Extreme North
Three days later.
Fan Lin was following the six legged Yeti bear Patriarch. He was a hundred thousand year old soul beast and was one of the last members of his species.
The Yeti bear (Fan Lin is calling it that because it is easy to say) has a barrier type of power which made the surrounding winds not affect him. All the Ice type beasts who are above ten thousand year old mark have it. It is an innate ability.
Due to this innate ability, they were travelling at a faster speed that Fan Lin was. Actually Fan Lin could go far faster than this speed in the storms as he can just peirce through it with his might but the problem was that he didn't know where the Millennium shards were.
The Ice formation worked as a illusion and camouflage formation as well. Fan Lin would not be able to find it even after ten years like that. Sensing and healing methods are the only things he lacked.
Sensing because he was still at the Spirit Abyss level and the formation was made to block even the Spirit Domain realm, so he basically was unable to sense it.
His energy senses were useless as the whole place was filled with ice energy. Everywhere you can look was ice and there were no godly energy signature coming from there.
He also didn't have any healing methods. He only has the energy body heal. It was the technique that he developed. He used nutritions obtained from the food to regenerate his physical body in case on extreme injury or loss of a limb. But this technique can just heal the physical body.
It doesn't work on his spirit core or Petrosapien physique. He can't even heal his meridians or broken martial true body.
Just his physical body.
Along with the fact that all of his skills were random, he couldn't even hope to choose a healing spirit soul for himself.
The world was really fair and unfair at the same time for him.
Now onto the present situation.
Fan Lin and Yeti bear were going to meet the Ice Jade Scorpion Queen of this era. She was one of the main forces here. She was also the one who can help Fan Lin in borrowing the Millennium Ice shards. Only if Fan Lin fulfilled his side of promise which he absolutely will.
"So how are the conditions here in the present times? I was slumbering in Boundless Sea so I don't know that much about the present situation in both the Deep north and the Extreme north. "
Fan Lin half lied and asked the Yeti bear. He really wanted to know as it will help him later in his meeting with the others.
"It's bad. Humans are approaching closer to us each year as the formation is contracting every passing year. The environment has also become unbearable to most of the beasts due to the increase in temperatures. The temperature was three may times colder in the past but it has warmed up a lot in the past few thousand years."
"This made most of the ice type spirit beasts migrate to the deep north. It was the only place that was heavily protected by the other hundred thousand year old soul beasts and was safe for most of us. The temperature there was also the best for us."
"Deep north, well it is what we call the last sanctuary of ice soul beasts. It is located at a hidden place in the depths of extreme north and was protected by the Ice formation. In the past few years, due to the environmental damage that humans caused, the extreme north is being destroyed slowly. The temperature is rising and the ice melting, most of the soul beasts don't have any new habitat for them now."
"My clansmen and I were also living there but we had to move out because some other soul beast tribe defeated and took our places. I was injured at that time and we moved to here. After a few months, those humans somehow got to know about me and sent those envoys to capture me. I refused and the rest I already told you."
"We also are.... "
The Yeti bear explained the current situation to Fan Lin. The situation here was worse than he thought.
There was just a single place that could protect them and even that is slowly destroying. Soul beasts are fighting and killing each other not for food but to gain spots to live in the Deep north.
It was like a cage where the last one surviving gets to live for a few more days.
Our destruction was done by our past selves. This just applies to humans.
Or else for which beasts past selves did things for them to suffer like that.
"Why did you not join the humans then Yeti bear? They said that you can have eternal life. So does your clansmen. Then why?"
"You must be joking Sir. Only a fool would believe those humans. Even if they are right, then we are still losing something even more precious than eternal life Sir. We are losing our will. We , soul beasts, gain our will after our hundred thousand year old calamity. It is the symbol of us being different from others, us being alive. This is the proof of our journey, our hardships and our sacrifices. We can't just lose it for eternal life. Yes, we want eternal life. Who doesn't? But if it comes at the cost of our will, our freedom then we will refuse. Atleast I will and I did. I don't regret it even now. Even when you came to me, I asked you to kill me and take my Spirit bone and spirit ring. I never said that I will become your spirit soul or serve you. That is my creed Sir. I will rather die but I won't lose my freedom and will."
'who says that soul beasts have no desires.'
"You are a good living being. And Don't worry about your clansmen, they are safe in my protection. If anyone tries to harm them, they will have their body sliced in two."
"Thank you Sir."
"How much more do we need?"
"Seven more days Sir. We will reach that place in seven days. If it was Ice Jade Scorpion then she would have need just a few hours but My speed is not that fast hence seven days."
"Ok."
Meanwhile in the Spirit Pagoda.
All the staff were preparing for the 'Joust for a spouse'. It will be held in a few months and the Spirit Pagoda head Qiangu Dongfeng wanted it to be the main attraction.
He was giving extremely precious resources and treasures to those who will win a spot on the competition.
"Goddess, goddess, goddess!"
The same word was being chanted everywhere across the federation. At the very least, the chants could be heard on many of the streets of Bright City after those two videos were released.
With the support of the federal parliament, the Spirit Pagoda had launched an extremely extensive promotional campaign that had reached every corner of the continent.
They were using a beauty trap to gain the attention of all the continent there.