After smashing the creature’s head, Yang Yi received its data:【Name: Ice Nest Elder】【Description: To better adapt to extreme cold, he chose to abandon his immobile flesh and transform into a crystalline giant.This is the wisdom of the elder!He often leads large groups of believers, guarding the White Palace, forbidding any high-temperature objects from approaching and defiling the glacier.Can be used in the Monster Gacha Machine】“Phew~”Yang Yi exhaled a tongue of flame.He had finally slain the troublesome giant.But then, he noticed something on the ground—a tiny white crystal, no larger than a pinky fingernail.It stood out sharply against the charred, cracked soil, and even began to frost over, turning egg-shaped.“This is…”Yang Yi picked it up in disbelief.【Name: Tiny White Fragment】【Type: Relic】【Quality: ???】【Description: A small piece of eternally unmelting white ice, perpetually cold, capable of forming frost and condensing into an ice egg.The holder can see through the white mist’s visual obstruction—but beware of frostbite.Once it forms into an ice egg, it stabilizes, maintaining a temperature 10 degrees below the surrounding environment.It cannot burn, melt, or heat up!】The ice egg in his hand instantly melted.At once, the flames on Yang Yi’s body dimmed; it felt as if the heat was being drained away.This crystal must’ve been the thing embedded in the Elder’s forehead—that’s why the giant hadn’t died despite burning for so long!No time to study it—Yang Yi began to save himself.Time was running out.He had no desire to actually burn himself to death.Right now, Refusal of Death had 3 minutes and 20 seconds remaining, with his HP locked at 1.If the fire wasn’t out by then, he’d die for sure.He had to extinguish the flames—but how?Yang Yi snapped back to awareness and realized the glacier beneath his feet had turned into scorched, cracked soil—no moisture, just heat-twisted air rising upward.“What the…” he muttered.This dry, lifeless ground radiated outward from where he stood—and it looked familiar.Exactly like the vision he’d seen before, when he glimpsed the shadow of the Charred Tree.If that was the case…He might have become an anchor point between two overlapping spaces—being pulled toward that real, scorched wasteland.And at the edge of that land stood a tree that burned forever—The Charred Tree, the Lord of Sublimation, the Burner of All Things…“No…!”If he actually saw that tree, it would be over—he’d be burned to ash and drift into the endless black smoke.Now Yang Yi finally understood how dangerous the spell he’d used really was. No wonder the crystalline giant had panicked.It was a spell of the same nature as the Spider Mother’s Summoning Rite—The difference was, the spider rite might succeed, while this one simply required you to burn long enough, to prove your endurance in flame!If you survived that fire, you would earn the right to behold the Charred Tree—And be reduced to ash in the most absolute heat of existence.What joy! The ultimate ecstasy of annihilation—“Like hell!”Yang Yi spat out another puff of flame, snapping out of the suicidal trance.He rummaged through his stomach pouch—but its info had changed.【Name: Roasted Gluttonous Stomach Pouch】【Type: Treasure】【Quality: Rare】【Description: It has been roasted by fire. No longer devours the flesh stored inside. Offers 3 cubic meters of storage space.PS: Continued burning will damage this item and cause ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ its contents to fall out.】“Damn it!”He cursed—the flames on his body were affecting his equipment.Quickly, he opened the pouch and pulled out some drinking water.But the moment it touched his hand, the water boiled. When he poured it on himself, it only slightly reduced the scorched ground around him.Then—his vision went black. He couldn’t see a thing.His Third Eye had run out of time.【The suffocating despair overwhelms you. Sanity -20】【You face death in the dark. Sanity -20】“No! There has to be a way!”Yang Yi dropped to his knees and started digging into the ground, desperate to tunnel downward—If he could bury himself in soil, maybe he could smother the fire.No oxygen, no flame—at least in theory.Then, suddenly—he felt something cold approaching.A strange sensation—it wasn’t sight or sound, but a sixth sense beyond the five.Something large, perhaps one or two tons, was slithering toward him.Soon after, icy water poured over his body, dropping his temperature sharply.The scorched ground vanished beneath him.“Suna?”He couldn’t see, but he guessed. Who else could help him at a time like this?And indeed—it was Suna.She was trying to put out his flames.Earlier, she’d used corpses of Ice Nest followers and half a Pale Worm’s remains to summon a Stitched Monster.Limited by her available mana, the creature was only about three meters long.But it inherited the Pale Worm’s traits—able to absorb and spit out matter, including water.So Suna ordered it to douse Yang Yi in water.Within a hundred-meter radius, the glacier had almost completely melted—enough to swim in, connected to the frozen sea below.The stitched creature paddled toward him, using the limbs it had taken from Ice Nest corpses—its whole body ablaze.But as a puppet, it ignored the pain, obeying its master’s command without hesitation, even to death.Once close enough, it regurgitated the water it had stored—like a massive water cannon—mixed with chunks of charred Ice Nest flesh.Thanks to its effort, the scorched ground beneath Yang Yi finally gave way—he plunged into the melted sea.The immense heat turned the water into boiling steam, erupting like geysers.But at last, the flames on his body were extinguished.The white fragment in his hand had contributed greatly; Yang Yi tucked it into his Worm Ring—otherwise it might’ve frozen him solid in the sea.A few seconds later, a completely blackened werewolf crawled up from under the glacier.It was Yang Yi—barely alive, sustained only by Refusal of Death, which had mere seconds left.Thankfully, the ice here was thick enough.If it had been thinner, he might have sunk beneath the sheet—and never resurfaced.Once ashore, Yang Yi immediately began checking his condition and preparing to restore his HP.

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