93: Chapter 93 The Far North, the Ice Crystal Mystic Dragon

Half a year later.

Extreme North, mixed territory.

Cold, biting winds swirled with snowflakes, raging and howling across the boundless snowfield.

Looking around, everything was snow-white; thick ice and snow covered everything.

Ji Xuan, his figure as upright as a pine, stood upon the snowfield. Though his clothes were thin, he was completely unaffected by the biting cold wind.

In the blink of an eye, he had been in Heaven Dou City for a year.

During this year, he had spent most of his time cultivating in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Between cultivation, he would take a few days each month to go to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace to accompany Qian Renxue, believing in a balance between work and rest.

Not long ago, his Soul Power reached a Breakthrough to level fifty, so he set off for the Extreme North, north of the Heaven Dou Empire.

After traveling deep into this World of ice and snow for half a day, he finally found a suitable target.

At this moment, coiled before him was a giant dragon, its entire body ice-blue.

The giant dragon was nearly a hundred meters long, its scales like sapphire carved from ice crystals, emitting a blinding cold light. This was an Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon with a cultivation age of forty thousand years.

Under the enhancement of the icy environment of the Extreme North, its strength was comparable to a human Spirit Saint.

The Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon's pair of vertical pupils were locked onto Ji Xuan, and cold mist constantly overflowed from its mouth.

Suddenly, it opened its giant mouth wide. The cold air in the surrounding World was drawn in, crazily gathering and compressing into its mouth, eventually condensing into a ball of ice-blue energy radiating a biting chill.

In the next second, an ice-blue breath as thick as a water bucket blasted toward Ji Xuan with extreme speed!

Ji Xuan hurriedly shifted his body, flashing backward like a ghost.

Boom—

The moment he retreated, a giant crater with a diameter of over ten meters was left where he had originally stood, and countless ice fragments splattered in all directions.

If he had been a moment slower, he likely would have been struck by this destructive breath.

The Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon missed its attack. It quickly locked onto Ji Xuan again, and as its giant mouth opened and closed, a faster, thicker breath was spat out again!

Ji Xuan's pupils constricted slightly. His left lower leg suddenly bloomed with brilliance; it was the Soft Bones Demon Rabbit Spirit Bone ability, Teleportation.

Just as the breath was about to engulf him, Ji Xuan's figure vanished into thin air, appearing ten meters behind the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon the next moment.

Boom—

The breath hit a snow mountain in the distance, and the impact triggered a small-scale avalanche, with ice and snow pouring down like a waterfall.

Ji Xuan stood suspended in the air, his spirit rings lighting up in sequence: "First Spirit Ability, Traceless Wind Shadow. Second Spirit Ability, Thunder Sword Qi. Third Spirit Ability, Armor-Piercing Blade."

Ji Xuan's aura suddenly climbed, his speed and attack power surging by one hundred percent at this moment.

He did not hesitate in the slightest. His figure flashed, and the Sword of Order in his hand, entwined with the power of wind and thunder and carrying an Armor-Piercing Blade strike, stabbed rapidly toward the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon!

Ding—

The moment the sword tip collided with the ice crystal scales, a sharp sound like metal clashing erupted.

The next moment, the hard scales, which were sufficient to withstand a Spirit Saint, were pierced two inches deep by the blade under the enhancement of Ji Xuan's first three Spirit Abilities, and a wisp of ice-blue blood seeped from the wound.

"Roar—!" The Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon let out a deafening roar.

For a creature nearly a hundred meters long, such an injury was merely a flesh wound. What truly infuriated it was the insult to its dignity; it had been wounded by a Spirit Ancestor brat!

Its massive body twisted violently, and its tail, covered in ice crystals, swept horizontally toward Ji Xuan! This attack was full of rage and was extremely fast.

The tail, covered in ice prisms, magnified rapidly in Ji Xuan's pupils, and the biting cold rushed toward him instantly.

At this critical moment, the left leg Spirit Bone ability, Teleportation, was activated again.

The moment the tail swept past, Ji Xuan's figure vanished into thin air again.

Boom—

The dragon tail smashed heavily onto the ground, shaking the entire snowfield.

This strike created a deep gully dozens of meters long on the ground, and the accumulated snow was lifted by the violent shockwave.

"Fourth Spirit Ability, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin."

The deep black spirit ring at Ji Xuan's feet suddenly lit up. In an instant, the entire sky was enveloped by countless golden light swords.

"Go!"

Swish, swish, swish—

Tens of thousands of golden light swords poured down like a rainstorm, shooting rapidly toward the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon.

Facing this overwhelming rain of swords, ice-blue light flared on the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon's body, and an ice-blue Profound Ice Shield instantly enveloped it.

Ding, ding, ding...!

The rain of golden swords collided with the Profound Ice Shield with a bang. The light swords landed on the shield, emitting dazzling golden halos, and the dense sound of collisions echoed across the ice field.

Under the continuous bombardment of the golden sword rain, a fine crack appeared on the surface of the Profound Ice Shield.

Ji Xuan's eyes narrowed. He unfolded his Wind Thunder Sword Domain with full force, and suddenly, wind and thunder surged around him, with Sword Qi towering into the sky.

He held the Sword of Order vertically in front of him, and with a thought, a giant sword condensed from wind and thunder formed above his head, the blade entwined with terrifying energy fluctuations.

"Break!"

Following his cold shout, the Sword of Order stabbed downward, and the giant wind-thunder sword above his head stabbed down simultaneously, aiming for that crack!

Crack—

The Profound Ice Shield shattered in response, scattering like a broken mirror, refracting the image of the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon.

The giant wind-thunder sword did not lose its momentum and pierced straight toward the Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon's head.

The giant sword instantly broke through its hard defense, and the blade continued to penetrate. The intense pain made it let out a heaven-shaking roar.

In this fleeting moment, Ji Xuan's third spirit ring lit up again, and the left leg Spirit Bone ability, Teleportation, was activated!

At the same time, the giant wind-thunder sword that had pierced into the dragon's head dissipated at his will.

Ji Xuan's figure stood upon the giant dragon's massive body. He gripped the sword with both hands and stabbed backward fiercely.

Puchi—!

The Sword of Order precisely pierced through its head, the three-foot-long blade sinking completely into it, right up to the hilt!

The Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon let out shrill wails, its massive body twisting violently, kicking up snow into the sky.

After struggling for a moment, it collapsed heavily to the ground, creating a deep pit in the snow. Ice-blue blood gushed from the wound and quickly froze into ice.

Before long, it completely lost its vitality, and a pitch-black spirit ring slowly condensed above its corpse.

Ji Xuan let out a long sigh of relief; his Soul Power was nearly exhausted at this moment.

"Xiao Xuan, well done." A white-haired youth appeared quietly. "Hurry and recover your Soul Power; I will guard you."

"Okay, Junior Martial Uncle Light Feather." Ji Xuan dispersed his Spirit, sat cross-legged on the spot, and began to regulate his breathing.

A year ago, when he left Spirit City, the person accompanying him was no longer Gold Crocodile Douluo, but the now level 98 Light Feather Douluo.

After a long time, Ji Xuan finished regulating his breathing and began to absorb the spirit ring.

He did not know how much time had passed, but he successfully absorbed the fifth spirit ring, and his Soul Power reached level fifty-two.

What surprised him even more was that this Ice Crystal Profound Nether Dragon had actually dropped a head Spirit Bone.

Although the forty-thousand-year age was not very high, this was the first Spirit Bone he had obtained while hunting a Spirit Beast.

He originally wanted to give it to Light Feather Douluo, but he was refused.

Light Feather indicated that even if he absorbed this Spirit Bone, he would not be able to break through to level ninety-nine, so Ji Xuan had to put it into his spirit tool.