Wasteland Bachelor Summons Ultraman from the Start

Under an ink-black night sky, Cold Crow Ridge loomed ahead like a monstrous beast crouched on the vast snowfield. Its steep slopes were strewn with jagged rocks and sparse, twisted black trees hung with icicles, their clawlike shadows cast beneath the moon. The air was filled with a bone-deep chill and a faint, baleful aura that seemed capable of freezing the soul. Now and then, a piercing crow’s cry rang out from the ridge, making the place feel even more sinister. Ye Chen concealed his aura and pushed the power of “Stillness” to its limit. Moving like a ghost, he followed the direction sensed by the Mystic Ice Token and silently made his way deeper into Cold Crow Ridge. The farther he went, the more biting the cold became. The ground was covered with thick layers of ice and snow that had frozen over for who knew how many years, crunching faintly beneath his feet. The mountain wind was as sharp as a blade, whipping tiny ice crystals against his face. The Mystic Ice Token in his clothes had grown scorching hot. The nebula swirling inside it had reached its peak speed, and the fluctuations it emitted were clearly resonating with some place ahead. Ye Chen could sense that the source of the resonance seemed to lie beneath a cliff at the summit of Cold Crow Ridge’s main peak, shrouded in dense ice fog that never lifted. Carefully avoiding several ice caves that radiated danger and the “Frost Wraith Crows” circling the night sky, their eyes glowing an eerie green, he finally reached the foot of the main peak. Looking up, he saw a sheer cliff towering into the clouds, smooth as a mirror and covered in a thick layer of blue ice that gleamed coldly in the moonlight. Below it was a gigantic cave entrance, half-buried in snow. Strangely shaped icicles clung to its edges, making it look like the mouth of a colossal beast. The dense