Dragon Emperor City was still the same Dragon Emperor City, but after several consecutive days of heavy snow, everything within several thousand kilometers of the city had turned white. The entire world had donned plain mourning garb, becoming much quieter, with black and white sharply divided.
Zhang Tie flew all the way in from the wilderness and saw that the snow atop the wild mountains was already over two feet deep.
From the time he left until his return, Zhang Tie had spent a full eight days.
If his memory was correct, then the day Zhang Tie returned to Dragon Emperor City should have been January 18th, Year 3585 of the Wa Emperor Calendar...
Two days earlier, on January 15th, which happened to be the full moon, Zhang Tie had made time to enter the Castle of Black Iron and eat a pile of Fruits of Redemption. The Golden Unicorn Beetle power contained in those Fruits of Redemption exceeded ten fruits, and his body's recovery, resistance, cold tolerance, and ability to survive under extreme conditions were all steadily improving—back in Great Xia, Paul was still releasing earthworms, Golden Unicorn Beetles, bay shrimp, and Flower-Furred Clams for him. The Fruits of Redemption provided by all those creatures were steadily growing as well.
Zhang Tie was now at the Intermediate Recovery Body stage. He very much wanted to see what effects advancing his body to the Advanced Recovery Body would bring. Of course, beyond that, what he most wanted to see was what sort of surprise Little Tree would give him once he had finished eating all the Golden Unicorn Beetle Fruits of Redemption.
Over the past few months, he had already eaten more than 1,680 Golden Unicorn Beetle power fruits. As long as he ate another hundred or so, he would