Chapter 89: The Lord of the Great Snow Mountain! (3k)

"Naturally, it was given to me by the Heaven‑Curtain Ice Spider; it said to bring this to the senior, and the senior would give me the regional spirit of this place."

Upon hearing that, the Tongtian Turtle let out a deep sigh, then without hesitation presented Chen Mo with a fragment of the regional spirit of this snow mountain.

After completing the bestowal, the Tongtian Turtle sank back into the lake, leaving only a small portion of its shell exposed.

Thus, Chen Mo obtained the final regional fragment of the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm.

When this fragment slowly merged into the "sphere," the entire surface of the sphere emitted an icy blue radiance!

Runes flowed across its surface.

Immediately thereafter, a mysterious force streamed into Chen Mo's body.

At the same time, a bright blue pillar of light shot straight into the clouds, hundreds of times brighter and thicker than any pillar that had lit before, visible clearly even from a thousand li away.

At that moment, every living being in the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm involuntarily looked up toward the pillar.

They knew that the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm had welcomed its true master!

About thirty minutes later.

The blue pillar gradually faded, and Chen Mo slowly opened his eyes.

He had become the true Regional Lord of the entire Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm! An absolute ruler! After refining the regional core of the whole realm, he gained three special abilities.

The first special ability is 【Fiefdom】.

He can grant each snow mountain within the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm to other extraordinary beings; the grantees become proxy "Regional Lords" of those areas, possessing the same authority as the Regional Lord, and their extraordinary rank rises to Lord level.

Of course, Chen Mo can recall these delegated "Regional Lords" at any time.

The second special ability is 【Teleportation】.

After Chen Mo infuses his spiritual energy into the Divine Realm core, he can view any location within the Frost Cold Divine Realm at will, as if watching a surveillance feed.

He can also teleport to any spot within the Frost Cold Divine Realm at any time.

This ability means that in the Frost Snow Divine Realm, he is virtually invincible!

The third ability is called 【Spirit Gathering】.

Just as the Snow‑Stepping Fox Leader previously speculated, the Frost Cold Divine Realm can absorb and gather spiritual energy from within several thousand kilometers, converting it into ice‑type spiritual power.

After refining the Divine Realm core, Chen Mo discovered that the Frost Cold Divine Realm's current absorption rate was only about fifty percent of its maximum.

Chen Mo unhesitatingly raised it to the maximum.

Moreover, he can control the spiritual energy density of every snow mountain within the Frost Cold Divine Realm.

After some thought, he raised the spiritual density of Lion King Mountain and Frost Sheep Mountain to the highest, roughly tripling them.

These two regions are where Chen Mo primarily cultivates divine herbs.

The increased spiritual density speeds the growth of those divine herbs and numerous spirit plants.

Chen Mo observed that after the density rise, the first batch of over a hundred first‑tier divine herbs still needed about sixty days to mature.

With a minor spirit‑rain technique to catalyze them, they could mature in roughly ten days! Then he will experience another surge of power!

"Now that I have fully mastered the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm, it's time to formally establish the Ice Lion Kingdom and begin expanding the surrounding territories," Chen Mo thought.

Chen Mo thought.

The effect of 【Lord Lion】 is that the larger the occupied territory, the stronger the boost.

The Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm covers only 450,000 square kilometers, while the entire African continent spans about 30.20 million square kilometers; the realm occupies merely 1/67 of it.

If possible, Chen Mo wishes to conquer all of Africa! Yet, relying solely on himself and the Ice Lion Clan, he could never seize such vast lands.

If he wishes to continue expanding his domain, he needs the clans within the Great Snow Mountain to open new frontiers for him and guard each region.

Thus he must establish the Ice Lion Kingdom to integrate the various clan forces under his command.

With this in mind, he summoned the Snow‑Stepping Fox Leader, Wang Long, and others.

The establishment of the kingdom first requires drafting a set of statutes, or laws.

A comprehensive set of rules is needed to regulate clan behavior, along with a refined reward system to motivate each clan to strive for the Ice Lion Kingdom.

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【Gluttonous Lion+】 Day 15.

In the early morning.

After Chen Mo finished eating two roasted Gluttonous Pigs, he found that the final day's Gluttonous Lion+ self‑discipline challenge was already completed.

Its abdomen twitched.

The freshly consumed flesh was quickly digested, yet the hunger lingered in his mind.

So he retrieved frozen Frost Wolf meat from the cold storage, gnawing it together with icy shards.

Just to feel the effect of the Gluttonous Lion+.

Ice‑chilled wolf meat also has a distinct flavor.

The long‑missed thrill swept his body again, every cell cheering! His physical condition was improving at an astonishing rate!

Compared to the Gluttonous Lion, the enhanced version is even more domineering.

After devouring the Frost Wolf Leader's flesh, Chen Mo's constitution, strength, and agility each increased by ten points! Previously, the Gluttonous Lion's consumption of extraordinary meat only raised constitution and strength; this time even agility improved! Then, the flesh of the Winter Saber‑tooth Tiger, the flesh of the White Ape Leader—tens of tons of meat—all were consumed by Chen Mo in a single sitting!

His body, like a massive furnace, rapidly digested those extraordinary meats. The flesh instantly transformed into spiritual energy and nutrients, nourishing his entire being.

Chen Mo could clearly feel his muscles growing ever stronger, his power increasing! Yet after finishing the flesh, a sudden intense drowsiness washed over him.

Just like the great dragons of Western myth, his body seemed to require deep sleep for development.

"Continue!"

Chen Mo forced himself to suppress the drowsiness and began absorbing the spiritual energy within the Frost Wolf Leader's ice pill.

Then, after completely draining the spiritual energy from five low‑grade Lord‑rank demon pills, he closed his eyes and fell into a dream.

About three hours later, Chen Mo awoke, suddenly finding the ice cave had become somewhat cramped.

Of course the ice cave hadn't shrunk; he himself had grown! Chen Mo glanced at his stats and saw his body length had reached 10.8 meters, his height 5 meters! Undeniably, he was now a colossal beast.

Besides this, his physical quality had also seen a huge increase!

Chen Mo felt that with just his physical strength and speed, he could fight medium lords and even higher-level supernatural beings!

If viewed from a cultivation perspective, Chen Mo is a thorough body cultivator!

Moreover, his body cultivation progress was one stage faster than his spell cultivation progress!

「Moreover, this isn't my limit! The limit should allow me to oppose a lord's limit with just my physical strength! 」

Besides this, Chen Mo discovered that the liquid spiritual power inside the Ice Pill had increased by 103 strands!

The spiritual power hidden in supernatural flesh is not much; altogether it's only a dozen or so strands, and the real bulk is still the Ice Pills of those lord-level great demons!

He currently lacks 250 strands of liquid spiritual power to reach high lord; after the first batch of first-rank divine medicines mature, he should be able to complete the promotion!

「Let's first see what new self-discipline challenge has been refreshed! 」

Chen Mo opened the self-discipline panel.

After completing 【Gluttony Lion+】, the self-discipline panel refreshed with a new self-discipline challenge.

After just finishing eating, he fell asleep immediately, and he hadn't even had a chance to check.

The newly refreshed challenge was still a green self-discipline challenge.

【Fishing Lion】(green)

Persist in fishing for 3 hours each day, and catch 10 fish each day, for a month.

Looking at this self-discipline challenge, Chen Mo was stunned.

In his previous life, he had no hobby of fishing; he had tried before, but after sitting idly for half a day without catching a single fish, he completely gave up this recreational activity.

The bigger problem is——he is actually a lion now!!

Expecting a lion to go fishing is somewhat of a fantasy.

I'm afraid that if I exert a little force, the fishing rod will directly explode! There's also another problem——

The temperature inside the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm is below minus 30 degrees; at such a temperature, lakes that are not frozen hardly exist.

Due to the 'radiation' of the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm, there probably won't be any unfrozen lakes within a radius of several thousand kilometers.

「Or should we choose Building Lion? 」

Chen Mo hesitated a bit.

Just from the title's effect, he felt that the effect of 【Fishing Lion】 would probably be a bit better.

「Wait, it seems it might actually be possible!! 」

Chen Mo pondered for a moment, then suddenly thought of something.

The two problems that make 【Fishing Lion】 difficult to complete seem to have solutions!

The first is the fishing rod problem—he doesn't need a fishing rod at all! Who said fishing must use a fishing rod? He can directly use his own tail! The second problem: there actually are lakes in the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm; the place where the Heaven-Reaching Turtle sleeps is a lake.

When Chen Mo last visited the Heaven-Reaching Turtle, he discovered that many supernatural fish actually grew in that lake.

Back then, he wasn't interested in those supernatural fish, but now he is!

「Then it's decided—it's you! 」

Finally, Chen Mo still chose the 【Fishing Lion】 self-discipline challenge, and also chose to use the 【Super Self-Discipline Card】.

This means he will from now on have to persist in fishing for 6 hours each day, and also catch 20 fish.

Chen Mo ran all the way to Turtle Mountain's lake, preparing to start today's 【Fishing Lion】 self-discipline challenge.

Arriving at the lakeside, Chen Mo first tied several pieces of 'Fishy Herb' containing weak ice spiritual power onto his tail.

Then he glanced around, confirmed there were no supernatural beings, and, like casting a line, flung his tail out.

After all, using his tail to fish is too embarrassing; if other supernatural beings saw it, it would damage his image as Lion King!

Smack! The tail touched the water surface, then quickly sank under Chen Mo's control.

At this moment, Chen Mo's body length is already close to 11 meters, and his tail length is close to 6 meters—more than enough for fishing!

Chen Mo faced away from the lake, his heart beginning to anticipate.

I don't know if this method can catch fish; I hope the fish here will be sensible.

If it doesn't hook, don't blame him for charging into the lake and directly releasing lordly aura to blast the fish! (End of chapter)