After arranging matters concerning the Mirror Shadow Beast, Huo Yuhao did not leave the Far North immediately. Instead, he took the opportunity to investigate the depths of the Far North Core Circle.
Howling winds mixed with heavy snow ravaged the wilderness.
He had come to see whether he could find any trace of the Snow Empress.
However, the vast ice plains were utterly empty. Even after expanding his Spirit Detection to its maximum range, he failed to catch the Snow Empress's distinctive aura.
Other than finding two damaged ice sculptures sealed within enormous blocks of ice along the way, he found nothing.
Seeing the deserted core region, understanding flashed through Huo Yuhao's ice-blue eyes.
Considering how the Snow Empress had been struck down to the nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year level during her tribulation, the foremost of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North had most likely succeeded in taking human form.
She was perhaps hiding somewhere in a remote corner of one of Douluo Continent's three great empires, silently cultivating anew.
Since she was no longer in the Far North, Huo Yuhao could not be bothered to waste more time on such trivial matters.
He had a clearer destination to reach.
He changed direction. The Flying Soul Tool on his back erupted with dazzling blue light, and his entire body transformed into a meteor as he shot toward Heaven Dou City, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Heaven Dou City, the political and economic center of the Heaven Dou Empire, was bustling with carriages and crowds, prosperous and noisy.
At the end of a street that was not the city's most prosperous but still quite imposing, stood a massive manor-like building.
Above its front gate hung a huge plaque with a black background and golden lettering.
Three large characters were