Across the Icefield, wind and snow raged. Blood stained the white drifts, filling the air with a sharp, sickly-sweet stench.
Li Yun gripped the Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade. Its edge gleamed coldly as Ice True Intent froze the blood on it in an instant. A flick of the blade scattered the droplets into shards of ice.
He stood tall at the heart of the melee, an icy blue glow swirling around him. Ice True Intent spread unchecked, plunging the temperature within several yards. Even the howling snowstorm froze in midair.
The elite Sages of the Four Great Hunting Groups had lost every trace of their former arrogance. Terror-stricken, they fell into disarray.
Earlier, at Broken Rift Pass, the Transmission Herald had killed seven or eight of them with a single palm strike. Their elite force of forty had already been reduced to just over thirty.
After Li Yun's merciless slaughter, the scene was even more gruesome. Frozen, shattered corpses littered the ground. Barely a dozen had survived.
Every survivor was wounded, their faces white as paper. Fear had long since smothered the viciousness in their eyes. The carnage was horrifying.
None of them had imagined Li Yun could be this powerful!
Shock and terror were no longer enough to describe how they felt. The survivors' last shred of fighting spirit collapsed, leaving them no thought of resistance.
"Damn it! How can he be this strong?"
"This... This is beyond us! Run!"
Someone let out a despairing scream, and the surviving hunters broke. Without daring to linger, they turned and fled in every direction, wishing they had been born with two more legs.
They had wanted to capture Li Yun to establish their authority. They had even resented him for deliberately luring them into the forbidden zone and costing them so many