Chapter 102: Chapter 99: Polar Ice Worm.
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After venturing into the ice mountain, the chilling energy inside intensified in an instant.
After his promotion to Level 9, Su Lin’s fur and flesh far exceeded their prior resistance to cold, yet he still felt waves of coldness.
“The climate is excessively harsh and severe, the host’s physical strength consumption is doubled, please be mindful to conserve energy.”
This long-lost notification buzzed once more.
This made Su Lin’s expression turn even more grave.
In such a bitterly cold ice mountain, he had to quickly explore and then get out promptly.
Otherwise, once his physical strength was exhausted, he’d have to use a recovery potion.
If there wasn’t any gain, and a recovery potion was used up, it would be a loss unrecouped.
After walking into the ice mountain, he found that it was very spacious inside.
As Su Lin walked, he carefully examined every corner of the ice mountain,
and soon, he arrived in the very center and discovered a very deep fissure.
The fissure descended into the lower layers of the ice.
Nine-tenths of the ice mountain was hidden beneath the ice layer; the fissure shouldn’t lead straight to the North Arctic Ocean, for if it led to the ocean, sea water would have already gushed up.
It probably led to the deepest part of the ice mountain.
But Su Lin’s keen senses detected a trace of danger emanating from this bottomless fissure.
It was as if ferocious beasts of a deluge lurked below.
“How is this possible? With such a steep incline, I can rely on my speed to go down and explore, but how can the cumbersome and massive grizzly bear make it down?”
Su Lin stood at the fissure, halted his steps, and looked down.
The night vision capability of a Wolf Clan’s eyes spotted faint light at the bottom of the fissure,
like several flowers, albeit too distant to see clearly.
This slightly tantalized him.
But it was at that moment, Su Lin suddenly felt something was amiss,
rustling sounds came from the fissure, and a lot of ice and snow began to slide down.
Immediately after, one after another, white insects started to clamber up from the fissure.
One, two, three… Five…
The bottom of the fissure seemed to be home to countless such insects, like a terrifying nest.
As the insects emerged, they rapidly attacked Su Lin, as if attracted by the vivid vitality he emanated.
The insects were not large, only about ten centimeters in size, but their numbers swiftly gathered to well over a hundred in a short span of time.
And they had a repellent appearance, with short limbs and no eyes on their heads, only a round mouthpart, resembling some enlarged fungal species.
This made him feel his scalp tingle.
“Damn it! In such a frostbitten place, how can there be insects alive?”
With a thought from Su Lin, the numerical attributes of the dense swarm of insects appeared before his eyes.
Species: Polar Ice Worm (Variant Species).
Level: 1.
Qi-Blood: 121.
Endurance: 19.
Strength: 21.
Defense: 17.
Speed: 23.
When the data panel for these insects appeared before Su Lin’s eyes, he was somewhat astonished!
Variant Species!
A dense swarm of them!
Although their levels were not high, such hundreds and thousands of variant species also had a significant presence!
“Aow!”
Su Lin roared angrily,
the chilly howl echoing through the ice mountain,
Being cautious, he began to retreat quickly.
A Speed Value of 200 granted him the freedom to come and go as he pleased.
As he retreated, he also managed to seize one of the foremost Polar Ice Worms with his claws.
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Su Lin’s keen senses could feel the enormous energy within the body of the Polar Ice Worm.
Crack!
The Polar Ice Worm’s teeth were very sharp, biting fiercely onto Su Lin’s Wolf Claw.
But it did not breach the defense.
After all, the Polar Ice Worm’s attack power was very low, but a tingling numbness could be felt spreading from the claw.
“Hm? Poison? This worm is venomous?”
A glint of light flashed through Su Lin’s pale blue Wolf Eyes.
But he didn’t mind because the Healing Talent not only had the effect of a hundredfold recovery but also immunity to all toxins and infections.
Sure enough, under the powerful Healing Talent, a faint white mist rose from the Wolf Claw, and the tingling numbness completely disappeared.
Without hesitation, Su Lin bit into and devoured the presumptuous Polar Ice Worm that had launched an attack on him!
He had thought the Polar Ice Worm wouldn’t taste good, but after eating it, he changed his mind.
Su Lin felt he shouldn’t judge a worm by its cover!
Once in his mouth, it had a faint floral flavor and a massive yet pure strength surged into his body.
“Ding! Host has consumed a Variant Species Polar Ice Worm, gaining 45 Evolution Points.”
These Evolution Points made his eyes light up.
He instantly understood the reason behind the Variant Species Grizzly Bear’s increased strength.
It likely stemmed from these very Polar Ice Worms.
These Polar Ice Worms, although venomous,
only a few worms’ poison would be negligible for a Grizzly Bear of such a huge body size.
Moreover, the massive and pure energy inside the Polar Ice Worms was the best growth catalyst for the Variant Species!
Each time the Grizzly Bear came to eat a few and then left, waiting to digest them before returning, its strength would surely steadily rise.
But now that big Grizzly Bear had no chance!
All these worms were his!
The worms that had once made Su Lin’s scalp tingle now suddenly became delicious and delectable delicacies!
“Haha, bring on as many as there are!”
Su Lin didn’t back off anymore and started to actively enter the dense attack range of the Polar Ice Worms.
He had the Healing Talent, which could immunize him against all toxins.
The Polar Ice Worms’ most potent attack method was utterly ineffective against him!
Smack!
Su Lin casually swiped his claw, shattering two or three Polar Ice Worms, and began to feast!
“Ding! Host has consumed a Variant Species Polar Ice Worm, gaining 42 Evolution Points.”
“Ding! Host has consumed a Variant Species Polar Ice Worm, gaining 39 Evolution Points.”
“Ding! Host has consumed a Variant Species Polar Ice Worm, gaining 36 Evolution Points.”
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After breaking through to Level 9, Su Lin’s wolf body reached 3 meters, and naturally, his appetite increased further.
At the moment, he could eat a good seventy to eighty pounds of food in one meal.
With the Polar Ice Worms being such small and light meals, it would take many to completely fill his stomach.
Meanwhile, the Healing Talent was also frantically working, starting to evaporate all of the poison from the Polar Ice Worms.
Crack!
Crack!
Su Lin was gorging himself!
The essence of energy from the Polar Ice Worms surged massively into his body.
The vast majority was converted into Evolution Points, with a small part serving as the driving force for operating the Healing Talent!
But as Su Lin, who was indulging in the rapid rise of Evolution Points, didn’t let his guard down.
Because he knew that the sensation of danger from the crack was definitely not from these Polar Ice Worms.
Even if there were many of these merely Level 1 or 2 Polar Ice Worms, they could not pose the slightest threat to him.
So, what truly posed a threat to him was still at the crack, not having climbed up.
Besides, what was that mysterious light flickering at the bottom of the crack?