Chapter 214: Chapter 195: Bountiful Harvest

Under the world-destroying heat wave impact of the Sixth Level Elemental Pool, the entire Abyss Snow City turned into a gigantic sauna room.

Steam filled the air, ice and snow melted, and all hundred thousand yetis turned into limp, powerless ice slush, temporarily losing all threat.

Jeming was like the most efficient harvesting machine, his silhouette becoming streaks of shadows in the city, where he went, large amounts of rare materials were unceremoniously swept into his Space Expansion Bag.

High-energy ice crystal ores, the millennia-old permafrost used by the yetis to build the city, and the flesh of certain polar creatures they “cultivated”…

He didn’t find it troublesome at all to precisely extract each cold yeti core from their melted bodies, after all, these are hard currency that can be exchanged for a large amount of military merits.

His movements were astonishingly fast, within just over half an hour, he stuffed those spacious Space Expansion Bags he brought until they were brim-full, almost unable to fit anything else.

However, after Jeming’s ecstatic plunder, a tinge of regret followed.

He almost searched through the entire core area of the city, unfortunately, he didn’t find any strategic-level structures like the Magma Giant’s “Incubation Pool” within the city.

Moreover, judging by the materials he scavenged, most genuinely rare, top-tier materials reaching Third or even Fourth Level seem to have already been taken away by those evacuating high-tier yetis.

Now, the ones remaining in the city treasury are mostly fairly common, low-grade materials.

“It seems that although they evacuated quite hastily, they still took away the important things.” Jeming understood, though not too disappointed.

After all, being able to achieve such a haul has already far exceeded expectations.

Just when he was about to conclude this plunder and conduct the final “cleaning” of the entire city.

On one side of the city, within a magnificent area that seemed like the Lord’s Mansion, Jeming discovered a true unexpected surprise.

There was a Fourth Level Magma Giant’s corpse quietly sealed in a massive ice crystal!

This Magma Giant had obviously been dead for a long time, yet the corpse was preserved exceptionally well.

It retained a posture of struggling with all its might, its dark red rocky body was covered in fissures eroded by the power of frost, and its once blazing eyes were now completely darkened.

But even after being dead for so long, a faint presence of Fourth Level creature pressure, though separated by thick ice crystal, could still be clearly sensed.

“A specimen… or trophy?” Jeming instantly understood the purpose of this corpse.

It was apparent that this corpse had been specially treated, likely used by the previous yeti lord as something akin to a “specimen” or “trophy”, to showcase its own glorious achievements.

When those high-tier yetis left in haste, they clearly did not take away this decorative piece which was of no use to them.

After all, for the yetis, the materials from the dead enemy Magma Giant contained the Power of Fire Element, completely antithetical to their own attributes, with almost no utility value.

“The remains of a Fourth Level Creature…” Jeming couldn’t help but lick his lips.

For yetis it’s waste, but for him, for any low-level wizard, it’s a supreme treasure!

Its body, core remnants, even every piece of its solidified rocky exterior, are top-notch alchemy materials!

He unceremoniously discarded some low-grade materials from his overflowing Space Expansion Bag until he cleared enough space to fit this gigantic “specimen” entirely.

Stuffing the whole ice crystal into the Space Expansion Bag, Jeming felt a great sense of satisfaction in his heart.

Also at this moment, he sensed the surrounding air temperature beginning to slowly cool down.

The coldness emanating from deep beneath the city and the sky was rapidly neutralizing the heat previously generated by the eruption of the Elemental Pool.

Those yetis slumped on the ground began to reconsolidate, some with strong vitality were even starting to wriggle slightly.

“Seems I need to deal with these guys first.” Jeming’s gaze turned cold.

He pondered and decided to go all the way.

After all, for the wizards, eliminating enemies themselves can also earn substantial military merits.

This entire city of yetis, even if their levels are generally low, the sheer numbers speak for themselves.

In Jeming’s eyes, these yetis that were about to regain mobility, at this moment were no longer threats, but heaps and heaps of living, walking military merits!

“Then… let’s sweep them all at once!”

He soared into the sky, hovering above the city.

As his thoughts moved, the “Great Light Appearance” unfurled once again!

Thousands of Talisman Witchcraft artifacts, like unfolding metal halos, shimmered with a cold light under the dim sky, aimed at the slowly reviving city below!

Boom!!!!

The next moment, the ultimate light of destruction descended.

Countless energy bullets conducted indiscriminate carpet bombing, plowing through the entire city!

Thousands of energy bullets converged into a destructive torrent, descending from the heavens, devouring everything on the city surface in an instant!

The sound of explosions merged as one, the melted ice water was instantly vaporized, and the fragile ice and snow structures were pulverized under the energy impact.

The yetis that had just begun to reform their bodies were completely wiped out before they could even let out a full wail!

Relying on the ultimate output ability of the “Great Light Appearance,” Jeming finally managed to completely execute them before all the yetis regained their mobility!

However, due to the exaggerated bombardment, the entire drained city at the lake bottom was also utterly destroyed.

The ground was pitted with depressions everywhere, deep craters and charred marks left from explosions, and the original city outline had long disappeared.

Searching for any potentially overlooked resources in this wasteland would now be quite difficult.

Jeming slowly retracted the “Great Light Appearance,” landed on the ground, and looked at the scene where almost all the ground had been turned over. He couldn’t help but marvel at his foresight—fortunately, he scavenged first, then made his move.

Just as he was about to leave the destruction he had personally wrought, a strange sensation suddenly emanated from beneath his feet.

Jeming halted his steps, frowning as he looked downward.

It was an extremely faint yet incomparably cold aura.

Not through sight or hearing, but a keen instinct from deep within his soul towards the fluctuations of energy.

He sensed that the land beneath his feet seemed different on some level from what he had sensed before.

“Huh?”

He carefully felt it, immersing his spiritual power into the ground, but found nothing unusual.

Jeming blinked, yet that strange feeling in his heart became clearer and clearer.

Suddenly thinking of something, he no longer relied on the wizard’s perception but instead channeled his True Essence into his eyes!

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

The once chaotic scene of ruins was stripped away, and the flow of the world’s origin energy began to reveal itself to his eyes.

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

Directly below, under the dozens of meters thick layer of frozen soil that had been lifted, a continuous and extremely subtle stream of Evil Qi was emerging!

This Evil Qi appeared in a faint gray-black color, almost merging with the surrounding environment.

If not for employing the True Essence vision, it would have been utterly imperceptible.

They seep from the depths of the earth like rootless ghost flames, quickly dissipating into the cold air.

“Yin Sha Qi?” Jeming identified the type of this Qi, involuntarily furrowing his brows.

By rights, with a hundred thousand creatures having died here recently, the production of a significant amount of ordinary Evil Qi is entirely understandable.

But Yin Sha Qi is a very special kind of Evil Qi.

The unique aspect of this Qi is that it’s not produced instantly.

The so-called Yin Sha Qi is not merely composed of grievances generated at the moment of death; it requires a large number of corpses gathered in one place, ferment over an exceedingly long period, decay, sedimentation, and then only under specific conditions can related “concepts” be born!

In other words, beneath this yeti city, there is likely another mass grave, even larger in number and older in date…

Moreover, judging by the quality of the Yin Sha Qi seeping out, though extremely weak, its essence is extraordinarily pure, carrying a chill that seems capable of freezing the soul.

This implies that both the quantity of bodies and the burying time underground are certainly not low!

Jeming’s breath instantly became rapid at this moment, his eyes shining with an unprecedented intense light!

Regarding the soul-level lethality on high-tier creatures, high-quality Yin Sha Qi’s power is certainly no less than that of the same quality Red Dust Qi.

Moreover, its property is even more insidious, and the damage it causes stronger!

Red Dust Qi tends to contaminate the mind and shake the Dao Heart, while Yin Sha Qi is the purest form of erosion and destruction targeting the soul itself.

As a supplement and enhancement to his “Profound Gang Red Dust Barrier,” this stuff is absolutely perfect!

Once refined and absorbed, his Protective Gang Sha will possess both “Confusing Heart” and “Soul Destruction” traits, its power doubling!

This is simply a greater unexpected joy than the Fourth Level Magma Giant carcass!

From the current situation, the Yin Sha Qi beneath here should have been continuously suppressed by the thick layers of frozen earth, ice, and the icy elemental energy field of the yeti city itself, hidden deep underground.

It’s just that, due to the reckless carpet bombing just now, the upper layers of land and ice were forcibly overturned, so a small trace was exposed.

Allowing this Yin Sha Qi, which had been sealed for countless years, a slight opportunity to escape.

“It must be an ancient battlefield back in the day…” Jeming pondered.

After all, according to geological surveys, the entire Ice and Flame Plane was used as a battlefield, so it’s not impossible for an ancient battlefield to exist beneath a city.

“In that case…” A bright light flashed in Jeming’s eyes, “why not just dig this place open completely!”

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