Shao Xuan stood on the head of the giant beast that had broken out of the ice. Beside him, the howling wind carried with it white flames. Behind him, the towering snowy mountains collapsed. Giant beasts of different sizes and shapes that should not have existed in this era stood there.
Their eyes were dim and lifeless. The sharpness of the past was gone. However, their huge, cold, and murderous bodies were enough to show how fierce they used to be.
The sound of flapping wings approached from afar, coming from the depths of this world of ice and snow.
Chacha shrunk its head and was as quiet as a wooden chicken. It looked curiously at the giant beasts that had grown wings and flew into the sky. It had a strange sense of reverence towards them.
It did not recognize these giant beasts. It had never seen them before. It had also never heard of them from its own kind or humans. If it had to be compared, the only one that was similar to these giant beasts in the sky was the small bird-like creature that Shao Xuan had melted from the ice on the surface of the sea.
Heavy footsteps approached from afar. All the sounds in the surroundings gathered together to form a strange force. At this moment, it was as if a battlefield that had passed through thousands of years had completely erupted.
The puppet beasts that were charging towards them were no longer alive. However, they still retained their valiance as the top predators in the current marine food chain.
On this battlefield that seemed to have spanned hundreds of millions of years, one side was the new overlord of the ocean, and the other side was the ancient masters of the distant past. At this moment, they finally collided.
The hard earth with layers of ice that had been flipped over was crushed in the blink of an eye. Wherever the giant beasts were on the battlefield, there was not a single piece of land that was intact.
Rumble!
On the vast frozen continent, there were cracks everywhere. Countless pieces of ice and gravel flew up. Large and small cracks were about to split the continent. The earth was sinking. No matter where it was, it was like the end of the world.
The ground was trembling. Unknowingly, the wind that had risen up became stronger. If an ordinary person were to approach this battlefield, they would definitely vomit blood from the shock. Even if they did not die, they would be knocked unconscious. The powerful airflow created by the swaying of the beasts' tails and claws could tear a person to shreds!
The ice shards with sharp edges were like sharp blades as they were swept into the battlefield by the wind. The sharp ice crystals that could pose a threat to humans simply shattered when they collided with the giant beasts. Even if they could pierce into the beasts' bodies, they couldn't go any deeper.
Although they were already dead, and although many of them did not have hard armor, the rigid and firm muscles of the giant beasts, as well as the bones that could not be broken by sharp swords, could easily block the attack of these ice crystals.
Even if these giant beasts were still alive, they wouldn't care about the ice crystals that wouldn't hurt them, let alone the fact that they were just mindless puppets.
A muscular carnivorous beast had its tiny forelimb bitten off, but it didn't stop at all. Without any fear or hesitation, it rushed forward and bit down on the beast that was similar in size to it. Its powerful jaws allowed its sharp and hard teeth to penetrate into flesh that even ice crystals couldn't penetrate. It bit down on the beast's neck, tearing apart the beast's neck.
There was no blood spurting out, only the remains with a rotten smell.
A slightly smaller beast was bitten, dragged, and flung out. Its body flew into the distance, smashing into the ground with a bang. If it was in a quiet environment, it would be like muffled thunder, but in this battlefield, it did not raise the slightest bit of sound.
The thick layer of cracked ice let out explosive roars. These giant beasts from the sky, land, and sea, whether they were from hundreds of millions of years ago or today, were like fierce demons that crawled out of a killing field, as if they wanted to destroy the world.
There was no blood in their dead bodies. Their flesh and bones were broken in the fight, and the ground was full of broken limbs and remains.
From time to time, the earth would explode due to the fierce collisions of these giant beasts. As puppets, under the control of the puppets, they could only use ten to twenty percent of their attacking power. Even so, they still caused a destructive impact to this frozen land. The vast ice shelf and the snow-covered land had turned into a bleak battlefield. The ground was still trembling, not only because of the power of the fire seed, but also because of the huge number of giant beasts fighting against the powerful combat power.
The ice and stone were solid under the ice, but when the beasts stomped on them, they were crushed into pieces.
The vast ice shelf had unknowingly been split and shrunk. Broken ice and icebergs fell off the shelf and drifted away with the waves. The icebergs that floated on the sea were blown upside down by the airflow from the frozen land.
The ice belt that stretched for several kilometres on the edge of the land had already collapsed.
White flames burst out of the totemic patterns on Shao Xuan's body, as if they were going to tear his flesh apart. It was also these white flames that blocked the raging cold air in the surroundings.
Staring at the battlefield, Shao Xuan did not relax at all. Even though he had used the power of the ancestral shaman to enslave these frozen giant beasts, controlling such a large number of beasts took a lot of mental and physical energy. Fortunately, the situation was tilting in the direction that Shao Xuan wanted to see.
Giant beasts continued to climb up from the sea to the land, and also from the depths of the frozen land. Some were enslaved by Shao Xuan, while others were under Yi Xiang's control. Although Yi Xiang had brought many puppet beasts from the sea and other places, they were still lacking compared to the beasts in the frozen land.
At first, they were able to gain the upper hand, but as more and more giant beasts from all over the frozen land joined the battle, the situation began to change.
In terms of physical strength, the current rulers of the sea might not lose to the ancient giant beasts, but there were just too many of them and their bodies were too big. Shao Xuan had unleashed all the power of the ancestral shaman in his body the moment he arrived. Now, on the frozen land, a giant shaman seal was burning, as if it was going to burn the entire land.
The white flames did not seem to have any temperature and did not melt the frozen ice and stone, but they were constantly 'awakening' the ancient giant beasts from their slumber. It was as if a source of life had been injected into this uninhabited land.
Yi Xiang wanted to enslave some of the giant beasts that were suitable for puppets but the white flames burning in this snowy land prevented his fire seed's power from being further enhanced!
This was something that Yi Xiang could not control, his fire seed was retreating!
Although it was not as cowardly as the other fire seeds in the face of the ancestral shaman's power, it was retreating!
Before this, Yi Xiang had always thought that his fire seed was stronger than the Yi family's fire seed, that it had evolved from the Yi family's fire seed. This was also why Yi Xiang's fire seed had more white flames than the rest of the Yi family.
Before this, Yi Xiang had always wondered how his fire seed's power would compare to the ancestral shaman's. However, the ancestral shaman's power had not appeared in the world for a long time, and the records of the ancestral shaman in the ancestral records were mostly empty. He had once used up his life to perform a divination, but only managed to get a vague result. It was this vague result that made Yi Xiang think of ways to extend his life.
He had waited for a thousand years!
The ancestral records of the Yi family recorded that a long time ago, the fire seeds of the various tribes were not created by the Yi family's ancestors, but were ignited by the ancestral shaman!
The Yi family's ancestor said that he was the closest person to the ancestral shaman, meaning that the first fire seed ignited by the ancestral shaman was the Yi family's, which was the fire seed of the former Yi tribe. Therefore, many times, other than the Yi family's own ancestors, the Yi family also treated the ancestral shaman as their other ancestor.
Yi Xiang's pursuit of the ancestral shaman's power had never stopped, but unlike the Yi family's reverence for the ancestral shaman's power, his pursuit was more like … provocation?
Yes, provocation!
When the old men of the Yi family noticed Yi Xiang's intentions, they scolded him harshly.
To many people, Shao Xuan of Yanjiao was Yi Xiang's greatest threat. However, Yi Xiang's main goal was not to kill Shao Xuan. He just wanted to see how powerful the ancestral shaman was, and whether he could surpass it. After all, Yi Xiang believed that he was the most powerful person in the Yi family in the past thousand years, or even ten thousand years. Attacking the Yi family was a way to prove his strength.
However, reality proved that he was still his grandfather, and his ancestor was still his ancestor.
Even if Shao Xuan was not the ancestral shaman, and had only received a portion of the ancestral shaman's power. However, this small amount of power was still more powerful than Yi Xiang's.
It was the same in the conscious world, and this time, it was the same. Yi Xiang was using a similar method.
Yi Xiang closed his eyes. This was a situation he did not expect, and he could not predict anything. This was the first time Yi Xiang realised the difference in power between him and the ancestral shaman.
"It's not enough, it's still not enough," Yi Xiang said in a low voice. His voice was filled with complicated emotions, as if he was unwilling to give up, but also resigned to his fate. No one could understand what he was saying.
Perhaps it was the exhaustion from controlling the beast horde, the pressure from the reversal of the situation, or perhaps it was his emotional turmoil, but Yi Xiang's body trembled slightly. His fingers that held the wooden bracelet slowly moved the carved wooden ornaments. Then, he suddenly tightened his grip and pressed his thumb on a circular wooden ornament.
His sunken eyes, shrouded by the shadow of his hood, opened abruptly. Red light flashed in his eyes, as if blood was about to drip from them.
At this moment, Yi Xiang's enslaved puppets stopped moving as if their power had been cut off. Some of them fell to the ground, while those that had just climbed onto land slid down the ice into the sea.
Shao Xuan looked ahead. Without the giant puppets blocking him, he was standing on the head of a giant beast, and could see Yi Xiang.
Had he given up? Admitted defeat?
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