Chapter 174

As Mu Yi and his party walked along the snow mountain ridge, Mu Yi suddenly felt a slight heaviness and also a faint sting.

Zongwang Prompt: You have entered the Frosty Snow Mountain area, you are affected by the snow mountain field slow effect, you will receive continuous slow effect and cold damage!

Mu Yi found it strange; he hadn't felt any cold at all, yet he indeed took damage.

"That's a field effect; it looks like we might directly obtain a field card this time!" Lilyanna explained at the right moment.

"These source cards are forged from divine power; we have few means to counter them, but the impact is not great!"

Although Lilyanna said so, she still waved her staff to cast a healing spell on everyone, but there was no good remedy for the slow effect.

"Be careful from now on; enemies are likely to appear!"

As soon as Lilyanna finished speaking, a massive snowball fell from the sky.

"Shoo!" Vivian waved her hand, deflecting the snowball off course, but it did not deform; only when it hit the ground did it turn into a pile of snowflakes.

Type: Monster Card

"We only have usage rights, not ownership, which is why many speculate that La hasn't died, or at least not completely." Lilyanna handed a backpack to Mu Yi.

This world is truly bizarre; the snowball thrown by this snowman, in a normal world, would have been shattered by Vivian's earlier strike, but now it was only deflected.

Lilyanna transformed the intelligence into actual power, seemingly having a contingency plan for everything.

The ridge area was pushed forward by Mu Yi and his party; nothing could stop their advance—ice slimes, ice elements, snowmen, snow demons, snow monsters…

The monsters inhabiting the snow mountain were slain by Mu Yi and his group as easily as cutting vegetables, turning into monster cards.

"By this logic, can I still decompose cards to obtain the materials I need?" Mu Yi asked Lily.

"Do you mean that this source world is actually similar to the God of Ten Thousand Machines' Simulated Universe?" Mu Yi concluded after a moment of thought.

Lilyanna handed the card to Mu Yi, who nodded, understanding its significance; it was essentially a spell scroll, specifically for the source world.

Watching the dead snow mountain snowman turn into shattered radiance and float as a card in the air, Mu Yi reached out and grabbed it.

Mu Yi raised an eyebrow; wielding divine power is a challenge for a demigod, but for Mu Yi it seemed no problem.

Compared to his own spells, which might be less effective due to the source world's traits, the effect of this spell card can produce a stable impact on the source world's creatures.

【Ice Element】

"This is specially crafted, with built‑in locking magic that effectively prevents the card from being stolen or lost!"

"I can cast this magic myself, so I can easily use a few related materials to craft it into a card!"

"Let's keep moving; these cards without special effects aren't very useful for our future battles, but if we encounter a special secret realm, we can use them to trade for special cards."

Under Lilyanna's orders, Mu Yi and Toraya sprinted straight ahead; disregarding the bizarre traits, the snow mountain snowman was just an ordinary Transcendent creature.

"Snow Mountain Snowman, Five‑Star monster card, no special effect!" Lilyanna read out the information.

Star Level: Five‑Star

Effect: None

Description: Snowmen living on the snow mountain have a strong tendency to attack those who approach without permission.

"Be careful, these snow mountain snowmen are usually pack creatures. Mu Yi, Toraya, it's up to you—dodge their attacks and finish quickly!"

Divine power is not divinity; artifacts possess great strength mainly because they contain divine power, divinity, and priestly power.

"Yes, but we can't do it, because it mingles with divine power; perhaps only the gods know how to correctly wield divine power!" Lily shook her head, rejecting Mu Yi's speculation.

"That's a bit troublesome!" Mu Yi frowned, looking at a robust snowman appearing in the distance.

This world was also created to simulate the development of all things, to explore the most perfect power that different paths can display at various stages.

Mu Yi inexplicably thought of a phrase; as a card dealer, to be honest, his DNA thumped hard when he heard about source cards, and when he actually obtained a card, he still felt a bit dreamy.

"Where can I find a strategist like that?" Mu Yi said wistfully, feeling he could never return after the experience.

"If you have good materials, you can also try. According to my estimate, if the card system can match your own abilities, it could multiply combat power many times!" Lilyanna said earnestly.

Mu Yi felt reassured again; an itinerary arranged by someone makes one feel genuinely comfortable.

"What is this?" Mu Yi asked, puzzled, as he picked up a card that shimmered with a different color from the monster cards.

Do lofty deities intend, through this method, to solidify their foundations and then raise their limits?

Mu Yi speculated that he was still far from that height, shook his head and abandoned his fantasy; the more things he contacts, the more chaotic his thoughts become, which is not beneficial for cultivation.

Type: Spell Card

Effect: Deals an ice storm to non‑Ice attribute monsters; destroys monster cards of four‑star or lower; inflicts low temperature, frostbite, slow and other debuff effects on those of four‑star or higher.

"Hmm, a mortal bone?"

When the snowball hit the ground, it seemed like a normal snowball shattering; only a Level 10 snowman has a destructive power of Level 10, yet because it is made of divine power, can it not be destroyed by them?

While pondering, another snowman appeared, forming a large snowball from the ground and hurling it at them.

Monster cards can be obtained by defeating monsters, but spell cards, trap cards, field cards and the like have few acquisition routes; in most cases they must be crafted based on one's own understanding.

Description: Can be used to craft cards

【Ice Snow Storm】

【Snow Mountain Snowman】

Mu Yi nodded, tried to store the card, but found he could not place it into his item backpack.

Against Mu Yi and Toraya, the monsters were no match; within a single turn they were cut down on the spot.

Type: Material

Lilyanna took the card from Mu Yi's hand, then pulled out several identical material cards from her body, stacked them together, closed her eyes to meditate, and the cards fused into a brand‑new card.

After a moment of contemplation, Mu Yi tossed a low‑level monster card into the Six Paths Barrier and discovered the Barrier was indeed dissolving the card bit by bit.

Although the speed was infuriatingly slow, Mu Yi's eyes lit up.

He suddenly realized the greatest significance of this event for him was not any reward, but the cards that were everywhere.

However, at this speed it's rather too slow; he needs to selectively choose cards relevant to the Six Paths Barrier, perhaps achieving a more suitable effect.

The squad's advance was swift; the difficulty of this secret realm wasn't very high for them, perhaps because it was their first entry, and the difficulty seemed to be calculated based on the average level of the few of them.

Along the way they didn't encounter any particularly strong monsters, but as they gradually approached the mountaintop, the enemies they faced grew increasingly formidable.

"Boom!"

An orange-red fireball exploded, and a huge snow monster, completely scorched, crashed to the ground.

Watching it turn into light particles and reform into a card, Mu Yi let out a breath of relief.

The snow monster capable of controlling wind and snow could unleash astonishing power in this environment, mainly because the opponent used the environment to create an indestructible obstacle that helped them block too much damage, allowing them to exert only forty or fifty percent of their strength, making the battle extremely tense.

Looking at the card flashing with golden light, Mu Yi grew curious and picked it up.

【Snow Monster King-Frost Wind】

Star Rating: Eight-Star

Special Effect: Upon successful summoning, simultaneously summon a snow monster from the deck.

Description: The strongest snow monster, possessing the ability to control wind and snow.

"This effect..." Mu Yi stroked his chin and looked at Lily.

Lily, as expected, began to explain.

"During a duel, using cards involves cooldown time, and this card's effect can be combined with other cards!"

"For cards higher than one's own star rating, summoning monster cards is limited and requires sacrificing two offerings to proceed with the summon!"

"Does star rating refer to this?" Mu Yi asked, looking at the stars on his wrist.

He counted the star marks on his wrist: five-star, which corresponded to his professional level; at this point, his level had become a drawback.

"There is a way to increase star rating by completing event missions; we'll first collect cards, and our schedule for these seven days will be packed!"

Lily's composed, in-control demeanor made Mu Yi feel convinced and admiring; she was truly impressive, as expected of a high-intelligence mage, her wisdom commanding respect.

He and this sensation-flow type player are completely two different styles of existence.

"Let's go, the Sphinx's fate enlightenment leads me to the enemy's strongest; in this secret realm, the most valuable card should appear where!"

Lily said, waving her staff, and began to bestow magical aura upon Mu Yi and them.

"The Sphinx is a lion-bodied, human-faced being; most of its fate enlightenments are high-risk, high-reward, unlike the completely negative snake or the completely positive Anubis—its fate enlightenment is a mix of positive and negative chaos!"

"What happens if we refuse the fate enlightenment?" Mu Yi voiced his doubt.

"According to the sample data we've collected, refusing the Sphinx's enlightenment will send us to a special secret realm where various fate-system cards exist, but the difficulty of clearing it is extremely high!"

"Only the strong can avoid being controlled by fate?" Mu Yi sensed the implied meaning of this arrangement.

When Mu Yi and the others reached the mountaintop, they discovered that the snow peak's summit was a huge ice lake.

"It looks like a seal!" Toraya surveyed the ice lake, which clashed with the overall atmosphere of the snow mountain, filled with unnatural traces.

"We might have run into trouble!" Lily furrowed her brows.

"Snow mountain, ice lake—the information these keywords can yield is only one……"

Before Lily's words had finished, the entire snow peak began to rumble and tremble, and the huge ice surface of the ice lake before them started to continually crack and split.

"Crack! Crack!"

The ice surface kept cracking and then collapsing, and a bone-chilling, terrifying white bone claw protruded from the ice lake.

Immediately after, amidst the snow mountain's wails, a massive skull emerged, its empty eye sockets burning with two clusters of cold, gloomy flames.

"Frost Bone Dragon—Safirongsi!"

Accompanying Lily's voice, Mu Yi raised his head to gaze upon this huge, terrifying frost bone dragon.

"Prepare for battle; the frost bone dragon is a nine-star monster, stronger than the snow monster king!"

"Roar!" The frost bone dragon bellowed toward the sky.

White mist spread along the collapsing ice lake; two bone claws 'clack' clung to the ice surface as the skeletal dragon rose from the lake's depths, unfurling wings laden with bones, its eye sockets blazing with two clusters of blue flame, and it exhaled blue ice breath toward the sky.

The dragon's roar mingled with the howling wind and snow, and the cracks in the ice lake were spreading toward them.

"Ice Snow Storm!" Lily instantly used the previously constructed magic card to freeze the cracking ice surface; aside from the ice-covered points on the mountaintop, there was hardly anywhere to stand, so they needed a platform where they could stand.

"Break his wings!"

Mu Yi and Toraya leapt up and, in midair, slashed out two rounds of silver moons, directly chopping at the frost bone dragon's wings.

"Bang!" Mu Yi's hands went numb; the terrifying recoil from the hard bone wings left only a faint trace where the blade struck.

Toraya also failed to inflict effective damage.

"Roar!"

A frost storm suddenly swept around the frost bone dragon, instantly knocking Mu Yi and Toraya back to the ground.

The bone dragon flapped its now-skeletal wings, soaring above the snow peak, and raised its head to emit a mournful howl.

Mu Yi could hear the anger in the frost bone dragon's roar; the two little bugs had actually managed to hurt it, these monsters also possessed their own thoughts, and this frost bone dragon clearly inherited the pride of dragons.

"Retreat, find a place to deal with it!" Lily tapped the ground, a teleportation array began to glow, and with a flash of white light, Mu Yi and the others vanished from the spot.

When they reappeared, they found themselves on a relatively flat mountain ridge they had been before.

As Lily passed by, she had previously set up a teleportation anchor here, precisely to handle various sudden situations.

"Get ready; it's locked onto us!"

Lily took out her scepter and began to devote herself entirely to magical preparation.

Compared to a normal dragon, a bone dragon lacking dragon scale protection is far weaker, but after all it is a grade-18 biological opponent, so we cannot be careless.