On a vast expanse of white glacier, Shi Yu gazed into the distance.
A hundred meters away, an ice stone giant was floating over.
Although this creature was called a giant, it did not resemble a human, as it lacked a lower body.
Its main body was an irregular cylinder, fat and bulky like a small hill.
Because it was an elemental creature, it could float in the air, and its most striking feature was its massive arms, nearly as long as its body.
These were the primary organs used to cast the Ice Hammer skill.
"This is the first time I've seen an ice stone giant..."
Shi Yu smiled, making eye contact with the giant's single eye, which resembled an energy crystal on its large mouth.
He said sincerely, "My friend from another race, we didn't come here to fight. We were invited by your stone statue elder to uncover the truth of history."
"See, let's avoid the fight..."
Beside him, Shi Yi, who was eager to engage in battle, was taken aback.
"???"
No fight?
Shi Yi was indeed too young. If something could be resolved through conversation, why resort to fighting?
However, as Shi Yu tried to communicate telepathically, the approaching ice stone giant had already launched an attack, disregarding the rules of combat.
From a distance of several dozen meters, it opened its mouth and began to exhale a cold breath.
In an instant, a concentrated blast of icy mist swept toward Shi Yu and his companions.
The glacier ground where the icy mist passed froze even thicker.
In terms of effect, it was like an enhanced fire extinguisher. The icy blue cold breath spread out like a gradually expanding beam.
Fortunately, the ice giant's cold breath skill was only at a beginner level, with a slow spray speed and not very powerful frost energy. Otherwise, the first challenge would have been enough to make many people sweat.
"Damn... can't communicate."
"Shi Yi, take care of it directly."
As Shi Yu took a small step back, he issued the order, leaving Shi Yi speechless. Why didn't he do this from the start?
Shi Yi raised his head, focused his mind, and activated his super vision, making everything around him seem to slow down.
The range of the cold breath was not large, and its powerful effect was only within a few meters. The energy that spread out was just like ordinary cold air. With his tough skin, Shi Yi didn't even need to harden himself and chose to charge straight through.
The ice stone giant continued to exhale while floating closer. Shi Yi, like a fierce beast, charged at the stone giant. As they neared each other, the threat of the cold breath increased. Shi Yi easily dodged the high-concentration cold breath nearby using his super vision, circling around to the side of the stone giant without giving it a chance to react.
Boom!!
Shi Yi pounced, and his expert-level hardening skill activated. He struck the ice stone giant with a single palm.
Crack!
With just one hit, the three-meter-tall ice stone giant shattered into pieces, disintegrating into countless ice elements before Shi Yu and his companions.
At the same time, a blue energy crystal fell from the ice stone giant's disintegrated body.
Not far away, a glowing teleportation array appeared on the glacier ground.
"Just as Lu Qingyi said, the creatures here are not true life forms but something like elemental avatars..."
Seeing the ice stone giant disintegrate, Shi Yu stood still, gazing at the ice elements in the sky.
At the same time, he observed the surroundings, not forgetting the most important purpose of entering the ruins.
What is this place trying to tell me?
"In the most popular story in Icefield City, an ice dragon descended nearby, causing a mini ice age."
"Then, the ancient beastmaster tribe that settled in Icefield City went to war with the ice dragon."
"Is the icy environment inside the ruins simulating the conditions after the ice dragon's descent?"
As he speculated, Shi Yu's mind became hazy, and a cacophony of voices filled his ears.
Battle sounds, conversation sounds.
His brain buzzed loudly, just like when he heard the stone statue's voice, triggering the traces of history.
At that moment, the voices intertwined, and Shi Yu saw a series of brief images.
A group of young men and women in ancient attire defending against a beast tide on a snowy mountain.
The images were fleeting, and Shi Yu quickly returned to his original state, standing silently.
"What was that?" Shi Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Was that something that happened a long time ago?"
If Shi Yu's judgment was correct, his talent to listen to the sounds of history had just activated again.
He saw a group of ancient beastmasters commanding ice stone giants and fighting a pack of snow wolves and other fierce beasts on the snowy mountain!
Apart from that, there was nothing else.
Shi Yu fell into deep thought again, speculating based on the clues he had seen.
He briefly reconstructed the history of Icefield City based on the available information:
[A beastmaster tribe lived normally around Icefield City. One day, an ice dragon descended, causing a mini ice age.
The mini ice age changed the environment, affecting the normal life of the beastmaster tribe, so they decided to hunt the ice dragon.
However, due to the ice dragon's immense power, the tribe could only use special means to seal it on the snowy mountain.
Although they successfully sealed the ice dragon, they could not change the already formed environment.
The beastmaster tribe had to adapt to the new environment, and their totem stone giants began to mutate into ice stone giants.
At the same time, the extraordinary creatures around the snowy mountain evolved due to the environment, and the number of ice-attribute creatures greatly increased.
Due to the influence of the sealed ice dragon, the fierce beasts on the snowy mountain became extremely aggressive, often causing beast tides.
For the next hundred years, the beastmaster tribe was engaged in defending against the beast tides.
This continued until now, with the ice dragon's ruins still existing, and the beast tides still occurring. However, the beastmaster tribe had disappeared for various reasons.
The current ruins were created by a legendary beastmaster on the verge of death, long after the ice dragon was sealed, to train the tribe's members.
Therefore, the environment inside the ruins is inclined toward the icy tundra...]
"Is that it?" Shi Yu raised his head, but there was no response.
At that moment, Shi Yi picked up the blue energy crystal and ran back excitedly.
"Roar!!!"
Loot!!!
Shi Yi was thrilled.
He had seen and eaten this before.
In the iron-eating beast's nutritional meals at the Bamboo Stone Martial Hall, there were gold and lightning dual-attribute energy crystals.
Energy crystals are formed when elemental energy reaches a certain concentration and are a universal resource for enhancing pet attributes.
However, they are very rare, and the higher the quality, the rarer they are. Although their enhancement effects are more singular compared to most foods, they are effective, making them expensive.
Shi Yi had eaten a level one energy crystal before.
This ice-attribute energy crystal also seemed to be a level one.
"Is this the reward again?" Shi Yu looked at the energy crystal, temporarily putting aside the images he had seen or heard.
It's not bad. If it were before, finding an ice-attribute energy crystal would have made him very happy. Although the attribute was not suitable, selling it could have exchanged for a lot of iron bamboo.
But now, they didn't lack such a level of resources. However, considering this was the first challenge, and almost everyone could obtain one, Shi Yu was content. The rewards for the subsequent challenges would definitely be better.
"Let's continue. Let's see if we can find something new." Although his speculation matched many things, Shi Yu felt the truth wasn't that simple.
After all, the widely known historical story had been contradicted by the stone statue before. Upon careful thought, Shi Yu also felt there were some loopholes.
Shi Yu looked at the teleportation array not far away, which resembled a summoning array, and decided to challenge the second trial.
However, before that, Shi Yu took the energy crystal from Shi Yi and said, "You can't eat this; it will upset your stomach."
"Give it to me, and I'll exchange it for ice cream when we get home."