147 System’s First Collision with Ice Coffin
Initially, there were quite a few young girls making snowmen and having snow fights. As the snowfall became heavier and heavier, they were almost frozen stiff, and they immediately dashed back into the building.
“That’s odd. This weather is ridiculously abnormal.”
“I agree. I feel as if I can’t take it anymore.”
The cultivators in the Gamma Military Zone were shivering with cold. They were cooped up inside the buildings, staring at the heavy snowfall outside with trepidation.
With their cultivators’ physique, normal freezing cold could do them no harm. However, the freezing cold aura from this snowfall was so malicious that it seemed to corrode their physical bodies.
Xu Qingguo’s expression also changed drastically. As the snowstorm blasted at the whole region, all the roads leading out of the Gamma Military Zone were locked down. They had to depend on manual labor to clear the snow so it took a long time.
“Military Lord, something happened at the intensive care unit.” At this moment, a soldier came in to report.
Xu Qingguo rushed to the intensive care unit at once. Staring at the ice den emitting a freezing cold aura, he asked in a low voice, “What’s going on here?”
The few cultivators clad in thick winter wear behind him, told him what happened, all the while shivering with cold. A look of bewilderment flashed across Xu Qingguo’s eyes.
Just like Song Yu before him, he glanced at the heavy snowfall plummeting down from the sky, then back at the ice den again. An unbelievable thought popped up in his mind, and he immediately instructed, “Send people at once to watch over this place under tight security. No one is allowed to enter without my orders.”
“Yes, Sir!” The few men behind him stood at attention as they received their orders.
In the arctic ice land,
Lu Yu was engrossed in deep thought. The Austere Winter Kingdom could bring him back to life, but how did the actual mechanism work?
At this moment, a frightening suction power erupted from the ice coffin, sucking Lu Yu’s consciousness in.
For the first time, he had a good look at the ice coffin’s interior. Inside the sight of a lifelike corpse that seemed to have slept for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, as if it could last for an eternity, appeared before his eyes. After getting a good look at the face on the corpse, Lu Yu blurted out, “Impossible!”
The corpse lying inside the ice coffin was none other than himself!
Suddenly, the eyeballs on Lu Yu’s corpse seemed to move, scaring Lu Yu so much that he stepped back hurriedly. It was truly a unique case of him frightening himself.
“Do you… want to come back from the dead?”
This series of crystalline text appeared on the walls of the ice coffin. Lu Yu nodded his head without thinking.
The text dispersed. A series of images materialized where the text used to be. Lu Yu was shocked when he realized that the images showed a contract to be signed. The person signing the contract was kneeling on the ground, chanting something reverently. After the contract was signed, the signatory lay in the ice coffin, and was brought back to life from the dead.
“According to the procedures shown in these images, I will ultimately come back to life in the ice coffin in the basement of the Distant North Dojo eventually.” Lu Yu understood the instructions very quickly, his eyes ablaze with a thoughtful look.
The ability to come back from the dead was something that countless people coveted since time immemorial. He found it hard to believe that the ice coffin could bring him back to life without any price.
“According to the aforementioned steps, you can come back from the dead.”
Then another row of small text appeared, as if urging Lu Yu to quickly sign the contract. Lu Yu, who was eager to resurrect himself, hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to sign the contract, another row of small text appeared.
[Ding! Detected that host is in a dead state. Devouring the host’s own corpse can lead to his resurrection!]
This was the system’s reminder, which gave Lu Yu a big jolt. He immediately calmed down substantially. However, asking him to eat his own corpse was way too repulsive, and Lu Yu simply couldn’t do it.
“Please sign the contract as soon as possible. Once the contract is signed, you can come back from the dead. Currently, the time left to complete this procedure is ten minutes.”
The small text that appeared on the ice coffin also showed a countdown timer. Lu Yu gritted his teeth. In the end, he threw all caution to the wind, and lunged at his own corpse with his eyes closed. freew(e)bnovel.com
Between the system and the ice coffin, Lu Yu eventually chose to follow the system. After all, the system had accompanied him for so long, whereas he knew absolutely nothing about this ice coffin.
A gush of freezing cold aura suddenly erupted and swept towards Lu Yu. The ice coffin was like a living organism, whipping up a terrifying force that froze Lu Yu to the spot.
The freezing cold aura that blasted at Lu Yu was so overpowering that he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cavern. His consciousness felt as if it was being torn apart with excruciating pain.
[Ding! Detected that host is in a state of consciousness and is unable to unleash his full force. Temporary activation to allow the host to regain the full strength he had before his death. Time limit is one minute!]
The moment the system’s text vanished, Lu Yu felt a gush of immense force surging towards him before a powerful aura abruptly burst forth!
With his Intermediate Great Grand Master’s strength, Lu Yu pounced on his own corpse, but was met with a ferocious resistance. In his consciousness, a massive sword swiftly descended from the sky and slashed at him brutally.
Lu Yu’s consciousness was instantly sliced open!
He had completely underestimated the ice coffin’s power. There was no way he could go up against this ice coffin even with his full strength. Thankfully, a warm current was pouring into his body endlessly. This force was still at the level of the Great Grand Master, but it seemed inexhaustible.
Lu Yu regained his composure and lunged at his own corpse again. In the multiple confrontations with the ice coffin, he was defeated and his consciousness broke apart. However, he was rapidly healed back into one piece by the warm current. Eventually, he cracked open a weak joint and touched his own corpse.
He took a vicious bite, and his own corpse instantly turned into a mass of energy, giving Lu Yu such a big shock that he froze on the spot.
Fuck! This ice coffin was too cunning! It deceived his eyes!
After devouring this mass of energy, the ice coffin trembled violently. Lu Yu could vaguely hear a furious roar. The moment his consciousness left the ice coffin, the arctic ice land disintegrated rapidly, and the tsunami-like icy waves came crashing down on him.
[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed the ice coffin’s force. Received: Energy +3000!]
[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed the ice coffin’s force. Received: Strength +3000!]
[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed the ice coffin’s force. Received: Health Vitality +3000!]
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The series of figures increased madly at this moment. Lu Yu’s aura erupted mightily with irresistible force, like a volcano that had laid dormant for hundreds of years.
Thereafter, his consciousness fell into a dark void again. There was a thunderous roar near his ear, as if two massive objects were colliding with each other.
His consciousness was drawn by some aura and swiftly led out of the dark void, heading towards a spot of bright light. A familiar feeling of closeness came rushing towards him at this moment.
In the intensive care unit, the fingers on Lu Yu’s corpse suddenly twitched. At the same time as the layer of ice on his body shattered, true energy surged and his Great Grand Master’s aura erupted forcefully and shot all the way to Great Grand Master Grade 5. Only when it hit a bottleneck did the aura grind to a stop.
In the next second, a gush of bountiful health vitality poured into the corpse and repaired the damaged blood vessels and organs. In a flash, the corpse exhibited signs of renewed life. f(r)eewebnovel.com
Lu Yu had come back to life! At the same time, the snowstorm outside also stopped abruptly, as if someone had pressed the pause button. Immediately, the snowfall melted rapidly, but not as fast as the layer of ice inside the ice den.
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