The Qingxi Sword burst forth with dazzling and colorful light.

With green light taking the lead, the air around seemed to freeze in an instant.

Xie Daoyun couldn't help but frown.

"Ice Frost Ring!"

With a leap, he launched massive amounts of Cold Qi.

Xie Daoyun tried to use this combat skill to stop Empress Ziwei's advance.

The power of the Ice Frost Ring was revealed.

Creak. Creak...

Directly ahead, within a range of over ten meters in diameter, a circular Ice Frost Ring appeared.

The weeds and trees below instantly froze into ice debris.

When the wind blew, those trees and weeds turned into fragments.

However...

The Qingxi Sword seemed to be a Cold Attribute Spiritual Artifact as well, and as Empress Ziwei wielded the sword, she moved through it as if entering a place devoid of people, completely unconcerned about the Ice Frost Ring.

Crack!

The Qingxi Sword pierced through the Ice Frost Ring.

Empress Ziwei pressed forward with an indifferent expression on her face.

"Can't stop her?"

Spiritual Artifacts are indeed formidable.

Coupled with Empress Ziwei's unfathomable strength, this strike carried the momentum of cutting through the sun and the moon.

"Be careful!"

"Be careful!"

Ye Wenjun, Xu Sisi, and others couldn't help but shout out their concerns.

Facing such a powerful opponent, they were completely unable to help.

"Let's go!" shouted Xie Daoyun.

Ye Wenjun bit her silver teeth, clutching the Water Cold Sword and turning to leave. Xu Sisi and Shangguan Linghui followed closely behind.

Most retreated directly.

The so-called courtyard was like flat ground to these cultivators.

They passed through the backyard, preparing to retreat.

However...

Just as the maid Xia'er had said, they had been surrounded long ago.

Behind them, a troop of Tiandu Guards blocked their path.

The broadswords in their hands looked formidable.

The glare from the bustling urban lights was so intense that it was difficult to keep one's eyes open.

The occasional sound of car horns was irritating and distracting.

In this vast metropolis, nobody knew that world-changing events were taking place within this courtyard.

"The Empress has commanded, everyone must stay; anyone who dares leave this yard will be killed without mercy!"

It wasn't just the Tiandu Guards.

The Hall Masters from the Five Great Divine Palaces also led their subordinates and rushed over quickly.

They were blocked in all four directions, with no way out.

"We're done. No escape now," said Xu Huawen.

"You're such a jinx... I must be cursed in this life to have met you," Chen Daotian rolled his eyes.

"Damn it, you're the one with the bad luck, wherever you are, there's always misfortune... My life is truly hard."

The two of them were still bantering at such a critical moment, which was exasperating to witness.

Following that, the two sighed.

"Ah, I always used to say 'go die,' never thought it would actually come true. This time, we'll die together," Chen Daotian laughed.

"Damn it, I really don't want to die with you, you stink too much!"

The two teased each other for a few more remarks.

Then Chen Daotian said, "No use resisting... the difference in strength is too great."

Indeed.

The disparity in strength was too great, continuing to resist was meaningless.

"My biggest regret is that I couldn't die with Brother Yu! Brother Yu also really despises me!"

"No more words!"

At the same time.

With a boom.

In the sky behind, a huge block of ice fell, and the ground trembled.

Green light emerged, shooting towards Xie Daoyun's face like a cannonball.

In the air, Xie Daoyun rapidly retreated backwards while continuously slapping with his palms.

This was no Supreme Heavenly Rank.

This was clearly like two deciding experts shooting a science fiction film, with their hands resembling high-tech weapons.

Another thunderous attack.

Boom.

The ice block hit the ground.

Even the concrete couldn't withstand such a vast force, and it was smashed into pits and craters.

The crowd watched in astonishment.

"Ice Divine Hall Master Xie Daoyun, it was because of you that the Ice Divine Hall changed its name back in the day, and seeing you today is truly astonishing! However... you're facing me, the sole highest authority of Tiandu Mountain!"

Everyone noticed that the green glow of Empress Ziwei's Qingxi Sword was growing increasingly intense.

What was unimaginable was that where her fingers pointed, there appeared to be a ring, also radiating a green light.

The two beams of light responded to each other.

Pressing down towards Xie Daoyun.

"No good! The Ice God is in danger!"

"Sister Daoyun!"

"Be careful!"

This scene made everyone's breath hitch.

Within a radius of several hundred meters around, it was as if it was snowing, with the temperature suddenly dropping by more than ten degrees.

Xie Daoyun also realized the might of this sword.

And in her heart, she was more terrified than ever; when did Empress Ziwei become so strong?

Ziwei from over a thousand years ago was merely a Supreme Heavenly Rank powerhouse.

Yet now, Ziwei had far surpassed the Supreme Heavenly Rank.

Could it be...

Saint Level?

She was involuntarily shocked.

Xie Daoyun said in a deep voice: "Ice Sealed Tomb!"

Creak.

Creak.

Empress Ziwei shouted: "Thinking you can freeze along with me, impossible!"

Her Qingxi Sword still came slashing down.

Because the speed was too fast, the freezing speed was completely unable to freeze the Qingxi Sword.

However.

Around Xie Daoyun, a layer of eerie ice had wrapped around her, looking like a tomb.

Everyone was left staring agape.

Boom!

The green light of the Qingxi Sword struck upon it.

Bang!

The block of ice where Xie Daoyun was flew out.

It smashed directly into a building.

That house also turned into ruins in an instant.

Empress Ziwei slowly landed.

Without even a glance at the ruins, she withdrew the Qingxi Sword.

The attentive maid Xia'er immediately stepped forward to take the Qingxi Sword, carefully placing it back into its sheath.

It was then that Ziwei commanded: "Take all of them away, throw them into the Tiandu Mountain Prison!"

"Yes!"

The Tiandu Guards and the experts from the Five Great Divine Palaces surrounded them from all sides.

Chen Daotian, Ye Wenjun, and the others were all captured.

"Your Majesty the Empress, what about the Ice God... oh no, Xie Daoyun?" Maid Xia'er glanced at the ruins.

"She has been hit by my Leaving Origin Strike, temporarily unable to move... But her move, the Ice Sealed Tomb, has effectively frozen herself. Bring back the ice tomb, burn it with earth fire, and it will melt naturally!"

"Yes!"

...

At the same time.

Inside the slow-turning Secret Realm.

Sixty years had passed.

A full cycle of time.

With life being so brief, who could withstand such torment over the years without aging?

The wind swept across the plains.

Fang Yu's beard had grown longer.

Dressed in clothes made of beast skins for the meanwhile... With unkempt hair.

His entire body was darkened.

He looked just like a primitive man.

Whoosh!

This time Fang Yu didn't draw the sword; the Dragon Roar Sword beside him leaped into the air on its own, then fell into his hand.

"Is it time to set out again?" Fang Yu said with narrowed eyes, "I must warn you, even though you are now of the Seventh Transformation Divine Dragon Beast level, and have developed self-awareness. That doesn't mean you can move about freely! Without my command, stay put!"

Swoosh!

The Dragon Roar Sword was thrust back into the ground.

Fang Yu chuckled.

Indeed, in these thirty years of cultivation and slaughter, the Dragon Transformation Form of the Divine Dragon Technique had reached the level of the Seventh Transformation Divine Dragon Beast.

But so far, Fang Yu still did not know its special move.

"Who would have thought that the dragon formed by my Divine Dragon Technique could split a part of itself to become the Artifact Spirit of the Dragon Roar Sword, turning the Dragon Roar Sword directly into a Heavenly Rank Spiritual Artifact!"

"Good, I see you're anxious too! Let's continue onward! I have a feeling that the exit is not far from us."

Buzz—

The Dragon Roar Sword trembled!

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