Invisible cold air layered itself around the Emperor Phoenix Sword, while a tangible phantom of an emperor phoenix silently circled it.
The pressure in the air piled up layer upon layer.
A massive seal suddenly descended from the sky.
Imperial Phoenix Seal—First Layer!
The enormous pale-blue square seal fell upon the crest of the rolling flames.
The square seal seemed carved from ice crystal, semi-transparent in the air. Under the refracted light, its patterns differed from every angle, yet each revealed vivid frost markings.
A semi-transparent ice phoenix coiled around each of the seal's four corners, head and tail joined, their eyes gleaming with cold pride.
As the first seal descended, the rolling flames were forced down three inches.
Lin Qi formed a hand seal without expression, drawing spiritual energy from within her body as though it cost nothing.
The second seal descended!
The Imperial Phoenix Seal deepened several shades in color. The aura of the circling ice phoenixes surged at once, pressing down more than half the flames. Even layers of frost appeared upon the surface of the rolling magma.
The two forces repelled one another, yet the pressure emanating from the Imperial Phoenix Seal continued to increase.
Lin Yun's exotic fire leaped wildly, attempting to break through the Imperial Phoenix Seal and devour the entwining ice phoenixes.
Lin Qi quietly lowered the third seal.
The dancing flames were extinguished in an instant, and frost flowed like water through every inch of the magma world.
In the blink of an eye, the sea of fire had become a frozen world.
Ice and fire collided, the two forces tearing and biting at each other, neither willing to yield.
One moment, blazing flames shattered the ice and gained the upper hand; the next, frost suppressed the flames, blanketing the magma and