170: Bloodbath Corpse King

The Thunder-Winged Corpse King's attention was completely drawn by this sudden enemy radiating extreme cold. Its giant pupils, flickering with violent electric arcs, locked onto the majestic Frost Giant Dragon in the sky and the tiny human mage standing atop the dragon's head who radiated startling energy fluctuations. It let out a low, threatening hiss, and rolling thunder echoed through the air as if questioning why the other had intruded upon its hunting grounds and interrupted its slaughter.

The Dashing Brother stood atop the head of the Frost Giant Dragon, the wild air currents making his blue mage robes flap loudly like a battle flag. The cynical smile on his face faded slightly, his slender eyebrows twitching, replaced by a solemnity one feels when encountering a powerful foe, alongside an irrepressible glint of excitement deep within his eyes. The staff in his hand, inlaid with a massive sapphire, pointed diagonally at the Corpse King as he spoke clearly, "Tsk, such violent and pure thunder power. Its energy level is even above ours; I'm afraid this is a genuine Third-Tier Corpse King, isn't it?" Though his words remained somewhat flippant, the cold air permeating around him suddenly intensified and solidified. The water molecules in the air froze instantly, turning into fine ice crystal dust that rustled down like a small hailstorm.

(The Dashing Brother, peak of the Second Tier)

"Roar!" The Corpse King seemed completely infuriated by The Dashing Brother's scrutinizing and slightly provocative tone. It no longer paid attention to the scarred Tang Qi below; its massive purple thunder wings flapped violently, and its huge body erupted with a terrifying speed inconsistent with its size, turning into a bolt of purple lightning that tore through the night sky, charging straight for the Frost Giant Dragon! Everywhere it passed, the air crackled and popped due to high-temperature ionization, leaving behind a distorted, blurry, and scorching trail!

"Good timing! Ice Dragon, Frigid Breath!" The Dashing Brother pointed his staff forward sharply, his gaze as keen as an eagle's. The Frost Giant Dragon beneath him let out a dragon roar that shook the clouds. Its massive chest visibly swelled, and its mouth opened to unleash a frost breath even thicker than the one used to intercept the lightning ball earlier. Nearly pure white in color and radiating an absolute zero chill, the frost breath was like a bursting glacial torrent or a collapsing Arctic ice cap, booming as it sprayed toward the incoming Corpse King!

The Corpse King didn't dodge at all. Its hideous claws reached forward as the violent thunder power around its body highly condensed and compressed. Its wings flapped rapidly, instantly forming an enormous net-like thunder shield in front of it, interwoven with purple-gold destructive electric arcs, to hard-clash against that soul-freezing Frigid Breath!

Rumble—!!!

The extreme cold current and the violent thunder collided fiercely once again! This time, the energy explosion far exceeded any previous one, and a terrifying energy shockwave spread outward in a perfect circle, crushing everything in its path! The low-tier Flying Zombies in the air that couldn't dodge in time, whether they were Second-Tier or First-Tier, were instantly shattered into a sky full of ice shards or charred carbon chunks, like flies crushed by an invisible giant hand! The remaining glass windows of the base below all shattered instantly with a loud crash!

Ice shards and electric snakes intertwined and annihilated each other crazily, producing an ear-piercing sizzling sound. In this pure contest of energy, the frost and thunder temporarily formed a stalemate where neither side could gain the upper hand!

But this Corpse King's battle instincts were terrifying! At the very moment the breaths collided and the energy was at its most chaotic, its massive thunder wings flapped violently once more! Dozens of sharp bone spurs, surrounded by blinding golden electric light, suddenly detached from the wing bones as if fired by countless ballistae at once! Tearing through the chaotic energy turbulence, they shot toward the Frost Giant Dragon's massive body and The Dashing Brother on its head from various extremely tricky and sinister angles at high speed!

"Watch out for the bone spurs!" Tang Qi, who had just caught his breath and was seizing the time to recover, saw it clearly from below and hurriedly shouted a warning in a hoarse voice. Enduring the severe injuries and the agonizing pain of energy depletion, he flapped his dragon wings and soared into the sky again, attempting to intercept some of the bone spurs to share the pressure for The Dashing Brother.

"Heh! A mere trick! Behold, Ice-Spinning Circular Array!" The Dashing Brother remained calm in the face of danger, even finding the time to whistle. He elegantly and swiftly drew a perfect circle in front of him with his staff. In an instant, thick and translucent giant ice crystal shields with edges as sharp as knives and spinning at high speed condensed into form. Layer upon layer, they surrounded the Frost Giant Dragon like living things, forming an airtight frost barrier!

Clang, clang, clang—Pfft!

Most of the lightning bone spurs were precisely deflected by the rapidly spinning ice shields or ground into a sky full of electric sparks and ice powder. However, a few of the most powerful spurs, containing the Corpse King's violent thunder energy, brazenly pierced through the layers of ice shield defenses and slammed into the Frost Giant Dragon's wings and shoulders! The Frost Giant Dragon let out a painful and angry roar, its massive body trembling violently, and deep blue dragon blood spurted from the wounds like a fountain, freezing into eerie blood crystals in the air. The Dashing Brother was also grazed on the arm by a bone spur from an extremely tricky angle; his mage robe sleeve was instantly torn, and blood immediately seeped out, staining his blue sleeve deep purple. But he only frowned slightly and didn't even let out a grunt, as if he wasn't the one injured.

"Damn, this beast is so powerful! Thick-skinned and its lightning is fierce!" The Dashing Brother spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, but the excitement in his eyes was ignited further, becoming sharper and more focused. "Brother Tang! Don't just watch! I'll restrict it, you find an opening to attack! Remember, seize the moment when my low temperature delays its movements!"

Tang Qi understood instantly. He knew that as a fellow thunder-user, he could never gain an advantage by clashing energy directly with this Corpse King; he might even be suppressed. But his advantage lay in the terrifying physical strength brought by his Thunder Dragon Transformation and those indestructible dragon claws! That was pure physical destructive power!

"Understood! Leave it to me!" Tang Qi roared, suppressing his internal injuries. His dragon wings flapped wildly as he began high-speed maneuvers around the stalemated center of the energy explosion, his golden dragon pupils locked onto the Corpse King, searching for that fleeting opportunity.

"Frost Imprisonment!" The Dashing Brother took a deep breath and gripped his ornate staff tightly with both hands, raising it high above his head. The massive sapphire at the tip of the staff erupted with an unprecedentedly brilliant light, as if it had sucked in all the chill from the night sky! The Frost Giant Dragon beneath him also cooperated, letting out a long and ancient dragon roar as endless frost magic gathered crazily on an unprecedented scale!

This time, it wasn't a direct attack! In the entire airspace around the Corpse King, the temperature plummeted at a terrifying speed! The water vapor in the air and even the purple electric arcs jumping wildly around its body began to show signs of stagnation and freezing! Layers of visible black ice, several meters thick, generated out of thin air like living frost tentacles, rapidly coiling around and enveloping the Corpse King's massive body, attempting to completely seal it into a giant block of ice!

"Roar!!!" The Corpse King felt a massive threat and the bone-piercing deep cold. It roared frantically, the thunder net around its body expanding to its limit, trying to break free from the increasingly thick and hard ice imprisonment. The ice layers were constantly condensing and thickening, only to shatter and evaporate under the high-temperature burning of the thunder. White frost mist and purple destructive electric light were entangled in a frantic struggle, making for a magnificent and terrifying scene!

Now is the time!

Tang Qi saw the exact moment when the Corpse King was using all its strength to resist the Frost Imprisonment, when the energy fluctuations of its thunder shield were at their most intense and showed a momentary lapse!

He poured all the remaining thunder power in his body into his dragon claws without reservation. The massive dragon claws instantly expanded in size, flickering with a blinding, near-incandescent white thunder light, as if he were holding two small suns! He didn't choose a long-range breath attack; instead, he concentrated all his power into the single point of his dragon claws. His body and dragon wings achieved perfect coordination as he turned into a bolt of blue-white lightning that tore through the night sky, charging with a resolute stance toward the Corpse King temporarily trapped by the ice!

"Thunder Dragon... Sky-Rending Claw!!"

Accompanied by Tang Qi's hoarse roar into which he poured all his will, his pair of dragon claws, which concentrated all his power, slammed into the Corpse King's purple thunder shield like two hammers of the gods. The shield was fluctuating unsteadily and its light had dimmed slightly due to resisting the frost!

Crack—Zzzzt!!!

The sound was like the crisp cracking of ten thousand feet of ice mixed with the explosion of thunder completely losing control! Under the weakening effect of the extreme low temperature and Tang Qi's concentrated sacrificial attack, the Corpse King's originally indestructible thunder shield was finally torn open, leaving a massive gap!

Tang Qi's dragon claws didn't lose momentum. Carrying an unstoppable destructive force, they lunged through the gap and buried themselves deep into the Corpse King's exposed chest, which was covered in dark purple hard scales!

Pfft—!!!

The sharp claws easily tore through the scale armor and embedded themselves deep into the flesh! Blood mixed with shattered internal organs and out-of-control jumping electric arcs sprayed out violently, staining Tang Qi's dragon claws and chest in a mess! The Corpse King let out its most shrill and painful wail since the start of the battle, its massive body twitching frantically due to the intense pain!

Success! Tang Qi rejoiced in his heart, but immediately, an extreme premonition of danger originating from the depths of his soul washed over him like ice water!

The heavily wounded Corpse King fell into a final frenzy and counterattack! It recklessly channeled all its remaining thunder power, intending to bring about mutual destruction! At the same time, its extremely sharp bony tail, which had been hidden behind its back like a scorpion's lethal stinger, coiled with the last of the terrifying electric light. At a speed faster than the eye could follow, it lunged toward the heart of the nearby Tang Qi, whose old strength was spent and new strength had yet to arise!

If this strike hit home, Tang Qi would surely die!

At this critical moment—