Over the past few months, Lin An's Soul Power had risen from level 49 to level 50. So the group's first stop was to help Lin An obtain his fifth soul ring.
For his fifth soul skill, Lin An wanted another powerful area-of-effect attack. After discussing it, they decided that the Mirror Shadow Beast was an excellent fit. It could create physical copies, so it would likely grant Lin An an outstanding AoE skill. Lin Feng thought of the twenty-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast whose soul ring Oscar had absorbed as his sixth soul ring in the original story. The soul beast itself was suitable, but Lin Feng felt that twenty thousand years was a little too low.
Fortunately, they had plenty of rare herbs and treasures. Once they subdued the Mirror Shadow Beast, they could feed it some medicine to cultivate it further. Thus, the group headed to the Frozen Forest at the northern edge of the Heaven Dou Empire in search of a Mirror Shadow Beast. Continuing north through the forest would lead them to the Far North, and the Extreme North Core Region was home to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress. However, no one ventured into the Extreme North Core Region in the timeline of the first Douluo world, so no one on the continent knew about them yet. Naturally, Lin Feng had no intention of going there either—at least not for now.
The group searched the Frozen Forest for several days and encountered a few Mirror Shadow Beasts, but they were all around a hundred years old. The oldest was only a little over four thousand years old. Although they could use rare herbs and treasures to cultivate one, there was no need to cultivate one with such a low age. Fortunately, their luck was not