This chest would definitely yield a Dark Gold grade item! If lucky, it could even drop a God-Tier item.
It was right there, yet he couldn't open it.
Chu Tian stroked the treasure chest radiating with multicolored light, reluctant to leave.
There was no choice, he would have to come back later.
Entering another passage, he knew he was getting closer to his destination, and a constant chill emanated from ahead.
Exiting the passage, he found himself in a vast space.
The entire ground was almost entirely covered in ice. At the entrance of the passage, a fiery red bead floated, its heat intermingling with the cold.
Otherwise, anyone who arrived here would have instantly frozen.
Beneath the bead was a melted ice hole, from which the water flowed.
Looking further inside, in the very center of the space, floated a pale blue, transparent longbow.
The entire longbow seemed to be forged from ice crystals, its light contained, its wings forming a beautiful arc, and its body carved with various mysterious runes.
This bow had a beautiful name: [Frost Crystal Dream].
And the fiery red bead near the passage was called [Core of the Fire Demon].
A Legendary grade weapon, and a God-Tier material.
Legendary grade equipment was superior to God-Tier.
They possessed unique Legendary descriptions. Their attributes might be similar to God-Tier equipment, but they were weapons or equipment used by legendary figures, hence referred to as Legendary grade by players.
Frost Crystal Dream’s owner was the creature Aixe, the weapon of the Winter Queen.
The first-born of Aixe, the Winter Queen, ruled her own domain on Aixe, bearing a sacred mission to maintain the great cycle of rebirth, reviving lost Aixe spirits, wilderness gods, ancient demigods, and other nature spirits, returning them to the mortal realm.
This space also had a beautiful name: the Azure Realm, where the souls of all deceased nature spirits entered. This space could be considered the underworld for nature spirits.
But it differed from other underworlds; the souls here were all kind and friendly.
After Aixe collided with Blue Star, Aixe entered eternal darkness.
The Azure Realm was also devastated. The Winter Queen, along with her pets and subjects, came to Blue Star.
They fought alongside the native inhabitants of Blue Star against the mutated dark creatures of Aixe. After a millennium of battles, they finally found a place to rest and recuperate, but she never expected that they would eventually face extinction.
Without war, the native inhabitants of Blue Star gradually began to infiltrate, researching their eternal life, seeking a method for immortality.
Humans were always greedy. Once the external threat was gone, they would turn on their own, especially an alien race.
The Winter Queen grew disheartened, sealed this space, and refused any interaction with humans.
However, greed knew no bounds. The native inhabitants of Blue Star actually combined technology with Aixe’s magic, and then incorporated monster bodies, creating a God-Tier monster: [King of Fire Demons].
They drove the Fire Demon into the Winter Queen's domain. Wherever the Fire Demon passed, it left scorched earth. All the native inhabitants of the Azure Realm were slaughtered. The Winter Queen, having already exhausted immense energy during the millennium-long war,
With her strength diminished, in her battle against the King of Fire Demons, she loosed her final arrow, instantly killing him, but she herself dissipated into the air.
Her pet, due to the Winter Queen's demise, transformed into a beast and unleashed a heavily poisoned flood, slaughtering all humans within a thousand-mile radius.
As the native inhabitants of Blue Star fell into despair, the flood slowly receded.
After that, no one dared to approach this place again, until ten thousand years later, when the landscape changed, and human traces reappeared.
That ancient ruin had long since sunk underground, which was the very place Chu Tian was currently in.
The Core of the Fire Demon before him was what remained after the King of Fire Demons died, while the beautiful longbow was left by the Winter Queen.
In his previous life, when the Heavenly Dao introduced this map, it described: Although the Winter Queen died, not wanting her pet to harm others, she used her last bit of power to activate the power of the Frost Crystal Dream, sealing her pet deep underground.
The Core of the Fire Demon, originally containing infinite fire poison, counteracted part of the frozen seal, and also neutralized the poison in the water, thus forming a peculiar cycle here.
The two divine objects, not interfering with each other, provided an endless water source for the surface.
At this moment, Chu Tian could not obtain either of these items. Approaching either item alone would inflict high damage upon him.
As for how to obtain them, Chu Tian had already thought of a method.
Transform: Owl Beast Form.
Flap wings!
The Flap Wings skill, when used on the ground, allowed for adjusting movement direction or hovering in place.
This would perfectly solve the problem of taking high damage from touching the frozen ground.
Cast skill: Typhoon!
[Typhoon: Summons wind elementals, attacking targets within 5 meters with a violent typhoon, repelling them 1-10 meters and stunning them for 6 seconds. This skill can be used in any form except human form. Cooldown: 30 seconds.]
This was a skill that Druids automatically learned at level twenty.
He cast the Typhoon skill in the direction of the Core of the Fire Demon.
The Core of the Fire Demon moved slightly inward.
Seeing it move, Chu Tian felt a surge of excitement. There was hope!
He maintained his Flap Wings posture, and as soon as the Typhoon skill was ready, he used it.
Soon, the Core of the Fire Demon gradually moved closer to the Frost Crystal Dream.
Visibly, a red light curtain and a white light curtain were colliding.
Infinite steam began to rise, quickly filling the entire space.
Chu Tian persisted with the operation throughout the misty state.
Finally, the two items were about one point five meters apart.
Chu Tian flapped his wings and gradually approached the intersection of the two items.
The heat offset the cold, and the cold offset the heat, creating a suitable temperature between the two items.
This temperature would not harm him. He did not rush to grab the two items.
Obtaining both items simultaneously was difficult; if he touched them carelessly, he could be instantly killed.
He first tried to approach the Core of the Fire Demon, from initial damage points to over 800 damage as he got closer. At this point, he was still 2 meters away from the Core of the Fire Demon. He quickly consumed a mid-grade instant recovery potion and a mid-grade slow recovery potion, instantly restoring his health to full.
He used the same method to approach the Frost Crystal Dream. When he was two meters away, the damage was over 1200. He consumed another potion and retreated.
In these two experiments, the potions he consumed cost over 30 gold coins. Carrying life-saving potions was a habit he developed in his previous life.
He still had 1 bottle of high-grade instant recovery potion and two bottles of mid-grade slow recovery potions left in his inventory.
Chu Tian currently had 2200 health, and 5500 health when transformed into Bear Form.
He had heard from others that there was a 0.1-second invincibility period upon transformation, but he didn't know if it was true.
He entered from the safe zone in the middle and moved between the two items. The moment he touched them until he put them into his backpack, it would take some time, and he would inevitably take damage at least once.
However, with 5500 health in Bear Form, he had some confidence. In Bear Form, his arms spread out, spanning a distance of two point five meters. As long as he touched them, he could put them into his backpack.
He thought: This is it, win or lose. Even if I die, putting the two God-Tier items into my backpack would be worth it. As long as they are in the backpack, death won't cause them to drop. As for the Wish Box that drops upon death, I can just come back and pick it up again, since I can come and go as I please here! There’s also a way to deal with the poison in the water – just bring a backpack full of anti-poison potions. I can afford them now anyway.
With this thought, Chu Tian gritted his teeth and decided, “I’m going for it…” Transform: Bear Form!