Translator: CinderTL
The Divine Spirits' methods, compared to those of Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators, were actually less complex.
However, they possessed two major advantages.
First, their faith in the Divine Spirits and the sacrifice of half their souls made them highly resistant to illusions.
Second, they were utterly fearless in the face of death.
As long as they believed their sacrifice was meaningful, they would even view death as an honor.
They believed that after death, they would return to the embrace of the Divine Lord, where they would attain another form of eternal life.
Just like now.
To fulfill the Divine Edict issued by the God King of Ending, the two Divine Spirit Envoys, realizing they couldn't defeat Li Chunjun through conventional means, unhesitatingly sacrificed themselves. They transformed into an Ice Barrier, freezing and solidifying Li Chunjun within its icy embrace.
They would share his fate, trapped in eternal death.
Crack!
Countless giant ice prisms erupted from the bodies of Divine Spirit Envoy Han Bing and Divine Spirit Envoy Winterfrost, rapidly enveloping the sword qi torrent Li Chunjun had unleashed. The ice spread with astonishing speed.
At first glance, the entire sword qi torrent appeared to be frozen solid by an extreme cold, rapidly closing in on Li Chunjun with terrifying speed.
Li Chunjun's pupils constricted as he sensed the intensity of the energy release.
Having mastered the sword qi torrent, his first instinct was to retreat, attempting to escape the frozen torrent.
However, the frigid force, filled with countless giant ice prisms, spread too rapidly. Before Li Chunjun could even retreat a mile, the ice prisms had already transformed into an icy dragon, roaring and clawing its way toward him, as if determined to freeze him solid in the Void.
"Grand Ruins Sword Intent! Break!"
Li Chunjun unleashed his Sword Intent, causing the Void within a mile in front of him to collapse.
Everything within this mile-wide expanse was buried in the ensuing chaos.
But...
Grand Ruins Sword Intent was a Mystical Power formed by the fusion of Sword Intent and Sword Qi. Now, with unwavering determination, the two Divine Spirit Envoys burned their own essence with a spirit of selflessness, minimizing the impact of the Void Sword Intent and Destruction Sword Intent within the Grand Ruins Sword Intent on their will.
Ultimately, they endured the onslaught of Destruction Sword Intent and Void Sword Intent, channeling the power of the Ice Barrier to freeze the Sword Qi contained within the Grand Ruins Sword Intent. Then, following the path of the Sword Qi, they extended the freezing effect to Li Chunjun's body, encasing him entirely in ice.
"Not good!"
Wu Gang, who had been watching from afar, roared, "This is the sacrificial method bestowed by the God King of Ending! It contains the divine power granted by the God King himself. No ordinary force can withstand it! Quickly, disrupt their Mystical Powers!"
Without needing the reminder, Zhao Yu Pan and True Monarch Dong Xuan, sensing the danger, unleashed their full array of Mystical Powers.
A bolt of lightning that pierced heaven and earth, accompanied by a deafening roar, hurtled toward the ice prism dozens of miles away.
However, before the lightning could strike, a figure engulfed in gray flames charged directly into the Six Harmonies Divine Lightning.
This...
It was a Greater Divine Spirit!
Not only this Greater Divine Spirit, but all the other Divine Spirits had fallen into a strange frenzy.
Shouting slogans like "Let all things in the world return to ending," they frantically intercepted every attack from the Nascent Soul True Lords.
Many even burned their Qi and Divine Spirit Bodies, sacrificing everything for a moment of overwhelming power.
In this desperate situation, nearly every attack was thwarted.
"Li Chunjun!"
Watching this, Xuan Zhu fully activated the "Dark Sun Refines the Heavens" Array Formation. The Dark Sun seemed to shed its gloomy disguise, revealing the brilliance of a true, radiant sun.
Countless rays of light converged, shooting towards Li Chunjun, who was trapped in ice. The beams instantly melted and incinerated the ice prisms around him.
However, before the Array Formation could fully unleash its power, waves of Divine Spirits, burning their Qi and Divine Spirit Bodies, broke through the Nascent Soul True Lords' blockade and launched suicide attacks directly against the Dark Sun in the sky.
Reaching the Dark Sun's vicinity, these Divine Spirits shouted battle cries and detonated instantly.
A torrent of energy, powerful enough to obliterate everything within dozens or even hundreds of miles, surged forth continuously, shaking the "Dark Sun Refines the Heavens" Array Formation.
If only one or two Divine Spirits had self-detonated, it might have been manageable. The crucial problem was that the number of self-detonating Divine Spirits quickly swelled to a dozen, two dozen, and even more joined the suicidal assault.
Under this relentless, fearless barrage of self-detonating attacks, the Dark Sun, formed by the Array Formation, rapidly dimmed.
Even among the thirty-five Nascent Soul cultivators maintaining the Array Formation, some were shaken to their core, vomiting blood as the formation's backlash struck them.
"Hold on! Hold on! These Divine Spirits' burning of their Qi can't last much longer..." Xuan Zhu roared.
His powerful Divine Sense rapidly spread to every gap in the formation caused by the Divine Spirits' self-detonation backlash, and with his own strength, he forced the Array Formation to resume its operation.
As everyone unleashed their Mystical Powers to fight the Divine Spirits, Li Chunjun, trapped in ice, could clearly feel a terrifying force seeping into his body from every pore, seeking to freeze him solid from the inside out.
He could even sense the unwavering will and conviction of the Divine Spirit Envoys Winterfrost and Han Bing as they burned everything within them.
But as this icy force, infused with their will and conviction, surged through him, Li Chunjun continuously stimulated his Essence Qi, ceaselessly condensing Profound Phoenix Sword Qi. With the blazing momentum unique to Flaming Phoenix Sword Cultivators, he furiously repelled this encroaching power.
At that moment, Li Chunjun's body became the battlefield for their final confrontation.
Either Li Chunjun would succumb to the invading force...
Completely consumed by eternal death.
Or he could resist the chilling invasion, forcing the two Divine Spirit Envoys to exhaust their power and die, allowing him to unleash his own strength and break free.
"This power originates from the Divine Spirit Envoys, yet it's not entirely derived from them... I sense the aura of 'ending' within it... otherwise, this chilling invasion wouldn't be spreading so rapidly!"
Li Chunjun inhaled deeply.
But before he could even complete the motion, an icy chill pierced him to the bone.
As the cold invaded, the vast reserves accumulated from his Life Level 30 foundation erupted ceaselessly, tenaciously guarding his core. No matter how fiercely the chill assailed him, it remained unable to penetrate even an inch.
"Die!"
The wills and powers of the two Divine Spirit Envoys merged into a single, frenzied assault.
Yet as time passed, their attacks began to feel like spent arrows.
Li Chunjun was ninety percent certain he could rely on his profound foundation to outlast the Divine Spirit Envoys.
In the end, he might be severely weakened, but the two Divine Spirit Envoys would be doomed.
After all, Life Level 30 corresponded to the peak of the Primordial Spirit realm.
If Li Chunjun's own strength hadn't been too weak to fully harness this power, he wouldn't even have been frozen.
But...
Under the relentless erosion of this icy force, Li Chunjun sensed a power within him being activated and released.
That power...
After a moment of contemplation, Li Chunjun quickly realized what it was.
"It's the Flaming Phoenix Power!"
The next moment, his consciousness plunged into his Flaming Phoenix Bloodline, where he saw the bloodline, under the pressure of this force, seemingly revealing a deeper level of power.
This power, like a raging flame, caused the Flaming Phoenix Power within him to surge and explode, simultaneously boosting the potency of his Profound Phoenix Sword Qi, which was already working to dispel the cold.
The stalemate was instantly broken.
"Third Transformation of Flaming Phoenix Power!"
Li Chunjun suddenly understood the changes happening within him.
As his consciousness fully immersed itself in this power, his thoughts seemed to lift once more, as if continuing in this direction would allow him to "see" a great being once again.
A figure that seemed to be the source of all things, the origin of all bloodline karma!
That was...
The Innate Divine Being, the Undying Flaming Phoenix.
Unfortunately, the "quality" of Li Chunjun's Flaming Phoenix Blood within him was ultimately limited.
If his bloodline power had originated not from an external source but from a true Flaming Phoenix Bloodline, this breakthrough would have propelled him to the pinnacle of cultivation, unlocking the Fourth Transformation of Flaming Phoenix Power and touching the essence of the Flaming Phoenix Chaos Scripture.
At that point, his Profound Phoenix Sword Qi would have completely transformed into Blazing Phoenix Sword Qi.
But now, at the peak of the Third Transformation, he still lacked that final spark to reach the Fourth Transformation.
The fleeting, dreamlike sensation quickly faded. His consciousness returned to his body, guiding the power of his Flaming Phoenix Blood to coalesce into Sword Qi and drive out the invading coldness.
Compared to the earlier stalemate and attrition, the balance of power had now completely reversed.
The more intense and violent Profound Phoenix Sword Qi began to counterattack, expelling the coldness that had infiltrated his body.
This turn of events plunged the two Divine Spirit Envoys into despair.
At the same time, as numerous Divine Spirits self-destructed and burned themselves out, the Human Race's Nascent Soul advantage grew increasingly pronounced.
Xuan Zhu, in particular, had endured the backlash from eleven Nascent Soul True Lords who were maintaining the "Dark Sun Refines the Heavens" array formation, yet he stubbornly refused to let the formation collapse.
Even with a deathly pale complexion and depleted Divine Sense, he held the formation together, preventing it from being shattered.
Seeing the Divine Spirits' self-detonating attacks thwarted by the Human Race Nascent Soul True Lords, the Nascent Soul Perfection Prodigy's eyes widened in fury. His depleted Divine Sense and Qi erupted simultaneously.
With a long howl, the nearly extinguished "Dark Sun" seemed to unleash its final radiance, reigniting and illuminating the vast Ice Prism World, spanning nearly a hundred miles.
As this power shone, a crimson light within the Ice Prism World rapidly intensified. The two forces mirrored each other, causing the entire world to melt rapidly. Countless colossal ice prisms broke free from the world, plummeting toward the earth.
Finally...
After nearly a breath of this process, a faint crack echoed from within the frigid depths.
Crack!
This sound seemed to trigger a chain reaction, as more cracking sounds spread throughout the icy world.
"No!"
This scene sent Divine Spirit Envoy Han Bing and Divine Spirit Envoy Winterfrost, who had already reached their limits and merged with the Ice Prism World's Ice Barrier, into desperate cries of despair.
In the next moment...
A massive fissure, nearly splitting the Ice Prism World in two, suddenly appeared!
From the depths of the fissure, Sword Qi soared into the heavens!
"Hahahaha!"
Amidst Xuan Zhu's unrestrained laughter, a figure bathed in crimson flames broke through the ice.
(End of the Chapter)
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