Before leaving Zongwu Department, Li Mu gave Cao Changyun two bottles of pills.

Each bottle contains five Great Qi-Nourishing Pills, one for each of the Heavenly Realm warriors in the Zongwu Department.

There is also a whole batch of twelve Qinglin Pills, which are infused with water from thousand-year-old stalagmites and have a remarkable effect on clearing various toxins from a martial artist's body.

Li Mu estimated that everyone in the Zongwu tribe was consuming the cultivation medicines researched with the full support of the nation, and that their bodies contained more or less toxins.

With this bottle of Qinglin Pill, we should be able to solve some of the problems at the higher levels.

To solve the problem for all personnel, that would require hundreds of pills, which Li Mu neither has nor is capable of doing.

He could only offer two bottles of pills; that was the limit of what he could do. He wouldn't give any more than that.

You shouldn't do things that are considered unkind, like "a little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment." These people only have a little poison in their bodies and won't die immediately.

Besides, Li Mu's pills didn't come from thin air; they were collected and refined with great difficulty.

He wouldn't have taken out the pills if he hadn't seen the two ministers' high moral character.

Although he called them two old sly foxes, he actually admired them greatly in his heart.

Although they may have been tricked into joining the Zongwu Department, it was not for their own benefit, but for the stability of China.

Once you join the Zongwu tribe, your unstable element will at least be somewhat restrained, and you can also use it to counter others.

In addition to the two bottles of pills, Li Mu also took out some Iron Orchid and Crimson Blood Grass and wrote down a prescription for a medicinal bath.

He didn't give much of the Iron Orchid and Crimson Blood Grass, treating them as specimens and letting the Zongwu tribe send people to collect them themselves.

Having collected medicinal herbs and obtained the formula for the pills, and then using the medicinal liquid to strengthen the martial artists' bodies, it is believed that this will bring benefits to the cultivation of low-level martial artists in the Zongwu Department.

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Before leaving, Li Mu even took on a task.

The two ministers did not ask Li Mu to go on any missions, but only revealed some information about the current situation during their conversation with him.

In the far north, members of the Chinese scientific expedition team went missing, and the martial artists they sent out were also nowhere to be found.

Through the videos sent back by the warriors of the Zongwu Department, Li Mu discovered some unusual things, but he would need to go and see for himself to know the specifics.

Rather than saying he accepted the task, it's more accurate to say he took it upon himself to do so.

This matter wasn't urgent. After leaving Zongwu Department, Li Mu returned to Jiangcheng with Lin Hongluan.

After spending two days in Jiangcheng, the two went to Xiangzhou together.

After staying in Xiangzhou for another three days, Lin Hongluan accompanied him to purchase a large amount of supplies, including food, drink, daily necessities, and charging and heating equipment.

Lin Hongluan bought the food in portions for two people, but after Li Mu's persuasion, only Li Mu left Xiangzhou.

The Arctic is a harsh and cold place, and the journey is long. He didn't want Lin Hongluan to suffer along with him.

After determining his location, Li Mu boarded his flying sword and flew north.

The Arctic is about 6,000 to 7,000 kilometers away from Xiangzhou, which, given Li Mu's flying sword speed, would probably only take a few hours.

However, this kind of long-distance flight cannot be calculated in this way; we need to consider factors such as spiritual energy support and spatial changes.

Li Mu did indeed stop several times during his flight to recuperate, and it took him a day and a night to reach the outer edge of the Arctic Circle.

He spent another day on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle, ate a large Qi-nourishing pill to replenish his spiritual energy, and even ate some dry rations.

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The next day, it was broad daylight.

As far as the eye can see, the cold-toned scenery appears even clearer and more dazzling against the backdrop of ice and snow.

Without goggles, an ordinary person in this situation would easily lose their way and their sense of self.

The Arctic Circle is vast, roughly the size of three times the land area of ​​China.

Without location tracking, trying to find that place in the video over such a large area would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After using a compass to determine his location, Li Mu boarded his flying sword and flew towards the direction of the Chinese scientific expedition team.

Once he entered the Arctic Circle, he discovered that the range of his spiritual sense began to shrink as he flew deeper into the Arctic Circle.

About an hour later, two icebreakers appeared in the ice and snow below, and the markings on the ships were not in Chinese.

Near the icebreaker, there is a refuge where several people are hunting a large ice bear a little further away.

Li Mu did not stop and continued forward.

He needs to find the Chinese scientific expedition team first to understand the situation before making any plans.

Half an hour later, an orange and white two-tone icebreaker appeared in Li Mu's consciousness; the Chinese Arctic Research Team had been found.

At this moment, the range of his divine sense had shrunk to four or five thousand meters, leaving only about a quarter of it.

There was also a shelter near the large ship, and the whole group, including those on and off the ship, numbered about forty or fifty people.

Li Mu landed his flying sword about 500 meters away from the expedition team and walked towards them.

When he arrived near the shelter, a researcher happened to come out of the shelter with an ice bucket. When he saw Li Mu, he was shocked.

"Who are you?"

"Hey! I'm Li Mu. I came here specifically to find out some things. Is Professor Zhang here?"

Li Mu smiled and said, feigning ease.

After saying that, he remembered that he was also a person of status, so he quickly took out his Zongwu Department identification and handed it over.

Wang Ke was a researcher at a very low-level research institute. He was about to go to the river to fetch water when he unexpectedly encountered a strange young man.

He examined the documents Li Mu handed him, comparing them to Li Mu himself several times, his mind filled with doubt.

It wasn't that the documents didn't match the person; rather, this young man, despite his young age, held a high position—he was actually the head instructor of the Zongwu Department.

Not only that, this person was wearing only thin casual clothes. Wasn't he cold? How could martial artists be so resistant to the cold?

"Instructor Li, um, Professor Zhang has returned to the base. Is there anything I can help you with? Why don't you wait while I get some water, and we can talk inside later?"

After listening to Wang Ke's explanation, Li Mu nodded and waited to the side.

The two then went to the shelter together.

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"Professor Wang, Instructor Li from the Zongwu Department is here to see Professor Zhang."

Wang Ke shouted loudly to the people inside the room, and his voice immediately attracted the attention of six or seven people in the shelter.

In this far north, amidst the dull and tedious subject matter, even the appearance of a bird would be exciting, and the sudden appearance of a person would be a rare and unusual occurrence.

Moreover, without airplanes or ships, it's very difficult to get here.

Professor Wang, in his forties and wearing black-rimmed glasses, walked over and shook hands with Li Mu with a look of doubt on his face.

After Li Mu explained his purpose, the two began a normal conversation.

It is said that about three months ago, two of their expedition members went missing in the heart of an iceberg.

Two people from the Zongwu tribe did come a month ago, but there has been no follow-up since.

The place where the people went missing was about 50 kilometers away from the current shelter, which is why they moved here for safety reasons.

After learning about the situation, Li Mu was politely allowed to stay at the shelter and had a meal of fish and meat stew.

Before leaving, she quietly went into the kitchen and took out all the vegetables from the ring. Living here, they had no shortage of fish and meat, but vegetables were a rare treat.

To everyone's surprise, Li Mu leaped across a small river more than 20 meters wide near the shelter and headed northwest.