Chapter 1055: To The Frozen North
Lin Wu watched Tim ‘play’ with his ‘rocks’ and didn’t know what to think of it.
‘Pure Earth Elemental spirit stones like these can’t even be formed by refinement. And yet he can make them casually like this… The bloodline of the Yellow Dragon is truly strong within him. Even if has only started to awaken, it is still strong enough to do something like this.’ Lin Wu thought to himself.
The Yellow Dragon was a beast of the earth elemental and had absolute mastery over it. Tim awakening it had only shown a fraction of what was possible for the bloodline.
“That’s good.” Lin Wu praised Tim.
“It’s good! Yes.” Tim agreed and took the compliment.
“But that’s enough for now. We have some work to do.” Lin Wu stated.
“Work?” Tim looked up at Lin Wu.
“We are heading out. To a new place.” Lin Wu replied. “Don’t worry we’ll get to have some fun too. You’ll get to fight plenty of beings and eat too.” He didn’t forget to tempt the former dragon prince for a good measure.
“YEAH!” With Tim sufficiently excited, Lin Wu could now begin their journey.
‘Alright system, teleport us to the northernmost part possible.’ Lin Wu ordered.
~SHUA~
In the next second, the teleportation array activated and a circle appeared under Lin Wu and Tim.
The two of them appeared in a teleportation channel, and were quickly sent to the other end. The teleportation was done in a single jump and was under the control of the Taiji Celestial’s tomb’s main array, thus it was very efficient.
It was unlike the many relays that Lin Wu had to set up in the Hu continent which took longer.
A couple minutes later, the teleportation was completed and Lin Wu and Tim appeared in the middle of a frozen Mountain range.
~WHOOSH~
Strong winds were blowing and snow covered wherever one’s gaze fell. The trees in this area were all coniferous and had adapted to the cold. Even in the bone chilling cold, they still had their leaves and were standing bravely.
“So this is the Northern Mountains…” Lin Wu muttered.
This was actually Lin Wu’s first time coming to this area. Despite having become the main power of the Long Continent for a couple of years now, Lin Wu still hadn’t seen all places of the continent.
After all, he now had his subordinates that could take care of tasks like exploration and other missions. Thus the need for Lin Wu to leave the tomb was quite less. And even if he did go out, it was in the form of the Calamity Fiend and that too in the Hu continent.
“Hmmm…” Tim though seemed to be confused.
He looked around for a bit before licking the snow.
~MUNCH~
But licking wasn’t enough for him and he took a large bite, ending up biting into a rock that was buried under the snow.
~CRUMBLE~
Though for Tim, the rock may as well be a cracker as it crumbled under his jaws.
“Water?” Tim said as he felt the snow melt in his mouth.
“Yeah, it’s snow.” Lin Wu replied. “You’ve seen it before remember?”
“But that was small. This is big.” Tim replied.
Lin Wu furrowed his brows for a second before realizing that Tim hadn’t actually seen a proper snowy region before. Even the Frozen Cloud sect that was specialized in ice techniques wasn’t exactly covered in snow.
And while Tim had seen snow and ice, it was mostly during battles and was due to various skills that were used.
“Guess this will be a learning experience for you then.” Lin Wu stated.
Tim sniffed a bit, snow sticking to his whiskers and nose.
“Can’t smell well.” He said.
“Ah yeah, the cold should make scents harder to sense.” Lin Wu nodded his head. “Although… for you it should still be possible.” He realized something.
‘What’s the temperature system?’ Lin Wu questioned.
~DING~
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ANSWER: The current ambient temperature is -50 degrees Celsius.
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“No wonder… If it was just normal cold it should have not affected Tim. But at this point, most scents should have been suppressed by the cold.” Lin Wu understood. ‘But what’s surprising is that this is just the outskirts of the Northern mountains… and it’s already this cold.’ He thought.
From what Lin Wu knew, the coldest place on the Long Continent was in the northern eastern tip of it and that was exactly where they were going.
The position of the northern eastern most tip had the same longitude as the far depths of the Gui continent. And Gui Continent was known for its cold, thus one could imagine just how cold the northern most tip of the Long continent would be like.
“Now that I think of it… That kingdom should be here too right?” Lin Wu recalled the kingdom which had proposed a marriage alliance to him two years ago.
It was a strange proposition that had come just before Hu Dagao had been kidnapped. Lin Wu had asked Cang Ci to look into it and had wondered if Weiyuan chamber was behind it.
‘But the latter reports confirmed that they were actually doing it independently…’ Lin Wu thought.
The proposition of the Wide Crag Kingdom and the Steel Frost Island given to Lin Wu was of a long winded marriage alliance and in exchange Lin Wu would get their land. They would have officially become property of the Millennium Forest Kingdom.
Of course, nothing had been done after that and Lin Wu had simply not given them an answer.
And since they hadn’t asked again either, Lin Wu simply didn’t think of it again.
“Though, now I wonder what happened with them.” Lin Wu felt curious.
“System, show me the Wide Crag Kingdom and the Steel Frost Island. Plot a route through them as well.” Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
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MAP: Updated
NOTIFICATION: new route has been marked
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Lin Wu looked at the map and saw that the Wide Crag Kingdom wasn’t that far from their location. It was also on their way to the northern most tip.
