"Too... too good!"

"But before entering the dungeon, Lin Yi, have you looked into the strategy guide for this dungeon?"

Ke Mengyuan was visibly excited.

Lin Yi shook his head: "Not yet, I haven't had the chance to look."

"Then let me briefly explain the mechanism and strategy of this dungeon to you."

Lin Yi nodded, listening intently.

After all, it's a high-difficulty dungeon. Trying to quickly clear it without understanding its content and mechanism is nearly impossible.

"Once we enter the dungeon, our roles inside are called 'Sand Pirates'!"

"Within the dungeon, it's a planet entirely covered by an endless desert. Although this planet is barren and wild, it is rumored that hundreds of years ago, a traveler from beyond the stars discovered a majestic ancient ruin in the depths of the endless Desert Sea."

"Though the ruins are fraught with danger, anyone who reaches the center of the ruins can acquire treasures from the vortex at the heart of the Desert Sea."

"The first person to discover the ruins and acquire the treasure deep inside was named Luo Jie."

"Luo Jie stated that the treasures buried deep in the Desert Vortex were enough to be unearthed for ten thousand years and that the treasure he obtained wasn't even the most valuable in the vortex."

"Luo Jie stayed on Desert Sea Planet and hosted an annual Sand Pirate treasure hunt competition."

"Under his call, over a century, countless travelers from across the stars came to Desert Sea Planet, seeking fortune, ushering in the era of the Great Sand Pirates!"

After listening to Ke Mengyuan's brief introduction to the dungeon background, Lin Yi had countless comments he wanted to voice.

"The treasure that Luo Jie dug up isn't called ONE PIECE, is it..."

Ke Mengyuan looked at Lin Yi in surprise: "Eh? Didn't you say you hadn't read the strategy guide?"

Lin Yi: "..."

"It's fine, keep going."

Ke Mengyuan: "Although this dungeon world is covered in sand, the sand here significantly differs from the sand on Blue Star."

"On a microscopic level, they are tiny solid particles, but on a macroscopic level, they behave like fluid, similar to seawater."

"Once we enter this dungeon, the first thing most teams do is gather materials to craft a sand boat of their own!"

"The first event in the competition is a sand sea race!"

"Only the first 100 Sand Pirate teams to reach the perimeter of the ruins will gain Luo Jie's approval to enter and explore the ruins!"

"Many of our teams who have cleared this dungeon in Shenxiao have continuously improved their sand boats, making them faster and better, which is why they can consistently achieve top 30 clearances every month."

"One could say that the quality of the sand boat largely determines whether this dungeon can be cleared."

Lin Yi: "Ah? So how's our sand boat? Is it any good?"

Upon hearing Lin Yi's question, Ke Mengyuan blushed.

"We..."

"We don't have a sand boat..."

"Because when I previously entered this dungeon, the people on my team went off to team up with others."

"I'm a Priest, but we don't have a shortage of Priests in Shenxiao. They tend to prefer Priests who are females rather than me..."

Lin Yi was silent.

What a sad story...

Nuwa Academy almost fulfills the entire Priest role requirement for other teams in Shenxiao.

Look at the people from other academies; they are ravenous, you can tell their desire for girls is ingrained in their bones.

Naturally, no one would want someone like Ke Mengyuan, a "male mom"...

Lin Yi felt a headache coming on.

The first challenge of this dungeon is actually a sand boat race.

Not the typical fighting and killing.

This way, he feels like he doesn't have much opportunity to use his skills.

"What should we do then?"

"Building a new sand boat from scratch would take a lot of time, wouldn't it?"

Ke Mengyuan: "The organizers of the sand sea race will provide the most basic sand boats to teams without one, but modifications and power engines are completely absent, even requiring human power to move."

"In the race, it's certain to be eliminated."

"However, Lin Yi, this is why I believe that with you joining, we have hope."

"I've followed you for a long time... You've used high-tier ice magic in the arena before."

"Your proficiency in ice magic should be quite high."

"I've researched before, the sand on Desert Sea Planet, not only has fluid characteristics, but it can also be frozen!"

Ke Mengyuan adjusted his glasses confidently.

Lin Yi was stunned.

He seemed to have a vague idea of Ke Mengyuan's plan.

"Everyone is enhancing their sand boat performance, trying to go faster."

"But I believe, as long as you can use ice magic to freeze the sand sea area of the event venue, all their sand boats will be rendered useless!"

"Our sand boat doesn't need to be better than theirs; we just need to drag them down to the same starting line as us!"

"Once the race begins, their hefty sand boats surely can't rely on manpower to move, and by then, we are sure to win!"

Lin Yi was in awe.

Genius, discharged!

"However, the only difficulty in my plan is that the venue of the Desert Sea Gold Rush competition is substantial, and the Desert Sea is constantly moving."

"Instantly freezing a large area of the sand sea would be challenging, at least several thousand square kilometers."

"So far, even at Fu Xi Academy, I haven't heard of any senior specializing in ice who can accomplish this."

"Can you do it?"

Ke Mengyuan looked at Lin Yi with eager eyes.

Lin Yi scratched his head.

To be honest, he can't do it at the moment.

But right now, he has stored up skill points and has more than seven million in savings in his bank account.

Adding more points to the ice skills is not out of the question.

"Hold on a moment, let me check."

Lin Yi opened his skill list.

Clicked on the ice skill tree that he hadn't visited in a long time.

Long ago, Lin Yi had increased the ice skills to Tier Seven and stopped adding points.

Violent output from the fire element.

True damage from the thunder element.

Made Lin Yi almost never need the control and restraint effects of the ice element.

At this moment, he realized he couldn't be too focused on one field.

He doesn't have to use it.

But he can't be without it!

[Upgrading Soul Freeze to Tier Eight requires 500,000 skill points, upgrade now?]

Lin Yi added points with one click.

Half a million skill points were deducted.

[Consume 500,000 skill points, your Soul Freeze has been upgraded, you've acquired a new spell: Ice Age!]

Lin Yi checked the description of this Tier Eight ice skill.

This skill can create a large-scale extreme cold field, freezing everything in the field, continuously inflicting ice attribute damage based on maximum life value as a percentage.

It's roughly a fusion of Tier Seven Soul Freeze and Tier Six Bone-Chilling Cold, but with a much larger range.

However, Lin Yi noticed that this skill's range still didn't reach as vast as several thousand square kilometers.

Lin Yi then looked at the alternate version of this Tier Eight skill.

This skill only had two words.

But it made Lin Yi's eyes light up—

Black Ice.

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