Ming Ye stood there stupidly, with what seemed like bloody tears streaming from the corners of his eyes. "This aura... Sister, is that you coming back?"
Zhao Jun, sealed in the stone, had clearly let himself go. Seeing Ming Ye's stupid look, he cursed, "Your sister is long dead. By now, her bones have probably been taken by the Immortal Realm to suppress the Heavenly Demons—or maybe even refined into a magical tool!"
Hearing this, the bloody tears in the corners of Ming Ye's eyes flowed more profusely.
Yaohua secretly thought something was wrong.
Sure enough, the enraged Ming Ye smashed the Fire Phoenix to pieces. Immediately afterward, a rustling sound of wind filled the air as millions of ice and snow blades came surging towards Yaohua.
Thankfully, the Fire Phoenix let out a cry and gathered again, blocking in front of her.
She pinched incantation gestures with both hands and held them in the air. The howling wind and snow lashed at her face, stinging terribly.
Seeing this, Ming Ye gritted his teeth and increased his strength.
Gu Songyue said gravely, "He's now eroded by demonic qi and has completely lost his senses. If this continues, even if you can withstand it, his whole body will shatter bit by bit."
Yaohua spat, "He's so stupid and has killed so many people. Let him shatter!"
Seeing that the wind and snow couldn't do anything to them, Ming Ye roared, "Die!"
"You fool!" Yaohua couldn't bear it any longer. "Zhao Jun was lying to you. Killing people won't solve the formation at all."
Hearing this, Ming Ye really did pause for a moment, then immediately said, "You're lying!"
Yaohua frowned and scolded, "If it were really that simple, those Heavenly Demons would have broken through the seal and escaped long ago."
Yes, if killing people could weaken the power of the formation, why would the Heavenly Demons need to go to such great lengths to deceive Ming Ye? They could have just found a way to kill people earlier.
Taking advantage of Ming Ye's momentary daze, Yaohua spun out a wisp of flame from her hand.
The flame climbed onto Ming Ye's body and within a short while, purified most of the demonic qi.
Ming Ye's movements became increasingly sluggish, clearly in great pain. "No, you're lying to me... The Heavenly Demons can't get out because of the primordial spiritual light suppressing them. Right, they can only provide me with the formation and then I'll remove the spiritual light."
Yaohua's cold laugh was like a heavy blow on his head. "Then why did they offer the Blazing Fire Soul - Sealing Formation? If they really sealed you in the formation, there would be no one to help them resist the spiritual light."
In fact, Zhao Jun's lies were full of loopholes. It was just that Ming Ye was extremely gullible and had been contaminated by demonic qi, so he was manipulated by him.
Now that the demonic qi was being dispelled, he slowly regained his senses. He stared wide - eyed, unable to move, looking at the corpses all over the ground, unable to believe what he had done.
Yaohua seized the opportunity and commanded the Fire Phoenix.
Let this bastard pay for all the dead!
But Gu Songyue exclaimed, "No, he can't die!"
The Fire Phoenix suddenly surrounded Ming Ye. The last bit of demonic qi on him was also removed. His bright red body gradually turned back to its original pure white, and his body was gradually melting in the burning fire, but his expression was still dull.
Yaohua coldly questioned, "A murderer should pay with his life. Why can't he die?"
Gu Songyue looked a bit anxious. "Let him go quickly. Only he can send you out of the Icefield because he's the Lord of the Icefield!"
"If he really has that ability, he would have gotten out long ago." Yaohua showed no intention of stopping.
Seeing that she remained unmoved, Gu Songyue explained further, "Actually, this Icefield is a manifestation of his divine ability. He's trapped in his own spatial realm, but he can send others out. If he dies, this divine - ability space will be permanently sealed in the temporal and spatial turbulence, and then no one will be able to escape."
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Yaohua was skeptical.
By now, half of Ming Ye's body had been burned away. Coupled with his dull expression, he had no ability to resist, so she stopped.
A look of sadness appeared in Gu Songyue's eyes. "It was Ziying who, on her deathbed, told me to tell you never to kill the Snow Demon because this is his divine - ability space."
Yaohua was stunned. "Then why didn't she tell the Snow Demon this truth earlier..."
Gu Songyue's expression was complicated. "At that time, without the True Fire of the Phoenix, the power of the Heavenly Demons was running amok. Ming Ye had already lost his senses and wouldn't listen to anything."
The wind on the Icefield made people feel cold inside. Yaohua looked at the corpses all over the ground, and tears involuntarily welled up in her eyes. "Why didn't you call me?"
"You were in a very dangerous moment during your breakthrough to the Nirvana Realm. If you were disturbed, you might have gone mad from practicing." Gu Songyue stood with his hands behind his back rather dejectedly. "Maybe it's all fate, so don't be sad."
Yaohua silently mobilized her spiritual power and buried all their corpses under the ice and snow.
After all this was done, Ming Ye seemed to regain some of his senses.
He murmured, "I can send others out... So you must help me get out. Otherwise, I'll never let you go!"
Seeing his appearance, Yaohua was filled with anger and hatred. She slapped him hard. "You're so stupid and evil. If your ancestors knew that you're willing to kill innocent people just to break through the formation, they would surely regret having spent so much effort on you."
Ming Ye didn't dodge. Five bright red finger marks immediately appeared on his face.
He gritted his teeth and stubbornly said, "Take me out of here. Otherwise, you'll die too."
While the two were at a stand - off, they didn't notice that the stone sealing Zhao Jun had quietly rolled to one side, and there were fine cracks on it.
In the forest a hundred meters away, wisps of the resentful qi of the sinful immortals were blending with the ore.
Suddenly, the ore shattered into powder all at once.
Zhao Jun emerged from the ore and looked at his body with great satisfaction. "After so much effort, I've finally reshaped my body. This body made of Ice Crystal Jade Essence is even better than I thought."
As he said this, a wisp of spiritual power appeared on his fingertip. He chuckled smugly. "Those two fools. So what if they have high cultivation? They still end up killing each other."
Just as he was mocking the Snow Demon and Yaohua, a sword quietly hovered at his neck.
Fairy Yuanzhi was filled with hatred. "It's you, the Heavenly Demon, who's been causing all this trouble. Die!"
This sword with spiritual power fluctuations was Yaohua's sword. She had left it for them to defend themselves, and Fairy Yuanzhi had been keeping it during Yaohua's seclusion.
Just now, when the Snow Demon had brought the corpses of the nine people and landed from the sky, Fairy Yuanzhi had been quietly following him. When the Snow Demon was exhausted, she had intended to take the opportunity to avenge with her sword, but then she found Zhao Jun sneaking away.
In the chaotic battle, the others were all preoccupied, so they didn't notice her presence.
At this moment, she tried her best to kill Zhao Jun, but saw Zhao Jun curl his lips into a smile and directly grab the sword.
The sword immediately let out a faint groan as if it couldn't bear the pressure.
Fairy Yuanzhi took a few steps back and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. The demonic qi from Zhao Jun's body rushed towards her!
At the same time, Yaohua suddenly turned her head. There was her aura on the spiritual sword. As long as it was damaged, she would sense it.
She flashed into the forest. Looking at Zhao Jun's body, which was just like an ordinary person's, flesh and blood, she finally understood everything.