I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

In this way, taming a "Giant Crystal Turtle" brought new joys to life.

Sometimes, travel is full of surprises.

When you want to replenish energy, you find a pile of minerals; when you want to mine, you catch a pet instead.

This turtle's divine attribute is only 3.0, making it relatively smart, but learning the human language is basically impossible for it.

It can be used as a mount, unafraid of extreme cold, incredibly strong, capable of locating various mineral veins, but a bit cowardly, often shedding tears—those tears actually count as extraordinary artifacts, which is quite astonishing!

Lu Yuan calculated, if one epoch is calculated as ten thousand years, this fellow would need to consume at least 200 thousand spirit essence worth of minerals per epoch!

If it has lived for three epochs, it has eaten 600 thousand spirit essence.

No wonder it has grown to be so huge!

"It's all my money," Lu Yuan lamented in his heart, he hadn't earned this much in his life!

However, he doesn't plan to take the Giant Crystal Turtle back to Green Grass City.

On one hand, people will definitely be curious about why the Giant Crystal Turtle is so obedient? How did he tame such an anomaly on one outing?

This reason is hard to find.

And the ability of [Control] is a taboo topic that could provoke many troubles if exposed.

On the other hand, the Giant Crystal Turtle has other uses.

This turtle has superior defense abilities, its Extraordinary Level of 16 is enough to deter major civilizations, and it possesses an earth escape ability for fleeing, making it ideal for transporting the [Temple of Greed]!

That's right, he wants to put the [Temple of Greed] on the turtle's back!

"Let the Giant Crystal Turtle occasionally earth escape and appear at various locations in the Northern Territory, benefiting all races while maintaining enough mystery, achieving multiple goals simultaneously."

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On this day, Lu Yuan, mining while traveling, finally reached the legendary "North Ocean".

It was an endless ocean composed of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen, with large patches of dry ice floating on the surface.

The ambient temperature dropped to minus 230 degrees Celsius, an incredibly low temperature, turning most of the air into solid.

Only a small amount of rare gases, helium, and neon could remain gaseous.

The sky was gray, the sun always lingered at the horizon, its weak light unable to penetrate the clouds, with auroras appearing unusually frequently.

Lu Yuan discovered some unmanned detection devices in the surrounding soil, resembling drones, hot air balloons, and some bionic puppets, all frozen solid.

The components inside were all damaged, holding little scientific value.

Previous civilizations of the Northern Territory also tried to explore this vast ocean but ultimately could only look upon it with despair.

Even a strong entity like the Greedy Demon God had to constantly activate the "Eternal Spark" to maintain body temperature.

The cruel cold could almost destroy everything.

"The atmospheric pressure here is only one-thousandth of the normal amount; oxygen content is also seriously insufficient."

"Currently, humans can't manage either."

As air thinned, the buoyancy provided by the atmosphere greatly diminished, causing the anti-gravity system of the Pandora Crystal Stone to gradually fail.

If humans want to cross the Northern Territory, they'd need to develop spaceship-level engines, move the Sky City into space, then transfer from space to Pangu Continent.

Miss Conch hid in the space capsule, discussing, "A giant engine isn't very realistic… Lifting a city with materialism technology is too hard, but using the Pangu Continent's power with idealism technology might be possible."

"The Northern Territory really is a naturally advantageous place; outside civilizations can't enter, and those inside can't leave. Natural disasters are naturally fewer."

Only the Giant Crystal Turtle, with its mouth wide open, looked as though it was enjoying itself immensely.

It is a naturally born anomaly of this place.

"Wait for me a moment."

Lu Yuan didn't want to swim in such cold deep seas, nor spend money to fly… The thin air here would require more spirit essence to use "Hurricane".

Thus he "crunch crunch" shrank his body size from a giant of 300 meters to a height of 10 meters.

Amidst the Crystal Turtle's round, puzzled eyes, Lu Yuan carried the space capsule and unceremoniously rode on it, patting its head: "Let's go! What are you dazing for?"

The Giant Crystal Turtle swiftly dove, its limbs paddling rapidly. It truly controlled cold anomalies; each glide raised a block of mysterious ice underfoot, resembling gliding over ice chips.

Two hours later, the sun always hanging on the horizon finally set.

The continuous daylight vanished, turning into eternal night.

Countless brilliant stars were suspended above in a radiant galaxy.

After approximately five hours of swimming, Lu Yuan saw a small island emitting heat become notably visible amidst the calm liquid nitrogen ocean.

This is a marine volcano, the only geothermal area emitting heat within a ten-thousand-mile radius, and their ultimate destination for this trip.

"Stop here for a moment."

The group walked onto the snowy island.

The former active volcano had died, no longer spewing any magma.

Even the geothermal energy stronger than weeds had shrunk into the volcano, retaining only the last bit of warmth.

Artifacts from ancient times fluttered in the gale, writings in large blurred characters on torn cloth strips moved toward the sky along with the thin air—[Golden Bronze Civilization Shelter], perhaps those were the words.