A fair while back it was changed so that you could no longer get Ice shards from chopping trees, and had to harvest human corpses like the other religions, however, costs of all Ymir items (including how to get manifestations of zeal) did not change, despite it now being much harder to get ice shards than it was when the religion was first introduced.
Also, compared to other religions, the Ymir religion requires larger amounts of shards than other religion’s equvalant items, which made sense when it was far easier to get them. However as now the difference is gone, it is no long easier to get the ice shards.
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The ymir axe should give ice shards on all bodies, than you can also farm animals with the axe and get shards than it would be faster and better.