this small Red Maple Ridge!"

…

"Go upstairs!"

Xia Hong was naturally unaware of what Yuwen Tao and the others were thinking.

In just a short while, he had already cleared out the entire wooden house with Xia Chuan and the others. The hundred or so Earth Piercing Realm cultivators hiding inside had all been slaughtered by him.

Leading everyone to the top floor of the wooden house, looking at the people still pouring in from all directions, everyone's expressions slightly solidified.

"Big brother, look at the bamboo building over there…"

Xia Chuan seemed to have discovered something even more important. Prompted by him, everyone turned to look, and this one look sent a shiver down their spines.

Although this wooden house was on the outermost edge of the station, it was only two to three hundred meters away from the bamboo building, barely enough to see the situation there.

The flames in the two mirrors above the bamboo building were still burning.

Even He Yuanhun's miserable screams hadn't stopped.

But what hadn't stopped either was the light emitted by the two mirrors.

The mirror on the right seemed to be deliberately controlled, its dark, black light shining on the corpses on the ground, one after another.

Beside the bamboo building, the corpses that had been lying motionless on the ground, immediately twitched when hit by the dark light. Then, as if coming back to life, they stood up directly from the ground and turned to look towards the wooden house where Xia Hong and the others were.

"These people, is this how they live!"

Xia Hong's heart trembled slightly. These were all Earth Piercing Realm cultivators.

If all nine thousand plus people were resurrected, then no matter how strong he was, he would probably be doomed here today.

"Brother, the Congealing Fire Oil can only suppress them. It doesn't seem enough to kill them. More and more people are being resurrected. We can't delay any longer. You go first, we'll hold them off here!"

Seeing more and more people being resurrected at the bottom of the bamboo building, Yu Wentao was about to persuade Xia Hong to retreat first, but before he could speak, Xia Chuan spoke first.

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Yu Wentao's expression shook, and he turned to look at Xia Hong.

Did this Xia Hong hide some other tricks?

"Alright!"

Xia Hong didn't waste any words either. He turned to look at the location of the bamboo building, his pupils slightly focused, and with a leap, he jumped directly out of the wooden house window, rushing straight towards the bamboo building.

"Ah… … … …"

Perhaps noticing Xia Hong rushing towards him, He Yuanhun's screams became even louder. At the same time, those resurrected people also besieged Xia Hong from all directions.

Clearly, they were all trying to stop him from continuing to rush towards the bamboo building.

Xia Hong's eyes flashed coldly, and he took out dozens of pieces of Congealing Fire Oil from his chest and threw them violently forward, his ceremonial blade quickly slicing through them.

Bang… … … …

His figure was as fast as lightning. While rushing towards the bamboo building, his ceremonial blade quickly cut and liquefied the Congealing Fire Oil in front of him, creating a black oil mist along the way.

Ah… … … …

After the Congealing Fire Oil vaporized, it was no longer so easy for those strange creatures blocking him to resist. At this moment, they didn't possess much intelligence to begin with. Many people's silver-white pupils were splashed with the oil mist, and flames immediately erupted from their heads.

Those who weren't splashed by the oil mist couldn't resist Xia Hong's ceremonial blade either.

Whoosh… … … …

Xia Hong's terrifying power, coupled with his extreme speed, sent blades flying along the way without the slightest pause. In a flurry of chaos, he directly cut a bloody path through hundreds and thousands of people, heading straight for the bamboo building.

In an instant, the distance between him and the bamboo building was less than a hundred meters.

Entering the hundred-meter range, Xia Hong glanced back at the wooden house where Xia Chuan and the others were stationed, and noticed that more and more strange creatures had already rushed over, his pupils slightly constricted.

"Indeed, we can't delay any longer!"

Xia Hong turned his head again to look at the two mirrors in the sky above the bamboo building, his mind stirred.

A circular furnace with a diameter of more than one meter suddenly appeared in front of him.

The moment the furnace appeared, the two mirrors in the sky seemed to sense something, and their light suddenly stagnated.

Even though they were two mirrors, Xia Hong could clearly sense the emotion of fear from them, and a cold smile appeared on his face.

Sizzle… … … …

The Iron Refining Furnace made two soft sounds, and flames slowly ignited within.

Boom… … … …

The moment the flames ignited in the Iron Refining Furnace, the flames under the two mirrors also suddenly rose several times, and He Yuanhun's screams became even more intense.

At the same time, those newly resurrected people seemed to have their strength drained, instantly crashing for a few seconds, their silver-white pupils began to shed liquid, and a painful expression gradually appeared on their faces.

"Ah… … … … Ah… … … … Ah… … … … … …"

He Yuanhun's painful voice came from the mirrors in mid-air. Seeing the beam of light from the mirror on the right shining on the top floor of the bamboo building, Xia Hong didn't hesitate any longer. He directly bent down and rushed to the side of the bamboo building, leaped up, and jumped to the third floor, rushing into the inner room.

Whoosh… … … …

The moment he got close to the bamboo building, the snow-white bamboos on the outer wall seemed to come to life, shaking off the snow covering them, revealing a layer of sharp thorns.

Those thorns were about ten centimeters long, fine and sharp, and shot out indiscriminately in all directions. Xia Hong, who was about to rush into the inner room, was naturally the first to bear the brunt, almost covered by the thorns.

The moment the thorns shot over, Xia Hong's expression changed slightly. He slashed down several thorns with his ceremonial blade, and sensing that their impact force wasn't even ten thousand catties, he directly ignored the ceremonial blade and continued to rush into the inner room.

Clang… … Clang… … Clang… … … …

The fine thorns shot at Xia Hong's body, as if hitting a copper wall and iron barrier, failing to leave even a white spot on his skin, and fell directly to the ground.

Xia Hong, who had already rushed into the inner room, finally saw He Yuanhun.

He was lying on the ground, covering his eyes with his hands and letting out painful roars. Seeing Xia Hong come in, he raised his head slightly, looking at him with resentment.

Two silver-white pupils were emitting thick black smoke from between his fingers, with flames flickering within, exactly the same as the two mirrors in mid-air.

The beam of light from the mirror on the left was enveloping him.

That beam of light seemed to carry an eerie high temperature, causing his whole body to begin to crack. Countless cracks had already appeared on his face, hands, and neck, wherever the skin was exposed.

The moment he saw those cracks, Xia Hong immediately understood.

The mirror on the left was what was emitting the evil light.

His left arm had been hit by it once before.

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh, you're too late, you're too late, you're too late, hahahahahahaha, you're too late!"

He Yuanhun, as if suddenly possessed, laughed wildly.

He directly released his hands. The original silver-white pupils actually returned to their normal state, and the cracks all over his body quickly began to recover. The rampant posture, coupled with the extremely evil smirk on his face, was chilling.

Xia Hong's eyes narrowed slightly. It was difficult to connect the person in front of him with Gao Yu, who had visited Great Xia last month, who was as gentle as jade and kind and polite.

"Your black oily substance and that furnace only have a suppressive effect on me. They can't kill me. The aptitude of a Super Grade Battle Body, the power of Six Tendrils, I did underestimate you. But now you can't beat me, you can't beat me anymore, hahahahaha… … … …"

Xia Hong allowed He Yuanhun to laugh wildly, only looking at him coldly.

"You and He Yuanhun are one, but you are two people, right?"

He Yuanhun, or rather, the Mirror Immortal, his expression froze. Seeing that there was no trace of fear on Xia Hong's face, he suddenly felt like he had punched cotton.

His rampantness and complacency seemed to have become a joke in front of Xia Hong.

This posture gave him a very familiar feeling.

"Why aren't you afraid, why aren't you afraid, die for me!"

As if touched on a sensitive nerve, the Mirror Immortal suddenly roared, his legs slamming hard on the ground, and the entire bamboo building shuddered instantly.

Countless snow-white bamboo leaves suddenly fell from the walls.

Those fallen bamboo leaves stagnated in the air for a moment.

The next second, the Mirror Immortal's body suddenly rushed towards Xia Hong.

His speed was extremely fast, and the strong airflow formed by the sprint caused all the bamboo leaves that had just stagnated to move.

During the sprint, the Mirror Immortal's left pupil suddenly flashed. Every time he looked at a bamboo leaf, the bamboo leaf would suddenly turn into a stream of light and shoot towards Xia Hong.

Whoosh… … Whoosh… … Whoosh… … … …

In an instant, the entire room was filled with streams of light, all white air currents caused by the flying bamboo leaves.

Xia Hong quickly flipped his ceremonial blade in his hand, slashing down the bamboo leaves while constantly swaying left and right to avoid them, but even so, some parts were still scratched by the bamboo leaves, leaving small and sharp wounds.

"These bamboo leaves… … … …"

While frantically dodging, Xia Hong took the opportunity to look down at the back of his hand and saw the opening broken by the bamboo leaves, and a look of horror flashed in his pupils.

After the skin membrane was reshaped, what he improved was not just basic strength.

Xia Hong knew very well how hard his skin membrane was.

He knew that the evil light emitted from the Mirror Immortal's left eye could break through his left arm.

The bamboo leaves it controlled actually had such terrifying power!

Bang… … … …

While dodging the bamboo leaves, the Mirror Immortal had already rushed in front of him.

A long sword as black as ink had already appeared in his hand.

The long sword didn't even make a sound when it was unsheathed. When it stabbed towards Xia Hong's heart, it was also silent, only making a rustling sound of bamboo leaves passing through the forest when it touched his skin.

Along with the rustling sound, Xia Hong also sensed the invincible impact and penetrating power on the tip of the sword.

"Seven Tendrils, close to Eight Tendrils, no wonder he said I can't beat him!"

The moment he touched the long sword, Xia Hong felt the Mirror Immortal's strength.

More than 750,000 catties, close to 800,000.

With such terrifying power, in just a moment, he had not only recovered all his injuries, but was even several times stronger than before.

Is this the benefit brought by the suicide of those nine thousand plus people!

Strange creatures, improve their strength by killing people.

The more people they kill, the stronger they become.

Thinking of the description of strange creatures again, Xia Hong's heart tightened, and his fear of this type of creature rose to the extreme again.

"Heh heh heh heh, die, die, when you die, I can swallow this furnace too. The more than a thousand people in your valley camp will all become my nourishment, heh heh heh heh… … … …"

Mirror Immortal cackled wildly once more, as he could already feel his longsword piercing Xia Hong's chest.

Another step forward, and it would pierce Xia Hong's heart.

“Don't celebrate too early!”

Xia Hong's steady tone gradually drove Mirror Immortal into madness.

He finally understood why he hated this feeling so much.

Because Xia Hong's demeanor was exactly the same as He Yuanhun's.

Both possessed that confidence and composure that allowed them to manipulate him at will.

As if everything was within their control.

“What are you? What are you? How dare you! Still talking tough when death is at hand! Die! Die! Die… … … … ”

Mirror Immortal roared hysterically, ignoring the billowing black smoke in his pupils, charging towards Xia Hong with reckless abandon, his hands erupting with almost all of his strength.

All for the sake of killing the person before him.

Whoosh… … … …

However, in the next second, Xia Hong sidestepped, completely shattering his wishful thinking.

This speed… …

Mirror Immortal's pupils shrank sharply, and before the astonishment on his face could dissipate, a tremendous force was transmitted from the ceremonial blade in Xia Hong's hand to his sword.

Xia Hong's sidestep only avoided the fatal heart area.

Mirror Immortal's longsword still pierced through his armpit.

Blood spurted from the wound at the back, but Xia Hong's expression remained calm.

His ceremonial blade actually deflected Mirror Immortal's longsword, ignoring the chunk of flesh torn away from himself, he reversed his grip on the blade with both hands and suddenly thrust upwards from below.

Whoosh… … … …

The speed of the blade was too fast, just like the rapidly flying bamboo leaves just now, making an extremely sharp and piercing sound.

Clang… … … …

The longsword in Mirror Immortal's hand was directly knocked away.

The terrifying force not only caused the longsword in Mirror Immortal's hand to fly away, but also sent his body flying backwards like a cannonball leaving the barrel, crashing through the bamboo building wall with a bang for more than twenty meters.

After flying another five or six meters outwards, he was still frozen in mid-air.

What was frozen was not just his body.

But also the look in his eyes.

Mirror Immortal's face was filled with disbelief as he stared fixedly at Xia Hong inside the bamboo building:

“How is your strength possible… … … … ”

A sharp blade of light pierced through the air from inside the bamboo building.

Xia Hong's slightly teasing voice also echoed.

“Who told you that after my breakthrough, I only have the strength of six tassels?”

I've been tricked!

I've been tricked… … … …

Only horror and fear remained in Mirror Immortal's pupils in an instant.

As the blade of light flew over, he even forgot to dodge.

Pfft… … … …