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"Rainbow Ash Pierces the Firmament Tribulation!"

In the next instant—

Whoosh!!

A seven-colored beam only as thick as a grown man's fist burst from the tip of the streaming phoenix beak.

It was not like flame, leaping and burning, but an utterly condensed, perfectly straight ray whose light barely diffused at all.

The brief vacuum sonic boom from the air being torn apart only had time to let out a faint, piercing shriek before the beam, carrying terrifying penetrative kinetic force, shot instantly into the core region of the Ice Phoenix.

This "Rainbow Ash Pierces the Firmament Tribulation" was the core killing move bestowed by Ma Liang's Right Arm Bone—its essence was to take the Origin fire power of the Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix and, with the soul bone's enhancement, compress it to the limit, shaping it into an ultra-high-pressure rainbow-flame ray with peerless piercing power!

Pfft!

A dull sound came, like a layer of ice being burned through.

That seven-colored beam stabbed into the Ice Phoenix's chest without the slightest obstruction.

There was no earthshaking explosion, but the damage it caused was very real.

Wherever the beam passed, the ice-crystal body was instantly vaporized into a transparent hole, its edges left with traces of light where seven colors mingled, like molten glaze.

Even more fatal was that the seven-colored embers remaining around the hole's edge and inside the nearby ice-crystal structure were like Maggots on Bone, emitting continuous, terrifying heat and scorching energy, ceaselessly eroding the surrounding ice structure and worsening the Ice Phoenix's already constant Soul Power drain under the corrosion of the weak waters!

Almost at the same time the seven-colored beam pierced in, Zhu Wuneng put forth his strength again as well.

The massive waves stirred up by "Sea Wheel" and the mercury-blue corrosion of "Three Thousand Weak Waters" suddenly intensified.

Gravity and weak waters, the Ice Phoenix's ice body being pierced and torn apart, and the lingering burning damage.

The combined force of these two attacks finally reached the critical point!

The Ice Phoenix, already weakened under Zhu Wuneng's methods, had its chest pierced through by that terrifying seven-colored ray, and after being continuously burned by the "rainbow embers," its entire body suddenly collapsed inward by a large degree.

Its size shrank by nearly a third!

The cold might it emitted also plummeted sharply. Its power, originally nearly at the peak of the middle Soul Sage stage, had now fallen to a level barely maintained between the peak Soul Emperor stage and the early Soul Sage stage.

However, neither Zhu Wuneng nor Ma Liang looked relaxed.

Both of them clearly sensed a trace of waning strength.

The gravitational suppression of "Five Mountains Suppress Qiankun," the corrosion of "Three Thousand Weak Waters," and the enormous consumption of maintaining "Sea Wheel" made veins bulge at Zhu Wuneng's temples. Sweat poured down like rain, and even the arm gripping the rake trembled faintly.

As for Ma Liang, using "Rainbow Ash Pierces the Firmament Tribulation" had also made him pay a tremendous price.

Drawing upon the Right Arm Bone's Origin Power all at once to unleash an attack of this level had caused his Soul Power to be abruptly depleted by a huge chunk, and his face was even paler than before.

The soul bones or secret arts they had inherited were indeed powerful, but limited by their own Soul King-level cultivation, they were still far from the point where they could use them as they wished and fully bring out their vast might.

What was even more unfortunate was that what they faced was an aggregate of energy. If it had been a person, even if they had not died, they would not have been far from it.

Although that condensed seven-colored beam had heavily injured the replicated Ice Phoenix, it had failed to completely pierce through and scatter it.

After the beam exhausted its energy, it dissipated, leaving only an enormous wound through the Ice Phoenix's massive body, open from front to back, its edges scorched by seven-colored flowing light and slowly widening.

The Ice Phoenix was still struggling, still shrieking. Though weak, it had not perished.

Zhu Wuneng and Ma Liang's full-force strike had heavily injured the target, but failed to achieve a lethal effect.

That weakened replicated Ice Phoenix, still carrying lethal low temperatures, remained a threat, while Ma Liang and Zhu Wuneng's brief outburst seemed to be nearing its limit.

The situation was deadlocked and brutal.

Seeing that replicated Ice Phoenix's aura growing weaker and weaker, its struggles gradually fading, a nearly mad resolve flashed through Yuzuru Hanyu's eyes.

He clenched his teeth and once again formed a complex hand seal before his chest, identical to the one before. Frosty blood qi burst from his fingertips, even more dazzling than last time.

"Mysterious Soul Blood Pull!"

This time, he directly spat out a cloud of blood mist, mixed with glittering particles like bits of shattered ice.

Using it once had already drained much of his vitality, and the price of forcefully activating it a second time was even more shocking.

His face turned from pale to ashen at a visible speed, and part of the luster beneath his skin faded away. The blood pouring from the corner of his mouth was no longer the thin trickle from before, but flowed directly into a bright-red stream.

Almost the same instant he spat blood, a gentle emerald green lotus shadow swiftly enveloped him.

It was Qiu Ruoyi. Her Third Soul Ring shone with rich life radiance—Azure Sea Azure Lotus Domain!

As the domain opened, strands of pure, gentle water-and-wood life force were like invisible sweet springs, soaking into Yuzuru Hanyu's drained body.

The external injuries on his body that had been bleeding endlessly from the secret art's backlash immediately healed and stopped bleeding at a visible speed.

His chaotic Soul Power fluctuations also stabilized somewhat under the lotus domain's effects, no longer looking like a candle in the wind that might go out at any moment.

However, Qiu Ruoyi's brows were heavy with worry.

Her soul skill could heal external injuries, soothe the soul, and even replenish a certain amount of depleted Soul Power, but in the end, it could not create something from nothing.

The forced burning of Yuzuru Hanyu's essence blood had inflicted fundamental damage from depleted vitality—an injury no Healing Type soul skill could make up for in a short time.

At this moment, keeping him from collapsing on the spot was already the limit of what the soul skill could do.

Bolstered by the almost sacrificial blood-soul power of a second Mysterious Soul Blood Pull, the enormous Ice Soul Mirror erupted with dazzling Ice Blue Light like a final flare before death.

Light surged and receded across the mirror's surface, establishing an even stronger connection with the weakened, dispirited replicated Ice Phoenix in midair.

Screech—!!!

The Ice Phoenix, pinned firmly in midair by Zhu Wuneng, suddenly let out an unprecedented shriek filled with ferocity and power.

Its already dim radiance swelled violently, and ice-blue Soul Power rose fiercely around it like tangible flames.

Its pair of ice-crystal wings carried a resolute, savage force as they swept inward with brutal force.

Boom!!

The mercury-blue Weak Water Pearls clinging to its body and constantly corroding its Soul Power were instantly blasted apart by that raging torrent of Ice Attribute energy, evaporating into great clouds of white vapor.

Buzz—!

The triple-gravity field imposed on it was also violently distorted and torn apart under this sudden eruption of power.

The five miniature mountain phantoms suppressing it shook violently, the earthy-yellow light on their surfaces flickering erratically, clearly having suffered an enormous impact.

Even more astonishing was that all the ice-crystal fragments floating in the air around it, and even the icy aura permeating the entire arena, seemed to be summoned, surging madly toward the huge wound in the Ice Phoenix's chest and its weakened body.

Before everyone's eyes, the Ice Phoenix's wilted aura began to recover rapidly.

At the edges of the huge wound that had pierced through its chest, the burning seven-colored neon embers still remained, but the wound's tendency to widen was forcibly halted and, at a speed visible to the naked eye, repaired and filled by the ice-crystal energy gathering there.

"Not good!" Zhu Wuneng felt that force abruptly break free of its restraints and even begin to backlash against the gravity, and his pupils shrank sharply.

Seeing that the five mountain phantoms were about to collapse under the Ice Phoenix's frenzied struggle, he did not hesitate at all!

"Detonate!"

With a low shout, Zhu Wuneng stomped his right foot heavily on the ground again. Following his command, deep earthy-yellow cracks instantly crawled across the five mini mountain phantoms surrounding and suppressing the Ice Phoenix. Immediately after—

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Five deafening explosions rang out almost simultaneously.

Every mountain phantom released power comparable to the full-strength strike of a Soul Emperor expert as it exploded.

The massive explosive force detonated fiercely around the Ice Phoenix, and the wild shock waves it raised, along with earthy-yellow smoke mixed with energy sparks and ice-crystal dust, instantly swallowed its enormous body!

The entire Ice Sealed Arena shook violently, and raging energy turbulence scattered and cut in every direction like tangible blades.

Everyone's view was completely obscured by the massive smoke and dust kicked up by the explosions, forming a hazy chaotic zone of intermingled earthy yellow and chalk white.

However, the smoke produced by the explosions lasted for less than two seconds.

Screech—!

A piercing phoenix cry tore through the chaotic energy tide.

A massive ice-blue figure shot out of the chaotic smoke and dust like an arrow loosed from the string.

Although the wound in its chest had not fully healed and seven-colored burn marks still lingered, its wings had regained the completeness and sharpness of ice crystal.

The furious Ice Phoenix broke free. Its eyes, burning with bone-chilling cold, instantly locked onto the two people who had inflicted the greatest damage on it just now—Zhu Wuneng, and Ma Liang, who was suspended high in the air with his aura still unrestored.

Without the slightest hesitation, its enormous Ice Wings simply beat down hard.

Whoosh—!!

A shock wave far more violent than any before it, mixed with countless sharp icicles and absolute cold currents, swept over in an instant like a polar ice storm.

Zhu Wuneng, who bore the brunt of it, let out a muffled groan. The Nine-Toothed Rake guarding him was struck hard by the ice storm, and the tremendous force plowed two deep icy trenches beneath his feet. His entire body was shoved back more than ten meters before he barely steadied himself, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Ma Liang in the air fared even worse.

He was farther away and had just exhausted his soul skill, with his old strength spent and new strength yet to form. The sweeping extreme-cold ice storm slammed solidly into him.

The protective Soul Power around him was torn apart like paper. Ma Liang was flung away like a kite with its string cut.

While still in midair, the blood he spat from his mouth scattered like a broken string of beads, drawing a wretched red streak through the air before he smashed heavily onto the hard ice far away.

After landing, he rolled more than a dozen times before coming to a stop, his aura instantly plunging to rock bottom. Clearly, he had suffered a severe injury.

Under Yuzuru Hanyu's life-disregarding support, the replicated Ice Phoenix had finally broken through the trap Zhu Wuneng and Ma Liang had set together, then paid a heavy price to launch this incomparably fierce counterattack.

When the dust and mist dispersed, only the scarred yet still imposing figure of the Ice Phoenix remained hovering in midair.