Chapter 107: The Ice Bear

“We’re about to reach two hundred fifty units of distance,” Mu Bai reminded.

She was wearing the watch and had kept track of the time.

Nearly ten hours had passed.

They had experienced long stations before, but never one with such intense combat.

This was far more exhausting than that labyrinth-style game station.

Even with the Living Point Map, their route was fixed.

Mu Bai could guide the team to avoid some fights, but monster rooms were the most numerous.

No matter how much they dodged, they couldn’t bypass all of them.

Not long ago, Mu Bai and the others had taken a break, so their stamina was holding up okay.

During that time, Luo Huang had wanted to show off her talent’s effect multiple times, but the monsters were easily handled by Tang Shifu, Mo Cha, and Ye Yuan.

Her close-combat skills and marksmanship were both poor, so she could only hang back with Mu Bai as a tag-along.

Luo Huang was struggling here too.

“I don’t know when we’ll reach the end…”

Luo Huang’s stamina was average; she hadn’t even increased her stats much.

She wasn’t much better than Mu Bai, and she was exhausted.

Mu Bai occasionally held Ye Yuan’s hand to recover stamina, but Luo Huang had no such replenishment.

Seeing someone with Mu Bai’s physical fitness able to keep going, Luo Huang felt embarrassed to ask for a rest.

She could only grit her teeth and power through.

However, the beef jerky Mu Bai handed over helped ease Luo Huang’s stamina drain.

She was both surprised that such a precious consumable could be used for travel and a little touched.

“On this route, we’ve encountered over twenty supply rooms. Including what we got before meeting you, that’s four consumable potions plus some other items—not counting the final treasure…”

Mu Bai analyzed.

“This trial station is Level 6. It can’t give too many rewards. I think the end shouldn’t be far.”

In truth, Mu Bai felt the farther the end, the better.

Since the only competition among players was the final treasure, it all came down to strength and luck.

There was no limit on how many could return to the train.

The farther the end, the more supply rooms and adventure rooms they’d pass, and the more rewards they’d get.

In fact, this station was practically a welfare station for skilled players.

When evaluating the total value of rewards, Mu Bai referred to the last Level 5 supernatural promotion site.

The promotion site’s gold treasure chest had contained a silver-grade bloodline potion—worth gold coins.

The talent upgrade scroll was priceless, and the cotton effect talisman, while low-key, had an insane lethality against spirit bodies.

All together, at least four or five gold coins—that wasn’t excessive.

This trial station had a higher level but only gave silver chests.

The treasure might not even come in chest form.

Yet the items they’d already gotten from supply boxes and adventure room rewards were worth a few dozen silver coins.

The station map was huge.

If you imagined it as a massive circle or square with the end as the center, there were probably several thousand rooms.

Without even counting the final treasure, the total value would be tens of thousands of silver coins—more than ten gold coins.

The longer the path to the end, the faster the total reward value would skyrocket.

That would be terrifying.

Using her own rational judgment, Mu Bai believed the end couldn’t be too far—at least not enough to push the reward value beyond a dozen or so gold coins.

As they chatted, the next monster room contained seven or eight remnant souls.

Luo Huang saw that the enemies were spirit bodies and perked up.

Just as she was about to say she’d handle it, Tang Shifu had already punched forward.

“Weapon Strike Fist!”

Boom!

A hideous remnant soul was struck by the punch, dissipating into the air with a pop, its face stunned as if it had no idea how it died.

Mo Cha pulled out a jade pendant.

This pendant was obtained from killing a squad of cultivators at the last promotion site.

It had a similar effect to Mo Cha’s talent against spirit bodies, except it consumed stamina to injure them.

The Jade Gourd Pendant was permanently on Mu Bai, so this pendant naturally went to Mo Cha, who didn’t have Weapon Strike Fist, making up for her lack of spirit-killing ability.

Right now, Mo Cha simply held the pendant in her palm, and three or four remnant souls in front of her were rooted in place, unable to move or attack.

A bit of color drained from Mo Cha’s face—a side effect of stamina consumption.

But Mo Cha’s stamina had been increased multiple times, so it wasn’t low.

Besides, she wasn’t the team’s frontline attacker, so a little stamina drain didn’t matter.

Crash!

Crack!

Thud!

In less than half a minute, with Tang Shifu and Mo Cha’s cooperation, they took down a group of remnant souls that other players would have found extremely troublesome.

Luo Huang’s mouth moved, but in the end, she said nothing.

She secretly clenched her fist.

“What’s wrong?”

Ye Yuan noticed and asked.

“Nothing, nothing.”

Luo Huang brushed it off.

The next room was a frozen area about four grids in size.

Mu Bai counted silently in her mind.

After this room, they only needed to go through one standard square-sized room to reach two hundred fifty units of distance.

If this still wasn’t the end, then it might reach three hundred.

At that point, the total reward value would exceed twenty gold coins.

Honestly, that was unlikely.

“Everyone be careful. There’s a monster with very high Spirit attributes here…”

Mu Bai warned.

Most monsters they’d encountered so far had mental power, but it was far weaker than a player’s—just a faint red dot.

High Spirit didn’t necessarily mean an enemy like a spirit body.

It could also mean the monster’s overall stats were much higher than previous ones, and strong mental power was just a side effect.

Given the icy terrain and that only one red dot was in the room, the enemy here was likely the latter type.

The reason Mu Bai chose this room was that the nearby rooms shown on the Living Point Map were all similar—some had multiple monsters with considerable mental power.

This was the relatively better option.

When Luo Huang heard “Spirit attribute,” she perked up again, then slumped back down.

High mental power…

She had seen the size of her own red dot.

On the Living Point Map, the biggest red dot was Mu Bai, followed by Ye Yuan and herself.

If Mu Bai said the monster’s mental power was high, it was probably close to Mu Bai’s own level.

That meant her talent might not be useful.

Having obtained a talent with such a high ceiling but lacking the mental power to back it up made Luo Huang frustrated.

She used to dominate mental power contests, but in this station, she’d already met two people with stronger mental power than her: the leading man and Mu Bai.

How discouraging!

“It’s way too cold in here. Let’s finish this quickly,”

Tang Shifu said.

As soon as they entered, the cold wind hit like knives—at least minus forty degrees.

She and Tang Shifu could barely withstand it.

Ye Yuan had injuries but decent constitution, so it should be fine.

Luo Huang could manage, but Mu Bai definitely couldn’t hold out for long.

The door slammed shut behind them.

About twenty meters away, a bulging snow mound gradually rose.

Layers of snow fell off, revealing the monster’s massive, sturdy frame.

It was a white bear, over three meters tall.

On all fours.

Its fur was snow-white, with ice-blue scales on its back and chest like frost armor, looking extremely hard.

A pair of mutated blue eyes was filled with savagery.

Mu Bai couldn’t help sighing.

As the station difficulty increased, the monsters they encountered kept getting stronger.

Before, they could bully mindless zombies.

This bear was probably in the realm of magical creatures.

Gurgle—squeak—