68: Ice power +1 and physical strengthening +1

Boom!

Claws carrying deep blue light scattered countless starlight, heavily striking the ground. Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, a crater dozens of meters wide appeared where the claws struck. The inside of the crater was covered with ice bearing countless deep blue runes.

Even though the owner of the claws was already dead, they could still unleash such astonishing destructive power.

Streaks of starlight slowly converged at the edge of the frozen crater, revealing Shi Yan’s figure.

At this moment, Shi Yan was standing at the edge of the crater, observing the scene inside.

Although he could have just destroyed the supermarket to complete the mission, he didn't want to let go of this treasure chest called Crocodile Liao.

Gusts of Cold Wind, seemingly capable of freezing the soul, spread outwards from within the crater. Even Shi Yan, who possessed the Cold Wind skill, felt a chill.

The ice shimmering with deep blue runes was clearly not simple.

Shi Yan floated into the air and flew towards Crocodile Liao’s headless corpse. He didn't particularly want to touch the ice.

Shi Yan took out his Bloodthirsty Long Blade and stabbed it into Crocodile Liao’s corpse.

As sounds of blood sucking echoed, warm currents flowed from the hilt into Shi Yan’s body, and his physical attributes were once again enhanced.

[Constitution increased by 10 points]

A rhomboid crystal, shimmering with deep blue light, floated directly above Crocodile Liao’s corpse.

Shi Yan raised his hand to touch it. Streaks of extremely cold air drilled into Shi Yan’s body, and faint, deep blue ice crystals subtly appeared on the part of Shi Yan’s body that touched the crystal. Subsequently, the crystal slowly vanished.

Shi Yan summoned his ability panel.

Abilities: Power of Ice (synthesizable), Cold Wind (synthesizable)

The Power of Ice was the skill dropped from Crocodile Liao.

At this moment, the 'synthesizable' option appeared after both Power of Ice and Cold Wind on the ability panel. Shi Yan focused his consciousness, directing his attention to the three words 'synthesizable'.

The two skills, Power of Ice and Cold Wind, slowly disappeared, seemingly undergoing an extremely difficult synthesis. The newly appearing skill remained in a semi-blurred state, its name indiscernible.

As the two skills vanished, Shi Yan also noticed a cold current drilling into his body from outside.

That cold current drilled deeper and deeper into Shi Yan’s body, as if entering the depths of his soul, undergoing some kind of transformation.

Shi Yan’s expression was solemn; this was his first time experiencing such a thing.

Suddenly, wisps of deep blue light particles, emanating coldness, emerged from the air around Shi Yan’s body and frantically rushed towards him.

The deep blue light particles disappeared upon entering Shi Yan’s body. Shi Yan didn’t feel any discomfort, only that his body became increasingly comfortable. This process only lasted for a few seconds before ending.

The previously blurred skill on the ability panel also became clear.

Ability: Power of Ice + 1

Power of Ice + 1, possesses the power of ice.

Shi Yan felt the brief ability description in his mind and was a little curious. This was his first time encountering such a short ability description.

However, he didn't think much of it. His figure flickered in the air, and he quickly flew to the side of another small Crocodile Man, stabbing it with his Bloodthirsty Long Blade.

Suck.

Although the Bloodthirsty Long Blade was sucking blood, no warm currents entered Shi Yan’s body even after the corpse was completely drained.

“Indeed.”

Shi Yan put away his Bloodthirsty Long Blade; he was just trying it out.

On the corpse of this Crocodile Man was a crystal shimmering with dark green light.

Shi Yan looked around. All the crystals dropped by the Crocodile Man were dark green. He didn't know why they were all exactly the same.

Shi Yan touched them one by one.

However, apart from feeling his strength increase when he touched the first Crocodile Man, Shi Yan felt no change from the other dark green crystals.

Shi Yan glanced at his ability panel.

Abilities: Crocodile Strength (synthesizable), Physical Enhancement (synthesizable)

Crocodile Strength was the skill dropped by these small Crocodile Man, and a 'synthesizable' mark appeared after both Crocodile Strength and the Physical Enhancement he had previously acquired.

Shi Yan focused his attention on 'synthesizable'.

Ability: Physical Enhancement + 1

With the appearance of the new skill, Shi Yan felt his overall physique had become much stronger again.

He felt his current strength had increased by about a quarter.

The increase in speed was still unknown, but his previous speed, when in full power, could reach about 200 meters per second.

Previously, his strength was only about forty tons, and that was only after stacking Blood Tattooed Transformation and Melting Transformation.

His current strength was probably around fifty tons.

Shi Yan squeezed his fist, covered with strange blood patterns and lava lines, and gave a relatively accurate answer in his mind.

Shi Yan didn't hesitate much and immediately stepped forward, rushing towards the vermilion eyeball.

The eyeball still gazed at Shi Yan with that seemingly meaningful look, without the slightest change.

This time, nothing and no one blocked him. His right fist, accompanied by a violent rush of wind, smashed into the eyeball.

Although the vermilion eyeball was as hard as steel, it meant nothing in front of Shi Yan.

The vermilion eyeball shattered into pieces like Glass, slowly dissipating into the air.

The surrounding red smoke shroud also cracked like a glass, with the cracks growing larger and denser, eventually turning into pieces of red fragments falling from the sky, gradually dissipating with the wind before even reaching the ground.

The surrounding gray mist also slowly dispersed. When he arrived here, the sky was still pitch black, but now it had already started to lighten.

It took Shi Yan a few minutes to destroy this large supermarket by launching several fireballs. He had searched it before blowing it up, and it had been completely emptied.

A system prompt popped up.

[Fifth Supermarket, Destruction Progress: 100% / 100%]

Looking at the ruins of lava pits all over the ground, Shi Yan began to ponder.

That Crocodile Man named Crocodile Liao must have had an unusual status and position. Not only did he have so many subordinates, but he also possessed some unknown, powerful one-time treasure.

He just didn't know what Crocodile Liao was to Crocodile Tyrant. What would Crocodile Tyrant become like if he found out what happened here?

Just as he thought of this, directly in front of Shi Yan, a series of violent sonic booms suddenly appeared.

“Hmm?” Shi Yan squinted and looked over there.