163: Above the Arctic, power surges!

Lu Chen took a report.

It contained information regarding this operation:

- The emergence of the Taiji Vortex.

- The rainforest death trap and that priest.

- The bronze syringes were clearly manufactured by some academy.

- As for that pyramid-tip crystal energy core, it was clearly the famous sorcery skeleton of the Maya Academy.

After Lu Chen finished reading this page, he flipped to the next.

He also discovered some favorable information regarding this time:

- Ignis's Purgatory Phoenix can directly suppress, and even incinerate, the asphalt material.

- Shelley's Absolute Zero freezing Domain is becoming more and more handy now.

- The destructive power of Ning Xiwei's Skeleton Legion's self-destruction is still too great; it can directly smash the Formation core.

... After Lu Chen finished reading through it.

He asked:

"What do the five leaders of Huaxia say?"

"They said to just listen to your arrangements, Mr. Lu."

"And the leaders of the other Five Great Nations?"

"They are currently afraid that we, Huaxia, will turn around and suppress them; they fear us too much. Therefore, our five leaders in Huaxia told you, Mr. Lu, to act boldly and fearlessly. If anything happens, they will step forward to take responsibility."

"Good, I understand. Is there anything else I need to know?"

"Oh, oh, yes, yes, Lu Chen!"

The Grand Elder also gave Lu Chen the recent detection reports from all over the world.

After Lu Chen saw them.

He frowned, "Why is it the Arctic?"

"Yes, it's unclear, still the Arctic."

Lu Chen appeared somewhat silent.

He asked:

"The venue for the next competition is in the Arctic Realm, right? Shelley's country."

"Yes, and it is right in the center of the Arctic Circle."

"It seems the Arctic must be hiding something."

"Perhaps."

Lu Chen committed all this information to memory.

Subsequently, he said to the Grand Elder:

"Then tell me at the first opportunity if anything happens next time. I will be available to talk with you at any time. I feel that this trip to the Arctic is not that simple."

"Very well, Mr. Lu."

Lu Chen nodded and turned to leave.

The Grand Elder, as always, bowed deeply.

He cupped his hands to send him off.

The etiquette and respect were immense.

He regarded Lu Chen completely as a Senior expert.

Seven days later.

The Arctic branch's competition venue floated above the ten-thousand-year cold abyss, the ice crystal-condensed Bagua platform glowing with a deep blue cold light.

The Cultivators in the spectator stands were wrapped in mysterious ice robes, the white mist they exhaled freezing into ice shards before it could even rise.

Shelley's ice-blue long hair shone with the aurora, and as her toes lightly tapped the ice surface, light patterns rippled outward, reflecting the magical undercurrents surging deep within this place.

This was the Arctic Realm.

The competition venue in the very center of the Arctic Circle.

It was not far from Winter City.

However, Winter City was a place shrouded by a magic barrier.

It was unaffected by the bitter cold.

It was a blessed land.

Moreover, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was very abundant.

Whether it was the immortal power or magic power derived from the Spiritual Qi, it was beneficial to the cultivation of any Cultivator.

Every year, countless Cultivators came here.

This was a place endowed by nature.

...

"Arctic Realm, Shelley Frostsoul." The judge Elder's voice transmission was laced with ice shards and exploded in the biting wind.

The glacier opposite rumbled and cracked, and three frost giants emerged, their eye sockets flickering with Undead Fire that originated from the same source as the undead.

The Egyptian priest in the spectator stands covered the Scarab tattoo.

A malicious and evil look appeared in his eyes.

If anyone paid attention at this moment, they would see that the palms of these ice statues were actually carved with hieroglyphs from the book of the dead.

Shelley's ice crystal scepter tapped the ground, six-sided ice flowers spreading along the trigram positions, "Ancestors above, forgive this Junior for being rude."

The moment the Absolute Zero Domain unfolded, the ice statues' movements suddenly froze, and a sound like mechanical gears jamming came from within their chests.

The observers nearby discovered, through the holographic monitoring screens, that gears of ancient magic technology were embedded in the cores of the giants.

Everyone could not help but exclaim in admiration.

The Arctic Realm was indeed a place of Legacy.

There were so many things left behind by ancient civilizations.

Morning Dew and the other women were located not far away.

They were observing the front cautiously.

"Something is wrong!"

Sun Feifei suddenly said.

Then she looked toward a direction where a Formation had been set up previously.

She said coldly: "The changes there shouldn't be like this!"

Then her voice was swallowed by the howling of the blizzard that appeared not far away.

Morning Dew leaped up, wanting to disperse the blizzard. Her unfolded six wings trembled uncontrollably under the stimulation of the low temperature, and Holy Light particles condensed into ice crystals between the wing membranes.

Seeing this, Lu Chen drew his tianwen sword suddenly, and Sword Qi shattered the ice cones that were flying from the blizzard toward the spectator stands.

The jade ring on the sword tassel in Lu Chen's hand shone, and not far away, an Arctic competitor was taking a strange Medicinal Pill.

A wisp of bronze luster flashed across his throat.

At the same time.

Located in the Flame Tower area.

A Secret Realm was appearing.

Ignis, who had been called back by her uncle.

After checking that her communication with Lu Chen and the others was fine.

She looked at this Secret Realm and walked straight in.

The entrance to the Flame Secret Realm was spewing the scent of sulfur, and Ignis tore off the bandages wrapped around her body and leaped into the lava pool.

The flame demon tattoo expanded in the scorching magma, but the bronze brand on her collarbone was like a festering sore!

"Hiss! Cut it out... and behave!"

This Secret Realm trial left behind by her ancestors.

She had to pass it.

So as to smoothly step into the eighth rank.

She summoned the flame demon greatsword into her hand!

She swung her sword to sever the incoming fire spirits, and when the lava touched the brand, it eerily condensed into walls of fire.

On the red crystal throne deep in the Secret Realm, a phantom of the flame demon ancestor was reforming. He issued a voice from afar, "The power of the flame demon will eventually return to the Heavenly Dao... but you all bear the heavier burden of resisting the Heavenly Dao. Child, push through, just like your ancestors, struggle and resist, and never yield!"

Ignis heard the ancestor's voice in her ear, and with a roar, she threw the greatsword. The phantom of the Purgatory Phoenix crashed and shattered the throne, but the sea of magma recoiled into bronze chains to entangle her ankles.

The brand suddenly burst with intense light, and the star map of Betelgeuse appeared on her back.

That was the power the star had left within her body!

It was completely activated at this moment.

The frost giant in the Arctic competition venue suddenly self-destructed, and emerald-colored toxic mist, carrying bronze debris, swept across the Bagua platform.

Cracks appeared on Shelley's ice crystal shield.

A remnant page of the book of the dead suddenly emerged from the Void Realm beside her!

Ning Xiwei's voice rang out from behind her!

"Shelley, watch out in front!"

Then Ning Xiwei's voice pierced through the barrier.

She manipulated the Undead Fire to burn a safe passage out on the ice surface.

Lu Chen's golden compass suddenly pointed at the judges' stand, and behind the glass lenses of a certain Arctic Elder flashed the starlight of the eye of guixu.

Morning Dew's Holy Light swept across the entire venue, and in a Medicinal Pill box in the arms of a Disciple, bronze particles emitted a sharp green light amidst the Holy Light!

"These Medicinal Pills... are all contaminated!!!"

Morning Dew could not believe all this.

This Disciple was a member of the medical rescue team sent by the Cultivation Alliance.