The Shuofeng Tiger mount needs to rest for two hours every 12 hours. After two hours, the team can summon the mount again for transportation.
They traveled for another eight days. Jiang Hao estimated that at their pace, they could make three or four round trips even if they were on their way to the Western Paradise to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures. However, the thick fog continued to roll in, and they could not see a trace of the legendary Spirit Yang Tree.
The further north they traveled, the lower the temperature became. Previously, Zhu Lin had to reapply the spell shield to everyone every seven or eight hours, but now, the spell shield would crack from the cold every two minutes. Zhu Lin's mana was also almost depleted, and she could only barely maintain the spell shield by drinking mana potions.
The most fatal flaw was that the team didn't have many dried fish left.
By the fifth day, only half of the dried fish remained. To avoid starving to death, the best option was to immediately return the way they came.
However, the other teammates were somewhat unwilling to give up. One by one, they suggested heading north for another day, hoping to encounter the legendary Spirit Sun Tree along the way.
Although reason told Jiang Hao that he should retreat immediately for the safety of his teammates, he thought again that Xiao Shi was waiting outside the thick fog. If they ran out of ammunition and supplies, he could let Xiao Shi in.
After all, even if he turned back, Jiang Hao still planned to send Xiao Shi into the mist to forcibly take the legendary Spirit Yang Tree.
So the team continued northward. By the eighth day, they only had enough dried fish for one more meal. And ahead lay still a thick fog.
At this point, everyone was exhausted and had to eat dried fish to replenish their strength. In other words, they only had 12 hours left.
Jiang Hao ordered everyone to rest and eat where they were.
Running back is impossible. The team's mission to explore the fog has failed; their only remaining option is to summon Little Shit in.
With a thought, Jiang Hao noticed that the little poop waiting outside the mist suddenly grew larger, becoming a colossal creature over a hundred meters tall. Then, with a flash, it appeared beside Jiang Hao.
"Huh? Why didn't it leave?"
Xiao Shit's soul-to-soul exchange terrified Jiang Hao. Could something have gone wrong at this crucial moment?
Little Shit suddenly opened its mouth wide and communicated with Jiang Hao through their souls: "Quick, get into my mouth! Something's happened ahead!"
Then Jiang Hao saw four legendary energy crystals fly out from beside Xiao Shi and plunge into the fog ahead, followed by four loud explosions.
The sound wave, like a tsunami, rolled towards them, carrying thick fog. Except for Jiang Hao, everyone else was deafened and disoriented. The sound wave crashed over them; Jiang Hao and Luo Zai only stumbled slightly, but the others were all knocked to the ground. The magical shield Zhu Lin had cast on them shattered instantly, freezing the eight of them into solid ice blocks. Fortunately, the sound wave also carried the warmth of the exploding energy crystals; otherwise, they would have been frozen into transparent ice sculptures.
At the same time, Yun Xinghe's Heavenly Eye vision disappeared, and Jiang Hao's vision was once again enveloped in thick fog. However, with the help of Xiao Shi's vision, Jiang Hao saw that the fog hundreds of kilometers ahead was rapidly solidifying and turning white, as if an extreme cold was surging from the northern lands, freezing everything it encountered along the way, including the fog.
Jiang Hao dared not hesitate any longer and threw his frozen teammates one by one into Xiao Shi's mouth. Then, he grabbed Luo and jumped in as well.
The little poop's mouth only had the normal temperature of a skull. In other realms, its tentacles would feel icy cold, like cold steel. But compared to the cold here, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this a greenhouse.
The ice on several teammates began to melt slowly. Jiang Hao didn't know if they were dead or not. Through Xiao Shi's teeth, Jiang Hao saw more than a dozen legendary energy crystals fly out, and that extreme cold was only 60 kilometers away.
The legendary energy crystal flew to a distance not far ahead of the extreme cold, and exploded with terrifying energy capable of destroying an entire realm. The thick fog began to churn violently again, and the giant waves of mist and the muffled explosions came at the same time, like a raging sea determined to crush everything in its path.
However, thanks to the little poop blocking his way, Jiang Hao didn't feel any discomfort this time.
The swirling, towering mist passed by, while the extreme cold had already appeared twenty kilometers ahead. The churning mist stretched for hundreds of miles, turning everything in its path into an ice city.
Those dozen or so legendary energy crystals couldn't even slow down its advance slightly!
Jiang Hao looked at the ground ahead, and it seemed as if a block of ice, as tall as the sky and as wide as the earth, was being pushed toward him at high speed. If he didn't leave soon, he would probably be mercilessly smashed into dust in the next second.
With a flash, Little Shit's enormous body arrived high above the realm.
Jiang Hao looked down and saw that the mist below had been frozen into glittering ice blocks by the extreme cold. In the distance behind, on one side was the churning mist, and on the other side were the glittering ice blocks, with a clear line separating them. And that line was still moving rapidly backward.
Jiang Hao had no doubt that the legendary Spirit Yang Trees he had been searching for in the mist had long been frozen to dust in the face of this devastating cold.
Given the terrifying spread of this extreme cold, it's likely that the Spirit Yang Trees planted by Xiao Shi in the south will also be doomed.
One by one, his teammates behind him woke up, and Luo was frantically feeding Zhu Lin healing potions. To Jiang Hao's relief, even Yun Xinghe and Qiu Si, who had the weakest constitutions, had woken up, but they were just lying there with their eyes open, motionless, as if they only had their last breath left.
Zhu Lin, who had recovered, didn't even have time to stand up before casting a spell shield on each of them. Only then did their eyes begin to move, and after a moment, they slowly got up.
However, their bodies were still very weak, as if they had just gone through a serious illness.
Seeing their miserable state, Jiang Hao felt a surge of ruthlessness in his heart.
"Little Shit, can you lead us to it?"
"Of course, it's right at the very center of the realm. I can get there in a single teleport. But... but you saw the power of that extreme cold. Even my legendary dad couldn't stop it. If we go there now, I'm afraid even I'll be frozen into an ice sculpture."
"Five minutes! Captain, my invincibility lasts for five minutes!"
Qiu Si lay on the ground, peering through the gaps in Xiao Shi's bones as he watched the mist on the earth turn into solid ice. His voice was low, but carried an unwavering determination.
The other teammates looked at Jiang Hao with deep resentment in their eyes.
Having spent so many days together, Yun Xinghe has told everyone a lot about the legendary Lingyang Tree, the Number Realm, the human race, the Jackal Empire, and various other things about the current Lingxu.
The reason no one wanted to retreat on the fifth day was because they couldn't bear to give up a legendary Spirit Sun Tree. The reason they didn't retreat on the sixth day was because they wanted to try one last time. The reason they hadn't given up on the seventh day was because they knew there was no hope of returning and wanted to find even the slightest clue to the Spirit Sun Tree at the last moment.
After going through so many hardships together, all we really wanted was a legendary Spirit Sun Tree.
They were weak and exhausted, but they still nodded at Jiang Hao.
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