"No, no, calm down. I don't have the ability to control the Deceitful Monster. The more this White Dew Gu knows, the more schemes it has. If I'm really bewitched by it, I'm likely to end up just like He Yuanhun. At that time, no one will come to help me deal with it!"

Xia Hong forced down the greed in his heart and continued to observe the White Dew Gu coldly.

Back then, He Yuanhun managed to escape from the Jing Xian, ultimately because of himself.

If he were to be bewitched by the White Dew Gu today, whether anyone would help him in the future would be uncertain. There was no need to keep such an unstable factor by his side.

Moreover, after killing the Deceitful Monster's consciousness, he could still obtain its original form, just that it would take more time to figure out how to use it.

Xia Hong silently watched with the others for another half an hour, and the original form of the White Dew Gu finally shrunk into a thumb-sized round jade. The flames gradually weakened until they finally disappeared.

The moment the flames vanished, the White Dew Gu's miserable wail also abruptly ceased.

Only then did peace completely return above the giant pit.

The moment the flames disappeared, the round jade seemed to have lost its spiritual power and started falling toward the bottomless depths of the giant pit.

"All of you stay here, I'll go down and get the bead by myself!"

After all this effort tonight, Xia Hong certainly wasn't going to let the jade slip away. After signaling everyone to stay put, he jumped directly into the deep pit.

Bang......

Xia Hong descended along the mountain wall. After about ten breaths, he saw the bottom and drew his knife to anchor it into the mountain wall to buffer, finally landing gently on the ground.

"Over ten breaths, it must be thousands of meters deep, this pit is so deep!"

The jade was over ten meters away, and Xia Hong ran over to pick it up.

Unlike the usual cool touch of jade, this round jade in his hand had an intense scorching feel, with a blue flame still inside, as if the heat was emanating from it.

"It's clearly very hot to the touch, yet the surface remains moist, and this moisture is identical to the texture of Cold Apple Jade Dew!"

Looking down at the crystal-clear bead in his hand, Xia Hong's eyes glimmered with brilliance. As expected, the moist sensation on the jade's surface was probably the key to producing Cold Apple Jade Dew.

"Let's call you Jade Dew Stone! Hope you bring me some surprises."

The importance of Cold Apple Jade Dew was self-evident. If this stone could continuously produce it, then all the cold-resistant cultivation elixirs of Great Xia would no longer be a concern in the future.

After putting away the jade, Xia Hong was about to climb up the stone wall when his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of something white, causing his brows to furrow.

This was underground, with no snow or ice, so why would something white appear here?

Xia Hong walked over and used the Cold Blood Blade to pick it up.

An intact skeleton of an Intermediate Snowman.

How could beast bones appear underground?

Xia Hong's curiosity grew even deeper, and he searched along this bone, discovering something surprising.

Snow Manes, Frost Wolves, Striped Tigers... There were countless beast bones buried underground, some of which he had never seen before. Judging by their size, they were mostly intermediate Cold Beast bones, with a few low-level ones. There wasn't a single Jade Bone from an advanced Cold Beast.

The bones appeared normal, with no signs of injury or struggle, and the deaths seemed normal. After examining some of the bones, a question popped into Xia Hong's mind.

How did these Cold Beasts die?

In the ninety-plus years before this April, the White Dew Gu surely had no independent consciousness and no ability to proactively kill so many intermediate Cold Beasts; otherwise, the Yanglu Camp could not have survived on its body for over ninety years.

The problem had to lie in the original form of the White Dew Gu, the Jade Dew Stone!

It seems that this Jade Dew Stone has other characteristics that I'm not aware of.

Xia Hong glanced around at the valley bottom filled with Cold Beasts, a hint of coldness rising in his eyes: "Indeed, it's not that Yangyuan Peak has no Cold Beasts, but rather that these Cold Beasts couldn't cross that gully outside, all dying underneath."

While unclear about the precise cause of death of these Cold Beasts, Xia Hong was sure that the death was due to the White Dew Gu.

In ninety-plus years, the White Dew Gu lured and killed a massive number of mid and low-level Cold Beasts but still couldn't awaken its consciousness. In April, when Wu Xiong and Han Jiuli teamed up to attack Yang Lu, the death toll was just a few thousand, yet this minimal number was enough to fully revive the White Dew Gu.

He instantly understood why Deceitful Monsters love killing humans!

Killing humans is evidently the most efficient way for Deceitful Monsters to enhance their power.

"With a massive amount of intermediate beast bones still stored underground, the fermentation step can be skipped, making them perfectly suitable to make salt. Mu Dong can be notified to bring people over to collect them!"

Xia Hong took one last look at the beast bones on the ground, then began climbing and leaping back up the mountain wall.

Taking less than a hundred or so breaths, he saw the opening above.

"Lord, we've dropped a rope. Grab the rope and come up!"

A rope was let down along the mountain wall, and Xia Hong immediately grabbed it. With a pull from above, he quickly ascended with the rope.

Whoosh......

However, just when he was twenty or thirty meters away from the opening, a bright light suddenly shot out from his sleeve.

"It was all an act, the White Dew Gu still had some strength left..."

Xia Hong's expression suddenly changed dramatically as he watched the Jade Dew Stone fly out of the pit and immediately shouted to the people outside: "Stop the White Dew Gu, don't let it escape!"

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