“King’s Sister…”
Wu Yin’s pupils contracted violently. His voice was dry, but he struggled to squeeze out a smile. “King’s Sister, instead of staying comfortably in Illusory Snow City, why… why did you find the time to personally grace this place? You didn’t even tell your brother… Sigh… I-I’ll go arrange a banquet right away—”
“No need.”
A light, ethereal voice interrupted Wu Yin’s pleasantries.
A hundred meters away, on the road swirling with wind and drifting snow, stood a quietly snow-cloaked girl. She possessed a peerless, fairy-like beauty that would sear into the soul of anyone who laid eyes on her, and a pair of ice-blue eyes… even more indifferent and coldly proud than those of the Virgo Star God Feilin.
“King’s Sister… I-I didn’t do anything! You have to believe your royal brother! Right now, the Snow Kingdom is plagued with internal and external troubles, and the people are restless. The only ones we can truly trust are the Illusory Snow Royal Clan, bound by blood!”
Huan Xuezhi was silent.
Her crystalline ice-blue eyes, devoid of the slightest ripple, were coldly proud and peerless. It was as if she were looking not at a ‘royal brother’, but at common roadside weeds.
“Having been alerted and drawn all the way here, do you really think Her Majesty still believes your lies!”
The dim spatial trail left by Spatial Warp faded, and Weilin appeared in the space between Huan Xuezhi and Wu Yin, the three forming a pincer-like triangle.
“…Damn it! It’s you again!!”
Wu Yin was furious and panicked, his eyes practically spitting fire as he glared at the suddenly appearing Lega Weilin from afar.
Weilin also sneered coldly at Wu Yin. Without turning her head, she backhandedly threw a crystal straight towards Huan Xuezhi’s position and shouted: “You can explain later, after Her Majesty sees the evidence!”
What Weilin threw was unmistakably the Mirror Crystal that Wu Yin had desperately tried and failed to destroy. In that moment, the First Prince’s eyes widened with utter fear. If gazes could kill, his hatred might truly tear Weilin to shreds…
The Mirror Crystal hurtling towards Huan Xuezhi came to an eerie halt a meter away from her.
Huan Xuezhi briefly closed her eyes, directly penetrating it with her Mental Power to probe the contents recorded within the crystal.
Just one second later, the Mirror Crystal suspended in mid-air directly disintegrated into fine powder and fell. And at the same time, a deep, ominous gloom suddenly clouded Huan Xuezhi’s indifferent eyes!
“Wu Yin!”
Her voice wasn’t much louder than Huan Xuezhi’s usual tone, but because of the heavy, crushing pressure that felt like the sky collapsing, this voice shot straight into the soul like a Pope judging a heretic’s death sentence, making hearts tremble!
“You, a prince of the Snow Kingdom and lord of a city, not only failed to enforce the law with integrity and devote yourself to the nation, but you dared to defy ancestral precepts, poach and traffic White Mice! You collude with enemies and traitors, intending to betray the kingdom! What punishment do you deserve?!”
Wu Yin pressed his skull in agony, his mind completely thrown into chaos.
…He glanced left and right, discovering that his third and fourth brothers had fled without a trace the moment Huan Xuezhi appeared.
When chaos reached its extreme, stillness followed. After a moment, Wu Yin released the fingers gripping his head. His eyes narrowed dangerously, staring intently at Huan Xuezhi. He suddenly pointed at the distant Weilin and let out a manic, bitter laugh: “…Huan Xuezhi! Are you really going to believe the words of an outsider and kill your own blood-related royal brother?! You truly are… a remarkable Queen! Go on, kill me now if you dare! Let the whole world see how the Illusory Snow Queen righteously slaughters her own kin! Hah, anyway, the Snow Kingdom… won’t last much longer before it’s utterly buried in the hands of a tyrant like you! Hahahahahaha!!!!”
Yet how could such a tactic ever work on Huan Xuezhi?
“Heh……”
Revealing a faint, mocking smile—whether pitying his misery or his despicableness was unclear—Huan Xuezhi flicked her snowy sleeve. Above her, and to her left and right sides, six giant magic arrays simultaneously condensed.
Roar!!!
Accompanied by an eerily familiar, distant dragon roar, colossal ice-crystal dragon bodies, carrying a terrifying cold that seemed to freeze the world solid, slowly squeezed their way out of the magic arrays.
This was the true ‘Ice Dragon’s Roar’.
“Two crimes combined… the punishment is death!”
Six gigantic, ferocious ice dragons vied to emerge from the magic arrays, sweeping into the world with their terrifying cold currents.
Wu Yin’s face was utterly pale. Huan Xuezhi had truly delivered a death blow to him, her own royal brother!
…Or rather, Huan Xuezhi was always destined to do this.
Otherwise, why would Wu Yin have gone through such lengths to hide his dirty deeds, even going so far as to kill his own men to silence them? …Wasn’t it all just to deceive his own sister…
In the open expanse where they could fully stretch their forms, the ice dragons reared their heads, standing three to four meters high. They looked down upon their minuscule target with disdain and pounced like Ancient Demonic Beasts.
Just then, a flash of blue light blazed brilliantly in the void before Wu Yin.
The Virgo Star God Feilin made a low-key entrance, appearing almost at the very center point of the six ice dragons’ combined assault. She looked up at the sculpted ice dragons blotting out the sky, a flicker of surprise passing through her eyes.
Feilin raised the weapon in her hand, which looked both like a staff and like a war blade, pointing it straight at the six ice dragons. At the same time, the space behind her rippled like the surface of a disturbed lake. In that very instant, six hundred second-order ‘Ice Arrow’ magic arrays condensed into existence!
600 Ice Arrow spells vs. 6 Ice Dragon’s Roar spells.
The Ice Arrow magic arrays tilted upward and fired simultaneously. For a moment, crystalline arrow rain blazed across the sky.
Feilin’s Ice Arrow magic was unlike ordinary magic; it could continuously release ice arrows. With the sharpness and kinetic energy of the ice arrows, even if each arrow only chipped away some ice scales and fragments from the dragons, the sheer volley of countless arrows could gradually disintegrate them layer by layer.
Even more than that, after summoning the ice arrows, Feilin flew straight upward. Using her Divine Battle Aura and the strange-shaped ice blade in her hand, she effortlessly cleaved one of the ice dragons clean through at the neck, causing a sky full of icy rain to burst forth.
The battle immediately shifted to: 1 Feilin + 600 Ice Arrow spells vs. 5 Ice Dragon’s Roar spells.
“Star God…”
Huan Xuezhi watched Feilin calmly engage in battle. Her brow moved slightly, and she murmured softly.
Only after witnessing another ice dragon lose its head under Feilin’s long blade did Huan Xuezhi finally raise her jade-like hand. The drifting snow around her seemed to receive a summons, swirling and dancing into her palm, gradually condensing into a five-foot-long sword. It was a frost-white, illusory blade, as thin as a cicada’s wing.
‘Heart-Sealing Illusory Snow Sword’. It wasn’t strictly a sword in the conventional sense, for even its blade was made of a soft, harmless snow-like substance. It seemed as if a finger pressed upon it would simply melt it away. It was an “illusory” sword…
It was the blade of this very illusory sword that Huan Xuezhi gently traced across the void before her.
The space where the sword tip passed split open. It was a sword-scar rift less than a meter in diameter, but what poured out from it was a chaotic cold current seemingly born from the very beginning of all creation, from the dawn of Chaos itself…
Immediately following, Huan Xuezhi thrust her sword forward and parted her icy lips slightly: “Tempest—”
The fourth-order spell ‘Tempest’.
Generally, it was just an auxiliary skill used to disrupt opponents or obstruct vision, but Huan Xuezhi used it to blow upon this stream of “Chaotic Cold Current” spilling from the mysterious spatial rift…
Boom!
The Tempest howled, rolling up several strands of the cold current from the rift and blowing them forward.
This baffling Tempest spell made the distant Feilin furrow her brow in confusion.
However, wherever the cold wind passed—the earth, gravel, grass, trees, rivers, houses, livestock, humans, Wu Yin, Weilin, mountains, the sun and moon, the flowing wind, the drifting snow, the swarming ice arrows, the roaring ice dragons, over half of Snowcell City stretching for dozens of miles… and the Virgo Star God Feilin, her face frozen in shock—all were mercilessly frozen solid by the ice…
In the distance, the peerlessly beautiful girl casually raised her fair, snow-white wrist and lightly swung down the Heart-Sealing Illusory Snow Sword. A beam of Frost Sword Qi shot across a thousand meters, striking the ice sculpture of Wu Yin and blasting him into icy dust!
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