Everything was ready. The picking team from the pharmacy and Yang Yu's team boarded a specially reinforced carriage and arrived at the Ghost Cold Forest after a day.
The monsters lurking near the silver crystal grass are black and white leopard-shaped monsters. Their overall level is seventy, and their average attributes rarely exceed a thousand. Their speed and attack are extremely high, making them high-speed and fragile.
Such monsters would be difficult for S-level or A-level adventurers, but for Yang Yu and his friends, they were a piece of cake.
Yang Yu stepped forward to pull the monster and controlled it within a certain range. Bai Jin used magic to harvest it, and the others were responsible for finishing off the monster.
In a short while, Yang Yu and his team created a safe picking area for the picking team and annihilated any monster that dared to approach this area.
The picking of the silver crystal grass lasted for two and a half days. Only after confirming that all the silver crystal grass had been picked did the owner of the medicine shop give Yang Yu and his friends the compensation they deserved.
After putting away the silver crystal grass, Yang Yu did not stay for too long. He took his companions on Lothkar and headed straight for the bitter cold land in the northernmost part of the Rose Empire.
On the way, seeing that Bin Luo's condition had recovered a lot, Yang Yu took the initiative to ask him for some information about the Rose Empire.
Of course, it's all about war.
Adventurers do all kinds of work, and even if they don't want to, they will still learn some information through observation.
Yang Yu didn't ask for much, as long as he could get some information.
When he came to the Rose Empire, what Yang Yu was most concerned about were the ruins and synthetic beasts.
In order to cope with this war, the Rose Empire imported synthetic beasts, Steel Dragon Wolves, from the Yinlan Chamber of Commerce. However, Yang Yu did not hear any information from the orc soldiers fighting side by side that the Steel Dragon Wolves were active on the battlefield.
As far as Yang Yu knows, the Yinlan Chamber of Commerce only produces synthetic beasts such as the Steel Dragon Wolf.
Combining the information from the golden ape's panel and the letter on it, it is not difficult to guess that the Yinlan Chamber of Commerce obtained the synthetic beast technology from the Rose Empire.
Yang Yu didn't have much hope, but the result was unexpected.
Although Bin Luo did not know where the research institute for making synthetic beasts was, he knew some special areas that were prohibited from entering the Rose Empire.
The Rose Empire would say that those places were infested with dangerous monsters and that outsiders were prohibited from entering, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the Rose was lying.
These are some secrets that are not secrets in the Rose Empire.
However, even if you know the location, you can't just sneak in blindly.
If you enter without permission from the top, you will be convicted by the Rose Empire and brought to a military court.
While Bin Luo advised Yang Yu not to be overly curious, he also listened to Yang Yu and circled the special places he knew on the map.
Lotkar walked very quickly and arrived at the bitter and cold land in less than a day.
Looking around, the bitterly cold land was covered in white. Apart from snow and ice, nothing else could be seen.
Ice and snow form the mountains and the ground, but they cannot constitute life. Everything is dead.
The bleak cold wind swept across the mountains and rivers, bringing with it a strange whistle.
This extremely cold land located in the northernmost part of the Rose Empire is different from the Cerrovomen Plain. Here, fire magic still works.
Light a fire and you'll be able to keep the chill at bay, unless there's a severe snowstorm.
"It's late winter now, and snowstorms aren't common."
As soon as Bin Luo said this, I don’t know if God heard it, but immediately a cold wind blew and a fierce snowstorm came.
Yang Yu and the others could only hold Lotkar and move forward in the snowstorm. He Meng even wanted to turn back into a slime and hide in Lotkar's mane.
After another half a day of walking, when the blizzard stopped, an ice palace finally appeared in front of Yang Yu and his friends.
It is said that there was a magician who was tired of worldly life and came to this extremely cold land and built this ice palace that faced south in every direction.
In this ice palace, there are many magic dolls made of ice, which will defend and protect this ice palace.
Even if the magician died in an accident, the puppets would still be moving and doing their work.
If the mysterious creature hiding in this palace destroyed those puppets, it can be seen that its strength is extremely powerful; but if the mysterious figure did not choose to destroy the puppets, but chose to dominate them, Yang Yu and his companions would have to face not only a mysterious creature, but also a large group of ice puppets.
The Ice Palace is extremely huge, even twice the size of the Wansheng Kingdom’s Imperial Palace.
Pushing open the six-meter-high ice door, Yang Yu and his companions walked in. The transparent ice exuded a unique pure white color, illuminating the entire palace.
The long corridor leads to nowhere and there is no end in sight.
Bai Jin placed her hand on the ice bricks that made up the palace and found that these ice bricks were made up of extremely condensed magic power. If she wanted to destroy the palace, she didn't know how much time and energy it would take.
After a quick look, Yang Yu left the Ice Palace and asked Bai Jin:
"If we use super-large magic here, can we just destroy this palace?"
Bai Jin shook her head and said, “The bricks that make up this ice palace form a special magical barrier.
I once read in a book that if a house is made entirely of magic power, it would be extremely easy to set up this kind of barrier.
This barrier will evenly distribute the attacks borne by each surface to the entire palace, making the entire palace indestructible.
If we can find some key magic ice blocks, we can shake the foundation of the barrier.
Even if one is extremely talented, it would take more than ten years to create this amount of magic ice.
There should be a lot of magic ice blocks that need to be dealt with, and they cannot be destroyed so easily.
Also because the ice here is all magic ice, my detection magic will be diluted and there is no way to explore deeper.
This palace was designed with great care.”
After hearing Bai Jin's report, Yang Yu turned his gaze to He Meng: "Xiao Meng, can I leave the investigation to you? Your magic is quite special and you have excellent detection capabilities. You should be able to complete this task perfectly."
"Don't forget that you have to pay me later."
Stretching lazily, He Meng jumped off Lotkar's back, and there was a ball of water in her hand, as if she was in slime form.
The semi-liquid that constitutes He Meng will still retain some perception ability after leaving He Meng's body. Using this feature, He Meng can easily control his attacks and expand his perception, not to mention trivial matters such as reconnaissance.
But this ability also has a drawback
Gathering his energy, He Meng threw the water ball in his hand into the door. The blue water ball rolled along the long ice corridor into the palace.
He Meng closed his eyes and reconnected himself with the "water ball".
Suddenly, a pair of huge claws fell from the sky and crushed the blue water ball that He Meng threw into it.
(End of this chapter)