Far North

Biodata

Environment

The Far North is a vast, snow-covered wilderness reached by travelling north through a border city of the Heaven Dou Empire. Its outskirts are blanketed in ice and snow, while its interior becomes increasingly hostile and difficult to navigate. 35

• Violent winds can whip snow into a blinding storm, obscure direction, and make travel exhausting. 37
• The cold is severe enough to impair less resilient soul masters; Jiang Nannan struggles after prolonged exposure, while Lin Yan's Ultimate Fire and Zhang Lexuan's Soul Douluo cultivation protect them from the worst effects. 37
• Its geography includes an outer perimeter, a middle zone, a core area, ice mountains, ice crevices, ice caverns, and an Ice Stone Forest. 36 37 43 45
• The outer regions are inhabited primarily by lower-aged, less intelligent soul beasts, while high-level soul beasts concentrate closer to the core. 39
• The extreme cold accumulated beneath the region for millions of years nurtured the Extreme Cold Profound Ice Fire. 52

Inhabitants

• Ice Empress and Snow Empress — powerful rulers associated with the Far North's core area. Their outrage triggers a region-wide order sealing the land and forbidding humans from leaving. 38 39
• Frost Shadow Void Rabbit — a rare rabbit-type soul beast found near the transition zone between the outer perimeter and core. It possesses space as its primary attribute and ice as a secondary attribute. 36
• Titan Snow Demon — a fifty-thousand-year soul beast encountered during Lin Yan's group's escape; Zhang Lexuan defeats it. 39
• Ice Jade Scorpion — a hundred-thousand-year soul beast that pursues Lin Yan, Jiang Nannan, and Zhang Lexuan during the lockdown. 39 40
• Other soul beasts — violent herds mobilize across the snowfields after the lockdown order, while higher-level beasts are later summoned back toward the core. 39 43

Notable Resources and Phenomena

• Ice Lotus — an unusual lotus found in an underground ice cavern. Its completion coincides with an ice-blue sea of flame appearing over the Far North. 45 46
• Extreme Cold Profound Ice Fire — a Heavenly Flame with both ice and fire properties, discovered after the Ice Lotus solidifies. It is difficult to contain; removing it from its cavern without refining it would cause it to absorb ambient cold energy and form a large-scale cold vortex. 46
• Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow — one of the rare treasures encountered by Lin Yan's group during their escape. 52
• Ice God Ruins — a small demiplane in an ice valley of the Far North containing an ancient Ice God Scepter. Its embedded Ice God Divine Crystal can serve as an energy source. 104
• Ice God Crystal — a crystal Luo Ye carries away during the lockdown, claiming he had discovered the Ice God Ruins first. 45

History

Lin Yan, Jiang Nannan, and Zhang Lexuan enter the Far North to hunt a suitable fourth soul ring for Jiang Nannan. Their target is a Frost Shadow Void Rabbit at least nine thousand years old, selected to advance Jiang Nannan along a space-attribute development path. 35 36 37

After five days of searching through the snowfields, the group finds and captures a nine-thousand-year Frost Shadow Void Rabbit near an Ice Stone Forest. Jiang Nannan absorbs its soul ring, causing her martial soul to mutate into the Silver Void Dragon Rabbit. 37 38

Immediately afterward, a green pillar of light erupts from the core area. The Ice and Snow Emperors react with fury and order the Far North sealed, trapping all humans within its borders. 38

“All subjects of the Far North, hear my command! Seal the Far North! Forbid any humans from leaving!” 38

The lockdown drives local soul beasts into a frenzy. Lin Yan's group is forced to flee south through the middle zone, surviving encounters with a Titan Snow Demon and a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion. Zhang Lexuan is severely injured while protecting Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan from the scorpion's Ice Explosion. 39 40 43

While sheltering in an ice crevice, the group concludes that high-level soul beasts are being transferred toward the core area. They wait and travel southeast through the crevice to improve their odds of escape. 43

In an underground ice cavern, Lin Yan discovers the Ice Lotus and subsequently refines the Extreme Cold Profound Ice Fire. He later uses the flame to hide the group's body temperatures, auras, and Soul Power fluctuations, allowing them to pass undetected through the weakened outer regions and escape. 45 46 52

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Soul Ring Hunt — serves as the destination for Jiang Nannan's fourth soul ring hunt and the evolution of her martial soul into the Silver Void Dragon Rabbit. 35 38
• Far North Lockdown — becomes a death trap after the Ice and Snow Emperors prohibit humans from leaving, forcing Lin Yan's group into a prolonged escape. 38 43
• Extreme Cold Profound Ice Fire — provides the setting for Lin Yan's discovery and refinement of a new Heavenly Flame, contributing to the evolution of his Emperor Flame. 45 52
• Luo Ye's Escape — Luo Ye uses the Treasure Mirror's instructions and the ice-blue flame phenomenon to navigate out of the sealed region while taking the Ice God Crystal. 40 45