Each of the elites of each country was being supported by powerful families in one way or another to get the best pieces of equipment as quickly as possible; in some cases, even the government of the country itself was supporting these people! Each of them possessed terrifying reaction speed and reflexes, bringing these characteristics from the real world to the virtual world, which helped them to become flood dragons in the midst of a crowd of small fishes.

How could such people admit that they were inferior to anyone else? In fact, it was most likely that none of them had even thought for a moment about defeat. They might see some people as their rivals, but they would never think of defeat!

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As for Shiva? No one knew him in the past; it was a name that only came to light a month after the release of Samsara Online. Precisely because of this, nobody paid too much attention to the Chinese player who was slowly starting to become the world's focus.

For these elite players who were in the world spotlight since the beginning of the history of 100% immersive virtual reality games, Shiva was simply a new rising star and still, it needed to be seen if he was a star that would stay forever or was merely a small shooting star that would shine only for a moment before disappearing for all eternity.

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-World of Snow and Rocks.

Of course, Xie Feng had no idea that most of the elites of the other powerful countries underestimated him so much, and only now was he just beginning to enter their eyes, and even if he knew it was unlikely that he would care about something like this... In fact, he would probably silently mock those people.

Currently, Xie Feng stood beside the inert corpse of the Thousand Ice Cocatrix and was stunned for a moment... Even for him, it was hard to believe that he had just defeated and killed such a big and powerful monster so "easily".

However, that surprise disappeared as soon as he noticed the glowing objects on the ground and his expression lit up in euphoria... Five golden glows, four silver ones, and, to Xie Feng's delight... One object was glowing with a purple color and releasing a small ice blue mist.

It was definitely an immortal grade item!

He hurriedly picked everything up and casually discarded it into the inventory, inspecting the most important item in the pile first.

[Frost Walker: Immortal-grade equipment -

Description: A pair of boots created from pure ice. With each step, it freezes everything around it and keeps temperatures low. It is said that even water can be frozen.

Equipment requirements: Water Resistance +20%.

Attributes not visible. Cannot be used. Needs to be inspected].

The boots were light blue in color, like two blocks of ice; they looked extremely beautiful. But even if the boots were made of mud Xie Feng would still wear them because there was no way an Immortal grade item would be bad! Besides, Xie Feng could finally change his bronze boots for better ones and who knows, he might wear these new boots for a long time depending on the attributes he revealed after the item was identified.

As for the gold and silver grade equipment, Xie Feng would take them to inspect along with the boots when he arrived at Eminentis City after finishing the current mission so he didn't bother to pay too much attention to them... Currently, his attention was directed towards the gigantic corpse of the beast.

Without delaying any longer for fear that something bad happened, Xie Feng put a hand on the body of the Thousand Ice Cocatrix and began to use his 'gather' skill.

[Ding!... Your gathering skill has failed].

[Ding... Your gathering skill has failed].

[Ding!... You have gathering Thousand Ice Ore].

Thousand Ice Ore: A precious material that has a small chance of forming in extremely cold environments. It can also be obtained from the Thousand Ice Cocatrix, one of the three hundred Immortal beasts of the Adrastrian Continent after slaying it. It can be used to create powerful ice-type defensive equipment.

[Ding!... Your gathering skill has failed].

[Ding!... Your skill...]

[Ding!...]

...

Xie Yao together with Gu Qianxue and the rest had already reached the corpse of the Thousand Ice Cocatrix but kept silent when they saw Xie Feng's serious eyes; they all knew that he seemed to be looking for something from the beast's corpse. The five of them marveled at the gigantic body of the beast, even doubting their own eyes.

[Ding!... Your gathering skill has failed].

Five minutes passed but Xie Feng still had not succeeded, which made him sweat a little nervously. When an object had a very high rank, it was more difficult to get; this was an iron law for most things. Harvesting something was no exception since the higher the rank of the object sought, the harder it was to get it out of the monster's corpse.

The same was true of gardening; the higher the quality and effects of a fruit, the more care the plant required, the longer it took to grow, the more likely it was to fail, and the more difficult it was to obtain the fruit.

Fortunately, the corpses of immortal beasts did not disappear until after seventy-two hours, so Xie Feng was willing to stay there even if he did not have to sleep.

Of course, such a thing did not happen.

[Ding!... You have successfully harvested 'Pearl of Frozen Water'. You can't gather anything else].

After ten minutes of constant suffering, Xie Feng finally breathed a small sigh of relief. A smile rose silently on his lips and a look of delight lit up his eyes as he gazed at the fist-sized bright blue pearl on his hand.

[Ding!... For unknown reasons, the Pearl of Frozen Water, one of the seven pearls of unknown origin, has chosen you as its owner and you cannot refuse it].

The Frozen Water Pearl, which looked less majestic than the Pearl of Light but more beautiful, lit up for a few seconds and Xie Feng could clearly feel a kind of bond between him and the pearl.

Now, even if he died seven million times, even if all his items were stolen down to his underwear, they would definitely not be able to take the pearl from his hands!

[Pearl of Frozen Water: Saint Grade Item -

One of the seven legendary pearls that suddenly appeared in the Samsara world. It is said that when all seven are united, a miracle will happen. Unfortunately, no one has succeeded yet.

Owner: Shiva

Cannot be discarded. It cannot be stolen. Cannot be traded.

Attributes: Water Resistance +60% / Immune to frostbite and cold effects of cold environments /+250,000 MP / MP +100% / Intelligence +500

((Supplementary Skill(s) )):

God of the Seas (Passive): Increases all water and ice type magic spells by 500%.

Water Mirror: Releases a blue water barrier around the user. It can perfectly reflect an attack, be it short range, long range, physical or magical, everything will be reflected at 100%. The barrier can be maintained for one minute, but after being hit and successfully reflecting an attack, the barrier will disappear. Cooldown: 1 minute.

Holy Water Soul: Gives 100% absorption of water attacks attributed to one's HP and MP. In a water environment, the user can absorb the energy of the water around him to quickly restore HP. The effect will last 10 seconds and has a cooldown time of 60 minutes.

(((Forbidden Spell))):

Ice Apocalypse: Unleashes the full power of the Pearl of Frozen Water, making it unusable for six hours. Effect: Freezes everything 5000x5000 meters around you, causing damage equal to the user's magic damage. Ignore all resistance. The frozen effect will last for 120 seconds before disappearing. Cooldown: 72 hours].

Xie Feng's vision darkened and he almost fell to the ground when he saw the effects and skills of the Pearl of Frozen Water floating a few centimeters from his palm. To keep from falling he even had to grab onto one of the Thousand Ice Cocatrix's ice feathers.

Terrifying attributes! Xie Feng already expected to some extent that the Pearl of Frozen Water would increase MP, after all, the Pearl of Earth increased HP.... But then again, estimating and being completely sure of something were two completely different things!

Just to make sure he wasn't dreaming, Xie Feng waved his free hand shakily and opened his status window. Before lowering his gaze, he added the free status points he had to STR... After all, he had enough INT...

[Player Name: Shiva

Battle Zone: China

Level: 25

Titles: Creator of Myths - God of Wind - Declaration of Death - Dragon Slayer

Class: God's Fall

VIT: 241

STR: 280

INT: 746

AGI: 233

Luck: 61

Charm: 61

Prestige / Fame points: 10.030

Money: 33,561,211 gold coins

Hunger: 160 / 200 (When exceeding the limit, the player automatically loses 1% HP per second).

HP: 6840

MP: 520,220

Physical Attack Power: 1138

Magic Attack Power: 1618

Physical Defense: 373

Accuracy: 233

Evasion: 233

Attack Speed: 100 ( Initial Value / 1 attack per second)

Movement Speed: 129

Magic Cast: 1 basic spell per second.

Critical Impact Probability: 15%.

Fire Resistance: 24%.

Water Resistance: 84%.

Lightning Resistance: 29%.

Earth Resistance: 24%.

Wind Resistance: 114%.

Light Resistance: 64%.

Darkness Resistance: 4%]

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(A/N: Guys, in order to avoid confusion... The Pearl of Light is also a Saint grade item, the reason it wasn't shown before is because when Xie Feng inspected it he didn't own the pearl yet. Then consider it a waste of word count to re-post everything just for you to see the grade of the object since it would be revealed with another pearl anyway).