Chapter 16: Cold Ice Fruit
“It wants to run away! Stop it!” The leader yelled, “It’s already seriously injured, we can earn a killing once we finish it off!”
I secretly cheered for this boss in my mind!
You need to do it, do it with all your might. Doing it until you’re dead is good, the more that die, the better. If all of you die, that’s even better.
His only surviving subordinate immediately caught up to his pace and walked past where I was hiding, unexpectedly I was not noticed.
I let loose a large breath.
As far as I know, in this world, the human martial artists and the other demon beasts all rely on the fluctuation of the spirit power to detect enemies. My barely Acquired First Level spirit power practically doesn’t have any fluctuations in the spirit power. Adding in the fact that all of their attention was focused on the large white snake, I was luckily not discovered.
The large white snake doesn’t have any reasons to make them aware of it either.
The large white snake still couldn’t run away, so it turned around to deal with the two people.
The white snake wasn’t an idiot, if it blindly flees and leaves its back open to its enemies then it was dead for sure, since it doesn’t have a skill for escaping.
Taking advantage of the moment they were exchanging blows, I squeezed into the ravine, looking for the legendary Cold Ice Fruit.
Walking to the end of the ravine, a black cave entrance appeared. The cave entrance unceasing blew out cold air. Without needing much thought, I a.s.sumed the treasure must be in there.
There were many paths within the cave, but this did not pose a problem to me. I ran along the path that was the coldest.
It was an uninterrupted downhill slope, the rock walls were starting to form ice. After running past a few side paths, the temperature become lower and lower. Even my thick “overcoat” was barely able to handle it anymore. I sneezed and couldn’t help but complain why the fur on my body couldn’t be a bit thicker.
Finally, under the difficult exploration, a light suddenly flashed before my eyes, and a strange looking vine appeared.
Large leaves which were the size of a palm were growing all over a blue vine. The leaves were transparent, as if they were made from ice, and it was rooted on top of a huge ice cube. Tightly grabbing and growing on the ice-covered rocks, there were also a bunch of transparent white flowers blooming and a milky white fruit the size of an apple.
That thing should be the legendary Cold Ice Fruit!
In the short time I was distracted, I heard the sound of footsteps. They came pretty fast.
The sounds in the cave were quite clear.
I hurriedly jumped up and bit down the Cold Ice Fruit. Without even needing to think, I directly swallowed it.
With regards on how to store a gifted treasure, I believe that placing it in one’s own belly is the most safe!
Without even having the time to taste the flavor after swallowing it down, a burst of coldness filled my mouth and throat, as if I was swallowing an ice-cube.
I suddenly heard the System say that I had completed the mission, so I hurriedly selected the signature skill of the snow wolves: Gale.
Waiting for the split second the other entered, I used Gale and ferociously rushed out. The other was clearly frightened, and was completely unprepared.
Taking advantage of the time he was distracted, I brushed past him. Relying on my remarkable eyesight, I speed up and completely threw him off.
This Big Bro’s speed isn’t just for show!
Running toward the entrance of the cave, I heard someone come again when I was just about to make it out of the cave.
There’s really a lot of people!
“This is the Fire Thawing Pellet, go give it to the two who are frozen and wake up Xiao Sanzi. I will go retrieve the Cold Ice Fruit!”
With not enough time to think anymore, I got into a path that didn’t have the Cold Ice Fruit and hid myself.
After running a few side paths, I only stopped after confirming that the others weren’t chasing me.
I felt that there was something strange with this matter. The one I spoke of was precisely that Boss, but then who was that other man I saw?
I slowly recalled that person I brushed past who was dressed entirely in black. I think there was also a mask and a sweet smell.
Back then I was busy with escaping and afraid of being found out, so I didn’t notice these small details.
Seems like I’m not the only one who wants to get things cheaply, but how did that guy get in?
After giving it some thought, my body suddenly began to feel a chill. My stomach was feeling pain similar to being poked by needles, I didn’t get sick because of bad food, did I?
I ate those two snakes this morning and there was no problem then, so it should be caused by the Cold Ice Fruit.
I felt as if I was about to turn into an ice cube myself.
They say that a person who is poor in health cannot handle something so strong as a tonic, I’m afraid my circ.u.mstances are similar. The Cold Ice Fruit is a treasure even a Acquired Seventh Level covets. Yet I just swallowed it just like that, having a problem occurring is very normal.
My whole face was bitter and astringent, I wouldn’t have been so greedy if I had known earlier.
I slowly revolved the Crystal Stone within me to absorb the flood of blue spirit power in my body. These were all emitted by the Cold Ice Fruit.
I realized very quickly that the amount of spirit power that my Crystal Stone can absorb had already reached the limit.
The Crystal Stone has almost changed completely blue, the cyan portion were already completely compressed at the fringe.
With the water spirit power continuing to rush up in the Crystal Stone, the Crystal Stone slowly started to expand, as if it was about to break down. My body was in extreme pain, and it was swelling as if it was full of air. I’m really afraid that I will explode!
I was very remorseful in my heart. I will never indiscriminately eat things again! The spirit power contained by the Cold Ice Fruit is too much!
At this critical moment, my body gave off a golden radiance and my swelling body slowly returned to normal. The Crystal Stone also suddenly emitted an intense blue light. After the blue light dissipated, the Crystal Stone became a bit bigger.
The pain dissipated and my body was filled with spirit power. My body is stronger now!
I took a look at the System:
Name: Hui Tai Lang (This is a great name. I hope that you can emulate this great name, and become a great wolf.)
Gender: Male (Grew something it shouldn’t have)
Lineage: Snow Wolf Lineage (Fierce Beast Grade)
Innate Skills: Olfaction 4th Grade (You can rely on your nose to follow tracks, a pretty decent innate skill)
Level: Acquired Second Level (Still A very low status)
Skills: Wolf G.o.d’s Golden Body (1st Stage: 4.1%) (You have made it to the entrance, ordinary swords and such cannot break through your defenses); Gale Level 1
Profession: None (If wolf even counts as a profession)
Evaluation: A cannon fodder among demon beasts. Considered a part of the lower end of the food chain. You should be happy you aren’t the lowest. Right!
I got upgraded!
They say one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster, the ancient people weren’t cheating me!
I got happy too early though, the Cold Ice Fruit was still stirring up trouble. Countless blue spirit power continued to rush to my crystal Stone, I was almost crying.
Why is it that I must feel pain every time I got an upgrade?
Don’t tell me I can’t feel cool for a second?
I don’t know how long it had been, but I finally got to stand up with great difficulty. My body started recovering to its optimum level. Even my grade has improved to Acquire Fourth Level. The effect of the Cold Ice Fruit was distributed, I barely finished absorbing one portion, while another small portion of it squeezed into my body.
Thinking about the portion that got distributed to the air, I feel a bit of pity. If I could’ve absorbed it all, then perhaps I would’ve been Acquired Fifth Level.
What pleased me was that Wolf G.o.d’s Golden Body reached 9.3. Bearing the pain of getting upgraded, I can make a bit of progress.
Calculating the time it has been, the humans should have departed by now. I sneakily ran out and smelled blood from the cave entrance. It should be those two groups of people exchanging blows, right?
However, who died, I don’t care at all!
Although there could be a woman in one of the parties, but that is merely a possibility. Or perhaps there was a man who liked using perfume?
Of course, I still had a little bit of conscience. So I wished for the person who became my scapegoat to safely run away.
After taking a look at the one wearing a mask, you know they are a good person!
Good people, should have good luck, just like me.