Chapter 16：The Weather Was Getting Colder (1/2)

The weather was getting colder, and the temperature was dropping non-stop. There was ice on the surface of the water every morning, and every day there would be a Tree-Man who either collapsed or never woke up again and became an actual tree.

Tree-men did not have natural enemies, but they were no match for the cold weather.

Wei Huo began coming up with solutions for them. He started using hay to make mats and wrapped the Tree-Men with them. Before humans experienced the time halt, they used that method to protect London Plane Trees.

On top of that, he could brush lime water on them as well but where could one find limestones at that moment?

The Tree-Men would light up bonfires every night. Otherwise, the water in them would become frozen.

The leaves on the Tree-Men's canopies continued falling, and it was as if they were balding like middle-aged men. The condition was serious as the leaf loss decreased their photosynthesis efficiency. It was just like tooth loss for humans. That was a serious situation.

Wei Huo was determined in finding solutions, but the Tree-Men were never the kind of moving plants that were suitable for long journeys.

Fortunately, Tree-Men had a stronger determination than humans. Regardless of what happened even if there was only one Tree-Man left standing, they would continue traveling to the south until they arrived at the southernmost part of the Northern continent.

That was only wishful thinking. There were Tree-Men dying every day, and Wei Huo estimated that they were about a year away from arriving at the southernmost part of the continent. Moreover, the temperature continued dropping to only 10°C in the middle of the day and up to -30°C at night.

When the Tree-Men woke up every morning, they would find one of their companions became an actual tree. However, they believed that these Tree-Men would come back to life if the weather became warmer.

The last Tree-Man eventually collapsed. It was not dead yet, and they were still moving with Wei Huo dragging it forward!

”Don't die!” Wei Huo continued encouraging the Tree-Man who had lost a lot of weight while carrying it over his shoulders.

Though that was the case, it seemed like Wei Huo was dragging a fallen five-story building forward. Every step he took left a footprint on the frozen ground. The training he had done throughout the hundred years made Wei Huo extraordinarily strong. The human limiter was lifted, and his strength was growing without limits. There were no longer limits to what humans could do.

The Tree-Men were different from animals. If one had survived, their species could eventually multiply into a community. Unfortunately, the Tree-Man over Wei Huo's shoulders did not survive in the end.

Wei Huo dug a huge pit and buried it in the soil upright. He hoped that things would turn out exactly how the Tree-Men had imagined, that all of them would come back to life when the weather got warmer.

Wei Huo took dozens of seeds from the Tree-Man and packed it into a small bag. He eventually continued his journey to the south.

It was snowing heavily, and the beasts put another layer of straw mats on themselves. Wei Huo's Qi-Training Skill not only increased his lifespan but also made him unaffected by both heat and cold. At the very least until he had exhausted his Qi energy, he would have continued to feel nothing amidst the freezing temperatures around him.

The ground was covered in snow, and the leaves had all fallen. Despite that, they continued traveling.

There was another reason why the Northern continent was freezing, it was currently winter.

Hunting gradually became tougher as many animals lost their lives from the low temperatures. They had all suffered from hypothermia. In the face of extremely low temperatures, death was inevitable without sufficient energy and thick fur protection to keep them warm.

If one knew how to light bonfires and sew clothes, he could resist the cold to a certain extent.

Wei Huo found a group of monkeys who lit their own bonfires and sewed their own clothes. It was as if they were humans pretending to be monkeys.

Wei Huo met polar bears and arctic wolves as well.