The most difficult game in history has descended upon the world, and players can obtain a random talent as soon as they log in.
Jiang Hao starts with a Supreme-level talent: as long as it is ...
The spaceship flew north, passing over vast golden wheat fields. Jiang Hao could vaguely see many soldiers in gray armor harvesting wheat in the fields. Judging from the style of their armor, he recognized them as soldiers of the Zhenyuan Legion.
Jiang Hao found it strange. He hadn't expected that these NPCs in the game would also be engaged in farming. But then he thought about how the two worlds were about to merge, and even if the two worlds were very different, the people here still needed to have food and drink.
At the same time, Jiang Hao was also secretly worried, wondering if there would be enough food and drink for all the citizens of the Rabbit Kingdom after they entered the area three days later.
The spaceship was incredibly fast, quickly leaving a vast expanse of farmland behind. The terrain began to rise higher and higher, and Jiang Hao could vaguely see the continuous mountain ranges ahead. Just as the spaceship was getting closer and closer, about to crash into the rocks, the messenger made a skillful turn. The spaceship drew a half circle in the air, skimming the vegetation on the rocks, and sped off westward.
That was close!
If they had crashed into it, Jiang Hao might have only been injured, but the messenger and tens of thousands of sows would definitely have been destroyed and killed.
Looking ahead, there were only towering mountains; without increasing altitude, there was no way for the spaceship to advance. Yet the messenger showed no intention of lifting the spaceship, continuing to move forward at high speed.
Just as Jiang Hao was about to ask a question in his nervousness, he saw the messenger slightly turn the direction of the spaceship a few times, and it had already bypassed the mountain in front of it.
Although the mountains before them were still layered upon layered, a wide canyon had appeared in the middle, large enough for a spaceship to pass through. Jiang Hao saw a large camp below the canyon, with banners fluttering in the wind. He craned his neck and vaguely made out two large characters written on them: "Fearless." He immediately knew that this was the Fearless Fortress of the Eastern Kingdom.
The terrain of the Fearless Fortress and the Qiongfeng Pass is almost identical. Both are built in a valley between two mountains, with three tall, man-made walls that act like three firewalls, blocking all the beasts of the Thousand Peaks Mountains from entering the pass.
There was not a single ferocious beast in sight at the pass, and the entire Dauntless Fortress was unusually quiet, with only the soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city walls bringing a touch of life to the fortress.
After passing through the first pass of the Fearless Fortress, Jiang Hao and his companions entered the Thousand Peaks Mountain Range. Here, there were no more towering peaks blocking the way. Out of curiosity, Jiang Hao looked down and saw low hills, like wooden stakes embedded in the earth.
I had assumed the terrain of the Forefront Mountains would be much higher than that of the Dauntless Fortress, but it turned out to be the other way around. Looking down at the Dauntless Fortress from here, it stood atop the Thousand Blade Cliff. Let alone ferocious beasts, even birds would have a hard time crossing it.
Although I have never seen what the Northern Mighty Fortress looks like, given its advantageous terrain, I doubt anyone would dare to argue that the Fearless Fortress is the safest fortress in the Eastern Kingdom.
After entering the Thousand Peaks Mountains, the spaceship turned around again and flew straight north. Ten minutes later, the increasingly lower mountains disappeared, replaced by grasslands covered in ice and snow.
After arriving here, the spaceship slightly changed direction and flew towards the northeast. The unique chill of the northern ice plains hit him, and Jiang Hao finally felt a slight cold.
Looking at the tens of thousands of sows, he was already shivering from the cold. The backs of his hands, gripping the safety bar, and his entire face were red from the cold. He could only breathe through his nose, and every now and then he would exhale two puffs of white breath from his nostrils, which were instantly blown away by the north wind. Occasionally, the snot bubbles he exhaled would be blown away by the wind before they could even form, leaving his face covered in snot.
Jiang Hao found it both amusing and touching. If he hadn't been so lazy in fighting monsters, those tens of thousands of sows wouldn't have had to suffer like this. Luckily, he had already teamed up with him, and Jiang Hao shared half of his monster-killing experience points with him, allowing him to level up to 10. Otherwise, Jiang Hao was genuinely worried he would have frozen to death.
The messenger, seemingly unable to withstand the cold, began to slowly reduce its speed. Another half hour passed, and the spaceship and its three occupants were covered in frost. The thousands of sows lay motionless, like frost sculptures; the messenger was stiff and about to lose consciousness; the spaceship slowly glided and finally came to a stop.
Jiang Hao looked down at the ground, trembling. He saw a black river flowing from the northwest across a vast white ice field. It seemed to have been split in two by a huge rock, drawing a large circle on the ground before merging back into one and meandering towards the southeast.
The vast expanse of snow-white ice, drawn by the river in the middle, resembles an island surrounded by a black river, a sight to behold.
Jiang Hao knew that the black river below was a unique, unfrozen river found only in the northern ice plains. Even in such a frigid environment, it never froze over. What was even more peculiar was that the river water was colder than the surrounding ice.
Jiang Hao once tried putting his hand into the river. In just a moment, his blood would freeze. If he hadn't pulled it out in time, his fingers would probably have been frozen off.
What Jiang Hao remembered most vividly was that when the little skeleton summoned the Dark Gold-level Skeleton Warriors, several of them accidentally fell into the river because the ice was too slippery when they jumped to the other side. Unexpectedly, before they could jump out, their health bars were frozen dry by the river water, and their skeletons shattered into powder and disappeared into the black, unfrozen river.
Jiang Hao thought that if the main city could be built on the ice field below, with the unfrozen river as the natural moat of the new city, the safety index would be much higher than that of Jinling City.
Within the dense fog of the summoning space, after dozens of hours of rest, the little skeleton's shattered bones had long since reformed. On its four-meter-tall body, each bone sprouted segments of demonic bone spikes, making it look terrifying and ferocious.
As the thick fog swept over the little skeleton, the azure soul fire within its empty head grew increasingly intense, and its aura began to become ever more terrifying. It was only because of the fog that the monsters in the distance couldn't sense it; otherwise, they would certainly have come to ambush it.
Looking at the little skeleton through the skeletal roc, Jiang Hao guessed that it would probably take the little skeleton at most two hours to fully recover.
Upon opening the skill bar, Jiang Hao saw that the second skill, Summon Little Skeleton, only had an hour and a half left to run, and he jumped up with joy.
Given the quality of the little skeleton, it would have taken 10,000 hours to fully recover! Unexpectedly, simply moving the little skeleton from a place with thin fog to a place with thick fog significantly shortened the recovery time.
It seems that the Summoning Space skill, like his Soul Link, has many aspects worth exploring.
Jiang Hao was pleased that the little skeleton had recovered well. With a flick of his right hand, the skeletal roc carrying the city-building token in its beak instantly appeared in the icy snow on his right.