"Let's go. We can't delay too long." Han Yuchen's smile faded as he looked toward the area deep within the ice plains, shrouded in pale blue frost mist. "According to the guidebook and the Star Map Navigation markers, the source of the unusual fluctuations emitted by that Star Core Fragment is ahead, at the edge of the core region.
We have to find a relatively safe place to settle before nightfall. The nights here... I heard that even Soul Douluo don't dare remain out in the open lightly."
The two of them and the fox moved through this vast, blindingly white world like three tiny black dots inching forward, heading deeper into colder and more dangerous territory.
As they continued onward, the surrounding scenery began to undergo striking and eerie changes.
The ground was no longer soft beneath a layer of fresh snow. It gradually became hard, smooth Ten-thousand-year Profound Ice that glimmered with a faint blue radiance.
The ice layer was incomparably thick, as though ancient time itself had been frozen beneath it.
The surface was as flat as a mirror, clearly reflecting the gray, leaden sky above, its clouds seeming as though they would never disperse, as well as their tiny figures. It gave them the strange illusion of walking through a gap between heaven and earth.
Icebergs of astonishing scale began to appear in their field of vision.
These icebergs were not formed from accumulated snow, but true blue glaciers condensed from ancient ice and forged under immense pressure.
They came in all manner of bizarre, miraculous shapes. Some looked as if they had been cleaved by a god's colossal sword, forming steep ice cliffs as sharp as blades that thrust straight into the low-hanging clouds.
Others resembled slumbering primordial Ice Frost Giant Beasts, crouched across the