The biting cold on his skin made Bai Fenglang's face turn ashen. The landscape before his eyes had already transformed into a world of ice and snow.
"Ill... illusion!"
This was his most instinctive thought.
"Hmph! Such a petty trick, how can it deceive me!"
Bai Fenglang gathered his strength into his palm, transforming it into a fist, and smashed it down fiercely.
"Break!"
Rumbling!
With a single punch, the entire ground shook as if an earthquake. Spreading outwards from Bai Fenglang, countless jagged cracks snaked across the earth, everything they touched collapsing.
The layers of ice and snow that had formed around him were also shattered into countless fragments by this extreme brute force, flying through the air like ice arrows, exploding outwards from the center of the conflict.
"Ah!"
Immediately after, screams of pain echoed from the crowd of onlookers dozens of meters away. Despite the distance, they were still caught in the aftermath.
"Run... run! This is not a battle we can interfere with!"
"An Ice and Snow Domain born from a single thought, all things wither and die. This is truly the power of a mortal!"
"The Ice Queen! I never thought she was truly a queen who could control ice and snow!"
"This is too terrifying! We must leave here quickly."
"..."
Seeing the ice flowers blooming from the blood of those who had fallen nearby, the ancient martial artists who had come at the Bai family's invitation were terrified to their core and fled frantically.
They dared not watch any longer.
Fearing they might be the next to be affected.
Meanwhile, Bai Fenglang, trapped within the ice domain, stared at the woman before him with a look of horror, his trembling pupils betraying his deep unease.
From that previous blow, he already knew that everything he saw was real.
Not an illusion!
"This... how is this possible?"
Feeling the temperature of his body continuously dropping, Bai Fenglang's heart sank to the abyss.
Fang Junxue's displayed abilities far surpassed his imagination.
Little did he know, this was only the beginning.
"Three years ago, to prevent my return to the Bai family, you sent people to plant a cold poison in my feet. Now, I will let you personally experience a soul-freezing sensation ten to a hundred times more painful than that cold poison."
Fang Junxue's figure was ethereal amidst the wind and snow, truly the empress of this icy realm. With every step she took, ice spikes erupted from the ground, like sharp daggers, darting towards Bai Fenglang's escape route.
"Damn it!"
At this moment, Bai Fenglang clearly sensed movement beneath his feet. Without time to think, he retreated like a blur.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The instant he moved, an ice cone shot up from the ground, grazing past his nose less than a centimeter away. The terrifying cold made his heart feel as though he had just stepped back from the gates of hell, unable to calm his nerves from the shock.
And at the tip of the glistening ice cone that had erupted from the ground, a tattered piece of clothing was still hanging.
It was Bai Fenglang's.
Had he been a fraction of a second slower, his body would have been impaled.
"What kind of terrifying ability is this?"
Bai Fenglang retreated frantically, almost on instinct, dodging the ice spikes emerging from the ground. The surging fear in his heart was constantly eroding his resolve.
The more confident he had been before, the more devastating the blow now was.
He couldn't fathom how Fang Junxue could be so strong.
So strong that he couldn't even muster the slightest resistance.
"No! I must leave here quickly!"
Bai Fenglang fled desperately, making his way towards the edge of the ice domain, attempting to break free.
But, could he succeed?
"Want to run? Don't dream about it."
Fang Junxue saw through his intentions at a glance. She simply unfurled her delicate palm, tendrils of cold air gathering in her hand. She then raised her hand and clenched her five fingers inwards.
"Condense!"
Her red lips moved slightly, and before her, four enormous ice flowers began to form. The ice and snow power, capable of penetrating the soul, poured into them.
In moments, four ice flowers filled with boundless killing intent floated in the air, carrying the name of the other shore, destined to bury all things.
"Go!"
Fang Junxue pushed her index finger forward. One of the ice flowers created a sonic boom as it cut through the air, exceeding the limits of human vision, leaving behind an icy trail as it struck Bai Fenglang's back with lethal force.
Danger!
Every hair on Bai Fenglang's body stood on end as he desperately fled. A potent sense of impending death enveloped him.
"Damn it!"
He had no choice but to turn back, frantically mobilizing the energy within his body. His contorted face revealed an intense desire to survive.
"Ah!"
With a roar, Bai Fenglang, radiating blood energy, pushed his strength to its limit, transforming it into a shield, giving it his all.
Boom!
The ice flower struck, smashing directly into it. At this moment, the seemingly fragile ice flower proved to be terrifyingly resilient. The instant it touched the blood shield, it immediately left countless cracks upon its surface.
And the terrifying ice and snow power contained within erupted fully at this instant.
The extreme frost gradually covered the blood shield. Even the energy Bai Fenglang was constantly channeling into the blood shield was blocked by the icy current, ceasing its flow.
Crack! Crack!
The blood shield gradually shattered, despair evident in Bai Fenglang's eyes. As the cracks spread, his body was continuously pushed backward across the snow.
Bang!
Until he hit the ice wall behind him, Bai Fenglang had no room to maneuver.
A pincer movement was clearly formed.
"No! No... ah!"
Despite the surging blood and energy within Bai Fenglang, he could not alter the fact that the energy in his body was being frozen bit by bit. At this moment, the solidified blood shield was as good as useless.
Although the ice flower did not strike him directly, the ice and snow power radiating outwards had already begun to erode Bai Fenglang's body through the cracks in space.
The ice and snow power, capable of freezing everything, instantly halted the normal functioning of his blood and internal organs the moment it entered his body. Even his strongest bones had turned into tiny ice pillars.
From the outside, Bai Fenglang looked as though he was not far from becoming a human ice sculpture.
His consciousness was also on the verge of collapse.
All he could feel now was extreme cold and terror.
Coldness to his soul.
Terror to his life.
This was undoubtedly the first time he had experienced such a thing in his entire life.
Perhaps it would also be the last.
"Presumptuous! Stop this instant!"
Just as Bai Fenglang's life was about to wither under the ice and snow, an enraged voice pierced through the thick ice wall, momentarily suppressing the spread of the ice and snow.