At that moment, two figures—one old, one young—appeared like ghosts without warning outside the towering, magnificent palace.
The two stood still, their gazes first falling upon Lü Ruoxue and the Longevity Divine Emperor. Yet after only a brief pause, their full attention was drawn to the mysterious treasure in Lü Ruoxue's hand—the Heavenly Fiend Flame Ice Soul.
Extreme greed instantly surfaced in their eyes, as though hungry wolves had caught sight of plump lambs.
Clearly, these two uninvited guests had already recognized the item in Lü Ruoxue's hand as an exceptionally rare and powerful Half-Immortal Artifact!
Such a precious magical treasure naturally stirred their greed, and they wanted to claim it for themselves.
But how could Lü Ruoxue be an ordinary person?
She almost immediately sensed the ill intentions harbored by the two of them.
In an instant, an icy, bone-piercing killing intent flashed through her beautiful eyes. Without hesitation, she gripped the Heavenly Fiend Flame Ice Soul tightly and held it horizontally before herself.
At the same time, with a thought from Lü Ruoxue, an incomparably terrifying and frightening force abruptly erupted from her body!
This force surged and churned like a raging flood, causing the surrounding space itself to tremble faintly.
Then, an astonishing sight unfolded. A crystalline ice phoenix and the phantom of a blazing fire phoenix appeared out of thin air, circling and dancing around the scepter transformed from the Heavenly Fiend Flame Ice Soul!
"Cry!!!"
At that moment, two clear and resounding phoenix cries suddenly rang out, echoing through the heavens. The sound seemed capable of piercing every obstacle between heaven and earth and drilling directly into everyone's ears.
Immediately afterward, two dazzling streaks of light swept across the sky—one blazing like fierce fire, the other cold as frost. Intertwining and entwining with each other,