My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

At this moment, her long, icy blue hair was completely disheveled, hanging wetly over her shoulders and waist, giving her a disheveled and weathered look. Coupled with her unsteady steps, she looked like a broken wife who had been bullied.

No way, this woman actually managed to climb up here...?

At the same time, Bingfei did not immediately notice Weiss standing not far away.

The moment she stepped onto the starry platform, she was stunned by the vast, boundless sea of ​​stars before her, and her feet froze on the spot.

Those deep, distant stars were reflected in her icy blue pupils, and for a moment she was speechless.

Clearly, after seeing the true nature of this transit station, she had the same question as Weiss.

Did that hero from hundreds of years ago stop here, or did he continue along those ice staircases leading to deep space, entering the true palace far beyond the planet's orbit?

Given their current strength and level of understanding, it seems impossible for them to find an answer to this question.

After pondering for a long time, Bingfei walked to the cloud staircase leading to the upper reaches. She did not step on it rashly, but carefully extended a finger and gently poked the air at the edge of the step.

With just that one move, Bingfei retreated, clearly having realized the difference in their abilities.

Even if she could dispel that insignificant little area by relying on the mystery of miracles and the authority of her own sequence, the higher-density factors behind her would squeeze in again with even greater force, like trying to cut water with a knife only to have it flow more.

At this point, there was no way to advance even an inch further...

Bingfei gave up decisively.

Then, she slowly turned around and turned her gaze to Weiss, who was standing silently in the corner at the edge of the platform.

The two remained in a silent standoff for more than ten seconds.

Suddenly, Ice Queen fell ill and took small, hurried steps, rushing straight toward Weiss. When she got there, she delivered a powerful rocket headbutt, violently slamming into Weiss's chest.

"Boom-"

Weiss, who possessed a level 7 killing physique, remained completely still.

Bingfei herself was thrown back half a step by the reaction force, and covered her forehead with teary eyes, her eyes glistening with tears.

"Weiss, you ungrateful wretch! I even kindly gave you a few Ice Coins before, and you dared to push me down! I'm so angry—"

"I'm going to push your mother into the river!!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Bingfei pushed Weiss's arm with all her might, gathering all her strength to try to forcibly pull him to the edge, and then shove him down hard as revenge.

However, let alone the laughable physical abilities of the extravagant sorcerer.

Bingfei was already exhausted, and this operation almost made her suffocate. She gasped for breath and held onto her knees.

Weiss: ......

I never expected that even after reaching the top of the Snow Palace Trial, there would still be a surprise scene of a female ghost seeking revenge.

However, since the Snow Palace Trial allowed violent competition, he really had no good explanation and simply declined.

Even if Bingfei arrives at this platform now, tied with him, the winner of the championship reward will not change.

However, he is not a completely shameless scoundrel; he is not stingy with a verbal apology.

"I'm so sorry—"

"..."

"..."

Upon hearing Weiss's apology, Bingfei looked up in surprise and gave him a strange look.

After a moment of silence, she pursed her lips with a hint of helplessness.

"never mind......"

"Although you initially told me not to get involved, I failed to fulfill my night patrol duty to protect you when that Tier 6 transcendent appeared, so I also bear some responsibility. I won't hold it against you for that..."

Hearing this, Weiss secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Surprisingly, they were quite easy to appease...

Soon, Bingfei noticed the ice crystal counter not far away. She walked over, bent down to examine it, and then, seemingly recognizing something, her expression suddenly changed drastically.

A moment later, the exquisitely beautiful ice crystal ring floated out from the display case and landed steadily in her palm.

Bingfei, delighted, immediately put it on her slender, snow-white finger, then tugged at her sleeve, covering the ring completely with the fabric.

Then, feigning innocence, he raised his head and met Weiss's meaningful gaze.

Then, the two of them turned their heads away in a tacit manner and pretended that nothing had happened.

Neither of them asked the other what the forbidden item they had obtained actually was.

Clearly, even if the two of them went down there, it would be impossible for such a forbidden item with a high level of classification to be leaked.

In this way, the heroes of old took one, and the two of them each take one today.

Snow White's ultimate inventory has been divided up, leaving only one reward.

"By the way, do you know what this spring water is?"

"I just took a sip, and I almost died instantly..."

Just then, Weiss suddenly remembered what had just happened and pointed with lingering fear to the icy spring water beside him.

Upon hearing this, Bingfei walked over, squatted down beside him, and carefully extended a hand into the pool to gently stir it.

A clear ripple spread across the water's surface. She remained frozen in that position for a few seconds, her expression gradually becoming blank.

Then, she turned her head in disbelief, looked up at Weiss, and blinked in a daze.

"You...you drank it?"

"Then how come you're still alive?"

"What? This is placed here by Snow White but can't be drunk. Is it pure poison?" Weiss asked, puzzled.

Ice Princess: ......

Weiss: ......

Ice Princess: ......

Weiss: "Spit it out."

Bingfei really wanted to stomp on him, but after thinking about it rationally, she realized that this guy still had the physical stats of the Feathered Warrior Zone, and if she stomped on him, she would most likely be the one who twisted her ankle.

So she gave up the idea, but gave him a somewhat resentful glare.

"This is the source of extraordinary power, the prototype of all extraordinary potions, in its undiluted, original form..."

"Those dream potions are imitations of this fantasy."

"However, because Dream is a 6th-order Hysteria sequence, it cannot create 5th-order potions. In other words, this extraordinary source is the only way to advance to the end of the 5th-order path!!"

"As long as one masters the extraordinary source, there is a possibility of advancing to the end of the 5th tier. This is top-secret information in any faction, so it's not surprising that Lady Bai Xue has such a pool. This should be Lady Bai Xue's last remaining stock..."

Weiss: ......

Upon hearing this, Weiss's expression gradually became subtle.

He felt extremely guilty and cautiously glanced sideways at the remaining liquid that he had splashed all over the floor in his embarrassing state.

Why don't we secretly pour all that saliva, which has already circulated through his mouth and body, mixed with the extraordinary source of energy back into him when Bingfei isn't looking...?

Otherwise it would be too wasteful!

It turns out that this thing is the only way to advance to the final stage of level 5.

No wonder he'd never heard of a Tier 5 potion before...

After explaining, Bingfei looked at him suspiciously: "So, after you drank a mouthful of the extraordinary source that leads to the fifth tier, you didn't explode and die, but are still standing right in front of me, alive and kicking?"

"Do you know that taking one sip might be equivalent to drinking dozens of drops of a Tier 6 Dream Potion, skipping a level?!"

"So, are we going to come back for another drink after we advance to level 6 someday?" Weiss subtly changed the subject, not intending to answer the question at all.

Upon hearing this, Bingfei's expression became even stranger.

"Speaking of which, you don't even know about the Source of Extraordinary Power...?"

"By the way, when you were dyed, didn't Lady Shirayuki give you any instructions?"

"No, there really isn't..."

Weiss was speechless about the situation.

This has made me feel like a wild child, like Snow White being left to fend for herself.

Not only were they completely unaware of this phenomenon, but they also failed to expand the number of their direct guards.

Bingfei didn't delve into it further and patiently explained:

"Once you reach the top of the Snow Palace Trial, you will have an automatic teleportation opportunity once a month. You can think of it as a save point or respawn point in popular board games. At the beginning of the next month, you will naturally see the teleportation button."

"However, I initially thought it was a teleportation to the palace, but it turns out it's just a transit station."

"However, having a source of extraordinary energy here is a great surprise; it will at least save us dozens of drops of subsequent potions."

As Bingfei said this, she walked into the icy spring and sat down on it as if she were taking a bath. Her clothes gradually became visible as they were soaked in the icy spring water.

Upon seeing this indecent scene, Weiss slightly shifted his gaze elsewhere.

"If you do it like this, how are other people supposed to drink?"

He wasn't particularly bothered by drinking Bingfei's bathwater.

I just asked politely.

"Are you stupid? Who drinks it directly? First of all, we're the only two who have come up here in this era. This extraordinary source of water, absorbed through soaking, is gentler and digested faster. In any case, it's better than taking it orally."

"All right......"

Having roughly grasped the basic rules for using the extraordinary source, Weiss obediently stood by the pool and waited.

He planned to wait until Bingfei reached her limit and came out before going in alone to try it out.

After all, he was a married man, and it wasn't appropriate for him to share a bath with a strange woman.

Bingfei only soaked for a dozen seconds, and her exhausted and fainting state recovered at a visible speed.

She squinted her eyes with a sense of enjoyment, tiny water droplets clinging to her eyelashes, and submerged her entire body completely in the spring, leaving only her long, icy blue hair gently spreading across the surface of the water.

"By the way, do you mean that once you reach level 6, you can just come here for a soak occasionally and you can directly advance to level 5?" Weiss suddenly thought of this.

"That's not so clear, but it shouldn't be that simple. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone at the end of the 5th tier be wholesaling? At least the Starry Sky Merchant Guild, which is richer than a country, would definitely create an artificial end-level superhuman. But in this era, I've only heard of two suspected end-level 5 powerhouses. One is the Moon Thunder Emperor of your Moonlit City, and the other is further south in the region..."

Bingfei replied thoughtfully.

Afterwards, the two chatted idly for a while.

About five minutes later, Bingfei got up from the spring and walked out. She was covered with a faint white aura, giving her an even more aloof and cold temperament.

Then it was Weiss's turn to go down.

"Splash—"

The moment he stepped into the extraordinary source, he felt the extraordinary power within him instantly activated to its peak.

Unlike the intense stimulation of ice and fire he experienced before, this was a very gentle and continuous enjoyment, so comfortable that it felt like he had drunk dozens of bottles of level 7 Storm Potion in a row.

A few minutes later, the entire surface of the ice spring began to tremble gently around Weiss, with strings of tiny bubbles rising to the surface, seemingly drawn by the extraordinary energy surging within him.

Then, under Bingfei's increasingly incredulous gaze, Weiss actually soaked for a full fifteen minutes before barely feeling the limit of saturation.

He slowly exhaled a breath of cold, pure white mist, clenched his right palm, and found that the total amount of extraordinary power within his body had increased at least three or four times compared to before.

"It feels like I don't need to drink potions anymore..."

"It seems like a good night's sleep at home will allow me to advance to the next level, right?"

Bingfei stared at him blankly, somewhat lost in thought, hesitant to speak.

The process of absorbing the extraordinary source is essentially equivalent to directly consuming the purest and most perfect magic potion, so the rules are the same.

The more secrets one has mastered within their body, the higher the upper limit of what they can absorb.

It should be noted that, including the miraculous secrets bestowed by Snow White, Ice Queen already possesses four secrets, yet even so, Weiss's soaking time is several times longer than hers!

Just how many secrets does this man possess?!

She even felt that Weiss, even without doing anything, gave people the illusion that he could easily and effortlessly advance to level 7 at any time.

There was an indescribable, overwhelming sense of oppression.