Full-Time Magister: I Had No Intention of Reaching the Dimensional Throne

Is the lair of the Ice Demon of Tianshan in the place I'm looking for?

I just don't know if the remains of the Beast Taming are still there.

Bai Mo was familiar with the location of the Ice Mark Extreme Point.

As its name suggests, it is located in the Tianshan ice trace area, where ice traces are most concentrated.

The Tianshan Ice Cracks are an extremely dangerous place within the Tianshan Mountains. The ice cracks and fissures are already difficult to spot on the vast expanse of white snow and glaciers.

Due to the refraction of ice crystals, it is difficult to determine where the Tianshan ice marks are in some places.

Once trapped in the Tianshan Ice Mark, one's body will be immediately bound by the winds and ice threads of the ice mark.

The Ice Scar Wind and Ice Silk absorb magical energy to grow, meaning that once a mage falls into the Ice Scar of Tianshan, they will be unable to cast spells.

Because the magical energy released by the mage's connection to the star trail will be directly absorbed by the ice threads of the Heavenly Mountain Ice Mark the moment the magic is constructed!

Few mages would venture to a place like the Ice Scar. Just think, unless there's a specific reason, who would walk a tightrope on a sheer cliff?

Therefore, that place was something Bai Mo had never considered.

At the same time, he was unaware that there was an Ice Scar Canyon inside the Ice Scar Extreme Point area.

This is something that even the mage who first discovered the Ice Demon of Tianshan probably didn't know.

The fact that the Ice Demon of Tianshan could survive in that environment speaks volumes about its strength.

At this moment, Ai Jiangtu and the others had finished their discussion. Bai Mo raised his head, met his gaze, and finally looked at the Heavenly Mountain Sacred Tiger.

"Thank you very much for your answer and gift. We are now preparing to head to the Arctic Circle and will not stay any longer."

"Roar~" The Heavenly Mountain Sacred Tiger roared and left Big Orange behind for a few days.

"Of course." Bai Mo nodded.

After bidding farewell to the Heavenly Tiger and leaving the Snow Pool Realm, Bai Mo and the others headed towards the area where the Heavenly Mountain Ice Marks were distributed.

"By the way, it seems that the Tianshan Snow Lotus is also within the range of the Tianshan Ice Mark. Should we pick some?" Mo Fan suddenly said.

His main feeling was that the Tianshan Snow Lotus would be very helpful to Mu Ningxue, since she had been tormented by the Ice Crystal Bow for so many years, and her soul was arguably the weakest among them.

"Do you think that's a cabbage? You even picked some." Jiang Yu was speechless.

"If we encounter them, we can give it a try. Tian Shan snow lotus prefers to grow in areas with dense ice marks, so we can try to see how to identify and combat Tian Shan ice marks."

Lingling said that they would inevitably encounter ice marks on their journey, so rather than being caught off guard, they should prepare in advance and find a way to deal with them.

"I agree, it's true that we need to get used to it beforehand," Nan Jue said.

This was the first time anyone had visited Tianshan and entered the Tianshan Scar.

Therefore, our understanding of the ice marks in the Tianshan Mountains is based solely on hearsay.

As they continued their discussion, the snowflakes beneath their feet gradually thinned out, replaced by a crystal-clear ice surface.

The ice surface is generally white, but the colors vary. You can see streaks of dark blue or bright white appearing on the ice surface.

"These are the ice marks of Tianshan? They look quite ordinary," Guan Yu said.

"You don't understand, do you? The more ordinary something is, the bigger the secret it hides." Mo Fan shook his finger.

"That's why we often need spies. Guan Yu, try stepping on it, we'll be watching you."

Upon hearing this, Guan Yu's lips twitched, knowing that this guy talking to him was no good.

However, he was indeed the only mage in the team who was mainly responsible for scouting, so even though he felt he had been tricked, Guan Yu could only grit his teeth and accept it.

However, he couldn't lose in a verbal exchange, so he gave a light snort and said:

"Let's explore then. I'm going to try and see what secrets these ice marks hold."

It was a stark white mark, five meters long.

If we consider the entire glacial land as human skin, then the ice marks are like shocking scars on this smooth, snowy skin.

However, these scars are often a mix of real and fake. The five-meter ice mark was only thirty meters away from Guan Yu, and he arrived in a single wind tunnel.

Meanwhile, as the fish moved, it also held a wind rail in its hand.

Guan Yu was fast, but since everyone was a mage of the same level, it wasn't difficult for them to catch a glimpse of him.

He ran straight toward the ice mark, but when he was only two or three steps away from it, he suddenly swayed uncontrollably.

The sound of the car speeding along suddenly stopped!

Then the figure began to fall uncontrollably.

"Wow!"

Guan Yu exclaimed in surprise and subconsciously connected the constellations. The constellations quickly linked together, but just as he was about to finish the last stroke, the star track in his hand suddenly broke.

At the same time, he felt his body suddenly tighten, and at the same time, a strange wind pressure tried to pull him downwards and drag him away.

The ice mark was clearly not as simple as a thin line; its opening was not small, but people could not see it, only its center line.

And so the scene that appeared before them was—

The fish suddenly collapsed, its body submerged beneath the ice, struggling incessantly.

The scene looked like a game character clipping through a screen—it was bizarre and eerie.

The group quickly approached and discovered that Guan Yu's body was already wrapped with a lot of snow-white ice silk.

They continued to descend, and as they got closer, they were able to see the shape of the ice marks more clearly.

Perhaps it's because the mandarin fish also got caught up in it; after all, hunting requires exposing one's body, which is the law of nature.

"Help me!" Guan Yu shouted. He had already tried several spells, but none of them worked. The Tianshan Ice Mark was just too strange.

Whether it's absorbing the icy wind or the threads of ice marks, it's all extremely strange.

Keep in mind, he's a mage who primarily specializes in wind magic and has four sub-skills in ice magic.

But surrounded by these icy silks and icy winds, they were helpless!

If it were someone with weak willpower, they might lose their faith in magic altogether.

"Grab it!"

The ice mark was about three meters wide and more than ten meters deep. As soon as the group approached, Nan Jue immediately threw a vine from his hand, which hung down in front of Guan Yu.

After pulling Guan Yu up, the group continued forward, but no one dared to attempt the Tianshan Ice Mark again.

As they moved forward, more and more ice tracks came into their view.

The ice marks no longer appear as long strips; some resemble scattered flowers, some look like a clump of cotton frozen beneath the ice surface, and some even resemble a pattern.

"Damn it, not again!" Mo Fan cursed as he fell uncontrollably.

At the same time, Ai Jiangtu's expression changed, his figure tilted uncontrollably, and then he fell.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shaoxu and Zhao Manyan followed suit and fell down one after another.

They immediately grabbed the ice wall within the icy crevice with both hands to slow their descent, while shouting to those above:

"Help! Save them!!"

The four of them fell into the ice one after another, something they never expected.

However, Bai Mo and the others reacted quickly, using ice locks, vines, and water whips to fly into the ice marks and grab onto the four of them.

The Tianshan Ice Mark is special; magic placed inside from the outside is unaffected, but the sound waves released by Bai Mo for detection will be distorted and deceived.

The four of them ran out in a disheveled state, and only then did Bai Mo realize that the ice mark was actually just a tiny, irregular dot in front of them, no bigger than a toe!

The entire complete ice mark area is actually a radial network of gullies radiating outwards in several directions from this central point.

Its overall shape is a distorted five-pointed star.

The four people, Ai Jiangtu, were not walking on the same level; they had fallen into different ravines.

No one had noticed that such a situation would occur.

"Damn it, how much further do we have to go?! These ice marks feel like love, coming unexpectedly." Zhao Manyan couldn't help but exclaim.

"Before I could even see it clearly, it had already ensnared me. It came so suddenly, without any warning, holding me tightly, enveloping me, and even sucking me in. Who could resist that!"

Everyone: ? ? ?

Are you sure you're talking about the Tianshan Ice Mark?

"Ahem!" Lingling coughed lightly, indicating that there were children present and they shouldn't discuss ambiguous topics, then quickly added:

"We are now in the middle of the ice mark area. The ice mark pole is located at the top of the snow layer, so it shouldn't be far away."

After all, the ice marks here are extremely strange, just like that dot from before.

Even if they had paid close attention before, they would never have imagined that such a small point could extend to such a large area.

"Old Zhao's concerns are not unfounded. We've been very careful, but who knows how much ice will appear on the road ahead, or what kind it will be like?"

Bai Mo said, "If any of us fall without warning, then it's truly the end. We don't even know what the extreme point of the ice trail looks like. What if there's a large area covered in ice trails?"

Just like before, when Bai Mo and Lingling went to the Dark Cave to explore the ruins, they encountered the Serpent of the Mortal World. It directly disguised itself as an underground passage.

Even Bai Mo didn't notice it at first.

The ice marks on the Tianshan Mountains are even more concealed. If there were a large area covered by ice marks, would they be able to get through it?

Everyone fell silent, pondering the question.

"Probably not. The Tianshan ice marks are just ice marks. If a large patch appears, it can no longer be called an ice mark. But they will be denser and more difficult to guard against on the road ahead, that's true," Nan Jue said.

"Actually, I have a way to find those ice marks relatively quickly, but it's a bit cruel," Lingling said.

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze fell upon her. Lingling glanced at Bai Mo, Mo Fan, and Jiang Yu, and then continued...

"The method is simple: use summoned beasts to scout ahead. Just a few beast hordes will be enough to detect the dangers ahead."

Upon hearing this, Ai Jiangtu and the others' eyes lit up, but they hesitated.

Bai Mo and the other two had a sudden realization.

Using summoned creatures to scout ahead is something most hunter teams with summoning mages do.

Even many summoning mages use their summoned beasts or contracted beasts for exploration or as substitutes for others.

However, neither Bai Mo, nor Mo Fan, nor Jiang Yu had ever done such a thing.

Bai Mo's Origin Contract forbids him from doing such a thing, so his care for summoned beasts and contracted beasts extends to the beast tide and even to the temporary henchmen of the ancient demonic sect.

Mo Fan, on the other hand, developed feelings for the old wolf, and he also felt a sense of responsibility towards his summoned beast.

Jiang Yu's situation is similar to Bai Mo's; he has a contracted beast, Night Rakshasa, and by extension, he loves everything about it.

Therefore, none of the three initially considered using summoned beasts to scout ahead.

However, now that Lingling has pointed it out, none of the three find it unacceptable.

Summoning beast hordes to scout ahead is indeed a good method. They are reluctant to abandon their regular troops, but they can still temporarily bring in ragtag forces.

"I'll go first."

As Bai Mo spoke, a magnificent, moon-white constellation appeared behind him, the moonlight opening up space and time, forging a summoning gate.

With his eyes closed, Bai Mo let his mind wander through dimensional planes, contemplating what he needed amidst the myriad beasts galloping across the land.

First, it needs to be large, since ice craters are quite big and need to be able to fill the cave.

But it can't be too big either; if it's too big, it won't fit completely in, and it will fall out.

Secondly, you need to act without thinking, just rush in without worrying about safety.

Then you need to have high health to avoid being frozen to death.

Let's at least wait until they've passed by before we die.

So, while Bai Mo is good to the summoned beasts, if he were to become a capitalist, he would definitely end up hanging on a telephone pole.

Soon, Bai Mo's gaze settled on a herd of cattle and horses.

No, it's Ryoma!

Dark red scales covered its tall, city-gate-like body, the flowing light like leaping flames, and its eyes were as red as demons.

Above its head were long, dark red horns that looked like drill bits.

Their sinister aura was palpable; these were the Demon Flame Dragon Horses, possessing the bloodline of a demonic dragon.

The high temperature of the demonic flames can help them resist the extreme cold of the ice marks.

The bloodline of dragons gives them exceptionally strong defense and regenerative abilities.

The dragon bloodline also makes these creatures impulsive and easily angered, almost devoid of reason.

Stallions and mares can even fight over a single tail that doesn't flick in the arc they want.

Once the herd was selected, a series of neighing sounds immediately emanated from the moonlit gate, followed by the heavy thud of hooves.

A thousand horses galloped out, like ten thousand thunderclaps, causing even the glaciers to tremble uncontrollably.

The demonic flames roared, like a raging sea of ​​fire, with the air currents swirling uncontrollably.

One after another, the demonic flame dragon horses galloped forward relentlessly, each one a leader. Even though Jiang Yu had witnessed such a sight before, as a fellow summoning mage, he still couldn't help but feel envious and awestruck.

The glacier was covered with ice marks, like pits for horses. The tall and mighty Demon Flame Dragon Horse galloped out, but it didn't cause the earth and glacier to tremble for long before it fell into the ice marks in front of it.

"Hiss~~~~!!"

You can see these huge creatures falling one by one, hissing and screaming, and even attacking the ice marks frantically!

But the more they are attacked, the deeper they sink.

The demonic dragon horse in front tumbled and fell, but the horses behind showed no intention of stopping; they even let out disdainful and mocking neighs.

What a useless thing! He even falls down while running, a disgrace to Ryoma.

So the demonic flame dragon horse behind it charged forward without hesitation, trampling over the fallen dragon horses.

Even as these fellow demons were trampled and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, the Demon Flame Dragon Horse behind them showed no intention of slowing down or overtaking them.

This scene made Zhao Manyan's eyebrows twitch.

You can see the dark red carpet spreading out in front of you, revealing a kilometer of road ahead in the blink of an eye.

One after another, dark red, majestic dragon-horses with an alluring and sinister aura were trapped inside the Scar of Tianshan Mountain, howling in terror.

That feeling is comparable to seeing celebrities like Yifei and Daniel Wu stuck in a mud pit, screaming for help.

The scene was extremely spectacular and had a very strong visual impact.

The ice marks were all highlighted by Longma, making the safe path clear.

"Let's go," Bai Mo gestured, and took the lead.

He would retrieve the dragon horse that had fallen into each ice crater he passed over.

And so, a very bizarre scene unfolded.

Before each Demon Flame Dragon Horse returned, it would give Bai Mo a loud, grateful neigh.

Even Mo Fan, who wasn't a mind-based mage, could understand the gratitude expressed.

If they could speak, they might even say, "You're a good person."

"These guys, you're the one who sent them in, and now you're taking them back, and they're actually grateful to you."

Mo Fan couldn't help but complain.

"You don't understand, that's just how Longma is," Zhao Manyan said.

Mo Fan: ? ? ?

"Are you a summoning mage?"

"no."

"It's not that I don't understand."

With a clear route, the kilometer distance can be covered in just a few breaths.

The next part of the journey will be explored by Mo Fan and Jiang Yu together.

With Bai Mo as their example, they followed suit and summoned creatures with similar conditions.

The only difference is that they cannot summon a large army at the commander level like Bai Mo could.

Even a warrior-level summoned beast cannot survive for long in the Tianshan Ice Mark due to its constant struggle.

Even after the group passed through an area detected by the summoned beasts, some members of the beast horde still died.

However, once they found the right method, they became much faster.

Bai Mo didn't change to any other beast pets along the way, only using the Demon Flame Dragon Horse.

Anyway, they weren't from the same batch, so Longma wouldn't hate him; he would only continue to expand the group of people who were grateful to him.

"The ice mark should be just ahead."

Lingling looked at the pale blue glacier surface beneath her feet, then looked about fifty meters away.

The vast expanse of white looked as if the glacier had turned from pale blue to white.

On the vast white ground, there was an extremely thin and long pale blue trail that stretched into the distant whiteness.

If we consider ice marks as ink stains on white paper, then they were all searching for those ink stains before.

Then the extreme point of the ice mark in front of us is like a blank sheet of paper covered with ink stains.

They no longer needed to look for the ink stains, but rather to find the only remaining white spot within the large area smeared with ink.

"We've finally arrived, but we can't see Ice Scar Canyon at all." Nan Jue's eagle eyes swept across the area, carefully examining the surroundings.

"Let's use the beast tide to scout ahead," Jiang Yu said, gesturing to Mo Fan, and was about to make his move when Bai Mo suddenly said:

Let's do it together this time.

Upon hearing this, the two looked at the vast expanse of white before them and nodded.

Jiang Yu majored in summoning and his cultivation level had reached the super-rank. The number of beast tides he could summon was actually quite large.

Although Mo Fan's summoning skills did not reach the highest level, under the Magic Medium Ring, the number of beast hordes he could summon was far greater than that of a normal high-level summoning mage.

After Bai Mo joined, the beast tide had already reached a number of over three thousand.

The scene was one of stampeding beasts, followed by a sudden plunge after fifty meters.

The ice tracks at the extreme points are particularly numerous, and since these numerous ice tracks are not interconnected to form basins or canyons, a certain result has been achieved.

The iceberg walls here are exceptional; the cuts made by the ice lines have turned the protruding parts into sheer cliffs like blades.

The entire ground resembled a dense array of razor-sharp blades and ice shards; any creature that fell into it would likely be either sliced ​​to pieces or trapped and frozen by the ice.

The beasts galloped past, and as soon as they fell, countless sprays of blood gushed out.

Even the commander-level Demon Flame Dragon Horse had little power to resist this extremely hard and sharp ice blade cliff.

Those magnificent and hard dragon scales now seemed like brittle, withered leaves, crumbling at the slightest touch.

Limbs and remains flew everywhere, the scene was completely different from before, the beast tide surged forward, none of them had a good ending.

Even Bai Mo, who was mentally prepared, was somewhat reluctant to watch.

Even Ai Jiangtu, who had experienced a dramatic and turbulent battle, couldn't help but look away.

Crimson blood stained the pristine white ground, revealing slender, sharp ice blades that, like steel chains hanging from a precipice, connected the ice plains a thousand meters away.

The ice blades on the cliff face were arranged in an irregular pattern, crisscrossing and intersecting, like the traces of a chaotic flurry of sword strikes.

The widest strip was no more than the pale blue mark that Lingling had seen before.

"How are we going to get through this?!"

Mo Fan rubbed his temples. Releasing the beast tide summon continuously was a considerable burden on his mental strength.

Looking at the blood-red ice wall before him, his head throbbed even more.

"Even commanders with dragon blood will have their bodies shredded by these ice blades. If we stand on them, what's the difference between that and suicide?" Zhao Manyan chimed in.

"Therefore, we need your tortoise shell to protect us," Bai Mo said.

Ice Mark absorbs the magical energy that instantly creates the spatial passage above him, causing the passage to break directly. Otherwise, he and Ai Jiangtu could have gotten through.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Manyan's face immediately fell.

"My brother, do you need my protection too?"

"I'll go with you." Bai Mo didn't cultivate defense, but his cultivation was high and his strength was great, making bricks fly.

With the added amplification effect, it's enough to temporarily make him a defensive mage.

"That's more like it." Zhao Manyan felt a little better.

It's not that he's not tough enough or lacks confidence.

It was simply too much for one person to handle seven opponents.

"Shh~~~~~~!!"

Suddenly, Nan Jue put her index finger to her lips, signaling everyone to be quiet.

Seeing this, Bai Mo paid a slight attention to his hearing.

He immediately noticed something, took a step closer to the ice mark, and looked down sharply.

Seeing this, the crowd also approached out of curiosity.

What was that sound?

As they approached, Jiang Yu immediately heard a different sound. Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue exchanged a glance.

"It sounds like chewing."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but feel a chill.

Recalling the scene of the beasts being torn apart and falling into the ice, a sense of unease immediately enveloped his heart like a thick fog.

"Crunch crunch crunch~~~~~~~~~~~~~"

As you get closer to the ice marks, the sounds of feeding become clearer.

Everyone could even imagine the scene of those severed limbs and remains, mostly frozen in half, being bitten to pieces by a ferocious maw, the frozen flesh melting into broth as it was chewed, and finally being swallowed.

Bai Mo peered down and saw a goat-like, ice-white head looking up at him with a wide grin!

The face looked extremely human, but the outline was that of a goat, so a sense of dread involuntarily arose from the bottom of my heart.

It makes every pore on your body involuntarily tighten! (End of Chapter)