175: Chapter 175 The White Snow Monster's Nest
Frostspine Snow Ridge.
The towering mountains seemed to rise abruptly from the ground, with pristine white snow covering the winding ridges, shimmering with golden light from afar.
Thinly dressed Wang Xiaoxiao walked through the snow, the biting cold wind making her hug her contracted Pet Beast, the Digging Rat, tightly.
Su Lixia and Xue Qin were completely different from her.
Su Lixia's contracted Pet Beast was an Extreme Ice Sparrow, so its cold resistance naturally went without saying.
Xue Qin held her Heart-Confusing Fox in her arms; its fluffy, plush tail wrapped around her like a scarf, maximizing her warmth.
Seeing Wang Xiaoxiao's frozen state, Su Lixia felt a bit sympathetic: "How about we change locations?"
"The powerful ice element energy fluctuation I just sensed is about three hundred meters straight ahead!"
Wang Xiaoxiao shook her head stubbornly.
On the first day of entering the Tianluo Secret Realm, most examinees were still adapting to the Secret Realm, and very few had started taking action.
This was exactly the opportunity to seize the time and challenge powerful Pet Beasts.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to distance themselves from ordinary examinee teams, let alone catch up with the powerful ones.
Su Lixia and Xue Qin couldn't help but nod.
The three girls continued forward and soon arrived at the place where Wang Xiaoxiao had detected the powerful ice element energy fluctuation.
A wide and flat snowy field came into view; instead of frost and snow, it looked like an icy blue frozen lake surface.
The icy blue snowy ground was pierced by several thick rock pillars, rising high like markers or some kind of ritual.
Seeing this, the accompanying Safety Officer felt his heart tighten.
"Could this be some kind of Pet Beast's lair?"
A lair is the lifeblood for a Pet Beast's reproduction.
Once one enters the range of a Pet Beast's lair, they offend the entire Pet Beast group and will face terrifying attacks.
A Pet Beast capable of occupying such a large territory in the wild and even altering the terrain must be extremely powerful.
"If it really is a Pet Beast's lair, these three young girls will be in mortal danger at any moment!"
With this thought, the Safety Officer communicated with his Pet Beast in his mind to stand by, ready to intervene in the battle at any time.
Su Lixia had the same concerns in her heart.
"Could this be a Pet Beast's lair?"
"Probably not."
As a Pet Beast Materials merchant, Xue Qin was quite knowledgeable: "There aren't many Pet Beasts that build nests in this kind of terrain.
Those Pet Beasts are all powerful ice element Pet Beasts that like to live in low-temperature environments and only build nests in low-temperature environments, which is beneficial for hatching their offspring.
Although the temperature here is low, it's not low enough; those powerful ice element Pet Beasts wouldn't build a nest here."
Xue Qin's lips parted slightly as she exhaled a puff of white Qi.
Seeing her best friend's certain expression, Su Lixia immediately let go of her worries and cautiously explored deeper.
Wang Xiaoxiao no longer held the Digging Rat for warmth.
As soon as the dazed Digging Rat hit the ground, a sharp light burst from its dull eyes, and without a word, it began burying its head to dig a hole.
Crack, crack, crack!
The hard frozen ground was easily broken through, and before long, a hole large enough to accommodate the Digging Rat itself appeared before them.
The Digging Rat didn't hesitate; it crawled into the hole and buried itself alive with the frozen soil, beginning to receive information within a five-hundred-meter radius.
Energy fluctuations, ground vibrations, and even the state of plant root systems were all clearly detected by the Digging Rat.
The Digging Rat soon emerged from the frozen ground and let out a series of squeaks at its Beast Tamer, Wang Xiaoxiao.
Wang Xiaoxiao's eyes immediately lit up.
"Aside from powerful ice element energy fluctuating in the center, there are no signs of Pet Beasts active in the surrounding area!"
Su Lixia and Xue Qin were overjoyed.
The fewer signs of Pet Beast activity in the surroundings, the more it meant the Pet Beast in the center was powerful.
The three girls quickened their pace toward the center.
In the middle of the icy blue snowy field, trees as thick as a person were broken and piled with translucent ice bricks to form a nest.
Several massive Pet Beast eggs were placed in the lair, each nearly the size of a normal adult.
These Pet Beast eggs were entirely icy blue with snowflake patterns, meaning they nurtured ice element Pet Beasts.
Without a doubt, this was a Pet Beast's lair!
The three girls' faces instantly turned pale.
Xue Qin exclaimed in shock: "This is impossible!"
The temperature here is far from meeting the requirements; those Pet Beasts that inhabit low-temperature environments shouldn't be reproducing here.
Unless there are ice element Materials continuously lowering the temperature, those ice element Pet Beasts would never enter heat, let alone lay these Pet Beast eggs that are destined not to hatch.
Xue Qin looked intently at the Pet Beast's lair.
She saw that the gaps in the lair were filled with crystals emitting a chill, releasing ice elements to nourish those Pet Beast eggs.
"Damn, such bad luck?"
Xue Qin wanted to cry but had no tears.
Fortunately, neither Su Lixia nor Wang Xiaoxiao blamed her, and they pulled her from both sides to retreat along the path they came.
The Pet Beast guarding the lair woke up.
A round, chubby, and furry large Pet Beast shook off the light snow covering it, revealing its upper body's pile-of-snow-like fluffy and thick white fur, and the light blue fur on its belly and limbs, with wavy serrated edges on the fur, looking cute and honest.
It had a pair of pointed ears on its head, cartoon-like dull eyes on its pure black face, and often held a green leaf in its mouth.
A White Fluff Yeti, with a potential rating of A-rank!
Judging from its aura, it had already reached the Four-Star level.
The White Fluff Yeti was not as friendly as it looked; after waking up, it immediately stood up to look for the intruders who had entered its lair.
Its massive six-meter-tall body was enough to see Su Lixia and the other two girls' fleeing figures just by standing up.
"Wulu—!"
It let out a cold, ethereal roar.
The roar echoed throughout the Frostspine Snow Ridge, and the scattered White Fluff Yetis who heard it rushed toward the lair one after another.
The White Fluff Yeti left the lair and chased after them, taking large strides with its short legs, its body swaying from side to side with every step.
Its movement speed was slow, but every step on the ground made a drum-like thumping sound, like a death knell.
Xue Qin instinctively looked back, and after seeing the appearance of the White Fluff Yeti, she grabbed Su Lixia and Wang Xiaoxiao and ran for their lives.
The two girls, Su Lixia and Wang Xiaoxiao, were pulled so hard they almost fell.
Wang Xiaoxiao used all her strength to keep up with the pace, looked back at the White Fluff Yeti, and immediately blurted out.
"Hey, it's kind of cute!"
"White Fluff Yetis have a bellicose nature!"
Xue Qin was running for her life and had no time to explain.
Don't be fooled by the White Fluff Yeti's heavy build and its weaknesses in slow turning and short sprints; it has a large stride and persistent pursuit.
Once it catches up with the target, it will launch continuous melee attacks.
With Su Lixia and the others' fragile bodies, if they fell into the hands of a White Fluff Yeti, they really would be sent back to their infancy.
Seeing that it couldn't catch up, the White Fluff Yeti swung its arms and slapped, releasing the skill Ice-Snow Missile, firing several ice projectiles in pursuit.
"Frost Shield!"
Su Lixia quickly shouted the command.
The Extreme Ice Sparrow spread its wings and sang loudly as violent cold winds swirled around its body, condensing into a sturdy Frost Shield.
The Ice-Snow Missile hit the Frost Shield, easily destroying the Extreme Ice Sparrow's protection and striking its fragile body.
Crack!
The Extreme Ice Sparrow's body trembled, and cracks appeared on its surface.
It had no intention of retreating and fearlessly charged at the White Fluff Yeti, only to be smashed to pieces by a single slap.
The [Mirror Heart] talent activated, returning the damage received back to the White Fluff Yeti exactly as it was.
The White Fluff Yeti stumbled from its own hit.
A cloud of ice was missing from the Extreme Ice Sparrow beside Su Lixia; clearly, what had sacrificed itself just now was not the original body, but an Ice Flower Mirror Image.
The three girls took this opportunity to run out of that icy blue snowy field.
They ran head-on into a returning White Fluff Yeti, whose aura was even more powerful than the one guarding the lair.
The suffocating pressure coming at them was overwhelming!