CHAPTER 35: CHAPTER 35: OLD WANG’S FIRST TRIAL IN WIND AND SNOW

Wang Wu lay dormant in his cave for an entire month.

He maintained his satiety at just 100 points each day, resulting in only a 4.1% growth over the month.

It’s not that he’s being cruel to himself, but to ensure that in case of unexpected or urgent situations, he has enough food to heal.

Otherwise, in the icy wilderness, where could he find food?

As for growth, it wasn’t something he chased aggressively.

At the moment his total growth reached 80%, his basic attributes were refreshed once more.

Life: 220

Physical Strength: 140

Power: 11

Agility: 6

Defense: 13

Satiety Limit: 500 points

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"Not bad, time to go out and brush up on ice resistance."

Wang Wu thought to himself. It’s already the second month of winter, clearly deep winter now. In the first month, the cave was still warm, but now it’s starting to ice up inside, and he’s beginning to feel a bit cold.

So no doubt, this is the appropriate time.

Taking out some food that feared freezing, like yellow ginger, Wang Wu nibbled silently and slowly until his satiety reached 500 points.

This was excellent.

Thanks to his Healing Talent, this satiety was essentially his portable blood pack, extremely useful.

And just in case, before setting out, Wang Wu specifically extracted 20 points of spiritual qi to upgrade his Level 4 Healing Talent to Level 5, the top at his current stage.

Level 5 Healing Talent was unquestionably powerful. The specific effect was the rapid consumption of 200 points of satiety in half an hour to quickly restore 100 life value.

Indeed, the recovery efficiency of Level 5 healing had significantly increased; 2 points of satiety could restore 1 point of life value.

After the rapid recovery period ended, the remaining missing life value would be restored slowly, approximately 20 points per hour.

Overall, very good.

Having made all the preparations, Wang Wu slowly crawled out of the tunnel to the hidden door, which had already been buried under thick snow. Over the past month, he would usually come here every other day to poke a few inconspicuous holes with a branch for ventilation.

It was hard to say whether it was the bear-like talent or his overly strong physique or his measures, but he never felt suffocated.

At this moment, Wang Wu listened intently under the hidden door. After waiting for about an hour, his Level 5 Danger Perception detected nothing amiss, so he forcefully pushed open the hidden door. A little thick snow fell, but not all of it, obviously hardening up above.

Before poking his head out, he heard the howling cold wind, and the temperature plummeted, the icy sensation swept over his entire body.

Wang Wu didn’t continue. Instead, he lay in the snow and ice because he’s here just to brush up on ice resistance, not to go out for fun, so he could do it here.

Just like that, he quietly lay for about an hour. Apart from feeling cold, Wang Wu noticed a rapid decrease of 30 points in satiety, and no other changes. Not even a notification appeared.

It seemed that his current 7 points of ice resistance were taking effect. Besides, he was a bear, so naturally, he had considerable resistance to cold.

He then attempted to eat snow. Ah, so cold, but still quite tasty. The melted snow went into his stomach and surprisingly counted towards his satiety.

However, when he ate a lot, the effect finally surfaced, and a notification appeared.

"You are in an environment of minus fifty-five degrees, currently suffering 18 points of frostbite damage. Due to your 7 points of ice resistance, you are immune to all frostbite damage, but your satiety will deplete at double the rate."

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No health loss?

Apparently, more effort was needed.

Wang Wu thought for a while, then stood up, poking his head out of nearly one meter of snow.

"Whoosh!"

The strong white wind almost blew his eyes shut, seeing nothing, the sky gray, the earth white, only wind and snow.

The enhancement from the white wind instantly bumped up the effect a notch.

This intensity was formidable.

Wang Wu immediately crawled out, standing straight. Instantly, the cold wind pierced through, whipping through his not-so-thick fur.

He shivered instantly, so cold!

This time, he felt genuinely cold.

The surface of his body felt like it was being pierced by countless steel needles, penetrating skin, flesh, and even bone.

Within mere seconds, Wang Wu was cloaked in frost, like wearing an ice armor, shivering incessantly, every moment an agony, every second feeling frozen stiff.

It was as if his blood ceased flowing.

Finally, related information came belatedly.

"You are in an environment of minus fifty-five degrees, currently feeling minus sixty-five degrees. You are under the special weather phenomenon—icy gale, currently sustaining 26 points of frostbite damage. Due to your 7 points of ice resistance, you are immune to 21 points of frostbite damage, your satiety depleting at double the speed, receiving continuous 5 points of frostbite damage per second."

"You received 5 points of continuous frostbite damage!"

"Your Level 5 Healing Talent has been activated!"

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Initially, Wang Wu was quite happy, thinking he could finally start brushing it, only to become dumbfounded moments later as the frostbite damage didn’t increase linearly but rather rose escalatorily.

The first second only saw 5 points of frostbite damage.

By the third second, it rose to 6 points of frostbite damage.

By the tenth second, it soared to 8 points of frostbite damage.

He could only hold on until the fifteenth second before he could endure no more, with a direct jump to 10 points of frostbite damage.

Even his body didn’t respond well.

It was fortunate that the tunnel was right under his feet, desperately digging out the snow and crawling back inside.

In just that short time, his original 220 life value had lost 110.

Even more terrifying, even as he desperately fled back to the cave, the frostbite persisted, until a long while after did it gradually reduce to 1 point per second.

Thanks to his Level 5 Healing Talent’s rapid recovery period, continuously replenishing life value, otherwise he would surely have frozen to death.

At the most fearful moment, his life value dropped below single digits.

Too terrifying.

When the frostbite subsided, and life value began to recover slowly, the pain had only just begun.

Earlier, Wang Wu’s body was numb, only able to watch the attribute bar numbers, so the stress was just data-related.

Now as his body started to recover, severe pain, itchiness, soreness, a multitude of sensations emerged.

Wang Wu thought he could withstand it, but moments later tears flowed, he genuinely couldn’t.

Worse than death, life and death tormented him, like being in purgatory.

Truly the epitome of ’bringing it on oneself.’

At this moment, he deeply regretted it.

This purgatory-like ordeal continued for two days.

Yes, a full two days and nights, during which Wang Wu endured the intense pain, itchiness, soreness, and frantically ate three times, consuming almost 1500 points worth of satiety food, enough to sustain the operation of his Level 5 Healing Talent.

During this period, almost 95% of his body surface developed horrific frostbite, followed by festering.

These frostbites and subsequent festering would continue causing massive health loss. From the start to two days later, he lost at least 800 points of health. Without Level 5 Healing Talent and sufficient food, he would’ve been devoid of four lives.

Finally, on the third day, after Wang Wu ate again and gained 500 points of satiety, his Level 5 Healing Talent finally regained the upper hand.

His life value, which hadn’t surpassed 20 points these days, began to climb.

His festering frostbites also began to improve.

He became unbelievably ugly, with nearly all of his fur fallen off, looking like a fusion of Bald Qiang and Xiong Er.

But what could be done?

This damn Cultivation Realm!