Lu Heng finally waited until dawn, feeling as though the sleep he'd had was completely wasted.
The game's sensory feedback in this space was incredibly realistic. Battling monsters in the wild required players to expend physical stamina.
When a player defeated a monster, the fatigue experienced in the game would transfer to the player.
Therefore, whenever Lu Heng finished killing monsters and his stamina was depleted, it made him feel very tired.
Of course, after killing monsters, he could use the in-game currency dropped by them to purchase stamina recovery potions from the game's shop.
The feeling of transitioning from exhaustion to full vitality gave him another kind of invigorating sensation.
Thus, this game, which Lu Heng had initially dismissed, was a high-end, full-body sensory experience game.
He knew it! How else could such a world have appeared in his space? It turned out that all the experiences here could be felt by the game players.
When Lu Heng first logged in, he hadn't truly played the game, merely wandered around. When he saw the game interface, he had simply assumed it was a regular online game.
However, he wondered if players would truly die in reality if their characters died in the game.
He had indeed run from his corpse before reaching level eight, and before level eight, he hadn't experienced any fatigue.
But ever since leveling up to eight and feeling the physical sensations, Lu Heng had become more cautious, only choosing monsters of lower levels to challenge when battling in the wild.
Before logging off, he sent another email to Luna. He didn't know anyone else here, nor did he understand this game that had appeared out of nowhere.
[In the Spring Breeze: I just tried it for a while. I couldn't find any instructions for this game, but after reaching level eight, all sorts of sensations from the game have been realistically transmitted to my body. Is this a sensory game?]
[In the Spring Breeze: So, if a player dies in the game, will they also die in reality?]
After sending two consecutive emails, Lu Heng logged off again. If this game was truly this dangerous, he wouldn't dare play it anymore.
Leaving the game world, Lu Heng finally looked out at the snow-capped mountains.
The sky outside had already fully brightened. Lu Heng, with his Fire Phoenix, appeared on the mountaintop.
Taking flight again, Lu Heng and his companion circled for a while longer, finally discovering a cave in two mountain hollows.
The dark cave was quite conspicuous amidst the white snow mountains, though few people ventured deep into the snowy peaks to reach this place.
Lu Heng spotted several moving white figures near the cave. Those white figures seemed to have also noticed Lu Heng and his companion.
After all, the Fire Phoenix's presence was very eye-catching in the all-white snowy landscape, allowing their movements to be seen from a great distance.
The white figures lingered at the cave entrance for a moment, then instantly moved and disappeared into the cave.
Lu Heng had the Fire Phoenix carry him around to the back of the cave. After storing the Fire Phoenix in his space, he walked alone through the snow-covered mountains, intending to circle around to the cave entrance.
Carefully circling to the vicinity of the cave entrance, Lu Heng hid himself in his space.
His space could isolate his aura, preventing the monsters from smelling him.
There were no plants or other living things here. Any scent that didn't belong would be immediately detected by the monsters within the cave.
Moving a stool to sit in his space, Lu Heng ate his lunch while watching the cave entrance.
Fortunately, he didn't have to wait too long. The monsters inside couldn't outlast Lu Heng.
Two white monsters cautiously approached the cave entrance. Lu Heng observed that both were level ten ice-elemental monsters.
The two monsters were covered in long, white fur. When they stood up semi-erect, they were over two meters tall.
They possessed thick limbs and robust bodies. As they walked, their powerful forelimbs would also touch the ground, moving on all fours.
Judging by their appearance, these were likely the snow apes mentioned in travelogues.
The two snow apes cautiously surveyed the area around the cave entrance. They sniffed the air, likely detecting no scent.
Then, one of the snow apes let out a few low growls towards the interior of the cave, and more of them gradually emerged.
These snow apes were not all as tall as the first two, but the shortest ones stood over a meter tall when fully upright.
These snow apes were not of low level; the lowest was a level eight monster.
If he could take down this entire nest, Lu Heng would acquire a significant amount of ice elemental cores.
Lu Heng put away his food and found a wet wipe to clean his hands.
The snow apes at the cave entrance returned inside. Having ascertained the levels of this nest of snow apes, Lu Heng emerged from his space.
At the same time, he released the fire-elemental monsters he had contracted.
Lu Heng mentally instructed them to attack. Instantly, the fire-elemental monsters lined up at the cave entrance and began spewing flames into the cave.
Streams of scorching fire snakes shot into the cave. The bright flames illuminated the interior and ignited anything flammable.
Where the flames passed, the rocks inside were scorched to a translucent red by the intense heat, and the screams of snow apes could be heard from within.
However, the screams did not last long. His fire-elemental enlightenment level had reached thirteen.
Therefore, the fire-elemental monsters contracted to him had also leveled up to thirteen, making it very easy to kill monsters below level ten.
Furthermore, fire and ice were natural adversaries. The flames spat out by these high-level fire-elemental monsters instantly incinerated the ice-elemental monsters within, leaving them with almost no ability to resist.
Hearing the screams of the snow apes gradually subside, Lu Heng then had the fire-elemental monsters cease their attack.
Lu Heng conjured a mist of ice into the searingly hot cave, lowering the internal temperature.
He then used his searchlight to illuminate the interior of the cave.
The entire cave was not very deep. At the innermost part lay several charred corpses.
Lu Heng did not venture further into the cave. He stood at the entrance and retrieved his vines.
Controlling the vines to extract the magic cores from the snow apes' brains, Lu Heng obtained a total of eight ice-elemental cores.
His objective in coming to the Shenyuan Continent had been achieved. Lu Heng planned to return to Jinyang City to replicate some of the ice-elemental cores and further enhance his ice-elemental abilities.
He had not obtained high-level ice-elemental cores before, making his ice-elemental ability the lowest among all his abilities, excluding his mental ones.
However, when killing zombies in his daily routine, he preferred to use his ice-elemental abilities. This was not only because the scenes created by his ice-elemental abilities were less bloody, but also because the zombies died faster.
When piercing the zombies' skulls, he could also extract the crystal cores within the zombies' brains.