Thousands of white clouds came from the west, misty and variable, transforming the sky, vast and unpredictable, tumbling and rolling. Wherever they passed, a vast expanse was left in their wake.

Without need for further guesswork, Jiang Li knew that this was the Plain Cloud Realm Flag, and it was coming for him and Gongsun Qingyue.

The Immortal Queen aimed for ascension, and Tianxuan was the greatest obstacle in her path. To clear the way for ascension, the Immortal Queen would not let go of any opportunity. As long as she knew that Jiang Li and Gongsun Qingyue had come to Kunxu Mountain, she would surely make her move.

But at this moment, between Jiang Li and the Immortal Queen, there was another entity of the third grade.

The capricious clouds swiftly crossed a thousand miles and were about to pass over Divine Gate Peak when suddenly, a red and a green Sword Light soared, piercing the sky. In just an instant, light and shadow interchanged, with billions of sword shadows engulfing the clouds, countless Sword Qis crisscrossing among the white clouds.

Fast!

Indescribably fast.

Daoist Guang Cheng's sword was as fast as light, and its momentum was so powerful that it was unparalleled in both past and present. Even Taibai True Monarch might not surpass Guang Cheng in terms of sword momentum.

Because his Sword Light was so fast, it was nearly at the speed of light. Divine Sense, eye power, and even Spiritual Sense could hardly capture the Sword Light. Even with a reaction, it would be too late to respond.

Even Daoist Guang Cheng himself couldn't command the Sword Light in time, and had to resort to calculating the evolution of movements using the Taiyin Divine Number and the North Pole Divine Number, anticipating the opponent's Qi Mechanism beforehand, taking repeated precautions, setting the sword style, and then when acting, directly propelling the Sword Light to extreme speed, and evolving the sword style in one fell swoop.

This method of Sword Control was like a swordsman closing his eyes and recklessly deploying their killing move, charging ahead without regard for anything else. Not to mention, its sword momentum was indeed matchless, truly the most reckless among the reckless.

But Yi Dao techniques such as the Taiyin Divine Number and the North Pole Divine Number made up for the shortcomings of this Sword Control method, foreseeing all sorts of possibilities before striking, enabling the sword momentum to be displayed to the extreme.

Just like now, the misty clouds changed unpredictably, causing constant fluctuations in space, but Daoist Guang Cheng's billions of sword shadows sliced through the gaps in the clouds in an instant, causing the clouds' radiance to dissipate in no time at all. Then the Sword Light retracted, and the two colors, red and green, reappeared, spanning the long sky, striking towards the figure that appeared amidst the white clouds.

"Clang—"

The sound of metal resonated like a bell ringing through the sky, producing distinct ripples.

The two Sword Lights flickered three thousand times in an instant, bombarding the Cloud Realm materializing around the pure white figure. The combination of three thousand sword strikes produced ripples that were in fact spatial ripples, causing even the heavens to wrinkle.

The Immortal Queen, dressed in a white palace outfit, looked simple yet majestic with an expression as cold as frost. Her pale white palms held the Plain Cloud Realm Flag, and white clouds twined around her, forming a domain of her own, with white Qi dancing around. Suddenly—

"Crackling—"

A series of sounds emerged without cessation, the white Qi crystallized into snow-white ice, sealing all directions, encasing the Immortal Queen within, and even revealing the trajectories of the Sword Lights, and possibly...

The ice froze space, the extreme cold captured the red and green Sword Lights, layer upon layer of ice accumulating on the Sword Light, causing the speed of the sword to gradually slow, the form of the Sword Light to become visible gradually.

Within a hundred miles, chilling Qi crisscrossed, the ice sealed the firmament, and myriad ice formations sprouted. The Immortal Queen was the source of that freezing cold, the center of the Yin Qi.

Feather-like patterns appeared on her simple palace outfit, her Qi Mechanism growing increasingly ancient and majestic. Named Immortal Queen but resembling an Ancient God, she stood high with two green dragon and snake shadows slowly swimming in the ice below her.

Just as the two Sword Lights were about to be completely frozen, a tremendous Qi Force abruptly entered this icy domain, shattering countless pieces of ice. The two Sword Lights exploded with earth-shattering Sword Qi, breaking the ice and flying to the side of a figure dressed in a purple immortal robe, encircling and swirling around.

Daoist Guang Cheng gazed at the commanding female figure in the ice, unable to help but feel moved, "Fellow Daoist Immortal Queen's realm of Xuanming has deepened further. It seems the Dao Fruit Perfection of Xuanming is not far off. No wonder you are so eager to meet the requirements for ascension."

"Unfortunately..."

Having discovered that the Immortal Queen's Dao Fruit was not far from Perfection, Daoist Guang Cheng was even less likely to let her succeed.

Trust between different forces of the third grade was hardly possible, not to mention that Daoist Guang Cheng was well aware of the nature of the women from the Immortal Palace. If the Immortal Queen ascended, perhaps the first to suffer might be Yuxu Temple, their neighbor.

For the Immortal Queen, having Daoist Guang Cheng block her way naturally left nothing more to be said.

"Kunxu brings wind, Xuanming wields snow."

With a single thought, the Immortal Queen activated wind and snow. The chill condensed, while in her hand, the Plain Cloud Realm Flag crystallized into a white gold Qi Blade, the Heavenly Blade poised to strike.

No more words needed, only battle.

...

...

"Boom!"

In the distance, the sky exploded with a surge of cold air, countless formations of ice came into being, and Sword Light intersected, cutting through ice and frost, colliding with a dazzlingly brilliant Qi Blade.

Around West Kunxu Divine Gate Peak, it had evidently become an absolute domain, preventing Jiang Li and Gongsun Qingyue from approaching at all.

Jiang Li even had to take Gongsun Qingyue and retreat because the frozen domain, even if just seen with the eyes, seemed able to spread along the gaze, freezing Divine Sense and Primordial Spirit, solidifying will.

Only by increasing the distance could they mitigate this strange freezing effect.

"It's the Immortal Queen."

Gongsun Qingyue looked at the spreading frost in the sky and said with certainty, "The Immortal Queen has contained the Dao Fruit of the Winter God Xuanming. Only she could create such an icy domain."

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