Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Just as Li Yun was grumbling to himself and considering whether to retreat first, the wind suddenly intensified without warning.
Pale Tornado Pillars actually appeared out of thin air across the Desperate Ice Plain.
They stood in all four directions—east, south, west, and north.
Terrifying winds, carrying intense, bone-piercing cold, swept toward him all at once.
Li Yun had no time to think. His entire body was caught by a violent gust, instantly losing balance and nearly being swept up by a tornado pillar.
Fortunately, his cultivation was formidable, and he had constantly been using Innate True Qi to form Shield Qi for defense. Thus, the cold mixed within the gale did not invade his body immediately.
Even so.
That bone-freezing sensation surged more than tenfold in an instant.
He immediately felt the blood in his body slowing rapidly, turning sluggish, as though it were about to freeze solid.
"Damn it..."
Li Yun roared, and the Ancient Sword instantly left its sheath. He slashed horizontally through the air.
In an instant, the Sword Dao Domain of the Zhenyue Mountain Sword took shape.
It forcibly isolated an area within the gale, suppressing the violent wind with the heavy laws of the Sword Dao Domain.
It really worked!
The powerful Sword Dao Domain forcibly squeezed out a large portion of the gale, creating a vacuum zone that the wind found difficult to invade.
To Li Yun, this area was safe.
The wind could not enter, nor could the cold erode it.
Li Yun immediately felt much better.
He hurriedly circulated the Primal Chaos Art, mobilizing the Innate True Qi within him through his entire body and restoring it to normal.
Yet his expression grew increasingly grave.
The reason was that he could not determine how long this wave of