Three months later.
In a world of ice and snow, a man and a woman in thick coats walked toward the boundless frozen expanse.
They were Xue Linglong and Jiang Hai, who had come together.
The Far North.
This was a forbidden zone for human soul masters and a paradise for ice- and snow-attribute soul beasts. Yet even ice-attribute soul masters would not choose to hunt soul beasts in the Far North until they had reached a certain level.
This place was simply too dangerous.
The danger came not only from the soul beasts of the Far North, but also from its brutal environment.
The farther north they went, the colder the climate became. This frozen world was no place for humans to live, and flames had all but vanished here.
Even the divine fire within Jiang Hai was suppressed to its limit in the Far North. It was as though the flame of civilization could not illuminate this land so rarely trodden by humans. Still, this was ultimate fire, one of the hottest flames in the world, and it was enough to keep Jiang Hai alive amid the ice and snow.
Xue Linglong's martial soul, however, was Ice and Snow. To her, the Far North was like home.
To Jiang Hai, the endless expanse held nothing but snow upon snow. He could not even make out the direction. If a soul master with an ordinary attribute came here and lost their way in the snows of the Far North, death would be their only fate.
Zhang Lexuan had still failed to persuade Jiang Hai to return. After staying in Pinghai City for three days, she returned to Shrek Academy, while Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong stayed behind.
Jiang Hai cleaned up the dilapidated mortuary, which had fallen into disrepair