“Only five of you, and you dare break into our celestial forbidden grounds and slaughter the celestial guard-elites on duty? You have no idea how close you are to death!” The tower-bearing elder’s gaze turned savage and cold, murderous force rising around favonovel.com like a storm as his voice cracked across the ice.
“Everyone, form the Deathsnare Array! Trap those five and tear them apart alive! Take the head of the man in front and bring it back to the Anti-Demon Alliance for credit and reward. Let it stand as a warning to the rest!”
More than a thousand celestial cultivators answered as one. Their voices shook the ice plains while they moved fast, locking themselves into the great Deathsnare Array. Holy radiance wove into a net, sealing off every path of retreat. Layer after layer closed in, meant to kill Jared and the four with favonovel.com right there, leaving not a single survivor. The Celestial Army packed the field in dense ranks, pressing in from every side.
The weight of the two Level Eight elders bore down with brutal force, but Jared’s expression did not shift by even a fraction. His eyes stayed cold as ice. He did not retreat. He did not dodge. Instead, favonovel.com stepped forward on his own, his body suddenly turning into a violet streak as favonovel.com shot straight into the heart of the thousand-man formation. He chose the fight head-on, using himself to break the array.
“Today, none of you will have a grave to be buried in!” Jared’s low roar rolled out wrapped in chaos-wrought spiritual power, shaking the eardrums of the celestial cultivators around favonovel.com until they rang.
The Dragonslayer Sword rose high in his hand. Violet chaos-flame burned wildly along the blade, spiritual light swelling several yards from its edge as ruinous force poured out without limit.
Then favonovel.com brought the sword down, and it crashed into the crowd.
Boom!
Heaven-shaking sword might exploded outward. A violet shockwave swept in all directions, blasting dozens of nearby celestial cultivators into the air in an instant. Their bodies burst apart. Golden blood-mist sprayed across the sky and stained the pale frost underfoot red.
Jared tore through the army formation from end to end. His movement was unmatched in speed, and every sword move opened wide, fierce and killing. Every time his sword fell, several celestial cultivators died. Wherever the blade- flare passed, heads rolled, cuirasses shattered, and spiritual power collapsed. He reaped through the enemy ranks in swaths like wheat, and no one could withstand the power of a single strike.
After breaking through to True Immortal Realm Level Three, his combat power had already surged severalfold. With the innate chaotic force naturally restraining the celestials’ saintlight nascence, that advantage only became sharper.
The holy ward the celestial cultivators took such pride in might as well not have existed before the chaos-wrought blade-flare. It could not take even one hit. Every defensive method they had was crushed open by force. Once favonovel.com got close, death came instantly, with no room to strike back.
The two Level Eight elders could not stand by any longer. They charged in together at full speed, one from the front and one from behind, trying to pinch Jared between them, lock favonovel.com down, and break the rhythm of his slaughter.
“Whelp, enough of your arrogance! We two shall suppress you!”
Jared’s gaze cut cold. He neither dodged nor gave ground.
With a backhanded diagonal slash, chaos-wrought sword aura ripped through the air to meet them, clashing head-on against the combined force of the two elders.
With a deafening crash, holy-light spiritual power and raging chaos-force collided and burst apart. Waves of force rolled outward, sweeping across the field. Every celestial cultivator within several yards was torn apart by the aftershock and died on the spot.
Pain shot through the two elders’ hands, numbing the flesh between thumb and forefinger. Their blood churned backward in their chests, and their feet slid back several steps before they could stop themselves.
The force of that single exchange left their composure cracked clean through. Their faces all but said they could not believe what had just happened.
A mere young cultivator possessed power this fierce, bearing pressure above his level as if it cost favonovel.com nothing!
While Jared held the main force from the front and kept the two elders pinned down, Gwendolyn swept up into the air, favonovel.com sleeves and hem whipping around her. Her cool figure came to rest high above the battlefield, overlooking the entire fight below. Her presence carried solemn authority, displaying the rightful bearing of the Frost Deity Branch in full.
She lifted favonovel.com hand without hurry and gathered power. The Frostbrand in favonovel.com grip pointed straight toward the sky as the vast Frost-Deity nascence force poured out completely.
A cold tide tore through the world without warning. Wild wind dragged ice shards across the entire field. The temperature plunged as if it had dropped a hundred yards in a single breath, and even the void began to glaze over, faint white frost lines spreading like a frozen seal.
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The command fell. Celestial power answered. A massive ice-blue blade, a hundred yards long and impossibly heavy, condensed out of thin air.
Frost energy bit down to the bone. Its pressure sank over the field like a mountain, and then it came crashing down, cleaving toward whole ranks of the celestial battle array below.
The instant the cold blade struck earth, a hundred-mile ice domain snapped into being. The killing frost froze everything at once-every current of spiritual power, every movement technique, every trace of living breath.
More than a hundred celestial warriors at the front did not even get the chance to scream. Their bodies locked solid under the absolute cold. One by one, they became lifelike ice statues, stiff and unmoving. Each was frozen in the exact posture of charge and slaughter, trapped forever in that final forward rush.
In the next instant, crack after crack ripped across the Ancient Battlefield. The dense shattering rolled on without stopping. The ice statues filling the sky broke inch by inch, turning into clouds of ice powder that scattered with the wind.
A hundred cultivators fell on the spot, without even bones left behind. Cold spread over the entire Ancient Battlefield, pressing down the fighting strength of every celestial still standing.
Alaric, Elara, and Cedric saw the opening and seized it at once. They swept in from the left and right at high speed, closing the enemy in from both sides. Their timing locked together cleanly, without a gap in the handoff.
Alaric drove straight through the front. Ice-forged blades swept out around him, cutting off the enemy’s retreat, splitting the battlefield apart, and breaking down isolated cultivators one by one.
Elara moved along the flank. Threads of ice curled out to bind and restrain, sealing the enemy’s movement techniques and pinning down anyone who slipped through the first wave with sharp precision.
Cedric held the line with crushing force. His heavy fists blasted forward, smashing head-on into the collapsing enemy formation and grinding down the wounded cultivators who had already been left barely standing.
The three of them had fought together for years. Their offense and defense flowed into each other like running water, every strike linked to the next. With their strength pushed to the limit. they swept the broken remnants from both flanks and gave the enemy no chance at all to regroup or counterattack.
Across the Ancient Battlefield, violet radiance cut back and forth while blue light surged through the sky. The sounds of killing, explosions, freezing, and dying screams tangled together until the air itself seemed to shake.
Celestial cultivators dropped in sheets. Holy-light spiritual power went out in whole swaths. Tents throughout the celestial encampment were ripped open and overturned one after another by sword aura and frost energy, white blazing firelight ice glow, and violet radiance reflected off each other and stained the frozen Wastelands red.
The battle had turned brutal and explosive, and the side being crushed was plain to see!
Before the time it took an incense stick to burn, the more than a thousand celestial elites who had arrived in full force and full armor were executed to the last. Not one escaped by luck. Not one broke through to call for help.
The entire camp sank into a dead silence. Tents lay torn apart and collapsed. Arms, shattered armor, and wreckage littered the ground. Blood soaked deep into the ancient frost, staining the whole reach of the Wastelands red.
The reek of blood mixed with the cold and spread in every direction, harsh enough to strike the eye, while killing intent still towered over the ruins.
The last two True Immortal Realm Level Eight elders were covered in wounds. Most of their spiritual power had been spent and their bodies looked battered from head to toe. Their stance finally broke. They no longer had the strength to fight back, and both of them moved to turn and flee for reinforcements.
Jared’s gaze went cold. His figure vanished forward in pursuit. One sword pierced straight through their hearts, and chaotic force surged instantly into their spirit wells, crushing the spiritual nascence inside both men.
The two elders’ bodies stayed rigid for one brief moment. Then they crashed to the ground. Their breath was gone, their cultivation ruined, and their spirits extinguished completely.
With that, every celestial garrison force around the ancestral seat’s perimeter had been wiped clean. The area was thoroughly purged, with nothing left standing. The camp was destroyed, and the entire defensive line had been broken.
Cold wind swept across the Wastelands again. It rolled up broken armor and shattered frost from the ground, carrying the smell of blood and cold straight into the face. Bodies lay everywhere across the Ancient Battlefield, and the silence settled heavy over them.
Not a trace remained of the celestials’ arrogance. Only five straight-backed figures stood above blood-soaked frost, unmoving as mountains, their presence sharp and solemn.
Jared slowly slid his sword back into its sheath. The motion was steady and unhurried, without the slightest sign of exhaustion. The violent chaotic aura around favonovel.com withdrew completely, and his expression returned to calm.
He turned at a measured pace and lifted his eyes toward the enormous Frost Deity ice peak behind him. It rose into the clouds, towering and solemn. His gaze deepened as it settled there.
The killing had ended, and the smoke of battle was beginning to fade. But another line of consideration had already taken shape beneath the quiet, one that reached beyond simply hurrying back on the road.
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