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..."Wow, Lin Xiao, you're amazing! Not only did you kill that irritable Snow Ghoul, but you also killed the Snow Ghoul King."

"Everyone in the tribe said the Snow Ghoul King might have died of illness, but I was the only one who didn't believe it. I said the Snow Ghoul King must have fallen down, after all, the Ice Cliff is so dangerous. They even laughed at me."

"Turns out the Snow Ghoul King really did fall! Hahaha... so clumsy."

"Did you see Grandpa's expression just now? It was hilarious."

Xuela's voice was as clear and pleasant as an oriole, chattering non-stop all the way.

Lin Xiao listened, with no intention of interrupting her.

After agreeing to the elder's test, he rode the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox rapidly towards the Ice Cliff.

He had already wasted a lot of time in the cave, so he naturally didn't want to waste too much more.

After finding the irritable Snow Ghoul, he had the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, Snow Girl Doll, and Slime work together to kill it.

When he was about to take the Snow Ghoul's corpse back, he accidentally stepped on a fragile ice layer and fell. Inside, he saw an even larger Snow Ghoul and killed it as well.

He only heard Xuela mention it after he came out, realizing that the larger Snow Ghoul was the Snow Ghoul King.

"Lin Xiao, do you want a drink? This is our tribe's special mare's milk wine. It warms your body and resists the cold, and it's delicious."

Lin Xiao took the waterskin Xuela offered, sniffed it, and found it sweet with no alcoholic scent.

He took a sip; it was sweet, and after drinking it, his body felt wrapped in warmth, very comfortable.

"It's really good."

"Right? This mare's milk wine is unique to our tribe."

After crossing an ice river and walking for a while, a giant egg with blue spots caught Lin Xiao's attention.

This egg was half his height.

[Young Ice Dragon Egg]

Seeing the information of the giant egg before him, Lin Xiao was shocked.

This was actually a Dragon Egg?

Dragons, creatures at the top of the food chain!

Such a rare item could be found by the roadside, placed so unassumingly.

If he took it back, hatched it, and then contracted it, wouldn't it be... Lin Xiao was a little excited. As he prepared to go and take the Dragon Egg, Xuela suddenly called out to him.

"Don't go over there, that's a 'Trap Dragon Egg'!"

Lin Xiao immediately stopped, looking at her in confusion, "Trap Dragon Egg?"

Before he could hear Xuela's explanation, he saw the Dragon Egg begin to rapidly expand and contract.

The next second, with a "poof," the Dragon Egg burst open, and blue liquid splattered everywhere.

A young blue Ice Dragon sat on the eggshell, shaking its head to get rid of the Slime.

When it opened its eyes and saw Lin Xiao, it let out a shriek and immediately attacked.

[Young Ice Dragon]

[Race: Dragon]

[Quality: Normal]

[Level: 45]

[Constitution: 280,000]

[Strength: 9000]

[Intelligence: 250]

[Agility: 300]

[Magic: 3500]

[Spirit: 321]

[Talent: Egg Transformation (A)]

[Skills: Scream, Charge]

Level 45?!

Lin Xiao finally understood why it was a "Trap Dragon Egg."

These seemingly Ice Dragon Eggs were actually disguises for young Ice Dragons!

Once approached, they would immediately "hatch" and then eat the opponent!

"doll."

The Snow Girl Doll had already appeared before Lin Xiao, and its powerful ice and snow energy immediately covered the area.

After dealing with the young Ice Dragon in front of him, Lin Xiao heard more sounds of eggshells breaking in the forest.

Not just one, there were more!

"Ya ya ya—ya ya—"

Piercing dragon cries rang out one after another, making one's eardrums ache.

"Wow, how can there be so many 'Trap Dragon Eggs' here!"

Xuela, frightened, quickly leaned towards Lin Xiao, seeking protection.

Lin Xiao reacted very quickly, summoning the Slime.

"Slime, World-Ending Fire Source!"

"doll, block them with an Ice Wall!"

Lin Xiao immediately unleashed a devastating move.

Killing them one by one would be too time-consuming; it's better to wipe them out in one go!

Crack—

A thick Ice Wall blocked the young Ice Dragons that were about to rush out of the forest.

They wanted to fly over the Ice Wall, but the wall was hundreds of meters high, and even if they could fly over, the Snow Girl Doll would continue to make it taller.

"Bang—bang—bang—"

The young Ice Dragons kept crashing into the Ice Wall, unaware that a giant magic circle had already been outlined above their heads.

An inconspicuous flame slowly fell, landing among the young Ice Dragon group.

The next second... "Boom—"

Flames instantly erupted. At the moment of seeing the flames, his ears seemed to go deaf, hearing no sound, and it was only two or three seconds later that he heard the "boom" of the explosion.

Then came the raging inferno!

An unprecedented blaze, never seen so large, as if it would burn through even the dungeon itself.

Even the Ice Wall built by the Snow Girl Doll melted into ice water.

"Wow—"

Seeing the flames rising in the distance, Xuela's mouth dropped open in shock—was this going to burn through the sky?

Grandpa said he was strong, but this was ridiculously strong.

"Lin Xiao! You're really amazing! Was that move released by this jelly creature?!"

Xuela excitedly picked up the Slime, holding it up as she asked Lin Xiao.

"Mm." Lin Xiao nodded, "These young dragons have been cleared out, let's continue."

"Mm."

The two set off again, with Xuela holding the Slime the entire way, absolutely loving it.

Lin Xiao also put it away, letting her hold it for now.

Then he asked, "Is this 'Trap Dragon Egg' a special monster here?"

It was his first time encountering a monster that could transform, especially into an enticing Dragon Egg.

If Xuela hadn't reminded him, he might have walked over and been bitten by these brutal young dragons.

Xuela nodded, "Mm, these are the 'children' of the Ice Dragon."

"Children of the Ice Dragon?"

Lin Xiao was startled.

He remembered he was still in the Ice Dragons Lair dungeon and hadn't entered the Ice Snow Queens Palace yet.

He had been so focused on the palace dungeon that he almost forgot about this.

"The Ice Dragon is a thoroughly evil dragon, entrenched on the peak of this snowy mountain."

Xuela raised her hand, pointing distantly to the towering peak.

Black clouds surged there, like monstrous beasts dancing freely, the thick cloud layer seemingly devouring the entire sky.

Just looking from afar, one could feel the powerful and terrifying oppressive force emanating from it.

Undoubtedly, that was the Ice Dragons Lair.

"But the Ice Dragon is imprisoned up there, unable to come out or stir up storms. Grandpa said it was the Ice and Snow Queen who trapped it on the snowy mountain, preventing it from harming us."

"Oh, by the way, do you know the Ice and Snow Queen?" Xuela asked.

Lin Xiao shook his head, "I know very little, only parts about the ice heart lamp."

Xuela wasn't surprised; after all, Lin Xiao was an outsider, so it was natural for him not to know about the Ice and Snow Queen.

So she began to tell the story.

"Legend has it that the Ice Dragon once plagued this Stun Snow Region. Its temperament was brutal and unpredictable, often stirring up overwhelming blizzards without warning, destroying all the houses in the tribe and leaving people homeless."

"Later, the Ice and Snow Queen appeared and selected 108 Elite warriors from various tribes to go up the mountain and crusade against the Ice Dragon."

"After that, the Ice Dragon was imprisoned on the snowy mountain, never to come out again."

At this point, Xuela's face was full of satisfaction, and she let out a deep breath, as if she had personally witnessed the moment the Ice Dragon was imprisoned.

A very simple story—an evil dragon harming the world, and a hero saving it.

"So the Ice Dragon laid a bunch of eggs to get revenge on you?" Lin Xiao asked speculatively.

Xuela shook her head, "I don't know, people in the tribe think so, but the Ice Dragon has a weak reproductive capacity, how could it lay so many eggs?"

"What about the Ice and Snow Queen? After imprisoning the Ice Dragon, didn't she return to the tribe?"

Lin Xiao didn't dwell on the Ice Dragon Eggs but wanted to know more about the Ice and Snow Queen.

"I don't know about that. The existence of the Ice and Snow Queen has always been a legend. No one in the tribe has ever seen her, only stories have been passed down."

"Oh! And the legend of 'Brother Labi'."

Xuela continued, "The story of Brother Labi is after the Ice Dragon's disaster passed—the terrible blizzard reappeared, and Brother Labi offered his heart to the Ice and Snow Queen, begging her to eliminate the blizzard and protect the tribe."

Offer his heart?

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow, not interrupting.

"Finally, Brother Labi succeeded. The tribe no longer suffered from blizzards, which were driven to the other side, the direction you came from."

"Then Brother Labi, like the Ice and Snow Queen, never returned. Grandpa said he became the Ice and Snow Queen's warrior."

"The tribe still has wooden dolls made by Brother Labi, though they've become ugly."

Xuela stuck out her tongue.

Lin Xiao interrupted her, asking, "You said Brother Labi offered his heart, was his heart made into the 'ice heart lamp'?"

He connected it to the ice heart lamp that needed to be lit.

Xuela nodded repeatedly, "Yes, later the cave where the 'ice heart lamp' was placed was designated as a forbidden area. If a blizzard came again, lighting the 'ice heart lamp' would make the Ice and Snow Queen come to save us again."

"But later, Grandpa said that a thief secretly broke into the cave, wanting to see the Ice and Snow Queen and lit the 'ice heart lamp', but nothing happened.

Later, more people tried.

They found that the 'ice heart lamp' couldn't contact the Ice and Snow Queen, and gradually, people stopped believing the 'Brother Labi' legend, and the Ice Heart Cave was no longer a forbidden area."

At the end, Xuela clenched her fists and said seriously, "But I believe that lighting the 'ice heart lamp' can make us see the Ice and Snow Queen; it's just that the method is wrong, or we're not in danger."

Lin Xiao smiled slightly at the girl's determined gaze, "I also believe the legend is true."

Passing through the base of the mountain, Lin Xiao's target was not the Ice Dragon, so there was no need to go up the mountain.

Then, Xuela led Lin Xiao into a tunnel.

She explained, "The cave is on the other side of the mountain, and there's a blizzard there now. This tunnel was built to prevent that, but very few people know about this tunnel anymore."

It was indeed the place he had seen before.

He had thought there would be a second 'ice heart lamp' cave.

Soon, Xuela led Lin Xiao to the end of the tunnel. A wooden ladder hung on one side, with several broken and repaired sections of rope.

"From here, you go up into the cave. Do you know how to light the 'ice heart lamp'?" Xuela asked.

"Touch it gently with your finger."

"That's right, it seems you know. I won't go up with you; only one person can enter the Ice Heart Cave."

Even though these rules had been abolished, she still retained reverence for the forbidden area.

"Okay."

Lin Xiao climbed the wooden ladder. At this moment, Xuela reached out her small hand and handed him a necklace, saying, "Here, I found this inside before. I don't know what it's for, it might be Brother Labi's thing. If you can see the Ice and Snow Queen, maybe it can protect you."

Lin Xiao took the necklace; it was a necklace with the letter "E."

"Okay."