A week later, Huo Yuhao was in the northern reaches of the Heaven Dou Empire. Huo Yuhao headed toward the sea; she planned to travel along the continent's western coast, the place that would collide with the Sun Moon Continent ten thousand years later. For now, it was still a coastline of beaches, not the mountains and straits of ten thousand years in the future. It did not yet look the way it had in Huo Yuhao's memories.
The northern frontier of the Heaven Dou Empire was sparsely populated. Aside from a few cities and towns, few people had settled there. In an age before heating Soul Tools came into use, relying on furs and fires alone, someone without Soul Power would find it very difficult to survive on their own in a place like the northern frontier.
So, in a week of walking, aside from buying a set of durable clothes in a town, Huo Yuhao had seen no further signs of human habitation.
Huo Yuhao walked across this land, with coniferous forest stretching as far as the eye could see. Within it, he could only rely on the sun overhead to determine his direction. A cold wind swept through the trees. Though it would have chilled an ordinary person to the bone, to Huo Yuhao, who possessed the Snow Maiden Martial Soul, it was no more than a gentle breeze.
Huo Yuhao breathed the air here. That gust brought not only the cold of the northern frontier, but also a faint trace of blood. Though the scent was extremely faint, Huo Yuhao, who had undergone Ultimate Soldier training and been on the battlefield in the past, was very familiar with it. If it were merely Soul Beasts preying on one another or hunters hunting, that amount of blood