It took many days of travel to reach the Ice Phoenix Mountain Range. A normal person could travel between 20-30 lî in a single day. Cultivators like them could travel three times that. The forest was roughly two hundred lî from one end to the other, which meant they should have been able to reach it in roughly three and a half days, but that didn’t account for the magical beasts in this forest. There were hundreds of them.
Most of the magical beasts were small fry at the Hunger and Anima Realms, but there were a few Asura and Human Limit Realm magical beasts too. Wu Jian was forced to fight his way through most of these magical beasts himself. While Zhou Lihua had offered to help, her greatest strength lay in her heavenly flames, and he didn’t want her using that, lest they risk burning down the forest.
Even a cultivator could die from a forest fire. Their bodies might be hardier than a normal person’s, but they still needed oxygen to survive.