Chapter 356: Chapter 19: Empress Battles Tier Nine—A Single Finger? (Part 2)

But it’s still relatively difficult to cultivate a Tier Eight.

Especially since, in their plan, Tier Eight is still an important combat force.

She had no choice but to leave the array, barely managing to forcibly suspend the magic.

Her gaze immediately fell to the distance from where the source of the mana fluctuation was coming.

"We must kill her!"

The Ice Spirit Emperor had already spotted the Empress walking through the void, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes.

She thought she hadn’t sensed the presence of a Tier Nine being earlier because it was hidden.

But now, sensing the Empress’s aura directly, it turned out to be just a being not even at the Second Transformation.

A spell unleashing Tier Nine might?

But in an instant, the Empress transformed into a radiant spiritual light charging towards her.

At the same time.

The Empress’s black hair danced wildly as she softly shouted, "Heavy Pupil Opening Heaven!"

This was the divine technique she comprehended at the 60th level of Heavy Pupils, and her eyes immediately burst with spiritual light.

The chaotic-colored light seemed to pierce through everything, the spiritual light that reconstructed heaven and earth shot straight at the Ice Spirit Emperor, with a destructive aura shaking.

The Ice Spirit Emperor watched as the chaotic-colored light shot towards her like an arrow, her heart trembled, not daring to be careless.

She quickly moved her hands, interweaving icy-blue light before her to form a massive ice shield.

The chaotic-colored light collided with the ice shield, instantly erupting with a powerful energy wave.

The ice shield was riddled with numerous cracks under the impact of this force, as if it were about to shatter at any moment.

The Ice Spirit Emperor wore a grave expression, feeling the formidable power of this strike, this being seemingly not even at the Second Transformation could actually wield such terrifying divine techniques.

"Hmph, even with such strength, don’t think you’ll leave alive today."

The Ice Spirit Emperor shouted angrily, the icy-blue light on her body growing even brighter.

She pushed both hands violently, the cracks on the ice shield rapidly mending, while a powerful cold aura surged from the ice shield, rushing back towards the Empress.

The Empress remained fearless, instantly activating the ’Divine Mortal Body’.

Transforming into the ’Lix Mountain Old Mother’ descent state.

"Chaos Great Cutting!"

The light of chaos surged like a torrent towards the Ice Spirit Emperor, distorting the space it passed through.

The Ice Spirit Emperor felt threatened by this force and hurriedly used her movement technique to dodge.

However, the light of chaos shadowed her, closely pursuing.

The Ice Spirit Emperor gritted her teeth, deciding not to dodge anymore, but instead to face it head-on.

"Heaven and Earth Ice Sword!"

The Ice Spirit Emperor waved her hands, the surrounding cold air rapidly condensing into a sky-supporting ice sword, spinning in the sky.

The Ice Spirit Emperor swung her right hand down hard.

The sky-supporting ice sword instantly responded, slashing fiercely towards the light of chaos.

"Boom boom boom——!"

The ice sword and the light of chaos clashed again, producing deafening sounds.

The powerful energy shock caused cracks to appear around the space, as if it were the end of the world.

"How can it be so strong?!"

The Ice Spirit Emperor looked at the Empress, completely beyond her imagination, and at this moment.

Countless petals suddenly whirled, each bearing extremely terrifying power, sweeping towards the Ice Spirit Emperor.

Accompanied by the dimming of the world, the white and azure-based world behind her instantly darkened.

Rapidly spreading at an alarming speed, the world was being stripped of its colors.

Caught off guard, the Ice Spirit Emperor was momentarily frozen by the [Colorless Realm Divine Power].

The countless petals swept, radiating boundless terrifying power, exploding around the Ice Spirit Emperor.

’Boom——!’

In a loud explosion, the area where the Ice Spirit Emperor stood erupted into a void cavity, swallowing all around it.

Yet the Empress did not cease her attack, immediately materializing countless petals to blast in another direction.

And from that place, the Ice Spirit Emperor’s figure appeared again, seeing the petals flying towards her, her face shocked.

How can one use such terrifying magic so many times!

"Damn it!"

The Ice Spirit Emperor knew she had to put her whole heart into the fight.

If not, she might still get seriously injured even if she survived, and in an instant, countless rays of ice crystal light covered her body.

Transforming into an ice crystal world and madly clashing with the endless petals.

The Ice Spirit Emperor turned from defense to attack, wielding innumerable weapons formed of ice and snow to slay toward the Empress.

...

At this moment.

In the distance from Ice Spirit City, several figures appeared above the long line of Abyssal Creatures.

It was none other than Shen Fei and others.

"Big Sis will be fine, should I go help her?"

Jasper Pool’s face was worried, originally their plan was to let the Celestial Dao Demon Venerable use ’Hand of Jesus’ to kill that Abyssal Emperor first.

But the Empress wanted to try if she could contend with Tier Nine herself, and that ’Hand of Jesus’ should be kept as a trump card.

What if there’s another Tier Nine lurking in the shadows?

"The Empress is confident. If not, we’ll go over."

Shen Fei still had trust in the Empress, in supervising the troops, there were still Tier Seven Abyssal Creatures.

They immediately noticed Shen Fei and others, who didn’t conceal their presence at all, but before they could react.

A flash of silver light.

’Void Killing Eye’ killed all the supervising Abyssal Creatures.

Light points fell like a storm, enveloping the Abyssal Creatures on the ground and absorbing them into the [Nine Realms].

The action was so fast, it didn’t exceed ten seconds.

Then Shen Fei’s gaze turned to the end of the line.

A huge cave entrance.

The Abyssal Creatures that came out of Ice City entered here, and according to Sword Saint, no other Abyssal Creature has come out since.

"You go in first."

The Celestial Dao Demon Venerable looked at Sword Saint, who nodded and turned into a sword light rushing into the cave.

A moment later, Shen Fei heard Sword Saint’s voice in his mind.

"Master, there are many bones inside, it seems something might be sealed underneath..."

Shen Fei and the others entered the cave, now that the Abyssal Emperor was being held up by the Empress, unable to sense here.

Walking into the cave, it was extremely bright, not a bit dim.

Mountains of bones scattered about, almost entirely bones, and at the center of these bones was a special luminous source.

A crystal stone like an ice column, its interior flickering with light illuminating this huge cave.

Shen Fei’s gaze shifted to the massive crystal stone, letting Stabbing Immortal remotely control the Void Eye Demon to use [Piercing Heaven and Earth].

The next moment.

Information surfaced.

[Soul Spirit Crystal (Mythical): A special crystal born from a mythical creature ***, containing the law ’**’, capable of absorbing soul power, used as the core of an array or as equipment material.]

[Usage Requirements: None]

Shen Fei’s brow twitched, a mythical artifact?

Though more of a material type, it was still a mythical artifact.

The corpses on the ground should have been to let their soul power into this special artifact as energy.

Shen Fei looked down to see the ground was an ice wall, and beneath it wasn’t more soldiers, but a layer of light gray matter.

But on this material there seemed to be special patterns.

The Celestial Dao Demon Venerable suddenly spoke, "This is a finger..."

"A finger?!"

Shen Fei was stunned for a moment, the light gray matter covering almost the entire cave floor was actually a finger?

This cave must be seven to eight thousand square meters, just how big is this finger at the bottom?

Jasper Pool then spoke, "The array beneath this crystal stone is somewhat special.

It’s just a node of a giant array, even just a small node."

Shen Fei suddenly thought of how the Emperor inside Ice City couldn’t move before, could it be related to here?

What exactly was the Ice Abyss plotting?

And just at this moment.

Stabbing Immortal’s voice suddenly rang out, "Master, be careful!"

The next moment.

The Celestial Dao Demon Venerable’s aura erupted, instantly punching towards a certain direction, the entire cave space trembling with the punch.

At the same time, Little Pu instantly transported Shen Fei’s figure outside the cave.

In an instant.

Countless explosions erupted within the cave, the terrifying force rupturing the top of the cave, with numerous shattered ice blocks shooting into the sky, shockwaves from inside the cave rippling through the surrounding void.

The next moment, two figures flew out simultaneously, one naturally being the Celestial Dao Demon Venerable, engulfed in demon flames, already activating the ’Demon Venerable’ state.

The other wearing a white robe, with a silver-white mask, seemed unaffected by the previous clash.

Looking at Shen Fei, his tone carrying a hint of surprise, "Didn’t expect you’d find your way here, Shen Fei?"