The far north is always shrouded in frost and snow that has lasted for countless years. Ever since life was born here, ever since life began to observe the world, ever since life began to record history, the sky here has always been...
It snowed, occasionally for a while, and then continued again.
Does frost and snow also have a source?
If you want to pursue the answer to this question, then you have to go all the way north from the southern coast of the North, across many countries that believe in the frost phoenix, all the way to the depths of the vastest snowfield, to the foot of the Sema Snow Mountain, which is like isolation
The huge mountains of heaven and earth are the source of the legendary frost and snow.
If you are more brave, you will continue to climb up, all the way through the deserted mountainside to the top of the mountain blocked by space turbulence.
At this moment, deep in the Sema Snow Mountain, the upside-down mountain peaks formed by layers of fuzzy spatial turbulence are particularly lively.
Large and strong women were surrounding a group of people, walking slowly through the mountain road wrapped in turbulent space.
"Be careful. If you fall into the turbulence of space, even the phoenix will not be able to save you."
The female troll leading the way used her halberd as a crutch to support the ground while warning the dozens of people wrapped up in their troll team - although this female troll team only had a dozen or so people.
, compared to the guys surrounded by them, there were more than two-thirds less, but due to the disparity in size, it seemed that those humans together were not as many as half of them.
At this moment, surrounded by these trolls were a group of people who were dressed in a slightly embarrassed manner, most of them were women, and they were strong-looking Sardinian women.
There was only one strong old man among them, wearing a simple cold-proof robe. In his arms was a little girl who was shivering from the cold, with round mouse ears, and was shrinking into a ball.
Beside him, an old woman who looked fat but strong was also holding two little rat girls in her arms.
If Fisher were here, of course he would know that this was Old Jack, the father of his old classmate, Pahtz, the first mate of the Iceberg Queen, and her three rat-bred granddaughters.
In front of this group of Sardinian women is a girl with short blond hair who looks quite strong. She has an extremely noble appearance of Narli blood. She has blond hair and golden eyes. However, due to sleeping in the open air for a long time, she also
The noble and weak appearance has faded away, and he has become more like a little lion.
It was Elisabeth Gedlin's sister, Isabel Gedlin.
At this moment, she was supporting a tall, listless, and rather frail-looking Sardinian woman.
This woman's long white hair hung lazily on the back of her head. Her face, which had always been elegant and unsmiling, was now slightly lowered. Her extremely pale face could occasionally be seen among the scattered white hair.
She gently held her lower abdomen, wrapped her body in an extremely simple robe, and leaned feebly on Pahz's body next to her. Dark smoke kept coming out of her lower abdomen, as if it was filled with smoke.
There was something at the end of her body that penetrated deeply into her body, sucking out everything from her.
"Ahem"
The cold weather, combined with physical factors, made this Sardinian woman cough slightly.
Next to her, Isabel gritted her teeth and looked at the female troll leading the way, and couldn't help but say in Northern dialect,
"How long does it take to get there? We've been walking for almost half an hour!"
The troll in front was still walking, but he touched the back of his head and said blankly,
"It's almost there, I guess. I don't know. I usually see it when I'm walking."
Isabel gritted her teeth speechlessly, but there was nothing she could do.
She has heard that there are many demi-human races in the Snow Mountains. The only remaining bloodlines of the legendary six races in the Snow Mountains have returned to the Snow Mountains. There seems to be a race called slimes among them that can teleport.
But now their ship sank during their escape, and even the captain Alagina was seriously injured because of the Black Chief's relics. They were in urgent need of a place to take refuge and rest. They thought they would be able to live a little more peacefully back in the north.
, but I didn’t expect that the Turan family here and the Nali and Black Chiefs were in cahoots.
In the past few years, Isabel has truly realized the sadness of "the world is so big but there is no place to stay".
Her sister was really too powerful. Her influence and puppets were everywhere, which made Isabel a little breathless.
"It's okay, Isabel, I can still hold on."
At this moment, Alagina beside her suddenly spoke hoarsely, causing Isabel to come back to her senses worriedly.
She looked at the pale Alagina in front of her, suddenly felt a little guilty, and whispered,
"I'm sorry, Captain Alagina, I was the one who dragged everyone down. I should have gone back to Nali then, so that everyone wouldn't"
Alagina's long white eyelashes were stained by some frost and snow of the same color. Upon hearing this, she shook her head and said,
"Even if it weren't for you, one day in the future, Elizabeth wouldn't let us go because of Fisher, it's just sooner or later. In this case, it's better to come earlier. What's more, Phoenix is not
It hasn’t cut off all our hopes, has it?”
"Phoenix"
Isabel looked a little hesitant. She didn't know whether to believe such a mythical legend.
It’s just that there are rumors circulating throughout the North that in the Sema Snow Mountains, the legendary Frost Phoenix has reincarnated and returned to take back the North again and place it under the shadow of her wings. But just because of the migration of those sub-human races
, can we make such a judgment just because there are really trolls on the top of Sema Snow Mountain?
Isabel didn't know, but she didn't speak again. She just silently supported Alagina and led all the remaining crew members of the Iceberg Queen closer to the front.
Although these female trolls looked silly, they were surprisingly honest and frank, because not long after, another scene really appeared in front of them.
"Well, we're here"
Hearing the reminder of the troll's roaring voice, Isabel unconsciously raised her head and looked forward. However, she found that they had passed through the previous space turbulence at some point. As the space changed, the scene ahead also changed drastically.
Change.
At the end of the gradually flattening snowfield ahead, there is a huge tower towering into the sky. Its shining luster is rare in the world, and it is the legendary Zhenbing.
The magical light of the perfect ice fell upside down from the sky, following the sunshine and covering the entire snowfield they stepped on. It was only now that Isabel realized that the place they stepped on was also made of perfect ice.
"Is that the frost and snow sycamore tree?"
As if the towering tower grew upside down with the sky as the earth and the earth as the goal. In front of it, countless statues of creatures kneeling on the ground or that have long since disappeared or still exist have pious faces, recording the past glory of this place.
But what worries Isabel even more is that the door of the frosty sycamore tree is open, revealing many troll species and snow fox species inside.
"cracking!"
At that moment, in the sky, a shadow wearing the same simple robe as them flew towards her quickly. Behind her was a colorful parrot that had lost a lot of feathers and was flapping its wings.
"Sister Osie!"
It was a bird species. After seeing the people below, she immediately landed in front of them, shook her wings that had not yet been retracted, and knocked away the wind and snow above.
Behind him, first mate Pahz, who looked much thinner than before, quickly came out and asked Osie,
"So, what do those slimes mean?"
Ossie looked at Pahz, and after pondering for a moment, she said,
"They said they are still considering it."
"What?! Are you still thinking about it? What if you don't agree? We just listened to them and worked hard to get here. What should we do if we don't agree? Let's go back the way we came."
Osie's ears hurt from the loud noise of Pahz. She raised her feathered wings and rubbed her ears hidden in her long white hair, and then explained,
"It's not that they don't consider our matters, it's that they have more important things to be busy with."
"Be busy! Be busy!"
The parrot, which had lost a lot of feathers but still looked unaffected, nodded and repeated.
Pahz glanced behind him. The group of trolls who had escorted them had all left. They didn't know where to go to rest. No one came to greet them, as if they were left to fend for themselves.
When she thought of this, Pahz became angry. She folded her hands and looked at the spectacular frost-snowed sycamore tree behind Osie. She spat on the snow next to her and cursed,
"Damn it, these stupid plasticine slimes. Forget about being snobbish. The lion is so open-minded that he won't teleport us up until we pay enough for all of us, which made us run away so far! Alaji
Na is injured! If I hadn't asked you to come up to see the situation halfway, would we still have to hang out here for a few days before we know the result!? Damn it, these six hidden snow mountain tribes
What are you busy with all day long? Are they going to fight Nali too?"
Isabel helplessly stretched out her hand to stop Pahz who was cursing at the door of the other party's hometown. After all, they were here to seek help, but she really couldn't get a word in, so she had to look back at the man who was holding the three rat girls in his arms to keep them warm.
Old Jack, unexpectedly, shook his head and said there was nothing he could do.
"Pahz"
Aragina, who was in poor condition next to her, spoke softly to stop her first mate from making rude remarks.
Pahz was silent, but the expression on his face was still ugly. He just looked angrily at the nearby female troll who was lying sprawled out in the ice and snow, sleeping but seemed to have no feeling at all.
Osie also sighed. She looked at the frosty sycamore tree behind her and couldn't help but explain,
"I can't help it. They seemed to say that the phoenix was about to wake up, so everyone was very nervous about it."
Pahz's originally angry expression suddenly froze when he heard Osie's words, and everyone behind him, especially the female Sardinians, looked at Osie in disbelief.
"It's not what you said? Phoenix? They really have a phoenix here? Have you seen it?"
"No, but it's most likely true. I went inside and took a look. The decoration inside is really where the phoenixes used to live. Here are the frost and snow sycamore trees."
""
Pahz opened her mouth wide. Even though the expression on her face was angry, as a Sardinian woman she never dared to have an attack again.
You know, disrespecting the Phoenix in the North is like disrespecting the Mother Goddess in Kadu. Moreover, they all believe in the Frost Phoenix, so of course they know the taboos.
Pahz curled his lips and was speechless like a wilted rooster.
She had no choice but to kick the snowdrift next to her and waited for a while before complaining in a low voice,
"Then can't you take us to a warmer place? My old Jack is almost dying from the cold."
At this time, inside the frosty sycamore tree, through the outside area, we came to the deep, huge cylindrical phoenix courtyard.
Different from the darkness and silence when Fisher arrived four and a half years ago, the lights here are bright and the sounds are noisy. Although now, after years of baptism and curse slaughter, the number of the six snow mountain tribes is far less than before.
Even though everyone has entered here, it still doesn't look very lively, but it is still popular.
And just deep in the sycamore tree, above the roots left behind by the World Tree, is the place where the Moon Princess died and left her body. The ruins here have been cleaned up by the trolls, and the Moon Princess' body has also been properly taken care of.
After the burial, some temporary houses were built here to protect their owners who had been sleeping below for all these years.
But at this moment, several big figures from the six tribes were pacing back and forth anxiously. Except for the giant slime king who was as big as a baby and looked like a baby, Balien, he was just too huge.
, can't move at all.
The two elders of the troll species, Daliwuwu and Cocolia, were looking at the roots of the World Tree below that were emitting a bright light. Daliwuwu said with a serious expression,
"No, the tree roots have actually grown branches, and those branches have entangled the phoenix's eggshell."
Behind them, a very tall woman wearing a Sardinian steel helmet glanced below and asked with a cold face,
"What does it mean?"
Cocolia glanced at the cockroach species in front of her and said,
"Hamriya, it means that the tree roots have entangled the eggshell, making it impossible for us to take out the eggshell of Nirvana. But the problem is that the surface of the eggshell is already full of cracks, and the arrival of the phoenix will soon
It’s coming.”
Hamliya is the leader of the largest remaining Cockbird community in the north, and the boss of Osie’s mother’s mother. She is a child of a Cockbird and a Cockbird troll, so she is born taller than the rest.
All species of northern bluebirds are tall and strong.
When she heard the calls of slimes, trolls and snow foxes four and a half years ago, she weighed the pros and cons and decided to go north with the bluebirds who were willing to leave Sardinia and returned to Seychelles.
Ma Xueshan, the hometown of their ancestors.
Hamliya was stunned for a moment, as if he still didn’t understand what they were worried about, but still asked,
"Then the Phoenix can't be born directly like this? What will happen if she falls on the roots of the World Tree?"
"will die."
Daliwuwu's answer was straightforward, but it startled Hamliya. She quickly flapped her wings and came to the edge of the platform, looking down at the broken heart floating in the bright light of the World Tree.
of phoenix eggs,
"Her dad, how about we just use weapons to fish the Phoenix out?"
"No, there is more serious space turbulence next to the tree root. Even the peerless magic weapon will be melted unless"
"Unless what?"
The huge Svalibarian sitting on the ground behind him chewed the pacifier in his mouth and said in a dull voice,
"Use the Phoenix King's sword. That sword is lying in the room above."
"Then go get it, why are you still hanging around?"
Everyone present was rendered speechless by Hamlia. This guy didn't know whether it was because he had been a guard in the Sardinian Kingdom for too long or because the blood of the blue bird species and the troll species produced a wonderful chemistry in her body.
reaction, causing her brain to burn out and make her less intelligent
He is good at fighting, but every time he comes to discuss such matters, he always speaks astonishingly, which is even more difficult for the leaders of the other six tribes to do.
"It can't be picked up. The weapons of the Phoenix can only be fully used by the blood of the Phoenix. Even if you go to get it and pick it up at a great cost, if you can't completely control it, you can't take the Phoenix out of the hands of the tree roots.
Take out the eggs."
"Wait, so what you are saying is that now we need a sword that can only be used by the Phoenix bloodline to save the only Phoenix bloodline in the world?"
"That's the theory, of course, if you can think of other ways."
"Can your slime teleportation work?"
"With the power of tree roots, this is not possible."
""
At this moment, the leaders at the base of the sycamore tree suddenly fell silent, as if there was no better way.
Hamliya was so angry that her teeth itched, and she flapped her wings helplessly and furiously. She couldn't help but look at the surrounding sheds and asked,
"Where is that woman?"
All the leaders looked at her, knowing who Hamriyah was talking about, but none of them knew where she had gone.
It was at this moment that the very small Snow Fox Chief Dahl, who was next to Balien's huge body, spoke. He glanced above and said,
"She was here earlier to discuss with us how to rescue the phoenix that was about to complete its nirvana. She discussed many methods with us. But now, she seems to have heard that there are guests coming. She seems to have thought of something. She just talked to Sister Eloise
Ran out."
"With Eloise? What kind of guest?"
Daliwuwu turned his head curiously, and Dahl thought for a moment and said,
"It seems like a desperate pirate, a Sardinian woman, her name is the Iceberg Queen"
"Alagina?"
Hearing this, Hamliya spoke the name before Darr could finish speaking.
"Yes, that's her"
"Oh, this treasonous dog with a broken spine will also have this day. I heard that she not only killed her biological mother, but also stole her mother's Ice Prince Sword and wandered outside. You have to be careful when you take her in. What should you be careful about?
She also stabbed me in the back."
Hamliya sneered and commented like this.
"That's enough, Hamlia, you are no longer a Sardinian woman. There will only be plane trees in the north in the future. Of course, if you want to go back to serve the country, I have no objection, and I will even be happy to transport you back for free."
Next to him, Balien was playing with the pacifier in his hand, interrupting Hamliya's words without a doubt. Among the six tribes of Snow Mountain today, this Slime King is a well-deserved talker.
After stopping Hamliya who was complaining next to him, Balien scratched his chin with countless wrinkles and murmured,
"Alagina, what the Ice Prince Sword said, I know what that woman is thinking. The sword of the Wind Phoenix King is too powerful, and it is impossible to completely control it. But the swords of the three Phoenix Sons are not.
Don’t try it. The Moon Princess Sword is sleeping with Valentina, and the Frost Prince Sword is now missing. Now that Aragina has the Ice Prince Sword, she might be able to try it."
Daliwuwu also looked seriously at the crumbling phoenix egg below, turned around and said,
"This is the only way we can try. We have to hurry up. Valentina is about to break out of her shell. We can't wait any longer. Let them come over immediately!"
Valentina's consciousness has always been in the darkness, as blurry as when chaos comes out, but sometimes it becomes slightly awake and flashes with terrifying dreams.
She seemed to have seen a huge, golden illusory tree, suspended in the universe, looking down at all the creatures below like a god, but when she only looked at "herself" and "the two people beside her",
For some reason, Valentina can feel a different emotion
This tree looks like a mother looking at "itself" warmly.
"Peach"
Her soft voice seemed to be soothing a swaddled baby, but also seemed to be an entrustment of high hopes.
"Protect your brothers and sisters"
Peach?
Who is Tao?
Have you ever seen this name before?
Immediately afterwards, the scene in front of me suddenly changed. "I" seemed to have seen a terrifying war, as if I had seen a chaotic life falling from the sky. "It" sang poetry in an unknown language, turning flesh and blood into
part of this poem.
It infected everything, brought a vibrant continent to disaster, turned countless powerful lives that Valentina could not imagine into its puppets, and took away "his" mother.
Mother?
Valentina was stunned for a moment, but her consciousness suddenly became much clearer.
No, this doesn’t seem to be what I should see. This is not me. Whose memory is this?
This is
"Tao must protect your younger brothers and sisters."
Valentina's perspective pulled away bit by bit. Finally, Valentina's consciousness seemed to be separated from an "existence" at this moment. No, it should be that "existence" that was separated from her body.
!
Valentina felt that the existence's consciousness was being cut off by a sharp sword like the tree roots wrapped around her body, and that existence was getting farther and farther away from her.
As the distance stretched, Valentina finally saw the true form of that "existence", although it was just a back figure.
It turned out to be a weird little girl.
She has black soft and shiny hair, neatly tied on her head, transformed into a flying fairy bun that Valentina has never seen before. On the flying fairy bun, it is neatly tied or...
A pink and tender peach blossom bloomed.
She was wearing a pale pink skirt, which was exactly the same color as the flowers on her bun. She looked very beautiful, making her petite body look even more cute and elegant.
But at this moment, she was holding her knees pitifully, huddled up in a ball, her expression seemed a little dazed and helpless, and allowed herself to get further and further away from herself.
As she moved away, Valentina soon discovered that there were wounds covered with frost appearing out of thin air on her underskirt, as if some sharp blades were chopping her body around.
Scarlet blood splashed down from her body and quickly disappeared in the darkness, leaving only a faint scent of peach blossoms.
But the little girl turned a deaf ear, as if she couldn't feel anything. She just kept holding her knees in despair and motionless.
Valentina felt distressed. Maybe the kindness in her heart couldn't bear to see such a child being hurt. Her consciousness became clearer and she couldn't help but remind the other person,
"You have wounds on your body, child"
The next moment Valentina opened her mouth, her cheeks swished, and she raised a pair of slender, white ears with trembling motions. There were many small earrings hanging on them that made a "ding-dong-dang" sound, and the tiles
Lentina was startled.
Unexpectedly, the little girl glanced at Valentina next to her, then retracted her original posture, and muttered,
"Don't mind your own business, you idiot."
""
Valentina's face darkened, and she couldn't breathe at the little girl's words.
She clenched her fists, wanting to give this rude little brat a slap in the face, but soon, she seemed to feel the despair and sadness deeply hidden in the other person's words.
She didn't understand why the child in front of her was so sad, even though he was still so young.
But the little girl in front of her had more and more wounds. The scarlet and fragrant blood brought Valentina back to her senses. She said worriedly,
"What happened to you? You couldn't have been hacked to death in front of me, right?"
The little girl didn't even look at her and said,
"Everyone will die anyway, so it doesn't matter if I die now. Only a fish like you, like an earthworm, will lament the passage of life."
"Ha, what are you talking about? Isn't the passing of life worth feeling?"
The girl in front of her was slightly stunned when she heard this, as if she recalled some sad scene before her eyes. She did not refute, but her voice became lower,
"You're right, Zaoyu."
"You little brat is so"
Valentina was already upset. She felt as if she had never been awake and didn't know where she was. She just woke up, and as soon as she woke up, she met this ignorant little kid.
She stood up, gritted her teeth and tried to grab the long ears of the little kid in front of her, but she didn't expect that the kid in front of her was so fast that he appeared not far away in an instant, allowing her to catch him.
Empty.
The child glanced at her contemptuously, and then muttered,
"What trash fish"
Valentina's face was dark, and she was so angry that she rushed towards her again, but every time she wanted to get close to the other person, she always went to another place, so that she could not touch her.
As if being walked by this guy, Valentina became more and more angry as she chased her
But the next moment, her chasing action suddenly stopped, and even the anger disappeared.
Because she suddenly discovered that she could stand up.
"I"
She lowered her head and looked down at her body, looking at a pair of intact legs standing powerfully in the darkness under her white and naked body.
"I can stand up"
Valentina no longer chased the girl in front of her, but just came back to her senses and looked at the girl. She watched as more and more blood on her body gradually covered the skirt completely, and she
But still don't care.
Valentina hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but ask,
"What's wrong with your body? Why are you bleeding all the time?"
The little girl no longer had a bad mouth, but lay in the darkness, looking like she was waiting to die, and replied listlessly,
"Someone is using the holy relics of those angels to hack at the place where my consciousness is stored. The quality of this holy relic is very good. It should be the [Eufele] under Michael who was beaten by his wise angels. It should be her.
.”
Valentina didn't understand the names she was talking about at all. She just pursed her lips, walked slowly to the little girl's side, and said,
"Then how can I help you? You can't go on like this, right?"
"It doesn't matter if it goes on forever, it's just one death. We will all die anyway."
"What do you call this? Just because you will die, don't you live? I used to have paralyzed legs and never thought about it like this when I couldn't live to be twenty years old. You are still so young. Why are you so depressed if you don't work hard?
?”
Hearing the word "young", the little girl in front of her showed a hint of ridicule on her face. She just closed her eyes and murmured,
"You don't understand. My mother, my brothers and sisters, and everyone I care about are dead. Now in this world, I am the only one left of my species, and my existence is therefore meaningless."
"I am the only one of my race left, and I haven't seen them yet, but I have seen them, even after they died."
Valentina squatted next to the little girl in front of her, and the originally cloudy memories in her mind became clearer. She instantly recalled what seemed to have happened not long ago.
She thought of the Turan family, the sycamore tree, the curse, the Moon Princess and the Phoenix who sacrificed themselves for this world, and Fisher.
"They are blood relatives I have never met. They put the future of the race on me. I don't know if I can do it alone, but they believe in me. I think I should also believe in myself, even if I am the only one left.
No one can live up to their expectations."
The little girl in front of her opened her eyes. As more and more scarlet colors appeared on her body, she didn't know what she thought or saw.
She just suddenly turned her head to look at Valentina beside her, and said with a smile,
"I have forgotten that you are a phoenix."
"The Phoenix is the last Phoenix to me"
At the moment when Valentina's idea burst out, her body seemed to undergo earth-shaking changes.
A series of blue feathers covered with frost slowly covered part of her body. Behind her, a pair of huge and powerful wings were gradually spreading out, as if bringing the wind and snow from the entire north.
Her figure is getting taller and taller, no longer as fragile as before
The light of Zhenbing bloomed in her eyes, bringing a little light of destiny.
The little girl in front of her looked at the remaining phoenix in the world. For a long time, she suddenly sat up. As a wonderful power bloomed on her body, the wounds on her body instantly returned to their previous perfect appearance.
She asked,
"Phoenix, what's your name?"
"Zhaoyu, you little brat, if you want to introduce yourself, just introduce yourself!"
Valentina stretched out her pink fist and knocked the little girl on the head. This time she did not hide, but let the fist fall lightly on her head, as if to knock her out of the darkness.
As if awake
"My name is Valentina."
"Valentina"
She chewed the name for a while, then stood up, suddenly approached Valentina, and said to her,
"I am Tao, Mr. Tao, one of the three elves."
The next moment, the entire darkness burst out with a terrifying brilliance, as if the peach blossom had been exploded, emitting wakefulness.
Urged by the bright light, Valentina opened her eyes suddenly, as if everything she had seen before when she opened her eyes was an illusion.
What reappeared in front of me was a bright light in a room and a broken eggshell?
She huddled up in the eggshell and opened her eyes in her new body for the first time in a daze. She looked at everything on the ceiling, but she seemed so uncomfortable.
"It's great, Miss, you finally woke up, it's great."
"Miss"
this voice
So familiar
Valentina blankly turned her head to look outside the broken eggshell, only to see that the only person in the quiet room who spoke outside seemed to be. At this moment, that person was looking at her very worriedly.
The man's black hair was elegantly tied on his head, wrapped in a jewel-encrusted hair crown, showing an appearance that Valentina had seen countless times.
Looking at the hair crown and the appearance of the person in front of her, countless memories filled up instantly. She blinked her eyes, but was surprised to find that a little bit of beautiful snowflakes fell on her eyelashes out of thin air due to this action.
Have you become a phoenix?
But she didn't have time to explore her current appearance. She looked at the woman in front of her who was looking at her very worriedly. She couldn't help but smile a little and murmured,
"That's great, Hedilyn, you're fine."
The bright candlelight illuminated the appearance of the woman outside the egg shell brightly. Her worried expression was momentarily stunned when she heard Valentina's words inside the egg shell, and then her eyes turned red as if she was about to shed tears.
,
"It's me, the eldest lady, it's me. Heidilin, wuwu, great, you finally woke up."
The phoenix in the north finally wakes up at this moment.
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