He needed a place far enough away, sparsely populated, with relatively stable energy or special supportive effects.
Tang Lan carried the black Dragon Egg that Di Tian had transformed into, speeding through the air day and night as he crossed the vast northern wilderness of the Dou Ling Empire.
He passed through the frigid regions along the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Far North, continuing farther north across the continent toward that unknown land ruled by eternal glaciers and biting winds.
It took a full three days and three nights. Even at Tang Lan's Demigod-level speed, he had flown across countless miles. Finally, at dawn on the fourth day, a boundless white world composed purely of ice, snow, and frost appeared at the edge of his vision.
It was an unimaginably enormous island—or rather, a colossal glacial continent floating atop the Far North Ice Ocean! As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but pristine snow and crystal-clear ice.
Thick ice accumulated over who knew how many tens of thousands of years. The sky was eternally lead-gray, the howling wind cut like blades, and the temperature was low enough to instantly freeze the Soul Power of any Soul Master below the Soul Elder rank.
There were almost no signs of life here. Aside from the hardiest polar mosses and the occasional cold-resistant avian Soul Beast flying overhead, it was a true Life Forbidden Zone. Yet for that very reason, it was isolated from the vast majority of disturbances and covetous eyes from the outside world.
"This is the place."
Tang Lan hovered above the glacial continent, his divine sense swiftly sweeping across the land below.
The ice-element natural energy here was not exceptionally abundant, but it was extraordinarily pure and stable. It also carried an