Ling Tian Sword God

Chapter 702: Chapter 700: Xu Ruoyan Arrives_1

After suffering heavy losses, the numerous experts of the Divine Intent Sect huddled together, joining forces to resist the incredibly bizarre snowstorm.

”Li’er!” Yin Tianxiao watched, aghast, as Yin Zongli was frozen into an ice sculpture, which then shattered into countless pieces, scattering across the ground. He roared to the heavens and rushed to where Yin Zongli’s fragmented body lay, gathering the shards of ice. His anguished cries shook the heavens.

Yin Zongli was his only son, the future heir to the entire Yin Family. He hadn’t died in the great war, yet, unexpectedly, he was killed by this peculiar snowstorm.

Shentu Yan frowned. At the same moment, a few snowflakes landed on him, carrying a terrifying chill that threatened to invade his body.

”Scram!” With Shentu Yan’s furious roar, the True Qi within him suddenly erupted. Streaks of electric current flashed across the surface of his body, and the terrifying chill was instantly and completely dispelled.

”Stop your charade and get out here!” Shentu Yan bellowed again. The surrounding snowflakes were instantly pulverized by his shout, and the entire space was swept clear.

However, there was no response to his roar, and he saw no suspicious individuals.

Shentu Yan hadn’t expected someone to be able to kill so stealthily, right under his nose, without him noticing a thing.

This person is extraordinary.

”You two little wenches!” Suddenly, Yin Tianxiao, who had been weeping bitterly nearby, lifted his head. His gaze, fixed on Xia Yunxin and Ling Yin, was utterly ferocious. ”It must have been your doing! You’re the reason my son died so tragically! You two wenches will accompany my son in death!”

With that, Yin Tianxiao lunged towards Xia Yunxin and Ling Yin, his expression as cold as ice, like a madman.

However, just as he lunged, a chilling beam of light suddenly shot out from ahead. Like a rainbow streak, it pierced the Void and viciously struck Yin Tianxiao. Before the eyes of many, it penetrated his body and exited from his back. Yin Tianxiao’s eyes bulged, blood spurted from his mouth, and his body crashed heavily to the ground.

Instant kill!

Seeing this, Yun Tianhe, Black Chonghou, and the other experts from the Divine Intent Sect and the Yin Family all paled, a chill running down their spines. They were horrified. An expert of Yin Tianxiao’s caliber, a dignified Fifth Level Sky Apex Realm master, had been killed instantly without even catching a glimpse of his assailant.

After the snowstorm subsided and the frosty fog dispersed, a slender, graceful figure emerged in the cleared area.

The figure was clad in a white dress that fluttered like snow. Her dark, silken hair cascaded like a waterfall, swaying in the lingering wisps of snow and wind. Her skin was like jade, reminiscent of a snow lotus from the highest peaks—pure, noble, and incomparably beautiful.

”Sister Yan’er!” A wave of joy washed over Ling Yin’s small face when she clearly saw the woman. But in the next moment, her expression changed drastically. The right side of the stunningly beautiful woman’s face was hidden behind a silver Metal Mask.

”Your face?” Ling Yin murmured, her red lips pressing together lightly. Xu Ruoyan was a renowned beauty in the Martial World. If there wasn’t something wrong with that side of her face, she would never wear a mask to cover her features.

In response to Ling Yin’s query, Xu Ruoyan’s eyes momentarily dimmed, but that shade of melancholy vanished almost instantly.

”I was just a bit careless during my Cultivation and suffered a minor injury, that’s all. It’s nothing to worry about,” Xu Ruoyan explained, shaking her head with a faint smile.

”Oh.” Ling Yin nodded, though she still looked a little puzzled. If it was just a minor injury, why wear a mask?

”Alas.” Not far away, a figure standing in the shadows sighed and shook his head. It was Feng Piaoliu.

Others might not know what had transpired, but he had been following Xu Ruoyan for some time and knew everything perfectly well.

In her pursuit of rapidly mastering the Cultivation Technique, Xu Ruoyan had used a forbidden technique within the Ice Dome Prison. She had frantically absorbed the frigid energy of the Ice Dome Prison, completely disregarding the costs or consequences, all for the sake of speed.

This frenzied absorption placed an enormous strain on her body. Although she ultimately succeeded in cultivating the Frost Emperor’s Code to the Seventh Layer, and even advanced her Ice Heart Divine Soul to its final stage, causing her strength to surge dramatically, absorbing such a terrifyingly vast amount of cold energy couldn’t possibly come without a cost to her body. Xu Ruoyan lost control of the frigid energy within her. Much of it transformed into a chill Poison, ravaging her body in numerous places. Even her most prized asset, her world-toppling beauty, was destroyed by this chill Poison.

He knew well how important a woman’s appearance was to her—perhaps even more important than her life. Yet, for that fellow Ling Chen, Xu Ruoyan had actually gone to such lengths.

True, Xu Ruoyan naturally harbored the desire to avenge her father, but that thirst for vengeance was likely less important to her than Ling Chen.

With Xu Ruoyan’s current rate of progress, if she had been given more time, her certainty of killing Shentu Yan would have been much greater. Yet, she had still come without hesitation, even rushing desperately to reach Green Cloud Mountain.

Xu Ruoyan scanned her surroundings but saw no sign of Ling Chen. She guessed he probably hadn’t emerged from his seclusion yet.

Knowing Ling Chen was alright eased her heart considerably. It seemed she hadn’t arrived too late.

A cold sneer suddenly echoed. ”Heh, I was wondering who it might be. So, it’s you, a remnant of the Sky Void Palace.” Shentu Yan glanced at Xu Ruoyan, a mocking expression instantly appearing on his face. ”After I obliterate Green Cloud Mountain and slaughter that brat Ling Chen, it’ll naturally be your turn. Why the rush to seek death?”

”Seek death? Today, the one who will die is you.” A cold light flashed in Xu Ruoyan’s beautiful eyes. Shentu Yan, the man standing before her, was the one who had killed her father, caused Ling Chen to be hunted by the Righteous Martial World, and later destroyed the Sky Void Palace, slaughtering many of her friends and elders. The enmity between her and Shentu Yan was a blood feud, profound and irreconcilable.

”Hmph! This Seat would like to see what gives you the audacity to spout such arrogant nonsense!” Shentu Yan snorted coldly. His body suddenly shot off the head of the Exotic Demon Beast, flashing in front of Xu Ruoyan in an instant. Black thunderbolt True Qi gathered in his palm, forming a hemisphere of Thunder Light. As Shentu Yan thrust his palm forward, the hemisphere of Thunder Light blasted violently towards Xu Ruoyan’s face.

CRACKLE!

The ball of Thunder Light streaked through the Void, leaving a dazzling trail as it instantly closed in on Xu Ruoyan’s delicate face.

Just as the hemisphere of Thunder Light was about to strike Xu Ruoyan, her delicate body suddenly arched backward, narrowly evading the attack of this Thunder Light Palm Power.

Xu Ruoyan’s body, as light as a wisp of smoke, drifted backward. No matter what Shentu Yan tried, he couldn’t touch even a fringe of her clothes.

After drifting back for over a hundred meters, Xu Ruoyan suddenly spun. From an elusive angle, she extended two fingers, striking Shentu Yan’s abdomen like a bolt of lightning.

PFFT!

Shentu Yan’s Protective True Qi was instantly pierced. Xu Ruoyan’s finger strike penetrated his body, and the front of his torso was instantly frozen. A layer of frost rapidly spread, covering half of Shentu Yan’s body, threatening to encase him in ice.