Chapter 196: Great Harvest

Under the earth-shattering heat wave impact of the Tier 6 elemental pool, the entire abyss snow city turned into a huge sauna.

Steam permeated, ice and snow melted, and one hundred thousand Snow Monsters all turned into limp and powerless ice mud, temporarily losing all threat. Jie Ming was like the most efficient harvesting machine, his figure turning into streaks of afterimages in the city; wherever he passed, a large amount of rare materials was unceremoniously swept into his space expansion bags.

High-energy ice crystal ores, the ten-thousand-year permafrost used by Snow Monsters to build the city, the flesh and blood of certain polar creatures they "bred"—

He didn't even mind the trouble, precisely stripping one ice-cold Snow Monster core after another from those melted bodies; after all, these were hard currencies that could be exchanged for a large amount of military merits.

His movements were astonishingly fast; in just over half an hour, he had forcibly filled the huge capacity space expansion bags he brought to the brim, almost unable to stuff anything else in.

However, after Jie Ming's ecstatic looting, a trace of regret followed.

He had almost searched through the entire core area of the city, but unfortunately, he didn't see any strategic-level buildings like the Lava Giant's "Incubation Pool" in the city.

Moreover, judging from the situation of the looted materials, most of the truly rare, top-tier materials that reached Tier 3 or even Tier 4 levels seemed to have long been taken away by those high-tier Snow Monsters that had evacuated.

Most of what remained in the city treasury were just relatively conventional, low-grade materials.

"It seems that although they evacuated quite hurriedly, they still took away the important things." Jie Ming understood, though he wasn't too disappointed.

After all, having such a harvest was already far beyond expectations.

Just as he was about to end this looting and conduct a final "cleanup" of the entire city.

On one side of the city, in a magnificent area that looked like a lord's mansion, Jie Ming discovered a real unexpected joy.

It was a corpse of a Tier 4 Lava Giant quietly sealed in a giant ice crystal!

This Lava Giant had clearly been dead for a long time, but the corpse was preserved exceptionally well.

It maintained a posture of struggling hard; its dark red rock body was covered with cracks eroded by frost power, and those eyes that once burned with raging flames were now completely dim.

But even though it had been dead for so long, a faint Tier 4 biological pressure could still be clearly perceived, even through the thick ice crystal.

"Specimen—or rather, war loot?" Jie Ming instantly understood the use of this corpse.

It could be seen that this corpse had been specially treated and should have been used by the previous Snow Monster lord as something like a "specimen" or "war loot" to show off its brilliant battle achievements.

Those high-tier Snow Monsters clearly didn't take away this "decoration" that was useless to them when they left in a hurry.

After all, for Snow Monsters, the materials of their mortal enemy, the Lava Giant, contained fire elemental power that was completely contrary to their attributes,

and had almost no utilization value.

"The corpse of a Tier 4 living being—" Jie Ming couldn't help but lick his lips.

This was trash to Snow Monsters, but to him, and to any low-tier wizard, it was an excellent treasure!

Its body, core remains, and even every piece of solidified rock shell were top-tier alchemy materials!

He unceremoniously threw out the overflowing low-tier materials from his space expansion bag until he had cleared enough space to fit this huge "specimen" entirely.

Stuffing the entire ice crystal into the space expansion bag, Jie Ming felt full of satisfaction.

It was also at this time that he felt the temperature of the surrounding air beginning to slowly cool down.

The coldness coming from the depths of the city underground and the sky was rapidly neutralizing the heat generated by the elemental pool's eruption.

Those Snow Monsters limp on the ground began to re-condense their bodies, and some with tenacious vitality were even able to begin slight wriggling.

"Looks like I have to deal with these guys first." Jie Ming's eyes turned cold.

He thought for a moment and simply decided to go all the way.

After all, for wizards, eliminating enemies themselves could also earn a large amount of military merits.

The Snow Monsters in this entire city, even if their levels were generally not high, had their numbers right there.

In Jie Ming's eyes, these Snow Monsters that were about to regain mobility were no longer a threat, but piles of living, walking military merits!

"Then—let's clear them all out together!"

His figure soared into the sky, hovering above the city.

As his mind moved, the "Great Light Aspect" unfolded again!

Thousands of rune wizarding tools were like unfolded metal rings, shimmering with cold light under the dim sky, aimed at the city below that was slowly recovering!

Boom!!!!

The next moment, the ultimate light of destruction fell.

Dense energy bombs carried out indiscriminate carpet bombing, plowing through the entire city!

Thousands of energy bombs converged into a torrent of destruction, descending from the sky and instantly swallowing everything on the city surface!

The explosions connected into one, the melted ice water was instantly vaporized, and the fragile ice and snow buildings turned into powder under the energy impact.

Those Snow Monsters that had just begun to re-condense their bodies couldn't even let out a complete wail before being completely wiped out!

Relying on the ultimate output capability of the "Great Light Aspect," Jie Ming finally executed all the Snow Monsters before they regained mobility!

However, because of this exaggerated bombing, the entire drained lake-bottom city was completely destroyed.

The ground was riddled with holes, filled with deep pits and charred traces left after the explosions, and the original outline of the city had long since disappeared.

If one wanted to continue searching for possibly missed resources in this ruin, it would be a bit difficult.

Jie Ming slowly put away the "Great Light Aspect" and landed on the ground. Looking at the scene where almost the entire ground had been lifted, he couldn't help but sigh at his own foresight—fortunately, he had looted first and then acted.

Just as he was satisfied and ready to leave this place of destruction he had created with his own hands, a strange feeling suddenly came from the soles of his feet.

Jie Ming stopped and couldn't help but frown as he looked down.

It was an extremely weak, yet incomparably cold aura.

It was not vision, nor hearing, but a keen intuition for energy fluctuations originating from the depths of the soul.

He felt that the land under his feet seemed to be different in some aspect from what he had felt before.

"Hmm?"

He felt it carefully and sank his spiritual power underground, but didn't find any abnormalities.

Jie Ming blinked, but the strange feeling in his heart became clearer and clearer.

Suddenly thinking of something, he no longer relied on the wizard's perception but mobilized the True Essence in his body and applied it to his eyes!

With the injection of True Essence, his vision instantly changed.

The original chaotic ruin scene was stripped away, and the flow of the world's origin energy began to appear in his eyes.

It was precisely at this moment that he saw the true situation under his feet!

He saw that under his feet, beneath the tens of meters thick permafrost layer that had been lifted, strands of,

subtle, minute evil energy (Sha Qi) were emerging continuously!

These evil energies presented a faint grey-black color, almost merging with the surrounding environment.

If he hadn't used his True Essence vision, he wouldn't have been able to detect them at all.

They were like rootless ghost fires, seeping out from the depths of the earth and quickly dissipating into the cold air.

"Yin Evil Energy?" Jie Ming identified the type of this evil energy and couldn't help but frown.

Logically speaking, ten thousand living beings had just died here, and it was completely understandable to produce a large amount of ordinary evil energy.

But Yin Evil Energy was a very special kind of evil energy.

The biggest characteristic of this thing was that it was not produced in real-time.

The so-called Yin Evil Energy was not simply composed of the resentment generated at the moment of death, but required a large number of corpses to gather in the same place, experiencing a very long period of fermentation, decay, and sedimentation before it could be born in a specific environment—the related "Concept"!

In other words, under this Snow Monster city, there was likely buried another corpse pit with a larger number and a more ancient age!

Moreover, judging from the quality of these seeping Yin Evil Energies, although they were extremely weak, their essence was exceptionally pure, carrying a kind of coldness that seemed to be able to freeze the soul.

This meant that regardless of the quantity of corpses or the time they had been buried underground, it was definitely not low!

Jie Ming's breathing became rapid at this moment, and in his eyes, an unprecedented scorching light erupted!

When it came to lethality at the soul level of high-tier living beings, the power of high-quality Yin Evil Energy was by no means lower than the same quality of Red Dust Qi.

Moreover, its attributes were more insidious, and the damage caused was stronger!

Red Dust Qi tended to pollute the mind and shake the Dao heart, while Yin Evil Energy was the purest erosion and destruction aimed at the soul body itself.

As a supplement and reinforcement to his "Mysterious Gang Red Dust Barrier," this thing was just too suitable!

Once refined and absorbed, his protective Gang Sha would possess both "mind-bewitching" and "soul-destroying" characteristics, and its power would double!

This was simply an even greater unexpected joy than the corpse of the Tier 4 Lava Giant!

Judging from the current situation, the Yin Evil Energy under this ground should have been suppressed by the thick permafrost and ice layers, as well as the ice elemental energy field of the Snow Monster city itself, and hidden deep underground.

It was just that it had been forcibly lifted by his reckless carpet bombing just now, exposing a little bit of traces.

Giving this Yin Evil Energy, which had been sealed for who knows how many years, a chance to dissipate.

"It should be an ancient battlefield, right?" Jie Ming pondered.

After all, according to the results of geological surveys, it could be said that the entire Flame-Frost Plane had been used as a battlefield; it was not impossible for there to be an ancient battlefield under this kind of city.

"Since that's the case—" A brightness flashed in Jie Ming's eyes, "Then simply, dig this place up completely!" ===== CHAPTER 197 =====