Bingyuan County.
Park area.
Fang Yu stood still.
At that moment, the statue had completely shattered, and the scene inside revealed itself.
In an instant, he felt as if he had fallen into endless darkness. Just as he stood there in shock, a disturbance appeared within the darkness.
A crisp sound rang out from ahead.
Clang!
Something shook the darkness. Immediately afterward, the darkness receded, and a streak of icy-blue brilliance emerged within it.
When Fang Yu saw clearly, he realized that an icy-blue fruit was descending from midair, suppressing and dispersing the darkness as it fell.
Another clear sound echoed. The fruit dropped straight down before Fang Yu, landing on the ground.
The moment it landed, a wave of icy aura rushed toward him, and intense cold spread in all directions.
The darkness was crushed apart.
Instinctively, Fang Yu bent down and picked up the fruit.
A rumbling sound followed. The instant the fruit left the ground, all the darkness vanished.
Coming back to his senses, Fang Yu looked around. Aside from a frozen layer of ice covering the surface, there was nothing else.
Yet the fruit remained in his hand.
At that moment, holding the fruit, he felt an urge to freeze heaven and earth.
A powerful chill surged like a vast tidal wave.
This fruit was far from ordinary.
"What is this?"
Fang Yu was stunned.
This sudden fruit exceeded the scope of his understanding.
Rustle!
The fruit began to tremble.
Fang Yu: ???
This fruit possessed awareness, it was an unborn lifeform. The earlier faint cry must have been produced by it.
After a short while the fruit stopped trembling. The intense cold subsided and no further abnormalities occurred.
Upon closer inspection, he found the fruit measured about thirty centimeters in length and twenty centimeters in width.
Its body was icy blue and thick, with faint patterns running across its surface.
At that moment, Fang Yu seemed able to clearly see within those patterns the imprint of a peerlessly beautiful woman.
Her face was exquisite and flawless. She wore an ice-blue dress, with long blue hair draped over her shoulders and blue eyes. Around her phantom-like, soul-form body swirled elements like extreme frost and snow. Her temperament was transcendent beyond compare!
Fang Yu's heart trembled.
The density of Ice-element energy contained within it and the shape of this fruit, along with the engraved pattern, could it be that?
A moment later.
Fang Yu hugged the fruit and turned to run.
The disturbance here had been too great and had already alerted the higher-ups of Bingyuan County. It was best to retreat first.
Half an hour later.
The entire Bingyuan County had entered a state of combat readiness due to the tremor, investigating its source.
Meanwhile, the one responsible for the incident had already returned to his hotel.
Fang Yu sat on the bed without moving.
In the next moment, the fruit covered in frost slowly floated above his palm.
Looking at the fruit, Fang Yu fell into silence.
If his guess was correct, this was the embryo of an Ice-element Holy Spirit.
Just like in the original story, where Flame Belle was born from the Fire Calamity Fruit, a special lifeform formed from it.
Clearly, this icy-blue fruit was the same.
As long as it possessed sufficient Ice-element energy. It would shed its embryonic state and grow into a true lifeform. That lifeform would be the Snow Maiden!
It had been drawn awake by the ice orb in his spiritual world, and the icy aura emitted by the orb had happened to nourish its revival.
If he could successfully cultivate a special lifeform like the Snow Maiden, it would be enough for him to ascend to the ranks of a peak High-Tier mage!
Moreover, a being like the Snow Maiden was something one could only encounter by chance. Most people had merely heard of such existence and had never truly seen one.
Why had the Ice-element Holy Spirit Fruit been sealed inside the statue?
And what connection did this embryo have with the Ice-element being atop Yuling Snow Mountain?
This was too bizarre.
Too mind-bending.
Fang Yu stopped overthinking.
He picked up the Snow Maiden Fruit and stirred the ice orb within his spiritual world, causing it to release cold aura to nurture it.
The next day.
Fang Yu went out smiling to get something to eat. During the process, he inquired about last night's situation.
Although no one else knew what had happened, it was said that the park area of the Bingyuan County Hunter's Union had already been heavily sealed off.
Fang Yu felt slightly uneasy. The statue in that park had shattered, it would definitely attract attention.
They wouldn't trace it back to him, would they?
There had been no one there at the time, and there were no surveillance cameras installed in that area. Probably not.
Still, Fang Yu didn't dare guarantee it.
Until he knew exactly what had happened, there was no way he would turn himself in. That was the embryo of an Ice-element Holy Spirit, his capital for rising to power.
He could only continue pretending that he knew nothing.
At noon that day, the powerful mages of Bingyuan County all arrived at the park.
Nine High-Tier mages of varying ages stood before the shattered stones scattered across the ground, their expressions tinged with confusion.
"Could it be that the rumor about a lifeform existing inside the statue is true? Humans who possess powerful Ice-element energy often claimed they could hear faint murmurs from it."
Aside from these nine, there was a tenth person present.
The youngest among the nine High-Tier mages was already over thirty years old. Unlike them, the tenth person on site was very young.
She was a woman in her twenties with short tea-colored hair.
She wore a white shirt, a black skirt, and a white research coat that reached her knees. Her expression was cool and composed, and behind her glasses, her gaze was especially focused and serious.
"Lu Qing, what do you think?" one of them asked.
Lu Qing replied, "I'm not sure. The information we have right now is still too limited.
The statue's shattering may confirm the rumor, there truly was a hidden lifeform inside, and it has revived and escaped. Or perhaps someone learned of its secret and stole what was within. Further investigation is required before we can provide more details.
By the way, aside from the statue breaking, were there any other abnormalities in Bingyuan County?"
The military commander answered, "Several low calls were heard from Yuling Snow Mountain."
"From the relic site?"
"Yes."
Lu Qing's expression did not change. It seemed that this statue was connected to the situation at the Yuling Snow Mountain relic.
The statue shattered, was it the accidental birth of a lifeform, or did someone trigger the statue and take what was inside?
Which was it…
The disturbance in Bingyuan County was significant, so Fang Yu kept as low a profile as possible.
Develop steadily. Don't act recklessly!
Previously, Fang Yu had planned to raise his Ice Element to Mid-Tier Level Two first, then begin hunting demons earlier to earn more funds.
But now he had changed his mind. It was better to prioritize his Summoning Element. After all, if the fruit matured and the Ice-element Holy Spirit was born, yet he couldn't form a contract with it, that would be tragic.
The sun rose as usual on the second day.
The sun rose as usual on the third day.
On the fourth day, the world was still at peace.
Just like that, a full week had passed since the strange mutation triggered by chatting with the statue, and Fang Yu had stayed around his hotel the entire time.
During this period, his Summoning Element completed a breakthrough.
Now he was already at Basic-Tier Level Two.
Fang Yu truly wanted to see whether, once he formed a contract with the Ice-element Holy Spirit and unleashed its full combat strength, he could defeat opponents several levels above him.
However, considering that the Ice-element Holy Spirit had not yet been born, he set the thought aside for now.
Better to continue developing steadily.
He departed, returning to Magic City, feeling completely at ease.
From the information he had gathered, the matter of the statue cracking and giving birth to the Ice-element Holy Spirit had not been discovered.
Moreover.
No one had come looking for him.
No matter how one looked at it, the incident had nothing to do with him anymore.
Time flew by.
Fang Yu devoted this precious youth to cultivation, demon hunting, and nurturing the embryo of the Ice-element Holy Spirit, never growing tired of it.
Now, Fang Yu's rank within the Hunter's Union had reached Demon Hunting Elite, which in the eyes of veteran hunters was already considered a highly experienced mage.
Not only that, his Summoning Element had reached Basic-Tier Level Three, and the life aura of the Ice-element Holy Spirit embryo was growing stronger and stronger.
Meanwhile.
At school, the National Magic Examination the great waterfall that allowed students across the country to leap through the dragon's gate was gradually approaching.
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