Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 139 Upgrading to "Formless Pure Ice"! The 48th ranked treasure! (Third update)

The Thor is a Silver-class drifting ship with relatively simple facilities. It has only a small warehouse, which at the moment contains only two boxes filled with dazzling crystals.

Pure crystal.

Shi Ming's eyes lit up as he looked at the glittering crystals; these were all his hard-earned money!
A full 1000 of them, I'll collect them all!
He intends to use them to restore the 48th ranked wonder, the Formless Pure Ice, to its original state!
As for the drifting boat itself?
Anyone wishing to acquire the captain's authority of the drifting ship can either actively transfer and inherit it, or forcibly break into it. Without the key, brute-forcefully breaking into its system would take a very long time. Shi Ming couldn't stay in this sea area for too long, so he could only take its energy core, the Navigation Crystal.

That's a good result.

Looking back on this bounty operation, his gains were enormous, far exceeding those from exploring the Yellowstone. Of course, this doesn't include the rewards from infiltrating "Let There Be Light," and the greater reward from this trip was the bounty money.

A total of 1500 pure crystals!

In addition, there is a Heart of Navigation and a Crystal of Navigation! The former is the core of the Golden Ship and the most important material for the future upgrade of the Great Yun Ship!
In addition, the large amount of intelligence from the Kitchen Smoke Intelligence Bureau is also of very high hidden value.

Finally, there is Reinhardt's personal collection.

Compared to the bounty, this amount is relatively small. Reinhardt has a fixed residence on the Twelve Stars, and he did not bring all his property on the Smoke Ship. Shi Ming only found 20 Pure Dome Crystals, more than 100 Dome Crystals, and several hundred high-grade Sea Crystals and some Sea Crystals.

And a number of pleasure facilities.

A collection of fine wines, spirits, beer, antique artworks, a Prussian longsword, a box of black and white truffles, a box of rare cheeses, a manuscript by the musician Ludwig, and a Faustian print of unknown authenticity...

"This Reinhardt does have a knack for art."

After the data was stored, Shi Ming reviewed the very detailed intelligence.

"A glimpse into the wonders of the endless seas. This version differs somewhat from Miss Yan's, but it's clear that Reinhardt's version is a mix of truth and falsehood... This also shows how vast the gap is between him and Miss Yan."

"Information on twelve S-class Awakened Ones... Hmm, Mr. Lei isn't listed. It seems Mr. Lei is just a code name, and even his appearance is probably fake."

“Reinhardt’s personal notes…107 confidantes, listed in separate volumes…eighteen of them are women who have his bloodline and offspring.”

"The mind map for the Golden Pagoda bounty is logically clear..."

"..."

At six o'clock in the evening, after a celebratory dinner on deck, Shi Ming returned to the captain's cabin.

Taking advantage of his rare free time, he decided to use the power of his creative brain to upgrade several items he had planned to create.

The most important of these is the long-awaited "unformed phaseless pure ice".

[Unformed "phaseless pure ice".]

【Level: 9】

[The "Formless Pure Ice," which should have been ranked 48th in the list of wonders of the endless ocean, was buried in the polar ley lines for thousands of years, but was leaked out due to the movement of continental plates, losing its final chance to take shape.]

Upgrade Required: 1000 Pure Crystals

This was a treasure he found in the Eye of Extreme Cold, which attracted the pursuit of an S-class sea beast, the Twilight Whale. Fortunately, he used the system warehouse to isolate the aura of the Formless Pure Ice in time, thus avoiding a direct confrontation with the giant whale that was half rotten and half intact.

When the unformed, phaseless pure ice was taken out, the temperature in the entire captain's cabin dropped by more than ten degrees.

Moreover, it continues to decline.

With Shi Ming's current physical condition, he can withstand temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees Celsius, but forcibly touching the blue spherical crystal still makes him feel very uncomfortable.

upgrade!

Whoosh! A thousand pure crystals instantly transformed into a dense gas visible to the naked eye, swirling around the formless pure ice. It was rapidly absorbed and transformed by the ice, allowing Shi Ming to truly understand what it meant to spend money like water!
They finally obtained a huge fortune, but the astronomical reward was gone—more than half of it was gone!

The blue, spherical crystals spun around, sometimes bursting forth with cold air, sometimes gathering it back in.

Twenty minutes later, its condition finally stabilized completely. The blue crystals became even more lustrous, and the 256 cross-sections shone even brighter under the light. Every ray of light it refracted carried a bone-chilling coldness.

Its description was once again presented to Shi Ming.

【Pure Ice Without Form】

【Level: 10】

The "Formless Pure Ice," ranked 48th in the list of wonders of the endless ocean, was buried within the polar ley lines for millennia, but was released due to continental tectonic movement and repaired by a concentrated energy source, becoming perfectly intact.

【Feature 1: The Realm of Perpetual Freeze】

【Characteristic 2: Perfect Crystal】

[You have reached the highest level and cannot be upgraded further.]

Fortunately, the Formless Pure Ice was upgraded from a damaged state, which saved Shi Ming from the trial and error stage and allowed him to directly understand its two characteristics through the Brain of Creation!
Feature 1: The Realm of Perpetual Freeze!
The temperature within a ten-meter radius of the carrier remains constant at -45 degrees Celsius.

If the cold energy within the formless pure ice is actively stimulated, it can be reduced to an even lower level.

Theoretically, the temperature could be lowered to -273 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest thermodynamic temperature, but it is very difficult to operate in practice, and no matter how powerful carbon-based organisms are, they would find it difficult to withstand such low temperatures.

Characteristic Two: Perfect Crystal!
This skill is amazing!

This is a one-time use skill, yet it fully deserves its 48th place ranking! If it weren't for the power of the Creative Brain, which allowed me to understand its skill description by exploiting a bug, no one would have been able to figure out this ability!
It was hidden too well.

[Eat it, and if you survive for 120 seconds, you can replace any ice-attribute skill, regardless of its level, with "The Third Law," ranked 29th on the S-rank skill list.]

The Third Law!

No. 29!
Shi Ming was very familiar with the third law of thermodynamics, which, simply put, states that at absolute zero, the entropy of a perfect crystal is fixed at zero. But how would this manifest in terms of skills? The Brain of Creation didn't say.

Shi Ming's ambition as a powerful figure surged once more.

It's not that I dislike Ice Annihilation, but as an A-level skill, don't you want to improve?
only……

Consuming the formless pure ice is incredibly difficult! This treasure, which theoretically can reach absolute zero... could any carbon-based life form actually consume it?

Shi Ming immediately thought of cooperating with "Putting Them in a Deadly Situation".

But not enough.

Once triggered, the "Death Situation" effect can only maintain a positive infinite recovery state for 60 seconds, which is the invincible state.

Even if you stack the Black Tortoise Shield 5 times, you can only achieve 75 seconds of invincibility, which is far from the requirement of 120 seconds!

As he was pondering, suddenly, Shidun's voice came through the communicator.

"Captain, the sea is frozen, the Dayun has run aground."

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　The third update is here!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)