Braving the Far North in Light Clothes? If You Don't Freeze to Death, You're Truly Slacking!
On the seventh day after leaving Star Luo City, Lin Ciyan arrived at the northernmost border town of the Heaven Dou Empire - Frost Ridge Town.
This is already the edge zone of human activities.
The town is small, with low stone houses. The snow on the streets has been compacted into ice. Pedestrians are wrapped in thick animal skin jackets, and the white air they breathe out instantly condenses into ice mist.
There is a biting cold air in the air, and you feel like your lungs will be frozen when you take a breath.
When Lin Ciyan led the horse into the town, almost everyone cast a surprised look.
Outside of his dark blue attire, he only wore a thin silver-gray cloak, which looked out of place in the extreme cold of dozens of degrees below zero.
What's even more astonishing is that he doesn't shrink at all on his face, walks calmly, and even has a leisurely curve at the corner of his mouth.
"Isn't this man... cold?" someone whispered.
Lin Ciyan is indeed not cold.
The five internal organs in the body correspond to Five Elements, Soul Power. As they slowly circulate, heart fire generates spleen earth, spleen earth generates lung metal, lung metal generates kidney water, kidney water generates liver wood, and liver wood regenerates heart fire.
Five Elements Rotation forms a cycle of its own, endless, constantly transforming the invading cold air into gentle energy, nourishing the meridians.
This works better than any warm clothing.
He found a small hotel that looked relatively clean and boarded the horses.
If we go any further, the horse will not be able to carry it anymore.
The shop owner was a middle-aged man with frostbite on his face. He looked at Lin Ciyan's outfit several times and couldn't help but persuade him, "Young man, are you going to the north? Just wear this? No, it's not a joke over there. Spit turns into ice particles before it hits the ground!"
Lin Ciyan smiled, took out a few Gold Soul Coin and put them on the counter. "Stay one night and prepare some dry food."
Seeing his persistence, the shopkeeper shook his head and stopped trying to persuade him. However, the fur blanket he found was extra thick.
At night, the temperature in the town dropped sharply, and the cold wind howled outside the window like a ghost crying.
Lin Ciyan was sitting cross-legged on the bed, not practicing, just regulating his breath quietly. In Sea of Consciousness, Xiyao floated out from Five Elements Divine Light Inner World, turned into a hazy light and shadow, and curled up beside him.
"Ci Yan, it's so cold outside." She said softly, and her light and shadow arms were wrapped around his neck. Although it was just soul contact, there was a sense of cuddling warmth.
"Go back if you feel cold, it will be warm inside." Lin Ciyan responded with his thoughts.
"No, I want to accompany you." Xiyao's voice was soft, "It's so boring for you to travel alone."
Lin Ciyan smiled. Since Gold of Life nourished this girl, her soul has become more solid and her personality has become more clingy.
On weekdays in the academy, as long as no one is around, she likes to show up, sit next to him, or simply lie on his lap and sleep.
Although Soul Spirit does not need sleep.
In her words: "Holding Ci Yan and Soul Power will make it run faster!"
He couldn't refute this reason.
"Tomorrow we will actually enter Far North, are you afraid?" he asked.
"Ci Yan is here, don't be afraid." Xiyao's light and shadow touched him.
"But... you said you want to find a new partner, is it a boy or a girl?"
Here it comes, here it comes again.
Lin Ciyan laughed, "Is it important?"
"Of course it's important!" Xiyao snorted, "If you're a woman, you're not allowed to be prettier than me! No, you're not allowed to kiss you better than me!"
Such jealousy.
"Don't worry, you will always be the most special." Lin Ciyan reassured.
This is true, Xiyao is the first Soul Spirit, and he came as a sacrifice. He has the deepest connection with his soul, and his status is irreplaceable.
Xiyao was then satisfied, the light and shadow gradually faded away, and Inner World returned to rest.
In the early morning of the next day, Lin Ciyan put all the top-grade cold-warming clothes prepared by Xu Jiujiu into the storage bracelet, still only wearing the thin clothes and cloak, and left the town.
Several hunters who got up early at the entrance of the town were dumbfounded.
"He... he just entered the ice field?"
"Looking for death! This is it!"
Lin Ciyan ignored the comments behind him and stepped onto the vast snowfield.
The real Far North starts from here.
The snow was knee-deep and I would sink in every step I took.
But to Soul King, this is nothing.
He ran Soul Power, his footsteps touched the snow lightly, leaving no trace on the snow, and his figure was like a streak of blue smoke, galloping towards the north.
The further north you go, the lower the temperature and the heavier the wind and snow.
The howling cold wind carried the ice particles, hitting the face like a knife. Ordinary Soul Ancestor here, I'm afraid even Soul Power would have difficulty maintaining body protection.
Lin Ciyan is becoming more and more calm.
The speed of Five Elements Rotation automatically accelerates when stimulated by the cold outside.
When cold air enters the body, it is absorbed and transformed by the water element of the kidneys, causing the water element perception to slowly increase.
He simply let go of part of his protection and allowed part of the cold air to invade, tempering his body and Soul Power purity.
After walking for about half a day and hundreds of miles deep into the ice field, there was no sign of any human beings around.
There is only a vast expanse of white left between heaven and earth.
At this moment, from behind the snow slope ahead, there was a rustling sound, mixed with a low whimper.
Lin Ciyan's footsteps did not stop, Soul Power condensed slightly, and his mental power spread quietly.
Behind the snow slope, seven or eight snow-white wolf-shaped Soul Beast were forming a circle, staring at him with green eyes.
These snow wolves are larger than ordinary wolves, have thick hair, sharp claws, and faint blue lines on their foreheads.
Hundred-Year Soul Beast, Snowfield Wolf.
On the leader, the lines on his forehead have turned dark blue, and his body is extremely majestic. He is a thousand-year-old leader.
If an ordinary Soul Master encountered this group of snow wolves, it would be a tough fight.
Lin Ciyan didn't even slow down.
He walked to the snow slope, randomly found an exposed black rock, dusted the snow on it, and sat down directly.
The pack of snow wolves roared and approached, forming a fan shape around them, their fishy smell hitting their faces.
Lin Ciyan didn't even look at them, he just raised his head and looked at the gray sky.
Then, he stretched out his finger and tapped lightly in the air.
Soul Power circulates, Light of the Five Elements blooms from the fingertips.
Gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow, five colors of brilliance intertwined and rose, rotating and spreading above his head, Simulation showing the magnificent scene of the aurora changing.
The light is not dazzling, but soft and gorgeous, reflecting the flying snow in the sky, like a dream.
The snow wolves, who were originally grinning, all stopped moving.
The leading Millennium Snow Wolf raised his head, his green eyes reflected the colorful "aurora", revealing a trace of confusion and... awe.
Aurora, in the eyes of Far North indigenous people, is often regarded as a miracle or a vision of heaven and earth.
Lin Ciyan Simulation at this moment.
Although it is not a real aurora, the original aura exuded by Five Elements Rotation is mixed with the auspicious fluctuations of Holy Radiance Qilin.
For these Soul Beast who have just begun to develop their spiritual intelligence, there is natural pressure and confusion.
"Woooo..."
Several hundred-year-old snow wolves began to growl uneasily and backed away slowly.
Millennium Snow Wolf hesitated for a moment and took a deep look at Lin Ciyan.
The humans were still sitting around, looking far away, as if they didn't exist at all.
Finally, it roared low, turned around with the wolves, and disappeared behind the snow slope.
The crisis is resolved without any bloodshed.
[Ding! Defeat the enemy with "beautiful scenery" and fight to the end! Slacking Value+200! Tip: Art is also combat power, who says it isn't~]