Yang Yi returned to the Treasure Ship and poured out his haul. A wave of cold immediately spread outward, extinguishing several heating braziers and coating them in thin ice.
Ice Eggs of all sizes covered a vast area, piled several meters high. Most had come from that Church, indicating that the Ice Nest Cult was deliberately collecting them.
"These are..." Cui Xiya began to ask.
"Research materials Su Na wanted," Yang Yi answered quickly.
"So many?"
"Uh... I accidentally took a few too many," Yang Yi said, scratching his head. In reality, he had done it deliberately.
Because these things could effectively suppress high temperatures, Yang Yi often used them to cancel his Flame Giant state or stop Burn with Me.
As a result, he consumed a considerable amount of this White Shard material. The shard embedded in his Pendant of Pure White was already only finger-sized and would not last much longer.
He happened to discover a large quantity of White Shards at this point, so naturally he brought them all back. He had even considered taking the one on the Archbishop's forehead in the Church, but had refrained for fear of causing a major disturbance.
While exploring the settlement as an invisible man, he had also worked out its structure by listening to the inhabitants' conversations.
There was more than one settlement like this.
They had established permanent strongholds beneath the ice, with passages even connecting them to one another, so there was more than one mining area as well. In the Ice Nest Church, he discovered that this Church was numbered 47, meaning there were at least dozens of similar strongholds.
And the Ice Nest Cult were the true masters here. The humans in these strongholds could even be described as free-range livestock, much like in animal