Ice Toad Ascends to Emperor

The fifteen members of the Heavenly Phoenix Team had just completed a round of basic coordination training in the training area, their first time assembling in full.

Li Xuansheng did not immediately organize the next exercise. Instead, he let everyone interact freely and become familiar with one another. He slowly walked to the edge of the field, his gaze seemingly casually sweeping over these future comrades. The twelve core members of Wenying Pavilion, along with three reinforcements, were all exceptionally gifted, but they still had a long way to go before becoming a true whole. He knew well that binding fifteen top geniuses into a single force was far from something that could be accomplished overnight.

As he observed their interactions, he habitually devoted a sliver of his attention to the system space, intending to routinely check whether the shop had refreshed any new items. This had practically become his nightly ritual before resting.

The system screen unfolded, and the item list scrolled past. Just as he was about to give it a cursory glance, an icon glowing faint ice-blue and jade-green caught his attention in one corner of the screen—the mark of a limited-time refreshed item.

``` [Limited-Time Refreshed Item (Time Remaining: 1 hour 02 minutes 17 seconds)]

[Item Name]: Jade Radiant Ice Toad Flower

[Category]: Supreme Immortal Herb

[Description]: Born in the extraordinary land where the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cavern meets the Cold-Poison Marsh, it takes a thousand years of nourishment from ice essence and countless poisons to form. Its flower naturally resembles an ice toad gazing at the moon, containing incomparably pure profound ice source power and refined cold poison essence. It provides extraordinary nourishment and evolution effects for ice- and poison-dual attributes, especially toad- and snake-type beast martial souls. After consumption, it can greatly purify the