"Whether the Star Dou Great Forest has that capability has nothing to do with me."
The Ice Empress raised a brow, and the chill in her emerald eyes deepened. With an overbearing tone that looked down on all else, she said, "But if you want to touch him, you'll have to get past me first. You're nothing but a Crimson Demon Mastiff. Even if Di Tian came himself, he might not get anything out of me!"
"Arrogant!" The Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff was thoroughly enraged. Its middle head let out a deafening roar as it bellowed, "This is Star Dou! Not a place for you to run wild!"
Before its words had even faded, its massive body lunged forward. All three heads opened their jaws at once, gathering scorching, magma-like Soul Power within their mouths. Three pillars of flame several times thicker than before surged toward the Ice Empress like dragons emerging from the sea, carrying the force to burn mountains and boil oceans. The ground cracked beneath the heat wave, and the air filled with a pungent sulfuric stench.
Yet the Ice Empress remained where she was, merely raising a slender hand. In an instant, the surrounding temperature plummeted. Moisture in the air condensed into ice fragments that filled the sky, while a massive wall of ice rose from the earth and firmly blocked all three pillars of flame.
"Fsssh—"
The flames struck the ice wall with a violent hiss of vaporization. Thick white smoke billowed upward, yet they failed to leave even the slightest crack in it. The Ice Empress could not even be bothered to spare the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff another glance. With a slight movement of her fingers, the ice wall shattered into countless sharp Ice Cones that shot toward the Crimson Demon Mastiff like