Evidently, fewer people did not mean there were none. There were a group of people who were skilled in Kung Fu, who enjoyed living freely with a comfortable life and did not want to serve the royal family. Therefore, they became bounty hunters for a living.
They were also similar to the modern era's mercenaries and hired by paying a certain amount of money.
The price to employ differed according to their Kung Fu abilities.
Bounty hunters with a spiritual power level of four and above were extremely rare; hence, they were more precious and worth more than a panda.
If Gu Xijiu wanted to hire four masters for this mission, she would need to spend a minimum of two million ounces of silver!
Recently, she was unable to earn much but had to spend a lot. Two million ounces of silver was indeed a large sum of money and was not possible to gather in a short period. Therefore, she decided to go alone.
She had a plan. She would utilize her teleportation immediately after obtaining the Ice Shura Flowers and evacuate the Mysterious Ice Land so that she could quickly refine the medicine at a safer location.
The delay would only take about two hours, and therefore the flowers would still be usable.
There were many ferocious beasts on this ice land.
Along the journey, she had come across five to six frost crocodiles, three to four snow pythons and even a group of snow wolf face-to-face.
Gu Xijiu decided that she would only fight beasts that were alone and if she met with a group, she would teleport immediately.
Nonetheless, teleporting at the ice land was dangerous because of the sophisticated topography where underground ice rivers resided everywhere. She even fell into one of them when she first teleported.
Her body was weak against the cold, and she was still feeling cold even after wearing many layers of cotton clothes and exercising a lot. Therefore, she missed her feather clothing from the modern era.
She would quickly freeze to death if she accidentally fell into the icy river under such weather conditions!
Therefore, she did her best to fight or run instead of teleporting.
"Whuuu..." An enormous white bear suddenly appeared and began waving its claws while launching itself towards Gu Xijiu!
With a turn, Gu Xijiu drew her sword which emitted a bright and dazzling light that created a glowing circle as she swung it around.
After a moment, the big white bear fell to the ground with a few large holes seen on its head.
"Master, you're awesome!" The Firmament Stone was very excited.
The white bear was not ordinary. It had very smooth and tender fur which could easily prevent any stabbing of chopping from knives and swords.
The bear was so mighty that two warriors with level four spiritual power could not defeat it.
Gu Xijiu managed to stab it directly at its weak point and kill it.
The Firmament Stone saw the fight between Gu Xijiu and the big white bear and understood that its master was no longer as weak as before!
It felt that it had undoubtedly found itself the right master.
The Firmament Stone could not help but feel fortunate.
The Firmament Stone complimented her generously as it knew that most people become geniuses because of compliments.
As it finished its complement, it wondered again, "Master, what are you doing?"
Gu Xijiu was working very quickly, "Skinning. The skin of this bear is just nice to keep me warm."
The Firmament Stone "..."
It looked at how round Gu Xijiu was because of the many layers of cotton clothing she had worn and said, "Master, I think you are round and big enough. If you put on this bear skin, you would most likely turn into a ball! And that won't look good."
Gu Xijiu ignored its suggestion as she needed to keep herself warm and was not interested in looking good! Her fingers were freezing. Otherwise, she would move more swiftly just now.
After she skinned the bear, she cleaned it with enchantment before she took out a blade to cut it and a needle and string to sew it into a simple cloak. Then, she tried it on, and its length was just perfect. More importantly, it kept her body warm! As soon as she put the cloak on her body, her limbs started to feel warm.
The Firmament Stone disliked it, "Master, you look like a snow ball with this. I think you don’t have to run anymore, you can just roll on the ground."
With a groaning sound, Gu Xijiu snickered and said, "Little Cang, you’ve just reminded me of something." Gu Xijiu then quickly rolled it on the ground!
The Firmament Stone snapped, "Damn, woman! Can’t even listen to a man telling the truth!"
"Hahahaha…Little Cang, you aren’t a man after all." Gu Xijiu laughed and her laughter echoed through the ice land like a couple of ringing bells.
The Firmament Stone was speechless, "…" It was the first time it had seen its master laughing so happily. Nevertheless, it magically transformed into a bracelet and flew back on her wrist. Then, it threatened her, "Try to roll me again, and you'll face the consequences!"
As it turned into a bracelet, it stopped rolling because it had jewels with four corners and eight angles which could cause a few holes in the snow if it rolled on the ground.
Gu Xijiu merely turned and left.
...
The snow storm was intense, but a group of people were seen coming towards her. There were eight of them, two females and six males. These eight people were obviously good in kungfu as they left no footprints on the snow.
"Eh, what’s that?" A young lady in green mumbled while pointing towards an object that looked like a small hill. The others raised their heads and saw an indistinct lump of meat in the snow storm.
"Shan Qing, go and check it out!" A young man in luxurious clothing ordered.
"Sure!" A middle-aged man who looked smart and valiant replied and quickly surveyed the object from a closer distance and then returned, "Sir, that lump of meat looks like the carcass of a Shura Snow Bear…"
The young man in luxurious clothing was surprised and charged towards the lump of meat. The rest followed suit.
That lump of meat was big in size and it was already harden. It was left in a crouched position, unmoved. It indeed looked like the carcass of a Shura Snow Bear.
"This is so cruel!" The lady in green mumbled and shifted her focus away.
Meanwhile, Shan Qing started to examine the wounds of the bear, and then he reported, "Sir, this bear was stabbed to death through its '[1] Ding Men Qi Circulation' Acupuncture Point. And from the traces of fighting, it should be done by that same person."
That young man in luxurious clothing slightly nodded his head, "This person dares to come here alone, he must have good external abilities."
Shan Qing added, "This person seems unfamiliar with the beasts available in this ice land. Observing the wounds of the beasts he killed along the way, it looked like trial and error as the wounds were all over the place perhaps to find its weakness. However, his skills are really brutal indeed. As soon as he found its weakness, the bear was instantly stabbed to death!"
Shan Qing was evidently a professional in analyzing the wounds of animals.
That young man in luxurious clothing was staring toward the front, "Five frost crocodiles, four snow pythons and a Shura Snow Bear…This person must be a proficient. Shan Qing, do you know how high this person’s spirit power is?"
[1] Ding Men is the acupuncture point located two inches before the crown of the head.
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