Chapter 402: Taiyin Star Lord, the Innate Frozen Avenue
Chapter 402: Taiyin Star Lord, the Innate Frozen Avenue!
Xu Qing just finished speaking.
The ground of the Imperial Palace suddenly cracked into spider-web-like patterns, and a biting coldness gushed out from it.
Before Xu Qing and the black god dog could react, they were drawn into the dark vortex by an invisible force. When the light covered their vision again, the whistling cold wind scraped across their cheeks like thousands of ice blades, and the flying snow poured down like a broken galaxy, dyeing the entire space into a chaotic white purgatory.
The goose-feather-sized snowflakes were as dense as heavy rain, and each one was wrapped in the biting cold of the netherworld.
Xu Qing circulated his magic power, and ice crystals immediately condensed on the surface of his robe, but he could still feel the cold seeping into his bones through his pores. The three heads of the thin black divine dog whimpered at the same time, and the ground under the dog's paws quickly formed ice crystals, and its black hair was also covered with a layer of white frost.
What was even more terrifying was that as soon as their spiritual senses were projected out, they were like hitting an invisible ice wall and were torn into pieces by the blizzard. As far as their eyes could see, there were only vague outlines within a radius of dozens of miles.
In this white chaos, bizarrely shaped icebergs appear and disappear, like the sleeping skeletons of ancient giants.
Some are shaped like wolf fangs pointing upside down into the sky, with the sharp ice tips still carrying the shadows of ghosts that have not been completely frozen; some are like giant bronze pillars, with twisted runes all over the surface, emitting a faint green light; and there are also ice peaks as sharp as knife blades, making a teeth-grinding buzzing sound in the strong wind.
On top of these icebergs, ghosts and spirits are densely frozen. Their faces are distorted in the ice, emitting a strange green glow.
Whenever a cold wind blows by or snowflakes fall on it, the ghosts will be like shattered glass, instantly turning into powder, floating away into ice crystals, and merging into this boundless cold prison.
Every snowflake and every wisp of cold wind here contains the power of the laws of ice and snow.
They seemed to have life, tearing at the souls of intruders. If a celestial being strayed into this place, they would gradually lose their vitality under the erosion of the endless snowflakes, and eventually be frozen into an ice sculpture, turning into ice chips in the strong wind.
However, those seemingly still icebergs are actually hiding murderous intentions. Even the incarnations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will be immediately frozen once they touch the surface of the iceberg and will be annihilated in this cold law in an instant.
However, Xu Qing remained calm.
He circulated the Yin and Yang energies, and the shadow of the Tai Chi diagram appeared around his body. As the black and white fish breathed in and out, they completely dispelled the approaching cold air.
But he understood that this icy hell was just an appetizer, and the real crisis was hidden deep in the snowstorm - the Lord of the Netherworld Ice Prison who created this desperate situation was the hurdle he had to overcome on this journey.
Xu Qing stood in the wind and snow, his blue shirt rustling. His seemingly thin figure was as solid as a rock under the impact of the violent laws of ice and snow.
His gaze was as sharp as a torch, penetrating through layers of flying ice crystals and locking onto the top of the most majestic peak that was shaped like a towering ice lotus.
There, a figure quietly gathered.
She is not a physical entity, but a projection of the avenue composed of the purest law of ice and a trace of the Taiyin origin derived from chaos.
The figure is graceful but reveals eternal loneliness and extreme coldness. The face is blurry, as if covered by eternal black ice. The only thing is a pair of eyes, which are two leaping dark blue icy flames that seem to be able to freeze the soul - this is the ruler of this layer of ice hell, a projection of the great way of Taiyin Star Lord.
"Those who trespass into the forbidden land of the Netherworld shall be punished with eternal silence." The voice was so cold and emotionless, like the friction between billions of years of ice, which directly penetrated the wind and snow and imprinted on Xu Qing's soul.
Before she finished speaking, she raised her slender fingers slightly.
hum!
An invisible and intangible ray of light that instantly brought the entire icy hell to death burst out from his fingertips.
The light was not blinding; instead, it seemed to have sucked away all the light and heat around it, leaving behind an absolute, suffocating blue vacuum.
Wherever it passed, the howling wind froze in the air, the heavy snow froze into a still curtain of ice crystals, and even the space itself made an unbearable "cracking" sound, revealing spider-web-like ice cracks.
The innate freezing divine light!
The divine light has not yet arrived, but the will to freeze everything has already arrived.
The protective fairy light that automatically appeared on Xu Qing's body suddenly became sluggish, as if covered by a thick layer of ice, making it difficult to operate.
The solid ice beneath his feet silently collapsed, crystallized, and turned into the tiniest ice dust, as if even the earth that supported him had lost the meaning of existence under the will of this divine light.
"Come on!" Xu Qing's eyes lit up, and instead of retreating, he took a step forward.
The unparalleled Yin-Yang and Five Elements magical power in his body began to roar into operation, like a dormant volcano suddenly erupting. A majestic aura that was as hot as the sun and yet all-encompassing rose into the sky, forcibly opening up a territory that belonged to him in the area that froze everything!
"The Eight Trigrams are the furnace, and all things are melted! Break!" He put his fingers together like swords, with Yin and Yang energies swirling around his fingertips, evolving the original Taoist rhyme of the creation of the world and the birth and death of all things, and pointed at the freezing divine light that seemed slow but actually froze time and space.
laugh!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a strange, teeth-grinding sound, as if billions of ice cubes were thrown into a furnace and instantly vaporized.
Where the sword energy of the Liangyi Miedao Sword collided with the Dongjue Divine Light, a brief and strange balance point was formed.
The Yin and Yang energies constantly erode and decompose the great power that freezes time and space, while the Frozen Divine Light stubbornly corrodes and freezes the activity of the Yin and Yang energies.
The space there twisted, shattered, and then instantly froze, forming a terrifying vortex that was constantly annihilating and being frozen.
The icy flame eyes of the Taiyin Star Lord's projection flickered slightly, as if she was a little surprised that Xu Qing could confront her divine light head-on.
She opened her arms as if embracing the entire world of ice and snow.
In an instant, the blizzard in the entire icy hell seemed to come alive. Billions of ice crystals, the howling cold wind, and even the wolf-fangs, copper pillars, and knife-shaped icebergs in the distance all burst out with a pale green eerie light - that was the resonance of the remaining resentment of countless frozen ghosts and spirits and the law of ice!
"Eternal Cold Prison, annihilating all living things!"
A more magnificent and terrifying freezing divine light burst out from her body.
This time, it was no longer a single ray, but like a burst glacier, or an overwhelming extreme cold tide, sweeping towards Xu Qing with a terrifying will to freeze the heavens and annihilate all living things.
Wherever the divine light reaches, space is no longer frozen, but completely transformed into a dead silent "frozen vacuum" where even time stops flowing.
Those icebergs that were caught in the trap silently turned into the most primitive ice particles, not even into powder.
This power is infinitely close to the true origin of the Great Dao, and contains a hint of the true meaning of the Great Dao of "Frozen"!
Xu Qing felt the pressure doubled instantly, the void three feet around him shook violently, and even dark blue ice crystals began to condense at the edges.
He felt that his thinking process was beginning to slow down, as if his thoughts were stuck in the thickest ice slurry, and every thought was extremely difficult.
This is the most terrifying aspect of the Great Freezing - freezing tangible objects is only an appearance. Freezing the soul, freezing thoughts, freezing the operation of magical powers, and letting the opponent meet their end in absolute "stillness" and "death" is its core.
"Freeze thoughts? Freeze time and space? What a congenital freezing!" Xu Qing took a deep breath, and it seemed as if an infinite world was born and destroyed in his body. He no longer tried to use the power of chaos to confront the overwhelming tide of divine light, and his figure suddenly became illusory.
"Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, the innate Eight Trigrams, circulating in the six voids, and not being affected by anything!" His figure flickered on the edge of the frozen vacuum, and every flicker narrowly avoided the erosion of the core of the divine light, as if wandering in the cracks of frozen time and space.
His own magic power was no longer released outward to resist, but transformed into the purest Dao pattern, which was imprinted in the void around his body, engaging in a silent and fierce confrontation, analysis, and assimilation with the ubiquitous Law of Frost at the Dao level!
The attacks from the projection of Taiyin Star Lord became more and more fierce.
Her body turned into flowing light, like the ruler of the world of ice and snow. Every wave of her hand drew the vast laws of ice.
Or it condenses into a giant ice spear that freezes the heaven and earth, with a faint blue light at the tip of the spear enough to pierce through the stars; or it sprinkles ice crystals all over the sky, each grain of which contains the terrifying chill that can freeze the soul; and from time to time, it uses its main body to release the freezing divine light, like an invisible heavenly sword, cutting and freezing the route that Xu Qing might dodge.
Xu Qing's figure shuttled through the snowstorm, sometimes as ethereal as green smoke, sometimes as swift as thunder.
The chaotic sword energy is swift and violent, evolving into the Axe of Creation to split the frozen space, or turning into the furnace of melting the world to burn away the invading coldness, or condensing into an immortal shield to resist the erosion of the divine light.
With every collision, a brilliant rain of light erupted, destroying the laws of the universe, illuminating the white ice hell with a bizarre light.
The battle became fierce.
Although Xu Qing could hold on, he was constantly consumed by the endless laws of ice and the freezing divine light in the opponent's home court, which was not a long-term solution.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and as he once again narrowly avoided a ray of freezing divine light that passed by him, his gaze swept across the strange icebergs standing in the wind and snow, freezing countless souls.
"So that's how it is...By borrowing the resentment of ghosts, the power of the Cold Prison is increased, but it also leaves a hindrance!" Xu Qing understood.
The power of this projection comes partly from the icy hell itself, and the power of hell is partly drawn from the resentment of those frozen souls.
This is not only a point where power is amplified, but also an "anchor point" that is closely connected to this world and difficult to completely transcend!
There was a flash of determination in his eyes.
Faced with the giant column of freezing divine light that was condensed by the projection of the Moon Lord and almost covered his entire field of vision, Xu Qing did not choose to dodge or confront it head-on this time.
He actually took the initiative to meet him!
At the moment the divine light reached his body, he quickly formed seals with his hands, and the Yin-Yang and Five Elements magical powers in his body circulated in an unprecedented mysterious trajectory. His whole body burst out with a light that was more intense than before, but it was not scorching, but carried a primitive aura of "chaos before division, the beginning of primordial chaos".
"Chaos returns to its origin, all things return to the abyss! Swallow it!"
A miniature chaotic vortex that seemed to be able to swallow everything instantly formed in front of him.
The devastating column of frost-free divine light was forcibly pulled and swallowed into the deep vortex of chaos like a whale sucking water!
The icy flame eyes of the Taiyin Star Lord's projection twitched violently for the first time, revealing a hint of "surprise".
She could feel that the freezing divine power she emitted was not destroyed, but was forcibly incorporated into a chaotic and disordered primitive realm that seemed to be able to assimilate everything. Even that trace of the power of the Great Dao was temporarily suppressed and decomposed!
At the moment when her power was devoured and there was a slight delay, Xu Qing's figure disappeared like a ghost. The next moment, he appeared in front of an iceberg shaped like a ferocious wolf's fang and shining with the brightest green light!
"break!"
He condensed his peak strength into a punch, and blasted the base of the iceberg without any fancy moves! Chaos energy lingered on his fist, not destruction, but a strange rhythm of "transformation" and "disintegration" coexisting.
Rumble!
The huge wolf-fang iceberg shook violently, and its surface was instantly covered with spider-web-like cracks.
The countless ghosts frozen inside the iceberg seemed to have received a signal of liberation and let out silent screams. The rich, tragic and resentful energy seemed to have found an outlet and gushed out madly!
This iceberg is one of the key "nodes" connecting the projected power of Taiyin Star Lord and this ice hell!
The iceberg exploded! Countless frozen ghosts turned into green ice crystal dust. The huge resentful energy contained in them lost the restraint of the Ice Law, like a wild horse running away, instantly disrupting the surrounding pure Ice Law field.
The operation of the entire Ice Hell came to a standstill, and the howling blizzard was thrown into chaos for a moment.
The shadow projected by Taiyin Star Lord fluctuated violently, and the shadow became increasingly blurred.
Her connection with this world was forcibly shaken and weakened!
"Now!" Xu Qing's eyes flashed like lightning, locking onto the fluctuating projection core.
He put his fingers together like swords, and the fingertips were no longer filled with chaotic energy, but were condensed with an ultimate sharp edge that could break through the frost and penetrate the illusion. A pure sword intent that seemed to be able to sever cause and effect and destroy the laws of destruction came out of his fingers!
"One sword - open the sky!"
The Taoist meaning of the Axe of Creation evolved by Xiansheng Zhenjun was perfectly interpreted by Xu Qing at this moment.
The sword light is silent, but it is purer and more domineering than the frozen divine light!
It ignored the freezing of space and the obstacles of the laws, and as if it was destined, it accurately pierced the core of the projection of Taiyin Star Lord - between the two balls of dark blue ice flames!
"Ka...cha..."
An extremely slight sound of shattering was heard, but it seemed to resound through the soul.
The movements of the Taiyin Star Lord's projection were completely frozen. The two dancing blue ice flames were like broken colored glass, with clear cracks appearing on them.
Then, cracks quickly spread throughout her body.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a silent annihilation.
The purest law of ice and that trace of Taiyin origin that constituted her body, like snowflakes thrown into boiling water, quickly melted and decomposed, and turned back into the most primitive vitality of heaven and earth, returning to this snowstorm.
The terrifying sense of freezing that enveloped the world receded like a tide. Although the blizzard was still there and the icebergs were still there, the sovereign will that froze time and space and destroyed everything had already dissipated.
Xu Qing slowly withdrew his fingers and stood in the wind and snow. There were some ice crystals on his blue shirt. His breath fluctuated slightly, but his eyes became deeper and brighter.
He glanced at the icebergs that were still standing but had lost some of their green luster, as well as the deeper shadow of the imperial palace in the distance.
"Xiantian Dongjue is indeed worthy of its reputation, and is worthy of being one of the four great avenues of the end! This is just a projection of a great avenue..."
(End of this chapter)