Douluo Dalu: Start with a Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgement

Chapter 485: Sleeping in the open air
Ji Lin maintained a distance of more than several kilometers, following the side of the Sun and Moon Empire army from a distance, heading straight to the north.

The army was marching at a very fast speed, almost all of them were trotting. Every half hour, they would walk a distance and then trot forward again. This marching speed was already quite impressive, which showed the overall quality of this army.

At the end of the day, the army had marched more than a hundred kilometers to the north. The air had begun to become colder and colder, and the army of the Sun-Moon Empire finally stopped to rest, set up camp, and cook.

Ji Lin leaned against a hill. The cold weather had no effect on Ji Lin. He just looked at the smoke rising from the military camp in the distance, and then looked at the dry food he took out from the storage soul guide. He suddenly felt that the dried meat in his hand was not fragrant anymore.

Ji Lin bit the dried meat in his hand viciously, then looked towards the military camp in the distance and murmured, "Wait, I'll let you eat and drink your fill first, and then I'll give you a big one."

He felt unbalanced when he thought about himself eating dry food alone in this snowy place while the army of the Sun-Moon Empire was drinking hot soup in the barracks.

When he thought of this, Ji Lin remembered what Her Royal Highness the Princess had promised, and he instantly became motivated. Although this mission was quite hard, the reward was sufficient!
It would be worth it even if I had to eat dried meat for a few more days to get Her Royal Highness the Princess to agree to a double.

Leaning against the rocks, Ji Lin took out a map from the storage soul guide and spread it out. This was prepared for him by Xu Jiujiu. It was not a map of the northern part of the Tianhun Empire, but a detailed map of the northern part of Douluo Continent. The map itself was made of sheepskin, which was soft and tough and could be preserved for a long time.

After a rough identification, Ji Lin found his current location on the map. On this day's march, the Sun-Moon Empire was still heading northeast. If they went further northeast, they would reach the border between the Sky Soul Empire and the Douluo Empire. There, they had already reached the edge of the Arctic ice field, which was definitely colder than here.

The temperature there is a big problem for ordinary soul masters. Can ordinary soldiers really withstand it?
Ji Lin looked in the direction of the Sun-Moon Empire military camp, turned on mental detection, and remotely scanned the military camp. He soon discovered that something seemed to be distributed in the Sun-Moon Empire military camp. The soldiers lined up to receive it. Each person received two small box-like things and a cotton coat.

The texture of the cotton-padded jacket looks very good, especially the cotton shoes, which are very thick and very warm.

Sure enough, the Sun-Moon Empire had been well prepared. With these cold-resistant clothes, ordinary soldiers should be able to hold out longer in this cold weather.

But even so, in the environment of the Arctic ice field, if you are not a soul master, even if you have cold-resistant clothing, you can only last a few more days at most. I think the two boxes are the key.

That night, Ji Lin set up a small tent in a hidden place among the rocks and spent the night in the biting cold wind.

The next morning, he understood what the two boxes issued to the soldiers were used for.

Each box was the size of a palm and was placed inside the soldiers' clothes, tied close to their underwear and around their waists. After they began marching, Ji Lin immediately discovered that the box emitted a gentle heat that moistened the soldiers' bodies and helped them resist the cold from the outside world.

As expected of the Sun-Moon Empire, they even have this kind of soul guide. Indeed, with this kind of soul guide, even ordinary soldiers can survive for a long time in the extreme environment of the Arctic ice field. The soul guide must be installed with a sealed bottle, so the soul power required to maintain heat will not be much. But judging from the size of the small box, it can only support for a few days before it needs to be recharged.

However, there is also a powerful soul guide group in the army of the Sun-Moon Empire. The Fire Phoenix Soul Guide Group has 300 soul guides above level four. Charging those soul guides does not consume much of their soul power at all. As long as each soul master is responsible for charging some soldiers' sealed bottles when the garrison rests at night, the soul power replenishment can be completed naturally.

The development of soul guides of the Sun-Moon Empire is no longer limited to military use, but has begun to develop soul guides suitable for civilian use. If one day, the Sun-Moon Empire finds a way to replace soul power to drive soul guides, I am afraid that soul guides will no longer be exclusive to soul masters. At that time, ordinary soldiers will be able to use soul guides and have the attack power of soul masters. Just thinking about hundreds of thousands of soul masters appearing on the battlefield, I am afraid that even the Ultimate Douluo will sweat profusely!
Just think about it and you will know how terrifying it is. The current soul master army of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms is only tens of thousands, and once the soul guides are popularized in the Sun-Moon Empire, even an army of one million soul guides will not be impossible.

Thinking of this, Ji Lin shook his head. If the gods had not intervened, if he had not appeared, and if the tough guy had not fallen from the sky, even if the Sun-Moon Empire did not start a war and developed soul guides peacefully in its own territory, it would still be able to unify the Douluo Continent within a hundred years. It would be difficult for the original Douluo Three Kingdoms to turn things around. This is already an established fact.

Although he felt emotional, he still had to continue tracking. Ji Lin still followed from a distance, and the army kept moving forward, heading towards the northeast of the Tianhun Empire. As the weather got colder, the speed of the Sun-Moon Empire army began to slow down. Originally, Ji Lin expected to reach the place in one day, but it took two full days for the Sun-Moon Empire army to finally arrive.

At a glance, there is white snow and the cold wind is howling, as sharp as a knife. In such an icy and snowy place, there is very little moisture in the air, because once there is moisture, it will be frozen immediately. The temperature here is at least minus 30, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to survive in such an environment.

It was almost evening at this time, and the army of the Sun-Moon Empire set up camp again. Compared with the previous time, this time the camp was more compact. The tents of the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Group, which were originally on the innermost side, were moved to the periphery and arranged in an arc, facing the biting northwest wind, just like a wolf guarding its companions, blocking the coldest wind behind. Among them, the general's tent was right in the front, standing still in the cold wind.

The other tents were arranged neatly and densely at the back. Only this arrangement could maintain heat to the greatest extent.

It turned out that the curling smoke had disappeared, and occasionally hot air could be seen rising from some large tents. Undoubtedly, the fireman had placed the cooking area inside the room instead of outside. Otherwise, it would be too difficult to make a fire in this place where water freezes into ice.

Ji Lin took out the dry food with an expressionless face. The dried meat he had just taken out from the storage soul guide began to be covered with a thin layer of ice crystals the moment it appeared in the outside world. The corner of his mouth twitched, and a ball of red flame rose in his hand, starting to heat up the dried meat.

Ji Lin sighed. Although the Sun Moon Empire's army had been frozen for a day, at least they had a mouthful of hot soup to drink! Although he was not afraid of the cold, he had to sleep in the open air for many days in this icy and snowy place. It was really not a very comfortable life.

However, Ji Lin looked at the endless snow-capped mountains in the distance and narrowed his eyes. In his judgment, the army of the Sun-Moon Empire should be not far from its destination, because they have been marching towards the north, and now they have reached the edge of the Far North. If they continue to move inward, they will truly enter the Far North.

Ji Lin had actually been to the Far North and was well aware of the harsh weather conditions there. It was absolutely impossible for ordinary people to survive in that place, not even with the thermal energy soul guide provided by the Sun-Moon Empire.

That kind of place can be said to be a forbidden area for ordinary people. Even if you are a soul master, if you don't have the strength above that of a soul king, it will be useless if you go in. Without the ice attribute, you can only resist the cold and your soul power will be exhausted soon, and you will be frozen to death inside.

This is just the environmental factor. In the Arctic ice field, there live a large number of ice-attributed soul beasts. With the help of the environment, they are much stronger than ordinary soul beasts. Once they encounter a powerful group of soul beasts, even the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Group will not be able to get out of the Arctic intact.

The reason why the Sun-Moon Empire sent the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Corps to lead this mission was most likely because all members of the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Corps were proficient in using fire-attribute soul guides. In this far north, although the fire attribute would be restricted, they could also resist the cold to a greater extent. This was the best choice in the absence of an ice-attribute soul instructor corps.

In Douluo Continent, ice attribute is a rare attribute.

After dinner, under Ji Lin's observation, the army of the Sun and Moon Empire in the distance finally made some movement.

On the Sun-Moon Empire side, taking advantage of the night, thick metal pillars were placed around the camp. Some members of the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Corps wearing crimson armor were busy. They flew in the air, placed the metal pillars in specific positions, and then hammered them into the ground to secure them.

For ordinary people, this kind of work must be done with the help of large machinery, but for soul engineers, it is nothing. Soul engineers are soul masters themselves and can also use the help of some auxiliary soul guides. It is not difficult to do these jobs. In a short while, most of the work has been completed.

Could these be the soul guides that the Sun-Moon Empire was going to use to mine metal mines? Could the metal mines be right under the Sun-Moon Empire's army? Ji Lin looked curiously in the direction of the Sun-Moon Empire's military camp, observing carefully.

Those metal pillars are not light at first glance. Each pillar is fifty meters long and more than three meters in diameter. You can imagine how heavy they are. They weigh at least fifty tons, which is roughly equal to the weight of a Poseidon Trident. It takes the combined efforts of several soul mentors from the Fire Phoenix Soul Mentor Corps to put them in position and install them on the ground.

(End of this chapter)