Accidentally Reincarnated in Cultivation World-Chapter 283: Snowy Phantoms

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[A/N: Skip half of the Chapter, because I wrote it in two parts, half got uploaded in the previous one. I’m really sorry about this and will make sure that there are no more mistakes like this next time, and as they are already uploaded I cannot make long edits. Again Sorry!]

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Yu Xuan and the twins stepped deeper into the blizzard’s territory.

The moment they crossed a certain invisible threshold, the entire world changed.

Their visibility plummeted to barely ten meters.

The wind fastened.

Blue snow swirled like tiny razor-sharp shards.

Even sound was muffled, devoured by the storm.

Yu Xuan spread his spirit sense outward and immediately felt resistance.

His brows tightened.

’The snow itself is disrupting my spirit sense... interesting.’

The storm wasn’t just weather.

It possessed a strange rhythm, like it carried fragments of consciousness, interfering with perception and masking killing intent.

Yet even through the interference, Yu Xuan sensed multiple auras circling them.

Fast.

Silent.

And very close.

He stopped, but he didn’t move into a battle stance.

The twins, however, reacted instantly.

"Hssss..."

"Hssssss..."

Both of them released their aura instinctively as their fingernails extended into long, curved venomous claws. Their eyes thinned to vertical slits.

They were ready.

"How about you two give it a try first?" Yu Xuan said casually, though his gaze remained sharp as he tracked the approaching presences.

The auras were early Tier 3 — core formation level.

"Yusssss!" Sisu, the excitable younger sister, hissed before her figure vanished completely, leaving only a faint afterimage.

Liji, the older twin, glared at Yu Xuan suspeciously.

"Senior Brother Yu, are you certain this won’t make us lose the bet?"

Yu Xuan’s eyebrow twitched.

"Little girl, if I make a move, there won’t be anything left for you to hunt."

Liji’s eye twitched violently.

"I am not LITTLE."

And with that, she too vanished, leaping into the snowstorm.

Yu Xuan chuckled under his breath.

The elder twin clearly tried to act mature, but her temper betrayed her age.

He could almost hear her fuming as she shredded monsters to prove a point.

His [Immortal’s Gaze], the golden pupils slicing through the snow.

The battlefield lay before him.

The twins moved like flashes — silent, precise, ruthless.

Their humanoid forms didn’t shift into their true ones, yet their attacks carried the unmistakable ferocity of their race.

Blue snow sprayed as they tore through their targets with claws that glowed faintly with toxin.

Across from them were the Snowy Phantoms.

Nearly six feet tall.

Slightly ethereal and bodies entirely composed of white, frost-covered fur.

Their limbs elongated, movements jerky and inhuman.

Each attack they unleashed seemed to distort the air, an assault aimed not at the body but the mind.

Yu Xuan’s eyes narrowed.

According to the information from the Senior Disciple at the gate, Snowy Phantoms had weak physical forms and short lifespans, but they specialized in spiritual interference, driving cultivators insane with repeated mental strikes.

And indeed, he felt the faint psychic vibrations every time they shrieked.

Still...

Yu Xuan’s expression darkened slightly.

Because if these monsters died...

Their bodies would, according to the information, be harvested on the other side.

And he was contributing to that.

’Tch... too many complications.’

He exhaled and dismissed the thought.

Better to focus on the task.

"But these Snowy Phantoms..." Yu Xuan narrowed his eyes.

"Sure aren’t mindless. They targeted the two with seemingly weaker cultivation first."

They were more intelligent than the reports had suggested.

The wind howled around him and the snow surged violently.

Yu Xuan felt several more presences gathering.

"...Looks like round two is coming."

He smiled faintly, eyes gleaming gold.

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Yu Xuan felt several more presences gathering.

He stepped forward, snow crunching softly beneath his feet as he approached Sisu, who was currently entangled with three early Tier-3 Snowy Phantoms.

"Hssss~"

Sisu hissed victoriously as she crushed a Phantom’s icy core between her claws.

The creature dissolved into drifting blue snowflakes with a hollow whu shhh.

The remaining two Phantoms screeched.

"Hu Hu Hu Hu!"

"Hu Hu Hu Hu!"

Their eerie, breath like cries echoed unnaturally as they lunged at her with distorted limbs.

Sisu dodged one claw, tailing a spiraling snowball that carried a faint ripple of spiritual force.

Her expression contorted slightly.

’The longer I fight, the more muddled my mind becomesss...’

"So the information is trusss," Sisu muttered as she twisted midair, avoiding another spiritual snowball that grazed past her cheek.

Even though Snowy Phantoms were physically fragile, a single spiritual hit from them made her vision swim.

She clicked her tongue.

Enough.

Her pupils thinned into pure serpentine slits, the red deepening unnaturally as her shadow expanded, stretching, coiling and twisting, beginning to form the silhouette of a giant serpent.

Her killing intent surged, but a hand suddenly settled on her shoulder.

Firm. Calm.

And appearing out of nowhere.

"Stop. Are you mad?" Yu Xuan said flatly.

"Using a technique with that much presence inside a place like this? Do you want every monster within ten kilometers to come here?"

"!!!"

Sisu stiffened.

She didn’t even sense him approach her, this Senior Brother was too stealthy.

"Se–Senior..."

Sisu tried to speak but Yu Xuan cut her off with a glance.

"There are more enemies coming towards us. Really, a lot more. Killing these two with a flashy technique will only make you waste your energy."

He raised his hand casually and snapped his fingers.

Crack.

The two Snowy Phantoms froze mid-charge, then shattered like fragile glass sculptures dissolving into snow, leaving only two glowing icy cores that floated neatly into Yu Xuan’s palm.

Sisu blinked in disbelief.

Yu Xuan sighed internally.

’This girl is wasting perfectly good resources...’

For cultivators, cultivating ice, these cores were valuable treasures not something to crush carelessly.

Snowy Phantoms died easily if their bodies or cores were crushed, but the cores had to be removed quickly. If left behind, their lingering aura attracted more Phantoms, asking for serious trouble.

And right now, that was exactly what was happening.

Yu Xuan’s golden eyes sharpened.

He sensed multiple Tier-3 auras converging on their location.

In every direction.

"Let’s regroup with your sister first," Yu Xuan said, turning away without waiting for a response.

Sisu swallowed her pride and hurried after him, the snowstorm swirling ominously as more shadows emerged in the distance.