235: Call of the Far North

For a time, an unprecedented Cultivation craze swept across the entire Federation.

Whether it was a white-collar worker in a bustling city or a farmer in a remote town, whether it was a vibrant young person or an elder who had long since entered their twilight years, everyone put down their work and began to try to perceive the mysterious energy that existed between heaven and earth.

And the transformed Trial Tower became the supreme Holy Land in the hearts of all people in the entire Federation.

Countless Federation citizens flocked from all corners of the world to Kunlun Base.

They lined up, waiting to enter the magical tall tower that could change their destiny.

The Federation also demonstrated its powerful organizational and regulatory capabilities; everyone who entered the Trial Tower would be assigned to different Ranks of Cultivation spaces based on their talent and potential, and every bit of progress they made within the tower would be accurately recorded, becoming their credential for obtaining more resources and entering higher-level Cultivation spaces.

A virtuous new Cultivation system was initially established within just a few months.

A magnificent era of great Cultivation, belonging to all humanity, thus began.

Its effects also far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The potential contained within the human race, deeply suppressed in a comfortable environment, once fully unleashed, the energy it erupted was astonishing.

Countless Geniuses who had once been buried emerged like mushrooms after rain in this wave of the era.

Some people were born with an extraordinary affinity for fire elements; their first Cultivation allowed them to ignite themselves and burn all things; some people had astonishingly powerful Mental Energy, and after only a few days of Cultivation in the tower, they could already achieve telekinetic control of objects and mental sound transmission; even more, some lucky individuals, in whose Bloodlines flowed the faint Legacy of ancient powerhouses, directly activated the power deep within their Bloodlines after Cultivating those basic methods, ascending to heaven in one step and possessing various incredible and powerful supernatural abilities.

The overall strength of the entire Federation began to grow rapidly at a visible rate.

In just half a year, the average physical quality of Federation citizens had increased by more than three times, and the number of newly Advanced Martial Artists reached a terrifying figure that could not have been achieved in decades past.

Kunlun Base, the peak of the Trial Tower.

This was no longer merely a place of Cultivation, but the heart of the New Federation, the supreme strategic command center.

On the circular light screen, a blue torrent of data flowed silently like a waterfall, and the central holographic star map rotated quietly, with every energy node and defensive matrix of the Federation clearly visible.

The era of universal Cultivation surged forward, but the expressions of the three people standing in this command room were even more solemn than the starry sky outside the window.

Su Lei, Li Xue凝, Lin Qianqian.

The three pillars of the Federation.

“The revelation from the Sand of Time has been cross-referenced with all ancient texts in the Federation's database, and the target has been locked.”

Lin Qianqian's slender hand gently swiped across the Void Realm interface, and a huge three-dimensional map unfolded with a roar in the center of the room, with a bone-chilling coldness seemingly emanating from the screen.

That was the northernmost tip of Earth, a pale forbidden zone covered by endless ice and snow.

“The Extreme North Icefield, three thousand meters below the surface, the ruins of the Valkyrie Empire.”

The map zoomed in wildly, finally settling on a coordinate.

On the geological scan layer, the permafrost and basalt rock layers there were despairingly thick.

“This Empire is incredible.”

Lin Qianqian's voice carried a hint of confusion: “All historical records of the Federation, including the archives of the Council of Venerables, have almost no mention of it.

We only know that it was composed of pure female warriors, extremely xenophobic, and possessed a set of extraordinary Legacy completely independent of the Venerable system.”

She brought up a blood-red top-secret file.

“Seven years ago, during the Qin Wuyan era, the Federation's top-tier Icebreaker Special Exploration Team once went deep into the far north to track abnormal energy.”

“Ultimately, one hundred and twenty-seven elites, along with their flagship, were permanently lost.”

On the light screen, a final image began to play.

The screen shook violently, with piercing alarms and desperate roars mixed together.

Through the frost-covered porthole, one could only see in the endless darkness, a pair of incomprehensibly huge, eerie blue eyes suddenly lit up, filled with non-human indifference.

The image abruptly stopped.

“An existence that could prevent an entire Grandmaster-level special forces unit from even sending out a distress signal.”

Li Xue凝's clear and cold voice sounded.

Su Lei's gaze was fixed on that icefield coordinate.

Universal Cultivation can solidify the Foundation of civilization, but when world-ending disasters like the Abyssal Demon Whale descend, what determines victory or defeat will always be the top combat power at the apex of the Pyramid.

Gathering the seven pieces of civilization's Foundation is his, and humanity's, only chance of victory.

“Bring up all parameters of the Federation's polar deep-diving vehicles and the highest report on low-temperature energy research.”

Su Lei finally spoke: “Additionally, summon Dean Li of the Academy of Sciences and all chiefs of the Military Industry Department, with the highest priority, to prepare for a polar expedition for us.”

Lin Qianqian's fingertips flew, and a massive amount of top-secret data converged before her into a data storm.

She looked up and asked the most crucial question:

“Who goes on this mission?”

Su Lei looked at his two close friends and said only one word: “I.”

“I'm going too.”

Li Xue凝's answer was without any hesitation.

Her Ice Phoenix Gang Qi might be crucial in that extremely cold Hell.

More importantly, she could never let Su Lei face an unknown horror that could devour a hundred Grandmasters alone.

Lin Qianqian integrated all the data, and a detailed action plan was instantly generated; she looked up: “The rear, leave it to me.”

Seven days, for the entire industrial behemoth of the Federation, was but a blink of an eye.

But when this behemoth roared with all its might for one goal, miracles would be born.

The Extreme North Icefield, the eye of the storm.

The blizzards here were enough to tear steel to shreds, and the air at minus one hundred and seventy degrees was an absolute forbidden zone for all life.

A colossal object, entirely black and shaped like a dormant black tortoise, was steadily suspended in the center of the storm.

“black tortoise.”

The ultimate deep-diving combat platform built by the Federation for Su Lei in seven days, with everything they had.

Its shell was cast from memory metal, and its heart was a small Divine Soul reactor powered by Su Lei himself.

On the bridge, Su Lei and Li Xue凝 stood side by side, looking down at the vast white, deadly icefield below.

“Arrived at the predetermined coordinates.”

Lin Qianqian's voice came through quantum communication, as clear as if she were beside them: “black tortoise, drill activated! Energy shield power increased to seventy percent!”

Below the hull, a huge drill began to rotate at high speed, with a sun-like scorching light condensing at its tip.

Accompanied by a roar loud enough to tear eardrums, the black tortoise plunged fiercely into the thousands of meters thick eternal ice layer!

Ice shards and rocks instantly vaporized under the terrifying high temperature, and the black tortoise, like a black Arbiter blade, steadily sank towards the Earth's core.

The descent was long and oppressive.

One hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters... As the depth increased, the surrounding temperature plummeted in a way that defied physical common sense.

“Warning! External temperature has dropped below the theoretical value of absolute zero! Conventional physical laws are failing, an unknown high-density ice energy field has been detected!”

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