"Tap, tap."
On a ten-thousand-foot snowy mountain, the escape light dispersed, revealing two figures.
"Fellow Daoist Qing Yang, please come inside!"
True Lord Qianyang extended a hand in invitation, then strolled ahead to lead the way.
Liu Yu nodded lightly and followed him, surveying the Heavenly Mountain Sect's grounds.
Snow swirled among the vast, white mountains, reducing visibility in every direction far below normal.
The temperature was likely dozens of degrees below freezing, making survival extremely difficult for mortals.
Every cultivator he saw wore a thick padded coat, bundled tightly with only their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses exposed.
Naturally, such temperatures could hardly affect a Nascent Soul True Lord.
Snow fell year-round in the Mulberry Kingdom, where temperatures remained below freezing throughout the year, unlike most of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance.
The environment shaped people's habits, so the Mulberry Kingdom's customs and traditions differed considerably from those elsewhere in the Seven Kingdoms Alliance.
Although all these lands belonged to the Southern Heaven Cultivation World, this world was unimaginably vast. Even neighboring countries having entirely different customs was nothing unusual.
The differences between the Five Regions were greater still.
Liu Yu swept his gaze ahead and saw an ice-blue palace appear before him, as though it had stepped out of a fairy tale.
Most of the palace was built from ice and snow, and the ice used was no ordinary ice. It was hundred-year black ice, suitable for crafting magical artifacts, and even thousand-year black ice.
In the environment surrounding the Heavenly Mountain Sect's grounds, this palace would not melt even under prolonged direct sunlight.
The Mulberry Kingdom truly deserves its reputation for producing abundant black ice.
*It might be a little ostentatious, but as one of the Mulberry Kingdom's only two Nascent Soul sects, the Heavenly Mountain Sect naturally