Chapter 682: Ice Dragon Ridge (1/2)
Clang!
I stabbed the Cyan Netherworld Sword into the rock and held the Blade of the Predator in my mouth. Then, I extended my free arm at the Divine Dayflower and used the Spirit Cooking’s supplementary gathering skill.
Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, you have gathered Divine Dayflower x5!
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Awesome, I got 5 herbs in one go! This should be enough for me to make one Rank 10 Saint Spirit Potion at least. The reason I came this far to gather the Divine Dayflower was because the Rank 10 potion was absolutely amazing. It instantly restored 15k HP and 7.5k MP upon usage, and regenerated 25% of the user’s HP and MP over 60 seconds. Its effect was amazing for someone with over 100k HP, healing for a total of over 40k HP in total. It was a number that could make an enemy player weep and trouble a lot of bosses.
In Heavenblessed, the average potion or consumable had a cooldown of 120 seconds. However, the Saint Spirit Potion was not your average potion. Besides the benefits mentioned above, its cooldown period was half of that of a normal potion, greatly increasing one’s survivability. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the best healing item obtainable during the mid-game, be it for PvE or PvP. Therefore, my plan was to make as many Saint Spirit Potions as I could for the girls of Frost Cloud workshop and core players like Li Chengfeng. It was just too good even if you considered the absurd difficulties one had to go through to obtain its core ingredient like long travel time, terrible weather, and deadly terrain.
I started climbing upward again to search for more Divine Dayflowers, and I wasn’t disappointed. Cold ice and stinging winds aside, I spotted a couple of Divine Dayflowers on the frozen walls.
”Hahaha, I’m rich…”
I climbed my way toward the herbs while beaming like the sun. Behind my back, the Soul Suppressing Cloak was flapping loudly against the wind and making me look like a fierce general who was fighting against nature itself. Of course, said general was really sweating like a pig and feeling a little weak in the knees because he was one slip away from a bottomless abyss, not to mention that this type of climbing was extremely exhausting.
The Phantom Wolf King wasn’t nearly as tired as I was, however. Not only did it climb the cliff with far more ease than I did, it almost felt like it was eating popcorn and enjoying a show, namely me. Of course, it immediately stuck out its tongue and wagged its tail dutifully when it caught my gaze.
It took 5 Divine Dayflowers to create just one Rank 10 Saint Spirit Potion. Even an idiot could tell how precious the herb was.
Five gathers later, the environment directly above my head suddenly grew much darker. I had climbed into the clouds before I realized it, and I could even see lightning streaking across the condensed water vapor from time to time. I felt like I was training in hell, and worse, my feet were literally suspended in midair. It was scary to say the least.
It was at this moment that I spotted the sixth Divine Dayflower atop a protrusion of rock. It was covered in ice, and it didn’t look like it would be easy to cut through.
I was just about to extract it when I heard a hiss right next to the Divine Dayflower. Next, the sinister-looking head of a snake appeared and bit my extended arm!
Puchi!
12272!
A wave of dizziness and pain assaulted my senses at once. What the hell is this thing?
I narrowed my eyes and saw a thick-bodied snake that was three meters long and covered in bluish scales. Its head was triangular in shape, and its venomous fangs were gleaming dangerously in the wind. In fact, I was afflicted with the Poisoned status condition. Right now, my HP regeneration was cut in half, and I was losing 400 HP per second. How terrible!
”Roar roar!”
Beside me, the Phantom Wolf King roared as if it couldn’t believe that the bloody snake had the gall to attack its master. It immediately smacked the snake in the head for almost 20k damage before sinking its fangs into its weak spot. Blue blood immediately started pouring out of its wounds.
Frozen Snake was a Level 178 ancient mob with amazing attack power. In Sky City, not even the Fruit Knight Goddess herself could deal this much damage to me with one basic attack, and right now she was probably stronger than even me.
A Level 178 mob was a deadly threat, especially because I wasn’t mounted right now. Thankfully, the Phantom Wolf King was an Immortal Rank boss pet who was as loyal as it was courageous. There was no way it was going to lose to the stupid snake.
However, I was still suspended in midair, and there could be more dangers lurking in the dark. If possible, I wanted to keep my pet as healthy as possible, so I immediately freed the Cyan Netherworld Sword and launched Burning Blade Slash at its weak spot. I was even lucky enough to land two critical hits in a row!
The rest of the fight fell completely in the Phantom Wolf King’s favor. Clinging to the wall with three paws and striking with the fourth, it managed to trigger a Claw of the Storm and left a deep mark on the rock. The mob itself was almost flattened by the blow that killed it!
Pop!
The snake dropped a lot of items in midair, and among them were two humongous magic stones. I grabbed everything instead of leaving behind the magic stones like usual because loot was hard to come by at this place. Magic stones could be sold for money as well, so I wasn’t going to waste them.