Chapter 95: SS-Grade Purified Snow Lotus Cup and World Boss Tianshan Snow Toad

Chapter 95: SS-Rank Purified Snow Lotus Vessel and World Boss Tianshan Snow Toad

Early the next morning, Wu Yue, who had rested for twelve hours in the treatment pod, was fully restored.

Wu Yue was fired up. "Today, my plan is to venture deeper into the rainforest and purify more crops!"

Wu Chong tentatively suggested, "Considering how you were yesterday, maybe we should just head back?"

Wu Yue shot him a glare, and Wu Chong obediently shut his mouth, then played along with a rallying cry: "Let’s go!!"

This time, Wu Yue selected compact eggplants and chili peppers for purification.

Afterward, she uploaded five seeds of each to the Alliance Crop Catalog, just like the day before.

Planting the peppers and eggplants in the black soil wrapped up the day’s purification work.

Her inbox was bombarded with emails less than two minutes after uploading the seeds. Opening them:

"Congratulations, YW, for successfully unlocking the Alliance Crop Catalog: Pumpkin, awarded 100 million Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for successfully unlocking the Alliance Crop Catalog: Eggplant, awarded 100 million Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for successfully unlocking the Alliance Crop Catalog: Pepper, awarded 300 million Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for unlocking three Alliance Crop Catalogs, with an additional reward of 100 million Alliance points."

Wu Yue noticed that different crops offered varying rewards—probably because peppers could also serve as an important spice.

The points from unlocking the Alliance Crop Catalog weren’t huge, but the next batch of emails made her do a double take.

"Congratulations, YW, for being the first to unlock the *Purified Crop System*, awarded 100 billion Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for successfully uploading purified crop seeds for the first time, awarded 10 billion Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for uploading five purified crop seeds, awarded 10 billion Alliance points."

"Congratulations, YW, for uploading fifteen purified crop seeds, awarded 10 billion Alliance points."

But wait, there’s more. After withdrawing all the reward points, Wu Yue found over a dozen more emails in her inbox.

"Dear YW, the World City Agricultural Research Institute reaches out to invite you to visit and swap notes with our researchers on the development of purified seeds."

"Dear YW, Zhu Gengyun, Director of the World City Agricultural Research Institute, would love to have you over."

"Dear YW, Zhu Gengyun, Director of the World City Agricultural Research Institute, hoping to hear back."

.....

At the end of the dozen or so invitation emails:

"Zhu Gengyun: Meet me!! Don’t make me grovel!!"

Wu Yue: …*Sigh*. Fine.

After sending the rainforest coordinates to Zhu Gengyun, Wu Yue pressed on, scouting for more finds.

She came across a flowing stream and hooked a worm tail onto the line to fish.

As soon as the bait hit the water, the crystal-clear stream erupted. A frenzy of fish converged from all directions.

But next to the Dihe giant salamander, these were small fry. The carnivorous plant simply dunked its head into the water and went to town.

Wu Yue, "...", looked at her phone with a bewildered expression, like someone in a subway ad.

Originally just wanting to enjoy a leisurely fishing trip, Wu Yue had inexplicably gotten roped into loot-gathering duty again.

"Successfully picked up piranha teeth. Can be used as serrated blades."

"Successfully picked up a hard crab shell. Can be used as a hammer."

.....

"Successfully picked up river grass—tough and suitable for weaving into fishing nets."

"Successfully picked up [River God’s Legacy·Golden Will] torn map fragment (Part 1). There are five fragments in total.

Collect all five fragments to piece together the complete route map and locate the golden river."

Wu Yue paused mid-pickup. Shen Que glanced over, "What's wrong?"

Wu Yue's face twisted into a mix of emotions. "Remember the key I got from the previous story-mode dungeon?

I just suddenly picked up a torn fragment of the golden river route map."

She showed it to Shen Que—an aged vellum parchment torn into many parts, with Wu Yue now holding one of them.

Shen Que, "Hold onto it. I've never seen this location on the map before.

It seems finding this golden river won't be easy."

Wu Yue nodded and continued gathering items.

"Successfully picked up carp. The finest ingredients need only the simplest prep—just salt and chili for a lavish wilderness feast."

Wu Yue tested the carp and was surprised to find its flesh completely free of pollution. She couldn’t help but look deeper into the stream.

Wu Chong, "Yue Yue, what are you looking at?"

Wu Yue, "I found an unpolluted carp in this stream. Let's follow it upstream—there might be new discoveries."

Tracing the serpentine stream, Wu Yue, Shen Que, Wu Chong, and the others walked toward its source.

At the very top, they were astonished to find the stream flowing from a lotus chalice.

Embedded with gemstones, the lotus chalice sat alone in the depths of the stream, emitting a faint glow—serene.

Wu Yue examined the lotus chalice and discovered:

"Item Name: Purifying Snow Lotus Chalice

Item Grade: SS-tier

Item Description:

A snow lotus from the depths of Tianshan, transformed through purification by the sun and moon’s cycles into the Purifying Snow Lotus Chalice, capable of completely cleansing foul energies in water."

"Unclaimed (unbound) item detected. Would you like to bind with it?"

An unclaimed SS-tier purification item—this is like finding a gold bar on the sidewalk!

If this were a B-tier or even A-tier item, she'd have snatched it up without a second thought.

But this is an SS-rank ahhh!!

She immediately withdrew her hand and even cautiously took two steps back.

Shen Que glanced sideways, "What's wrong?"

Wu Yue wore a troubled expression, "This SS-rank Purifying Snow Lotus Lamp is actually ownerless."

Shen Que was surprised, "Now that is unusual."

Wu Chong shrugged, "What's the big deal? Isn't it perfectly normal to find ownerless gear in the wild?

Even if this Purifying Snow Lotus Lamp is SS-rank, whoever finds it in the wild gets to keep it—that's been the rule since the apocalypse began!

Wu Yue, don’t be afraid. I got your back. Go ahead and bind it now!"

Wu Yue couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. An SS-rank item that purifies water—why hadn’t the countless people who passed through from the Agri Research Institute taken it?

Did they not want it?

As the ground began to shake violently, the Purifying Snow Lotus Lamp, which had been resting quietly in the water, began floating upward, and their eyes tracked its ascent.

To their horror, the three members of Blaze discovered—

The Purifying Snow Lotus Lamp was actually the crown of an SS-rank world boss, the Tianshan snow toad!!

"Ribbit!"

A single blast sent them flying three meters into the air.

At this moment,

Wu Yue’s long-suspended heart finally dropped dead.

The people from the Agri Research Institute didn’t *not* want it—they *couldn’t* take it AAAAAAHHH!!!

The three exchanged glances and, without hesitation, turned and ran.

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!"