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Chapter 357: Searching for Insects in the Snowfield [Subscription Request]

The snow was falling heavily, and the sky and the earth were all white.

This was a snowstorm Zhou Chun had never seen before.

The snowflakes falling from the sky were bigger than goose feathers, and they fell like maple leaves.

At this moment, he was standing somewhere on the snowfield, motionless, letting the falling snowflakes fall on his body, slowly turning him into a snowman.

In such a heavy snowstorm, the naked eye can no longer see anything, and only the spiritual consciousness can replace the eyes to see the surrounding situation clearly.

Zhou Chun's body is now motionless, but his spiritual awareness has spread out, monitoring the snow within a few miles around him, waiting for the snow crystal worms to appear.

Yes, sit back and wait.

According to information provided by many monks who have captured snow crystal worms, under normal circumstances, the best way to capture snow crystal worms is to sit back and wait.

This method is also a matter of luck, but it is more effective than walking around aimlessly and taking your chances.

The stronger the spiritual awareness of the cultivator, the higher the chance of success using this method.

It just so happens that Zhou Chun’s spiritual power has always been stronger than most cultivators at the same level.

But it’s ultimately a matter of luck!
Just like today, Zhou Chun waited in the snowstorm for most of the day, and the heavy snow almost buried him several times, but still got nothing.

If the snow crystal worm was really that easy to catch, the Snow Soul Palace would not have offered such a high reward.

This is already the third day that Zhou Chun has been catching snow crystal worms on the snowfield.

For three days, he, like most of the people looking for snow crystal worms on the snowfield, followed the footsteps of the blizzard.

Wherever there is a snowstorm, there will be traces of people like them looking for snow crystal worms.

In just these three days, Zhou Chun had seen no less than five examples of other cultivators fighting each other for various reasons.

The snowfield is in such a state of chaos right now.

"It seems that I have to change my method. It takes too much time to rely on luck to find snow crystal insects, not to mention that my target is the Snow Crystal Worm King!"

On the snowy field after the snowfall, Zhou Chun shook off the snow on his body and floated into the air. Looking at the white snowy field, a new idea came to his mind.

He had already heard from the disciples of Xuepo Palace that the Snow Crystal Worm King would only appear in places where there were a large number of Snow Crystal Worms. If this creature hid in the snow and did not move, even a Jindan stage cultivator would not be able to find it.

The last time someone in Xuepo Palace caught something like this was more than three hundred years ago.

It is precisely because the Snow Crystal Worm and the Snow Crystal Worm King are so difficult to catch that the Snow Soul Palace has made such a big effort to catch these evil insects.

It is no exaggeration to say that now half of Yang Kingdom's independent cultivators and cultivators from small and medium-sized families have come to the snowfield to try their luck, and cultivators from several neighboring countries have also rushed here one after another after hearing the news.

If it weren't for the current Yang Kingdom where Xuepo Palace was the only dominant force, other sects would definitely condemn Xuepo Palace's behavior and would not allow them to mobilize such a large number of monks.

Although Zhou Chun has made up his mind to change his method of searching for snow crystal worms, he has not yet figured out what more effective method to use.

Originally, attractants were a good choice, but unfortunately, even the people in the Xuepo Palace didn’t know what kind of food the snow crystal worms liked.

Moreover, the Xuepo Palace has not yet succeeded in taming the snow crystal worm, which shows that this kind of evil insect is not easy to tame.

Zhou Chun felt that he might need to obtain more detailed information in order to find a more effective way to search for snow crystal worms.

If you want to know more information about the snow crystal worm, you can only start from the monks of the Xuepo Palace.

After all, the mountain gate of the Xuepo Palace is on this snowy plain, and these Xuepo Palace disciples used to come here often to look for snow crystal insects, so they must know more.

If he just wants to know this information which is not open to the public for free, he obviously needs to pay a certain price.

And Zhou Chun is undoubtedly someone who is willing to invest.

After he determined the direction, he did not hesitate to use a second-grade low-grade magic weapon as a reward to exchange relevant information from an old monk from the Xuepo Palace who had lived for almost two hundred years.

According to the old monks in the Snow Soul Palace, he had captured seventeen snow crystal worms in his life, and thus discovered some patterns in the appearance of snow crystal worms.

According to the old monk's own experience and opinion summarized from his personal insect catching experience, snow crystal worms are more likely to appear not on the top of the mountain where there is deep snow, but rather on the mountainside.

At the same time, the old monk once found three snow crystal worms in an ice valley after the snow and caught two of them at one time.

If it were just this little bit of information, it certainly wouldn't be worth a second-grade, inferior magic weapon.

So the old monk also provided another useful piece of information.

According to what this person said, there was once a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator from the Xuepo Palace who discovered an ice cave on the snowfield, and a cold jade vein deep in the ice cave. Also discovered at the same time were a large group of snow crystal worms, and it was even said that there was a snow crystal worm king among them.

It is said that in the cold jade veins discovered by Xuepo Palace on the snowfields in the past, there were many snow crystal insects.

From this, it can be inferred that as long as there are cold jade veins, there is a high probability that there are a large number of snow crystal worms.

It is also known that snow crystal worms not only appear on the snow, but may also appear in ice caves and ice caves that are everywhere on the snowfield.

These intelligence information will undoubtedly be of great help to Zhou Chun in his active search for snow crystal worms.

In order to verify the authenticity of the information, Zhou Chun followed the old monk from the Xuepo Palace's instructions and continued to wait and look for the snow crystal worms.

It was not known whether he was lucky or the old monk's words were true, but after four days of searching, he found a snow crystal worm on the hillside of a snowy peak.

A heavy snowfall had just ended, and Zhou Chun's consciousness suddenly detected a faint sound on the snow.

When he focused his attention on the place where the sound came from, he soon discovered a strange-looking insect.

The strange insect was snow-white all over, like an earthworm, with bristles on its body that were invisible to the naked eye, and its body length was over a foot.

It moves very quickly in the snow and can move several feet away in the blink of an eye, just like flying.

It is also very strange that it does not leave any visible holes where it drills.

After Zhou Chun discovered this snow crystal worm, he wanted to observe the activities of this evil insect more and see if he could learn more about its habits.

But he soon discovered that the little creature showed signs of burrowing deep into the snow, so he had to capture it immediately.

Capturing snow crystal worms is also a technical job, because this thing is very fast. If you are slow, it will burrow into the deep snow and escape the range of the cultivator's spiritual detection.

And if you are too ruthless and kill it without paying attention, the dead Snow Crystal Worm will not be needed by the Snow Soul Palace at all, so it can be said to be worthless.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun has his own advantages in this regard.

His "Golden Tripod Mysterious Light" was extremely mysterious, and could be both hard and soft. It was very useful against the Snow Crystal Bug, a monster bug that had little combat power. He raised his hand and shot out a beam of golden light, and the Snow Crystal Bug that had already drilled into the snow a few feet deep was immediately covered by the golden light and imprisoned.

Then Zhou Chun raised his hand and captured the motionless snow crystal worm.

He held the little insect in his hand and looked at it for a few seconds, then put it in a cold jade box inside a stone box.

It takes three snow crystal worms to exchange for one foundation-building pill, so there is no need for Zhou Chun to exchange it now.

After verifying the correctness of the information he bought this time, he began to drill ice holes and explore ice caves everywhere.

There are countless ice caves and ice grottoes on the snowfield, and many of them are even hundreds of miles deep.

And due to changes in the ice layer, new caves often appear and old caves disappear.

In this case, even if we know that snow crystal worms exist in ice caves and ice grottoes, finding them is actually a matter of luck.

However, considering Zhou Chun's personal character, if he had to try his luck, he would rather try his luck in ice caves or ice grottoes rather than wait in a snowstorm.

Because his target is the Snow Crystal Worm King, not the Snow Crystal Worm.

It is almost impossible for a demon insect like the Snow Crystal Worm King to appear on the snow.

For half a month, Zhou Chun was exploring ice caves and ice grottoes. During this period, he encountered several collapses caused by changes in the ice layer and was buried under the ice layer hundreds of feet deep several times.

Fortunately, he had the purification stone jar. Even if he was buried under the ice, as long as he was not seriously injured and unable to move, he could slowly dig an escape passage.

But in the past half month, he had not even seen one, let alone caught one.

However, during this period, Zhou Chun met many monks who had drilled into ice caves like himself, and many of them were even wearing the standard robes of the Xuepo Palace. This made him not doubt the authenticity of the information he bought, and he just thought it was bad luck.

This went on day after day, and soon Zhou Chun had spent three months on the snowfield, and he had two snow crystal insects in his hands.

The snow crystal worms found in an ice cave gave Zhou Chun a huge boost of confidence to persevere.

The harvest of two snow crystal worms in three months is definitely not small.

After all, three snow crystal worms can be exchanged for one foundation-building pill.

If other Foundation Establishment cultivators knew that Zhou Chun had such achievements, they would probably be envious to death.

But this cannot be achieved by envy, because they cannot be like Zhou Chun and not go to the cultivators' base to rest and replenish supplies for several months in a row.

In the same three months, Zhou Chun visited many places and put in many times more energy than they did.

On this day, when Zhou Chun was looking for an ice cave on the snowy plain, he suddenly heard the sound of a fierce fight, accompanied by strange beast roars.

Out of curiosity, he headed towards the place where the sound came from.

After walking for dozens of miles and going around a snowy peak, Zhou Chun saw a man and a bear fighting fiercely in a snowy valley.

The immortal cultivator was a female cultivator wearing the robe of Xuepo Palace. She was in the middle stage of foundation building and should be an inner disciple of Xuepo Palace.

The female cultivator’s opponent is a second-order top-grade monster, an ice-armored bear unique to the snowfield.

Although her cultivation level was one level lower than that of the Ice Armor Bear, the female cultivator did not suffer much of a disadvantage in the battle.

The magic weapons in her hands are all fine products, and their quality is not inferior to the ones used by Zhou Chun. Her ice magic is also quite impressive.

I just don't know why this man and this bear are fighting here.

After standing on the snowy mountain and looking from afar for a while, Zhou Chun didn't want to look any longer and prepared to take a detour to continue looking for snow crystal worms.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the female cultivator seemed to have discovered him and suddenly spoke to him.

"Fellow Daoist on the mountain, please stay. If you are willing to help me drive away this ice-armored bear, I am willing to give you a snow crystal worm as a reward!"

Hearing this cold voice, Zhou Chun, who was about to leave, paused, turned his head and looked at the female cultivator and asked, "Are you serious, Daoist friend?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator immediately responded without delay: "I swear to all the ancestors of our sect that what I just said is absolutely true!"

"Okay, then Zhou will show off his ugliness!"

As Zhou Chun said this, he immediately took out his magic weapon and joined the battle.

He also did not want to expose his full strength, so he only used his magic weapon to participate in the battle.

Even so, after he joined the battle, the Ice Armor Bear was quickly defeated by the two of them and could only reluctantly flee the Snow Valley.

After driving away the Ice Armor Bear, the female cultivator from the Snow Soul Palace was very straightforward. She directly took out a porcelain bottle containing snow crystal insects and threw it to Zhou Chun.

"This is the snow crystal insect I promised you, please keep it."

Then she continued to say to Zhou Chun who took the porcelain bottle and was about to check it, "In addition, to thank you for your help just now, I would like to remind you that if you have more snow crystal insects, remember to exchange them for related spiritual items quickly, because the number of snow crystal insects purchased by our sect is already enough, and items such as foundation-building pills will soon no longer be available for exchange!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Chun's expression changed immediately.

He did not bother to check the snow crystal worm, and immediately looked at the female cultivator opposite and asked: "Daoyou, are you serious? The Snow Crystal Worm King cannot be exchanged for the [Snow Soul Pill]?"

Hearing what he said, the female cultivator couldn't help but look at him in surprise, and then said with a look of sudden realization: "So you came here for the [Snow Soul Pill]!"

After saying that, he shook his head slightly and said, "That doesn't matter. The exchange rate for the Snow Crystal Insect King for the [Snow Soul Pill] will not change. You can exchange it at any time!"

Zhou Chun felt relieved after hearing this. He immediately bowed to the female cultivator and said, "Thank you for your reminder, I will not stay any longer. Goodbye!"

"Fellow Daoist, let's go!"

The female cultivator returned the salute and then watched Zhou Chun rise into the air.

After making sure Zhou Chun was far enough away, she sighed softly and murmured in a voice that only she could hear: "How could the Snow Crystal Bug King be caught by a Foundation Establishment cultivator? It's something that even a Purple Mansion cultivator has difficulty catching!"

She said caught, not found.

From this, it can be seen that there are still some inside information about the Snow Crystal Worm King that has not been revealed by the Snow Soul Palace.

At this moment, Zhou Chun still knew nothing about all this. After listening to the words of the female cultivator from Xuepo Palace, he just wanted to rush to the nearby market under the jurisdiction of Xuepo Palace as soon as possible to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

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