Chapter 128: Avatar of Reincarnation
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In the Cloudmist Mountain Ravine, behind a certain peak, two black streaks of light suddenly descended. They moved so swiftly that their exact forms could not even be seen before they crashed into the frost-mist-shrouded mountain. A terrifying force erupted halfway up the slope.
Bang!
Bang! Bang!!
“Heh heh... If I am not mistaken, you must be one of those skulking about beneath the earth, aren’t you?”
Two dark figures saturated with an aura of decay and corruption landed on the ground. One of them, a young man in black robes, grinned sinisterly as he studied the mysterious man before him, whose body was clad in armor formed from ice and snow. A chilling sound escaped the corner of his mouth.
“...”
The mysterious man cast a cold glance at the two figures ahead but did not reply. Instead, he slowly rose and pulled the ice sword from the ground. In an instant, a frigid aura like that of the Nine Hells enveloped his body. The razor-sharp blade pointed directly at his opponents.
“Oh? Not going to say anything?” The young man in black frowned in surprise as he saw the murderous intent surging through the mysterious man’s eyes. Soon, however, he sneered and continued, “Since you wish to fight, Lord Li, why don’t you play with him for a while?”
“...That is precisely what I intended.”
After a brief silence, the mysterious man shrouded in icy chill finally spoke. His voice was like the biting cold of a frozen wilderness—the most indifferent and ruthless tone in the mortal world, one that seemed capable of plunging a person straight into the depths of the Nine Yin Frost.
His snow-white armored robe fluttered in the wind. Clutching his icy sword, he gazed ahead with unshakable resolve and an intense, almost frenzied thirst for battle.
“Hmph! With merely seventh-grade Void Nether cultivation, you actually think you can stand against us? You truly overestimate yourself.”
At this, Lord Li, standing beside the young man in black, immediately revealed a look of disdain. Yet it was quickly replaced by fury as surging black waves of energy burst forth from his entire body.
Black Origin Derivation Art!
Soon, an aura at the tenth grade of the Void Nether Realm caused the power of heaven and earth throughout the entire space to churn and boil under its suppression.
“Break.”
The mysterious man slowly raised his head and looked upward. The sky was quickly filled with an overwhelming dark aura that seemed ready to descend and crush everything beneath it. Yet his expression did not change. He merely closed his eyes, and an unprecedented chill erupted once more.
In an instant, a thick beam of icy sword energy swept upward from the mysterious man’s hand.
“Very good. Then let me show you the power of my treasure. In the past, I might have exchanged a few moves with you, but now I cannot afford to let you waste any more of my time here.”
Lord Li’s brows drew tightly together, and his expression twisted ferociously. A sinister banner appeared before him, filled with an evil presence.
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“Banner of Ten Thousand Ghosts and Myriad Bones, go!”
With a cold laugh, he was filled with boundless arrogance. His hands rapidly formed dark seals. Finally, beneath the last black halo, the enormous skull radiating evil suddenly fired two beams of darkness that pierced heaven and earth.
“The Nine Nether Cold Meridian Physique? Interesting. I never expected to see one of the secrets recorded in ancient texts in such a remote place.”
The young man in black had already withdrawn from the battlefield. With his arms folded, he calmly watched the mysterious man in the distance, who radiated endless frost. The corners of his lips lifted into a strange smile.
“...”
“I am the Ice Emperor. I shall suppress every enemy beneath the heavens!”
Frost Ice Sword Art!
Gazing at the distant black eyes, the mysterious man’s killing intent surged once more. His words rang out like a law of heaven and earth. As the icy sword swept through the sky, a complicated white array expanded from a tiny point until it covered the heavens above.
“First Form: From One, Create Ten Million—Swift!”
At the same time, the immense sword energy clinging to the icy blade split into countless points of frost, which rapidly embedded themselves into the white array in the sky.
Boom!
When the three beams of darkness that pierced heaven and earth shot over, the enormous white formation instantly descended and blocked them. The two immensely powerful forces of heaven and earth—one black and one white—clashed in midair, neither able to overpower the other.
“I thought you had some real ability, but it seems you are merely putting on a show. Again!”
As his sinister voice rang out, Lord Li pushed his banner once more. The white formation in midair began to crack faintly. Meanwhile, the dark beams on Lord Li’s side did not weaken; instead, they grew increasingly vast, tearing through the surrounding trees as though they were nothing.
“Is that so?”
At that moment, the white formation began to hum and tremble. To Xie Xin’s astonishment, the countless points of frost curved around like stars, shooting toward the rear of the black beams. Their target was Lord Li, who was controlling the Banner of Ten Thousand Ghosts and Myriad Bones.
“What?! Damn it!”
Amid his furious roar, Lord Li hurriedly retracted the banner in his hand. The dark energy, filled with evil, gathered once more in his palm. As he continuously waved the banner through the air, gusts of wicked, murderous wind surged from east to west and lashed violently toward the mysterious man.
“I underestimated you, boy. Did you really think that was the full extent of my power?”
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“Frenzied Evil—Heaven-Shaking Devouring Transformation!”
The sky, which had only just begun to brighten, once again sank into endless darkness. Not a trace of light remained in the surroundings. Suddenly, skulls of varying sizes emerged around the banner, multiplying from one into tens of thousands.
When the countless blades of frost fell upon those skulls, they were devoured one after another. After absorbing them, the innumerable skulls seemed to swell with even greater power.
“...It is over.”
Watching everything coldly from the sidelines, Xie Xin seemed completely unaffected by the darkness. He could clearly see the mysterious man dancing amid the black winds, constantly releasing sword energy. Yet the man appeared not to have noticed the countless skulls above him transforming into a vast maw and descending to devour him.
“...Who in the end is fighting Lord Li atop that mountain? The fluctuations of their power are truly terrifying. Should we...?”
On the ground, the Four Great Fiends had long since noticed the disturbance on the mountain and had turned their gazes upward. One of them, a burly man whose body was wreathed in dark flames, had fire blazing in his eyes as a powerful desire for battle erupted from him.
“Calm yourself. Do not create unnecessary complications. The four of us need only complete our own task. Whoever those two are fighting has nothing to do with us!”
Just then, a cold, stern voice rang out, immediately suppressing the burly man’s battle lust.
“...What if I go alone? I have not enjoyed a truly painful battle in a long time!”
Stopped by Xuan Li, Xuan Yan was still unwilling to give up. He hurriedly turned his somewhat pitiful gaze toward Xuan Feng. But when Xuan Feng shook his head, Xuan Yan could only look toward their leader, Xuan Jian.
“Hmph! They have sent only one person. If we divide our forces any further, how can we guarantee that these people will not be taken from us again?” Seeing Xuan Yan look toward him, Xuan Jian shook his head just as Xuan Feng had, though his voice was filled with authority.
“All right! All right!”
How boring...
After glancing at the dozens of people imprisoned behind them by their dark power, Xuan Yan waved his hands helplessly. Under Xuan Jian’s watchful gaze, he sat down nearby, once again directing his battle-hungry eyes toward the mountain peak.
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