Because they had to travel with the Undead Bears, Liu Zhi and the others moved much more slowly. It took him about five days to reach the place Bladock had mentioned.
There, Liu Zhi saw a great many oddly shaped chunks of ice.
They might have been called fragments, but every single one was taller than he was.
He sensed the power of earth in those chunks of ice.
They spread outward from an unremarkable mountain peak, like the scattered pieces of a huge statue someone had casually smashed to bits.
When he saw the chunks, Liu Zhi also sensed what seemed to be a faint trace of life within them.
He stopped and walked up to one of the chunks.
Liu Zhi wanted to study it and see whether something with powerful vitality had been frozen inside.
But once he stood right in front of it, he realized things weren't quite as they seemed.
The chunk of ice was actually someone's body.
Liu Zhi lightly tapped it, sending his mind into the chunk. Then he discovered something rather interesting.
It looked like ice, but the chunk was actually flesh and blood, and there was a trace of divinity within it.
Liu Zhi immediately realized what it was.
"A Frost Giant?"
He kicked the chunk, shattering it, then took another close look at the fragments. The disdain in his eyes deepened.
He tossed the smaller pieces aside and headed for the mountain peak nearby.
The peaks that appeared in the Arctic Ocean were really islands rising from the water.
When Liu Zhi stepped onto one, it felt as though he had entered another place.
Though it was still covered in snow and ice, stepping onto it gave him the sense that he was standing on solid ground.
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