Chapter 862: Wind and Snow in the Ancient Treasury

The boy in hempen clothes climbed up from the ground with a grunt, his mind spinning.

He leaned against the wall, barely opening his eyes. Turbid dust swirled in the air, as if a sandstorm had just passed; everything was hazy.

At the same time, other figures were slowly climbing up amidst groans, their eyes filled with confusion.

"...What happened?"

The boy in hempen clothes vaguely remembered that after Zhu Zhong pushed open the stone gate, a golden hurricane rushed out, sweeping them all in... And then, there was a roar and a dizzying spin, and he lost consciousness.

"A-Qian?"

He groped in the dust with both hands and, seeing a female figure not far away, immediately walked toward her.

"You've got the wrong person," a cold female voice came out. The person was holding her forehead with one hand, seemingly just waking up too. "The person you're looking for is over there."

After the boy in hempen clothes got closer, he saw that it wasn't A-Qian, but the girl who had used the flint to light the torch... If he remembered correctly, this girl's name was Wu Qiong.

After apologizing, he walked to the direction she pointed and hoisted A-Qian, who was still asleep, onto his back...

"I've seen you carrying her the whole way... what is this girl to you?" Wu Qiong asked suspiciously.

"The daughter of a neighbor," the boy in hempen clothes replied, looking back. "I'm an orphan. Her family was good to me when I was young. Before we left, her parents cried the whole way, begging me to protect her... No matter what, I must bring her safely to the Tian-Shu Domain."

"Oh, you care so much about her, I thought she was your little girlfriend."

“……”

"Helping others is a good thing, but you have to know the occasion," Wu Qiong glanced at the sleeping girl on the boy's shoulder. "Don't forget we're running for our lives right now, and we've fallen into some god-knows-where place... She's too young; at a critical moment, she's a life-threatening burden."

The boy in hempen clothes raised an eyebrow and stared at Wu Qiong for a long time... He wasn't angry, and he didn't show any emotion. A few seconds later, he asked in return:

"Why are you telling me this?"

"I like your eyes, especially the corners, they are as beautiful as a phoenix's tail, so I paid a little more attention... And I can feel that you might be the same kind of person as me," Wu Qiong paused for a moment. "Judging by your reaction, my judgment is correct."

"It's too early to draw conclusions," the boy in hempen clothes gently stroked A-Qian's hair, a hint of softness appearing in his eyes.

Wu Qiong looked at this scene, snorted coldly, and changed the subject,

"By the way... have you seen anything strange since just now?"

"What?"

"...Words, words floating before your eyes."

The boy in hempen clothes was stunned, seemingly not understanding what Wu Qiong meant.

"Nothing," Wu Qiong said, shaking her head. "Just pretend I didn't say anything..."

Just as the two were talking, Zhu Zhong's figure also stood up from the dust. He frowned and looked around, then seemed to have discovered something, his eyes staring fixedly at a piece of nothingness before him... He even reached out to touch it, his expression one of extreme surprise.

"There's a path ahead! We're out!" a surprised voice came from the front.

Everyone turned to look simultaneously. At the end of the dust corridor, a tiny patch of white was fluttering silently, and there was even the sound of wind coming from ahead, as if it were connected to the outside world.

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they swarmed forward!

The boy in hempen clothes, carrying A-Qian, deliberately slowed his pace. Only after most people had rushed to the front did he follow silently... When he looked back, he found that Wu Qiong was trailing behind just like him.

Passing through the dust corridor, a biting cold swept over them. White snow howled and swirled around them, making the thinly dressed crowd shiver...

"This..."

Everyone's eyes were filled with shock.

Before them was a wilderness of wind and snow. Deep snow piled up on the ground, enough to submerge their knees... Countless bare tree trunks stood in the endless wind and snow, the only scenery in this world.

Wind and snow howled, heaven and earth were one;

"Underground in the Gray Realm... there's a snowfield?" Zhu Zhong frowned tightly. He immediately realized something was wrong because he and everyone else around him had regained their color.

"This isn't the Gray Realm?!"

"We walked out of the Gray Realm!!"

Everyone was ecstatic at first, then shivered again from the biting cold. They looked around, but couldn't see the shadow of any domain city... Even when they looked back, they found that the corridor they had come through had disappeared.

No, that's not right...

"This is definitely not a normal human domain," Zhu Zhong said in a low voice. "We were clearly underground in the Gray Realm just now; how could we teleport to a human domain? And besides the Polar Domain, where in the human domains is there such terrifying wind and snow?"

Zhu Zhong's words made the boy in hempen clothes and Wu Qiong look at him sideways... They had thought this Zhu Zhong was just a reckless brute, but they hadn't expected him to have some brains.

Well, he knew to find a scapegoat to scout the path before going down the fissure; he was definitely not a pure idiot.

"But we clearly have color on us... so it's not the Gray Realm, right?" a figure asked hesitantly.

"I've heard from my elders that there are some God Dao ancient treasuries in the Gray Realm, which hide great opportunities for various God Daos... Perhaps we are in some ancient treasury?"

Hearing this, Zhu Zhong's eyes lit up, and he became excited.

"I ask you... just now, did you see any words before your eyes?"

"Words... no?"

Zhu Zhong's smile grew brighter. His tall figure stood in the wind and snow like a high-spirited general... Then he resolutely took a step and walked into the depths of the wind and snow.

"Go! Everyone keep moving forward! There must be a secret ahead..."

Zhu Zhong walked at the front, shielding much of the wind and snow by himself. Everyone was shivering from the cold, but there was nowhere else to go, so they had to grit their teeth and follow behind him.

The boy in hempen clothes suddenly seemed to remember something and looked back!

Oh no, what about Senior Jiang Xiaohua?

They had been stunned by the tremor earlier, their minds a mess. It wasn't until they walked out of the corridor that they remembered no one had looked after the mummy that had fallen down... But the corridor had disappeared, and naturally, Jiang Xiaohua was gone too.

"Brother Xiao Li... where are we? I'm so cold," A-Qian woke up in the wind and snow, curling up on the boy's back and asking in a small voice.

"...We must have stumbled into an ancient treasury."

The boy in hempen clothes took off his coat and covered Ah Qian, who was on his back, with it to shield her from the biting wind and snow. He whispered, "Don't be afraid. There should be a place ahead that can shelter us from the storm... Let's go."