Infinite Survival: The winner takes all!

Under the tense and expectant gaze of the crowd, Li Ming advanced towards the towering ice platform step by step with steady steps.

Coming to the ice platform, he slowly raised his head, his deep gaze fixed on the statue on the platform. He took a deep breath and exhaled gently, bringing out a chill.

This statue standing on the top of the ice and stone pyramid exudes a strong deterrent force, making people feel unprecedented pressure, as if the fire of life may be extinguished at any time once they get close.

Li Ming stopped briefly and slightly relieved the throbbing and uneasiness in his heart.

Then, his illusory eyes gradually became firm, and he raised his feet again and climbed up the ice ladder calmly.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, fifteen meters...the distance is getting closer and closer.

Just as he stepped within ten meters, the statue suddenly turned pitch black, releasing an unfathomable evil aura, as if an evil spirit was staring at him grimly.

Although this was only going to happen in the next five seconds, Li Ming felt an indescribable fear.

He was unconscious and fell into a brief trance, and only woke up after about two or three seconds.

Finding himself about to step into the statue's perception range, he hurriedly stopped and quickly retreated into the crowd behind.

"Li Ming? Are you okay?" Yun Shan gently held his arm and asked with concern.

Dongmen Qiansha's face also showed a nervous expression.

In the past, when Li Ming sensed that the statue was in danger, he would usually retreat about fifteen meters away from the statue, but this time, he walked to about twelve meters before realizing the danger.

"Huh..." Li Ming took a few deep breaths, trying to calm his violently beating heart, and then said solemnly: "The power of this statue is even more bizarre and unpredictable. It can actually affect the past through the future. I was controlled for about two or three seconds just now."

The members of Team Claytina looked at each other, without revealing much emotion on their faces.

They just witnessed Li Ming gradually approaching the statue on the ice platform, and then suddenly turned back. Apart from that, they did not notice any unusual signs.

"According to you, the statue is currently in danger?" Cletina frowned and asked with some confusion.

"Yes." Li Ming nodded affirmatively, "It's impossible to lure the crystal butterfly out now, but I will go check every ten minutes."

"Okay." Although Cletina felt that her luck was a little bad, there was nothing she could do.

She then turned to the girl standing next to her and said, "Lan Ying, come with me to walk around the area and see if there are any poisonous snakes hiding in the dark."

When it comes to an L8 grade ice element crystal core, one can never be too cautious.

If someone discovers that they can safely lead away the crystal butterfly beside the statue, it will definitely cause a shock to the entire second floor of the Ice Abyss, and will attract countless greedy jackals.

For the next hour or so, Cletina and Lanying patrolled the surrounding area.

Perhaps it was because the ice energy near the entrance to the third level of the Ice Abyss was too violent, making everyone unwilling to stay here for long, so they did not find any trace of other team members.

Li Ming would fly onto the ice platform from time to time, carefully testing the statue.

This statue was more dangerous than any other he had encountered before. Every time he approached it, he would be controlled for two or three seconds.

Therefore, he had to slow down his pace as much as possible and act with caution to avoid accidentally stepping into the statue's perception range.

After another ten minutes, Claytina and Lanying completed their patrol and returned to the team.

At this time, Li Ming was also ready to start his ninth attempt.

This time, when he stepped within ten meters of the statue, the statue suddenly burst into dazzling white light. The light was so strong that it almost illuminated the entire super-large ice cave like daylight.

However, this dazzling light only lasted for a second before quickly fading away.

Then, the crystal butterflies that were originally dancing around the statue gracefully circled around Li Ming.

After completing this ritualistic flight, it flew lightly to the bottom of the ice platform.

"Success!" At this moment, everyone's excitement was hard to suppress and their faces were filled with ecstasy.

Of course, after the surprise, everyone quickly regained their composure.

After all, luring out the crystal butterfly was only the first step. Next, they had to make sure that no one noticed them while they were following the crystal butterfly in search of treasure.

After a brief discussion, everyone decided that Li Ming would be responsible for following Crystal Butterfly alone, while the other team members would spread out in the surrounding area to take on guard duties to ensure that the entire operation was not interfered with.

Crystal Butterfly led the group away from the entrance area of ​​the third floor of the Ice Abyss.

Its unique ability to avoid ice elemental monsters may have advantages and disadvantages in the first level of the Ice Abyss, but it becomes a torture in the second level of the Ice Abyss.

Because the monsters here are too densely distributed, it spends most of its time taking detours, and sometimes it has to go back and forth on the same passage three or four times.

This seriously delayed their journey.

Fortunately, the area of ​​the second layer of the Ice Abyss is vast enough. Along the way, they did not encounter any other unexpected situations except for occasionally feeling weak energy collision fluctuations in the distance.

Time passed quietly without us noticing, and in the blink of an eye, seven hours had passed.

At this time, the crystal butterfly led them to a deep ice cave.

After clearing out the ice-armored beasts lurking in the ice cave, the Crystal Butterfly did not continue to lead the way, but stopped next to a huge, irregularly shaped ice crystal stone growing on the wall.

Cletina glanced at Li Ming beside her in confusion and asked, "What does it mean by stopping here? Does it want us to break this ice crystal boulder?"

"This is the first time we've encountered this kind of thing," Li Ming replied. "However, since the crystal butterfly has stopped moving, it means something is blocking its path. It can only be this huge ice crystal rock."

"Well, leave it to me." Cletina nodded, without saying anything more, and directly took out a flashing spear.

The tip of the gun fluttered in the air, appearing and disappearing, and every swing tore open a tiny crack in space.

Although this piece of ice crystal stone is harder than most ice elemental monsters, it still appears somewhat fragile under the sharp cutting of the space crack.

As time went by, the huge ice crystal stone in front of them, which was five meters wide and ten meters high, gradually cracked and was broken into pieces bit by bit, and finally collapsed completely and turned into ruins.

After smashing the ice crystal boulder, everyone was surprised to find that there was a deep crack hidden at the bottom of the ice wall. It continued to meander downwards and disappeared into the dim passage.

Claytina watched the crystal butterfly fly into the crack and couldn't help but let out a bitter smile, "Such a hidden place, if there is no crystal butterfly to guide us, we may not be able to find it even if we live in the Ice Abyss for a lifetime."