The next morning, Jiang Liu rose early.
Facing the morning light, Jiang Liu washed and refined his cultivation technique once!
He packed up his things, slung them over his back, and left! Jiang Liu had no intention of returning here—he had already spent three days here!
Jiang Liu continued forward. Along the way, whenever he encountered ordinary beasts, he did not even feel like lifting a finger, because ordinary beasts had no beast cores and could only provide meat. He would stop to kill and extract the beast cores only when he encountered mutated beasts, yet along the way, he did not even run into a single mutated beast above the Third Grade!
It was not until he entered a Dwarf Wood forest and had traveled roughly one or two li through it that he saw a deep pool in the distance and had no choice but to stop!
The deep pool sat within the Dwarf Wood forest, with not a single tree growing around it. Cold vapor rose from its surface, condensing above the pool without dispersing. Jiang Liu had not even drawn close before he felt a chill wash over him, immediately realizing that this deep pool was no ordinary place!
One had to know that although martial artists could not become completely impervious to cold and heat after reaching Entry Grade, they absorbed spiritual energy and refined it into vital energy. The vital energy they refined belonged to the attributes of nature, so ordinary weather had very little effect on martial artists!
Jiang Liu had traveled a great distance without encountering a single water source. Moreover, the appearance of a Dwarf Wood forest in this dense woodland showed that the trees had grown this way because of a lack of nutrients. It was easy to imagine that