Before Xiang Yang could finish speaking, his primordial spirit sensed a savage, tyrannical, chilling, murderous aura rising from every direction around the Snow Bamboo Grove. It swept across heaven and earth, blanketed the bamboo forest, and pointed straight at the wooden house at its center.
Xue Manyun reacted a little slower, but she quickly understood why Xiang Yang had stopped midway through his words. Her face changed drastically, green and white mingling together. Sweat visibly streamed down her cheeks, and her beautiful eyes blinked again and again, filled with despair.
Xiang Yang only felt that this aura was vast and unfathomable, brimming with an irresistible, surging might. It seemed to have fused as one with the Great Snow Ridge; it should have been some sort of formation.
Yet Xue Manyun had come from the Great Snow Ridge, and she immediately sensed the origin of this formation from that aura: the Snow Domain Ice Calamity.
At the Great Snow Ridge, the supreme divine art was the Ice Heaven Tribulation. Aside from the Snow Tyranny Wind Devour and the Cold Heaven Ice Soul Sword derived from it, there was another grand formation that required all eleven great elders, two protectors, and the Mountain Lord—fourteen Xiantian Experts in total—along with the Snow Ridge's unique terrain, before it could possibly be successfully deployed: the Snow Domain Ice Calamity.
This grand formation had always been the Great Snow Ridge's foundation for guarding its mountain. Unless the sect faced a calamity of extermination, a trial of life and death, it could not be used, for it would deplete the Snow Ridge's own earth-vein qi.
Now that it had actually been activated, they clearly harbored the intent to kill without mercy. Neither she nor Ning Xue was qualified enough to warrant it, so this formation could only