Chapter 950

The Ice Plain True Lord revealed her true form, slashing forward with a piercing cry.

In the instant she appeared, spiritual energy across thousands of li froze solid, then churned violently, transforming into a world of swirling snow and ice.

Heaven and earth plunged into absolute freezing cold, freezing everything.

The battlefield domains of the Three Expeditionary Armies of Tushan froze, becoming immobile; many faces showed terror.

“I’m seeking death?”

“No, that’s not true.”

Jiang Ding rejected her words; his sword rang as it drew.

Heaven and earth suddenly blazed bright.

A thousand six hundred kilometers of the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain unfolded, a nearly solidified sword realm descending at once.

The sky of this domain was shielded by Void Sword Intent, Ethereal Sword Intent, Sky Sword Intent, Grand Void Sword Intent, and more; the earth was anchored by Magma Sword Intent, Earth-Wood Sword Intent, Solid Stone Sword Intent, and others.

Between earth and sky flowed Sword Intent of spring, summer, autumn, winter, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, bringing motion to the world.

This domain differed sharply from the Ice Plain True Lord’s ice domain.

The Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain possessed sky, earth, rivers, gales, seasonal change—everything a world should have—all composed of various sword intents, a nearly complete sword realm.

At the sight of this sword realm, many hearts stirred with instinct.

This was a nascent form of a growing world.

In comparison, the Ice Plain True Lord’s ice domain was merely a frozen plain and mountain range—extreme cold, vaguely resembling her birthplace and cultivation ground, the Sacred Snow Mountain.

This ice domain had no sky, no earth, no flow—only a frozen wasteland.

“This is...”

The Ice Plain True Lord, locked in furious assault, felt a chill in her heart.

Around her, dazzling, scorching sword qi suddenly appeared, infused with Sword Intent of spring, summer, autumn, winter, and more.

The sky became layered Void Sword Intent; a brilliant sun hung high, radiating scorching, annihilating, spell-sealing, and corrupting pressure, severing all spiritual energy flow around her.

She was now surrounded by a radiant, luminous world of sword qi!

The ice domain that should have shielded her melted silently, turning into droplets that fell to earth.

Sun rain fell from the sky; rainbows spread everywhere, beautiful as the paradise of the Sun Deity.

Within this paradise, boundless killing intent spread.

The ice domain shattered at the slightest touch!

It wasn’t even a clash, a struggle—merely the appearance of the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Intent, and the ice domain vanished, losing all control over heavenly momentum and spiritual energy.

This complete failure in domain confrontation brought dire consequences.

The Ice Plain True Lord, transformed into an ice crystal phoenix, had surged forward as a divine beam of ice-light, moving faster than any Nascent Soul cultivator could track with the naked eye.

Yet now, trapped within the Great Sun Annihilation Domain, she faced constant temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius and relentless erosion of her primordial spirit by the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Intent.

Every step forward required her to shatter thousands, tens of thousands of sword qi—resistance beyond imagination.

Ice crystal light and Great Sun Annihilation sword qi mutually annihilated, spawning countless brilliant sparks in the sky.

The ice crystal phoenix’s speed slowed, slowed further; within a few breaths, even Nascent Soul cultivators could clearly see her.

In the end, she came to a complete stop.

“What kind of domain is this?!”

The Ice Plain True Lord cried out.

Around her, layer upon layer of dazzling sword qi surged forward—each layer shattered, another replaced it, endless, unceasing, without end.

All of this was merely the domain—no actual strike had been delivered.

“You are a hybrid phoenix.”

Jiang Ding felt disappointment, instantly understanding.

Jiang Ding felt a hint of disappointment and instantly understood something.

A great sun rose within the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain.

Carrying radiant light, annihilation, spell-sealing, destruction, and corruption, it crashed down upon the ice crystal phoenix, bound in sword qi.

She descended with the radiance of a thousand suns, bearing the crushing pressure of annihilation, forbidden arts, destruction, and distortion, crashing down upon the ice-crystal phoenix bound within the sword qi.

[45] That brilliant sun twisted and flickered—moments ago it had been far beyond the horizon, the next it surged forward with terrifying light, instantly striking the ice-crystal phoenix’s chest.

Merely the Taiqing Flying Sword—One Strike.

Enhanced with Sword Intent, sword light division, sword qi thunder, refining sword into thread, unextinguishable sword qi.

The brilliant sun twisted, flickered—moments ago it was on the horizon, the next it had instantly arrived, striking into the heart of the ice crystal phoenix.

That brilliant sun twisted and flickered with its light; one moment it was far on the horizon, the next, it surged forth with terrifying radiance and instantly struck, crashing into the embrace of the ice crystal phoenix.

The Ice Plain True Lord shrieked, unleashing all her power, concentrating it into her ice-jade beak.

As a demon race member, she had spent her life refining her demonic body—more fearsome and sharp than any primordial spirit treasure—she lunged straight at the blazing sun above.

This move came from bloodline instinct; it had no grand name—just a simple peck.

Like ancestral ice crystal phoenixes hunting celestial dragons, it simplified complexity: a single motion, a divine technique that countless human sages had pondered lifetimes to create, requiring fate and sudden enlightenment.

Just as generations of ice-crystal phoenixes had hunted the Azure Dragons, the motion was simple, stripped to its essence—an act so basic it embodied a divine technique that countless human sages had spent lifetimes pondering, requiring fate and sudden enlightenment to conceive.

The ice crystal phoenix, facing the great sun, drove her beak like an ice crystal blade straight into the sun.

This mythic moment froze slightly.

This scene from myth momentarily froze.

Boom!

A deafening explosion erupted; the thousand-li Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain boiled, brilliant spiritual light burst forth, sword qi and ice aura raged wildly.

Heaven and earth shifted between an ice world, freezing all, and a Great Sun annihilation realm, where everything turned to ash under extreme heat.

“Puff!”

Instantly—no stalemate— a phoenix the size of a mountain spat blood and recoiled, crashing hard onto the snowy mountain, snapping a thousand-meter peak clean in half.

Ice mixed with earth and stone tumbled down, vaporized by the terrible heat into countless wisps of steam.

In the giant crater, the ice crystal phoenix’s aura plummeted sharply; she staggered upright, her ice-crystal phoenix eyes now filled with fear.

On her chest, a sharp, scorching sword wound was clearly visible, deep to the bone.

From the great crater in the earth, the ice-crystal phoenix’s aura plummeted; it staggered to its feet, its ice-crystal eyes now filled with fear.

The Ice Plain True Lord regretted bitterly, yet didn’t know what she was confessing.

“Weak.”

“You’re too weak.”

Jiang Ding stared at her: “Legends say pure-blooded true phoenixes rival the children of true immortals.”

“But your bloodline is utterly chaotic—perhaps less than two percent pure true phoenix blood. Disappointing.”

“Tushan, don’t get arrogant!”

The Ice Plain True Lord spat more blood, suppressing her chest wound with ice yuan power, sneering: “If you faced a pure-blooded true phoenix, you’d already be dead, flea-like!”

“That’s true.”

Jiang Ding made no rebuttal; he nodded, accepting it.

At the same realm, a pure-blooded true phoenix—I’d have ignited my essence and fled the moment I saw her.

I’d still have had a one or two percent chance of escape.

The Ice Plain True Lord was clearly buying time—but Jiang Ding didn’t care.

“Has the person you’re waiting for arrived?”

Jiang Ding gazed toward the distant sky.

Hum!

Hummm!

From two directions, spiritual energy suddenly stirred.

In one sky stood a golden-armored divine general.

He was sacred and majestic, towering like a mountain, surrounded by millions of incense sword guards, each wielding weapons and banners, their killing aura piercing heaven—all ancestral heroes from the Eastern Sea, deceased for millennia, their incense worship transformed them into divine sword guards defending the Incense Divine Court.

In the other sky, countless green-gold threads, known as the Hundred Poison Golden Silk Moth—a legendary southern tribe’s poison insect—numbered in the millions, forming a vast cloud that blotted out the heavens.

These two newly arrived Soul Transformation True Lords unfolded their domains, joining the Ice Plain True Lord to suppress the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain, dimming much of its radiance.

Above the other sky, millions of emerald-green insects threaded with golden veins—the legendary Nanzhou poison-gold silk insect, known as Bai Du Jin Si Gu—formed a vast cloud that blotted out the heavens.

Southern Frontier’s Hundred Legs True Lord!

These two had watched and pondered long—finally, they chose to act.

The Hundred-Legged Heavenly Lord of the Southern Frontier!

These two had watched for a long time and pondered deeply, but finally chose to act.