Dragon City

"Elder Mystic, I never thought you wouldn't plan to take more things from here..."

You Jie walked down the steps hand in hand with Zhang Lexuan, sighing over Mu En's rather un-Shrek-like behavior this time.

Like You Jie, he had only taken an Ice Barrier Emblem as a keepsake and hadn't tried to carry off anything else, such as the ice crystals from the three arrays that had once sealed away three dragons.

Clearly, those ice crystals were of no ordinary quality, and Shrek Academy had an Evil Fire Roast Chicken who desperately needed something like that.

Although You Jie had used his invincible Tamashii to slap the Evil Fire inside her into America, this wasn't a permanent solution. As long as Ma Xiaotao worked hard enough, her Evil Fire could still flare up again.

What You Jie didn't know was that Mu En had issued an outrageously dramatic warning to Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao. He'd scared the master and disciple into trembling like leaves, turning them into the Kun-Kun Duo, and had actually managed to keep them on their best behavior for an entire year—a rare feat indeed.

"Because the things here are simply too powerful...

"Admittedly, the materials here all contain extremely powerful energy. In terms of energy intensity and density alone, even the legendary Immortal Herbs couldn't compare.

"But precisely because of that, the energy here is extremely violent. Even the slightest misstep could send this old man back to the state where I could do nothing but sit in a recliner all day, let alone anyone else.

"If Xiaotao tried to use the ice-attribute energy contained in these materials to solve her Evil Fire problem, even a piece as small as a grain of rice would be enough to turn her into an eternal ice sculpture."

Mu En seemed to have let go of some fixation, and rambled on to You Jie at length.

In short, the materials here were indeed treasures, but only Limit Douluo could mine them. Using them was even more dangerous.

But greedy people wouldn't care about any of that. They'd only think of every possible way to come here and reap the rewards. If that ever happened, this world might become just like the Ice Barrier of old: a hopeless world covered by an endless frozen plain.

What's more, this place was connected to the secret of what seemed to be another world...

Therefore, Mu En decided not to make this place public. Even if someone at Shrek Academy asked them, they would simply say that the blizzard had been too powerful for them to enter, and that they knew nothing about what lay inside.

You Jie nodded, then brought out the D-Ring fitted with snowmobile conversion parts again. He and Zhang Lexuan climbed aboard, started it up, and immediately left the Far North.

The first day passed without incident. Not long after the group set off on the second day, a terrifying aura suddenly swept over from afar, and the sky darkened.

Then the other half of the sky suddenly turned emerald green, and another terrifying aura came rushing toward them.

"Looks like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm has started fighting Ice Empress. What a pity we can't see Ice Empress getting captured by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with its shed skin..."

You Jie shook his head and followed Mu En's instructions, speeding up once again.

From Mu En and Zhang Lexuan's perspective, a battle had clearly broken out among the Ferocious Beasts of the Far North.

There was no need for them to go over and join the spectacle, and they had no need for Soul Rings or Soul Bones of the relevant attributes, either. Mu En immediately decided to speed up and leave.

If Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hadn't been far enough away from You Jie's current location while plotting to capture Ice Empress, Mu En would have wanted to wrap You Jie and Zhang Lexuan in Soul Power and fly out of the Far North at top speed, no matter the cost.

Meanwhile, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's capture of Ice Empress went even more smoothly than it had in the original story.

"Bingbing, you... are you hurt? Who dared to hurt my beloved Bingbing?!

"Just let me find that person. He's already earned his death!"

"Sky Dream, stop running your mouth. Something strange has happened in the Far North. That's where I got hurt."

Ice Empress looked at the fawning Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, as obsequious as a lovesick puppy, deeply unwilling to accept this. If she hadn't been seeking a way to break through the next tribulation, and tried to force her way into that Divine Temple and absorb the powerful energy within, she wouldn't have ended up in her current state—frail as Lin Daiyu—and been so easily captured by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and its rather disgusting shed skin.

"Even Bingbing's body couldn't withstand it... Yu Hao, once you've finished merging with Bingbing, we should leave here right away."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm might have been a shameless flatterer, but it wasn't stupid enough to go poking around in Shrek Academy's museum. Now that it knew the Divine Temple's energy was too much even for Ice Empress, it had completely abandoned the idea of having Huo Yuhao try his luck there.

With Huo Yuhao's skinny arms and legs, wouldn't he just explode on the spot if he went to that Divine Temple?

"We've finally left the Far North."

Looking at the land ahead, no longer blanketed in snow, You Jie breathed a sigh of relief as he replaced the parts on the D-Ring, then sighed with feeling.

Speeding along on a snowmobile was great fun, but doing it nonstop for several days was no easy task.

What's more, to prevent snow blindness, You Jie had to make some extra preparations, which he didn't find very pleasant.

Although the temperature and weather showed they hadn't completely left the Far North, by the standards of Civilization VI, they had now reached Russian Happy Land, rather than a stretch of snowy white that produced practically nothing.

Mu En and Zhang Lexuan stood nearby, watching the set of Milk Bottles You Jie had taken off with curious expressions.

Clearly, over the past few days, the Soul Tool—with its greatly improved air leakage—had caught their interest.

"Is this the Soul Tool Department's latest achievement? I never expected the department to have reached this level."

"Yes, Elder Mystic. But Old Qian and I are still working on further improvements. We're hoping to make a sealed Milk Bottle that doesn't leak at all."

After replacing the parts, You Jie stood up from the ground, took the set of Milk Bottles Zhang Lexuan handed him, and put them away in his Storage Soul Tool.

"By the way, Elder Mystic, since we have plenty of time to get back, could we take a different route? There wasn't much to see along the way when we came here. It was really dull."

"Sure. Then we'll go to Dragon City today."

Mu En readily agreed to You Jie's complaining suggestion.

Now that his health had recovered, he ought to visit some old friends and share his joy with them.

Dragon City was a good choice. It was one of the largest cities in the northern part of the Heaven Dou Empire, making it easy to gather information from people hoping to venture deeper into the Far North. It was also home to two sects with ties to Mu En.

The Heavenly Dragon Gate and the Earth Dragon Gate.