As the thick blood mist dissipated, Ye Chui shed his giant form, and Long Bao flapped his wings to land beside Ye Chui’s body. It seemed unrealistic to fish out that blood serpent through the giant.
The group walked to the edge of the still scalding lake water. Debby frowned and said, “This fellow does not seem afraid of the heat.”
“Boiling water can only reach one hundred degrees at most. Never mind magical beasts; even a skilled swordsman could withstand such temperatures.” Ye Chui said.
“But it looks like it will not surface easily now.” Lessa looked at the lake water and said, “We need to think of another way to force it out.”
“Let me try [Golden Rain]. Even if it cannot force it out, an indiscriminate attack would be enough to blast it into fragments!” Gilga volunteered. She had suffered repeated setbacks tonight, which she regarded as the shame of her life. She vowed to restore her dignity as the golden female swordsman.
“That would make too much noise. It would not be difficult to finish it off in one go; a single [Explosion is Justice] would suffice. But are we not on a secret mission right now?” Ye Chui refused Gilga.
The others, upon hearing Ye Chui’s words, all wore speechless expressions. Guild leader, we feel that our current actions have absolutely nothing to do with secrecy anymore, okay?
“So, little brother, what do you plan to do?” Lessa asked.
“Since heat does not work, let us try cold.” Ye Chui had already thought of an idea. A cold smile appeared on his face, and he began searching in his magical tome. There was a film he had long wanted to comprehend, one specifically about “cold.” He wanted to comprehend ice magic!
Soon, Ye Chui received a prompt.
Reminder: You have spent three thousand points to [Comprehend] “The Day After Tomorrow.”
Reminder: You have comprehended the water-wind fusion magic attribute: Ice Chill Magic Attribute, and obtained the unlockable incantation: [Doomsday Ice Chill]!
The Day After Tomorrow, a film about Earth’s climate change and the onset of ice chill. Ye Chui had watched disaster films many years ago, and the scene that stuck with him the most was the one after the helicopter crashed, when the pilot climbed out of the cabin only for his body to instantly turn into an ice sculpture. Extreme cold, doomsday catastrophe, and the incantation comprehended from it was [Doomsday Ice Chill]!
“It might get very cold in a moment. All of you, step back a distance.”
After spending three hundred points to unlock [Doomsday Ice Chill], Ye Chui said to Debby and the others. He then walked to the edge of the lake water.
Beside the lake water was a circle of stone-built embankment, now completely soaked and rather slippery. Ye Chui gently immersed his hand into the lake water. The water temperature was still scalding, at least over ninety degrees. Ye Chui could not help but let out a hissing intake of cold air through his teeth. But as he began to activate [Doomsday Ice Chill], the scalding sensation vanished instantly, replaced by a different icy cool texture.
Debby and the others were stepping back as per Ye Chui’s instructions. They still did not know what Ye Chui planned to do and were about to ask when they suddenly shivered uncontrollably. Looking towards Ye Chui, they saw that at the spot where Ye Chui’s hand was immersed in the lake water, a patch of white chill ice was rapidly spreading outward.
The chill ice swiftly spread throughout the entire lake. The originally rolling hot lake water turned in an instant into cold ice as hard as steel!
The weeds and trees growing beside the hot spring lake were also instantly covered in a layer of frost. The chill was still spreading outwards. Debby and the others felt as if winter had suddenly descended. Long Bao spread his massive wings to shield everyone within, but even Long Bao’s wings soon became covered in a layer of chill ice.
Debby hugged her arms and turned her head to see a nearby shrub plant. Its green sap gleamed with a few strands of chill light in the night. She reached out to touch it, and with a crisp crack, the shrub’s branches and leaves shattered into fragments like glass.
“This magic is no worse than that ice chill magical mentor we encountered in the Sword Burial Grounds back then!” The little girl sighed accordingly.
In just a short minute, doomsday-like ice chill had descended upon the area.
Ye Chui withdrew his hand from the frozen lake water. His hand was unaffected by the chill ice, and the bone-piercing cold had little impact on him. He exhaled heavily and looked satisfied at the lake surface condensed with chill ice before him.
“With this, that blood serpent must have been frozen solid!” He said aloud.
Knowing that Ye Chui had finished casting his magic, Debby and the others also walked over to his side. Looking at the frigid hot spring lake, they all showed expressions of astonishment. Then Green asked a very important question.
“Guild leader, now that you have frozen the lake surface, how are we going to catch that snake?”
Ye Chui’s body jolted: Bloody hell!
“You idiot, Ye Chui brother must have calculated everything in his mind since he used this magic. He must have thought of a way to catch the snake long ago. Right, Ye Chui brother?” Denny said admiringly.
Ye Chui: “…”
“… Ye Chui, you did not think about how to catch the snake at all when you just cast the magic, did you?” It was still Debby who understood Ye Chui the best.
Ye Chui immediately let out a haha and turned to Long Bao. “How about you melt the ice on the lake water again?”
Everyone and the dragon: “…”
At that moment, a series of “crack crack” sounds suddenly rang out. The noise came from within the ice lake. When Ye Chui and the others looked over in surprise, in the night, they saw cracks appearing on the ice surface of the lake water. The cracks grew more numerous and denser, and with a boom, a fissure broke open right in the centre of the lake surface. A red figure crawled out from within.
It looked somewhat on its last legs, with half its body still trapped in the ice, its upper body sprawled on the ice surface. But a pair of pale green eyes emitted a savage light, glaring at Ye Chui and the others. It had lived for nearly a millennium and was probably being tormented by ice and fire for the first time…
“It came out on its own!” Debby shouted.
Ye Chui hurriedly said, as if to salvage his face, “Just as I calculated!”
The others: Guild leader, this really lacks any persuasiveness…
“Hiss,” just as Gilga prepared to attack the blood serpent, the blood serpent’s body suddenly leaped up. At the same time, a layer of ice water surged out from the ice hole on the ice surface, swiftly enveloping its body. The ice water then took on a layer of blood colour, as if turning solid, transforming it into a terrifying giant serpent as thick as a person’s waist.
It was clearly furious to the core and had decided to fight Ye Chui and his group to the death. Its terrifying serpentine mouth opened, flicking its forked tongue as it charged towards Ye Chui and the others, its body scraping against the ice surface with a piercing “hiss hiss” sound.
Ye Chui and the others immediately prepared to engage in battle.
But Long Bao preemptively spread his wings. “Master, leave this beast to me. This dragon was nearly taken down just now. It is the shame of my dragon life!”
“And me. I must cut it down with my own hands!” Gilga also eagerly volunteered, swinging her sword to unleash a sword qi that blocked the giant serpent’s advance.
Ye Chui understood their eagerness well, so he said, “Very well, this serpent is now severely weakened. Long Bao, Gilga, it is yours from here!” At the same time, he took out a dragon blood stone from his storage space and tossed it to Debby, who then threw it to Gilga.
The dragon blood stone swiftly turned into golden mist and fused into Gilga’s body. Gilga immediately leaped onto Long Bao’s back.
Her golden sword qi actually had a deep connection with Long Bao. Back then, the Goddess of Fortune had comprehended golden sword qi through gold, and later Long Bao had benefited from it, transforming into a black-gold flame dragon second only to the golden giant dragon. Their powers could be said to originate from the same source. And now, as Gilga mounted Long Bao’s back, under the pull of their powers, a situation occurred that surprised even Ye Chui, Debby, Long Bao, and Gilga. Gilga’s golden sword qi suddenly rapidly covered Long Bao’s body. Long Bao’s originally black-and-gold scales swiftly turned golden, making him instantly resemble a giant dragon forged from gold!
“They can actually do this together!?” Debby’s mouth gaped wide open, and she could not help exclaiming, “Long Bao can borrow Gilga’s golden sword qi!”
“They are a krypton-gold dragon knight now!?” Ye Chui said, full of delight.
With a resounding dragon roar, the golden giant dragon and the golden female swordsman soared into the sky, circled in the air, then dove straight towards the terrifying blood serpent. Soon, they entangled with the blood serpent. Long Bao was the god of all beasts, and his [Dragon Might] could directly intimidate all magical beasts. But now, with his power not at its former peak, his intimidation did not apply to all magical beasts.
Among low-rank magical beasts, Long Bao was invincible and could force submission without fighting. But the blood serpent beast was a sixth-rank magical beast and was unaffected by Long Bao’s [Dragon Might]. Of course, facing the current krypton-gold dragon knight, it held little advantage either.
But at that moment, a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in Ye Chui’s heart. He hurriedly pushed Debby and Lessa aside. In the next instant, his automatic defence passive activated, and the Armoured Swordsman appeared before him.
One by one, stone spikes erupted from the ground, sharp like the quills on a porcupine’s back.
The Armoured Swordsman Jarvis swung his sword to sever several spikes. As Jarvis vanished, Ye Chui’s eyes turned towards the person approaching from afar.
Those stone spikes were all condensed from this person’s magic!
This was a bald young man wearing a long robe emblazoned with terrifying magical beast patterns. He appeared to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years old. An orange-covered magical tome floated beside him. His eyes emitted a cold light as he said coldly, “You lot have some nerve, daring to cause trouble on the Joleis family’s territory!”
“He is Ouroboros Yuren!” Denny actually said to Ye Chui, “The eldest son of the Joleis family. A very formidable fellow!”
“He must have been lurking nearby all along. Our secret operation seems to have fallen into a trap!” Debby analysed rationally.
However, upon hearing Debby’s words, Yuren’s face twisted in fury.
“Secret operation? The commotion you made can be heard throughout the entire imperial capital!!! Are you treating the Joleis family like fools to toy with?”
