The iron hooves of the Sabertooth Beasts thundered across the earth, their sound like rolling thunder, shattering the stillness of the Ice and Snow Wilderness. Surrounded by Thor's Hammer, Zhang Tie rode atop a towering, majestic Sabertooth Beast, gazing at the wilderness that was strange yet faintly familiar, his heart blazing hot.
A wind blew into his face, and Zhang Tie seemed already to see that cold, beautiful, stubborn face beneath the mask.
In merely a single day, after Zhang Tie got off the train, mounted a Sabertooth Beast, and arrived in the southern Ice and Snow Wilderness, every Golden Sea Buckthorn tree across the southern plains burst into bloom. In their own way, all the Golden Sea Buckthorn trees were welcoming the arrival of their creator—and the King of the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
All along the journey by train, wherever Zhang Tie passed, the Golden Sea Buckthorn beside the railway bloomed ahead of time, like a carpet of flowers spread over the earth, welcoming the coming man in the most reverent manner.
No one needed to say anything. To everyone who witnessed it, such a sight was the holiest miracle, proclaiming the arrival of a god.
With every kilometer northward, Zhang Tie's immense renown in the Ice and Snow Wilderness, wreathed in a sacred halo, spread in all directions. Along the railway, even in empty wildernesses, people from tribes in every direction would come rushing over and gather by the tracks, prostrating themselves in worship just to glimpse from afar this myth walking among mortals. Even if they could not see him, many were utterly satisfied simply to see the train he rode in.
Inside the carriages, the elders, chieftains, and priests of the various tribes were still arguing and bargaining with one another. Yet across the entire