Douluo Continent: I can overdraft the future in advance

"Calm down," Luo Yun told himself.

In any case, we should head south first. We'll definitely reach the Heavenly Soul Empire, and once we're within its borders, we'll be safe.

He took a deep breath, activated his flight soul tool, and flew low to the ground. The wind blew from behind, propelling him forward at a much faster pace than before. The icy plain receded rapidly beneath him, the white earth seemingly endless.

After flying for about half an hour, he lowered his altitude, landed on the ground, retrieved his flying soul tool, and switched to walking.

After a while, Luo Yun sensed something was wrong; it was too quiet around him.

The wind stopped at some point.

Luo Yun slowed his pace.

He slowed his breathing and listened intently. Nothing. This silence was abnormal; the far north shouldn't be this quiet.

He walked along, observing his surroundings.

The ice field stretched as far as the eye could see, covered with white snow that reflected the hazy sky.

Nothing unusual.

Apart from--

Luo Yun's gaze settled on a small snowdrift about two hundred meters to his left.

The snow mound wasn't large, about five or six meters in diameter and three or four meters high. Its surface was covered with thick snow, and it looked no different from the surrounding terrain.

He didn't stop walking, but his gaze remained fixed on the snowdrift.

wrong.

He remembered the location. He had seen the same snow mound about two kilometers ago. He hadn't paid it any mind then; the terrain in the far north is so repetitive that two similar snow mounds are quite normal. But now he saw an identical one.

No, it's not "another one," it's the same one.

Luo Yun's pupils contracted slightly. He slowed his pace, outwardly remaining calm, but actually using his peripheral vision to observe the changing position of the snowdrift. He veered about thirty degrees to the right, changing his direction. After walking about a kilometer, he glanced at it again out of the corner of his eye—

The snowdrift is still to the left front.

It wasn't the terrain repeating itself. It was that thing following him.

He continued to increase his speed, going from walking to jogging. The distance of the snowdrift remained the same, but its angle began to shift—it slowly moved from the left front to the direct left, and then from the direct left to the left rear.

It followed.

Luo Yun no longer hesitated. He suddenly activated his flying soul tool, metal wings unfolded behind him, and he took off, flying south.

Just as he took off, a deep roar came from behind him.

The sound wasn't loud, but it made one's chest feel heavy, as if something heavy had awakened from its slumber. Luo Yun glanced back—

The snow pack exploded.

Snowflakes scattered and flew everywhere, revealing the grayish-white skin underneath. It stood upright, its forelimbs off the ground and its hind limbs supporting its entire body.

Luo Yun's pupils suddenly contracted.

Titan Snow Demon.

Its standing height is estimated to be nearly twelve or thirteen meters.

Ten thousand years.

Luo Yun's heart sank.

The Titan Snow Demon accelerated, its hind leg muscles incredibly developed, each step covering tens of meters, its gray-white figure like a bolt of lightning on the white earth.

Luo Yun gritted his teeth and increased his flight altitude to one hundred meters. The Titan Snow Demon couldn't fly, which was his advantage.

The Titan Snow Demon stopped. It raised its head, its deep blue eyes fixed on Luo Yun in the sky, a blue light gleaming in them.

The air temperature plummeted, and the surrounding ice elements gathered frantically, coalescing into a ball above the Titan Snow Demon, swirling, compressing, and solidifying—

A dozen or so snowballs hovered around the Titan Snow Demon, like a ring of satellites.

Titan Snow Demon swung his arm, and the first snowball flew out with a whoosh.

Luo Yun dodged to the side, the snowball grazed his shoulder and exploded dozens of meters behind him, scattering ice shards and snow spray everywhere.

The second, third, and fourth ones flew in one after another.

Luo Yun dodged left and right in the air, turning sideways, rolling, diving, and pulling up, with each snowball grazing past his body.

But in the end, the eighth one hit his flying soul tool.

"boom--"

A violent impact came from behind, and Luo Yun was blasted forward, tumbling several times in the air before regaining his balance, his metal wings emitting a piercing creaking sound.

Soul power was still circulating, but its output efficiency was greatly reduced. The originally stable flight posture became erratic, like a bird with broken wings.

Luo Yun gritted his teeth, steadied himself, and continued flying forward. The Titan Snow Demon pursued relentlessly from behind, sending more snowballs whistling through the air, but he had already flown out of the densest attack range. The remaining few were wildly off course, exploding dozens of meters behind him.

The speed is decreasing.

However, the Titan Snow Demon's figure had shrunk considerably, but it was still chasing.

Luo Yun withdrew his gaze and activated his Martial Soul Possession. Although he could not truly fly, the feathers on his arms could provide some aerodynamic force after the Martial Soul Possession, which, together with the flying soul tool, would allow him to stay a little longer.

The speed stabilized a bit.

But it only lasted for a few dozen more breaths.

The flying soul tool was finally completely destroyed. The metal wings emitted a piercing wail, the magic array patterns on the wing surface all went out, the left wing broke in the middle, and the right wing drooped crookedly at its side. Luo Yun felt his body sink, and he began to fall.

The wind whistled in my ears, and the ground was getting closer and closer.

He chose a relatively flat spot, adjusted his body posture, and bent his knees slightly in preparation for landing. After his feet touched the ground, he ran forward a few steps to cushion the impact and then regained his balance.

He glanced back in the direction he had come from, but there was nothing on the horizon.

But he didn't dare to gamble.

Luo Yun took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. He quickly looked around, chose a direction, and started running. As he ran, he took out spare clothes from his storage bracelet, took off his outer coat which was covered in ice shards and ice fragments, and put on a clean one. He then took out a piece of ice silk from the bracelet, tore it into several strands, stuffed it into the clothes he had changed out of, rolled it into a ball, and added some snow.

Throw that outfit in a conspicuous place.

Luring the tiger away from the mountain.

He didn't know if this move would work on a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, but he had no other choice.

He turned and ran in the opposite direction for about a kilometer when a deep roar came from behind him.

Luo Yun paused, his heart skipping a beat. He glanced back—the greyish-white figure appeared on the horizon, moving rapidly in his direction.

Without further hesitation, Luo Yun turned and ran. As he ran, he observed the surrounding terrain. A few hundred meters ahead, there was a patch of ice hills, not high, only seven or eight meters high, but there were many of them.

He rushed toward the ice hill.

The footsteps of the Titan Snow Demon grew closer.

Luo Yun continued running deeper into the ice hills. After running several dozen steps, he found a relatively secluded spot and stopped. He crouched down, activated his second spirit ring, and pressed his right hand onto the ice.

Ice thorns grow from beneath the ice, their thorns piercing the ice layer and extending laterally beneath the surface. Luo Yun controls the growth direction and density of the ice thorns, causing them to form a hollow structure beneath the ice, thus expanding the space beneath the ice.

The ice surface cracked.

Luo Yun jumped into the crevice and landed in the hollow beneath the ice. The space was small, barely enough for him to crouch down. He looked up and saw that the opening of the crevice was about half a meter wide, and he had used his second soul skill to generate some ice spikes to fill the gap, so it shouldn't be too noticeable from the outside.

He crouched under the ice, holding his breath.

Footsteps.

Getting closer.

The Titan Snow Demon entered the Ice Hills. Luo Yun could hear it moving around outside, and the ice above him made a soft cracking sound, as if it might break at any moment.

It stopped above Luo Yun's head.