Ao Li came treading over the ice, leaving a winding path of floating ice across the calm sea.
She had already traveled three hundred li without pause, and was finally about to catch up with her target!
In the distance, a blue spider was sprawled atop a wooden raft. It was presumably the spider raised by the Soul Manipulating Spider Mother.
For some reason, the other party had stopped fleeing, which saved Ao Li quite a bit of effort.
She continued toward the spider, walking across the waves as though taking a leisurely stroll, her heart calm and utterly without ripples.
For Ao Li, who had already cultivated the Snow Woman Dharma Idol, this vast ocean was practically her ideal home ground.
Most of the secret arts of her destiny were related to water. Out here on the sea, the bonuses she could obtain were tremendous.
A mere Blue Wing-level demon spider was not worthy of her notice.
As she continued forward, wave after wave rippled out from beneath her feet, surging toward Azure Pearl.
At the same time, flecks of snow suddenly began drifting down from the cloudless sky.
In an instant, the warm sea surface grew bitterly cold, as if winter had descended.
Ao Li would not repeat Fu Ying's mistake. Even when facing a demon spider whose cultivation was inferior to hers, she had already pushed the battlefield's preparations to the limit, ready to give it her all.
Yet when she reached a position three hundred meters from Azure Pearl, she stopped again.
From what she sensed, the sea before her concealed countless terrifying strands of spider silk.
These were the hidden trap laid by the spider opposite her!
Ao Li cautiously avoided the other party's spider silk, refusing to place herself in even the slightest danger.
Under her control of Magic Power, the entire sea seemed to come alive as well. Amid the surging waves, those hidden strands of spider silk became completely visible to her senses.
She raised her delicate hand, and a wisp of ice crystal condensed at her fingertip before she flicked it outward.
The ice crystal transformed into thousands upon thousands of tiny ice blades, precisely slicing toward the spider silk lying in ambush beneath the sea.
For a moment, layer upon layer of ripples spread across the sea. Accompanied by faint cracking sounds, the tough strands of spider silk were severed one after another.
"Hmph. Child's play."
Ao Li murmured softly, a trace of disdain flashing through her eyes.
The true battle had only just begun. This was nothing more than a petty trick to weaken her offensive.
With the spider silk cleared away, Ao Li stepped forward again. Every step landed on an ice bridge condensed from her own Magic Power, steady as a rock.
The snowfall in the sky grew denser, and the sea wind carried a bone-chilling cold. The entire sea region was dominated by Ao Li's will, transforming into a world of ice and snow.
The area where Azure Pearl stood was completely enveloped by the ice and snow, falling within the range of Ao Li's Magic Power.
Yet it had not given up resisting!
It spat out a vast quantity of spider silk, beginning to wrap its body round and round.
The densely layered silk formed an extremely hard web armor, blocking out the biting cold from the outside world.
Immediately afterward, Azure Pearl struck as well!
The wooden raft beneath it was made of twenty-four coconut logs.
It frantically urged its own Magic Power, infusing it into those logs.
The raft instantly disintegrated. The coconut logs became twenty-four enormous crossbow bolts, shooting into the sky before firing outward in all directions.
Every coconut log had countless strands of spider silk tied to it.
Using the coconut logs as anchor points, an incomparably vast spiderweb rapidly unfurled directly above this icy battlefield.
As for Azure Pearl, it had already vanished from its original position.
It was like an elegant dancer, gliding wantonly along the spider silk, swift as a ghost!
Its enormous body produced afterimages, displaying a flexibility utterly mismatched with its physique.
In merely a few seconds, it had reached the position directly above Ao Li.
Azure Pearl hung upside down from the spiderweb. More than ten thousand glowing blue strands of spider silk fell like raindrops, shrouding the enemy below.
As long as its spider silk touched the enemy's body, it had a thousand and one ways to torment the opponent's soul and consciousness!
The spider silk surged toward her. Ao Li's expression was icy as she parted her vermilion lips and softly chanted a string of obscure, twisted incantations.
With her chanting, the figure of a snow-white beauty of ice and snow quietly appeared behind her, perfectly enveloping her body within itself.
Ao Li vanished from her original position, leaving behind only an ice-and-snow beauty ten feet tall.
This was precisely the foundation of her cultivation in the Dragon Elephant Realm—the secret Snow Woman Dharma Idol passed down by Qi Zhi Shi Island!
Facing the spider silk descending from the heavens, the Snow Woman showed not the slightest fear. She simply reached out and gathered the strands into her hands.
Then she erupted with all her strength and yanked violently on the spider silk!
Azure Pearl had no foothold in the sky. Together with the entire enormous web, it was dragged down by the Snow Woman.
With the Dharma Idol standing between them, none of Azure Pearl's divine abilities or Magic Power could touch Ao Li's true body. They were completely unable to take effect.
It had no way to break through the opponent's Dharma Idol!
Ao Li's voice rang out from within the Snow Woman Dharma Idol:
"Without forming a Dharma Idol, how can you hope to contend with my Snow Woman?"
"Just obediently accept your death!"
The falling Azure Pearl was firmly pinned against the ice by the Snow Woman Dharma Idol. Its eight spider legs, sharp as blades, stabbed rapidly toward the Snow Woman's vital points.
But this Dharma Idol was as hard as vajra, deflecting every attack without suffering the slightest injury.
Azure Pearl had never been Ao Li's match to begin with, and it was also seriously wounded. Now it lay on its back, its throat locked by both of the Snow Woman's hands as it was forcefully pinned to the ice.
At the same time, countless frigid ice spikes extended from the ice bridge beneath them, stabbing toward Azure Pearl's body.
These ice spikes contained Ao Li's Dragon Elephant power. Each thrust punched a gaping hole into Azure Pearl's body.
Emerald blood gushed wildly from the wounds, dripping into the seawater and spreading through it.
Azure Pearl struggled in agony. Its body twisted and trembled incessantly, while its life force rapidly ebbed away.
But just as Ao Li believed victory was certain, an unfamiliar aura of Magic Power suddenly erupted from her waist.
It was the Spider Jade Sculpture she had kept concealed close to her body—it had suddenly exploded!
It had been transformed from the remains of the Soul Manipulating Spider Mother. Although both body and soul had clearly been burned to ashes, under Azure Pearl's provocation, it once again unleashed a strange divine might!
With the explosion, a half-human, half-spider Dharma Idol appeared on the battlefield.
"Sister, help me one last time!"
Under Azure Pearl's control, the Spider Mother Dharma Idol instantly fused with it. A complete Soul Manipulating Spider Mother Dharma Idol fully manifested, immediately locking in a vicious battle with the Snow Woman Dharma Idol!