Survival Queen of the Frozen Wastes novel Chapter 453

Chapter 453 The True Ice Lotus

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She reached out and pulled the bouquet of roses from the interface. Even though they had been stored in an inventory, the petals had still lost their moisture, becoming brittle, dry, and faded. However, a faded red ribbon was tied around the stems with incredibly meticulous care.

Next, she flipped open the parchment diary. The handwriting inside had been blurred by moisture, leaving only fragmented, barely legible phrases: “Can’t believe I ran into her again, so lucky anniversary…” “…hope she likes this flower…” “The blizzard is too strong, I think I’m lost… I actually found the snow lotus! She’s saved!”

The clues abruptly ended there.

Reading further down, Riley’s gaze finally landed on a lotus flower icon at the very bottom of the crate’s inventory.

She pulled it out.

In an instant, an incredibly pure, freezing aura spilled from the lotus in Riley’s hand, instantly coating the surface of the workbench in a thin layer of white frost.

Accompanying the chilling air was a deeply refreshing, exotic fragrance.

This scent was incredibly similar to the one emitted by the mimic giant catfish in the ruins cave, but it completely lacked that hallucinogenic, mind–numbing quality.

It was the pure, crisp essence of a high–altitude snowfield. Just one breath felt like it washed away all the exhaustion and mental fatigue of the past few days, leaving her mind unnaturally clear.

Riley looked down and saw a palm–sized, ice–blue lotus resting quietly in her hand.

This wasn’t a fake, mimicking tentacle; this was the real deal.

Its petals looked as if they had been carved from the absolute purest ice crystals, perfectly translucent, with a faint silver glow flowing through its veins. Attached to the bottom of the lotus was a small clump of frozen, pitch–black soil and a few delicate root strands.

“Glacial Core Lotus,” Riley said aloud.

That massive cluster of fake lotuses in the cave had been a 1:1 replica of the genuine article right in front ofher–just scaled up

several times.

Thankfully, this tiny, genuine lotus had been preserved in a state of spatial stasis inside the loot crate. Combined with its naturally abundant spiritual energy, its condition was still fairly pristine.

Item Name: Glacial Core Lotus

Description: A miraculous plant born from absorbing the essence of heaven and earth in extreme cold regions. A fully matured ice lotus is an incredibly elusive, top–tier medicinal ingredient; its naturally shed petals are core materials for crafting top–tier ice- enchanted gear and advanced magical potions.

The description was pretty vague and didn’t list specific stat buffs, but it was enough to know it was priceless.

Simultaneously, Riley acutely noticed that the silver glow flowing across the surface of the ice–crystal lotus in her palm was dimming at a visible speed. The edges of the petals were even starting to show faint signs of melting, and that crisp fragrance was

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bleeding into the air at a frantic rate.

It was dying!

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“Crap! Do I need to plant it?” Riley frowned. Without a second’s hesitation, she grabbed the ice lotus from the desk, turned around, and sprinted out of the Tool Room.

Taking the howling, freezing wind head–on, Riley bolted straight to an empty patch of ground near the camp’s perimeter wall.

The snow was thick here, and the temperature was brutally low. Logically, it should be the perfect environment for a plant with the “Extreme Cold” attribute.

Riley drew the battleaxe from her lower back and quickly hacked a hole into the rock–hard, frozen snow. She placed the ice lotus, along with its original clump of soil, into the hole and quickly packed snow around its roots.

She crouched in the snow, staring intently at the ice lotus, waiting for a change.

One second, two seconds…

No improvement.

Not only did it not improve, but under the brutal physical battering of the blizzard, the ice lotus’s already dim glow grew even weaker. One of the petals even let out a faint crack as a fissure spiderwebbed across it.

No, the environment is wrong, Riley’s mind raced. The system said it absorbs the ‘essence of heaven and earth.‘ This snowfield is cold, but it’s just filled with violent, destructive blizzards. It’s a dead zone! There’s absolutely zero life force or spiritual energy for it to grow!

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