Standing on the giaeor, Yun Wuji could feel the grouh him trembling uhe terrifying aura of the approag man. If it weren't for Yun Wuji's Invictus, he, too, would be shaking just like the grouh him.

  A Divine Master's power was something most mortals couldn't prehend. In this world where heavenly ws were pathetically weak, they were akin to gods. Even a small movement from them could unleash camities upon these lowly mortals.

  Almost instantly, the purple figure of the Radiant Mountain Realm's Realm King stopped in front of him.

  The Radiant Mountain Realm's Realm King's gaze nded on Yun Wuji, the around the area before returning to him. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "You were waiting for me?"

  Surprisingly, the Radiant Mountain Realm's Realm King, whose name was Ying Wan, was remarkably calm. He didn't dispy the anger one might expect from a father fronting the killer of his son...even though it was he who had ended his son's miserable life.

  "..." Yun Wuji was in Invictus, which made him indifferent and apathetic, so he had no i in engaging in versation with him.

  "...Never mind. After taking you back, I'll take my sweet time to slowly squeeze everything out of you," Ying Wan frow the indifferent attitude of the young man in front of him. Until now, he still didn't uand why someone would go to such lengths to provoke him, so he cluded that it must be part of a plot against him.

  However, even after dedug this, his resolve to take revenge for his son didn't waver in the slightest. In this world where the strong prey on the weak, showing even the slightest weakness would only invite his enemies and petitors to poun him.

  Ying read his senses but couldn't deteyone nearby. As a 6th-level Divine Master, it was exceedingly difficult for someoo hide from him—uhey were at least a small realm strohan him. However, someoh that level of power wouldn't o py tricks or hide; they could simply front him directly.

  "Kid, surrender obediently, or I'll..." He raised his hand, and purple profound energy gathered in it. He poi Yun Wuji and spoke indifferently.

  Swoosh!

  Bang!

  Suddenly, Ying Wan's sentence was cut short. An icy blue light erupted two hundred meters from his side and rushed toward him at an astonishing speed. Ying Wan's pupils shrank as he turned around, preparing to thrust his hand to block the blow... but he was a step slower.

  The blue ice profound energy enveloped him, and he instantly turned into a giant cube of eternal ice!

  Everything happened ihan a sed. From the moment Ying Wan was cut off to when he became an ice cube, it was only a split sed. Even with Yun Wuji's powerful senses, he couldn't fully grasp what had just occurred.

  The entingly beautiful figure of Mu Xuanyin appeared in front of Yun Wuji. Without any expnation, she simply said, "Quickly go! I'll block him!"

  "Sect Master? What are you doing here?" Yun Wuji looked at her figure and spoke in a surprised tone, but his face remained as cold as ice, showing not the slightest hint of emotion. Looking at him, Mu Xuanyihat even her over 10,000-year-old froze was warmer than his indifferent eyes.

  "Stop wasting time and go quickly!" Mu Xuanyin's eyebrows furrowed. She was so anxious that she dispyed more emotion than she had in the past hundred years. She grabbed Yun Wuji's shoulder and shouted at him angrily.

  "Running? Why should I?" Yun Wuji shook his head and asked, his tone as if he couldn't prehend what she was saying. He added, "I went through so much effort to lure this guy here. Why should I run away now?"

  "You..." Mu Xuanyin's chest heaved with anger, causing it to bounce beh her loose robe, rising and falling in front of her like waves. However, now wasn't the time to reprimand him. She o get him out of this pce. At this moment, she doesn't even stop to think about why she is risking her life to save him in the first pce.

  She had inally thought he had some pn to deal with him… maybe he would use the poison of the Sky Poison Pearl. But now, it seemed he had no pn at all!

  Crack! Crack! Crack!

  The dreadful sound of shattering ice echoed behind her, announg the colpse of her st hope. She froze, the words she was about to say caught ihroat, then slowly turned around...to face Ying Wu, with Yun Wuji standing behind her.

  She had estimated that the ice would hold him for a few breaths longer, but now it seemed she had uimated his strength.

  "I was w who had the gall to provoke this king... So it was the Snow Song Realm's Realm King, Mu Xuanyin."

  Ying Wu brushed the ice fragments from his shoulders, then looked at Mu Xuanyin and said slowly, "Good, good... very good!"

  Although he appeared unfazed on the surface, deep down, he was extremely shocked. Mu Xuanyin's reputation was well known across the Eastern Divine Region, but it was mostly due to her status as the Realm King of a middle star realm who had mao bee a Divine Master, as well as her breathtakiy.

  However, to Divine Masters from upper star realms, her strength was hardly worth mentioning.

  After all, her strength was only at the 4th level of the Divine Master Realm.

  However, the skills she had just dispyed made Ying Wu raise his evaluation of her even further. The ability to silently get close to someone far strohan herself without them notig was truly terrifying!

  For a moment, Ying Wu felt a chill run down his spine.

  'If this woman were stronger, she could have killed me without me even notig!'

  Mu Xuanyin's beautiful face was cold. She didn't reply to him—there was nothing more to say at this point. She stretched out her hand, and a sword appeared in her grasp. The sword was thin and long, its widest part no more than a few timeters. It reflected no light, g any luster, resembling a cluster of pure snow.

  The Snow Princess Sword—this was Mu Xuanyin's main on.

  First, she split a shield of iergy around Yun Wuji, coing him in protective light. Then, with a flick of her wrist, she eled the rest of her power into the Snow Princess Sword, its bde humming with gcial might. She thrust it toward Ying Wan, the strike slig through the void like a et of pure cold.

  Crack!

  Though her movement seemed effortless, the force behind the attack was anything but.

  The unstable meteor beh them groaned, fractures spiderwebbing across its surface as ks began crumbling into the abyss.

  "Hmph!" Ying Wan barked, his lips curling into a sneer. He ched his fist, and purple energy surged around him like storm clouds. With a roar, he punched forward, a shockwave of purple light exploded toward Mu Xuanyin.

  RUMBLE!

  The void itself seemed to roar as shockwaves of g energy rippled outward. The meteroaned uhe strain, its surface crag like an eggshell beh the full forces of two Divine Masters.

  BOOM!

  Whe fury, the battlefield split, a jagged line of blue and purple light tearing through the heart of the meteor. For a heartbeat, the two powers hung suspended; Mu Xuanyin's gcial might gleamed like a frozen gaxy against Ying Wan's violet storm, crag with rage. They cshed like titans locked in a celestial tug-of-war… until the purple energy surged, voracious, dev the frost's advanch by inch.

  CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

  The meteave one final, shuddering breath before exploding—ks of rock fracturing into gravel, then dust, then nothingness. Even the debris couldn't escape the maelstrom; it dissolved into stardust, swirling into the infinite dark like ash from a dying star.

  Bang!

  Just as expected, the first csh sent Mu Xuanyin hurtling backward. Her oppo stood two small realms above her, and she'd already split much of her power to shield Yun Wuji. Against such odds, her defeat was iable.

  Or rather...she'd ood a ce.

  "Sect Master, stop. You are not his match. Leave, I will hold him here," Yun Wuji transmitted to her calmly. Despite the situation, his expression remained as indifferent as ever.

  "..." Mu Xuanyin found his words familiar. Where had she heard them before? However, she had no time to think as Yin Wu made his move and attacked her.

  She swung her sword to block his strike, and three thick ice walls rose in front of her.

  Boom!

  With a deafening explosion that sent shockwaves through the nearby stars, the ice walls shattered like dried bread. But at the very least, they had mao stop the attack.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  The thunderous explosi for a while all kinds of attacks collided with each other. Eveershock was fatal! From a distareaks of blue and purple light erupted in blinding fshes, g every split sed. But with each collision, the blue light faltered, swallowed whole by the overwhelming tide of purple.

  "Cough!" After being forced bace again, Mu Xuanyin suddenly coughed up blood, a thin trail of crimson dripping from her bewitg red lips.

  The battle was utterly one-sided. One side unched relentless, furious attacks, while the other could only focus on defehough ice was sed only to earth in terms of deferength, it still couldn't close the vast gap between them.

  To make matters worse, Ying Wu had been ruthlessly targeting her weakness...Yun Wuji, who stood defenseless behind her. Mu Xuanyin had no choice but to ehe blows head-on, uo evade or dodge. If she didn't, Yun Wuji would be the oo bear the brunt of the attacks.

  Even though Yun Wuji had been urgio stop, assurihat he would be fine even without her proteu Xuanyin didn't take his words seriously.

  "Sect Master!" Yun Wuji shouted when he saw the trail of blood. He could sense her aura growing more chaotic as well. If not for his current state, he would have shown a shocked expression—this was pletely ued.

  This is not acc to keikaku at all!

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