Ice City Secret Technique! Shen Bingyue's True Strength!

"Boom—!"

A tremendous explosion erupted from the front of the bus. The shriek of twisting metal mixed with sinister ghostly howls, and the entire carriage shook violently.

The battle between Shen Bingyue and the Headless Ghost Driver had reached its most intense stage. Ghostly energy and frost collided fiercely, filling the air with a suffocating aura of death.

The Headless Ghost Driver's attacks became increasingly frenzied. Its withered arms swung wildly, each strike carrying terrifying force capable of tearing through space.

Shen Bingyue barely dodged a claw. The Ghost Driver's talons slashed through the spot where she had been standing, instantly gouging five deep marks into the sturdy metal wall with an ear-piercing screech.

"Damn it!"

Shen Bingyue cursed inwardly. In that instant, the corner of her eye caught sight of what was happening in the rear carriage.

One of the Chained Prisoner's chains snaked around Qin Feng's frontal defense like a venomous serpent and lashed viciously toward his back!

Qin Feng seemed to sense it, but as he was blocking the iron fist coming at him from the front, he had no time to evade completely.

With a ripping sound, the chain's tip tore through his combat suit, leaving a bloody gash.

Blood! He was hurt!

Though she outwardly disdained Qin Feng's unorthodox fighting style, deep down, she had to admit that this man's strength and tenacity had exceeded her expectations.

To hold out against a C-Class Anomalous Event for this long at the Form Observation Realm was already a miracle.

But every miracle had its limits!

The sweat on Qin Feng's brow, his ragged breathing, and that glaring streak of blood stabbed into Shen Bingyue's heart like a needle.

She knew all too well how immense the strain of using a Legendary Armament for an extended period was on the body.

If she could not immediately deal with the Ghost Driver before her, Qin Feng would die here from exhaustion!

"We have to end this quickly!"

In an instant, Shen Bingyue's gaze turned as cold as ice that had endured for ten thousand years. She could no longer hold anything back.

Beneath her fair skin, it was as though ice-blue divine blood surged through her veins!

The Spiritual Energy within her boiled and burned at an unprecedented speed, like a polar current set ablaze, exuding a destructive aura capable of freezing souls!

Deep within her pupils, the delicate snowflake mark began spinning madly as dazzling ice-blue light burst through her body!

[Ice City Secret Technique—Polar Ice Seal]!

With Shen Bingyue's clear, icy shout, a terrifying, visibly pale-white chill erupted from her as its center!

Before this ultimate cold, the air instantly congealed. Countless fine ice crystals bloomed from thin air like enraged snow lotuses.

The temperature at the front of the bus plummeted into the deathly stillness of absolute zero!

The dashboard, seats, windows... everything was instantly coated over and frozen by the frigid air!

Thick ice covered every inch of every surface. Under the extreme temperature shift, the metal frame groaned under the strain, bursting with countless fine cracks.

The Headless Ghost Driver's surging resentment was rapidly frozen within this terrifying domain of extreme cold, as if trapped in congealed time.

Its claw-waving movements became slow and rigid, every motion accompanied by the crackling sound of shattered ice chips.

"Th-This... is that the embryonic form of a domain?!"

Seeing this, Lei Yun cried out in shock. He finally understood why his family elders had repeatedly warned him not to offend Shen Bingyue.

"Among those of the same rank, this is simply unbeatable!"

Shen Bingyue rapidly formed hand seals before her chest, her slender fingers tracing profound, intricate patterns through the air.

Ice-blue spiritual power gathered, compressed, and took shape in her palms. An ancient and mighty force was awakening.

"Condense!"

[Frost Blade]!

A crystalline longsword, as though carved from eternal ice, condensed out of thin air!

Pure frost energy flowed across the blade. This power was the natural bane of evil entities; wherever it passed, ghostly energy collapsed and melted away on its own, while even space warped slightly beneath the extreme cold!

The Headless Ghost Driver sensed the lethal threat and let out a soundless howl, desperately trying to break free from the frozen restraints.

But Shen Bingyue was faster!

Her body flashed like lightning. Seizing the one-in-ten-thousandth-of-a-second opening created by the Ghost Driver's frost-frozen stiffness, she turned the Frost Blade in her hand into a desolate, beautiful aurora and pierced the Ghost Driver's phantom core with unerring precision!

"Squelch—"

Pure frost energy erupted from the core like a deadly tide of ice, spreading instantly throughout the Ghost Driver's body!

The Headless Ghost Driver let out a despairing, soundless howl. Its enormous body was thoroughly permeated by the extreme cold from within, eventually becoming a lifelike, grotesque ice sculpture frozen in its final struggling pose!

"Crack!"

An incomparably crisp fracture rang out, and spiderweb-like cracks spread across the ice sculpture.

Then it collapsed with a thunderous crash, turning into countless ice crystal fragments glimmering with ghostly blue light. Like a magnificent funeral, they scattered across the floor, leaving not the slightest sound behind.

The instant the Ghost Driver was defeated, the Ghost Bus, having lost the support of its energy core, jolted violently!

The steering wheel began spinning madly on its own, and the bus swayed violently, on the verge of veering off the road and rolling over!

"Not good!"

Shen Bingyue reacted with lightning speed, lunging forward and clamping her left hand tightly around the out-of-control steering wheel!

Cold air surged from her palm, instantly freezing the steering mechanism in solid ice. But the massive inertia made the ice crack under the unbearable strain!

With a cold snort, she held two fingers together like a sword in her right hand and instantly condensed a thick icicle over the brake pedal, brutally "stomping" it all the way down!

"Screeech—!"

The tires shrieked against the ground, and the vehicle was forcibly stabilized at the very last moment, avoiding a catastrophe that would have destroyed the car and killed everyone inside.

Without even stopping to catch her breath, Shen Bingyue immediately turned to look behind her.

Through the swirling ice mist and ghostly aura, Qin Feng was not only holding his own—he had used the cramped space inside the vehicle to turn the Scissors of Truth in his hand into a nail, forcefully pinning one of the Chained Prisoner's main attacking chains to the floor!

The steel giant's movements were hindered as a result. It roared in fury, but for the moment, it could not break free.

He was not merely fighting. He was... toying with this C-Class Anomalous Event!

"This guy..." A complicated look flashed through Shen Bingyue's eyes.

She had thought Qin Feng was barely hanging on. She had never expected him to possess such astonishing combat instincts and methods.

Without the slightest hesitation, Frost Blade in hand, Shen Bingyue turned into an icy-blue streak of light and charged at full speed toward the battle behind them!

"Qin Feng!"

At that moment, the Chained Prisoner tore free of the pinned chain and hurled a furious punch at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng narrowly dodged, but the shockwave still sent him stumbling several steps back—right to Shen Bingyue's side.

Seizing the opportunity, Shen Bingyue swung Frost Blade, sending an icy-blue sword aura precisely across the Chained Prisoner's back!

"Sizzle!" The power of extreme cold exploded across the steel giant's back, leaving a frost scar so deep it seemed to reach the bone across its hard metal surface!

The Chained Prisoner howled in pain and spun around, its blood-red pupils fixed on the two standing side by side. "Another one... looking to die!"

Qin Feng took the chance to catch his breath. He glanced sideways at Shen Bingyue, standing beside him with her sword in hand and cold mist curling around her, and a teasing smile curled across his lips.

"Well, Captain Shen, finally dealt with your little problem?"

He teased her in a relaxed tone.

"I'm almost done over here. Let me make this clear first—if you join in now, you don't get a share of the loot."

Shen Bingyue shot him a cold glance, her gaze falling on the wound on his arm, which had already begun to heal.

"Shut up."

Her voice was cool and clear, yet strangely warm.

"We'll talk about loot after you survive!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Qin Feng said with a smile, raising the Scissors of Truth. But in the next instant, his eyes turned cold as blades.

Faced with the two of them attacking together, the Chained Prisoner finally felt the true threat of death.

It threw back its head and roared. Every chain on its body writhed like a swarm of serpents—the final struggle of a cornered beast!