Eighty Thousand Year Ice Jade Scorpions Clash, Extreme North Divine Skill Ice Burst Technique!

The next morning, Luo Zixi woke from his sleep. Although the fireplace in the room was still burning, the temperature had clearly dropped somewhat.

He slowly got up and opened a crack in the window. Just as he had expected, the sky outside was still pitch-black.

As far as he knew, the Far North was already a forbidden zone for humans, and this small manor only a hundred li from the polar region was hardly any better.

Temperatures here were close to minus ten degrees Celsius, let alone the terrifying ultra-low temperatures within the Inner Far North, which approached minus one hundred degrees Celsius.

At this moment, Hu Liena, the little slave, was still sleeping soundly beneath a thick quilt. Luo Zixi had no intention of disturbing her rest.

By the time Luo Zixi returned to the room last night, it had already been very late, and she had been lying in bed waiting for him to come back.

Wasn't that strange? He had clearly never told her to wait for him.

Yet she had waited for his return, then even gave him the warmed bed.

Luo Zixi was an emotional person, but his emotions differed depending on whom they were directed toward.

Having a beautiful girl warm his bed did sound rather nice, but if his strength and methods had not been sufficient, he would have died at their hands several days ago.

In his view, much of his relationship with Hu Liena rested upon the Slave Mark. Without that mark, he believed Hu Liena would hardly be so kindhearted.

At ten in the morning, Luo Zixi woke Hu Liena, who was still sleeping soundly.

After being awakened, she still seemed rather groggy. She lazily rubbed her eyes and stretched comfortably.

However, at that very moment, Luo Zixi directly opened the door.

An icy, bone-piercing wind rushed in from outside. Hu Liena instantly snapped awake upon feeling the biting gale. After seeing the same indifferent eyes of Luo Zixi, she sensibly put on the fur clothing he handed her.

Luo Zixi said nothing, simply standing at the doorway as he watched Hu Liena fasten her fur boots and put on her brown-black cold-weather coat.

Having swiftly straightened out her attire, Hu Liena tacitly stepped directly to Luo Zixi's side.

"Let's go."

There was still little emotion in Luo Zixi's voice, while Hu Liena merely followed closely behind him.

Only when she saw the dozens of frozen corpses with twisted expressions still in the inn's hall did Hu Liena finally understand what Luo Zixi had gone out to do last night.

The roads on both sides of the manor were lined with frozen corpses wearing despairing expressions, and all sorts of sharp farming tools lay scattered beside them.

Hu Liena had also clawed her way out of Spirit Hall's hellish trials, so she was not overly shocked upon seeing this scene, like a living hell.

After leaving the manor, Luo Zixi turned back to Hu Liena and pressed an index finger carrying a trace of ice-blue power against her forehead.

The next moment, she actually saw the entirety of the manor through the ice and snow. Her brown-black eyes immediately widened, and an emotion called fear gradually spread through her mind.

At a quarter past three in the afternoon, Luo Zixi and Hu Liena finally arrived at the true dividing line between the Far North and the continent: Frost Forest.

Frost Forest lay in the southwestern region of the Far North.

From the map, it directly enclosed the habitat of the Far North's Soul Beasts within the forest, while outside it stretched a lifeless icy plain spanning nearly a hundred li.

Even though this was merely the edge of the Far North, it still had terrifying temperatures of over minus seventy degrees Celsius.

The blizzards here were at least five times fiercer than those around Ice and Snow Manor. Walking here was like navigating a maze, and with his tacit permission, Hu Liena gripped his arm tightly, leaving only her eyes exposed as they pressed forward.

The barren Frost Forest was not a place where they could set up camp, so Luo Zixi intended to first head closer to the inner regions of the Far North and make an underground ice shelter as a foothold.

Frost Forest was not particularly safe even during the day. Only after dealing with a thousand-year Ice Wolf Pack did they successfully cross the forest and formally enter the Far North.

However, before they had even properly stepped into the Far North, a violent boom rang out in the distance, and the fierce explosions were continuously drawing closer to them!

"What a terrible start!"

Without another word, Luo Zixi used his Ice Spirit Body to clear a passage through the thick snow beneath their feet.

He then wrapped an arm around Hu Liena and jumped straight down. The conspicuous opening above them was tightly sealed by the thick snow and ice shards under his control.

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!!"

Two more horrifying explosions rang out in succession, making even the Far North's border tremble. Luo Zixi held nothing back, directly using the power of his Ice Spirit Body to cover both himself and Hu Liena and conceal their auras.

Soon, intense rumbling came from above their heads, followed by a series of faint crunching sounds, as though some kind of creature were eating.

Within the concealed dark tunnel, Hu Liena did not know what was happening, but she instinctively feared this unknown and powerful creature.

Luo Zixi's eyes, however, shone with an ice-blue radiance in the dark underground passage.

Yes, he could determine what kind of creature it was from the information transmitted to him by the ice elements around him.

But at that very moment, the sound of something enormous landing reached Luo Zixi's ears. At the sensation, the hairs all over his body instantly stood on end.

He immediately dragged Hu Liena down with him, pressing their bodies desperately against the bottom of the already cramped tunnel.

"BOOM!!!!"

The violent explosion unleashed terrifying energy waves, flattening the glaciers and woods for hundreds of meters around them.

Only after the violent explosion had passed did Luo Zixi slowly raise himself, intending to observe the situation outside through the ice and snow. However—

"Whoosh~ Whoosh~"

The biting wind swept Luo Zixi's black hair upward. Why did he need the ice and snow's feedback to observe anything now? He could simply open his eyes and look for himself!

That was right. The deep pit above Luo Zixi and Hu Liena had been completely blown flat, and the edge of the explosion had stopped only a few centimeters above them.

Seeing the irregular ice crystals scattered around from the explosion, Luo Zixi felt a chill run down his back.

But he quickly noticed two jade-green "ice blocks" glinting less than a meter in front of him.

Just as he was wondering what they were, all the information about them appeared directly before his eyes.

Item: 40,000 Year Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone

Soul Skill: Ice Burst Technique (Strict activation conditions: the target must be completely frozen, with their body filled with ice. The stronger the target, the more powerful the explosion.)

Absorption Requirement: Ultimate Ice

Item: 80,000 Year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone

Soul Skill: Extreme Ice Blessing (Increases ice-element attributes by 200% and all attributes by 50%. Additionally, the next ice-element soul skill used receives an extra 100% ice-element boost.)

Absorption Requirement: Ultimate Ice