Spirit Realm Chapter 528-532

Chapter 528: Force Feed

Xue Moyan quietly sat inside the cave dug into the side of the icy mountain. Her eyes, which resembled clear lakes, held traces of sadness that just couldn’t be hidden.

“Please keep the Spring of Life safe for me.” Xue Moyan took out the bottle that held the Spring of Life. Then, after a moment of thought, she raised her left hand palm-up. Bloody light shone from it, and the Bloodthirsty Dragon floated into the air, several times smaller than its original size. “Take Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure as well. Keep it safe. Once you get out of here, please find my father and give both it and the Spring of Life to him.”

After the battle with Di Fei, Jiang Tianxing, and the other scarlet barbarians, she noticed that she was in horrible condition. She tried to recover her blood energy, but her mind lacked the spirit.

She also noticed that her hair, which originally resembled a long cascade of smooth black hair, had become dry and lost its luster. Several spots sported a faint white color.

All of these strange changes pointed to one conclusion.

—Her life would soon come to an end.

The depletion of Xue Moyan’s life energy or, more specifically, the sacrificing of her overall lifespan, could only be fixed with the Spring of Life. However, her mother needed the Spring of Life as badly as she did… and she decided to die for her mother’s sake.

“I will not deliver the Spring of Life and Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure for you,” Qin Lie said with a heavy expression, his brow furrowed. “Either you continue to live strongly, or the Spring of Life and the Bloodthirsty Dragon die with you.”

Astonishment filled Xue Moyan’s eyes.

“How is the Spring of Life even used?” Qin Lie asked out of the blue.

“Drinking works well enough,” Xue Moyan answered without thinking.

“That seems pretty simple.” Qin Lie nodded slightly, then suddenly said, “Let me make the decision for you then!”

“What?” Xue Moyan asked in surprise. “W-what are you doing!?”

It was at this moment that Qin Lie moved as quick as lightning, grabbing the bottle that held the Spring of Life. Dense bolts of lightning shot from his fingers as Xue Moyan screamed.

The lightning bolts resembled prismatic ribbons of energy that wrapped around Xue Moyan’s supple body. They emanated a paralyzing power, firmly binding her.

Xue Moyan had exhausted too much of her blood energy in the previous battle. She was currently at her weakest and didn’t have the strength to stop Qin Lie.

She could only glare at Qin Lie in horror, hastily saying, “No!”

“It is not up to you to decide!” Qin Lie reached out with his left hand, forcefully opened Xue Moyan’s lips, and poured the Spring of Life into her mouth.

“No! Noo!” Xue Moyan screamed. “Nn…!”

In the cave next to them, Luo Chen was in the process of recovering his strength using spirit stones when he suddenly opened his eyes, surprise and confusion on his face.

In another cave, Du Xiangyang shivered as he rubbed his chin, a playful smile on his face.

“You animal!” Pan Qianqian exclaimed as she rushed out of her cave and into theirs.

Song Tingyu and Xie Jingxuan sat in the same cave recovering their spirit energy. They had also heard Xue Moyan’s cries.

However, the two just continued to cultivate inside the cave without even the slightest change in expressions. They knew Qin Lie well, and therefore had no intention of moving.

“Qin Lie! If you dare to harm Sister Xue, I’ll cut off that dog head of yours!” Pan Qianqian yelled as she barged in.

Upon entering the cave, she saw that Qin Lie had bound Xue Moyan with lightning, forcing her lips open with one hand while pouring some kind of liquid into her mouth with the other…

“I’ll kill you!” Pan Qianqian didn’t hesitate to unleash a deadly attack.

“Bang!”

A silver ring slammed into the center of Qin Lie’s back. The powerful force of the blow struck Qin Lie, causing his entire body to shudder. He couldn’t help but inadvertently grunt in pain.

A shocking flood of spirit energy soaked into Qin Lie’s flesh, damaging his innards.

Qin Lie’s body trembled greatly, but his hands, which were administering the Spring of Life to Xue Moyan, didn’t move at all.

It continued to steadily pour into Xue Moyan’s mouth.

The Spring of Life released a refreshing aroma and radiated potent life energy.

Xue Moyan’s body absorbed the Spring of Life like dry land greedily sucking up rainwater. Her pallid gray skin slowly regained its lively color.

The wisps of white in her hair quickly recovered its beauty and luster. The traces of pale white that seemed to have existed in her since she was born swiftly faded as well.

Like an ancient tree once again surging with life, or a withered forest giving birth to a new sapling, a tremendous life force swelled within Xue Moyan’s body.

The aura of life energy that now surrounded her felt incredibly refreshing and natural, as if they had been transported to a grove of ancient trees.

The entire cave resonated with life energy due to the changes to Xue Moyan’s biomagnetic field.

“S-Sister Xue…”

Having long since withdrawn her attack, Pan Qianqian stood there with her mouth agape and stared at the extraordinary changes occurring within Xue Moyan’s body.

It seemed as if Xue Moyan had shed her former shell and was instantly reborn in a blaze of flame. She emanated a robust life force as if she were a completely different person.

Pan Qianqian naturally realized what Qin Lie had really been doing.

“Big Brother Qin, I-I’m sorry,” she hastily apologized. “I thought you were doing something bad to Sister Xue.”

Qin Lie wore a heavy expression, saying nothing.

He kept a close eye on the bottle in his hand. When he was sureconfirmed that Xue Moyan had swallowed every single drop of the Spring of Life, he finally sighed in relief..

“I’m fine,” he said, looking deeply into Xue Moyan’s eyes before turning away and leaving the cave.

The lightning that bound Xue Moyan departed at the same time, transforming back into electricity, shooting into Qin Lie’s back, and vanishing.

The wrappings that restrained Xue Moyan were gone.

A complex look appeared in her bright, yet grim eyes. She then sighed quietly, seeming to have accepted her fate.

“You can leave, Qianqian,” she said softly. “I’ll be fine.”

“Y-you’re fine now, Sister Xue!?” Excitement came over Pan Qianqian and she felt as if she could dance. “You don’t need to worry about your shortened lifespan from now on?”

“Mn.” Xue Moyan nodded slightly, her face devoid of joy. “Such a thing will no longer cause me trouble. Please leave first. I need to do my best to recover and absorb all the power of the Spring of Life.”

“Alright!” Pan Qianqian headed out joyfully. “Alright, I’ll leave right away!”

……

“If I had refined and absorbed that Spring of Life, I would have been able to smoothly enter the Fulfillment Realm,” Xie Jingxuan calmly said in a nearby cave. She wore an indifferent expression.

Xie Jingxuan’s words surprised Song Tingyu.

“Why didn’t you tell anyone when we were in that village in the Forbidden Land of Wood?”

“Because I didn’t need it to save my life,” she replied.

“Xue Moyan is Senior Xue Li’s only daughter. For their family to go through so much… it’s terrible.” Song Tingyu sighed. She pitied Xue Li’s family from the bottom of her heart, inwardly lamenting everything that had happened to them.

“The fact that Qin Lie was willing to give up the Spring of Life and even requested everyone else to give it up as well…” Xie Jingxuan paused for a moment, then softly said, “He was right to do so.”

“I wouldn’t have followed him so shamelessly if he were truly heartless.” Song Tingyu flashed a beautiful smile. “If he were… I wouldn’t have persisted in pursuing him in spite of his relationship with Ling Yushi.”

“And what about in the future?” Xie Jingxuan asked, a calm expression on her face. “What will you do if he meets Ling Yushi again?”

“A good man needs to be taken with your own hands!” Song Tingyu’s eyes sparkled brightly. “As long as he hasn’t married Ling Yushi, I will have the chance to snatch him out from under her!”

“I wish you luck,” Xie Jingxuan said indifferently.

“Heh… Speaking of which, you’re the one who knew him first.” Song Tingyu changed the topic, her eyes shining with a strange light. “Jingxuan, we’re the only ones here, so please tell me honestly… have you ever felt anything for him?”

“Felt anything for him?” Xie Jingxuan lips curled into a snarl, disdain covering her exquisite face. She snorted sternly. “When I first met him, he was just an apprentice artificer at Li’s Shop that belonged to Nebula Pavilion. How could I have possibly felt anything for him?””

“Ah, I see… that’s good. I can rest easy if that’s the case.” Song Tingyu’s eyes were practically smiling for her.

……

“Where are they? Why have they disappeared?”

At the entrance of the valley where the previous battle had occurred, the leaders of the three barbarian tribes, Sen Ye, Jia Yue, and Di Fei, led their men in a search throughout the area. However, they had yet to find anything.

“There’s no point in thinking about it. They must have gone ahead of us already.” Jiang Tianxing snorted.

“Form up in teams of thirty and make sure to stay close to other teams!” Sen Ye ordered. “We’ll search the mountains one by one! If you discover them, do not rush into battle. Your top priority is to notify everyone else!”

“Understood!” the eastern barbarians shouted in unison.

All of them moved to start combing through the mountains, determined to find and kill Qin Lie’s group before looking for the ice spirit.

“We don’t need to spread out and search,” Jia Yue suddenly said. “I… I think I know where they are.”

She pointed at an icy mountain in the distance.

“They’re halfway up that mountain, recovering their spirit energy in caves they made.”

Everyone looked at her in surprise.

Chapter 529: Ice Storm!

Jia Yue felt just as perplexed as everyone else.

Since the moment she entered the Forbidden Land of Ice, every time Jia Yue tried to condense her spirit energy, calm her mind, or adjust her breathing, she felt strange. Frost energy would fill her body and make it seem as if she had become one with the heavens and the earth. She would then feel an obvious increase in the power of her soul.

Every time Jia Yue cultivated within the Forbidden Land of Ice, she clearly felt the changes occurring inside of her.

Her cultivation quickly increased by leaps and bounds.

She attributed all of this to the mystical secrets of the Forbidden Land of Ice. She believed that the spirit art that she cultivated worked in perfect harmony with these secrets, allowing her to experience such godly abilities.

“I can vaguely sense them,” Jia Yue whispered.

Her mind consciousness moved swiftly, her mind’s eye acting as a bright spotlight, and accurately determined the position of Qin Lie’s group halfway up the icy mountain in the distance.

“There’s no way I could be wrong!” Jia Yue exclaimed, becoming more and more confident.

This declaration amazed all of the eastern barbarians.

After spending a moment in a daze, all of them regained their senses and couldn’t help but excitedly praise Jia Yue. Her divination made them jump for joy.

Gao Yu, however, stood off to the side, aloof and silent. Traces of confusion could be seen in his eyes.

“Jia Yue, you can truly sense where they are?” Di Fei’s brow furrowed as his face twisted in disbelief. “All of us have been unable to utilize our soul perception since we entered the Graveyard of Gods. Are we to believe that you are somehow able to continue using yours?”

Sen Ye was just as shocked and confused as Di Fei, similarly unable to accept this reality.

“When we were in the Forbidden Lands of Water and Metal, I also couldn’t use my soul consciousness to sense my surroundings,” Jia Yue said. She then took a deep, prolonged breath, as if she were trying to take in all of the frigid air of the Forbidden Land of Ice. A pleasant expression appeared on her face and she continued, “However, the Forbidden Land of Ice is a different story. Here, my soul perception hasn’t been affected at all!”

“We’ll obviously find out if she’s telling the truth if we just go!” all of the white barbarians shouted restlessly.

“Then… let’s go,” Sen Ye ordered, filled with a mixture disbelief and confusion.

……

Halfway up an icy mountain, inside of a small cave that could only accommodate two people, Song Tingyu sat beside Qin Lie, back pressed up against the wall as she questioned him out of concern.

“You’re fine, right?”

She had heard Pan Qianqian’s shouts, so she was aware of the fact that Pan Qianqian thought Qin Lie harbored evil intentions against Xue Moyan. She also knew that the Illusory Demon Sect girl tried to kill him because of that misunderstanding.

Since this knowledge prevented her from staying calm, Song Tingyu went to the cave that Qin Lie sat in to see how he was doing.

“Of course. Pan Qianqian can’t harm me to begin with,” Qin Lie said with a shake of his head.

“We fought the scarlet barbarians, and now they’ll be more wary of us in the future. They will no longer split up and allow us to defeat them one group at a time,” Song Tingyu said, clearly worried. “Before long, the scarlet, white, and black barbarians will join forces. The next time we encounter eastern barbarians… we’ll have all of them to deal with.”

Before coming over to Qin Lie’s cave, Song Tingyu changed into a rose-colored dress. It clung tightly to her upper body and hung loosely below that, accentuating her already enchanting figure. It made her seem even more seductive than usual.

Song Tingyu’s figure alone was already stunning enough to influence other people. After all, in the Scarlet Tide Continent, she was the most famous and beautiful woman to begin with. As a result, when she painstakingly took the time to make herself pretty for Qin Lie, she made sure to be careful and demonstrate all of her beauty. She resembled a flower in full bloom—too beautiful to be taken in all at once.

Song Tingyu felt like she had no control over the future. Maybe she felt that way because of how powerful the eastern barbarians were, but she ended up cherishing every second she spent with Qin Lie.

As they spoke, she gently cozied up against Qin Lie’s chest, releasing a bright light that gradually engulfed both of them.

“Hey…” Song Tingyu said quietly. “Do you think we’ll get out of the Graveyard of Gods alive?”

“We just need to find an opportunity,” Qin Lie casually replied, his expression stern. “We have to wait until the eastern barbarians enter the Land of Buried Gods, separate again, and drop their guard. If we strike when they do, it won’t be impossible for us to reenact the glorious events that occurred in the Forbidden Land of Thunder. Besides, the Blood Progenitor’s remains lay within the Land of Buried Gods, and I won’t leave until I have them.”

“For Xue Li?” Song Tingyu asked.

“The Blood Progenitor’s remains will go to Xue Li, but the rest will naturally belong to me.”

“What about the six Pure Soul Springs? What happened to them?”

“The treasure inside of my body swallowed them up along with my soul energy and blood. It seems to be nurturing something… but I can only feel it. I don’t actually understand what it’s doing.”

“You still can’t remember anything about your past?”

“It’s like all of the memories that were wiped never existed. I can’t remember anything.”

“……”

The two sat in the cave together, cuddling and having an aimless, yet calming conversation about trivial things.

Fifteen minutes later, Luo Chen emerged from his cave, then Du Xiangyang exited his own. Their eyes adjusted to the brightness when they suddenly saw Qin Lie and Song Tingyu leave the same cave. Strange expressions leaped to their faces.

Du Xiangyang coughed dryly, then casually asked, “What were you uh… doing in Sister Xue’s cave earlier, Qin Lie?”

“I helped… administer… the Spring of Life,” Qin Lie answered, raising an eyebrow.

“Ha… haha!” Du Xiangyang laughed awkwardly. “So it was like that! I initially thought you were doing something else.”

“Your mind is so dirty!” Song Tingyu exclaimed, her face full of disdain.

Luo Chen’s face turned red.

“Indeed!” Xue Moyan interrupted as she also walked out and came over. Pan Qianqian followed close behind her. “Your minds certainly are quite dirty!”

Du Xiangyang and Luo Chen felt even more embarrassed.

“What’s our next move, Qin Lie?” Xie Jingxuan asked, approaching the group. “Are we still going to enter the frozen lake?”

“No,” Qin Lie responded, shaking his head. “We will wait for the eastern barbarians to enter first.”

“If the Demon Sealing Tombstone doesn’t appear, the ice spirit probably won’t make any moves. You might need to go first.” Du Xiangyang climbed atop a block of ice and looked across the dazzling surface of the frozen lake nearby. “The ice spirit should be at the bottom of the lake… but breaking such a thick layer of ice won’t be easy.”

“Does the Demon Sealing Tombstone have a way to break through the ice?” Qin Lie asked in surprise.

“Perhaps.” Du Xiangyang shrugged, not daring to make any uncertain claims.

Qin Lie hesitated for a moment.

Then he nodded, saying, “I guess I’ll lend the eastern barbarians a helping hand!”

“Whoosh!”

The Demon Sealing Tombstone emerged from Qin Lie’s spatial ring.

Seven dazzling divine lights suddenly shot out of the tombstone, merging together to form a chain that was thousands of meters long.

The resplendent chain of light soared through the sky as if it were traveling the galaxy, dragging the Demon Sealing Tombstone behind it. A trail of colorful lights were left in the tombstone’s wake as it shot toward the vast frozen lake.

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

Atop an icy mountain peak five thousand meters away, the eastern barbarians looked toward the frozen lake and broke out into a commotion.

The white barbarians began to bellow and scream.

“They’ve released the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

“We were definitely heading in the right direction!”

Some eastern barbarians, however, started getting confused.

“What should we do?”

“Should we go find them?”

“Maybe we should chase the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

The Demon Sealing Tombstone could determine the location of the seven spirits as well as seal them. Now that it appeared, all of the eastern barbarians began to feel anxious.

This was because they knew that the Demon Sealing Tombstone had definitely gone to find the ice spirit!

“Let’s forget about Qin Lie’s group, and follow the Demon Sealing Tombstone,” Sen Ye shouted. “Let’s find the ice spirit first!”

“They should be following the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” Di Fei added. “As long as we follow it too, we’ll definitely cross paths with them again!”

“Alright, let’s change directions and move toward the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” Jia Yue commanded.

With the sudden appearance of the Demon Sealing Tombstone, the powerful group of eastern barbarians immediately turned their spearhead-shaped formation and began rushing toward the frozen lake.

Back on the mountain where Qin Lie’s group was, Du Xiangyang narrowed his eyes and looked at the surroundings below them. He pointed at the eastern barbarians, saying, “Well that definitely got their attention! The white, scarlet, and black barbarians are all present. More than two hundred of them were initially headed toward us!”

“Thank goodness we released the Demon Sealing Tombstone,” Song Tingyu said in amazement. “They probably would have surrounded us if we hadn’t.”

“How did they know where we were?” Xie Jingxuan asked, her expression serious.

“Because of Jia Yue!” Qin Lie took a deep breath. “My guess is… the ice spirit is corroding that white barbarian girl without her knowing. She probably possesses the perception ability of the ice spirit and will eventually gain extraordinary control over the Forbidden Land of Ice. However, she probably doesn’t even realize it.”

“You’re saying… the ice spirit has almost completely taken over her soul?” Song Tingyu exclaimed in shock.

“That should be the case,” Qin Lie replied solemnly.

“None of our business!” Du Xiangyang snarled.

As they spoke, the Demon Sealing Tombstone had already reached the air above the vast frozen lake. Rays of sacred light began streaming in every direction as the tombstone put on an impressive display of power.

Seven blinding divine lights pierced down from the heavens like ancient dragons.

Even though they were extremely far away, Qin Lie’s group could still hear the loud rumbling coming from deep within the earth. They could see the surrounding glaciers and mountains shake and crack.

The vast frozen lake’s thick layer of ice began to shatter under the bombardment of the tombstone’s seven godly lights.

“Cr-crack! Bang! Chink chink chink!”

Pieces of ice hundreds of meters long and thicker than a person shot from the surface of the frozen lake like translucent, crystalline spears. Every single spear radiated a harsh, frosty glow.

“Boom boom boom!”

These incomparably large spears of ice crashed into the surroundings icy mountains, causing them to break apart.

“Bang!”

More than a dozen of these ice spears struck a glacier that was thousands of meters tall, making it collapse instantly.

Frigid air swept up countless blade-shaped ice fragments from the wreckage of that glacier, blowing them in every direction.

“Boom!”

More gigantic spears of ice shot from the frozen lake, burying themselves deep into another glacier. They compromised its structural integrity and made it collapse as well.

“No!” Qin Lie cried.

Everyone anxiously turned to look at him, eyes filled with shock. They had no clue what was going on.

“The ice spears and ice blades! All of the ice fragments! They’re being subtly controlled by the ice spirit!”

Qin Lie’s realization stunned them all

“Quick! Look at the eastern barbarians!” Du Xiangyang cried.

They could only see the hundreds of eastern barbarians darting through the gaps between the glaciers. The barbarians were trying to escape as quickly as they could, but because they were so far away, Qin Lie’s group could only hear their faint tragic cries.

However, they could plainly see just how dangerous of a situation the eastern barbarians were in.

Several icy masses surrounding the eastern barbarians burst apart, turning into chunks of ice. As if they had eyes, icy spears and knives the size of hills flew toward them.

Numerous eastern barbarians were either flattened into meat patties, shredded into bloody pulp, or broken like ragdolls.

Others were pierced by ice spears and blades, their shields of light broken. They were ultimately devoured by the Forbidden Land of Ice’s frigid winds.

In such a short period of time, a third of the eastern barbarians died.

“Climb to the peak of this icy mountain!” Qin Lie cried, a bad feeling washing over him. “The ice spirit is targeting us as well! We’re about to get hit!”

Without hesitation, Du Xiangyang and the others immediately circulated their spirit energy to the limit as they rushed to the peak as quickly as they could.

Thousands of meters away, Celestial Artifact Sect’s Feng Yiyou pointed into the distance, his expression pale.

“Look over there! An ice storm has taken shape! The ice spirit must be there!”

Ye Yihao, Huang Zhuli, Yu Men, Su Yan, and Feng Yiyou were currently at the very edge of total despair. Finally identifying the location of the ice spirit, all of them gritted their teeth and started rushing toward the ice storm, completely disregarding their own safety.

Chapter 530: Great Calamity!

In the depths of the Forbidden Land of Ice, the Demon Sealing Tombstone floated high above the surface of the frozen lake, shooting ray after ray of dazzling divine light downward.

The frozen lake’s giant, reflective surface burst under the force of the barrage, sending crystalline spears of ice flying throughout the the area and crashing into nearby glaciers and mountains. Enormous chunks of ice began crashing downward as a result.

An cold sheen radiated from the countless shards of ice shooting through the sky as a bone-chilling energy soaked the area, threatening to freeze everything.

The eastern barbarians had experienced countless struggles and hardships. They managed to enter the Graveyard of Gods from the territories west of the Land of Chaos and were now looking for the remains in the Land of Buried Gods… only to become victims of this ice storm in the Forbidden Land of Ice.

The ice storm had completely besieged the hundreds of eastern barbarians traveling through a valley between two icy mountains. It was as if they had entered a freezing hell.

A spear of ice more than five hundred meters long, one that was reminiscent of a crystalline ice dragon, came soaring towards them from the frozen lake in the distance. It seemed to have a mind of its own, savagely soaring straight toward the densest group of the barbarians.

The ice spear descended from the sky, piercing the ground and engulfing the area with a frigid chill. All of the eastern barbarians trembled in fear.

“Crack! Bang bang b-bang!”

The giant ice spear abruptly fragmented into hundreds of smaller spears dozens of meters long that rained down upon them.

Numerous barbarians released tragic shrieks as the spears impaled them, dying instantly.

As all of this took place, a snow-covered mountain behind the eastern barbarians shook violently, then collapsed.

Humongous icy boulders hurtled down from that mountain and into the midst of the eastern barbarians. Those unable to get out of their paths were crushed into a bloody paste.

In an extremely short amount of time, around a hundred eastern barbarians had either died or suffered grievous injuries. They wailed and howled like ghosts or eerie wolves, trying to find a way to survive this calamity. Their thoughts of killing all Land of Chaos practitioners had disappeared, their previously high spirits completely nonexistent.

The eastern barbarians were being brutally eradicated!

Meanwhile, Qin Lie’s group did everything they could to rush to the top of the icy mountain they were on. All of them had become frantic, each of them exuding spirit energy that radiated a dazzling glow and shocking, colorful light.

They tried their best to find shelter.

Having seen what was happening to the eastern barbarians, they knew that the lower they were, the more danger they were in.

Being at the peak of this icy mountain would allow them to avoid the aftermath of other mountains collapsing, the bombardments of icy boulders, and the ruthless icy assaults shooting from the frozen lake.

“This doesn’t make any sense!” Du Xiangyang shouted, scared out of his wits. “The ice shooting from the frozen lake shouldn’t be striking so accurately! It’s almost as if it’s intelligent!”

“The ice spirit is using its power to guide the ice.” Qin Lie took a deep breath, his expression as tranquil as water. “The ice spirit is hidden in the depths of the frozen lake. Upon sensing the terrifying threat that is the Demon Sealing Tombstone, it began to fight back. It considers all living things in the Graveyard of Gods enemies that need to be killed.”

“When the wood spirit formed a soul connection Ye Yihao, the Demon Sealing Tombstone wasn’t able to seal it. It was only after that connection broke that the tombstone could do anything,” Song Tingyu said. Then, her aura abruptly changed as she took shining armor out of her spatial ring and put it on. She now seemed dignified and intimidating. “If the ice spirit has formed a similar connection to Jia Yue, the Demon Sealing Tombstone won’t be able to seal it. Doesn’t that mean we need to do the same thing here?”

Realization spread across everyone’s faces.

In the Forbidden Land of Wood, Ye Yihao had made a deal with the wood spirit, allowing it to take some of his energy. That made it impossible for the Demon Sealing Tombstone to lock onto its target.

Were it not for Xie Jingxuan’s shocking intervention during that chaotic battle, breaking the wood spirit’s guard and interrupting its connection to Ye Yihao, the Demon Sealing Tombstone might not have been able to seal the wood spirit.

“The earth spirit also formed that kind of connection with Di Fei,” Du Xiangyang said, his expression wavering slightly.

“The ice spirit is dominating everything!” Luo Chen exclaimed.

As soon as he said this, everyone stopped speaking and looked into the distance with fear in their eyes.

Between the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s position high in the sky and the enormous frozen lake below it, giant spears of ice floated into the air, controlled by some invisible power. Then, like frozen dragons, they shot directly toward the mountain peak Qin Lie’s group was at, carried by bone-chilling currents of wind.

These spears of ice flashed with a crystalline glow and contained the power of pure frost. They seemed capable of freezing everything in their vicinity.

Despair welled up in the hearts of everyone in Qin Lie’s group as dozens of ice spears carrying terrifying waves of frigid air approached them.

“Good lord…” Du Xiangyang exclaimed with a grim expression on his face. “Those ice spears are clearly coming for us. There isn’t the slightest error in their trajectory. The ice spirit’s control over them is just too frightening!”

“This icy mountain peak is going to collapse once they hit!” Luo Chen shouted. “Those ice spears could also just slaughter us at the same time!”

“Maybe we could scatter and flee?” Pan Qianqian suggested.

“There wouldn’t be any point,” Qin Lie said, forcing himself to calm down. “The ice spirit controls everything in the Forbidden Land of Ice. As long as we remain within its domain, it’ll be able to track us down regardless of where we go or how we try to hide. Even if we scatter, those spears of ice will adjust accordingly, firmly locking on to every single one of us!”

“Then what should we do?!” Pan Qianqian asked anxiously.

The location of Qin Lie’s group could be considered quite far from the frozen lake. Since the spears of ice were so large, they weren’t actually moving that quickly.

They still had time to prepare.

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone is in the process of breaking through the surface of the frozen lake to force the ice spirit out. Since it acts as a natural barrier, I’m afraid that the tombstone won’t be able to do anything before it’s destroyed.” Qin Lie watched the dozens of ice spears slowly approaching, his head beginning to throb painfully. “The ice spirit is definitely much stronger than the wood and thunder spirits. This strange land must have provided this guardian spirit of the Graveyard of Gods with some unexpected benefits. That explains why it dares to oppose the Demon Sealing Tombstone.”

“You’re saying that… before the surface of the frozen lake is destroyed, all of the Forbidden Land of Ice is under ice spirit’s control?” Du Xiangyang summarized.

“That’s one way to put it.” Qin Lie thought to himself for a moment, but couldn’t come up with a good plan. “We need to hold on until the Demon Sealing Tombstone has destroyed that barrier of ice, entered the frozen lake, and forced the ice spirit to flee. We will only be able to avoid those ice spears when the tombstone has suppressed the ice spirit to the point that it can no longer focus on targeting us.”

Du Xiangyang laughed bitterly. “I’m afraid we won’t last until then.”

Everyone’s expressions were grim.

Looking at their present situation, it was clear that the the ice spirit wanted to take advantage of the time it took the Demon Sealing Tombstone to break through the frozen lake. It sought to first kill all living things that had entered its domain.

Perhaps it also knew that, of the people who were present, one had bonded with the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

As long as the ice spirit killed all of the martial practitioners it could find, it will have killed the one bonded to the Demon Sealing Tombstone and diminished its power. It would then have nothing to fear.

The ice spirit of the Forbidden Land of Ice was definitely the strongest and smartest of the seven spirits. It was also the easiest one to enrage!

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Dozens of ice spears whistled across the frost filled sky, gradually approaching the ice mountain peak where Qin Lie’s group stood.

All of them went pale at the sight.

It didn’t matter how much they wracked their brains. In the face of those ice spears, which seemed able to exterminate everything in the Forbidden Land of Ice, none of them could think of a way to deal with them.

They had watched as a great calamity fell upon the eastern barbarians…

The eastern barbarians, originally numbering over two hundred, could not hold on for even half an hour as more than half of them were killed.

The more powerful Sen Ye, Di Fei, and Jia Yue also didn’t have any way to deal with the icy assault and could only continue to dodge.

Of the ice spears flying through the sky, only a few had actually gone toward the barbarians.

Just those few ice spears had already contributed to taking the lives of over half the eastern barbarians, causing them to despair at the terrifying hell they found themselves in.

As for Qin Lie’s group, they were facing dozens of ice spears, more than ten times the number that attacked the eastern barbarians.

Suddenly, Xue Moyan spoke up.

“I should be able to destroy several of the ice spears.”

Everyone instantly turned to look at her.

“I can destroy several of them by using Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure one more time.” Xue Moyan wore a calm expression. “However, I don’t have enough power to destroy all of them. I already exhausted a lot of my blood spirit energy in the previous battle.”

“Don’t be reckless! You can’t recklessly call upon the Bloodthirsty Dragon again!” Qin Lie shouted. “All the Spring of Life did was help you recover your vitality and break free of your short lifespan! It didn’t help you recover your blood energy, and there’s no way you could’ve recovered enough of it in so little time. You can’t keep using such a tyrannical spirit artifact!”

“Don’t you cultivate the Blood Spirit Art as well, Qin Lie?” Pan Qianqian asked. “Can’t you use your blood energy to control that Heaven Grade spirit artifact?”

Everyone’s eyes suddenly lit up at the idea.

“Me?” Qin Lie exclaimed, momentarily confused. “This is Blood Fiend Sect’s treasure and has bonded with Sister Xue’s soul. How would I be able to use its power?”

“The Bloodthirsty Dragon isn’t bonded to my soul,” Xue Moyan said quietly. “It has always refused to connect to me since my lifespan has been short since birth.”

“Then… how about letting Qin Lie try?” Pan Qianqian asked.

“That…” Xue Moyan was stunned by Pan Qianqian’s proposal. She thought to herself for a while, then said, “There could be complications. The Bloodthirsty Dragon has a horrible temper, which can be seen from how I am unable to control it. I’m afraid that it may hurt Qin Lie… and even if he could use it, he’d need to use a terrifying amount of blood energy. Either way, Qin Lie would be injured…”

“Can’t he recover his blood energy using the Demon Sealing Tombstone?” Du Xiangyang interrupted.

“Let me try,” Qin Lie pleaded.

As of this moment, they didn’t have any better ideas for how to deal with the ice spirit’s attacks. He had already seen the terrifying power of Blood Fiend Sect’s Heaven Grade spirit artifact.

If he could wield the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s destructive power one or two levels stronger than the power it had demonstrated against the scarlet barbarians earlier, perhaps he’d be able to destroy the incoming spears of ice.

“… I suppose you could try it,” Xue Moyan said reluctantly, taking out Blood Fiend Sect’s great spirit artifact of slaughter. “Fine. Go ahead.”

Chapter 531: The Rampaging Bloodthirsty Dragon!

As a Heaven Grade spirit artifact, the Bloodthirsty Dragon required an enormous amount of blood energy to release its terrifying power.

When Xue Moyan used it earlier, she killed ten or so late stage Netherpassage Realm scarlet barbarians with ease, displaying the incredible killing power of the Bloodthirsty Dragon while making Jiang Tianxing and Di Fei flee like the wind.

Since no one else in the group had a plan to deal with the incredibly massive spears of ice that were currently flying toward them, they could only put their hopes on Qin Lie and the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

“Let me try,” Qin Lie said.

Suddenly materializing above Xue Moyan’s snow-white arm, the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s enormous ancient bones floated in front of everyone and roared.

“Qin Lie, drip some of your blood on it so that it can familiarize itself with your blood energy!” Xue Moyan said.

“Okay!” Qin Lie took a deep breath.

A drop of scarlet blood emerged from the tip of one of his fingers like a scarlet pearl and flew over to the great mystical spirit artifact.

“Fwoooosh!”

The instant the drop of blood landed on the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s sanguine skull, the entirety of the dragon skeleton erupted in brilliant bloody flames.

“Plip… plip… plip…!”

Blood continued to emerge from Qin Lie’s finger and fly toward the bloody bone dragon, drop after drop. The intensity of the fierce bloody flames grew with each drop that splashed against the spirit artifact.

Like a sponge soaking up water, the bloody bone dragon absorbed every drop of blood, gradually releasing apocalyptic waves of fiendish blood energy.

“Circulate the Blood Spirit Art and try to connect with all of the blood within the Bloodthirsty Dragon,” Xue Moyan said. “Try to feel the energy of the spirit artifact and control it with your own blood energy!”

Qin Lie trembled.

Prior to Xue Moyan’s instructions, Qin Lie already felt the horror lurking within this Heaven Grade spirit artifact. He could sense the potent energy disappear from his blood as soon as it touched the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s sanguine skeleton!

Then, at this very instant, a mixture of emotions overwhelmed his senses. Violence, madness, bloodlust, and the desire to destroy appeared within him, threatening to drown him.

Then, Qin Lie’s eyes became a shocking scarlet.

He seemed to have changed into a bloodthirsty beast that, after being imprisoned for hundreds of millions of years, had finally regained its freedom.

Fiendish blood energy erupted from Qin Lie and the Bloodthirsty Dragon at the same time, shooting toward the heavens and gathering into one mass that resembled a thick river of blood.

A deafening roar resounded from the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s maw, booming forth without end. Seemingly boundless amounts of blood energy formed a sanguine stream of blood and shot forward.

A demented will, one that sought to end the world and extinguish all life, existed within that blood energy!

“Boom!”

The river of blood rushed into the cluster of ice spears in the air. The resulting explosions created a fantastical sight.

The dozens of ice spears that had been flying toward Qin Lie’s group, each of which resembled ice dragons that were several hundred meters long, originally looked extremely majestic.

Their majesty had been otherworldly!

However, the moment the river of blood shot into the midst of the ice spears, all of them exploded.

The dozens of ice spears simultaneously burst apart.

Tens of thousands of smaller ice spears hurtled down through the freezing sky like rain.

It was as if swords of ice were stabbing into the earth.

“Aaoooooo!”

The Bloodthirsty Dragon soared into the sky with a roar, a terrifying aura of destruction and slaughter radiating from its enormous body.

Under the entire group’s gaze, the bloody bone dragon flew out like a bloody bolt of wild lightning, piercing through the sky and tearing its way to the frozen lake in an instant..

“Th-this…”

The jaws of Luo Chen, Song Tingyu, Du Xiangyang, and Pan Qianqian dropped as they watched the scene above the frozen lake unfold.

Qin Lie and Xue Moyan were also stunned.

At this moment, the bloody bone dragon hovered over the frozen lake alongside the Demon Sealing Tombstone. As the Demon Sealing Tombstone continued to release its seven godly lights and bombard the lake’s thick, frozen surface, it released another bloody streak of light that contained an intense, fiendish bloody energy. This bloody light shot toward the bone dragon’s sanguine skull.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone started transferring fiendish blood energy to the Bloodthirsty Dragon!

This infusion of intense, fiendish bloody light made the bloody bone dragon’s body expand as if it were being filled with air.

In mere seconds, the Bloodthirsty Dragon actually doubled in size. The sanguine bones that made up its body began to glitter with brilliant bloody light.

It looked extremely radiant.

“Aaaaaaaaaooo!”

The bloody bone dragon unleashed another heaven-shaking roar, exuding an incomparably terrifying aura as it charged headfirst into the surface of the frozen lake.

“Krik krik kra-krak!”

The surface of the lake, which resembled a huge mirror, fractured. Cracks quickly spread across the ice, sometimes stuttering in places but continuous in others.

The ice continued to fracture under everyone’s shocked gazes, fissures spreading across the frozen lake until, several seconds later, a section of it collapsed inward.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone followed the bloody bone dragon closely, the bloody fiendish light it released resembling a long sanguine rope that tethered them to each other.

This rope continuously fed potent energy to the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

Breaking through the layer of ice, the bloody bone dragon roared once more and charged into the empty cavern below.

Immediately after the dragon skeleton entered the empty depths of the frozen lake, the Demon Sealing Tombstone remained suspended in the sky, the bloody light linking the two together.

In the next moment, the constant barrage of ice spears and continuous shaking of the mountains and glaciers in the area… all came to a stop at the same time.

With the destruction of the frozen lake’s surface and the bloody bone dragon having entered its depths, a strange calm came over the originally violent, chaotic Forbidden Land of Ice.

This sudden turn of events was a godsend to the screaming eastern barbarians. Since the ice spirit had stopped attacking them, the tragic barbarians lucky enough to survive finally got some room to breathe.

Just like the surviving barbarians, Qin Lie’s group fell into state of confusion and lethargy.

“This…”

No one had expected that such a heaven-defying change would occur when Blood Fiend Sect’s terrifying tool of slaughter was given to Qin Lie..

Upon receiving Qin Lie’s blood, the Bloodthirsty Dragon destroyed dozens of ice spears using the stream of blood energy that came from its body. It hadn’t even needed to move…

Qin Lie’s group thought that their deadly crisis had been resolved a bit too easily.

Without waiting for anyone to recover their wits, the Bloodthirsty Dragon roared, charged out, and formed a mysterious link with the Demon Sealing Tombstone. Then, borrowing the tombstone’s fiendish blood energy, it destroyed the thick layer of ice that made up the frozen lake’s surface and forcefully charged into its empty depths.

The ice spirit’s control over the Forbidden Land of Ice had been broken in an instant!

“How could it be like this?” Pan Qianqian quietly asked, closing her gaping mouth. The look on her face expressed her amazement well enough without it. “B-Big Brother Qin, your control over the power of the Bloodthirsty Dragon is actually so much better than Sister Xue’s! That was incredible!”

Everyone else silently thought the same thing.

From their point of view, it seemed as if… Qin Lie were the true owner of the Bloodthirsty Dragon. Only after coming into Qin Lie’s possession did this terrifying killing tool of Blood Fiend Sect truly demonstrate its incredible power.

Xue Moyan, in comparison, seemed as if she had just been holding on to the spirit artifact. She had never been able to put on such a violent display.

“It seems like it… takes to you quite well…” Xue Moyan sputtered, her face bitter.

Qin Lie remained silent.

He had been in a state of total shock this entire time.

He believed that Blood Fiend Sect’s terrifying killing tool could only display such frightening might under his control because he was the owner of the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

After all, ever since he got his blood on the tombstone, he had been able to use his blood to connect with the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the fiendish blood energy inside of it.

Qin Lie had similarly gotten his blood on the Bloodthirsty Dragon. Upon doing so, an unexpected yet miraculous change occurred between him, the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

The Bloodthirsty Dragon and Demon Sealing Tombstone had mysteriously resonated with each other through his blood!

He never expected such a development to occur.

The Bloodthirsty Dragon required an enormous amount of blood energy to show its might, one which Qin Lie could not afford to give. This meant that it was impossible for him to fuel the Bloodthirsty Dragon and allow it to display the terrifying power of a Heaven Grade spirit artifact.

The most power he could unleash by himself was probably around the same amount that Xue Moyan could.

Neither he nor Xue Moyan could fully display the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s power.

But the Demon Sealing Tombstone could.

After all, the Demon Sealing Tombstone contained an endless amount of fiendish blood energy!

This fiendish blood energy seemed to miraculously connect with the Bloodthirsty Dragon. The Bloodthirsty Dragon had somehow reached a tacit understanding with the Demon Sealing Tombstone through Qin Lie’s blood. It then received the tombstone’s blood energy, enough to finally display its incredible power!

“I think I finally understand who the fiendish blood energy within the Demon Sealing Tombstone came from,” Xue Moyan said all of a sudden.

Everyone looked at her simultaneously.

“Who?” Qin Lie asked.

“The Blood Progenitor!” Xue Moyan took a deep breath, an incredibly serious expression on her face. “The Bloodthirsty Dragon felt the aura of the progenitor’s energy within the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and by absorbing some of that energy, it could display its true might!”

This revelation shocked Qin Lie.

After a bit of thought, he nodded in agreement, saying, “You’re probably right! The master of the Graveyard of Gods must have extracted the Blood Progenitor’s fiendish blood energy from his remains and sealed it into the Demon Sealing Tombstone as its first kind of energy! The blood energy I absorbed and converted into my own blood energy must have been the Blood Progenitor’s!”

Only the fiendish blood energy of the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s creator could truly rouse it.

A blood energy which currently existed in Qin Lie’s body.

A portion Qin Lie’s blood energy and the power within his blood came from the Blood Progenitor. Therefore, after Qin Lie received it and gave it his blood, the Bloodthirsty Dragon displayed miraculous power, much more than when Xue Moyan had been controlling it.

“Crack crack crack!”

A gargantuan fissure appeared in the remaining ice of the frozen lake’s surface. Streaks of bloody light burst through that fissure from within the vast space that made up the frozen lake, releasing terrifying waves of energy.

Since the frozen lake had fractured and collapsed, the ice spirit’s control over the Forbidden Land of Ice had accordingly reached its lowest point.

“The Bloodthirsty Dragon is causing wanton destruction throughout the depths of the frozen lake and destroying the ice spirit’s icy barrier. Based on the current situation, the barrier that makes up the surface of the lake should completely break soon enough,” Du Xiangyang exclaimed, excitement growing on his face. “The Land of Buried Gods should lie directly below this frozen lake. Once the barrier has been broken, it should appear immediately.”

His words caused everyone to become excited as well, their eyes bright.

“We should rush to the frozen lake since our crisis has been temporarily resolved!” Luo Chen shouted, eyes aglow.

“Go!” everyone cried in unison.

Qin Lie and the others were currently in high spirits because the eastern barbarians had suffered heavy losses and Qin Lie had managed to rouse the Bloodthirsty Dragon and cause terrifying amounts of destruction.

They no longer considered the eastern barbarians a threat.

Chapter 532: The Remains of the Blood Progenitor

“Is it finally over?”

Down in the valley between two mountains, the eastern barbarians finally stopped panicking. Shocked expressions covered their faces as they realized how peaceful the world had become.

They had lost more than a hundred people in a short time.

Over half of their original force of over two hundred eastern barbarians had died to the ice storm of the Forbidden Land of Ice. The survivors surveyed the area, corpses of their fallen comrades littering the ground around them.

“What happened?” someone asked.

“Ice came from the frozen lake in the distance, smashed into an icy mountain, and caused an avalanche of boulders… we got caught in it.”

“Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure, the Bloodthirsty Dragon, charged into the frozen lake. The Demon Sealing Tombstone is floating above it right now!” Jiang Tianxing’s eyes flashed with excitement. “The lake is about to shatter, and the Land of Buried Gods will appear very soon! Get ready to move, everyone! Try to get inside of the frozen lake!”

He didn’t care about the lives of the eastern barbarians at all.

“Let’s go!” Jia Yue shouted. “To the frozen lake!”

She could feel a voice coming from the depths of the frozen lake, urging her to move as quickly as possible.

A strangely enchanting voice seemed to be communicating with her through her True Soul.

“Now is not the time to argue!” Sen Ye ordered in response. “The Land of Buried Gods has always been our true goal in the Graveyard of Gods! No matter how heavy our losses are, we must complete our mission!”

“Go!”

The eastern barbarians ignored the corpses of their tribesmen and moved forward.

“Look! Above the frozen lake! What is that?”

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone! That’s the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

After a difficult journey, Ye Yihao, Huang Zhuli, Su Yan, Yu Men, and Feng Yiyou finally reached the top of another mountain.

They had arrived at a good time.

At this point in time, the ice spirit had just finished its frenzy and the Forbidden Land of Ice had finally become calm.

The five of them stared down at the frozen lake from the top of the mountain. Seeing the Demon Sealing Tombstone hovering high above the lake, they were all but certain about the location of the Land of Buried Gods and the ice spirit.

“This is it!” Ye Yihao became excited. “We’re finally headed in the right direction!”

“The frozen lake looks like it’s about to shatter.” Feng Yiyou’s gaze grew intense. “The Land of Buried Gods is probably going to be exposed soon!”

“Let’s get to the Land of Buried Gods at the fastest speed possible!” Yu Men shouted.

All five of them were in agreement. Keeping their shields of light up, they swallowed medicinal pills first so that they could get back into fighting condition.

At almost the same time, Qin Lie and the others charged down the peak toward the frozen lake, hoping to be the first to see the Land of Buried Gods.

“Crack crack crack!”

The thick layer of ice that made up the surface of the vast frozen lake continued to fracture and break apart.

Underneath the frozen lake, bloody lights attacked the ice from below, charging about like countless swords made of blood..

The Demon Sealing Tombstone floated high in the sky and continued to use its seven prismatic lights to assault the surface of the lake that protected the ice spirit.

It was trying to seal the ice spirit as fast as possible!

The ice spirit was hiding in the depths of the frozen lake. It was strong, intelligent, and already aware of the situation. It controlled the Forbidden Land of Ice and fought back desperately.

“Aaouuuuu!”

A grief laden howl echoed from deep within the frozen lake. The bloody bone dragon flew out from the gap in the surface of the lake and shot into the sky alongside bloody lights.

Having grown to nearly two times its original massive size, the bloody bone dragon writhed in the air, howling unhappily.

The small figure of a person seemed to be sitting atop its head.

Although the more specific features of that person’s appearance were indistinct, their body looked as if it were made of bloody jade. It shone with blinding bloody light like a sanguine jewel shaped like a person.

They didn’t give off any soul fluctuations, but their body emanated a dense aura of blood.

“The remains of the Blood Progenitor! The Bloodthirsty Dragon charged into the frozen lake to retrieve him!” Jiang Tianxing was the first to shout. “The Land of Buried Gods is definitely at the bottom of the frozen lake! There’s no doubt about it!””

“The remains of the Blood Progenitor!” Xue Moyan also shouted in shock. “Those are definitely his remains!”

Everyone could feel the bloody bone dragon’s intense sorrow. This Heaven Grade spirit artifact seemed to possess simple intelligence. Upon finding out that its creator, its first owner, had died long ago… it couldn’t help but grieve and howl angrily.

“Look!” Ye Yihao shouted. “That’s Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure! The Heaven Grade artifact, the Bloodthirsty Dragon!”

“Aaouuuuu!” The Bloodthirsty Dragon howled toward the horizon.

The bloody lights that surrounded it formed ancient glyphs that resembled dragons. Hundreds of thousands of those glyphs hurtled down toward the frozen lake.

“Boom boom boom!”

Earth-shaking explosions rang out from the ice below. The assault of the dragon-shaped glyphs completely shattered the thick layer of ice making up the frozen lake’s surface.

The moment the frozen lake shattered, the seven divine lights of the Demon Sealing Tombstone reached down like the hand of a giant.

The gazes of everyone remotely nearby focused on the frozen lake.

“Bang!”

The frozen lake shattered, and ice accompanied by streaming lights shot outward, carried toward the eastern barbarians like an astonishingly frigid wind.

The eastern barbarians cursed, wailing like ghouls as they scattered in every direction.

However, before many of them had the chance to flee, their blood stopped flowing. Under the influence of the extreme cold, they froze to death.

Eastern barbarians of all three tribes fled in three directions.

Thousands of icy lights headed directly for Jia Yue. The dozen of white barbarians by her side couldn’t do a thing before they were frozen into statues.

Even Gao Yu was no exception.

Once the frigid winds swept over them, Gao Yu became a crystalline stature like the white barbarians.

Yet his eyes still shone with a dark, evil light.

Deep within his eyes, countless ghosts floated around to form a strange glyph. That glyph seemed like the unyielding will of the Evil God, but also radiated an evil power like the remnant soul of an Evil God.

The ghostly glyph in his eyes slowed the formation of the ice around his body.

Gao Yu was still stuck inside of the ice, but he retained his consciousness and could look around.

He saw thousands of icy lights enter Jia Yue’s body, streaming into her like water flowing into the sea.

Jia Yue immediately froze as well. However, this type of freeze differed from the one that killed everyone else. She became a person of ice, but the blood that flowed inside of her didn’t freeze. Instead, an unfathomable aura appeared within her. She suddenly gave off the feeling that she had become one with the Forbidden Land of Ice and was able to control this section of the world.

Her eyes became as white as snow… and devoid of emotion.

“Something’s wrong!” Gao Yu thought, a chill washing over his heart. He immediately realized that the ice spirit had taken over Jia Yue.

The Jia Yue of this moment was nothing like the Jia Yue of the past.

—She was no longer the white barbarian girl he was familiar with, but the ice spirit, the ruler of the Forbidden Land of Ice!

“Whoosh!”

The Demon Sealing Tombstone arrived, having followed the tens of thousands of icy lights through the sky.

It hovered above Jia Yue’s and Gao Yu’s heads, its dazzling godly lights writhing through the air like the tentacles of an octopus as if they were trying to decide which one of them was the ice spirit.

The prismatic lights roamed back and forth above their heads, yet they didn’t attack Jia Yue. It seemed as if they were blind.

“Crack crack!”

All of a sudden, the frigid gusts of wind froze Di Fei, who had been fleeing in another direction.

Di Fei howled as an extremely cold power of frost entered his mind and reached his Soul Lake where his True Soul was.

Di Fei’s Soul Lake immediately froze. The power of frost sealed his True Soul, seemingly cutting off his connection to the earth spirit.

In that instant, the aura of the earth spirit radiated from Di Fei’s body, peerlessly pure and bright.

The frigid winds caught a black barbarian woman with a gentle appearance, ice encroaching on her just like Di Fei.

Her eyes shook with fear and she cried, “Don’t hurt us!”

Only a faint soul shadow could be seen in her.

The calm, pure power of water emanated from her body, making her stand out as well.

“A’Yue!” Sen Ye shouted in shock and confusion. “What’s happening to you?”

“S-she’s been possessed by the water spirit!” a black barbarian shouted in realization.

Then Di Fei noticed someone at the peak of a nearby mountain. A scarlet barbarian stood there, completely encased in ice, but his body radiated the power of metal.

“You… didn’t you die long ago?” Di Fei shouted. “Ka Deng!”

This barbarian called “Ka Deng” had been killed by Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners in the Forbidden Land of Metal. Di Fei had been the one to bury him.

Yet that Ka Deng now appeared once again, showing up in the Forbidden Land of Ice.