I never thought I'd come back here again. Fang Yuan sighed inwardly, stopped his rapid flight, and descended from the sky.
Before his eyes stretched a vast expanse of white.
A world of ice and snow.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
The howling of the cold wind rang endlessly beside his ears.
Amid the biting gale swirled countless snowflakes and even tiny hailstones, sweeping in from every direction.
Because of the snowstorm filling the sky, Fang Yuan's vision was greatly restricted.
Moreover, the temperature was extremely low. Fang Yuan had no choice but to activate more Gu worms to maintain his body temperature and defend against the cold wind.
This was still Northern Plains.
More precisely, it was the northernmost edge of Northern Plains—the Great Northern Ice Plain, known to all.
This place had originally been land and grassland, but a world-destroying battle between powerful experts had utterly ruined its natural terrain, turning it into nothingness.
After the battle, the victor, Savage Demon Venerable, transformed into a Primeval Ancient Beast Ice Phoenix and spewed profound ice of extreme cold, freezing the place anew. That was how the landscape of today came to be.
Back then, Hei Lou Lan had chosen this place to undergo tribulation and be promoted to an immortal.
That was because the ice plain contained Savage Demon Venerable's true meaning of strength path and Transformation Dao. If strength path or Transformation Dao Gu Masters ascended to immortality here, their dao marks would resonate, and the true meaning of strength path and Transformation Dao would manifest through the earthly calamity.
If the person undergoing tribulation defeated the earthly calamity, they would receive the infusion of true meaning, equivalent to Savage Demon Venerable's personal guidance.
Scenes of the past flashed through Fang Yuan's mind.
Those vivid images seemed as if they