Volume 11: The First Law Chapter 23 White Walkers? The Dead!
The road was clear and the pursuers were thrown off, and the Dragon and Phoenix Army of more than 70 people continued to move forward at the same speed.
Gradually, the outline of the "deep pit" became clearer and clearer.
Gusts of cold wind comparable to the cold wind rushed over from the front, chilling people to the bone.
The further we went, the colder it became. It seemed as if not only our bones but our very souls were being pierced by the cold wind.
However, Lu Qingshan always felt that this chill was a little unusual and somewhat familiar, but he just couldn't remember it for the moment.
The only thing that was certain now was that they were very close to the deep pit.
This is also true.
The warhorse galloped and finally the deep pit came into view.
It was a deep pit that sank without any warning, and the cold wind that seemed to be able to tear apart a person's soul came from here.
Now that we are close to the edge of the deep pit, the cold wind is so biting that it is impossible to open our eyes.
"General, there seems to be something in the pit?" Gu Tianyan, who was still sitting behind Lu Qingshan, opened his eyes with difficulty and looked at the deep pit not far away, and said loudly.
Lu Qingshan looked into the distance, as if ignoring the cold wind, and then nodded silently.
That’s right, there is something in the deep pit.
"Let's go." Lu Qingshan said only one word.
He held the dragon bird in his hand, squeezed his legs together and got off the horse.
Others followed closely behind.
The deeper we went into the pit, the colder the wind became.
There were faint sounds of sobbing in the wind.
"General, something seems to be wrong here," Gu Tianyan's voice was trembling undisguisedly, "I seem to hear someone whispering."
"I heard it too." Lu Qingshan replied, narrowing his eyes and looking at the deep pit just ahead.
No, it shouldn't be called a deep pit, it should be called an abyss.
Because this black depression is so huge that you can't see the end of it at a glance.
…
The soldiers of the Dragon and Phoenix Army who came here with Lu Qingshan thought that they were shouldering the heavy responsibility of finding out the origin of the White Walkers and even solving the problem of the White Walkers. No matter what situation they encountered, they would not frown, even at the cost of life and death.
But now that we have finally reached the mouth of the abyss and have seen the details of the abyss...
All the soldiers of the Dragon and Phoenix Army felt a chill from the inside out. It seemed as if their hearts would jump out at any moment and their whole bodies were cramping.
Because the scene in front of me was really too weird and terrifying.
It turns out that the so-called abyss theory is not correct either.
This is actually a frozen lake.
A very, very large lake.
The reason why they thought this was a black deep pit when looking at it from afar was that what was flowing under the frozen lake surface was not water, but... a ghost-like existence.
These resentful souls were all black, floating beneath the lake like black fog.
They are so densely packed and piled up together that they form seas and mountains, making the entire lake as dark as an abyss.
clatter!
Lu Qingshan dismounted and stepped on the ice.
The next moment.
Human face.
Countless faces.
These resentful souls were like ferocious animals locked in a zoo. The moment they saw people, their faces were pressed against the thick layer of ice on the lake and they looked out.
So, at this moment, the entire ice surface of the lake was covered with human faces.
They struggled hard, like grass trying to break through the soil, trying their best to break through the ice.
Most of the faces did not have enough strength to break through the ice, but some of them seemed to be about to break through the ice, causing the surface of the ice to bulge slightly.
Tens of thousands of roars, growls, screams and cries mixed together, echoing on the lake and piercing the soul.
"You stepped on me."
"Damn human!"
"When I get out, I will chop off your head and step on it."
"Come feel my pain!"
“…”
The resentment penetrated the ice and reached everyone's brain.
It was as if there were hundreds of evil spirits whispering, crying, roaring, or shouting in my ears.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the scene before our eyes as hell.
Even the soldiers of the Dragon and Phoenix Army, who were used to seeing life and death, turned pale after seeing such a scene.
What exactly are these things? Are they evil spirits from hell?
Gu Tianyan, who also got off the horse, was stunned.
"What are they?" he murmured.
"They are all dead people, the deceased." Lu Qingshan sighed and said slowly.
"The deceased?" Gu Tianyan was speechless.
Lu Qingshan nodded, and at the same time stretched out his foot and stomped hard on the face of a man with a hideous face and a weird smile across the ice.
The human face did not react at all, still looking at Lu Qingshan fiercely through the ice, with an increasingly ferocious smile.
"Is this the Yellow Springs Hell?" he was puzzled.
The moment he stepped onto the lake, the chilling coldness reached its peak, and Lu Qingshan finally realized where this strange chilliness came from...
The dead air of Huangquan.
It is enough to destroy the blood and yang energy of the human body, and is the dead air that only exists in the underworld.
When Lu Qingshan was advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, he gained the gift of [Erosion Spirit] due to refining the Yellow Spring Origin, a divine object from Wangchuan. From then on, he could ignore the death energy of Yellow Spring. In addition, the rules of the Daoyuan Realm sealed his consciousness and perception, which led to his previous failure to react.
It was not until now, when the death aura became extremely strong, that Lu Qingshan reacted and determined the origins of these human faces.
The only ones wandering in the dead air are the dead souls.
However, according to the rules of heaven, the souls of the dead from any world will enter the underworld through reincarnation.
Then why are there so many dead souls gathered here, and why is there deathly energy floating around that only exists in the underworld?
You can't say that the Underworld also has "branches" and expands its "business", right?
Who has intercepted these dead souls, or is there some secret in this Daoyuan world, or is it both?
Lu Qingshan unconsciously fell into deep thought.
boom!
At this moment, the ice layer not far in front of Lu Qingshan bulged upward and exploded violently.
Hundreds of dead took the opportunity to escape from the ice.
Sizzle!
However, as most of the dead were separated from the ice, it was like snow being ignited by a furnace. Green smoke immediately rose from their bodies and they disappeared in an instant.
——The ice layer not only seals them, but also protects them.
However, although most of the dead turned into smoke and disappeared, there was still one particularly strong dead who withstood the test and his body did not disappear.
Its dark soul gradually turned into scarlet flesh and blood, appearing naked in front of everyone, with an extremely strange and powerful aura.
Then, under the gaze of everyone, it looked around, stretched out its hand, and pressed slightly.
The shattered ice fragments on the lake surface immediately floated up into the air and stuck to the surface of its body.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a brand new ice crystal armor covered its flesh and blood.
As if affected by the chill of the ice crystal armor, its flesh and blood turned pale at this moment.
This is not the end yet.
The remaining ice debris gradually formed into a long sword, which was held in its hand.
Ice crystal sword.
White Walker!
So this is how the White Walkers came about!
The White Walkers are really “ghosts”, they are creatures transformed from the dead!
After the two sets of ice crystal armor and ice crystal sword were completed, the White Walker seemed exhausted, as if sealed by something, and the strange and powerful aura on his body suddenly disappeared.
However, the newly born White Walkers seemed to have anticipated this and did not react too much.
It twisted its body, let out an excited howl, and flew directly towards Lu Qingshan, regardless of the ice chips falling from its body.
A red light flashed in Lu Qingshan's hand and wiped across the White Walker's throat.
——After two years of fighting, Lu Qingshan has become very skilled at killing White Walkers.
The White Walker fell to the ground with a bang, and his body first turned into liquid and then disappeared into the air.
All that was left was a newly forged ice crystal armor, an ice crystal sword and a glass heart.
Lu Qingshan narrowed his eyes and looked at the place where the White Walker fell.
There, beneath the ice, a new face appeared.
It was the White Walker that Lu Qingshan had just killed.
It reappeared beneath the surface of the lake.
The human face opened his eyes, stared at Lu Qingshan, and said helplessly and furiously:
"Just wait. I will remember you. When I have accumulated enough strength, I will definitely kill you."
——Under the lake, as time goes by, the dead will continue to grow stronger, until they are strong enough to break through and become White Walkers.
It’s a very simple process.
"If you were really strong, you wouldn't have died." Lu Qingshan didn't care about the threat from the human face and said softly.
Then he stopped looking at these faces.
Lu Qingshan already understood everything.
My initial guess was wrong.
The White Walkers did not come from the outside world. The reason they are immune to his killing gaze is entirely because they are the dead, the dead who have lived for who knows how many years.
This lake is like a resurrection point.
The dead appear in the lake and continue to accumulate strength. When they are strong enough, they can break through the ice and transform into White Walkers.
It is also because of this that their souls are far stronger than ordinary people.
With this lake, humans can only defeat the White Walkers but cannot completely kill them.
No wonder the White Walkers clearly died under the First Spell in ancient times, but now they appear again.
They are immortal beings.
Under this premise, the number of deaths will only increase.
Even if this time, they can kill this group of dead people who have finally accumulated enough power to transform into White Walkers, it will only be a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
Thousands and millions of years later, when the next batch of the dead are resurrected, what will happen to humans then?
Another point worth wondering is, when the White Walkers just broke out of the ice, where did the fleeting power that condensed into swords and armor come from?
However, no matter what, if you want to solve the problem of the White Walkers, you must destroy this lake.
This lake looks unusual at first glance, how can we destroy it?
Lu Qingshan thought.
After a moment, he seemed to have thought of something, and a gleam of light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
But before he could be happy, Lu Qingshan frowned again and slowly looked forward.
I don't know when.
Not far ahead, a cloud of fog appeared, extremely hazy.
In the mist, a White Walker as big as a mountain and five men tall walked out.
He stood quietly, like a giant standing on an ice field, or like a snowy peak rising from the ground.
The ice crystal sword in his hand was enlarged proportionally, so it no longer looked like a sword, but more like a mountain pillar.
His eyes were like two will-o'-the-wisp flames, suspended high in the sky.
The dark blue ice crystal armor that shone with crystal light covered him, bringing with it an indescribable deterrent force.
Majestic and gorgeous.
Lu Qingshan and more than seventy soldiers of the Dragon and Phoenix Army stood on the lake in front of the White Walkers, with snowflakes in their hair.
The armor on their bodies was still stained with blue blood from the previous battle and had scratches all over, looking shabby and dishevelled.
Compared with this burly White Walker, their figures seem extremely small.
A stark and stark contrast.
…
The burly White Walker's eyes first fell on the dragon bird in Lu Qingshan's hand.
“Daoyuan…”
He whispered, his voice filled with unconcealable ecstasy.
Then, his gaze wandered, moving upwards along the Dragon Bird, and finally fixed on Lu Qingshan's face.
The White Walker stared at Lu Qingshan's handsome face, with an lingering malice and deep hatred in his eyes that made people's scalps numb.
"Hehehe——it seems like you are Lu Qingshan. I've finally waited for you..."
