32: Chapter 32 Extreme Cold Ice Flame Burns Ashes! Lin Tian, ​​Farewell!

"Tap. Tap. Tap."

A set of extremely steady, unhurried footsteps trod upon the withered, broken weeds outside the ruined temple, producing a sound that set one's teeth on edge.

Accompanied by this deathly rhythm, a tall, slender, and upright black figure, like a drop of indelible thick ink, slowly detached itself from the shadow of the dead old locust tree.

The pale moonlight poured down through the collapsed half of the roof, just happening to illuminate the cold, stern face of the newcomer, which was partially obscured by the hood of his black cloak.

That pair of eyes, deep as an abyss, looked down from above at Lin Tian, who was collapsed on the muddy ground, with not a ripple of emotion in his gaze.

"The night wind is desolate. Junior Brother Lin, being all alone in this ruined temple in the middle of nowhere is a bit too lonely, isn't it?"

Gu Yi's clear yet bone-chilling voice echoed eerily within the vast, empty hall of the ruined temple.

Hearing this voice that he could recognize even if Gu Yi turned to ash, Lin Tian's withered body trembled violently. He jerked his head up, his bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at Gu Yi under the moonlight, his pupils contracting sharply due to extreme fear and rage.

"Gu Yi! It's you! You actually dare to come looking for me!"

A roar like that of a dying beast escaped Lin Tian's throat. He struggled to stand up, but his shattered Dantian could not provide him with even a shred of true essence support.

He could only crawl backward frantically on the mud-filled ground like a maggot with its spine removed, trying to increase the distance between himself and this devil.

"You have already taken my Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire and crippled my cultivation. What more do you want! Are you not even willing to leave me a way to survive!"

Lin Tian's voice was filled with deep despair and misery. He did not understand why he, who was clearly the favored son of heaven burdened with great Opportunity and held in high expectations by a Senior expert, had been so thoroughly defeated by this Xuantian Sect Senior Brother, who appeared gentle as jade but was actually ruthless and heartless.

Gu Yi did not answer his question.

The night was deep and the dew heavy. The flying boat was still sailing on the sea of clouds thousands of miles away; if he, the nominal leader, left for too long, it would ultimately be a trouble.

He slowly raised his right hand.

Between his joined index and middle fingers, a wisp of extremely sharp golden Sword Qi quietly flickered.

This wisp of Sword Qi appeared weak, yet it seemed to contain a supreme will capable of severing all things in heaven and earth. The sharp aura stirred up visible, tiny spatial ripples in the air.

Supreme Heaven-Severing Sword Art.

"In your next life, remember to keep your eyes open."

Gu Yi's tone was indifferent.

Before he finished speaking, he drew a light, casual stroke with his joined fingers in the Void Realm.

A half-moon-shaped golden Sword Qi, a thousand times more brilliant than the moonlight, tore through the dead air of the ruined temple at a speed impossible for the naked eye to capture.

Lin Tian's kowtowing and begging came to an abrupt halt.

He didn't even have time to let out a scream, nor did he have time to feel the pain from his neck. In his bloodshot eyes, only a golden thread, constantly enlarging, remained.

"Ssh—" A very faint cutting sound rang out.

Lin Tian's head slid slowly from his neck along the mirror-smooth cut, rolling with a "gurgle" to the side of the extinguished campfire ashes. The headless corpse collapsed forward powerlessly, and dark red blood gushed out like a fountain.

Gu Yi spread his long, fair fingers slightly, and the already cold air around him instantly solidified to an extremely terrifying degree.

A ball of flame the size of a fist, entirely pure, ghostly white in color, like a ten-thousand-year-old snow lotus blooming quietly, appeared out of thin air above Gu Yi's palm.

The moment this pure, flawless flame appeared, there was no sensation of heat typical of fire in the ruined temple; instead, it was replaced by an extreme chill capable of freezing the Soul.

Extreme cold and combustion—these two diametrically opposed attributes achieved a strange and deadly balance on this ghostly white fire lotus.

Extreme Cold Ice Flame.

"Go." Gu Yi parted his thin lips slightly and spat out the cold word.

The ghostly white fire lotus in his palm instantly split into several pure white threads of fire, landing precisely on Lin Tian's remains and his severed head.

The Extreme Cold Ice Flame was incomparably overbearing.

The moment it touched flesh, it did not produce the pungent smell of burning skin. Lin Tian's corpse was first frozen into an extremely fragile ice sculpture, and the blood gushing onto the ground also turned into crimson icicles.

Immediately after, under the extreme cold and the overbearing rules of the strange fire, the entire ice sculpture shattered with a "crack, crack" sound, and finally, licked by the ghostly white flames, it turned into a pile of extremely fine, grayish-white powder.

Along with it, the simple, ancient ring on Lin Tian's finger that had once housed Ji Meier also lost the last bit of its material toughness under the burning of the pure white flame, turning into a small pinch of iron ash.

[Ding! Detected that the host has completely obliterated the previous Luck-bound individual (Lin Tian).]

[Reward settlement: Villain Points + 2000!]

Gu Yi flicked his wide sleeve.

A powerful gale of True Essence arose out of thin air and swept through the hall of the ruined temple.

The pile of ice crystal powder mixed with bone ash on the ground was thoroughly swept up and scattered by the gale, blending evenly into the soil and withered grass outside the ruined temple, with no trace left to distinguish.

After confirming that no trace of his own aura remained in this area, Gu Yi turned around and pulled the hood of his black cloak low again.

Gu Yi tapped his toes lightly on the ground.

His entire body, like a black meteor traveling in reverse, shot up into the sky instantly, disappearing into the endless sea of clouds in the night, and sped off in the direction the flying boat had gone.