107: Chapter 107 The Extremely Cold Land

Land of Extreme Cold.

The environment there was extremely harsh; even the circulation of blood energy in human martial artists would be obstructed upon entering.

As long as they entered the territory of the Ice Demon Clan, those two mad dogs would definitely not dare to set foot inside.

"Ran away?"

Li Zhengyang brandished his dragon spear, his eyes bloodshot.

The cooked duck had grown legs and flown away.

"Even if I have to chase you to the gates of the Underworld today, I'll dig out your demon core!"

He activated Soaring Dragon Sky-Stepping Footwork to its full extent.

Space folded layer upon layer beneath his feet.

Li Zhengyang's figure tore through the airflow, speeding directly towards the north.

Lei Qianjue carried his thunderous longsword, biting closely at his heels.

"Are you sick in the head, kid?!"

Lei Qianjue's angry rebuke came from behind, "I told you to retreat earlier, but you wouldn't! You had to steal the spotlight, and now look, you've pushed this old monster into a corner and let it escape!"

As the gale rushed into his ears, Li Zhengyang shouted even louder, "You have the nerve to bring that up!"

"I was fighting perfectly well and was about to close the net, but you jumped in halfway to steal the kill!"

"This old thing only found a gap to slip away because it saw us infighting. If those five billion fly away, you're paying for it!"

"Pay your grandfather! I am a dignified Martial Venerable Protector of the Nation; I came over to clean up your mess, and you still want to extort money from me?"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and chase, the distance is widening!"

Li Zhengyang's blood energy surged wildly, and his speed increased by another notch.

The fleeing Chi Hong felt its scalp tingle as it heard the sound of air being torn apart behind it.

These two humans not only hadn't been shaken off, but they actually had the spare time to argue.

It didn't dare to slow down and could only desperately squeeze out the remaining essence within its body.

"Thunder Fall!"

A bolt of thunder descended from behind.

Chi Hong barely managed to twist its waist, but its lower leg was still struck by the thunder.

Its flesh burst open, leaving a charred patch.

A sharp sword aura grazed right past its shoulder.

Chi Hong's left arm was severed at the root, and black blood splattered all over the ground.

"Lei Qianjue! Take it easy! The demon core is in its chest; don't go smashing it!"

"Don't tell me how to strike! As long as I can kill it, that's all that matters!"

The two of them, one in front and one behind, were treating Chi Hong completely like a moving target for practice.

Chi Hong was trembling all over from the pain, cursing the ancestors of these two humans for eighteen generations in its heart.

A dignified peak Martial Venerable had become a punching bag that knew how to maneuver.

Its chest armor had several transparent holes punched through it, its tail was broken, and both arms were completely useless.

It was relying entirely on one last breath to hold on.

The surrounding temperature began to plummet like a cliff.

The crushed ice carried in the wind scraped against its flesh.

Deep within the Land of Extreme Cold.

Chi Hong exhausted its last bit of blood energy and roared towards the ice field, "Xue E! Save me!"

The sound waves echoed over the ice field.

Amidst the wind and snow, a hundred-meter ice mountain rose from the ground.

Two figures covered in heavy ice armor stepped through the wind and snow.

Half-step Martial Saint.

The Ice Demon Clan leaders, Xue E and Han Shuang.

They stared at Chi Hong, which was left with only half a body.

Xue E exhaled a thick breath of cold air, "Chi Hong? How did you end up in this ghostly state?"

"There are human martial artists chasing me from behind!"

Chi Hong stumbled and crashed onto the ice, pointing backward, "Help me stop them! I need to borrow your ice field to heal!"

Xue E looked up.

In the wind and snow, two afterimages were rapidly approaching.

It snorted coldly, "Humans dare to set foot in the Land of Extreme Cold? They don't know what death is."

It stepped forward and pressed its palms onto the ice.

"Mystic Ice Wall!"

A loud noise rang out as dozens of hundred-meter ice walls rose one after another, completely sealing off Li Zhengyang and Lei Qianjue's path.

"Those who cross the border, die." Xue E issued a warning.

Chi Hong lay behind the ice wall, took a deep breath, and finally felt it had saved its life.

The Land of Extreme Cold was a forbidden zone for humans; with Xue E and Han Shuang guarding it, those two lunatics would definitely not dare to cross the line.

Bang!

A huge hole was blasted into the first ice wall on the spot.

Li Zhengyang unleashed his full blood energy, relying on his physical strength and Frenzied Bone Battle Armor to crash through the hundred-meter-thick Mystic Ice Wall.

Xue E was stunned in place.

Before it could react, Lei Qianjue's sword light arrived.

"Ten Thousand Thunder Heaven Attraction!"

A hundred thunder pillars struck down from the sky, blasting all the remaining ice walls into ice dregs.

"Old man, these two are yours, the one on the ground is mine!"

Li Zhengyang didn't take Xue E's warning seriously at all; he stepped repeatedly with Soaring Dragon Sky-Stepping Footwork, bypassing the two Ice Demons and heading straight for Chi Hong.

Xue E was furious, "Arrogant!"

It raised its ice claw, aiming directly at Li Zhengyang's back.

A longsword struck in front of the ice claw.

A thunder net expanded, and Lei Qianjue forcibly blocked the two half-step Martial Saints.

"Your opponent is me."

Chi Hong looked at Li Zhengyang, who had forced his way to its front, and felt a chill in its heart.

This human was completely insane.

He dared to kill it right in front of the Ice Demon Clan leaders.

"You... you can't..." Chi Hong opened its mouth.

"Run faster in your next life."

The dragon spear pierced through its chest.

Twist Technique erupted.

Chi Hong's heart was completely twisted into meat paste by the violent gang qi; its body twitched twice, and it died on the spot.

A generation of peak Martial Venerable died on the edge of the Land of Extreme Cold.

Li Zhengyang flipped his wrist and fished out a demon core emitting a red light.

Five billion secured.

He shoved the demon core directly into the storage space of his tactical watch.

A crisp system notification exploded in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that the host has completed a cross-rank kill of a peak Martial Venerable!]

[Detected that the host has absorbed a massive amount of high-level combat essence!]

[S-rank talent 'Frenzied Bone Battle Armor' has triggered advancement conditions!]

[Fusion in progress...]

[Advancement successful!]

[Obtained SS-rank talent: Prison Dragon Asura Armor]

[Talent effect: Summon exoskeleton heavy armor fused with the power of the Primordial Prison Dragon. Attack and defense increased by 300%, includes 'Absolute Counter-Damage' trait (reflects 30% of damage), and reduces mental attacks by 50%. Activation time is linked to blood energy levels.]

A scorching hot current surged from the depths of his bone marrow.

Li Zhengyang could clearly feel every inch of his flesh being torn and reconstructed by this power.

The color of the bone armor originally attached to his body deepened, revealing ancient crimson-black patterns.

Even without summoning the physical form, that sense of oppression caused all the surrounding wind and snow to evaporate.

Defense tripled, plus counter-damage and mental damage reduction.

This was a mobile fortress covered in sharp spikes.

He gripped the spear shaft tightly, feeling the terrifying power within his body that was almost about to burst his blood vessels.

He turned to look.

Lei Qianjue was locked in an inseparable battle with the two Ice Demons.

Xue E and Han Shuang were already stronger than Chi Hong, and coupled with the favorable time and location of the Land of Extreme Cold, the sky full of wind and snow was suppressing Lei Qianjue's thunder.

"Humans! You actually dare to kill in our territory!"

Xue E punched back the thunder, pointed at Chi Hong's corpse on the ground, and roared, "Pay with your lives!"

The two Ice Demon Clan leaders locked onto Li Zhengyang.

The wind and snow howled around them, and countless sharp ice cones formed in mid-air, with their tips all aimed at the two of them.

Lei Qianjue landed beside Li Zhengyang, shook off the crushed ice on his sword blade, and said in a low voice, "These two ice lumps are not easy to chew. This is their home turf; once you've got the goods, withdraw, don't get entangled."

Li Zhengyang didn't respond.

The two of them glanced at each other.

They moved backward in tacit understanding.

Amidst the roaring of blood energy, the two turned around on the spot and sprinted madly towards the south, without even looking back.

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