Chapter 81

At the same time, the ferocious power contained in the Wolf King's huge body suddenly erupted; ignoring the tearing pain of its lower jaw wound, it stamped its four claws on the ice, and the iron-hard ice layer was actually stamped with a spiderweb-like crack!

Its whole body resembled an icy-blue giant arrow shot from a bow, no longer a pounce but carrying a desperate, mutual-destruction aura, wrapped in piercing wind and snow and an intense, unfading bloody scent, it lunged at the Black Goat that had just completed a desperate counterattack and was still unsteady on its feet!

This time, it abandoned cunning, leaving only the most primal, savage destructive impulse!

Boom——!

Almost at the instant the ice spike prison formed, the Wolf King, wrapped in a desperate wild aura, slammed like a collapsing iceberg into the Black Goat's flank, the deafening impact sound like a deathly war drum being struck!

The Black Goat's huge body lurched sideways under the tremendous force, the wound that had just congealed on its flank instantly torn wider, scalding blood gushing out like a breached dam!

The Black Goat managed only a short, painful howl before the massive impact lifted its four hooves off the ice, its whole body like a boulder hurled by a catapult, uncontrollably slamming into the ice wall lined with sharp ice spikes beside it!

Li Qingxuan felt a tremendous jolt beneath him at the instant of impact, an irresistible force violently flinging him off the Black Goat's back!

He was midair when his peripheral vision caught the Wolf King's body flicker, then it lunged to bite the Black Goat's throat; three sharp ice spikes aimed at the sliding Black Goat's neck and chest thrust forward rapidly!

"You beast, dare!" Li Qingxuan's eyes nearly burst; he twisted his body forcibly in midair, ignoring the tearing pain from his frostbitten waist and abdomen, gathering his remaining strength in his right arm, his Changqiang turned into a decisive silver flash that shot through the air!

Whoosh——puchi!

The Changqiang, with a shrill tearing-through-air sound, arrived ahead of schedule and pierced with pinpoint accuracy the Wolf King's right forelimb shoulder as it leapt forward!

The spear tip passed through its body, kicking up a cloud of tainted blood that bloomed into crimson flowers.

"Wuu——ao!" the Wolf King let out an unprecedented shrill wail, the momentum of its pounce halted dead in its tracks by this piercing spear!

Its huge body lost balance from the heavy blow, crashing to the ground and sliding forward uncontrollably; the originally stored killing pounce collapsed like foam in an instant.

The Black Goat nimbly adjusted its posture, its long horns sweeping like blades to precisely flick away the two ice spikes aimed at its neck; the ice spike it couldn't dodge slammed into its side, cold instantly spreading and freezing a patch of flesh.

Only to see the Black Goat's eyes blood-red, its massive hooves stomping the ground, cracks rapidly spreading toward the Icefield Demon Wolf King's position; it summoned strength, lowered its head, and its gleaming dark-light sharp long horns charged straight at the Icefield Demon Wolf King.

In the Icefield Demon Wolf King's gloomy green vertical pupils, the dark-light-wrapped long horns, enlarging like a death god's sickle, were reflected; the shadow of death fell like a tide, suddenly engulfing it!

Ignoring the excruciating pain of the Changqiang piercing its right shoulder blade, the Wolf King sprang to its feet, scarlet blood gushing like a spring, and it pushed its ice-cold power to the extreme!

Crack——crack——!

A thick layer of icy-blue armor bristling with ferocious spikes condensed like frost in an instant before it, like a desperate, all-or-nothing last shield!

Boom!

The Black Goat's charge, gathering all its strength and fury, slammed squarely into this ice armor! The piercing impact sound was like an iceberg collapsing!

The ice armor shattered on impact, countless sharp ice crystals scattering like the most violent grapeshot in all directions!

But the ice armor only managed to offset part of the impact; the Wolf King's huge body was still flung off the ground and flown backward by the tremendous force, its mouth spewing not a roar but a torrent of blood mixed with visceral fragments!

The Wolf King's body, like a torn sack, slammed heavily onto the ice littered with shards several zhang away, dragging a long, shocking scarlet trail!

However, the Black Goat's charge came at an equally grim cost! When the spike-covered ice armor shattered, countless sharp ice spike fragments pierced deep into its lowered head and neck as it charged!

Especially the base of its proud frontal horns, deeply embedded with several palm-sized chunks of gloomy blue ice; the horns were coated in frost, blood seeping from the fine wounds on its forehead and quickly freezing into dark-red icy scabs on its cold fur!

"Moo——uh......" the Black Goat let out a muffled groan holding back endless pain.

The Black Goat's hooves plowed deep grooves into the ice, its huge body shuddering violently, its forelegs nearly buckling to the ground.

The tearing bite wounds on its flank burst open again in the recent explosion, dark-red blood gushing like a waterfall and quickly pooling into a glaring bloodstain on the ice.

Li Qingxuan rolled on the ice to dissipate the impact, tearing pain shooting from his frostbitten waist and abdomen, his vision darkening; he struggled to rise on one knee, and at first glance saw the Wolf King collapsed and twitching like a rag on the distant ice, and the Black Goat drenched in blood right before him.

"Don't move!" he hoarsely growled, his voice tinged with the smell of blood in the cold air; his eyes swept urgently over the battlefield, finally locking onto the Icefield Demon Wolf King lying on the snowfield, unable to rise!

Li Qingxuan approached slowly, holding his Tang Sword; the Demon Wolf's icy gaze locked onto him like a blade, and a low growl rumbled from its throat.

Each step Li Qingxuan took on the shattered ice shards emitted a faint creak, unusually clear in the dead silence of the icefield.

His sword-hand was steady as a rock; the narrow, long blade of his Tang Sword reflected a gloomy blue ice light, the chill lingering at its edge seeming even more piercing than the surrounding air.

The Wolf King's icy vertical pupils locked onto the approaching figure; besides ferocious killing intent, its eyes burned with a maddening frenzy.

Its death‑rattling howl suddenly rose, turning into a tearing roar!

Wuu——ao!

Accompanying that roar, the Wolf King's ravaged body suddenly burst forth with powerful Spiritual Power; five gloomy-blue ice spikes rapidly condensed before it, its whole body flashing with deep icy light, and as the Wolf King emitted a shrill whistle, three ice spikes shot like arrows from a bow at Li Qingxuan's vital points!

The other two ice spikes aimed at Li Qingxuan's injured Black Goat beside him; the crazed Icefield Demon Wolf King actually intended a counter‑kill!

The tips of the gloomy-blue ice spikes flashed with icy light, shooting out like arrows from a bow; Li Qingxuan narrowly dodged the three ice spikes, quickly closed in on the Icefield Demon Wolf King, his peripheral vision catching the Black Goat struck again by an ice spike, his eyes nearly bursting as he slashed fiercely at the helpless Icefield Demon Wolf King's throat with his blade!

The Icefield Demon Wolf King's neck was severed more than halfway, its eyes glazing over, its head limp and slumped to the ground; the remaining flesh and fragments of bone barely clung to the weighty skull, sticky hot beast blood gushing like a fountain from the ruptured vessels, instantly soaking the gloomy-blue ice beneath it and steaming up a pungent bloody mist.

In those scattered gloomy-green vertical pupils, the last spark of savagery and madness flickered like a candle in the wind before being utterly consumed by boundless deathly silence.

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