The male cultivator focused on offense with his warhammer. Every blow came crashing down with an indomitable might, attempting to overwhelm the female cultivator through sheer strength.
The female cultivator, on the other hand, relied on speed and technique. Her figure flitted across the ice crystals like a ghost, constantly evading the male cultivator's attacks while searching for openings with her wind-and-thunder sword qi.
The aftershocks of the battle were terrifying. The surrounding icy crystal ground kept collapsing under their force, forming ravines a thousand zhang deep. Countless shards of ice crystal splashed into the Boundary Sea's black "water" and were instantly annihilated by the chaotic laws.
Even amid such an intense battle, the two cultivators occasionally glanced at the strange flower growing in a crack in the ice crystals, their eyes filled with undisguised greed.
To them, this supreme treasure was the key to breaking through to the Immortal Emperor Realm. No matter the price, they had to obtain it!
"A supreme treasure such as this belongs to whoever has the destined affinity."
Bai Ye's voice was calm and emotionless, yet it carried a trace of Great Dao pressure. It exploded beside their ears like a thunderclap, instantly disrupting the rhythm of their battle.
Before his voice had even faded, the space around him rippled slightly. His figure appeared soundlessly beside the crack in the ice crystals as if he had teleported, only several dozen feet from the strange flower.
His movement had been utterly abrupt. The Dao Principles around him had been restrained to the extreme, releasing only a trace of aura at the instant he appeared. The two locked in fierce combat had no time to react.
Arriving beside the flower, Bai Ye extended his right hand slightly toward the strange flower glowing with seven-colored radiance, preparing