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There were no more than a thousand soldiers in the two armies, but none of them were ordinary people. They were all elite soldiers at least in the Building Foundation Stage, equipped with the best sabers, swords, and armor, and riding the most ferocious animals. They had been well-trained, and they were adept at resonating spiritual energy and soul-stirring techniques. When they rushed forward, they were truly intimidating like rolling tides.
Even the high-level Cultivators in the Core Formation Stage and even the Yuanying Stage would not be willing to stand in the way of such two iron-blooded armies.
The two torrents discovered each other almost at the same time. Like two magnets facing each other, they rushed at each other without any hesitation. Their unstoppable momentum reminded Li Yao of two super high-speed crystal trains that were moving toward each other.
Shua! Shua!
The forces on both sides were skilled in controlling spirit beasts. As they galloped, they formed seals, chanted incantations, drew their bows, and controlled their swords on the backs of the bumping spirit beasts. Over a thousand blade lights, sword lights, fireballs, and sharp arrows coiled with lightning gushed out from their respective formations, and they drew out numerous shrill arcs in midair as they crisscrossed past each other and pounced towards each other.
Occasionally, the saber light and arrow rain of the two sides would collide in midair, exploding into colorful balls of light. The rapidly spinning fragments fell down like flowers scattered by a celestial maiden.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Hazy spiritual shields rose around the battle formations of the two parties, but they could not resist all the saber auras and the storm of arrows. Somebody was hit by the arrows all the time. Half of their body was burnt by electricity, and some of their arms were even blown off. But they did not make a sound and were still crouching on their respective Dragon Wolves and Fierce Blood Horses. Even if they were dead, they would be dragged by their horses and stabbed their bones into the enemy's heart brutally.
BOOM!
The two torrents finally crashed into each other brutally.
There were not many fancy moves in battle formations. The two armies barely paused. After a brief stalemate like dragonflies skimming the surface of the water, they passed through the enemy's battle formation and exchanged positions.
After the collision, hundreds of broken bodies were lying on the ground. The battle formations of the two armies were thinned for a moment. But under the command of their commanding generals, they soon gathered their battle formations and adjusted their direction, trying to launch a second round of attacks.
Whoever formed a new battle formation, adjusted the best direction of assault, and kept the morale of their own army high would likely be the winner of the battle.
Li Yao saw that Emperor Phoenix was charging at the front of the Fiery Phoenix Legion on a horse with wings on its back and a nine-colored long tail behind its butt.
Perhaps because he felt that his face was too feeble, he was wearing a mask that had been carved into the image of a fiery phoenix. The long, sharp mouth and protruding eyes were all made of crimson crystals and emitted indescribable brutality. Together with the golden spear in his hands, he was truly a completely different person from when Li Yao saw him a few days ago.
Right in front of him, at the front of the Ghost Qin Wolf Cavalry, on the back of a tall Dragon Wolf whose hair was pure black, was a man of Ghost Qin who had a very typical appearance. He had high cheekbones, almond-shaped eyes, and a pair of gold earrings that were dangling on his shoulders. He was wearing a bear-skin hat, but even the head of the bear had been connected to the hat after being refined with special drugs. At first glance, he looked like a giant black bear that was standing on its hind legs.
He was Han Baling, the master of Ghost Qin and the greatest headache for the Great Qian Dynasty.
Li Yao and Qi Changsheng did not hate each other much.
Emperor Phoenix and Han Baling, on the other hand, could not have been more furious when two enemies met.
The flames of spiritual energy of the two of them, one red and the other black, spread out endlessly as if oil had been added to the fire, causing the ice field below their feet to emit cracking noises nonstop. Cracks that looked like spider webs appeared on the ice field.
"Fellow Daoist Spiritual Vulture!"
Qi Changsheng grimaced. "Right now, Han Baling and your dog emperor are having a fight down there. Although I dislike both Han Baling and the dog emperor, if you insist on helping the dog emperor, I will have no choice but to go down there and help Han Baling. The result will be the same as it is right now, but the two of us may have to fight each other to death. What's the point of that?"
"Why don't we stay here and watch them fight it out? What do you think?"
Li Yao sniffed. He had no intention of interfering in the competition between Emperor Phoenix and Han Baling in the first place.
Han Baling was naturally one of the Four Rapscallions, but it was also possible that Emperor Phoenix had a great scheme behind him.
Before the situation became clear, Li Yao naturally wanted to preserve his strength.
He focused all his attention on searching for the other Super Yuanying.
Those Super Yuanying were like fireflies in a dark night. In the middle of the ice devils, they all triggered astonishing spiritual energy to resist. Li Yao locked onto quite a few of them in the blink of an eye.
Ba Xiaoyu and Master Bitter Cicada were confronting more than ten glittering zombie kings led by Wan Mingzhu. Qi Zhongdao and Yan Liren, on the other hand, were confronting Wang Xi and another dozen experts who looked like phantoms and were suspected to be elite assassins of the Ghost Character.
What slightly dazed Li Yao was that Wang Xi had resumed the appearance in the portrait. He appeared to be an authentic middle-aged scholar.
The two parties were dealing with each other calmly and did not start a fight the moment they arrived.
After all, other than the few of them, there were dozens of other Yuanying, especially those from the Grand Mystery Sect, the Purple Pole Sword Sect, and the other major sects, who might not necessarily be under their control.
The Divine Palace had not shown up yet, and the Cloud Qin Gold Statues had not been revealed yet. Except for Han Baling and Emperor Phoenix, who were sworn enemies, nobody was willing to throw out all their trump cards at once.
The cracking sounds that penetrated through the icy fog at the beginning and caused it to gradually thin were still echoing. They attracted the attention of all the Yuanying, including Li Yao and Qi Changsheng.
The sound came from the depths of the ice field.
A bottomless gap seemed to have appeared on the ground, which generated a tremendous attraction force and gradually absorbed all the icy fog, forming a weird view that looked like a white tornado.
It was not until the icy fog was almost entirely absorbed by the gap that everybody finally saw the whole picture of the ice field.
It was not a 'gap' at all but a splendid valley of ice and a translucent cliff that led to the deep, boundless underground world.
Crack! Crack!
This ice valley, which was thousands of meters long and hundreds of meters wide, was still growing. It was as if a pair of invisible hands had forcefully torn the earth into two halves and was still desperately trying to open it up. The ice shards on both sides of the ice valley continued to fall, rolling into the ice valley. However, after more than ten breaths, the faint sound of impact could be heard.
"Not good!"
Li Yao floated hundreds of meters high in the sky. When the icy mist gradually dispersed, he could see clearly that the ice field below his feet was in a very precise circle. The middle of the ice field was a flat plain with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, surrounded by a ring of mountains.
It was a very classic crater, which was caused by an enormous meteor or something else crashing into the ground brutally.
The ice field at the center was as smooth as a mirror, so flat that not a single wrinkle could be seen. Also, the color and luster of the ice field were entirely different from the rocks around. It was a thick shell of ice, and there was not the slightest solid rock at all.
It appeared that a meteor or some other man-made celestial body had hit the crust a long time ago, leaving a giant crater.
At that time, the temperature of the Land of Eternal Night couldn't have been so low. The rainwater gradually gathered here and formed a unique crater lake.
Later, as time went by, the temperature became lower and lower. Eventually, the crater lake was condensed into a giant ice block.
But for some reason, only the topmost layer of the ice block was condensed, and the inside of the ice block was hollow.
The first thunderous noise that they heard just now was the sound of the ice block breaking apart.
It was a pity that the two parties were engaged in a fierce battle. They were unleashing their spiritual energy and magical equipment without sparing any effort. While they were attacking each other, they were savaging the ground brutally.
However solid the ice block was, it could not withstand the savaging of thousands of Cultivators and broke apart from the middle.
When the raging cracks spread out and exceeded the tipping point, the collapse took place.
The ice block that was almost a hundred kilometers in diameter broke apart almost in the blink of an eye. At first, it rose high into the sky, like a ship that had an accident. Then, it fell into the abyss irrevocably.
Most of the Cultivators were fighting on the ice. Few of them realized what was going on in time. Even if they did, they might not have been able to spurt out their spiritual energy in time in such a harsh environment.
A lot of people fell into the abyss together with the ice blocks. Some of them tried to dash in the ice blocks that were collapsing like waterfalls and escape upward, only to be smashed into meat paste by a few giant rocks.
Some of them fell into the depths of the ice valley, waving their arms and legs. There was no telling whether they were dead or alive after a hazy mist was raised.
The heated battlefield was awed by the unexpected change. The Cultivators who were lucky enough to be at the periphery of the ice lake all looked at each other in bewilderment and were dumbfounded by the enormous crater that had appeared out of nowhere.
Even Emperor Phoenix's and Han Baling's troops were divided into two halves by the ice valley that was almost a hundred meters long. They restrained their troops and looked at the depths of the ice valley suspiciously.
The ice valley was like a lake that had been drained of water. It was in the most precise shape of a circle.
Covered by the ice, the rocks thousands of meters below the ground had not seen the sunlight for tens of thousands of years. Glamorous, deep blue colors were emitting from them. Natural, deep blue crystals were growing out of the crevices, making the place look like a translucent palace that was brimming with spiritual energy.
In the rock stratum in the deepest part of the ice valley stood a magnificent silver-white building. It was completely made of metal. After hundreds of thousands of years, it still did not show any signs of corrosion. Instead, it was suffused with a layer of faint silver light. It swayed like a tide, drifting in and out. It made people feel solemn and had the urge to kneel down and worship it.
"The Divine Palace."
"This — this must be the Divine Palace."
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