NOVPUB"Chief Division Master, your wisdom is unparalleled!"
With a smile, Ying He offered his compliment and then his expression turned serious as he said,
"This extremely cold northern current is indeed frightening. Not only can it freeze Nascent Soul Cultivators to death, but even if one crosses the Northsea Continent and arrives above the North Sea, the peril remains exceptionally high. Even for someone like me, staying too long in the skies above the North Sea would likely result in my mana being frozen by the intense cold."
"Having your mana frozen while over these treacherous North Sea waters is extremely dangerous."
"This is also why those going to the Northsea Continent, even Nascent Soul Cultivators, need to travel by ship."
"Is it really that dangerous?"
Wang Ba and Li Yingfu were both somewhat astonished.
From the information they had gathered from their sect about the Northsea Continent, the extremely cold northern current was only briefly mentioned, and they were not aware of the true dangers within it.
Ying He nodded and said,
"That’s not all. The current seems capable of freezing everything; even a magic tool used for communication would be sealed in ice upon entering this region. Therefore, guides from the local area are needed to travel to and from the Northsea Continent."
Wang Ba, somewhat disbelieving, took out the Spirit Rhinoceros Stone and sent a message to his master, Master Yao Wudi.
Soon, a somewhat intermittent voice came from the Spirit Rhinoceros Stone:
"Wang Ba... have you... have you gone to the Northsea Continent... yet?"
Wang Ba instinctively looked towards Ying He.
Ying He whispered somewhat awkwardly,
"We have not fully entered the area enveloped by the extremely cold northern current, so it can still be used."
Wang Ba suddenly understood, and then quickly replied through the Spirit Rhinoceros Stone:
"On the way... by the way, Master, you haven’t mentioned the exact location of that senior, nor what his temperament is like..."
The Spirit Rhinoceros Stone sizzled a bit, and then Master Yao Wudi’s voice came out:
"You... Do you have... other... people around you? Have them... move away."
Wang Ba was somewhat puzzled.
However, upon hearing this, Ying He and Li Yingfu tactfully left the cabin temporarily.
With an apologetic look, Wang Ba watched the two men leave, then asked curiously:
"They’ve all left, Master. Is this senior’s identity really that special?"
Perhaps they had reached an area without the extremely cold northern current, for this time the voice from the Spirit Rhinoceros Stone was much smoother, but there was an unusual hesitation in his tone:
"Well, it’s not that he is especially unique. This person... originally comes from the Yan side. However, his mastery of Ice Dao is overbearing and difficult to control, which is why he had to go to the Northsea Continent... As for his temperament, well, he is somewhat peculiar. You’ll know the specifics when you get there."
"You should know the specific location, right? It should be in the... North..."
The voice then became intermittent again, before it suddenly cut off, leaving only a ’sizzling’ sound.
Wang Ba infused mana, but there was no response.
In the end, with a helpless shake of his head,
"It seems Enforcer Ying wasn’t wrong... this current can indeed freeze communication."
With this thought, he quickly opened the cabin door himself.
A roaring wind, pushing through the gaps outside and the passage of the cabin, surged in violently.
The extreme cold immediately triggered the magic barrier around Wang Ba’s body.
A soft luminescence quietly lit up from Wang Ba’s figure.
"A bit cold!"
Feeling the chill, even though Wang Ba had long known about the harsh cold of the North Sea, he was still somewhat surprised inside.
For he was a Golden Core Craftsman, not to mention the protection of his mana, even his physical body had reached the stage of the Golden Core, granting him much greater resistance to heat and cold than ordinary cultivators of the same rank.
Yet at this moment, he could still feel a hint of coldness.
And they had only just set out, still far from the Northsea Continent.
He dared not imagine just how icy cold it would be when they actually reached the Northsea Continent.
This realization made him, who had previously been slightly dismissive, take the matter much more seriously.
Looking around, he didn’t see Ying He and Li Yingfu; evidently, they had taken to the deck outside.
After a moment’s thought, he also took a few steps and pushed open the door of the cabin.
Whoosh—
A louder roar combined with a heavy blast of wind and snow slammed against the door next to him!
A vast world of ice and snow revealed just the tip of an iceberg before his eyes.
He was astonished to see the snow-covered sea in front of him.
Beyond the somewhat dim sky and the snowflakes like goose feathers,
everywhere he looked, he saw expanses of ice gleaming with a dark luster.
He felt the sky was vast, the earth immense, the universe infinite.
Above the sea, only the distant glaciers crossing horizontally and the tiny iron ship were visible; the people on the ship seemed like mere specks.
The thick ice along with the ship’s breaking through the ice emitted a series of muffled ’crack’ sounds,
rousing Wang Ba from his trance.
The group of Rogue Cultivators chosen by Ying He at Heishui Port huddled around a special bonfire on the deck.
They infused their mana while judging the direction and wind to avoid going astray.
Here, the cultivators had lost all sense of direction and could only rely on experience to navigate.
At the ship’s bow, Ying He and Li Yingfu were also gazing into the frosty world ahead. Sensing Wang Ba’s arrival, Ying He and Li Yingfu immediately walked over.
"Chief Division Master, you don’t have anything to ward off the cold, you should go back to the cabin first,"
Ying He advised.
Normally, Wang Ba would have heeded advice, but at that moment, feeling the piercing cold wind, sensing the vastness between the heavens and the sea, his heart suddenly shook.
He looked into the distance.
The laws of "Ride the Wind" flowed quietly in his heart.
Wind has Six Methods, they are cold, heat, humidity, malignity, slowness, and rapidity.
He had already comprehended the ways of slowness and rapidity,
while the other four awaited a chance breakthrough.
Yet at this instant, he suddenly felt a profound understanding of the ’cold’ within the Six Methods.
