"yes!"

Li Zhanhuo had no choice but to obey.

He led some of his elite troops to escort Qin Che and Li Xin into the icy plains.

Watching the two figures gradually disappear on the icy plain, Li Zhanhuo's gaze was filled with complex emotions.

Why would this most revered Master in the entire realm, the King of the Leopard Court, repeatedly venture into such dangerous places...?

Li Zhanhuo still cannot understand it.

As for the ruins of the First Northern Empire...

Li Zhanhuo never believed it.

Little Stone was also there. She personally saw the old man off, and after they had completely disappeared, she looked at Li Zhanhuo and said, "Vice Minister Li, we still have a lot to do."

Li Zhanhuo nodded, looked at the guards and attendants beside the regent, and said, "I will send troops to patrol the border and conquer the nearby mountain tribes. We need more people, and we will build a wasteland fortress here in the future."

Wasteland fortresses are standard, conventional buildings.

It is very popular in Lingbi.

Wherever the desert people go, they take their wasteland fortresses with them.

It is believed that once the fortress is built and the road is completed, this place will become the most important border town of Leopard Court in the far north.

...

"Tell me, how long will it take?" Li Xin asked, completely bewildered.

"It will take more than ten days just to get to the magnetic field boundary. During this time, we will be on a plain," Qin Che said. "There is no life here, and even rocks are rare. Be prepared."

Li Xin's lips twitched.

However, since he chose to come along, I believe he was mentally prepared.

Qin Che only rested at the outpost for a few days before venturing back into this dangerous and perilous place.

He has a truly big heart, but he's also very strong.

Li Xin admired him from the bottom of his heart.

I almost didn't make it back; I was surrounded and killed by thousands of troops at the foot of that cliff... After returning, I still ventured deep into the icy plains as always.

Does he really want the ruins of the First Empire that much...?

This time, Qin Che did not choose to delve deeper directly.

He wasn't sure if the spatial boundary would still exist after defeating the ghost soldiers.

If he enters this time and never returns, and all the ghost soldiers are annihilated by him, wouldn't he be destroying the key to open the door? Wouldn't he be trapping himself?

Qin Che then asked Li Xin to draw up a complete map.

He tried to draw maps, but all of them failed.

Li Xin was a soldier, and he was quite good at this.

After walking around for more than ten days, the two finally arrived at the crash site of the aircraft.

"This place is the spatial boundary I predicted. There's a reason why the creations of the ancients fell here," Qin Che said, frowning.

Li Xin nodded, looking around at everything. Even with his ability to observe molecules, he couldn't see anything unusual.

"This cannot be solved scientifically; it must be the power of something more mysterious—psychic energy. The First Empire's use of psychic energy is very advanced and sophisticated; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to cultivate so many ghost soldiers..."

Qin Che: "You think this has nothing to do with science?"

"No, psionic energy is also a science, it's just that our research on psionic energy is too superficial. Didn't the blue-coated people of Lingbi unanimously believe that psionic energy came from the north? Back then, when the Old World still existed, this place was already an endless frozen wasteland."

"Perhaps, psionic energy came from the north and was the foundation of the First Empire."

Qin Che thought about it and realized he could understand it.

Based on the crystal shards they saw at Evergreen Fortress, those natural psionic stones simply cannot be artificially created...

Although the restart plan for Old Jinling also has a psionic core, that core is man-made and completely different from a natural creation.

The two continued forward, but instead of venturing behind the crash site, they lingered on the perimeter for a long time.

Both of them are extraordinary.

Qin Che can teleport, and even after Li Xin advanced to the Great Transcendent Realm, he could easily keep up with Qin Che's pace.

As long as Qin Che doesn't move at full speed, Li Xin can still catch up.

They explored the entire surrounding area in just a few days.

“From the sea in the east to the jungle in the west, the outer edge of the ice field should be that big. Without stepping into the boundary you mentioned, we cannot truly enter the territory of the First Empire. This place is no different from ordinary frozen land, and some adventurers often operate here,” Li Xin said.

He was now transforming into a small golden statue and appearing before Qin Che.

Qin Che had just activated his teleportation ability, and the two of them stood in front of the sea. The ice layer extended far into the coast before being submerged by the seawater.

The seawater stretched as far as the eye could see, a sea of ​​black.

Qin Che nodded: "What you said makes sense, but we need to draw up a complete map."

Li Xin sighed: "The terrain is all pretty much the same, nothing complicated."

"The cliff area is like a black hole, completely disrupting spatial orientation. No matter which way you go from the center of the cliff, you will eventually enter the cliff. Therefore, our work on the outer perimeter is meaningless," Li Xin said.

Qin Che shook his head, disagreeing with this statement: "Nothing is meaningless; doing something has meaning."

Li Xin sighed and stopped arguing.

Anyway, they move very quickly and don't need to walk.

"Let's go, it's time to go up the cliff and see what's up there."

Li Xin glanced at him: "I'm not afraid of death, but what if I'd rather be dead than alive?"

"What do you mean?" Qin Che asked him.

“There may not be any danger up there. You and I are both extraordinary beings, and you are still the Master. Even if we encounter danger, our ability to withstand risks is very strong. What we fear is being trapped, just like your previous experience, where we were unable to get out and were trapped inside for the rest of our lives.”

Qin Che's gaze was serious: "In any case, we'll only know after we go up and see for ourselves. If we keep hesitating now, let alone ancient ruins, we might as well not investigate anything at all and just go back to Leopard Court."

Li Xin remained silent, his gaze intense.

This kid is deliberately sabotaging me.

The two, one after the other, crossed the boundary of the crash site and entered the depths of the ice field.

Before long, they saw the cliff again.