Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I will prove my divine power through the ultimate path!

"What is this?"

Shi Wen didn't dare to touch it for a moment.

He hadn't forgotten the lesson of the previous night; the rotating eyeball had dragged his consciousness into an illusion.

If the black cat hadn't woken him up, he would have almost died in the hallucination.

"If I get into trouble later, remember to wake me up like you did last night."

Shi Wen placed a small piece of bird meat in front of the black cat.

Then, he reached out his left hand to touch the rotting flesh, ready to refine the Extreme Seal immediately if there was any problem!

[A very faint sense of impending doom has been detected. Evolutionary path branch 3 is possible!]

[1. Flesh of the Withered Frost Worm: A common frozen worm found in the Ice Age, possessing freezing abilities, causing everything in its path to frost over (a piece of worm flesh, consuming which may grant the user the freezing power), Time required: 3 hours!]

[2. The Decaying Flesh of the Frozen Lord of Ice and Death: A mysterious ancient lord who controls death and black ice within the Ice Disaster. Formerly stripped of his life rank by those who ascended to higher levels, he was reduced to a dark, frenzied hunter, brutal and ruthless, born of bloodlust. (A wisp of his flesh, upon consumption, has a chance to grant control over ice, death, and immortality. With growth, he will gain some of the abilities of the dark, frenzied hunter and the gaze of that hunter. There are some unknown side effects; he will bear some of the karma, and there is a very small chance he will be targeted by certain beings wandering the Sea of ​​Disaster.) Required time: 1 year!]

[3. Flesh of the Former Master of the Frosty Ice Bone Corpse: A fragment of flesh that fell from the body of an ancient being who had fallen into slumber during the Ice Disaster. It controls the powers of nothingness, extreme cold, assimilation, and erosion. Its arrival in any world will bring a cataclysmic ice peak disaster, freezing everything it breathes upon. (A drop of flesh, if ingested, will grant a chance to master the powers of nothingness and extreme cold. During its growth, it will cause irreversible erosion of the environment until it destroys the world, eventually attracting the attention of the former master's subconscious.) Required time: 8000 years.]

"Is it the meat of a strange beast with blood similar to that of a fish or dragon?"

Shi Wen immediately became interested, his eyes fixed on the three lines of evolutionary branches.

This time, he was caught in a dilemma.

The decaying flesh of the Frozen Lord from Evolution Route 2 is clearly more tempting than the flesh of the Frozen Worm.

Master the power of ice, master the power of death!!

And immortality?

More importantly, the time required for evolution is very short, many times shorter than evolutionary route 3.

The flesh of the former master in evolutionary route 3 takes a full eight thousand years!!

On the contrary, this piece of rotten flesh only needed one year to mature; he had never seen anything with such extraordinary power yet such a short timeframe.

In comparison, evolutionary route 2 has a clear advantage.

He can certainly wait!

"But the side effects seem quite obvious as well?"

Shi Wen stared at the line of text, his eyes sharp. "To bear part of the karma, to be targeted by some being? What does that mean?"

"Relatively 'cheap,' but also comes at a price?"

"Is it because the Dark Mad Hunter who was stripped of his Life Rank is sharing the burden of his own pressure and karma, thus requiring a relatively shorter time to evolve?"

"What should I choose...?"

The room fell silent, save for the sound of heavy breathing.

Choosing evolution path 1 grants the power of freezing, without any side effects or consequences.

Choosing evolution path 2 will give you a chance to gain the power of freezing, death, and immortality. However, this has side effects, and you will have to bear some of the consequences. There is a very small chance that you will be targeted, but it takes a very short time!

Evolutionary route 3, Stone Temperature, is not considered.

Firstly, it takes too long, and secondly, this is a skill that allows one to live as long as heaven and earth, which is not needed right now!

Shi Wen took another bite of the live snake meat, his face full of conflict.

A few minutes later, Shi Wen, his face contorted with rage, pressed down on Evolution Branch 2: The Rotten Flesh of the Ice-Silent Death Lord!

"side effect?"

"So what if there are side effects? Even if we truly bear the so-called consequences and side effects, even if we are truly being targeted by some mysterious entity, so what?"

"Could it be that they can break through the barrier and come after me?"

"Come on if you dare! There are plenty of other problems, but none of them are any of them!!"

[Evolutionary Path Branch 2: The Rotten Flesh of the Frozen Ice Lord is evolving, time required: 1 year!]

When this line of text appears on the seal.

Shi Wen's inner turmoil vanished completely, replaced by utter tranquility.

"It will evolve successfully in one year, but what if I could find something similar to an eyeball to shorten the evolution time?"

Shi Wen took a sip of the precious blood, suppressing the surging emotions within him.

He put down the wooden box, took another bite of the live snake meat, opened a bag that clearly contained a hard object, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. "This is... an iron block?"

There are more than a dozen of these bags.

Shi Wen opened a dozen or so bags, inside which were metal blocks of different shapes, sizes and colors wrapped in fine silk.

The name of the metal was thoughtfully noted on the iron block.

"Hundred-Refined Black Iron, Blood Essence Gold, Netherworld Black Iron, Ten-Thousand-Refined Steel... What's this guy doing collecting so many metals?"

"This guy is really rich. So many special metals, they probably would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy, right? But these lunatics might have stolen them."

Shi Wen was quite surprised.

Among them was a piece of extraterrestrial meteorite iron, as big as the palm of your hand!

"This is perfect for me!"

Shi Wen curiously placed a piece of refined gold in his hand, thinking about how the special metal Ji Yin had mentioned could enhance breathing techniques, but how should he use it?

"Focus on refining it?"

Shi Wen closed his eyes and concentrated, holding a piece of refined gold in both hands.

He deliberately circulated his breathing technique, and the cool energy surging within his body moved many times faster than usual.

Just as he was wondering why it had no effect at all, a cold air seemed to seep into his body from the refined gold in his palm, completely merging with the cool air and transforming into an even cooler aura that circulated within him, covering his furnace-like, scorching body and preventing any heat from emanating.

"Does it really work?"

Shi Wen was overjoyed and quickly grabbed all the remaining iron blocks in his palm.

After absorbing all of it, he placed the metal blocks on the ground, but they seemed to have weathered for countless years, and soon crumbled into piles of powder.

And on Shi Wen's body.

There was no longer any heat wave.

On the contrary, it seemed as if an unyielding cold current was surging within his body, and the chill in his entire body completely transformed into a bone-chilling frost. Although he could not know exactly what benefits he had gained in a short time, Shi Wen believed that the Extreme Seal was not without purpose!

"Perhaps it can increase the speed of my physical tempering to an even higher level?"

"I wonder if this frost will clash with the scorching blood energy. It's so cold! It would be perfect for freezing things."

"It can really freeze water? Wow!"

Shi Wen looked at the water glass he was holding in astonishment. He could clearly see that a thin layer of mist had condensed on the dry parts of the glass when the temperature was different from the room temperature.

After another round of attempts.

He continued to inspect the other individually packaged kraft paper bags.