The instant the Ice Phoenix phantom spread its wings, Lin Qi sensed that aura transcending the Cangwu Realm.
Her heart sank, yet her mind was not thrown into chaos.
She was already risking everything in one desperate gamble. What was there to overthink?
She pressed her palm forward, and the Imperial Phoenix Seal descended.
As the Ice Phoenix phantom beat its wings, two terrifying forces began contending throughout the Cloud Phoenix Heavenly Palace.
The entire Cloud Phoenix Heavenly Palace seemed to have been pressed with a slow-motion button.
Everything within was shackled, slowed, and suppressed by invisible force... all things were saturated with power.
In a daze, a clear phoenix cry rang out from within the five-layered Imperial Phoenix Seal.
That phoenix cry was so real, as though a true Ice Phoenix were raising its head to the sky in a long cry, stirring a terrifying tremor deep within the heart.
Amid the chaos, some invisible barrier shattered.
Terrifying power surged from the main hall of the Cloud Phoenix Heavenly Palace toward the outside world.
Countless sharp-witted cultivators instinctively raised their guard and gathered all their strength to defend themselves, yet they were still left in a wretched state.
Those with weaker strength were instantly pulverized into dregs, blending into the frost scattered across the ground.
It was impossible to tell whether they were ice shards or flesh and blood.
At the moment the invisible barrier shattered, the enormous Ice Phoenix phantom above the Cloud Phoenix Heavenly Palace vanished in an instant.
At the same time, the palace halls, which had originally held no checkpoints at all, began to change.
Restrictions descended one after another, and earth-shaking transformations churned within the Cloud Phoenix Heavenly Palace.
Trial checkpoints hidden in the deepest places emerged one by one.
The Heavenly Materials and