Extreme North Ice Plain

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

During this time, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er made rapid progress in the Sword Heart Art. In just three days, they had reached the realm of Sword Heart Still Water.

Even Gu Shenggo was rather surprised and deeply moved.

Children's hearts were pure and flawless, free of worries. It was only natural that they could reach Sword Heart Still Water so quickly.

Not long ago, Qiu Ruoshui had also arrived, bringing along her sick mother. She begged Gu Shenggo to save her mother and returned the five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to him.

Faced with her plea, Gu Shenggo naturally agreed and did not ask for any reward.

Qiu Ruoshui's mother had merely caught a chill, one of the most common ailments on the Extreme North Ice Plain.

Gu Shenggo used Soul Power to drive the cold from her body. Combined with the medicine from the City Lord's Manor, she recovered in less than two days.

Yesterday, Qiu Ruoshui and her mother had left Shui Li City with Leng Qishuang, heading for Skywater Academy.

Gu Shenggo also needed to get down to business. He had delayed in Shui Li City for so long, and he had eaten enough meat to the point of growing sick of it.

At the entrance of the City Lord's Manor, Lan Qingyan and Bai Yujie saw Gu Shenggo off with their daughters. As for Hu Yun, she was still lying in bed, unable to get up.

Lan Qingyan held out a thick map to Gu Shenggo. Her gentle voice carried a trace of tenderness, and her beautiful eyes revealed her reluctance to part.

"Mr. Gu, this is the latest map of the Extreme North Ice Plain. Please keep it safe."

Gu Shenggo took the map and nodded. Then he looked at the two little girls, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, and instructed them, "Bing'er, Yue'er, remember what I told you. You must not neglect your Sword Heart Art cultivation. Reach Sword Heart No Dust as soon as possible."

"Bing'er understands."

"Yue'er understands."

The two little girls nodded obediently, their voices soft and sweet. Gu Shenggo reached out and rubbed their little heads, smiling faintly. So well-behaved.

Bai Yujie's fox-like eyes were also filled with reluctance. These past few days, she had experienced pleasure like never before. Now that Gu Shenggo was leaving, she truly could not bear to see him go.

Seeing that this slutty fox, Bai Yujie, was reluctant to part with him, Gu Shenggo felt nothing. They had merely been playing around—why should there be so many feelings involved?

To put it bluntly, even if Lan Qingyan, Bai Yujie, and Hu Yun were added together, they would not compare to a single toe of Bibi Dong's.

After all, Gu Shenggo harbored an almost perverse love for Bibi Dong.

I miss Senior Sister's taste.

With the map in hand, he turned and left. Gu Shenggo felt no attachment whatsoever toward Lan Qingyan and the others. There would be plenty of meat in the future; there was no need to linger here sentimentally.

The Extreme North was vast and boundless, with several times more soul beasts than the Star Dou Great Forest. However, its territory was simply too large and the soul beasts were scattered about, unlike Star Dou, where they could be found everywhere.

Yet the soul beasts capable of surviving in the Extreme North were all stronger than those from other places.

Across the endless white snowfield, no one knew what dangers lurked beneath the snow. Here, the road ahead could not be seen. As far as the eye reached, snowflakes filled the sky and frost struck the face. The temperature was low enough to make one shiver, the cold piercing to the bone and freezing to the heart.

On the boundless snowfield, a youth dressed only in thin clothing walked as if on level ground across the seemingly thick but actually soft snow. His steps were light, utterly unaffected by the biting cold.

Soul Power flowed within Gu Shenggo's body, forming a thin membrane around him that kept the cold outside. His body temperature remained normal, without the slightest change.

Looking at the endless snowfield, white mist escaped from Gu Shenggo's nose with every breath. His gaze was somewhat lost.

To be honest, this was also his first time coming to the Extreme North, and he was unfamiliar with the place.

But that was fine. Gu Shenggo had numbers on his side.

His shadow stretched beneath his feet, and sixteen Gu Shenggos emerged from it. They were all his Shadows of Time.

The Shadows of Time possessed exactly the same strength as Gu Shenggo, except they could not use Kekeddi.

However, aside from Kekeddi, Gu Shenggo also possessed the Ice Thorn Vine martial soul. Each of them was a level-ninety, eight-ring Soul Douluo.

There was a restriction, though: one soul ring could only produce one Shadow of Time.

Gu Shenggo currently had sixteen soul rings, so he could produce sixteen Shadows of Time.

Without exchanging a word, the sixteen Shadows of Time immediately split up to search for soul beasts.

Gu Shenggo and the Shadows of Time were one entity and shared the same sensations. As long as one of them discovered traces of the Three Kings of the Extreme North, Gu Shenggo and the other Shadows of Time would know instantly.

Studying the map, Gu Shenggo continued onward. The Golden Clock in his left eye turned as his figure flickered repeatedly, heading deeper into the Extreme North Ice Plain.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Over those two days, Gu Shenggo encountered all kinds of soul beasts from the Extreme North: Blizzard Wolves, Titan Snow Demons, Snow Rock Bears, Ice Poison Toads, Illusion Ice Butterflies, and more.

Without exception, they were all slaughtered by Gu Shenggo and devoured by the Void Archive as soul beast genetic material.

"Hmm! One Shadow of Time has fallen."

Suddenly, Gu Shenggo sensed that one of his Shadows of Time had fallen.

Before its death, it had only caught a glimpse of an incomparably beautiful figure, as lovely as a goddess amid the snow. Before it even had a chance to resist, it was engulfed by endless wind and snow and annihilated.

"Snow Empress? How terrifying."

Gu Shenggo was greatly shocked. He had not expected that Snow Empress, who had yet to undergo nirvana, could destroy one of his Shadows of Time with a single strike. Even if his true body faced her personally, he probably could not withstand a single move from her.

Titled Douluo were divided into three ranks: levels ninety-one to ninety-four were ordinary Douluo, levels ninety-five to ninety-eight were Super Douluo, and level ninety-nine was a Limit Douluo.

Snow Empress was even stronger than a Limit Douluo and was not far from becoming a demigod.

Among soul beasts, bloodline reigned supreme. A hundred-year soul beast with a powerful bloodline could be stronger than a ten-thousand-year soul beast with an ordinary bloodline.

"I can't go to that place."

Gu Shenggo glanced in Snow Empress's direction, then continued deeper into the Extreme North in search of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

According to the records of "Peerless Tang Sect," the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion only stayed in the depths of the Extreme North.

As he ventured deeper and deeper, Gu Shenggo began to feel a trace of cold even with Soul Power enveloping his body.

But he paid it no mind and continued forward. The snow before him grew heavier and heavier, and everything he saw was a blinding white. He could not see the road ahead.

This forced Gu Shenggo to advance carefully. His spiritual power covered dozens of meters around him, while the Ice Thorn Vine transformed into a layer of vine armor that wrapped around his body. It was incomparably hard, even tougher than refined iron.

He trudged forward against the oncoming wind and snow. From time to time, another gust of snow swept in from behind, pushing him onward.

Gu Shenggo was like a lone sail upon the sea, constantly driven by the waves. One moment of carelessness, and he would be buried beneath them.

He did not know how long he had walked. Gu Shenggo's spirit had reached its limit, yet the wind and snow still had not stopped.

Utterly exhausted, Gu Shenggo could only use the Void Archive to mimic a small house. He entered to rest for a while, planning to come out after the blizzard passed.

During this time, Gu Shenggo received message after message that his Shadows of Time had been killed. Every attack had come from Snow Empress.

This stirred a trace of unease within him. What is she trying to do?

(After the Extreme North, he would head to Heaven Dou Imperial City.)