Northern Nether Palace, Northern Nether Palace's Strength in the Inland Northern Region!
Elsewhere.
Inland, Northern Region!
As far as the eye could see stretched an endless ice field, heaven and earth vast and desolate, the four wilds blanketed in white.
Biting winds were like hundreds of millions of invisible ice blades, howling without cease as they sliced through every wisp of Spirit Energy and warmth in the air.
The air was suffused with...
A pure, frigid aura capable of freezing even the soul.
It was a chill that had never thawed for eternity, seeping deep into the marrow!
Within this white hell where life had vanished...
The sky was leaden gray, and the heavy Cloud Layers resembled a solidified ice cap, hanging oppressively low.
As far as the eye could reach, there was scarcely a trace of a single bird—
Even the most cold-resistant ice-feathered vultures would not lightly pass over this land.
And below lay the boundless white ice field, stretching to the end of sight.
Jagged ice spikes and snow mounds sculpted into bizarre shapes by the wind were equally deathly still, with scarcely any signs of Living Creatures moving about.
At times, one could see a few nearly transparent "Ice Soul Moss" swaying in the freezing wind, Or a twisted, ghostly blue shadow flashing past deep beneath the ice.
Those were among the few traces of "life" upon this ice field.
At the edge of the horizon...
At that hazy boundary where sky and earth seemed to merge, a towering, precipitous, undulating white outline rose from the ground.
Like a spine holding up the heavens, or a frost dragon slumbering through eternity—
That was the Northern Region's largest and most mysterious mountain range, the Heavenly Pillar Mountain Range!
In this region, even Mortal Cultivators whose bodies had been tempered a thousand times over, whose vital blood surged like a