I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 59 - 54: Ten Miles of Frozen Land
"Young master?"
Seeing Qin Yuesheng rushing over, Cao Zhengchun, who was waiting at the gate, was taken aback.
Qin Yuesheng ignored him, directly broke through the door, and retrieved the Celestial Demon Blade wrapped beneath the bed.
Unbinding it, under the candlelight, the surface of the Celestial Demon Blade emitted a crimson glow, quite enchanting.
Without taking much time to admire it, Qin Yuesheng immediately held the blade and ran out.
He was about to battle Shen Lang, and the venue could not be near the Qin Mansion, otherwise the Qin family would suffer like the Jiang family.
Just as he leaped over the Qin Mansion’s walls, Qin Yuesheng saw Shen Lang’s figure emerge from a newly collapsed low house, covered in dust and looking disheveled, having evidently forced his way through.
The moment they noticed each other, their eyes locked instantly. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Qin Yuesheng frowned and immediately ran in a certain direction, while Shen Lang, devoid of reason, pursued closely behind.
The fire within the Jiang Mansion burned ever more fiercely, gradually engulfing most of it, resembling a giant torch illuminating this area of Cyan Yang City in the night.
Many people’s attention was drawn to this great fire, unaware of two figures rushing elsewhere.
Upon seeing the entrance to Fuan Alley, Qin Yuesheng immediately stopped atop a roof.
Shen Lang stood on the street below looking up at him, as the moonlight broke through the clouds, casting Qin Yuesheng in a white glow, making his face hard to discern.
Only the red glow on the Celestial Demon Blade shone even brighter.
Silent, breathless.
Shen Lang abruptly broke the silence with a kick, leaping onto the roof and slashing at Qin Yuesheng with his sword.
The Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword, as it danced, emitted snowflake-like crystals, representing an unbearable chill.
Qin Yuesheng was undaunted, instantly retaliating with Sea One Slash, the Celestial Demon Blade swung out with red light, while the wailing ghost faces on the blade shrieked more miserably.
Clang!
This time, with the Divine Weapon in hand, Qin Yuesheng was not weaker than Shen Lang; the Celestial Demon Blade was fully capable of contending with the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The two exchanged more than ten swift moves atop the eaves, evenly matched, the clanging echoing all around. Were it not for the desolate Fuan Alley, which its residents had long vacated, their battle would have drawn much attention.
This was why he chose this place to confront Shen Lang.
Unable to conquer Qin Yuesheng repeatedly, Shen Lang grew furious, abandoning his sword to claw fiercely towards Qin Yuesheng’s chest.
Qin Yuesheng quickly blocked the menacing claw with the Celestial Demon Blade, using the hilt to intercept Shen Lang’s strike.
Utilizing Shen Lang’s momentum, Qin Yuesheng stepped onto his thigh, delivering a powerful knee strike to his face.
With his physical strength reaching 15.0, exceeding a thousand pounds, and bolstered by the Bear-Pokemon Stance, even Shen Lang would struggle against such a strike.
The roof beneath Shen Lang collapsed instantly, and he disappeared into the debris.
Qin Yuesheng wielded the Celestial Demon Blade, slashing hard at the rooftop, his Sword Qi coupled with his force split the entire roof, causing countless tiles to shatter like torrential rain onto the ground.
However, Shang Lang was no longer inside, making Qin Yuesheng’s heart tighten, instinctively leaping to the adjacent building.
Boom!
In the next moment, a chilling Sword Qi descended from the sky, over two meters long, freezing everything in its path into icy desolation.
Fortunately, Qin Yuesheng dodged quick enough, or his fate would have been grim.
Watching Shen Lang land from mid-air, Qin Yuesheng’s expression turned serious; this man was both exceptionally strong and swift.
Moreover, the power of the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword differed greatly from the Celestial Demon Blade.
The Celestial Demon Blade could endlessly summon Celestial Demons to kill; the more people, the more effective the blade, truly a ’battlefield divine artifact’.
Whereas the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword was clearly better suited for duels, its icy force was truly terrifying.
Relying on Nurturing Elemental Skill and Sea One Slash, Qin Yuesheng could wield Sword Qi, but Shen Lang, through the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword alone, demonstrated far greater Sword Qi power, underscoring its strength.
As Shen Lang missed his strike, he attacked again, slashing fiercely, sending howling Sword Qi at Qin Yuesheng, who wielded the Celestial Demon Blade, constantly countering. Though he deflected multiple Sword Qi, the structure beneath him wasn’t as fortunate, crumbling into ruins.
Seeing Shen Lang charging, Qin Yuesheng tapped the blade hilt to shatter the ice crust, then faced him head-on, intent on measuring up once more.
With this slash, full power.
With this sword strike, lethal intent.
Bam!
The spot where Qin Yuesheng and Shen Lang stood suddenly appeared as a visible pit, with wide cracks spreading like lightning in all directions.
While Qin Yuesheng exerted all his strength, Shen Lang’s muscles bulged madly, transforming him into a massive human-shaped muscle mass.
Yet Shen Lang was unaware Qin Yuesheng possessed the Nurturing Elemental Skill to adjust his breathing. As Qin Yuesheng frantically employed the skill, numerous True Qi pooled in his Dantian.
Sea One Slash, ten consecutive slashes!
Qin Yuesheng executed ten consecutive cuts in one breath, all striking the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword. Under deliberate control, each hit landed on the same spot.
With a cracking sound, a fissure appeared on the sword’s edge.
And the Celestial Demon Evil Blade unfortunately had a small nick on the blade.
Sss!
A large amount of white ice fog instantly spewed out from that crack. Qin Yuesheng quickly retreated, but even with such a fast reaction, half of his body was already covered with a layer of ice shell, freezing his left arm and left leg.
The ice fog quickly spread in all directions, where it touched, the ground immediately froze with layers of ice several feet thick, and even houses and plants were frozen.
Qin Yuesheng forcibly shattered the ice shell on him and exerted all his strength to sprint quickly. The ice fog spread just a few steps behind him. If Qin Yuesheng had been any slower, he would have met the fate of those houses.
Even for external martial artists, if they are sealed under the ice, they would freeze to death within half an hour.
At this moment, the lightweight skill of ’Galloping Horse and Flying Swallow’ was fully utilized by Qin Yuesheng, whose strong will to survive was driving him to the extreme,
In less than ten breaths, Qin Yuesheng had already sprinted over eighty zhang away.
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The night patrol officers and the townsfolk, busy with extinguishing the fire at the Jiang Mansion, suddenly saw a mountain of ice rising several tens of zhang high in the west of the city. This height stood majestically in Cyan Yang City, capturing everyone’s attention at once.
The blazing fire at the Jiang Mansion was already eye-catching enough, and now there was also an Ice Mountain.
One ice, one fire, complementing each other.
It truly made a deep impression on all who witnessed it.
What’s happening in Cyan Yang City tonight? Strange things one after another.
...
When the ice fog no longer spread forward, and the outward freezing trend also stopped, Qin Yuesheng finally stopped and looked at the scene behind him with utter shock.
He saw before him, unexpectedly, an Ice Mountain.
When he brought the Celestial Demon Evil Blade close to the Ice Mountain, even before touching it, a layer of cold fog appeared on the surface of the Celestial Demon Evil Blade.
"Such a low temperature." Qin Yuesheng thought to himself.
Who would have thought that an unintentional act of his, by the Celestial Demon Evil Blade, would crack the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword, and who would have thought that the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword would be so dangerous, that just the ice fog contained within it leaking out could cause such a scene.
If Qin Yuesheng hadn’t run fast enough, he would have been frozen within it and definitely dead.
Looking at the small notch on the blade of the Celestial Demon Evil Blade in his hand, Qin Yuesheng was rather grateful that it hadn’t leaked anything dangerous. Then, he used the Celestial Demon Evil Blade to climb the Ice Mountain, starting to search for Shen Lang’s whereabouts.
This guy is too dangerous, and after the previous lesson, Qin Yuesheng is determined to personally cut off the opponent’s head to ensure Shen Lang is completely dead to feel assured.
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In the Great Tang’s Yongle 73rd year, March 19th, a massive Ice Mountain suddenly appeared out of nowhere in Cyan Yang City, Suzhou, freezing a ten li radius, death and injury could not be calculated, circumstances unknown.
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The Ice Mountain was very pure and clear in its entirety, and Qin Yuesheng quickly discovered Shen Lang’s presence within it.
He saw Shen Lang holding the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword, maintaining the posture he had before being frozen.
So, Qin Yuesheng immediately began to dig, using the Celestial Demon Evil Blade as a shovel, easily chiseling a hole in the Ice Mountain and then digging down further.
Thanks to the sharpness of the Celestial Demon Evil Blade, digging through the ice felt very easy, and soon Qin Yuesheng reached Shen Lang’s front.
The original light blue Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword had turned pure white now, as if all the icy breath within it had leaked out completely.
Shen Lang stood there stiffly, his face covered with obvious frost.
Qin Yuesheng raised his hand and swiftly swung down, chopping off Shen Lang’s head. If Shen Lang could still come back to life from this, then Qin Yuesheng had no recourse.
Crack!
Shen Lang’s head hit the ground, and a sound of breaking ice was immediately heard, with many cracks appearing in the forehead region.
Qin Yuesheng pressed down on his body.
[Yes/No—Dissect ’Celestial Demon Shen Lang’]
[Success Rate of Dissection 88.56%]
"Yes."
Qin Yuesheng was already aware of the dissection function of disassembling living things, the more alive something is, the lower the success rate of dissection. After death, it becomes a dead object, and the success rate of dissection skyrockets.
[Dissection successful, obtained ’Celestial Demon Hide x1’ ’Celestial Demon Heart x1’]
Shen Lang’s body vanished instantly, replaced by a complete Celestial Demon Hide and an emerald-green heart like a green gem on the ground.
He then easily dismantled the Cold Frost Winter Snow Sword as well, and gained five pieces of material named Snow Cold Crystal.
The Snow Cold Crystal felt icy to the touch, and when held for a long time, one could feel a chill seeping into the pores of the hand.
Not daring to hold too many, Qin Yuesheng wrapped the materials up with the Celestial Demon Hide, then carried Shen Lang’s head and walked out along the ice path he dug coming in.
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The governmental office of Cyan Yang City received a very peculiar gift tonight, a human head.
The head was holding a letter in its mouth, inside it was written:
This person is named Shen Lang, a constable of Cyan Yang City, the mastermind behind the extermination case.
