6: Open the golden treasure chest to unlock divine artifacts, and advance your Ice and Snow Divine Power to a higher level.

The exploration efficiency of the Shattered Battlefield was extremely high; Lin Chen's Ancient Gods Divine Sense acted like a radar with no blind spots, capturing the movements of monsters and resource points within 80 kilometers.

Lin Qingxue's ice and snow magic was becoming increasingly skilled; with Lin Chen occasionally stepping in, killing bronze-grade monsters was as easy as reaching into a bag.

[Name: Lin Chen]

[Race: Perfect Ancient God (Rank 2)]

[Rank: 42]

[Attributes: Strength 200135, Agility 200135, Physique 200135, Spirit 200210]

[Skills: Ancient Gods Body (Enhanced), Ancient Gods Pressure (Enhanced), Ancient Gods Divine Sense (Range expanded to 85 km)]

[Pet Name: Lin Qingxue]

[Race: Ice and Snow Nine-Tailed White Fox (mythical-grade)]

[Rank: 37]

[Attributes: Strength 185, Agility 290, Physique 165, Spirit 407]

[Skills: Ice and Snow Control (Enhanced), Nine-Tails Power, Charm, Shapeshifting, Ice Arrow (Enhanced)]

The two were traveling through a canyon filled with withered bones when Lin Chen's Divine Thought suddenly locked onto a depression in a rock wall.

"There is a treasure chest there." He held Lin Qingxue and leaped over.

Hidden in the depression was a treasure chest shimmering with a cyan glow, its surface engraved with bronze patterns.

[Bronze treasure chest]

[Quality: Common]

[Note: Contains a random bronze-grade item]

"Let's test our luck." Lin Chen picked up the treasure chest and immediately initiated Sublimation twice.

[Ding — Bronze treasure chest Sublimation successful, advanced to silver-grade treasure chest]

[Ding — silver-grade treasure chest Sublimation successful, advanced to gold treasure chest]

The treasure chest instantly shed its cyan glow, its entire body covered in flowing gold patterns, emitting heavy energy fluctuations.

[gold treasure chest]

[Quality: Common]

[Note: Contains a random gold-grade item]

Lin Chen opened the treasure chest. A brilliant golden light burst forth. Inside lay an ice soul bow and a diamond-shaped blue ice and snow core.

[Obtained: silver-grade · ice soul bow, silver-grade · ice and snow core]

"They are both ice and snow type, perfect for Clear Snow." Lin Chen handed the items to Lin Qingxue, "Let's sublimate them first."

He took the ice soul bow and performed the first Sublimation:

[Ding — silver-grade · ice soul bow Sublimation successful, advanced to gold-grade · ice soul bow]

The ice crystals on the longbow became more solid, snowflake patterns appeared on the bow body, and cold air faintly flowed around it.

[gold-grade · ice soul bow]

[Effect: Increases ice and snow damage by 80 points, increases Ice Arrow hit rate by 30%]

Second Sublimation:

[Ding — gold-grade · ice soul bow Sublimation successful, advanced to platinum-grade · ice soul bow]

The bow body was covered in a layer of pale purple ice crystals. The cold air turned into tangible ice mist, and the bowstring whistled with wind when drawn.

[platinum-grade · ice soul bow]

[Effect: Increases ice and snow damage by 150 points, increases Ice Arrow hit rate by 50%, adds "Ice Pierce" effect (has a chance to penetrate the target)]

Next was the ice and snow core, also two Sublimations:

[silver-grade · ice and snow core → gold-grade · ice and snow core → platinum-grade · ice and snow core]

The crystal changed from blue to a deep icy blue, and a snowstorm seemed to be gathering inside.

[platinum-grade · ice and snow core]

[Effect: Contains massive ice and snow energy, can significantly increase the power of ice and snow type skills]

Lin Qingxue took the ice soul bow and ice and snow core, her eyes sparkling with surprise. She grasped the core, and a stream of pure ice and snow energy instantly surged into her body, causing the cold air around her to skyrocket.

[Ding — Pet Lin Qingxue absorbed platinum-grade · ice and snow core, skill "Ice and Snow Control" evolved into "Ice and Snow Divine Power"]

[Ice and Snow Divine Power (Active): Control range significantly increased, can condense powerful Moves such as ice and snow storms, ice prisons, etc., power increases with Rank]

"Try out the new skill." Lin Chen encouraged.

Lin Qingxue picked up the platinum-grade ice soul bow, drew the string, and nocked an arrow. This time, it wasn't a single Ice Arrow that condensed, but three arrows entwined with ice mist.

"Ice Arrow · Triple Shot!"

The arrows tore through the air, accurately hitting a boulder a hundred meters away.

Boom! The boulder was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture. The three arrows pierced through the ice layer, exploding into a small ice storm behind the rock.

"So powerful!" Lin Qingxue wagged her tail excitedly.

Lin Chen nodded with a smile, his Divine Thought suddenly capturing a powerful aura approaching.

"A big guy is coming."

At the entrance of the canyon, a giant beast three zhang tall appeared. It was covered in a dark bronze-colored shell, with spiral giant horns on its head. It was the bronze-grade boss monster — Armored Rhinoceros.

[Monster Name: Armored Rhinoceros]

[Rank: 5 (bronze-grade)]

[Quality: Boss]

[Attributes: Strength 500, Agility 100, Physique 800, Spirit 50]

[Skills: Giant Horn Charge, Hardened Shell, Earth Tremor]

[experience points: 400 points (Boss monster experience is normal monster × 4, level 5 bronze-grade normal monster experience is 50 points)]

"A boss monster, just right for practice." Lin Chen put Lin Qingxue down, "Clear Snow, use your new skill to test its strength."

"Mm!" Lin Qingxue raised the ice soul bow, her nine tails spreading out, "Ice and Snow Divine Power · Ice Prison!"

Five ice walls instantly rose from the ground, trapping the Armored Rhinoceros inside.

The Armored Rhinoceros roared and slammed its giant horns into the ice walls.

Bang! The ice walls vibrated violently, and cracks appeared.

"Ice Arrow · Rapid Fire!" Lin Qingxue took advantage of it being trapped and fired a dozen Ice Arrows in succession, all of which hit the gaps in the Armored Rhinoceros's eyes.

Awoo! The Armored Rhinoceros felt the pain, its entire shell glowing with cyan light, entering a hardened state.

"My turn." Lin Chen's figure flashed, appearing above the Armored Rhinoceros's head, Ancient Gods power gathering in his fist.

"Ancient Gods Body · Collapse Fist!"

With one punch, it contained the power to shatter everything.

Crack! The Armored Rhinoceros's hard shell shattered like glass, and its huge body collapsed to the ground with a bang.

[Ding — Killed 5-level bronze-grade boss monster · Armored Rhinoceros × 1, obtained experience points 200 points (400 ÷ 2 = 200)]

[Ding — Pet Lin Qingxue obtained experience points 200 points]

"The bronze-grade boss monster required for the mission is done." Lin Chen looked at the System prompt, "But since we're here, let's kill more and save up experience points."

He scanned the depths of the canyon; there were still several groups of bronze-grade monsters gathered in his Divine Thought.

"Clear Snow, shall we continue?"

"Okay!" Lin Qingxue shouldered the ice soul bow, her snow-white fox ears pricked up vigilantly, and her nine tails wagged happily.

Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the canyon, shining on the human and the fox, as if gilding them with a golden edge.

The ice mist from the platinum-grade ice soul bow dissipated with the wind, Lin Qingxue's Ice and Snow Divine Power was ready to go, and Lin Chen's Ancient Gods Pressure was hidden but not released.

On this bronze-grade Shattered Battlefield, they were already the most top-tier existence.

And this was only the beginning.