Chen Ping glanced at it. He extended his right index finger and flicked lightly towards the charging bear king.
“Ding.”
A crisp snap of fingers.
The bear king’s charging figure abruptly froze. It looked down in astonishment at its chest.
There, at some unknown moment, a thumb-sized hole had appeared. The edges of the hole were smooth as a mirror. No blood flowed out, because the flesh, bone, and even divine soul around the hole had been completely “erased” in an instant by an incomprehensible force.
“Thud.”
The massive bear corpse toppled to the ground, splashing up a cloud of ice dust.
The remaining vicious beasts finally felt instinctive fear. They began to whimper and retreat, scattering. However, the ice-fire taiji diagram had already expanded, enveloping them all.
A moment later, the ice and fire dissipated.
The basin regained its calm.
Over three hundred ice soul wolves and eight profound ice giant bears, including their kings, had vanished without a trace. Not even a fragment of remains was left, as if they had never existed.
Only the pits on the ice surface, melted by flames and then rapidly refrozen, along with the strange aura in the air intertwining lingering heat and chill, proved the brief yet terrifying slaughter that had just taken place.
Chen Ping lowered his hands. His face was slightly pale.
Controlling two extremely opposing ultimate law forces simultaneously to form such a large-scale killing move had taken a considerable toll, even with his current Heavenly Immortal cultivation and the inclusive nature of chaotic immortal force.
But the effect clearly satisfied him.
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord and Ling Shuang were utterly speechless.
The scene just now had surpassed their understanding of “power”.
That ice-fire taiji diagram was simply like a technique from legends of immortals and gods.
“Rest for half a quarter of an hour, then continue on our way.”
Chen Ping sat cross-legged. He took out a pill to restore immortal force, swallowed it, and closed his eyes to regulate his breathing.
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord and Ling Shuang quickly guarded his sides, vigilantly observing the surroundings. But after witnessing that heaven-destroying, earth-extinguishing scene, no living creature would likely dare approach this basin for a short while.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Chen Ping recovered fully. The three set off again.
The closer they got to the heart of the ice plain, the more frequent the ambushes became, and the greater their intensity.
After crushing the fourth wave of an intercepting team consisting of thirty divine clan warriors, an extremely abnormal area appeared ahead.
It was a circular ice plain over five hundred li in diameter. The ice surface was flat as a mirror, reflecting the grey sky.
However, above this area hovered a layer of faint blue, visible light membrane. Complex divine script flowed across the membrane, emitting powerful spatial confinement force.
“It’s a no-flight domain and gravity superposition zone.”
Ling Shuang’s expression grew solemn. “I can feel that the air in this area is filled with chaotic spatial turbulence and a gravity field over a hundred times normal. Forcibly flying would not only greatly reduce speed but also risk being torn apart by spatial turbulence. We can only cross on foot.”
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord tried sensing it. Indeed, the circulation of immortal force in his body became sluggish, as if he were carrying a great mountain on his back.
Chen Ping looked up at the faint blue light membrane. His golden vertical pupils flickered slightly.
In his vision, the light membrane was not a simple barrier. It was woven from countless tiny divine script chains, connected to the earth veins deep beneath the ice plain. It continuously drew chilling energy from the ice plain and power from the earth veins to maintain operation.
Its complexity and energy level far exceeded the formations encountered earlier.
“This should be part of a large-scale defensive prohibition set by the Beiming Divine Clan, covering a key passage to the core area.”
Chen Ping analysed. “Crossing on foot plays right into their hands.”
Sure enough, the instant the three stepped into the no-flight zone, three neat military formations silently appeared on the ice plain ahead.
Each formation had fifty men, totalling one hundred and fifty divine clan warriors.
They all wore standard ice-blue heavy armour and held uniform ice crystal long halberds. Their auras were stern. Murderous intent soared into the sky.
This was clearly not a previous patrol or ambush group, but true regular divine clan troops.
The three formations arranged in a triangular pattern. Their auras connected, faintly forming an even larger battle array.
In front of each formation stood a powerful divine general.
The left general held a massive ice crystal shield. His aura was steady as a mountain. He was at sixth-grade Heavenly Immortal realm.
The right general wielded dual ice spikes. His figure was agile. He was at the peak of sixth-grade Heavenly Immortal realm.
The central general stood empty-handed, but his aura was the most terrifying. He had clearly reached seventh-grade Heavenly Immortal realm.
As his eyes opened and closed, ice-blue divine light flashed. He was evidently the true commander of this combined military formation.
With this strength and scale, it probably surpassed all sects in the Tenth Heaven.
“Intruding upon divine clan forbidden ground, breaking through seven of our clan’s defensive lines in succession, killing over a hundred of our warriors.”
The central general spoke. His voice was like eternal ice grinding against each other, piercingly cold. “Your sins are too numerous to record. Today, we shall use your blood to honour our clan’s heroic souls and restore divine clan prestige.”
“Form the array, Beiming Profound Ice Immortal-Slaying Array.”
With his command, the one hundred and fifty divine clan warriors roared in unison. The sound shook the wilderness.
“Boom.”
The three formations simultaneously erupted with towering ice-blue light. The lights converged and fused in mid-air, transforming into a massive array phantom covering several li around.
Within the phantom, the form of a profound tortoise could vaguely be seen coiled. It emitted a heart-palpitating slaughter aura.
Once the array formed, the temperature in the entire no-flight zone dropped sharply again. The gravity field surged to nearly two hundred times normal.
Countless sharp ice edges condensed in the air, like swords hanging overhead, ready to fall at any moment.
Even more terrifying, the array perfectly unified the power of the one hundred and fifty men into a whole.
Any attack landing on the array would be evenly distributed among all participants, making it extremely difficult to break the defence. Attacks issued by the array, however, were equivalent to a combined strike from all one hundred and fifty, with utterly terrifying power.
“This has some merit.”
A trace of seriousness finally flashed in Chen Ping’s eyes.
The Beiming Divine Clan could dominate the eternal ice plain. They indeed had some foundation.
But he felt no fear. Instead, he was somewhat eager to try.
