Chapter 17: The Snow Demon and the Wall of Gods

  "Aren't you a fox spirit?" Su Dong was taken aback and asked in doubt.

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing looked more perplexed than Su Dong, and Bai Xiaoya asked back: "What is a demon fox? Our White Spirit clan may be a fox spirit beast, but we have nothing to do with the word 'demon'."

  Su Dong had heard Su Ning and Su Qi mention the matter of spiritual beasts before. On this continent, there were not only humans, but also many spiritual creatures, and spiritual beasts were one of them.

  The Linghu clan, due to their beautiful appearance, were often kept as pets by wealthy families, and their fate was mostly miserable. They were not the same as the dark creatures that Su Dong understood in his previous life.

  Sudong said faintly: "Although you are not fox demons, this does not mean that you will not harm my father and brother."

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing hastily explained that they were still grateful and couldn't possibly harm Su Dong and Su Qiyan, let alone succeed in doing so with their current abilities. Moreover, Su Ning's powerful physique was still quite formidable.

  Su Dong waved his hand and said: "It's useless to just talk about it with your mouth, show your true form."

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing were both stunned. Although Bai Qing was older, her bloodline level was lower and she didn't have a mind of her own, completely relying on Bai Xiaoya's orders.

  Bai Xiaoya bit her lip and said in a low voice, "As long as we can prove that we are grateful to Uncle Su and Brother Suning, we are willing to do anything."

  After that, Bai Xiaoya took off her clothes and naturally leaned forward, prostrating herself on the ground. In an instant, she grew silver fur and transformed into a small fox, only about the size of a palm. As for Bai Qing's fur, it was a lower grade of white, and his head was slightly larger.

  Su Dong slightly furrowed his brow and ordered Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing to get up, saying: "You two are of the same clan, but the difference is so great. Your body is pure yin, and without the nourishment of a place with abundant yin energy, you might not be able to survive."

  Bai Xiaoya was taken aback, and lowered her head to say: "It's my fault that I implicated Qing'er sister. If it weren't for me being unable to tolerate the warm weather, Qing'er sister might have gone south long ago."

  "Miss, whatever you do, don't say that. Qing'er will never abandon you."

  Su Dong watched the two spiritual beasts conversing from the side, it was his first time seeing real spiritual beasts and he had a few parts of curiosity in his heart, Bai Qing and Bai Xiao Ya were very emotional, as if there was something difficult to say.

  "You shouldn't have come to Hansheng City, this obviously isn't a place for you to stay." Su Dong said bluntly to Bai Xiaoya.

  Bai Xiaoya nodded and said with a hint of grievance: "You don't know, our White Spirit clan originally lived in the White Head Mountain five hundred miles away, but..."

  "The White Spirit clan is no more, the blue-eyed devils have invaded our territory, only I and my sister Qing'er managed to escape. We originally planned to head south to seek refuge with relatives, but I'm still young and can't bear the humid heat, so we had to temporarily settle in Hansheng City until I grow up a bit more before continuing on our journey."

  Su Dong was taken aback and asked: "Blue-eyed devil? Are you referring to Xue Mo?"

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing looked frightened, nodding their heads slightly.

  Su Dong was perplexed and asked, "Isn't the Snow Demon a creature from the northern wilderness? Although Whitehead Mountain is located in the north, it's still thousands of miles away from the Extreme North Wilderness. How could the Snow Demon have run to your Whitehead Mountain?"

  Bai Xiaoya looked at Su Dong and then out the window, saying: "Now that it's already April, haven't you noticed that this year's April is colder than usual?"

  Su Dong didn't speak, and this April was indeed not warm. Su Dong still wore a woolen long shirt until now, especially in the early morning and evening, when the temperature would drop to around zero degrees, while most people had already worn breathable and thin silk clothes at this time of year.

  "I'm afraid the Ice Age is coming." Bai Xiaoya said with red eyes.

  Ice Age! ?

  Su Dong heard Su Qiyan say that every few thousand years, the mainland will enter an ice age, with a rapid drop in temperature. Summer is like autumn, autumn is bitterly cold, and winter is even more brutal than hell.

  Crops cannot grow, livestock cannot survive, and humans will also be frozen to death without enough warm clothing.

  What's even worse than the harsh nature is a blue-eyed evil creature living in the north, the Snow Demon!

  They will take advantage of the cold weather and go south to plunder, leaving a trail of death and destruction wherever they pass, not a single tile left intact!

  Su Dongdao said: "How long is it until the Ice Age arrives?"

  Bai Xiaoya shook her head and said, "The last ice age was over 6,300 years ago, longer than any previous one, it's hard to say when the next one will come."

  "It's already spring now, those Snow Demons won't come to Hansheng City no matter how powerful they are, you can rest assured living here." Su Dong said.

  Bai Qing sighed and said, "Su Gongzi, please stop teasing us. We moved here because of the changes in your household. Now you're moving here to live, if we don't move out, Miss will die."

  Su Dong was taken aback. Originally, Bai Xiaoya lived near the Su family's house. After Su Dong woke up and activated the Feng Shui formation, the environment of the Su family changed, and even the surrounding area underwent changes.

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing couldn't live there anymore, so they moved here. As a result of a series of unexpected events, Su Dong also had to move here, and it turned out that the distance between their homes was only separated by one wall. When the time comes for the Feng Shui formation to take effect, the Bai family will have no choice but to continue moving houses.

  "Don't worry, since you're not those evil things, I won't make it difficult for you. And you don't have to move either, as long as you're willing to help me with one thing."

  Bai Qing and Bai Xiao Ya looked very excited, they didn't expect Su Dong to let them off so easily. After all, the beauty of the White Spirit clan was renowned throughout the continent, if Su Dong had caught them and sold them, he could have exchanged them for a large sum of silver.

  Su Dong was after all a modern thinker, and the Qi Men valued equality among all living things, never taking pride in bullying the weak. Bai Qing and Bai Xiao Ya were spirit beasts, but they were very weak and kind-hearted, Su Dong felt he had no reason to make things difficult for these two small lives.

  Su Dong said to Bai Qing: "You are a spirit fox, you must be very familiar with things in the mountains?"

  Bai Qing nodded vaguely.

  "I want to find something and someone in the northern part of the city, at Wufeng Mountain. The person is from a farming family..." Su Dong said carefully.

  ……

  Su Dong's task for Bai Qing was to find the villager who sold him the jade or directly find the mother jade.

  Six pieces of jade-made ritual objects have a great effect, and Su Dong is now short of one piece of Qimen's grand ritual object, which can be combined into a complete set. Once the ritual objects of Qimen are in a set, their power will increase exponentially!

  The Wufeng Mountain is vast in area, and even Su Dong might not be able to cover it all in several years. Fortunately, the Linghuo tribe is well-versed in the mountain's terrain, making them a perfect helper for himself.

  As compensation, Su Dong would help Bai Qing and Bai Xiao Ya gather the yin evil energy to keep these two small spirit beasts alive, providing them with protection, a pretty fair deal.

  Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing had never seen anyone like Su Dong in their lives. According to the legend of the White Spirit clan, humans were all evil and wanted to capture them for their own nefarious purposes.

  When they met Su Qi Nian and Su Dong, Bai Qing and Bai Xiao Ya felt like they had encountered a great benefactor. As it turned out, Su Dong was even more so, knowing that they were spiritual beasts, yet he didn't intend to make things difficult for them, and instead made a very fair deal with them, making the two little lives happy to the point of almost fainting.

  Back home, Su Qi Nian's father was still awake, reading a book by the lamp in the courtyard.

  Su Dong thought for a moment, sat down beside Su Qi Nian, poured himself a cup of tea, and tentatively said: "Father, this spring is colder than usual, I just heard people on the street say that an ice age may be coming."

  Su Qi Nian was taken aback, closed the book and walked back to his room. He rummaged through the bookshelf and pulled out an almanac, carefully examining it before expressing concern: "It's been over 6,300 years since the last ice age. If another one really is coming, I'm afraid the entire northern region will be buried in snow."

  Su Dong put down his teacup and said calmly: "I'm afraid there's still a Snow Demon."

  Hmph!

  Su Qiannian's face was heavy, he looked up at the starry sky and muttered to himself: "According to the mainland almanac, there are differences between the Great Ice Age and the Little Ice Age. If it's the Little Ice Age, it's still okay, retreating south to the Imperial Capital will be safe."

  "What if it's an ice age?"

  Su Qi let out a long sigh and said: "The Great Ice Age? If we keep going south, it's the Wall of Gods, that's the limit, where else can we retreat to..."

  Su Dongdao said, "I don't believe it. Even if it's really the Great Ice Age, and the Snow Demon invades all the way to the Gods' Wall, will the people behind those walls just stand by and watch the northern civilians die at the hands of the Snow Demon?"

  Su Qi Nian slightly shook his head, his voice heavy as he said: "Absolutely will be, behind the Wall of Gods is the realm of the gods. The North is called the Lost Continent because we have long been forgotten by the gods."

  Su Dong didn't believe in gods, let alone the mysterious legends of the mainland. He said disdainfully: "Then just push down the Wall of Gods directly! When the time comes, the hundreds of millions of civilians and soldiers from the entire North will gather under the Wall of Gods, can't they even push down a wall?"

  Su Qi let out a long sigh, "You've never seen the Wall of Gods, so it's natural that you'd say something like this. Believe me, there are countless people who think like you do, but when they actually see the Wall of Gods, they can only do one thing."

  "What's wrong?" Su Dong asked, puzzled.

  "He died in despair." Su Qi said hoarsely.