Chapter 726

How did things come to this?

Wu Tie also couldn't figure it out; why was it that he only delayed for a few months, originally thinking that Linghu Qingqing could at least hold out for three to five years... but the result was that, in just these few months, the Divine Kingdom of Green Hill appeared to be on the verge of collapse?

Li Kuang wore a bitter expression, unable to speak for a long while.

Eighteen ice crystal highways, the Snow Plains Tribe split into eighteen armies and launched a frantic attack. Even if it were just the Snow Plains Tribe, it would be fine, but their civilization is extremely backward; all kinds of weapons, talismans, formations, armaments, and so on, are no match for the Divine Kingdom of Green Hill.

Yet, each of the Snow Plains armies has a Profound Dark Ancestor.

Having paid a huge sacrificial offering to invoke the power of the Netherworld Trident, these eighteen ancient relics, whose time of arrival is unknown, possess unparalleled strength and also wield strange, vicious divine abilities; they lead the attack, and several elders of the Divine Kingdom of Green Hill narrowly escape death.

Before Li Kuang could tell Wu Tie the detailed battle situation of these days, the four Profound Dark Ancestors wreaking havoc inside Lingzhou City simultaneously turned their gaze this way.

"Careful!"

Li Kuang let out a loud shout.

Wu Tie only felt his hairs stand on end; the eyes of the four Profound Dark Ancestors flickered with a dark blue divine light, and in the unseen a terrifying chill surged toward Wu Tie's divine fetus, seeking to freeze it solid.

This is a vicious curse of the ice attribute.

They need no medium; seeing Wu Tie is enough of a medium for them— a mere thought triggers their attack.

Wu Tie let out a cold snort; a sheet of red light shot up behind him, rolling divine flames surging like a sun traversing the sky. He unleashed the innate and acquired fire grand dao to the fullest, and his divine fetus and body blazed like the legendary three-legged golden crow, emitting a terrifying heat capable of incinerating all things.

The chill that had surged unseen was instantly dispelled by the blazing flames.

A massive impact struck Wu Tie's divine fetus, his vision dimming slightly as the fetus endured a tremendous jolt, his body also swaying twice. He drew a deep breath; the back of his divine fetus had already condensed into a substantive jade disc, emitting boundless bright light, while silken threads of cold light shaped like poisonous snakes suddenly flashed into existence from the void.

He saw countless threads of snake‑shaped cold light open their mouths, hissing as they incessantly struck the divine light shielding Wu Tie's divine fetus. Each impact violently shook the fiery divine light emitted by his fetus; despite his divine fetus being far beyond ordinary, towering at sixteen thousand zhang, it was made to sway incessantly by these snake‑shaped cold lights.

"Impressive, impressive, impressive." Wu Tie spat out three 'impressives' in a row.

Were it not for the profound, endless mystery of the projection of this miraculously originated Creation Jade Disc, with Wu Tie's experience and cultivation he would have merely felt his divine fetus struck, unable to discern where the impact came from.

This cold light, condensed into the shape of a poisonous snake, is so soundless and traceless, yet its lethal power is so great that it is truly vicious and fierce.

"Roar!" After their strike failed, the four Profound Dark Ancestors felt their attack completely blocked by Wu Tie, and involuntarily burst forth with dark‑blue divine light, shaking with rage as they simultaneously opened their arms from afar, making a motion to embrace Wu Tie.

These four old monsters, terrifying beings left from who knows what era, had been sealed in ice‑jade coffins for an unknown number of years, having long cultivated an extremely terrifying ferocious and vicious aura.

Those they attack can only die; whoever dares to resist instantly triggers the murderous qi already etched into their bones.

The four Profound Dark Ancestors, simultaneously from hundreds of li away, made a gesture to embrace Wu Tie; the void shuddered, and within a radius of thousands of li the air suddenly froze, transparent air condensing into pale‑blue ice crystals that drifted down slowly, while layers of hard, smooth ice plates sprang up on the ground and rapidly spread outward.

The soldiers who had fled from Lingzhou City saw only a flash of cold light, and countless of them were instantly turned into ice sculptures.

The terrifying chill ravaged their bodies, a 'Bitter Cold Dao Rhythm' pointing straight at death enveloping their bodies and souls, about to utterly deprive them of life.

Wu Tie gave a low, stern rebuke: 'What are these four things?'

The Yin‑Yang Daoist shot out from behind Wu Tie, black and white spiritual light forming a rainbow that instantly swept across the battlefield. Tens of millions of Lingzhou Camp Green Hill soldiers, right on the brink of death, were hastily gathered by the Yin‑Yang Daoist into the Yin‑Yang Dual Qi Vessel.

The Primordial Yin‑Yang Grand Dao, like a millstone, gradually ground away the terrifying chill within those soldiers' bodies; those soldiers who had almost instantly burst into ice crystals all exhaled together, and, gravely wounded in their vital energy, they fell into a faint sleep inside the Yin‑Yang Dual Qi Vessel.

"What are we? Child, how rude!" a Profound Dark Ancestor spat out cold air and light, then growled low: 'We are the ancestors of all peoples, we are the ancestors of the Snow Plains, we are the Profound Dark...'

Wu Tie let out a cold snort in his heart.

He certainly knew these fellows were Profound Dark.

In the underground world, in Wu Prison, among the Wu Clan, there is also a line of Profound Dark.

Even among the Wu Clan elders who have entered the mortal world, there is one who has cultivated the Profound Dark Scripture and mastered the Netherworld Profound Qi, a Divine Realm elder.

These four fellows before us have breath and bloodline fluctuations that stem from the same source as that Wu Clan elder; obviously they have accomplished cultivation of the Profound Dark Scripture, their flesh and souls having undergone a leap‑forward enhancement, making them formidable beings.

But unlike that Wu Clan elder, the aura of these four fellows is filled with even darker, more mixed qi.

Not pure enough.

They have been contaminated.

These are four mutated Profound Dark Ancestors.

And the mixed, dark qi within them, Wu Tie has sensed a portion of it on You Ruo's body, on Wu Tou's body, and even when he previously helped Elder Hu collect the nation‑protecting divine artifacts, on the bodies of the descending divine spirits slain by the Ancient Dragon King Ao Chi, Wu Tie has also sensed a portion.

These fellows, even their most basic bloodlines, have been mixed with the blood of foreign deities.

Thus, although their power is immensely strong, it is mixed and impure… at least, judging by the pure Profound Dark bloodline, they are not pure.

Wu Tie shot up into the sky, arms outstretched, and a true blazing sun‑gold yang erupted from behind him.

"The Solar Grand Dao" transformed into a blazing sun hovering high above, its boundless light and heat enveloping a radius of tens of thousands of li.

Four venerable Profound Darkness Ancestors shot up into the sky together; behind them, a black Cold Qi vortex spun rapidly, spewing out immeasurable Cold Qi, which, thread by thread, eroded the light and heat emitted by Wu Tie, killed those light and heat, then bit by bit dragged them into the vortex behind.

Cold and heat, sun and Profound Darkness, achieved a delicate balance.

Meanwhile, on the ground, countless snowplain warriors trudged through thick frost, shouting hoarsely, breaking into one city after another, one town after another.

In the entire Lingzhou, aside from the troops brought by Wu Tie, they could no longer find any intact Qingqiu army.

Black smoke rose from the ground in strands, and countless cities and towns fell into a sea of fire.