Chapter 941: Chapter 941: A Fair Battlefield

Surrounded by increasing numbers of enemies, Gong Qing couldn’t hold back any longer.

She secretly transmitted her voice: "What exactly are you planning? This will only make the situation more dangerous, and by then, you won’t even be able to escape..."

Brother Cheng looked at her with a smile.

"I don’t plan to escape."

"But starting now, you need to be prepared to face a colossal force with me."

After saying this, he summoned the Ice Sword and charged first.

To anyone, this was an act of overestimating one’s abilities, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

And indeed, in terms of combat power comparison, it was overwhelmingly unequal.

Jiang Cheng, at most, could only have a one-on-one duel with an early-stage Emperor Realm Sixth Layer, and it wasn’t even certain he could win.

Now, the enemies he faced included three at the Emperor Realm Seventh Layer.

Without dying and using a resurrection skill, it was impossible to reverse the situation.

However, after the battle started, the situation reversed.

With the very first strike, Rui Wu, who was at the forefront, was blasted back along with his sword.

And then, he heavily crashed into the experts from the Ice Palace who were planning to charge forward.

Boom!

Deafening explosions rang out.

Countless ice shards, ice fog, and ice mountains appeared out of thin air, only to be easily destroyed by the figure in the middle.

Crack!

When the first Emperor Realm Sixth Layer was shattered with a single sword, the slaughter began.

No one could stand against Jiang Cheng alone.

At this moment, he was like a tiger among a flock of sheep, facing a scene of chaos.

Although he was under attack, every assault on him only resulted in minor injuries.

But his every strike was extremely lethal to the enemies.

This scene completely stunned everyone outside.

Before the battle, the most extreme scenario anyone imagined was Jiang Cheng fighting desperately, killing one or two Emperor Realm Fifth Layers from the Ice Palace before dying.

Surely, he couldn’t withstand an Emperor Realm Seventh Layer.

But now...

The Emperor Realm Fifth Layers were falling in droves.

Not a single Emperor Realm Sixth Layer rivaled him.

And the Emperor Realm Seventh Layers could only barely resist with the cover of their teammates, retreating step by step!

What kind of combat power is this?

Could this person be at the Emperor Realm Eighth Layer?

No way!

If he were that strong, why couldn’t he even ascend the Ice Ladder?

With a late-stage Emperor Realm Third Layer cultivation, how could he challenge opponents so many levels above, no matter how many fortuitous encounters he had?

How could it be like this?

Not only them but even Gong Qing was left dumbfounded.

No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t understand how this was being achieved?

She inexplicably recalled Brother Cheng’s ’joking’ words — that he was invincible in the world.

Although absurd, the truth now seemed to be increasingly approaching that statement.

Could it be that he really...

In fact, she had guessed wrong.

Brother Cheng hadn’t suddenly made a breakthrough before this battle, turning into some Emperor Realm Eighth Layer.

He managed to do all of this purely due to the special environment here.

This area, spanning thousands of miles, didn’t have the power of the Ice Origin, and was a void space.

Here, no one could reach the Ice Origin, nor could they borrow its power.

Except for the Xuan Race people who cultivated themselves, other true realm cultivators relied on external force to exert those heaven-destroying and earth-shattering powers during battles.

Either the Heart of Rule or the Rule Origin.

Their power was built on that foundation.

Their usual attacks were essentially the power of heaven and earth channeled in a special way by them.

That was naturally unparalleled in strength.

Once separated from the Rule Origin, they would be ’returned to their original form.’

At that point, they could only rely on their own immortal power.

Using their rule comprehension, they could only drive that part of the immortal power.

In such situations, their combat power would drop by at least over ninety percent.

Thus, Brother Cheng was actually facing significantly weakened enemies.

In fact, he couldn’t access the Ice Origin here either.

But he had an enormous advantage, which was that he possessed other Profound Patterns.

The rule comprehension level of Emperor Realm Seventh Layer roughly equated to the Rule Realm of the Tenth-Layered Profound Pattern.

Under normal circumstances, Jiang Cheng wouldn’t be able to defeat opponents of this level.

The huge gap in the Immortal Power Realm was apparent.

And in the Ice Realm, the effect of other Profound Patterns he mastered was significantly diminished as they couldn’t access the power of their respective origins.

Simply put, in the Ice Realm, only the Ice Rule was the hard currency, superior to all other rules.

But now the circumstances were different.

In this void space, without access to any origins, the effects of all rules were equal.

This was no longer the home ground for the Ice Race people.

The Ice Rule was no longer superior!

Thus, with other Profound Patterns in his possession, he held a significant advantage over those who only knew the Ice Rule.

Not long ago, he had leveled up to the Tenth Layer with thirty other Profound Patterns, including Power’s Profound Pattern, Death’s Profound Pattern, and Sword’s Profound Pattern.

Facing his complex and multi-faceted profound pattern attacks, his opponents could no longer rely solely on the power of ice for defense.

Furthermore, their attacks, weakened without the backing of the origin, were easily parried by him.

Here, not to mention facing an early-stage Emperor Realm Seventh Layer, he might not even lose to a late-stage one!

The void space had, for the first time, leveled the playing field for all rules.

Brother Cheng’s advantage of having multiple profound patterns finally shone fully!

For the onlooking Ice Realm cultivators, this was a battle that redrew the boundaries of their comprehension. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

They could use ice to achieve countless special effects.

Their ice could burn, but it was never truly the Fire Rule.

Their ice was as strong as gold and iron, but it was never truly the Golden Rule.

Their ice could bring light and darkness, but it was never really the Light and Darkness Rule.

Their ice could bring vitality and death qi, but it was never really the Life and Death Rule.

These were just surface effects converted from the Ice Rule.

Without the powerful backing of the origin, facing Brother Cheng’s true profound patterns, they were utterly defeated upon contact.

Within just one minute of the battle starting, hundreds of Emperor Realm Fifth Layers were wiped out.

Three minutes later, all Emperor Realm Sixth Layers had fallen.

Only the three Emperor Realm Seventh Layers remained.

At this point, their only reliance was their higher cultivation realm.

However, faced with the continuous onslaught of 50 profound patterns and 15 Sword Hearts, the three could only retreat step by step.

By now, they were already heavily wounded and could only struggle to survive.

This scene profoundly shocked all the present Ice Realm cultivators.

These were three Emperor Realm Seventh Layers!

Goals that everyone needed to look up to.

Now, they were beaten into such a sorry state.

Amidst the dazzling kaleidoscope-like explosion of profound pattern attacks, they seemed to glimpse new worlds.

Yet, they could only look.

It was a domain they could never comprehend or master.

And at this moment, the three Emperor Realm Seventh Layers seemed to finally realize the crux of the problem.

They couldn’t fight here!