Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi

That is to say, they are now in violation of international treaties.

If they aren’t discovered, or if no major incidents occur,

perhaps nothing will happen.

But Wang Ye plans to live stream the challenge,

and with Wang Ye’s current international popularity, a live stream could easily reach over a billion people.

When that time comes, it would be impossible to hide.

At best, they would be directly deported back to their country, at worst, they could be sentenced.

Of course, Wang Ye, having a certain status, might be protected by his country, but Carlos may not be so lucky. He isn’t an exceptionally outstanding athlete, just a very ordinary extreme sports player, and his country wouldn’t risk offending international organizations for him.

The two of them discussed this for a while and ultimately decided that Carlos should not appear on the live stream, as a form of protection for him.

Additionally, regarding the choice between skiing and skating for Life of Ice, Carlos, upon hearing Wang Ye’s words, unhesitatingly chose skating, because it’s too difficult to find a place for skiing in Antarctica, and he didn’t want to go around looking for a more suitable place to carry out a skiing challenge.

After the discussion, Wang Ye left the camp again to continue exploring Antarctica, while Carlos, due to his frail body, needed to stay for long periods in the warm camp to ensure he didn’t face any life-threatening situations.

Even though it is "summer" in Antarctica, the average temperature is still around minus thirty, and wind speeds exceed level twelve. These extreme cold conditions and strong winds are enough to strip away a person’s body heat in a short time, potentially leading to death. If Carlos wears slightly less clothing and spends more than half an hour outside in Antarctica, the extreme cold could easily take his life.

Thus, Carlos couldn’t join Wang Ye in the exploration; the task of exploration was left solely to Wang Ye.

However, the challenge location has been thoroughly mapped out by Wang Ye.

The reason he ventured out again was that he intended to continue searching for the unsolved mysteries of Antarctica.

First and foremost is the South Pole.

Upon reaching the South Pole,

he planned to explore what might be hidden under the ice layers surrounding it.

Whether or not those ancient creatures truly went extinct, whether beneath the ice layers there truly are the long-rumored ancient relics and extraterrestrial remains.

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Several hours later.

Wang Ye arrived near the South Pole.

The climate and temperature here,

are noticeably worse than the outer regions.

But Wang Ye didn’t seem to mind,

only feeling a slight chill.

To truly push him to his limits, it would need to be a temperature close to absolute zero.

Wang Ye soared around the South Pole for a while before finding the spot marked by multiple national flags, according to legend, this spot is Earth’s southernmost point. Therefore, scientists from various countries erected a pole here and placed their flags as proof of their visit.

Upon discovering the true South Pole, Wang Ye reverted from his Black Dragon Form and slowly descended to the ground.

Having soared for so long, his body had expended too much energy,

causing a noticeable melting of the ice within a tens-of-meters radius, centered around his body.

Even though Wang Ye wasn’t deliberately accelerating his body’s fermentation metabolism, a massive amount of smoke still engulfed his surroundings.

His body temperature, typically close to a hundred degrees Celsius, is already extremely high at the nearly minus fifty-degree South Pole.

Just like when ordinary people breathe outdoors in winter, they emit smoke, a natural phenomenon caused by the temperature difference.

Wang Ye slightly concentrated on lowering his body temperature, contracted his pores, and reduced his body’s heat emission, causing the smoke emanating from him to diminish somewhat. The surrounding ice also stopped melting.

However, maintaining such a reduced heat emission state for long was impossible because his body constantly produced a remarkable amount of heat waves, and suppressing it would roast his internal organs.

Wang Ye calmly approached the pole at the South Pole.

He touched the ground here to commemorate the moment,

since it was his first time at the southernmost point of the entire Earth.

Then, Wang Ye turned around and continued searching around the South Pole for the rumored ancient relics and suitable places for his challenge.

Every few steps, he paused,

and closed his eyes,

seemingly sensing something.

Although his Five Senses couldn’t perceive the scenery several kilometers beneath the ice, he could use Primordial Qi to roughly scan the contours beneath the ice, meaning he didn’t need to excavate to "see" what ancient creature remains or ancient structures, mountains, and even viruses and bacteria were buried beneath the ice.

But because the ice layer is just too thick, and the distance over which he could control Primordial Qi is limited, he couldn’t see deeper than a thousand meters. Thus, he still had to rely on excavation to understand deeper layers.

Wang Ye walked for several kilometers, only able to scan some ordinary ancient creature remains. He wasn’t interested in these, as after all, he wasn’t doing archaeological research, and excavating these ancient fossils wouldn’t bring him any benefit.

Finally,

after more than an hour, Wang Ye found a relatively odd ice layer,

where more ancient creature remains seemed to be preserved compared to other places.

Among them, he could even see the gigantic remains of an Ice Ridge Dragon.

The Ice Ridge Dragon is a medium-to-large dinosaur found in Antarctica,

the largest carnivore in early Jurassic Antarctica.

This is essentially the largest ancient creature remains that can be found under the Antarctic.

After all, the harsh environment of Antarctica is not conducive to the evolution of very large organisms,

with extremely low temperatures and a scarcity of both plant and animal life, unable to support the development of very large creatures. Thus, the number of Ice Ridge Dragons here is very small, and some have been excavated for research and exhibition.

Seeing the remnants of such a giant organism surprised Wang Ye.

He had a premonition that something might be hidden here.

According to current human research, beneath Antarctica’s ice layers, at least four hundred lakes exist.

Within these lakes, numerous microorganisms were found. Scientists once took samples from a lake 4,000 meters below Antarctica’s ice layers,

discovering many single-cell DNA fragments hidden within.

In this body of water, at least 3,500 species exist, including fungi, bacteria, and multi-celled organisms. Because the Antarctic Continent has been isolated from the world’s other continents for many years, these microorganisms are all from ancient archaea from millions of years ago.

As for why microorganisms continue to survive beneath the ice layers, it’s because there are some volcanoes beneath the ice, and in the process of their eruptions, the heat generated provides a suitable growing environment for microorganisms, allowing these liquid waters to remain in liquid form under the ice layers.

In other words,

in such an ice layer, there truly are signs of life,

and Antarctica has been sealed in ice for millions of years; no one can guarantee whether something unknown has evolved beneath.

Thinking of this,

Wang Ye induced the growth of his bones,

causing sharp claws suitable for digging to emerge from his palms.

Since the bones of his right hand are carbon acetylene, and his left hand bones are diamond,

his claws were jet-black on one side and crystal clear on the other.

This looked very strange.

However, Wang Ye didn’t care about that.

As long as they worked for digging.

After a bit of preparation, he began clawing at the ice beneath his feet.

The ice layer here wasn’t as hard as the deeper layers,

making the digging relatively easy.

As he moved his hands endlessly, countless ice flakes flew everywhere,

and in the blink of an eye, his body was submerged in the ice layer.

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