A Fortune Gained, Frost God Cult Secrets

Before the words faded.

Seven figures clad in identical white ceremonial robes.

Converged from different directions.

Each bore an exquisite ice crystal emblem embroidered on their chest.

Their bodies radiated a chilling frost.

At the lead was a middle-aged man with a sinister expression, his level reaching LV.40.

He spotted Ling Xue, a cruel smirk curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Ling Xue, did you really think hiding in a dungeon would help?"

"Hand over [Ice Heart Glaze], come back obediently as our saintess, and your brother might still have a chance to live!"

Seeing her pursuers, Ling Xue's face instantly turned deathly pale.

She bit her lip hard, her body trembling slightly from despair.

Her five companions were already spent, and the gap in strength was overwhelming.

There was no way they could fight these seven elites of the "Frost God Cult."

Just as the tension reached its peak.

Lin Mu ignored the enemies around him and instead spoke to Ling Xue.

"The deal continues."

"I'll take care of them and purify the [Ice Heart Glaze]."

After a brief pause, Lin Mu added:

"After it's done, the [Ice Heart Glaze] is yours, and you pay me an extra one hundred... no... three million Nova Coins as compensation. Deal?"

The moment he said this.

The seven Frost God Cult disciples.

All stared at Lin Mu as if he were insane.

A LV.10 Necromancer.

Daring to claim he'd take down seven elites averaging over LV.38, right in front of them?

If that wasn't madness, what was?

Lin Mu couldn't be bothered with nonsense.

With his back to the group, he quietly activated his talent [Description Tamperer].

Targeting the [Ice Heart Glaze] in his hand.

"Change 'slightly alleviates' to 'greatly alleviates'!"

In an instant.

The crystal in his hand dimmed its glow.

Becoming purer, so clear it was nearly flawless.

Lin Mu turned around.

He waved the modified crystal in front of Ling Xue.

"See, purification's done."

Ling Xue stared at the [Ice Heart Glaze], now radiating a completely different aura, utterly stunned.

That pure life and frost energy was several times richer than before!

The immense shock and the imminent danger.

Made her decide on the spot.

"Fine! I agree!"

Her voice was urgent.

"As long as you save my brother, I'll pay three million, five million, even ten million if I have to!"

"Hmph! You're asking for death!"

The Frost God Cult leader, enraged by Lin Mu's utter disregard.

"Attack! Kill them all and take the [Ice Heart Glaze]!"

In an instant.

Ice spikes, ice blades, frost breath—a barrage of attacks rained down on Lin Mu and Ling Xue.

Lin Mu snorted.

His staff pointed straight at the ground.

The earth rumbled.

Ninety Steel Skeletons materialized from the void in an instant.

They directly surrounded the seven members of the Frost God Cult.

The scene of "I'm surrounding you" played out once again!

Battle erupted!

The skeletal army rapidly tightened the encirclement.

The front line of Steel Skeletons withstood the onslaught of violent frost spells.

They shattered and fell in droves.

But their numbers were simply too great.

And the speed of their deaths couldn't keep up with Lin Mu's pace of resummoning.

There were always skeletons that broke through the spell blockade.

Slamming their steel blades fiercely onto those white-robed mages.

Lin Mu occasionally raised a hand.

A few shots of [Bone Tooth] flew out with precision.

Easily taking down a cultist who'd been whittled to low health by the skeleton swarm.

The five members of the Ling Xue Squad.

Their jaws nearly hit the floor, their minds blank.

They'd imagined Lin Mu was strong.

But they never thought he'd be this absurdly powerful.

This wasn't a battle.

This was clearly a one-sided massacre!

Yet what puzzled them was—

Why didn't this fourth-revolution bigshot summon something even stronger?

Soon.

The sole surviving Frost God Cult leader looked at the corpses of his comrades littering the ground.

His courage shattered, and he turned to flee.

But ten Skeleton Archers suddenly appeared before him.

Raising their bone bows.

Lin Mu asked calmly.

"Did I say you could leave?"

That Frost God Cult leader froze.

He slowly turned around, his face as pale as paper.

Staring at the LV.10 youth, his eyes filled with terror.

"Se... Senior! Spare me! Spare me, please!"

He dropped to his knees with a thud, all his previous arrogance gone.

"We failed to recognize your greatness and offended you, venerable one!"

Clearly, this man also took Lin Mu for an old monster playing the pig to eat the tiger!

Lin Mu ignored his pleas for mercy.

Instead, he asked one calm question.

"Who cast the Eternal Silence Ice Curse?"

The leader trembled at the words.

A flicker of struggle and fear passed through his eyes.

"Th-this... I can't say! If I tell you, I'll die horribly for sure!"

Lin Mu smiled.

To the Frost God Cult leader, that smile was more terrifying than an abyssal demon.

"If you don't tell me, you'll die horribly right now."

Lin Mu raised his staff, the tip flickering with eerie light.

"If you do tell me, you might at least keep your corpse intact."

Under the threat of death, the leader's mental defenses completely crumbled.

He spoke, trembling.

"It's... it's the Sect Leader!"

"He set his sights on Ling Xue's special constitution, wanting to make her his 'material,' so he used the 'Eternal Silence Ice Curse' to control her brother!"

"Sect Leader?"

A glimmer of understanding flashed through Lin Mu's eyes.

"Looks like this matter isn't over yet."

He mused inwardly, but his face remained calm and unruffled.

"One last question: why did the Frost God Cult target her?"

Lin Mu's gaze shifted to Ling Xue, whose face had turned pale.

"Because... because she has the 'Ice Prayer Body'! It's a legendary special constitution said to be able to commune with the Frost God! It's the key for the Sect Leader to break through to the Fifth Turn!"

The leader spilled everything like beans from a bamboo tube.

Lin Mu nodded, seemingly satisfied with the answer.

"Good."

The moment he finished speaking.

Over nine hundred [Bone Teeth] shot out from the tip of his staff in an instant.

They pierced straight through the leader's brow.

A trace of relief at surviving the ordeal still lingered in the leader's eyes.

Then his expression froze forever.

Having dealt with all that.

Lin Mu turned around and looked at the five utterly stunned members of Ling Xue's group.

"Trash has been cleaned up."

He extended his hand.

"Now, it's time to pay up."

Ling Xue jolted and snapped back to reality.

She looked at Lin Mu's delicate yet chilling face and quickly nodded.

"Yes! Yes, Senior!"

She immediately opened her account and initiated the transfer.

[ZhiFuBao: Received 3,000,000 Nova Coins.]

Hearing the notification sound, Lin Mu nodded with satisfaction.

Lin Mu casually tossed [Ice Heart Glaze] back to Ling Xue.

"It's worth the three million price tag."

Ling Xue fumbled to catch the crystal.

The four teammates behind her.

Also looked at Lin Mu with awe, not daring to breathe too loudly.

"Th-thank you, Senior, for your grace of rebirth!"

Ling Xue's voice carried a sob as she bowed deeply to Lin Mu.

From her storage space, she carefully took out a token shimmering with starlight.

"Senior, this is the 'Ling Glory Token' of our Shengjing Ling Family!"

"In the future, if you have any orders, just crush this token, and my entire Ling family will go through fire and water for you without hesitation!"

Lin Mu glanced at the token and accepted it without comment.

"Alright, you can leave now."

"Yes!"

Ling Xue felt as if she had received a pardon.

She led her four teammates, supporting each other.

And ran toward the dungeon exit without looking back.

Only after their figures had completely disappeared.

Did Lin Mu turn his gaze to the [Ice Soul Core] quietly resting in his backpack.

"Shengjing Ling Family, Ice Prayer Body, Frost God Cult..."

He murmured to himself and shook his head.

"Troublesome matters, but for now, none of my concern."

"The priority is to complete the class advancement!"

He composed himself and also walked toward the dungeon exit.

It was time to witness the true power of a [Necromancer] after the first turn!