A whirling blizzard shrouded the heavens and earth.
Dense snowflakes, like willow catkins, drifted down from the lead-gray sky above onto the ice plains below.
Such blizzards were exceedingly common in the Desolate Plains some twenty to thirty thousand li from the edge of the Desolate Continent.
The Desolate Continent possessed an extremely frigid climate, with many glaciers that had remained frozen since time immemorial. Meanwhile, the Desolate Plains bordering the Desolate Continent, Cloud Spirit Continent, Liuhuo Continent, and other lands were rich in moisture and contained many ancient river basins. Once the abundant water vapor blew in and met the extreme cold, it froze into a blizzard that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
At this moment, above an icy river, a black shadow was streaking through the air like some enormous bird. Every leap spanned hundreds of zhang, and the rolling heat around it melted all snow within a radius of more than ten zhang. Even cracks appeared in the ice covering the river below, but within moments, the melted snow and ice were swallowed once more by the blizzard.
That black shadow was none other than Wei Suo, who had resolved to return to the Desolate Continent.
By now, he had traveled from northwest to south and had already covered another sixty or seventy thousand li without pause through the Desolate Plains.
There was no longer much hindrance when he used the Void Crossing Steps. Yet to evade the pursuit and slaughter of those great powers, every time he used the Void Crossing Steps to travel nearly ten thousand li, he would use his physical strength to leap another two or three thousand li. From time to time, he also used the Great Accomplishment Heaven-Deceiving Scripture to create avatars, making it harder for those great