Chapter 838 - Icy Lands (1/2)

Shao Xuan had passed the point where both landmasses were closest to each other. They travelled ahead, leaving the coasts behind them as the waters expanded. Shao Xuan had never been here before.

They travelled continuously from night to day. Although Chacha was tired, he could still fly. Many giant mountain eagles flew continuously for long periods of time when heading to Eagle Mountain, this was not Chacha’s first long flight either.

But Shao Xuan could already sense Chacha’s exhaustion. If all they could see was just an endless ocean, how long could Chacha hold on? Where was their saviour?

The approaching winds grew colder and colder, white dots started to appear on the blue ocean surface. They were not animals, just floating icebergs.

As they continued on, more and more white icebergs appeared. In the beginning, they only saw small ones bobbing up and down the waves but soon after, they saw icebergs as large as hills floating on the surface with the occasional seabird or sea beast living in the area resting on top.

Shao Xuan let Chacha rest on an iceberg and wolfed down some sea beast he hunted, then they continued on their journey.

The sea beasts continued to chase relentlessly, the distance between both closing in when Shao Xuan and Chacha rested.

The totemic flame in his mind was flickering in the direction they flew.

Still straight ahead?

In his field of vision, more and more white patches appeared. Soon, it seemed like the entire surface was frozen.

Iceberg?

No, it’s a patch of ice covered in snow!

The winds were bone-chilling but refreshing to the initially exhausted Chacha and Shao Xuan.

Giant mountain eagles were not afraid of the cold, they must pass through the icy plains on the mountain peak every time they visited Eagle Mountain. This place was as cold as Eagle Mountain but also huge. All he saw was endless ice!

An iceberg of one kilometre tall towered chillingly before them while the waters were covered in a thick layer of ice. The vast ice shelf extended as far as the eye could see, even giant beast hordes could travel on the ice without a problem.

The strange white and blue icebergs, cliff-like ice shelves and the endless world of ice and snow looked like a place no man had ever been before.

There was nothing alive here, time seemed to be frozen. No one knew how this place came about. How old was the ice?

Chacha landed on the ice shelf and Shao Xuan dismounted onto the white ice. The ice shelf was a hundred metres above the water surface, when he landed, he had a fully unobstructed view of everything until the horizon. He could see that this ice shelf extended right until it joined with the land.

He continued forward until a snowy mountain range. Most of the mountains here were made of ice and snow, but the ground was very solid beneath his feet. It was only when one stood at the edge to look into the ocean when you realised you were very high up.

Letting Chacha rest aside, Shao Xuan walked inland alone.

People who first arrive here might not be able to distinguish between land and the ice shelf but everything was clear with Shao Xuan’s special vision.

The ice shelf extended through a large area. He walked for a long time before finally arriving at the edge of land. Through the naked eye, it looked exactly the same as the ice shelf because it was also covered in snow.

A few hundred metres away from Shao Xuan was a blue stream flowing from a cracked gigantic iceberg. Floating ice of various sizes flowed down the stream, the deep blue water in contrast with the white snow making this place even more mysterious.

He continued forward.

Whoosh—

The sound of a large crashing wave could be heard, then many more noises.

Shao Xuan did not need to turn back to know that Yi Xiang’s undead sea beasts had arrived.

The dead beasts swam up through the stream, then climbed the edges up the ice shelf. Their sharp claws made a crackling sound as they scaled up the walls.

The sound of flapping wings and animals landing on the ice mixed together like a sudden hailstorm.

These unnamed seabirds swarmed over like an incoming storm cloud.

The flock of birds dispersed to reveal a man in a sand-yellow cloak. The exposed hand holding a necklace of wooden ornaments was dry and frail, just a skin wrapped around bones.