This was a bitterly cold land where snow fell year-round. The entire region was an expanse of ice, with scarcely any greenery in sight.
After arriving, Chen An spread his spiritual power as far as possible until it covered the entire Far North.
With his current spiritual power, he could barely encompass the vast Far North completely. Every creature living there appeared within his perception.
There seemed to be over thirty thousand soul beasts. That was not a small number, but it was by no means large either. It certainly could not compare to the Far North of ten thousand years ago.
Back then, the Far North had stood on equal footing with the Star Dou Great Forest and had been one of the strongest gathering places for soul beasts.
Yet over these past ten thousand years, not only had the Star Dou Great Forest declined rapidly, but the Far North had also fallen into serious decline. It had long lost the strength and prosperity it possessed when Snow Empress and Ice Empress were still around ten thousand years ago.
Chen An had no intention of seeking out the soul beasts here. To enhance his Xuanwu Bloodline through them, he would probably have to kill nearly all thirty thousand ice soul beasts. He was not so cruel toward soul beasts, nor was there any need to be.
He had come here to absorb the ice energy within the Far North's environment and to see whether any Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow remained. If he could find enough of this ice supreme treasure, raising his Xuanwu Bloodline would become much easier.
As someone with the Ice Xuanwu Bloodline, he was extremely sensitive to ice energy. He could even sense fluctuations of ice energy within the strata, which greatly aided his search for Ten-Thousand-Year