The next day.
The weather was still a mix of wind and snow.
Jin Mian, having rested for the night, extinguished the Ultimate Fire inside the cave.
He left the ice cave.
And headed deeper into the Extreme North Land.
But after crossing a snow-capped mountain, he began to face a dilemma.
"Walking aimlessly like this, let alone finding the ice extreme divine crystal, it would probably be very difficult even to complete the system missions."
"System, you too—for the missions you release, can't you provide a navigation target?"
"Where am I supposed to find the Snow Empress like this?"
[...]
In the Peerless Tang Sect...
The reason Huo Yuhao didn't get lost in the Extreme North Land...
Was entirely due to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, that beast-shaped navigation system.
But what about Jin Mian?
Forget navigation, he didn't even have a map.
"Meow."
While he was lost in thought, Jin Mian heard a meow.
Then he saw a small white cat running over in a panic.
It bumped into his leg.
Jin Mian crouched down, reached out, and caught the white cat in his hands.
"A ten-year Frostwing Spirit Cat."
Looking at the Frostwing Spirit Cat in his hands, which was pure white without a single blemish and had a pair of small wings on its body...
He couldn't help but chuckle and pet the cat a few times: "Little fellow, why are you running so fast?"
"Count yourself lucky that you ran into me."
"If you had run into someone else, you'd probably be gone before you even got close."
After satisfying his urge to pet the cat, Jin Mian placed the struggling Frostwing Spirit Cat back on the ground.
Having broken free of its constraints, the Frostwing Spirit Cat disappeared into the white snow after a short while.
Whoosh—
The bone-chilling wind picked up again.
Jin Mian walked for a while longer.
Suddenly, he saw a massive snowball rolling toward him from afar.
Its speed was exceptionally fast.
As it rolled along, it flattened a large swath of the already scarce trees in the Extreme North Land.
To avoid trouble...
Jin Mian chose to take a detour.
Unexpectedly, that snowball seemed to be aiming for him.
No matter which direction he turned, the snowball followed behind him.
Once the snowball got a bit closer...
Jin Mian looked closely and realized something was wrong.
This didn't seem to be a snowball.
After all, whose snowball has fur on it?
The next second.
The snowball leaped into the air.
It transformed into a polar bear over forty meters long, its entire body covered in silver-white fur.
He was the Snow Empress's adopted son, the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai.
Last night...
He had received instructions from his mother, the Snow Empress, to bring the intruder back.
But he had searched all night.
Aside from the human before him, he hadn't seen any other intruders.
So, he planned to take this human back.
Boom!
Xiao Bai landed heavily on the ground.
His massive size and weight made the ground shake three times.
Then, using his clear and translucent sapphire blue eyes, he carefully sized up Jin Mian.
Facing the Spirit Beast that had suddenly appeared...
Jin Mian became fully alert.
Without a word, he first activated his Martial Soul True Body.
Sensing the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast aura and pressure emanating from Jin Mian's 100,000-year spirit ring...
A light flashed in Xiao Bai's eyes.
Happily, he used his thick bear paws to beat his chest vigorously.
He wasn't like the Ice and Snow Empresses; he couldn't speak the human tongue.
He could only let out a roar: "Roar—!"
"Damn! This guy hasn't gone crazy, has he?" Seeing the Spirit Beast dancing and gesticulating before him, Jin Mian thought the other party was preparing to attack.
spirit power surged throughout his body.
He clenched his fists.
After finishing his celebration, Xiao Bai began to gesture wildly at Jin Mian.
"Roar, roar roar, roar..."
???
This left Jin Mian bewildered.
What did this bear mean? After appearing suddenly, it first went into a frenzy and then started gesturing randomly.
"Hiss, this bear's cultivation is at least over a hundred thousand years!"
"In my memory, there seems to be only one in the Extreme North Land with a cultivation exceeding a hundred thousand years."
"That's the Ice Bear King that the Snow Empress took in."
"Is this guy that Ice Bear King?"
After gesturing for quite a while...
Xiao Bai saw that the human was unresponsive.
In order to hurry back and sleep...
He simply reached out with his thick bear claws, intending to take him back to the Snow Empress's Palace.
Seeing the Ice Bear King reach out with his paw to grab him...
Jin Mian thought the other party was attacking.
With a jump, he dodged into the air.
Xiao Bai withdrew his paw, and seeing that there was nothing in his palm, his eyes were filled with confusion.
"Hey! I'm over here."
"Sit down for me!"
His right fist gathered strength and swung back.
It slammed heavily onto the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai's head.
Thud!!!
But it was clear that Xiao Bai's tankiness was extremely high; this punch felt like a massage to him.
"Such high defense." Jin Mian shook his slightly aching right fist.
Xiao Bai rubbed his head.
Then he reached out his paw toward Jin Mian again.
However, with his massive size, his speed was noticeably slow.
Jin Mian dodged it with ease.
Seeing that this human was so difficult to catch...
Xiao Bai immediately decided to freeze Jin Mian into a block of ice first and then take him back.
In an instant...
Within the area centered around his body...
The temperature suddenly plummeted to absolute zero.
With a wave of his thick bear paw...
A frigid storm with a diameter of a thousand meters was whipped up.
The storm lasted for a long time.
It finally ended after a while.
Just as Xiao Bai thought Jin Mian had been frozen into a block of ice and was preparing to carry him back...
He discovered...
A large amount of water vapor was rising from the storm.
"Roar!" With an angry roar, he blew the water vapor away.
Xiao Bai was stunned.
A Fire Wall several hundred meters high, radiating a scorching aura, appeared abruptly in front of him.
This felt incredibly novel to him.
After all, in the Extreme North Land, a place frozen year-round...
Not a single spark could usually be seen.
Filled with curiosity, Xiao Bai reached out his bear paw, wanting to touch the Fire Wall.
Unexpectedly...
As soon as his paw touched the Fire Wall...
The terrifying Ultimate Fire contained within it burned him.
"Roar—!" Xiao Bai roared in pain.
He withdrew his bear claw and hurriedly put it in his mouth to cool it down.
Jin Mian dispelled the Fire Wall and looked at Xiao Bai: "Not a bad strike. Now, it's my turn."
"Dark Gold Dreadclaw!"
..."This aura is... the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear?!"
"Could it be that Bear Lord is here?"
Inside the palace...
The Snow Empress, who was originally waiting for Xiao Bai's return, suddenly felt the aura of the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
Mistakenly thinking it was Bear Lord...
She secretly thought things were bad!
If it really was Bear Lord, the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai truly wouldn't be his match.
So she hurriedly called the Ice Empress...
To go and check for herself.
"What? Sister, are you saying the intruder is that big stupid bear?" the Ice Empress asked.
The Snow Empress shook her head: "I can't be sure either, but that aura just now was indeed Bear Lord's Dark Gold Dreadclaw."
The Ice Empress was full of fighting spirit: "If that big stupid bear dares to bully Xiao Bai, sister, you just freeze him into a block of ice again. This time, freeze him for ten thousand years."
Ten thousand years ago...
Bear Lord had once challenged the Snow Empress.
His purpose was to fight for the right to rule the Extreme North Land.
But the final result was obvious.
Bear Lord lost.
He was soundly thrashed by the Snow Empress using the Snow Empress's Three Unrivaled Skills.
Afterward...
If it hadn't been for the Beast God Di Tian appearing in time...
Bear Lord would probably have been frozen into an ice sculpture by now...
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