After experiencing the long-lost liveliness of the human world, Lu Heng ate his meal and wandered the streets for a while longer. He only returned to the inn to rest as night fell.
"The guest is back. Do you still need hot water?"
Standing by the counter, the bored inn attendant saw Lu Heng return and enthusiastically walked over to ask.
"No need." Lu Heng could bathe in his space, so he could wash up there and then come out to sleep.
Back in his room, Lu Heng listened carefully to the sounds in the rooms on both sides. Of course, his "listening" involved reading the thoughts of those people.
Fortunately, everyone in both rooms had already gone to bed early. If ancient people didn't engage in any activities at night, they generally slept early.
Lying on the bed, Lu Heng quickly fell asleep.
He woke up early the next day.
Lu Heng pushed open the inn's window and looked out. The hawkers outside had already set up their stalls, selling various breakfast items.
After tidying up his clothes, Lu Heng left the inn and went to experience an ancient breakfast again. 138 Reading Network
After eating at several stalls, Lu Heng was finally full.
He was leaving this place today to head to Bingjing Mountain. This time, he would fly directly to Bingjing Mountain, without stopping in any other cities to rest.
After leaving the city, Lu Heng found an open space and released the Fire Phoenix.
"How is that Fire Phoenix?" Lu Heng, who hadn't checked on the Fire Phoenix that was producing eggs in his space, couldn't help but ask.
"Master, it's fine. It rested very well yesterday, and the eggs are all good. We have already started taking turns incubating the eggs."
"You also help incubate the eggs?"
"Yes, we've always done it this way."
"Then, child, I mean, whose eggs are they?"
"The eggs belong to all of us."
"Whoa!" Lu Heng was astonished by the Fire Phoenix's answer. In this matriarchal world, didn't they distinguish at all?
Sitting on the Fire Phoenix's back, Lu Heng compared his compass with the map, finally adjusted a direction, and commanded the Fire Phoenix to head in that direction.
As the Fire Phoenix flew into the sky, the townspeople where Lu Heng had stayed yesterday vaguely saw a streak of crimson flashing across the horizon, exceptionally beautiful.
The Fire Phoenix's speed was indeed faster than the Gryphon Beast. This was also because the Fire Phoenix's body was more slender than the Gryphon Beast's. Its weight was not as heavy as the Gryphon Beast's, so naturally, its flying speed was not slow.
A few days later, Lu Heng and his companions gradually approached the cold northern regions.
Once they reached here, the Fire Phoenix was unaffected. Its fire-element abilities could release heat and regulate its body temperature.
Lu Heng himself possessed both ice and fire elemental abilities, so he was not afraid of the extreme cold.
Sitting on the Fire Phoenix's back, Lu Heng looked at the white snow in the distance.
They were almost there.
Before they were contracted, the Fire Phoenixes had never left Liehuo Island. Therefore, this time, no one had explained the situation in the vicinity to Lu Heng.
Fortunately, Lu Heng still had a few travelogues of Shenyuan Continent. Some cultivators had made general descriptions of the places they had visited.
Bingjing Mountain was covered by ice and snow all year round. The ice-element magical beasts here were called Snow Apes.
Based on the descriptions in the book, Lu Heng estimated that they were similar to people's descriptions of Bigfoot in the snow mountains in modern society.
However, Bigfoot in modern society was also just a legend.
As the Fire Phoenix flew over Bingjing Mountain, the biting wind mixed with snowflakes drifted around Lu Heng and his companions.
Lu Heng controlled the wind around the Fire Phoenix, blocking out the snowflakes and the cold wind.
They could observe their surroundings more clearly.
Below them was white snow, a flat expanse with no traces left by any living creatures.
It was not easy to find magical beasts in such an extreme survival environment. It was probably why not many people came here to search for ice-element magical beasts.
After flying for a while, Lu Heng and his companions crossed a mountain peak and gradually moved deeper into the continuous snow-capped mountains.
If they encountered extreme weather like a blizzard, Lu Heng and his companions could return to the space to take temporary shelter.
Seeing that they had flown for a long time and the sky was gradually darkening, Lu Heng and his companions found a mountain peak to temporarily land on, and then they all returned to the space to rest.
Snow mountains themselves were more dangerous than other regions, so Lu Heng did not dare to be careless and fly at night. Moreover, visibility was low at night, making it difficult to find magical beasts.
When Lu Heng woke up in his space, the sky outside was still dark, but due to the moonlight reflecting on the snow, the surroundings were bathed in a silvery-blue light.
There was a significant time difference between his space and the outside world. Lu Heng planned to do something in his space.
Of course, Lu Heng did not want to explore the high-latitude areas of his space yet. He wanted to communicate with the aliens again and gain more understanding of their world before exploring there.
Thinking of the rather useless game world in his space, Lu Heng decided to go there to pass the time.
He passed through the temple again and entered the game world. Lu Heng checked his panel and indeed, nothing had changed. Everything was the same as when he left.
"Ding!"
Just as Lu Heng logged in, an electronic sound of a message transmission rang in Lu Heng's mind.
Lu Heng looked at the bottom of his panel, where a yellow exclamation mark was flashing.
Upon opening it, a letter was transmitted. The sender's name was gray.
The letter was from Luna, the female player who had given him some startup capital and a few small packages when he first logged in.
【Luna: Little friend, why haven't you been online for so long? Sister is waiting to help you level up?】
The received time showed half a month ago in the game world's time.
Lu Heng clicked on his friend information. Luna's information there was also gray, showing that her last login time was two days ago.
It seemed Luna hadn't played for a few days either.
Out of politeness, Lu Heng replied to Luna. It was also because the friend list showed the last login time of friends, and Lu Heng felt it would be impolite to pretend he hadn't received the email and not reply.
【I am in Chunfeng Li: I've been busy recently and haven't been online much. I logged in to take a look just now and will probably be busy again soon. I'll come to play when I have time.】
After clicking to send the email, Lu Heng wandered around the beginner village again, killing a few small monsters to get a feel for it.
He didn't expect the game to provide double experience for leveling up offline. So, after killing only a few monsters, Lu Heng leveled up by one.
Games like this were usually more fun when played with a group of real-life friends. When Lu Heng was playing in the beginner village, no one else approached him, so he could only silently kill monsters and level up by himself.
Lu Heng kept checking the time, estimating the time when it would be dawn on the Shenyuan Continent.
After a series of operations, without realizing it, Lu Heng leveled up his game character to level eight.
The game again reminded him whether he wanted to change his game name. If he didn't change it, he would be given a name randomly selected by the system.
Lu Heng looked at the string of text on the panel. As someone who was terrible at naming things, he ultimately chose the default system name.