The weakest martial artist? One punch and he's leveled up a whole realm!

The blizzard was still falling, but Ye Xiao didn't feel so cold anymore.

He crouched down beside the wolf king's corpse and began to count his spoils.

You have obtained 1 Extreme Cold Crystal and 1 Frost Heart.

You have obtained 1 Frostwolf King Hide, 1 Frostwolf King Bone, and 10 Frostwolf King Meat........

The loot given by the Frostwolf King was quite generous.

Ye Xiao took them all for himself.

among them.

The two items that caught Ye Xiao's attention were the Extreme Cold Crystal and the Frost Heart.

Because these two items are the key materials for his equipment to continue evolving.

Therefore, Ye Xiao stored the materials he needed for evolution in a separate place.

However, these materials are still not enough.

Ye Xiao casually checked the evolution requirements of a piece of equipment.

[Can be evolved, but conditions are insufficient. Requires: 3x Extreme Cold Crystals, 10x Frost Spirit Grass, and 1x Frost Heart (source: Frostthroat World).]

The evolution requirements for all three pieces of equipment are the same.

In other words, Ye Xiao needs all three pieces of equipment to evolve.

He needs 9 Extreme Cold Crystals, 30 Frost Spirit Grass, and 3 Frost Hearts.

Soon, Ye Xiao noticed that small crystals shimmering with white light were emerging from the locations of the surrounding Frost Wolf corpses.

Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be extremely cold crystals.

However, the drop rate is very low; you might only get one Frost Wolves out of a dozen.

The Frost Spirit Grass was found on the cliffs of the Echoing Abyss in the middle layer of the Ice Cave.

After Ye Xiao cleaned up the battlefield.

He did not linger in Snow Lotus Valley.

Instead, they crossed this place.

We arrived at the entrance to the Gate of Ruins.

Ye Xiao entered the underground through the Gate of Ruins, which led to the middle level of the ice cave.

This place is composed of countless ice crystal tunnels and caves, resembling a huge underground labyrinth.

The tunnel walls are as smooth as a mirror, reflecting a deep blue light, making walking through them feel like being in a kaleidoscope.

The temperature plummeted to minus eighty degrees Celsius, and exhaled breath instantly condensed into ice crystals.

"The temperature is getting lower and lower."

Ye Xiao was already shivering from the cold.

As usual, he unfolded the map that the old man had given him.

Then they studied the conditions in the middle layer of the ice cave.

"Within the middle level of the ice cave, there are also four sub-areas..."

[Crystal Corridor: The widest main tunnel, with various ancient creatures frozen in the ice walls on both sides—giant dragonflies, mammoths, and even bizarre half-human, half-beast creatures—like a natural museum.]

[Ice Cone Trap Zone: A low tunnel with countless ice cones hanging from the ceiling, ready to fall at the slightest tremor, like a barrage of arrows.]

[Echo Abyss: A massive, bottomless vertical ice cave with spiraling ice staircases on its walls, where tenacious Frost Spirit Grass grows. If you throw a stone in, the echo takes several seconds to return. The bottom of the cave connects to the deeper layers of the ice core.]

[The Throne of the Frost Giants: A colossal throne sculpted from ice crystals, with the skeletons of frost giants scattered around it. Legend has it that the ancient frost giants once ruled here, only to be wiped out by the frost dragons.]

Ye Xiao quickly scanned the descriptions of the four sub-areas.

Finally, his gaze fell upon the "Echo Abyss".

"Frost Spirit Grass, now that we're here, we need to find a way to get our hands on it."

Ye Xiao silently considered his next course of action.

However, in the middle layer of this ice cave...

The variety and strength of the monsters are significantly greater than those on the surface of the ice plains.

[Monster situation in the middle level of the ice cave]

[Frost Element (Sixth-Seventh Realm): An elemental creature condensed from pure ice and demonic energy, resembling floating clusters of ice crystals. Physical attacks are halved in effectiveness against it; only fist intent or fire-attribute attacks can effectively kill it.]

[Ice Armor Bear (Seventh-Eighth Realm): A giant white bear covered in ice crystal armor, possessing extremely high defense and astonishing strength, but relatively slow speed.]

[Ice Crystal Scorpion (Seventh-Eighth Realm): A scorpion-shaped demon lurking in ice walls, its stinger can spray extremely cold venom, causing muscle stiffness and freezing of spiritual energy in those struck.]

[Frost Giant's Wrath (BOSS, Ninth Realm): Formed from the resentment of an ancient frost giant, wielding an ice crystal battle axe, possessing immense strength, but moving slowly.]

Ye Xiao glanced at the situation of the demons in the middle layer of the ice cave and their brief strength descriptions.

His gaze was immediately drawn to the last "Frost Giant's Soul".

"BOSS, or the Ninth Realm?"

Ye Xiao immediately became interested!

Because his current realm is stuck, and he has no way to improve his realm.

The reason is that Ye Xiao failed to complete the promotion task.

That means you need to kill an enemy at the ninth level or above!

Now, this opportunity has arrived.

The soul of the frost giant is located within the frost giant's throne in the middle layer of the ice cave!

So Ye Xiao immediately used his finger to follow the route on the map.

The route was finally determined.

Crystal Corridor - Ice Cone Trap Zone - Echoing Abyss - Frost Giant Throne

But they wanted to go deeper into the ice core.

The passage is hidden behind the Frost Giant's Throne!

Now that the route has been determined.

Ye Xiao immediately took action.

He was currently at the entrance to the Crystal Corridor.

When Ye Xiao walked in.

He looked around and could see various ancient creatures he had never seen before frozen on the ice walls on both sides.

Although these ancient creatures were frozen, they exerted a tremendous sense of pressure on Ye Xiao.

Fortunately, these things were frozen. If they were still alive, Ye Xiao didn't know if he would have been able to get through here.

After half an hour.

Ye Xiao was halfway through the Crystal Corridor.

However, Ye Xiao gradually became more alert.

Because he noticed a problem.

Half an hour has passed since he entered the middle level of the ice cave.

But the whole process was quiet, and he didn't encounter any danger at all.

This is clearly not normal.

Maintaining this vigilance, Ye Xiao successfully reached the end of the Crystal Corridor.

Ahead here is the entrance to a low tunnel.

Ye Xiao glanced at it and saw that the passage was about three meters high.

This height seems very high, but it is already quite narrow.

If anything happens here.

Ye Xiao's space for free movement will be very small.

He looked up ahead of time.

You can see that the top of the tunnel is covered with dense icicles.

If this thing falls, it won't fall one by one, but like dominoes, they all fall.

At best, it could injure Ye Xiao; at worst, it could completely block the tunnel.

After five minutes of mental preparation, Ye Xiao...

We finally entered the tunnel.

However, just as he entered the ice cone trap area...

Suddenly, a violent tremor came from behind.

"What's that noise?"

Ye Xiao looked back and was shocked to find that outside, from some unknown time and direction, something had happened.

A whole bunch of Ice Armor Bears and Ice Crystal Scorpions have come running over!

They surrounded him directly at the tunnel entrance where he was.