Chapter 40: The Undead Egg

  "It's indeed a true Ice Fog Cave." Bai Cangdong stood in the icy cave shrouded in cold air, and although he was wearing thick clothes, he still felt no warmth on his body. The breath he exhaled immediately turned into tiny ice crystals.

  "Are we going to live in a place like this for half a year?" Yan Mengyun was also stunned, although she had heard that the environment of Bingwu Cave was very poor, but she did not expect it to be so bad.

  They lived in a place with only one tent, nothing else. As for food and drink, it was even more difficult, they could only melt ice into water and cook some dried meat that had been stored.

  Bingwu Cave was originally in a canyon far from the ground, and it would take two or three days to return. Therefore, during this half-year period, the martial artists guarding Bingwu Cave were generally not allowed to leave Bingwu Cave.

  "Only one tent?" Bai Cangdong looked at himself and Yan Mengyun, two strangers, a man and a woman, how could they sleep in the same tent?

  Yan Mengyun's face turned slightly red: "I believe in Bai Wu's character."

  "Yan Wushi, please be at ease." Although he said so with his mouth, Bai Canghai's heart was secretly muttering: "Even I don't believe in my own character, what's the use of you believing me?"

  Apart from where the tent is located, most other places in the ice cave have been planted with ice core grass. The last batch of ice core grass has just been harvested, and the seeds that were just planted have just sprouted a bit of green shoots, but nothing special can be seen yet.

  Bai Cangdong and Yan Mengyun settled down in the Ice Fog Cave, despite many inconveniences. They were able to get along harmoniously and quickly became familiar with each other. Since there was no one else to communicate with inside the cave, they spent their days together and soon became friends who could chat about anything under the sun, even though neither of them was eloquent.

  Most of the time, Bai Cangdong was practicing the Extreme Frost Finger given to him by Hong Lian. The practice method of this martial skill is different from ordinary martial skills. Ordinary martial skills only require accurate operation of the natal chart to strengthen the body, while Extreme Frost Finger requires not only operating the natal chart to strengthen the fingers but also absorbing a certain amount of cold air into the fingers.

  The cold air accumulated day by day and month by month was sealed in the meridians of that finger, and after being strengthened by the life wheel, it could be practiced to make that finger turn into eternal ice. If this finger hit the flesh, the cold air in the finger would enter the opponent's body. When practiced to the extreme, an ordinary person could be frozen into an ice sculpture.

  In theory, all ten fingers can cultivate the Extreme Frost Finger, but that process is extremely slow. Generally, people will only choose one finger to cultivate the Extreme Frost Finger.

  Bai Cangdong chose his left little finger, and after a period of cultivation, the little finger underwent some subtle changes, seeming to have grown a bit, almost even with the adjacent ring finger. The color of his fingers also became whiter and more crystal clear.

  The cultivation of the Extreme Frost Finger is almost endless, and the more cold air absorbed, the more powerful the Extreme Frost Finger becomes. The only concern is whether the body can withstand so much cold air. When the finger appears to be frozen with frost, it has exceeded the body's tolerance and must stop cultivating immediately.

  Bai Cang had just started cultivating for a short time and hadn't reached his limit yet. Every day, he diligently cultivated the Extreme Frost Finger, and it didn't feel lonely at all.

  He had carefully reviewed the materials and found that the extreme cold finger could indeed break through some specific undead clan's undead light, which would be an important chip for his future promotion to viscount.

  "Cang Dong, have you heard any strange noises?" Bai Cangdong was sleeping soundly when he was suddenly woken up by Yan Mengyun.

  Strange sounds he didn't hear, only saw Yan Mengyun wearing only pajamas, because of bending down, from the bottom up, a pair of small white rabbits were quite plump.

  "You..." Yan Mengyun's cheeks flushed red, and she hastily covered her chest with her hand.

  "Cough, I didn't hear any strange sounds, what did you hear?" Bai Cangdong was focused on his cultivation every day and in this desolate Ice Fog Cave, his vigilance had decreased a lot, and he slept very soundly.

  "Listen carefully, it seems like there are some strange noises, I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's very weird," said Yan Mengyun.

  He leaned his ear to the east and listened carefully. After a while, he indeed heard some strange noises, which sounded like grinding teeth or sawing wood.

  "Could it be that someone has come to steal the ice core grass? But that's not right, it just sprouted not long ago, and stealing it would be useless. I'll go take a look." Bai Cangdong put on his clothes and quietly went outside the tent to look around, but didn't see anything.

  "The sound is coming from inside there." Yan Mengyun said, pointing at a hole in the ice.

  "Let's go and take a look." Bai Cangdong took the lead in walking towards the ice cave, Yan Mengyun also followed up.

  The two of them walked forward along the ice cave, and after not going far, they suddenly stopped in their tracks. They saw that on one of the ice walls in what should have been a dead end, a large hole had appeared out of nowhere. A strange creature, its body seemingly made up of ice crystals and shaped like a python, over ten meters long, was leisurely gnawing at the cold ice there.

  "What kind of ghost thing is this?" Yan Mengyun exclaimed in shock.

  "It's an undead of the baron level." Bai Cangdong saw the noble crest on the monster's body and let out a slight breath, fortunately it was only a baron-level undead, the two of them should be able to handle it.

  At this time, the undead also discovered them, and the monster let out a scream, opening its big mouth to bite over.

  Bai Cangdong and Yan Mengyun simultaneously summoned their armed forces, striking out at the undead tribe. The result was unexpectedly smooth, with just a few strikes they killed the seemingly terrifying undead tribe, leaving behind a Life Measuring Light Ruler on the ground.

  "It's not a dead end after all, let's go in and take a look, maybe there are other undead creatures." Bai Cangdong walked to the entrance of the cave created by the monster, stretched his neck to take a peek inside, and found that it was also an ice cave, which seemed to be winding and didn't know where it led.

  "Let's take a look anyway. If there really are a large number of undead inside, we must report to the organization immediately. Otherwise, we can't bear that responsibility." Yan Mengyun said.

  Two people passed through the big hole, advancing along the winding ice cave, all the way very quiet, and did not find other undead tribes, until the ice cave suddenly opened up, and the two were thoroughly stunned by the scene in front of them.

  Rows of ice crystals towering over three meters in height lined the massive ice cave, numbering in the hundreds. On one side of these giant eggs, a being with an undead appearance almost identical to those seen before, but dozens of times larger, was sleeping soundly. The viscount-level crest on its body dazzled people's eyes.

  "Have you ever heard that the undead can still lay eggs?" Bai Cangdong asked Yan Mengyun in a low and somewhat difficult tone.

  Yan Mengyun could no longer speak, she just shook her head.

  "I think we should leave immediately and go back to the Doron Society to report the situation here to the president." Bai Cang swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

  "Agreed."

  The two of them turned around in perfect sync and quietly slipped away.

  Crack!

  Not far away, a giant egg suddenly cracked open, and a monster as big as the undead they had just killed crawled out of it. The monster's eyes scanned around in a circle before fixing on Bai Cangdong and Yan Mengyun.

  "Run quickly!" Bai Cangdong said in a low voice, pulling Yan Mengyun and running.

  The newborn monster let out a strange cry, instantly awakening the sleeping Viscount-level undead. The Viscount-level undead discovered the two of them and let out an angry roar, spewing forth icy crystals of undead energy from its mouth.

  The two rolled to one side, dodging the terrifying undead light. However, the undead light struck the ice wall, blasting it down and blocking their original path through the ice cave.

  "There's a passage over there, let's run that way." Yan Mengyun pointed at another ice cave passage and shouted.

  The two had just gotten up and wanted to run in that direction, but the undead clan suddenly spewed out another mouthful of deadly light, forcing them to jump aside again to avoid it.

  "That monster's undead glow is too powerful, we can't just run past it. Follow me." Bai Cangdong pulled Yan Mengyun, not rushing towards the passage, but instead charging towards the monster.

  Yan Mengyun didn't know what Bai Cangdong was up to, but she also knew that he wouldn't go and get himself killed, so she let him pull her along as they ran forward.

  It's strange to say, when the two just started running towards the monster, the monster spat out a beam of undead light again, but it was only roaring at them with its hand, and didn't spit out the undead light again.

  "We should be safe for now." Bai Cangdong ran to the side of a giant egg and wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead.

  "So that's it! The monster is afraid of hurting these eggs, so it doesn't dare to spit its deadly light at us." Yan Mengyun suddenly realized.

  Bai Cangdong looked at the furious monster, but did not dare to charge or spit out the undying light. The solemnity on his face did not decrease: "The undead can only be revived on the altar of the undead, but they do not have the ability to give birth to offspring. How is it that this undead has given birth to so many giant eggs? This is simply impossible."

  Yan Mengyun's expression suddenly changed, and then she seemed to think of something: "It's possible, but only under one circumstance, that the undead can produce offspring."

  "What situation?" Bai Cangdong had never heard of an undead giving birth to offspring.

  "Unless they are an undead tribe that has broken free from the control of the altar of immortality and is subservient to humans, only then can they possess the ability to reproduce," Yan Mengyun said.

  "What! The undead can break free from the control of the Undead Altar and be used by humans?" Bai Cangdong exclaimed in a low voice, almost disbelieving his own ears.

  Yan Mengyun explained in a low voice, "Ordinary undead naturally do not have this possibility, but after killing the undead, there is a certain probability of obtaining a special armament called 'Undead Egg'. The undead hatched from the Undead Egg can be driven by humans like an armament and can give birth to offspring under specific circumstances."