Chapter 1472: Ancient Cold Realm

"Ancient Cold Realm!"

When that cold voice emerged from Lu Ruyan's red lips, this snow mountain region seemed to be dyed into a shade of ice blue, and even the falling snowflakes turned ice blue at that very moment.

Moreover, on every single ice-blue snowflake, it seemed as though ancient and obscure runes had appeared.

The energy flowing between heaven and earth became somewhat sluggish at this time, with only frost-attribute energy beginning to grow active.

The ice-blue blizzard poured down continuously, covering every corner of this mountain range.

Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge stood in mid-air; above their heads, the Marquis Platform emitted rising Marquis Divine Smoke, which, like a magnificent canopy, sheltered them beneath it.

However, as the ice-blue snowflakes continued to fall, frost began to spread rapidly across their Marquis Divine Smoke, and most strangely, where the snowflakes melted, the Xiangli covered there seemed to suddenly vanish.

"It hasn't vanished; it has been absorbed by the snowflakes and then transformed into Frost Xiangli in a special way, strengthening Lu Ruyan," Jiang Jiang Qinge said with some surprise.

Hearing this, Li Luo turned his gaze toward Lu Ruyan and indeed sensed that the Frost Xiangli emanating from her body was increasing at a slow pace.

"What an incredible technique; she has essentially turned this entire region into her own Frost Domain," Li Luo remarked with slight astonishment. Lu Ruyan was merely at the sixth-grade Marquis Realm; theoretically, she should not yet be able to open a Marquis Domain of her own. Yet, relying on the "Cold Pearl," a top-grade Marquis Treasure, combined with her own Ten Pillar Golden Platform and a special Si Si Tianming-level Marquis Art, she had forcibly transformed this place into her own Frost Domain.

No wonder Lu Ruyan had previously claimed that she held all the advantages of the terrain in this environment.

"This Frost Domain will, over time, cause the cold qi within our bodies to erode us, while the all-penetrating snowflakes possess the ability to devour our Xiangli. As one wanes and the other waxes, Lu Ruyan will soon gain the upper hand."

"Fortunately, the purity of our Xiangli is equally extremely high; otherwise, we might have been drained of Xiangli within half an incense stick's time. This Lu Ruyan is indeed quite capable; no wonder she achieved first place at the Inner Shenzhou Sacred Academy."

Jiang Jiang Qinge tightened her grip on the sword hilt with her slender, long fingers, a glimmer of battle intent surging in her golden beautiful eyes; only such an opponent could bring her some amusement.

"The longer this battle drags on, the more troublesome it becomes; we must eliminate Lu Ruyan as soon as possible and break this 'Ancient Cold Realm'."

"Leave Lu Ruyan to me; you focus on dealing with that Xi Li."

Hearing this, Li Luo pondered slightly and said, "Since the enemy has employed such a technique, separating to fight alone would actually be even more disadvantageous..."

"Sister Jiang Qinge, can you help me hold off those two for a while?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge and Li Luo possessed such profound understanding; upon hearing him speak, she immediately grasped his plan, and a smile rose in her eyes, which flowed with breathtaking brilliance.

Li Luo intended to unleash his ultimate move directly.

However, this was the most correct strategy; if Lu Ruyan wanted to use this "Ancient Cold Realm" to gradually wear them down, they would simply refuse to give her that time and force her straight into the final confrontation.

"Leave it to me; although fighting two opponents alone is slightly troublesome, I will absolutely not let them interfere with you."

Jiang Jiang Qinge held her heavy sword and walked upon the air; her smooth hair danced in the cold wind, and her graceful, exquisite figure, rendered by the holy light, appeared so sacred that it stunned the world.

As Jiang Jiang Qinge took a step, sacred light patterns spread across her snow-white skin, finally converging at her brow to form a halo of extreme sanctity; within the halo, faintly, there seemed to be a delicate shadow behind her flapping wings of light.

Boom!

Overwhelming and surging Light Xiangli swept out, and amidst the intensifying radiance, it continuously purified the countless ice-blue snowflakes filling the sky.

Jiang Jiang Qinge raised the blade of the sword in her hand, pointing it toward Lu Ruyan and Xi Li.

Her actions immediately caused a great uproar among the surrounding mountains.

"What is going on with Li Luo? Why is he asking Jiang Qinge to deal with both Lu Ruyan and Xi Li?" At the Spectator Platform of the Sacred Light Ancient Academy, Sheng Que'er spoke up in dissatisfaction first.

The current environment was already unfavorable for Jiang Jiang Qinge; Lu Ruyan, leveraging this strange Frost Domain, had grown even stronger by several degrees. If she joined forces with Xi Li, even Jiang Jiang Qinge would face immense pressure.

"Really, you worry for no reason; others must have their reasons for doing this. You understand nothing," Ning Meng refuted seriously from the side.

Even Yin Yue Zhiyu nodded slightly, analyzing, "Jiang Qinge must be buying time for Li Luo."

Sheng Que'er pouted and said, "I'm just afraid it will be a waste of time. The 'Frost Domain' set up by Lu Ruyan is very strong; if time drags on, even Jiang Qinge might suffer a major loss."

In her view, the key to breaking the stalemate in this battle of sand must lie with Jiang Jiang Qinge, yet now Jiang Jiang Qinge was bearing the pressure to buy time for Li Luo, which seemed to confuse the primary and secondary objectives.

Such thoughts were shared by the vast majority present, except for those who knew Li Luo extremely well, such as Lu Qing'er and Li Hongyou.

"Jiang Jiang Qinge, you want to face us alone? Isn't that a bit too overconfident?" Amidst the many discussions outside the arena, Lu Ruyan let out a coquettish laugh, glanced at Li Luo behind her, and said mockingly, "Is Li Luo preparing some powerful technique? Perhaps another Yanshu that results in mutual destruction? But it seems he has no chance to obtain our blood as a medium."

However, although she spoke these words, Lu Ruyan acted without hesitation; with a thought, the "Cold Pearl" atop the Ten Pillar Golden Platform, cast like ice, immediately shot out a thousand-zhang stream of cold qi.

The cold stream was ice-blue in color; wherever it passed, all matter was frozen, displaying extreme dominance.

Xi Li also hesitated not at all; he threw his head back and let out a long roar. Seven Marquis Platforms roared and vibrated, upon which countless stars seemed to be engraved. These stars emitted starlight, transforming into a giant tiger flowing with starlight, carrying a surging tide of ferocious evil qi, and crashing toward Jiang Jiang Qinge.

Facing the combined assault of Lu Ruyan and Xi Li, Jiang Jiang Qinge's exquisite face remained calm, though a trace of Solemnity passed through her eyes.

Immediately, her red lips parted slightly, and she slowly spat out a golden point of light.

The point of light swelled violently against the wind, transforming into an extremely dazzling golden light wheel. Around the wheel were engraved complex, ancient, and sacred patterns; within the wheel, endless light radiated, as if a great sun was embedded there.

At this moment, holy flames burned upon the light wheel.

Lower-grade Si Si Tianming-level, Holy Light Sky Light Wheel!

In the next instant, a torrent of light flames surged out from the sacred golden light wheel, colliding fiercely directly with the assaults of Lu Ruyan and Xi Li.

Boom, boom, boom!

A terrifying energy storm raged through the mountains, crushing towering snow mountains one by one.

Such an astonishing collision made many Marquis experts outside the arena twitch their eyelids nervously; especially those of the lower seven grades, like Fang Xingyun, felt their scalps go numb. If they were drawn into such an assault, even with their full strength, they would be unable to resist.

Is this the clash of top-tier upper seven grades?

Roar!

Just as they were shocked by that terrifying energy shockwave, a deafening dragon roar suddenly erupted from behind Jiang Jiang Qinge.

Countless gazes turned toward it.

There, Li Luo's figure had vanished, replaced by a thousand-zhang massive purple-gold giant dragon. The giant dragon coiled in the void, emitting terrifying dragon pressure.

Under this dragon pressure, even the ice-blue snowflakes falling from the sky were forcibly melted away, unable to touch its body.

That is...

Li Luo had once again activated the "Little Dragon Sacred Seed," transforming into the body of the Heavenly Dragon!

In Li Luo's purple-gold dragon eyes, the earth-shattering energy collision in the distance was reflected, and a fierce glint passed through his pupils.

You want to play, do you?

Then let you try: when the Heavenly Long Xiang within the body is elevated to the middle nine grades, what kind of power can the "All-Xiang Dragon Tooth Sword Array," amplified by this, actually achieve!

The purple-gold Heavenly Dragon let out a long roar, the sound like thunder.

But at the same time, above his head, an enormous and ancient sword formation slowly revealed itself.