"Old Dong..."
The elders of the Luo Shen Clan repeatedly invited him, but Old Man Lin Dong only glanced at him indifferently before looking directly at Jiang Liu and saying in a hoarse voice, "You must be from outside the Western Heaven Continent, right? Now you are getting involved in the internal struggles of my Western Heaven Continent, which is probably not in line with the rules set by my Western Heaven War Hall."
The old man from the cold winter emphasized the words "Western Heaven Battle Hall" in his voice. He knew that Jiang Liu should understand his meaning. The ruler of the Western Heaven Continent was the Western Heaven Battle Hall. Under such a super power in the Great Thousand World, even if Jiang Liu was a Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign, he would not dare to be presumptuous.
Because the master of their Western Heaven Battle Palace is the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, a supreme being whose fame resounds throughout the entire world!
The old man spoke to Jiang Liu in such a gentle tone because he saw the spiritual array of the "Nine Dragons Soaring to the Sky Diagram" that Jiang Liu had just set up, and he sensed danger.
The person before him was not just a master of swordsmanship, but a grandmaster of spirit arrays, or even a great grandmaster, who could sense danger even from a powerful Earthly Sovereign at the Great Perfection level.
We must be careful!
He had too many things to think about and consider, and it was precisely this caution that allowed him to escape danger time and again, becoming the strongest under the Western Heaven War Emperor. But it was also this caution that caused him to lose his will to disregard everything and shatter everything, preventing him from reaching the realm of the Heavenly Sovereign.
"I have no intention of being enemies with the Western Heaven Battle Palace!" Jiang Liu said calmly.
"These are not just empty words. You killed the Blood Spirit Child of the Blood God Clan, and have already become involved in the internal struggles of my Western Heaven Continent. The rules of the Western Heaven War Hall cannot be broken. You will come with me to the Western Heaven War City to meet my Emperor, and all misunderstandings will naturally be resolved!"
As the old man spoke, he observed the great formation before him, his expression growing increasingly solemn. In his eyes, Luo Shen City was no longer a city, but rather a coiled nine-headed dragon.
"What if I don't go?" Jiang Liu waved his hand, sweeping away the wind and snow in front of him, and the warm spring breeze returned.
"Then we'll have to do it all in one go!"
Old Man Winter narrowed his eyes. He spoke kindly and cautiously, but that didn't mean he was afraid of Jiang Liu...
Chapter 430 Standoff
Jiang Liu's gaze passed over the old man's body and landed on a distant place where several young people stood. Their appearances were exactly the same as those drawn by Luo Tianshen. They were clearly the four disciples of the Western Heaven War Emperor.
As for the mysterious and powerful Western Heaven War Emperor, Jiang Liu did not sense him. Perhaps he hadn't arrived, or perhaps he was hiding, making it impossible for Jiang Liu to detect him.
Old Man Winter narrowed his eyes. Jiang Liu's expression showed that he didn't take him seriously at all.
"I've tried to reason with you, but if you remain obstinate, then I'll have no choice but to take you back to the Western Heaven Battle Hall!"
"Are you sure?" Jiang Liu finally confirmed that the Western Heaven War Emperor had not arrived, and withdrew his gaze, his eyes meeting the extremely cold gaze of the Old Man of Winter in mid-air.
In an instant, ice and snow raged, and storms roared.
A major battle is imminent.
"Don't think that you can be invincible with this mere Grandmaster-level spirit array. You can't withstand the foundation of my Western Heaven Battle Hall..." The chilling aura of the frozen stone turning to powder emanated from the Old Man of Winter, covering Jiang Liu, who was standing on the city wall, with a thick layer of white frost.
As for the Luo Shen clan members on the city wall, they were completely unable to withstand the intense cold; even Luo Qing was about to freeze to death.
Ice-based supernatural powers must be countered with fire, and Jiang Liu's forte among the five elements is fire. Having seized all the different flames in the "Battle Through the Heavens" world, condensing the Emperor Flame and achieving the "Samadhi True Fire," he was powerful enough to break the Winter Elder's supernatural powers.
The Old Man of Winter, also known as Winter, is of unknown name, but is famous throughout the world for his supernatural powers in the art of ice.
With a wave of his hand, the biting wind was more dangerous than the gales of the heavens. Each gust of wind could shred steel into powder. Each snowflake could pierce through a supreme being's defenses, and the icy bursts that followed could freeze stone into dust.
Under the swirling snow, Baili Luoshen City has been completely transformed into a world draped in silver, with the harsh winter descending and everything desolate.
The city wall directly facing its attack remained warm as springtime. Without any visible movement from Jiang Liu, a gentle spring breeze suddenly arose and swept towards the Old Man of Winter with a thought.
The howling wind and the bleakness of winter could not stop the gentle warmth of the river, nor could the falling snow stop a small flame from burning quietly.
The cold wind was dispelled by the spring breeze, and the snow melted in the glow of the flames. The cold current that turned frozen stones into powder and frozen iron into shavings was firmly blocked by the heat of the "Samadhi Fire" and kept it three feet away from the body.
"The power of fire...the Fire Spirit Clan?"
The old man's face instantly turned as cold as ice, expressionless. His deep, blue eyes, as deep as the sea, also revealed endless indifference.
At this moment, he had turned into an ice sculpture, and the chill was even greater. A piece of fine, blue ice crystal drifted down, replacing the goose-feather-like snow.
Clearly, he had unleashed his full power and dared not underestimate Jiang Liu. The ice crystals condensed and grew larger, quickly expanding from the size of fine sand to hundreds of fist-sized ice crystals. Then, those hundreds of ice crystals simultaneously erupted with a dazzling yet deadly blue light, unleashing hundreds of aurora-like ice-blue rays that shot towards Jiang Liu.
These incredibly beautiful and dazzling rays shot out, instantly dispersing the chilling air and raising the temperature by several degrees. Moreover, the ice, snow, and cold currents in their path were completely absorbed. In an instant, the storm subsided, the ice and snow melted, and the cold currents dissipated, leaving only those hundreds of icy blue rays, like beautiful aurora borealis, shooting towards the river.
Jiang Liu's expression changed slightly as he sensed the extreme danger of these dazzling rays. Each ray possessed an extreme low temperature of over one hundred degrees below zero. If one were to be hit by one, it would absolutely freeze one's physical body, and even the strongest regenerative abilities would be useless.
Not daring to be careless, Jiang Liu first used the "Samadhi True Fire" to protect himself. A green lotus grew from his hand, like the Tao giving birth to one, still with only three leaves, as if the three gave birth to all things. With a gentle sway, the chaotic mist enveloped Jiang Liu.
With a punch, the void trembled, creating countless spatial rifts. From within those spiderweb-like rifts, intense flames erupted, forming a giant net of fire that flowed upwards against the hundreds of rays.
laugh!
Like the soft sound of a hot iron block being thrown into cold water, the rays then pierced through the giant net of flames, and the flames that had melted everything were extinguished by the cold in an instant!
It even froze the spatial rift!
The divine powers of a Supreme Earthly Being at the Great Perfection are in no way weaker than those of a Celestial Immortal.
"rise!"
In that brief moment when the icy rays were blocked, Jiang Liu roared, his words striking like thunder. Faced with the overwhelming pressure from the Old Man of Winter, he activated the "Nine Dragons Soaring to the Sky" killing formation to resist.
He didn't use any other supernatural powers; he wanted to see just how powerful this great formation really was.
Nine real dragons soared into the sky from within the city walls, their roars echoing across the heavens.
Sizzle!
Dozens of extremely cold rays struck the dragon's body, instantly freezing it into an ice shell. The ice sculptures were formed at a visible speed before collapsing and turning into a sky full of ice crystals.
But this "Nine Dragons Soaring to the Sky" diagram could be broken so easily. The nine dragons are mutually reinforcing, and as long as they are not destroyed at the same time, they will be reborn continuously.
One giant dragon was destroyed by the extreme cold rays, then another... After three consecutive destructions, the sky full of icy blue rays was completely blocked.
Then, to the astonishment of the Old Man of Winter, three giant dragons rose into the sky once more from within the city walls.
Since it is a dragon, it naturally possesses the power to destroy the universe.
The mountains and rivers roared and trembled. A dragon flew into the Luo River, causing the entire river to rise into the air and transform into a gigantic water dragon, every scale clearly visible. Another dragon burrowed into the earth, causing mountains to collapse and coalesce into an earthen dragon. And from the collapsed area, magma surged forth, rushing upwards with astonishing force, and a fire dragon formed from the magma soared into the sky.
Several more thunder dragons soared through the sky, breathing out thunder.
Nine dragons soared into the sky, emitting vast waves of energy that caused the heavens and earth to roar continuously. It was an astonishing sight, like thousands of waterfalls cascading down, deafeningly loud, while an endless pressure pressed down, making it impossible to move an inch.
This is the suppression of the Dao; the Nine Dragons Soaring into the Heavens contain the Great Dao.
Jiang Liu coldly watched the old man in the dead of winter before him, waiting to see how he would break his spirit array. A blazing light flashed above his head, and the nine dragons emitted trembling sounds, rumbling like heavenly music.
The old man remained expressionless, his icy gaze fixed on Jiang Liu. Although the Nine Dragons Soaring to the Sky Formation in the sky was indeed strange and unusual, in his perception, Jiang Liu was merely an Earthly Sovereign, not a Heavenly Sovereign, so he had no fear of him.
"Hmph, you do have some skill, but this spirit array alone probably won't be enough to change your fate!"
Chapter 431 So What If You Can Cover the Sky with One Hand?
As the Grand Elder of the Western Heaven Battle Hall and a powerful figure at the Great Perfection of the Earthly Sovereign realm, the Old Man of Winter's position in the Western Heaven Battle Hall was not solely based on his ice-based divine abilities.
The war palace naturally has supreme martial arts.
The Old Man of Winter also learned the essence of the martial arts and supernatural powers of the Western Heaven War Emperor and integrated it into his own innate supernatural power.
The Old Man of Winter spoke indifferently, then took a deep breath. More and more battle marks appeared on his arms, and at the same time, a dangerous aura emanated from his body.
Battle runes originate from the Battle Emperor's Technique of the Western Heaven Battle Palace. This technique is unparalleled in the Great Thousand World, capable of fusing spiritual power with battle intent, its mysteries are unmatched. The spiritual power cultivated from it far surpasses ordinary spiritual power and is known as battle spiritual power.
Sensing the dangerous aura, Jiang Liu's eyes narrowed slightly. It seemed that the Old Man of Winter was finally getting serious.
"Should I kill you? Do I really want to kill you?"
Jiang Liu was also weighing his options, wondering whether he should completely antagonize the Western Heaven Battle Palace. That Western Heaven Battle Emperor, who could control a continent and stand at the pinnacle of this world, was certainly no ordinary person.
But to surrender and go to the Western Heaven Battle Palace is absolutely impossible.
Waaah!
The Old Man of Winter stood in mid-air, and as more and more battle markings appeared on his arms, the fierce, cold winds of heaven and earth stirred like sharp knives. Just as his aura reached its peak, the heavens and earth fell silent, and an aura capable of destroying everything swept out, shaking the land for thousands of miles.
He slowly raised his hand, and as he did so, his hand expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, transforming into a gigantic hand that blotted out the sky in just a few breaths.
Countless battle patterns were engraved on that giant hand, and an overwhelming fighting spirit was gathered. At that moment, this giant hand was like the hand of the God of War, descending from the sky.
The spiritual energy of the entire world boiled up at this moment, turning into endless cold that annihilated all living beings.
The previous extreme cold ray could kill even a high-ranking Earthly Sovereign, but the winter intent contained in this towering giant hand is even more powerful.
"Great divine power, the Million Heaven-Suppressing Hand! Elder Dong has actually integrated the Frost Divine Power into the Million Heaven-Suppressing Hand. This strike is truly vast and unparalleled, comparable to the strike of a Heavenly Sovereign!"
Standing dozens of miles away, the four disciples of the Western Heaven War Emperor had been watching the battlefield. One of them, a man in black named Ling Zhanzi, spoke up.
He looked exceptionally ordinary, seemingly unremarkable, but his eyes always burned with a fierce fighting spirit. It was as if beneath that unassuming face lay a wild beast brimming with boundless fighting intent, giving off a chilling sense of danger.
"Senior brother, among the four of us, you are the only one who has mastered the Ancient War Emperor's Dharma Body. If we face the Nine Dragons Spirit Array, I wonder if you can win?"
Among the four was a beautiful woman named Ling Feizi, who spoke up. Her figure was exquisite and her curves were incredibly alluring. In particular, a beauty mark under her phoenix eyes was quite noticeable, adding to her charm and making her a truly stunning beauty.
"It's not a question of whether we can win, but whether we can escape..." Ling Zhanzi said in a deep voice. Although his fighting spirit was not diminished, he was also aware of his own limitations. That level of battle was not something he could participate in at the moment.
"It is indeed extremely dangerous. Look at the dragon's breath, it is like a sharp sword, with thousands of sword beams, cutting through the sky, like an unparalleled sword aura soaring to the heavens. Such a terrifying fluctuation is even more fierce than the resurrection of an unparalleled master. This is an undying martial will! I think the master who set up this formation must also be a sword master."
The handsome man carrying a three-foot-long sword spoke. He was tall and slender, with bright eyes and sword-like eyebrows. His entire body exuded an incomparably sharp sword intent, like a peerless divine sword drawn from its sheath. Wherever the sword pointed, everything in the world would be cut down by it. It was precisely because he understood sword intent that he could see a trace of the sword intent contained in the Nine Dragons Soaring to the Sky painting.
"It's not just about swordsmanship, but also martial arts. That dragon was well-versed in the essence of martial arts; every tearing claw and lashing tail strike... was an incredibly profound martial art!"
The last, most imposing man spoke. He was like an iron tower, his shadow enveloping the three people in front of him. His body was covered with what appeared to be fine dragon scales, and faintly, a violent dragon roar seemed to emanate from within him, making him look like a peerless, ferocious dragon.
"Boosting the morale of others while diminishing our own!" Consort Ling sneered.
"We are simply stating a fact. Of course, Elder Dong's 'Million-Strike Sky-Grabbing Hand' is arguably the strongest attack below the War Emperor level. Victory is only a matter of time!"
"Then when do you think Elder Dong will win?" Ling Zhanzi asked, clearly having great confidence in Elder Dong's strength.
...
"Since you want to die, then I'll grant your wish!"
Just as the four disciples of the Western Heaven War Emperor were discussing, Old Man Frost Winter stared coldly at Jiang Liu, and then his giant hand suddenly slammed down. The icy voice, carrying a chilling killing intent, resounded throughout the heavens and earth.
Just as that giant hand descended, countless horrified cries rang out in the city of Luoshen.
"It seems my Luo Shen clan is doomed. Luo Qing... where did you and your son find this calamity?!"
"Regardless of who wins or loses, Luo Shen City is destroyed. My Luo Shen Clan has offended the Western Heaven War Hall, and will have no place to stand from now on..."
"Luo Qing, you and your son deserve to die..."