Before Glacial River Pass.
Ten thousand li were sealed in ice, a thousand li drifted with snow, and the surging great river had been frozen by the low temperature into pale-blue crystal. Around it howled the Northern Mist Storm, its temperature bitterly low.
This storm was one of the environmental dangers of Glacial River Pass.
Rumor said it was an ice storm that blew out from the depths of the Endless Ice Field, carrying a faint trace of Frozen Demonic Essence. And because traveling farther north from Glacial River Pass led to the rarely trodden Northern Mist, it was considered the final threshold from Tai Lake into the Endless Ice Field, and so it also had the common name "Northern Mist Ice Storm."
This perilous environment, imbued with spiritual qi, also affected Divine Sense. Cultivators below Core Formation simply could not see what lay in the depths of the ice layer.
This left room for the "Water Ghost" tactic to be employed.
The walls of Glacial River Pass stood a thousand zhang tall, all built from Northern Wilderness Frozen Stone that had been frozen for who knew how many years. It was not the slightest bit weaker than the Lapis Lazuli used to construct Eastern Peak Capital.
With the Azure Cloud Sect controlling it over these years, they had likewise spent heavily to equip it with formations and Flight Restrictions, thoroughly taking command of this pass.
At this very moment.
Under pressure from the Heaven Refining Demon Sect, the Nether Mountain Sect's main force had no choice but to press forward with a full lineup of twenty-three Nascent Soul cultivators, over a thousand Core Formation Cultivators, and Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Aside from the high-end combat forces, half of them were itinerant