My health recovery is incredibly fast.

A few seconds later, they stretched their bodies, gave a comfortable yawn, and then stopped breathing.

Clusters of pale green light, visible only to Xia Zuo, drifted out from the Stonejaw Monsters. Some of these were absorbed by Servant Number 1, while most quickly dissipated into the air.

The panel of minion #1 has changed.

[Vitality +3]

These three points of reclaimed vitality can only be controlled by Xia Zuo after Servant No. 1 returns to the Ice Cave.

After making sure that his first servant was hidden at the cave entrance and would not be discovered, Xia Zuo turned his attention to his second servant.

Tonight, the blood servants transform into death gods, reaping lives.

Under the control of the mastermind behind the scenes, they silently took the lives of monsters one by one.

No one knows what happened to the Stonejaw Monster tribe tonight.

Ten minutes later.

Ten blood element servants gathered at the cave entrance.

They flew together again, overcoming the obstacles of wind and snow, and arrived at the ice cave where Xia Zuo was.

Xia Zuo held them in his palm, brought up the character panel, and manually dismissed the number 1 servant.

A message about a cheat code popped into my mind.

“检测到宿主正在解散1号血素仆从。该仆从拥有1点精神属性值和4点活力属性值。预测在解除后，宿主将恢复1点【精神】，获得4点【活力】。

"Do you confirm disbanding this servant?"

"Disbandment confirmed." Xia Zuo murmured.

"Disbanded successfully. Host's [Vitality] increased by 3 points, and 3 usable Blood Runes were obtained."

Xia Zuo dismissed the Blood Element servants one by one, gaining a total of 40 vitality points and an equal amount of Blood Runes.

In just a few days, he reaped such a large amount of vitality, comparable to drinking ten doses of the trainee-level freshman potion.

This trip was incredibly profitable.

Xia Zuo was secretly delighted.

He quickly cleaned up the ice cave, erasing his life and alchemical traces, and used ice manipulation to destroy the ice cave's load-bearing structure.

After witnessing the ice cave collapse and vanish, Xia Zuo used Wind Walk and an Ice Barrier to leave the place.

Thus ended our trip to the frozen lake.

There was no fierce battle, no clash of magical light, and no blood-boiling carnage.

Xia Zuo used deadly silence to obtain what he wanted without leaving a trace, without harming the weak stone jaw monsters who gained little.

When he bypassed the Stonejaw Monster's territory from the west bank of the frozen lake and landed on the snow-capped mountain directly north of the lake, the blood mark left on the Stonejaw Monster shifted.

This indicates that the stone-jawed monsters that died in their sleep were discovered by the patrol team.

Xia Zuo looked back at the firelight on the horizon and could vaguely see groups of rampaging stone-jaw monsters rushing out of the cave with torches in hand, searching for the murderer around the frozen lake.

The Stonejaw Monster is destined to gain nothing.

With their limited intelligence, they could only attribute the unexpected deaths of their people to the deadly toxins inflicted by the demonic bear.

Xia Zuo rubbed his fingers together, dispelling the blood essence mark, and then transformed back into a cloud of energy, disappearing into the vast snow-capped mountains.

As for the latent agent inside the Stonejaw Monster, it will disintegrate on its own after 24 hours.

Everything is under control.

Where's the next stop?

As Xia Zuo drifted along, he recalled the plans for this trip in his mind.

The Pillars of Creation are an active volcano that could erupt at any time.

Its underground magma zone covers half of the frozen snowfield.

If you travel dozens of kilometers north from the glacial lake and dig about 50 meters underground, you may find underground magma.

Countless underground rivers, heated by the magma belt, transformed into scalding hot springs, giving rise to many vibrant monsters.

Xia Zuo thought for a moment, then slightly changed direction and flew straight to the northeast.

On a certain mountain there, there lives a large group of tall, frozen snow monsters.

Chapter 97 Human Prisoners

Deep in the snowfields, 200 kilometers from the Everwinter City of the Silvermoon Federation.

A group of frozen yeti, their bodies covered in long white fur, were trudging back and forth between their mountaintop settlement and the forest below, their strong legs swaying through the thick snow.

Their arms are also covered with long white fur, and occasionally a strong wind blows, lifting the fur and revealing their dark, massive muscles.

The Yeti waved its arms, using the sharp claws on its fingertips to tear at the tree trunk, snapping a towering tree in half with its bare hands.

The large tree fell, breaking other large trees, and a deafening roar echoed through the valley.

There's no need to worry about an avalanche.

The Yeti has a body at least 3 meters tall and a stride of about 2 meters. When it runs, it can return to its mountaintop home in just a few minutes.

The clever Yeti cleared the snow from the road back to the village, ensuring that the Yeti seeking refuge could climb the mountain without any hindrance.

Their wisdom is also reflected in their architecture.

Huge houses built of massive stones are placed on the mountaintop like blocks of tofu.

The seemingly chaotic layout hints at the Yeti's social class.

The higher one's status, the more spacious one's residence and the larger the area occupied.

In addition, the prominent Yeti will be located closer to the large hot spring at the top of the mountain.

The Yeti has mastered spells that promote the rapid growth of animals and monsters.

They cast these spells on the springs and then force-feed them to the animals and monsters kept in the valley, thus obtaining a continuous supply of food.

In rare cases, the Yeti may also give humans tainted spring water.

Just like what Xia Zuo is seeing now.

A group of naked humans were imprisoned in a stone cage by the Yeti.

They huddled together for warmth, shivering, in a corner of the prison cell near the hot spring.

The intermittent warmth brought by the cold wind barely saved them from dying of hypothermia.

Where did these people come from?

Xia Zuo hid behind a rock near the hot spring, pondering this question.

He dared not approach the cage in his cloud-like form.

Because each Yeti has more than 15 points of [Spirit], and all of them are proficient in ice, wind, and earth magic.

Any Yeti can easily wipe out a Stonejaw patrol without a Stonejaw Mage.

According to Rexor, the Yeti is a truly highly intelligent monster.

Their stone structures may look simple, but they actually have a certain degree of automatic attack capability. They periodically detect nearby intruders, launch ice spikes at them, and call out to the Yeti guards with a buzzing sound.

Xia Zuo transformed into a cloud of vapor and hid behind a rock far from the hot spring.

He took out his secret communication ring and sent a secret message to Rexor.

While waiting for a reply, Shazo created a Blood Elemental Servant to scout out the Yeti settlement.

Ok…

Except for the juvenile and senile Yetis, all other Yetis at each growth stage have more than 10 points of vitality.

Using the Crimson Poison Curse to poison the Yeti is no easy task.

Xia Zuo was somewhat perplexed.

These humanoid monsters with big heads and thick necks have good eating habits.

They disinfect the meat of their prey to completely eliminate toxins before cooking.

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As for materials such as fat, skin, tendons, and internal organs, they will be used to feed animals and monsters, and will not be used as food for Yetis.

The success rate of spreading latent agents on a large scale is extremely low.

Xia Zuo had no choice but to abandon the Crimson Poison Curse.

Currently, it seems that selecting solitary yetis, luring them into traps, and killing them is the best approach.

Xia Zuo recalled his Blood Element servants and began setting up his temporary base.

Considering the Yeti's high intelligence and wider range of activity, Shazo built the ice cave on the other side of the mountain, about 2 kilometers away from the Yeti's settlement.

He had just finished building the ice cave when he received a secret message from Rexol.

Xia Zuo glanced at the message, raised his hand and swept it across the ice beside him, carving out a place for the bald man who was about to arrive.

Rexol said in the secret message:

A team of alchemists from the Wild Hammer Kingdom, numbering around 50, lost contact deep within the frozen snowfields.

According to several survivors who fled back to the northern cities of the Wastehammer Kingdom, they were attacked by three frost dragons in the frozen snowfields.

No other survivors have been identified so far.

Rexor only said this much in the secret message, without revealing the alchemist's specific identity.

But Xia Zuo felt that... this alchemist team from the Desolate Hammer Kingdom was very likely a member of the Desolate Hammer Alchemist Association.

The humans he found in the Yeti settlement were probably a group of Wild Hammer alchemists who had gotten separated from the main force in the frozen snowfield.

This group of people were invaluable talents cultivated by the Temple and the Alchemy School with a great deal of resources and knowledge.

After receiving Shazor's secret instructions, Rexor immediately reported Shazor's discovery to the outer palace.