Volume 34, Chapter 476: Ice Bear Kings Blizzard (1/2)

The twenty-thousand-man army that Ju Zi brought along with her this time were soldiers deployed from the north of the Sun Moon Empire. They were able to tolerate the cold well. However, many of them still suffered frostbite after coming here.

Especially the five thousand miners who were sent over here – their tolerance for cold was much worse. The soul masters among them fared better, as their bodies were stronger. However, there were not many soul masters among them. Most of them were ordinary people. They worked every day. Very soon, many of them couldn’t hang on anymore, and some of them even died.

The blizzard tonight was especially strong, and no one knew what the conditions would be tomorrow. Given this atrocious weather, their progress would likely be stalled even further.

After hearing no news of Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi was actually very anxious. She wished that their mining operations would finish quickly, so that she could return to her actual base. On the one hand, she wanted to quickly execute her plan for the war. On the other hand, she also hoped that she could rely on the Sun Moon Empire’s intelligence abilities to find out where Huo Yuhao was.

Bitingly cold winds whizzed. The deafening sounds made it seem as if avenging spirits were whizzing instead. The soul lamps in the commander’s tent flickered even more intensely, and even more depressions appeared around the commander’s tent.

It’s even stronger now?

“Chi Chi——” Weird noises started to sound around the tent. Ju Zi suddenly focused her gaze, and seemed to have thought of something. She quickly charged towards the opening of the tent and drew the curtains. Suddenly, countless ice flakes flew in. These ice flakes carried a strong sense of chill and sharpness. Ju Zi subconsciously lifted her hands before she poured out her soul power, which formed a protective barrier around her.

However, even so, the ice flakes still managed to cause ripples to form after piercing the barrier around her.

“It’s damaged.” Ju Zi commented, and immediately unleashed her protective soul barrier.

She was also a seven-ringed Soul Sage. After unleashing her protective soul barrier, she ignored the raging blizzard in the sky and immediately leaped up. She flew tens of meters into the air.

She was immediately stunned when she saw what was going on.

The blizzard was raging throughout the entire base. The snowflakes, that resembled icy blades, were also scattered everywhere, and covered the entire base. The leather tents of the Phoenix Soul Engineer Legions were still fine; they weren’t really damaged yet. However, the other ordinary tents were already starting to tear because of the snowflakes.

Tragic screams were already sounding. The ordinary soldiers couldn’t possibly resist the ice flakes, which were like sharp knives.

“Enemy attack!” Ju Zi shouted, and lifted her right hand. An orange-red beam of light immediately shot into the sky. Patches of orange-red light exploded amidst the blizzard. Ju Zi’s red armor shone, and a barrier formed around her.

Orange-red figures started to appear from the perimeter of the base, and beams of orange-red light also started to gather in the air. They formed a layer of red barriers that started to expand as they resisted the blizzard.

There were four hundred soul engineers in the Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion, and there were some reserve members. This placed the size of the entire legion at around five hundred soul engineers. They quickly rose into the sky under Ju Zi’s signal. Linked defensive soul tools were unleashed, forming a barrier to resist the brutal attacks of the blizzard.

Ju Zi clearly knew that this blizzard wasn’t a natural phenomenon. No matter how strong a natural blizzard was, it was only very snowy and windy. The snowflakes couldn’t be so sharp, and they wouldn’t contain undulations of ice elements either. Without a doubt, this had to be someone’s doing.

Yuhao, is it you? After unleashing the linked defensive soul tools, the first thing that surfaced in Ju Zi’s head was Huo Yuhao.

However, she soon rejected that assumption. The reason was very simple – this blizzard was simply too strong.

Everything around had been covered by this blizzard, and it was damaging everything. No matter how talented Huo Yuhao was in terms of his Ultimate Ice, he was still a Soul Sage. A Soul Sage couldn’t possibly demonstrate such terrifying abilities. Ju Zi even felt that this couldn’t possibly be the doing of a single soul master.

Whether it was in terms of military matters or soul tools, Ju Zi was very intelligent. However, everyone had their flaws and shortcomings, and she wasn’t an exception. Her greatest shortcoming was that she wasn’t a strong soul master.

She wasn’t a strong soul master, but was a pure soul engineer instead. The strongest soul masters that she had fought were the evil soul masters from the Holy Ghost Church, which she actively avoided.

This was why she wasn’t able to deduce the cultivation of a soul master needed to produce such a brutal blizzard. Or rather, she couldn’t tell the number of soul masters needed to produce this blizzard. Don’t tell me that the Heavenly Soul Empire or Dou Ling Empire actually have a strong soul master legion?

However, no matter how strong this blizzard was, it couldn’t shake the linked defense of the entire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion.

However, the linked defense formed by five hundred soul engineers still had a limit. Their defense couldn’t possibly protect the entire base.

After all, the base had to be big enough to contain twenty-five thousand people! They could only protect one-third of the base. This was their limit.

After stabilizing the formations, Ju Zi immediately descended and continued to give out commands. She didn’t command the soldiers to retreat to this one-third of the base. Given how terrifying the blizzard was, the ordinary soldiers would be torn apart the moment they exposed themselves outside. She immediately gave the order for everyone to hide under their beds and cover their bodies with their blankets.

Even though there would still be many casualties this way, she only hoped that this unnatural blizzard wouldn’t last for too long. If that was the case, the number of casualties could be minimized.

Ju Zi’s solution was undoubtedly the best they could do right now. Such a strong blizzard was unnatural. In her opinion, it couldn’t last long.

However, her expression still changed after she settled the soldiers in the base. She knew that they had lost this battle, even though it had only just begun.