"Cut the nonsense."
A casual remark.
A dark star reappeared at Shen Yi's fingertips.
In an instant, wind rose around the black-robed figure from nowhere as a profound ice core spread from the center of his brow.
"What?!"
Before Wen Ke'er and Winnie could fully react, the ice core on that person's brow exploded.
The next moment, a thousand-zhang ice mountain enveloped him. Endless, bone-piercing cold radiated outward as layered crystals of ice crashed down upon him like towering mountains collapsing one atop another.
Boom—!!!
The incomparably piercing impact hammered against everyone's eardrums.
"Tch..."
With a low click of her tongue, Winnie furrowed her brows. Brilliant light wrapped around her power and instantly enveloped Wen Ke'er, who had let out a muffled groan and was bleeding from her ears.
The moment the radiant barrier descended,
the ice mountain frozen around the black-robed man exploded, followed by an even more outrageous display of power.
Dense azure light resembled frigid stars within an ice cellar. A spot of deep black emerged inside the ice core, and the bone-chilling icy radiance was instantly veiled in the shadow of death before violently exploding a second time in midair.
"A single Authority can actually strengthen other powers to this extent. This has already gone beyond mere imitation!!"
Winnie was startled, and her assessment of Shen Yi clearly changed.
For ordinary people, cultivating even one kind of power was exceptionally difficult. Being able to wield two made one a rare genius.
After all, every kind of power required different cultivation methods, came with different difficulties, and demanded entirely different energies to wield.
For someone like Shen Yi, using the Shadow Authority as the core while mixing in such immensely powerful ice-elemental force, mastery was extraordinarily troublesome. Controlling it to this degree and using it to harm