Chapter 454

The sky was ablaze with roaring flames!

Meng Ying and the Princess had already descended; the battlefield below was no longer theirs.

Yet they did not strike at the soldiers of the Hutton Kingdom below.

Nor did they need to.

The Hutton Kingdom had already lost much of its high-end combat power after being attacked by the Holy Spirits of the original deity of the Hiling Kingdom.

Before the Three Holy Spirits descended, the Hutton Kingdom had only two Seventh Rank Mage-Teachers left.

Now that the Three Holy Spirits were dead, the Hutton Kingdom's million-strong army still had only two Seventh Rank Grand Mage-Teachers.

If left unchecked, these two Seventh Rank Grand Mage-Teachers could still inflict tens of thousands of casualties on the Hiling Kingdom's army—but far from enough to turn the tide of battle.

For even if they killed tens of thousands of Hiling soldiers, the Hutton Kingdom still could not win; the gap in combat power between the two armies was too great.

Once their magical energy was exhausted, they were no different from ordinary people, forced to watch helplessly as the Hutton Kingdom's army collapsed.

Moreover, the Hiling Kingdom also had two Seventh Rank Grand Mage-Teachers.

The Fox Maiden Qing Ling and the Grand Mage-Teacher.

Also, on the ground, the Seventh Rank Tiger Girl Winnie was no force to be underestimated; though Seventh Rank warriors could not fly, if Winnie found an opening, she might still briefly ascend into the sky and kill the enemy's Grand Mage-Teacher!

Thus, even if Meng Ying and the Princess did not intervene, there was no need to worry about the Hiling Kingdom or Yan Kingdom losing.

There would not even be heavy losses.

The power gap was simply too great.

The Hutton Kingdom's million-strong army was destined to be crushed from start to finish!

Yet the ultimate outcome of this war would not be decided on the ground.

It would be decided in the sky.

The war of the gods.

The clash between the Lord of Flames and the Hutton Kingdom's divine avatar determined the course of battle.

If the Lord of Flames failed, this divine avatar's terrifying power could easily reverse the tide.

So Meng Ying and the Princess remained in the sky, both gazing upward, waiting silently for the outcome of the two gods' battle.

Yet neither had any intention of intervening.

They had absolute faith in the great Lord of Flames!

Only they truly understood the Lord of Flames' strength.

"Is this all you've got, Lord of Flames? To control fire?"

Amid the roaring flames of the sky, the divine avatar had forged a pocket of space with his power; standing within it, facing the flames that surrounded him, his expression did not change at all.

He merely brushed his hand lightly through the air, as if flipping a crucial switch—and within less than a second, a torrential downpour began to fall from the sky.

These were no ordinary rains; they were drops colder than ice, yet paradoxically remained liquid.

Each drop that struck the blazing flames was instantly evaporated, but the flames' energy was consumed at an alarming rate.

"Is this the power of the Rules?"

A low whisper rose from within the flames: Lin Yan.

Do not underestimate this rain; if it fell to the ground, it could instantly freeze the earth into ice several meters thick, and with its coverage, it could kill a hundred thousand soldiers.

Yet the divine avatar had summoned this terrifying ice rain using only a fraction of his divine power, manipulating just two Rules.

The Ice Rule and the Water Rule!

This was the essence of using a small force to overcome a great one.

And attacks using the power of Rules could not be replicated by ordinary magic.

Such ice rain could easily extinguish even special flames—but to think such flames could douse Lin Yan was pure fantasy.

He did not control fire!

He himself was fire!

So Lin Yan unleashed a furious blaze—the flames in the sky surged violently.

Under temperatures of hundreds of thousands of degrees, all surrounding water vapor was instantly vaporized; every cloud layer in the sky vanished simultaneously.

On the ground, at least ten kilometers from the aerial battlefield, the air turned scorching hot; countless ordinary civilians screamed in agony from the heat.

Yet the divine avatar's expression remained unchanged; he brushed his finger again, and ice began forming around him—ice so terrifying it would not melt even if thrown into the sun.

Though Lin Yan's temperature far exceeded the sun's surface, under the power of the Rules, these ice formations had reached their absolute lowest temperature, firmly blocking the outer flames.

This was the terrifying power of the Rules.

This was not even the complete Ice Rule.

If it were the complete Ice Rule, it would be even more terrifying.

And if the god's true body descended without restraint, wielding the full Ice Rule, that would be true horror.

He could use the Ice Rule to freeze an entire kingdom solid in moments.

A kingdom frozen thus would remain unmelting for millennia, even under constant sunlight.

"What good is higher temperature? The surface of the Sun Star still reaches hundreds of thousands of degrees—yet under the Ice Rule, it is nothing to fear."

The divine avatar spoke calmly.

The Sun Star he referred to was not the star Lin Yan had known before his transmigration.

Lin Yan's former star had a surface temperature of only a few thousand degrees, and a core temperature of merely millions.

The Sun Star the divine avatar spoke of was the sun above the Continent of the Gods.

This Sun Star was immense, its surface temperature reaching a terrifying hundreds of thousands of degrees.

Yet gods still occasionally descended onto its surface to harvest divine substances.

This alone reveals the terrifying power of a celestial god.

As a deity of the Heavenly Realm, his battle experience was unparalleled; merely upon hearing the name of the Lord of Flames, he had in these few days seized numerous Ice Rules.

Yes, against fire, Ice Rules or Water Rules are the best choices.

And if the opponent now facing Lin Yan were an ordinary Saint Realm cultivator who lacked Ice Rules, that ordinary Saint Realm could not withstand the terrifying heat of hundreds of thousands of degrees.

An ordinary Saint Realm is still perfecting a single Rule.

But a divine avatar masters many Rules; though the mastery of these Rules may not reach 100%, to a divine avatar, in battles on the Continent of Gods, over 30% mastery is enough!

"So this is how Ice Rules and Rule Power are used—thank you for the demonstration."

From within the flames, Lin Yan's voice rang out.

"You may as well die."

After speaking, the divine avatar flicked his finger once more.

Instantly, the towering flames surrounding him were covered in thick ice.

This sight, viewed from below, was astonishing.

It looked as if a vast ice cap had appeared in the sky!

The chilling aura of these ice sheets instantly spread downward.

Below, the warriors locked in battle on the field panicked—they discovered ice forming on their armor!

And the ground had long since been coated in a thick layer of ice.

"So cold!"

The ordinary spectators, who had nearly been melted moments ago, now felt as if they had fallen into an ice tomb!

Lin Yan's flames were also frozen solid in an instant!

This freezing was far more terrifying than the freezing caused by Black Flame.

Special flames do involve the Rule Layer, but merely involving it is not the same as a divine avatar directly manipulating divine power to activate Ice Rules for attack.

Lin Yan's energy points were draining violently.

Under the Ice Rules, to maintain his current combustion, his energy points were being consumed at several million per second!

But!

"I have Rules too!"

Thanks to the divine avatar's demonstration, Lin Yan finally gained a clear understanding of Rule Power.

In fact, even without invoking Rules, he could shatter this Ice Rule attack by pouring in Divine Burn.

Yes, Rules make attacks far more terrifying.

But incomplete Rules are still far from invincible!

Still, Lin Yan decided to try the Flame Rule!

He instantly activated his own Flame Rule!