Another five days of arduous travel passed.
Tang Shuo and Dugu Bo finally entered the outer region of the Far North.
The farther north they went, the lower the temperature became.
The air itself seemed filled with icy blades that cut painfully across their faces.
The earth was blanketed in thick snow, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but endless white.
"Is this damn place even fit for people to stay in?"
Dugu Bo tightened the cloak around himself and could not help complaining.
As someone who used poison, he hated this kind of frozen wasteland the most.
Tang Shuo, however, looked completely unaffected.
His body had been transformed by the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and had long since become impervious to heat and cold.
Besides, he was burning with anxiety right now and could not feel the chill of the outside world at all.
There were only three words in his mind.
Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow.
"Roar—!"
Just then, a thunderous beast roar came from the ice plains not far away.
It was immediately followed by violent Soul Power fluctuations and the cries of young women.
"Something's happening."
Dugu Bo's expression turned grave.
Tang Shuo also frowned slightly as he looked toward the sound.
Several hundred meters away, in an icy valley, a group of girls wearing blue academy uniforms was besieging an enormous soul beast.
It was an Ice-Armored Explosive Bear, with cultivation of at least thirty thousand years.
It stood over ten meters tall, its entire body covered in thick crystalline ice armor with astonishing defensive power.
The girls surrounding it all looked quite young. The strongest among them was only a Soul King.
Their attacks landed on the Ice-Armored Explosive Bear like tickles, unable to break through its defenses at all.
Meanwhile, every