Chapter 736: Achievement: Glory of Ice, Ancient Ice Troll

[Lone Wolf: Leader, the enemy has stopped at the outer perimeter of the Gugu Ga Mountain Range. They must have discovered our drone, which raised their alertness.]

Looking at the message Carmen sent, Yu Yuan's expression turned slightly grave.

"Truly a cautious bunch! However..."

Yu Yuan gazed at the green light screen that had just receded, the corner of his mouth curling into an arc.

"I'm waiting for the defensive facilities to finish construction. What are you waiting for?"

The first Core Reactor had been successfully constructed.

Farlin looked toward Yu Yuan.

"Dear friend, let's head to the second location!"

The motor lodge opened. After all the goblins entered, the door closed and then opened again.

They had arrived at the second area suitable for constructing a Core Reactor.

Just as Yu Yuan was about to continue waiting, a stirring sensation from spirituality caught his attention.

"This is..."

Yu Yuan immediately sensed it. Someone was calling out to him.

It was those faith believers he had marked and identified.

"Farlin, I'll come pick you all up in a bit." Tossing out those words, Yu Yuan directly teleported back to the Altar of Life at Johnck Zoo.

Mona was studying improvements to the Ritual Array based on the dark knowledge in her mind.

"Leader? What's wrong?"

"There are believers calling out to me. Seems like quite a lot of them!"

Seeing this, Mona immediately came to Yu Yuan's side, activated the ritual, and the Dark Sanctum descended.

As the faith fluctuation unique to ice emerged from Yu Yuan's body, the Faith Channel opened.

Mona skillfully connected her own faith to Yu Yuan's, and shielded him.

Yu Yuan, meanwhile, followed that call. His consciousness had already traversed countless worlds, and he saw the person calling out to him.

"Hm? It's him!"

Yu Yuan recognized that the one calling him was actually the very person from the first ice faith identification, Johnsen.

He wore a sacrificial robe, his expression solemn.

And behind him knelt over a thousand survivors.

Yu Yuan was surprised inwardly.

Last time, there had only been two to three hundred survivors behind him.

How long had it been? He had actually gathered so many people.

"Great Lord of Ice, please accept the sacrifice offered by your most loyal servant..."

Yu Yuan looked toward the center of the ritual, where a snow-white fox lay.

Except this fox was covered in wounds all over its body, barely clinging to life.

But the aura it emitted had reached Bronze-tier standards.

These people had actually captured a Bronze-tier creature.

"Great Lord of Ice, please bless us to fear no cold, and grant us the power to protect ourselves."

Mona's voice sounded in Yu Yuan's ear.

"Leader, their Ritual Array has a two-way transfer effect. Items can be transmitted in both directions through the Ritual Array."

Yu Yuan's mind stirred. He already had an idea.

Within the Ice Valley.

Johnsen was highly excited, undisguised fervor and piety in the depths of his eyes.

He could feel it.

He could feel that the great Lord of Ice had cast His gaze upon him.

And as he prayed, the thousand-plus believers behind him also raised their voices in unison.

Johnsen was very satisfied.

He had gone to great lengths to spread word of the Lord of Ice's power to attract all these people.

And he had even led people to capture a wounded exotic beast.

He was full of confidence in this sacrificial ritual.

He had indeed succeeded.

A fierce wind blew, sweeping the surrounding ice and snow, which began to converge toward the center.

Seeing this scene, the believers' heartbeats seemed to stop.

Those believers who had experienced this scene before grew ever more pious and fervent in their eyes.

But behind them, those who had just joined wore expressions of sheer shock, their pupils dilated.

The ice and snow condensed in the air into a humanoid silhouette, with only the eye area emitting a faint, deep blue glow.

Wherever the light swept, everyone felt a trace of chill.

"A deity, there really is a deity. He has noticed me, noticed me!"

"Incredible, it really is a deity..."

Then the ice-snow figure reached out once more, lightly touching Johnsen's forehead.

Afterward, a pale blue light flashed, and the wind and snow spread, enveloping everyone.

This process did not last long, merely three to five seconds.

But when the wind and snow dissipated, the doubt, awe, and piety in the eyes of these thousand-plus people.

Without exception, all had turned into fervor.

All because at the center of the Ritual Array altar, where the snow fox sacrifice had originally been placed.

The sacrifice had vanished, replaced by hundreds of blocks radiating warm heat.

These were heat sources!

And they required no burning, no energy, yet could continuously radiate heat.

If this wasn't a miracle, then what was?

In the current low-temperature environment, these were life-saving items.

A deity shelters believers, and believers naturally reciprocate with the most sincere pious faith.

"Farewell, great Lord of Ice!" Johnsen's voice rang out loudly.

"Farewell, great Lord of Ice!" The believers likewise voiced from the bottom of their hearts.

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[Ding! Completed one high-quality ice faith identification. Believers +823]

[Ding! Completed one 'Deity Disguise'. Faith Transfer +2.4%]

[Ding! Gained Ice Faith Authority +3.1%]

[Achievement Unlocked: Glory of Ice]

[Achievement Points Gained: 100000]

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Achievement: Glory of Ice

Unlock Conditions: At the end of an ice faith ritual with more than 1000 participants, pious believer count ≥80%, fanatic believer count ≥50%, and faith authority no less than 10%.

Rewards:

① Ice believer loyalty +5

② Ice believer range extension

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"Glory of Ice!"

The unexpected harvest delighted Yu Yuan.

He also quickly understood the meaning of the so-called believer range extension.

Because within the Ice Faith Channel, many light points that had never appeared before had emerged.

And these light points all shared a common characteristic.

Previously, whether they were Molten Believers, Snake of Rebirth believers, or Ice believers.

Without exception, all had been humanoid intelligent beings.

But now these emerging light points, without exception, were all non-humanoid creatures.

Or rather, they were all ice-attribute monsters.

And among the several ice monsters closest to him, Yu Yuan sensed a familiar aura.

His consciousness drew near. Seeing the information surfacing on the light point, he instantly understood.

——Losdi Magic Ice Spider

——Status: Awake, enraged

——Personality: Irascible

The scene of the Losdi Magic Ice Spider appeared before his eyes.

It lurked beneath the ice surface, assuming the posture of a hunter. Not far away was the cargo ship wedged upside-down in the ice.

"Tsk tsk, didn't this fellow enjoy slumbering? Quite the temper!"

Yu Yuan stayed to check the conditions of several other ice creatures located in the Green Forest World.

Had he not looked, he would not have been startled.

Near Green Forest City, there were actually as many as seven Silver-tier ice creatures, ranging from dozens to hundreds of kilometers from the city.

However, these creatures were almost all sunk in slumber.

It was just that when Yu Yuan saw the second-to-last creature, his expression shifted slightly.

"This place is... the Gugu Ga Mountain Range?"

Yu Yuan looked at that enormous moving city in the distance, his eyes narrowing slightly.

He looked again at this ice creature's information.

——Ancient Ice Troll

——Status: Slumbering

——Personality: Strong combat desire, belligerent

His thoughts churned...