The Extreme north
One week later.
Fan Lin was travelling at some direction in the extreme north. With his speed, he would have need two days to reach the place but there was one problem he forgot. The snowy environment.
Extreme north was basically a desert made of cold ice. It was the opposite of sandy desert. It has ice storm and the sky was always covered in clouds unlike the hot deserts where Sun is the main cause of deaths.
When Fan Lin flew above the clouds, he lost his sense of direction because of the planet's rotation.
Thinking of one direction and flying on it only works on the road. The Earth or any other Planetary object rotates in its axis, however slow it rotates, and you will never reach you destination that way.
The Douluo plane was like earth but far bigger bit it still had the 12 hour cycles for day and night or 24 hours in a day. So basically this Douluo planet rotated faster than Earth.
Now he was running on the snowy path. Flying took to much effort with so little gains. The winds were against him. The smog was blocking his eyesight and the world of whiteness was distorting his direction.
Anywhere you see was white and that was why it was easy to lose your way in the Extreme north.
That's why he was walking on the land. Well, Ice and snow to be precise. He was in a casual walking running pace in the ice.
After a week, he has traversed 200,000 miles due to him flying the first 80,000 miles. He was getting the rhythm of the Extreme north and he pace will increase with his familiarity with the place.
His past profession helped a lot in that case. He was marking the place with his Blue Silver Energy Grass. It can grow outside as it was an Energy absorbing plant. He left enough energy for it to last a month. He has placed more than 1,500 Blue Silver Energy Grass and all of them were good and all.
As for someone following him from those grass or eating it. He also left a portion of his killing intent there and only those who had the guts would dare to follow him or eat the Blue Silver Energy Grass.
He was connected to all of his Energy grass and he can tell their total amount due to that. If any of them were harmed, then he can just teleport there and then the rest will become history.
It was like his low class version of shadow clones.
He was happily trudging along his path.
*One day later*
"Hey kid, stop. This is the Federation's order. Only authorised person are allowed after this point. You are not one of them."
Said one of the Patrolling men.
Fab Lin ignored them and flew above the border that they set. In a few seconds, he was gone.
"Who was he? Does he not know that the area is a restricted one and there are hundred thousand year old soul beasts living here. Whatever, Take his picture and inform the Federation about him. To not wear any warm clothes in this weather means he is someone strong. The weather is minus forty degrees here. Quickly inform them."
"Yes Sir."
The two patrolling man talked about him.
Fan Lin would regret not killing them.
Three more days later.
Fan Lin has already crossed another 100,000 miles in the past four days. He has increased his speed as well as the Blue Silver Energy Grass's. He had planted more than 7 thousand of it in the past 50,000 miles.
He was continuing at his pace. His senses were blocked by something. This was the Extreme Ice formation working. The Federation goons were just standing in front of the Ice formation as the beasts would never roam outside the formation.
Extreme north was one of the three last remaining Soul beasts asylum in Douluo continent now. The other two being The Star Luo forest and the Sea.
The amount of Ice Soul beasts along with other types of Soul beasts in the Extreme north were larger than Star Luo forest. But the amount of hundred thousand year old soul beasts were less here. A lot less than the Star Luo forest.
Fan Lin was flowing in the ice plains. He really was flowing not floating but flowing in the ice plains.
He was being carried by something and it was faster than Fan Lin's normal speed. He didn't know what it was but he was happy that at least he got a lead.
He also ignored the beast and kept on training while leaving Blue Silver Energy Grass's at fixed intervals.
Ten minutes later.
The soul beast stopped near a cave. Five more beast came out of it. All of them were looking at Fan Lin as if he was the most delicious food they had ever seen.
Fan Lin was also observing the soul beasts. They were half Bear-half Yeti like creatures with seven legs. No, six legs, that was something else.
He encased them in crystals and went inside. They were growling at him. Their growling were the same as the ones used by a mother Tiger to protect her cub.
What are they hiding?
Fan Lin entered the cave. He saw a gargantuan beast of a about thirty metres in height, laying there. He was injured.
"What happened to you Sir?"
Fan Lin asked after confirming his guess by looking below. He had already sensed the soul beast to be hundred thousand year old soul beast. He was living with three of them and it was obvious to him at that point.
"Hmm. Human, are you here for my soul bone and spirit ring as well? You can take them but please leave my clansmen. They are the last of us left. You can have me. I beg you."
"I already have my ninth ring and I don't need another spirit bone. Can you tell me what happened to you? Here, let me help you recover."
Fan Lin released his extremely pure Soul power and started planting Blue Silver Energy Grass around the soul beast.
"Absorb it. It should help you. Here have this ice type spirit fruit. It is an ice type, right? Well, have it."
"Who are you Sir? Are you one of us?"
"Well I am a human now. About the past, let's forget it. So tell me what happened to you guys? If it's humans then I will make sure to kill them later. And also answer a few of my questions as I need the answers for them."
"It was the Spirit Pagoda Sir, they attacked me to gain my samples. They wanted me to become a spirit soul. They said that they have a way to make the spirit soul live forever. I refused and we fought. I was outnumbered but Ice Jade Scorpion Queen helped us to kill them and escape."
"Ice Jade Scorpion Queen? Wasn't she the Spirit Soul of Huo Yuhao."
"That was the previous queen Sir. This was the new Queen. One of the Ice Jade Scorpion soul beast defected to Di Tian's camp. "
That was out of the blue.
"Well, Continue the story."
Fan Lin said after pondering a little. It was common for a group of soul beasts to enthrone a new Queen after the disappearance of the old one.
"Well Sir, I am not the only hundred thousand year old soul beasts that they asked to become a spirit soul. They send their envoys to many other soul beasts and some of them agreed while others refused. It was all because of Di Tian Sir. He could have destroyed the Spirit Pagoda with his strength a long time ago. He didn't. He wanted to use the guys from there to ascend but as all the humans do, he got betrayed by them. Now the humans have ways to even hunt him down and he can only escape from them."
"Will they also attack the Sea soul beasts."
"No Sir, all the sea soul beasts that we know are not harmed till now but we don't know the future."
"Ok. Can you tell me about the place where the Millennium Ice shards are located. I need to borrow it for my friend, the Barracuda Queen. She is at her second hundred thousand year old bottleneck. I will recharge the other two Millennia ice shards for compensation. You have seen my soul power and I have a way to charge it. I swear on my spirit rings that I will not steal or harm the Ice formation in any way."
The Six legged Bear-Yeti looking soul beast was going to refuse Fan Lin but he stopped when he heard the second part of it.
Swearing on the spirit rings is one of the most effective way to prove your honesty. It was not like those contracts where you can find the loopholes. Once a person sweared to his Spirit rings , then used any tricks later, his cultivation will be doomed. It was connected to a person's mind space and once the person did anything that violates his path then he will be stripped of his cultivation and die a horrible death.
Countless spirit masters have 'experimented' on themselves to prove this point.
"Well, Sir, since you are this adamant then let me take you there after three days. My wounds would have healed by then. Would that be fine with you Sir. And I will tell my clansmen to not do something towards you, can you please release them?"
"Of course. Here. I am outside your den and I hope you a good recovery."