The emergence of Thousand-Refined metal caused no great stir, and Lu Yi was in no hurry to make the method public.
The annual holiday was only a few days away. More than a month earlier, he had reached the level-forty bottleneck.
To make his coming trip to the Far North go smoothly, Lu Yi spent the last few days before the break preparing supplies, chiefly things to keep out the cold.
The Far North lay frozen year-round. Even at its southern edge, temperatures fell below minus thirty or forty degrees. The cold in the Core Zone was harder still to imagine.
Lu Yi intended to follow a path of elemental control, but he had yet to master ice or fire, and his tolerance for cold was limited.
Riding a broom on the journey would make the cold worse.
So Lu Yi added a wind-blocking enchantment to his broom to lessen its effect on his body.
As the holiday approached, plenty of others were excited too.
Students who had traveled thousands of miles to study at Shrek were itching to go home.
Most of them, however, faced carriage rides of at least two days, and in some cases over a week.
Those who lived even farther away had little reason to go home at all.
Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan, for instance, used to spend several days in a carriage getting home. They lived even farther away than Star Luo City.
But once they had Flying Broomsticks, everything changed. With a little effort, they could cover two or three thousand li by leaving early in the morning and still make it home for dinner.
That effectively extended their holiday by ten days.
The same held true for children of wealthy families. Ning Tian benefited directly from the Flying Broomstick as well.