Snow blew away as the Emerald Sword clashed with the Icy Claw.
The emerald sword in Lan Yueli's hand moved precisely, cutting through the cold air and shattered snow.
The icy claws deflected the sword to the side with difficulty.
The massive claw made entirely of ice qi emerged from below, slashing at the sword woman, but it only hit the air since Lan Yueli had already moved backward, avoiding the hidden attack.
'Even this also missed,' Xia Zhenxue frowned as she thought. She also moved backward and prepared her technique.
She and Lan Yueli had already exchanged blows more than 20 moves, yet no one had landed a solid hit, but she could sense that she was at a disadvantage since the power behind the emerald sword was heavier than her Ice Claw.
Her hands gestured, her spiritual qi surged as she performed the technique, and then a dozen elegant snow phoenixes appeared around her.
The phoenixes cried as they moved across the air, coordinately surrounding Lan Yueli. Their snow feathers fell off as they moved and floated at the target in the center.
Lan Yueli sensed the cold and dangerous aura from these feathers. She quickly flew up into the air to avoid them.
The snow feathers were scattered and flew at a slow speed at first, but when the feathers accumulated in a large quantity, they became a snowstorm, and it moved like a raging tornado.
Lan Yueli sensed the incoming snow feather storm behind her. She did not panic; instead, she smirked.
Her spiritual qi surged, then she stopped her track mid-air and turned to face the storm with the emerald sword that glowed with intense wood qi in her hand.
She murmured the spell, and then the emerald sword disintegrated into countless green blossoms emitting a profound aura, and the image of spring appeared above her.
Xia Zhenxue was shocked when she sensed that her opponent was performing a Heaven Grade technique!
She quickly supplied more spiritual qi to the phoenixes. The snow feather storm suddenly grew larger as it moved forth, about to swallow Lan Yueli.
Lan Yueli, who had countless green blossoms floating around her, did not back down when the storm was close. Her right hand spread out like a blade, then she swung it like a sword.
The gigantic green blade qi appeared and cut through the storm, immediately destroying both storm and phoenixes, and it continued to fly toward the storm caster behind it!
Xia Zhenxue was shocked by the destructive power of the opponent's technique. Even in shock, she did not stand idly by to be hit by the opponent's attack without doing anything.
Her hands blurred. She intended to counter the other side with the same Heaven Grade technique.
The ice qi from the surroundings gathered, forming a gigantic pair of icy wings that embraced her, providing protection against the destructive blade qi.
The gigantic green blade qi collided with the icy wings, sending all the snow flying upward into the sky, and the echoes from the impact spread throughout the snow mountain.
An avalanche began to roll from the top of the snow mountain.
When the snow fell, a heavenly ice dome made of icy wings appeared, bearing a large crack shaped like a blade mark on its surface, almost penetrated.
Xia Zhenxue, on her knee, wiped the blood from her lip while she looked up, gazing at the woman above the sky who still had countless green blossoms floating around her.
She could sense that the opponent's technique had not ended yet; a similar blade qi attack could be sent at her at any moment.
And her Heaven Grade technique was clearly inferior to that of the opponent; it could not endure another attack like the previous one without breaking.
She thinks quickly, calculating her next move.
"Take your time to recover, I can wait," Lan Yueli smirked. She felt good for some reason and couldn't help but understand why Big Brother Hengsheng liked bullying others.
Xia Zhenxue's veins popped out on her forehead for the first time in her life. One provocation after another, she decided to go all out.
"I underestimated you… Don't blame me after this," Xia Zhenxue said coldly, then she activated her divine bloodline.
She hadn't intended to use it at first, but the opponent was much stronger than she expected she had to use all her might to defeat the opponent.
The image of a snow phoenix manifested above her, and a pair of large, icy wings sprouted from her back.
The surrounding ice qi of this snow mountain becomes excited and surges toward Xia Zhenxue, attracted by the divine bloodline aura.
Lan Yueli in the sky frowned as she sensed her opponent's aura surging severalfold. She began to think that fighting someone with a divine beast bloodline in this kind of environment was a mistake.
The snowflake symbol hidden within Xia Zhenxue's pupil expanded, turning her eye into a glowing, icy blue.
Her icy blue gaze locked on the opponent in the sky, her ice wings fluttering in an elegant motion. Snow blew, and she disappeared from her spot.
Lan Yueli saw the snow phoenix rushing through the air toward her at incredible speed. She became alert and swung her hand, sending the spring blade to intercept the opponent’s movement.
The gigantic green blade flies at the snow phoenix.
The snow phoenix cries with a high-pitched voice, sending a sound wave that carries the power of ice essence to the green blade qi!
The two powerful attacks collide and cancel each other. The snow phoenix moves through where the previous collision had taken place and appears before Lan Yulie.
Xia Zhenxue, enveloped by the image of a snow phoenix, spread her fingers like claws and dragged them to the side as ice claw qi appeared, tearing the atmosphere.
Lan Yueli became serious and swung her hand once more. The green spring blade appeared, stopping the incoming ice claw qi with a precise strike.
Xia Zhenxue moved at high speed and struck again with a blow of snowflakes from her icy wings.
Lan Yueli protected herself with both hands crossed. She sensed the snowflakes turning her into an ice sculpture. The countless green blossoms around her swirled and burst out, expelling the snowflakes.
Xia Zhenxue was hurled backward by the burst of the green blossoms. She quickly regained her balance and rushed forward to finish the opponent, determined to prove that she was not as weak as they said!
In this favorable environment, snow mountain, even her simple move was equal to a Heaven Grade technique!
The emerald sword returned to Lan Yueli's hand as the green blossoms disappeared. Using her sword, she blocked Xia Zhenxue's claws one after another, just like at the start of the battle—but this time, she was the one at a disadvantage.
She quickly activated her True Body intent to turn the tide!
True Qi surged from within Lan Yueli’s chest to her mouth, spraying crimson blood condensed with True Qi. Combining True Qi with her Spiritual Qi, the wooden sword was created.
Her true body is the Manifestation-type capable of creating divine armament!
She threw the wooden sword at the snow phoenix.
Xia Zhenxue’s instincts screamed as she sensed great danger from the wooden sword, and she decided to evade.
However, the wooden sword was something one could not evade!
It stabbed into Xia Zhenxue's abdomen and began to take root, suppressing the flow of spiritual qi within her body.
She tried to pull the wooden sword out, but she couldn't get it out; her expression turned pale as she sensed her spiritual qi mobilization speed decreasing dramatically.
For a moment, she lowered her intensity on pursuing Lan Yueli and focused on getting rid of the wooden sword.
Lan Yueli, seeing that her opponent had become much slower, did not take advantage immediately. Instead, she turned her gaze to Lan Xiaorong, silently asking for permission to use the other side of her power to defeat her opponent.
'Go ahead. I truly underestimated the power of a Divine Beast Bloodline—this time, it's my fault,' Lan Xiaorong said through sound transmission.
Lan Yueli smirked when she heard Brother Xiaorong's words. Then she unsealed her status window and activated multiple buff skills!
Xia Zhenxue finally could pull the wooden sword out of her abdomen.
She gazed at her opponent, despite being the one who was at an advantage.
Her opponent still maintained the same aditute smirk at her as if she had already won.
"First of all, your foundation is weak," Lan Yueli said as a mysterious blue aura emerged from her body.
Xia Zhenxue frowned. She had never encountered this kind of aura before and grew cautious, observing carefully to see what her opponent was doing.
Suddenly, under Xia Zhenxue's careful gaze, Lan Yueli moved at a speed that felt like teleportation—it was faster than her with the divine beast wings!
The emerald sword collided with the ice claws.
Xia Zhenxue's expression turned pale as she sensed the power behind the sword was much greater than in their previous exchanges. She was sent flying toward the ground.
The ground below turned into a massive snow crater, with Xia Zhenxue at its center—coughing up blood and staining the white snow crimson.
Struggling, she finally stood up with difficulty.
Her icy blue eyes are solemnly gazing at Lan Yueli.
"128 meridians? That's quite average. A steady spiritual symbol? Not very impressive. Enhancement-type true body that performed just slightly above average… What a shame. The only remarkable thing about you is your divine beast bloodline… without it, you wouldn’t stand out," Lan Yueli said with a hint of mockery.