Of this, the ice sheet covers an area of more than 13 million square kilometers.
According to Wu Bowen and Wu Bozhong, Antarctica is a frigid place where almost no grass can grow. What amazing things could they possibly find there? Wu Bolin’s journey would almost certainly be in vain.
But Wu Bolin has his own ulterior motives.
More than a hundred years ago, he heard a legend from a senior member of the Boxer Rebellion that he would never forget.
During the Boxer Rebellion at that time, there were many members of the clergy who were called “Big Brother,” and even the leader, Zhu Hongdeng, was called “Big Brother Zhu.”
The main task of these “senior brothers” is to use their own religious system to lead various rituals of sacrifice and supplication to the gods, thus brainwashing and blessing their members, making them believe that they are invulnerable to weapons, when in fact it is all a lie.
However, not all senior students are cheaters.
Wu Bolin once met a senior disciple who had almost reached the altar of the Boxer Rebellion in the south.
Even though Wu Bolin had attained enlightenment, he was still asked by Victoria to disguise himself as an ordinary peasant rebel and infiltrate the Boxer group to spy on their movements.
After the internal ritual to pray to the gods, the senior brother told a story to lift everyone’s spirits, a story about a special ethnic group before the end of the Dharma era.
He said that before the end of the Dharma Era, when the world was still in the Bronze Age, there were a great many cultivators in the world. The world of cultivators was filled with powerful sects and individuals. The overall strength of cultivators was far greater than that of cultivators at the end of the Dharma Era.
Level advancement is also a common occurrence. Almost every sect has Mahayana cultivators who successfully overcome trials and advance, which greatly boosts the confidence of other cultivators and strengthens their Dao hearts.
At that time, cultivators focused solely on cultivation and achieving immortality. In their eyes, ordinary mortals were like uncivilized barbarians, so they had no time to engage in worldly affairs.
At that time, until the end of the Dharma era, most cultivators lost the channel to improve their cultivation and perished because their time had come to an end.
It is precisely because cultivation is so difficult in the Dharma-Lattering Age that the older generation of cultivators is gradually dwindling, and the new generation of cultivators is becoming fewer and fewer, resulting in the complete loss of the cultivator’s scale and strength.
The surviving cultivators began to seek opportunities to live, seeking immortality and ascending to higher levels. However, immortality and ascending to higher levels became increasingly difficult. As the last generations of many sects died without their desires in their quest for immortality, the thousand-year glory of entire sects was completely extinguished in the long tide of history.
However, according to legend, a sect once discovered the final gateway to enlightenment in the southernmost and coldest place in the world, which may be the last hope for cultivators in the Dharma-Lattering Age.
At that time, no one who listened to Wu Bolin’s story believed their senior brother’s words, dismissing them as myths. In their minds, the further south you went, the warmer the weather, and the coldest place in the world was definitely in the far north, not the far south.
The peasants who joined the Boxer Rebellion at that time had no idea what the North Pole and the South Pole were. They had never been abroad, or even more than a thousand kilometers from home. They only knew that the north was bitterly cold and the south was springtime all year round. Therefore, such stories contained a significant gap in their common sense.
Wu Bolin was different from the others. He could see the senior’s cultivation level and knew that he was far more advanced than those frogs in the well. Therefore, he always felt that the other party’s stories weren’t necessarily just empty talk.
Later, he heard from Western missionaries that there was indeed a very cold continent covered in glaciers at the southernmost point of the earth, and that Western explorers had set foot on that land many times at that time, and even began planning to explore the South Pole.
At that time, he became even more convinced of the authenticity of the legend.
At the same time, he considered Antarctica as the ultimate goal of his self-development.
In this declining age, he didn’t want to repeat the mistakes of Meng Changsheng and Victoria. He wanted to find the gateway to enlightenment and reach heaven in one step.
He never told this story to anyone, not even Victoria.
Now, Victoria had suddenly granted them a brief moment of freedom, and her cultivation was only a step away from unlocking the Niwan Palace. In this world, other than cultivators with stronger cultivation than her, the winds and waves, the cold and heat of nature, could hardly harm her in the slightest.
Therefore, he said, now is a good opportunity to go to Antarctica and find out what the place is really like.
Once in a lifetime opportunity!