Ao Qu shot out of the cave. At that moment, a figure soared into the sky and came charging straight at him. He hurriedly raised the Five Elements Ring above his head, and a radiant glow enveloped him.
As soon as the demonic youth entered the area covered by the glow, before he could even throw his dark fist, a strange sensation washed over him.
Suddenly, reality shifted. It was as if he had been forcibly pulled into a strange world. He had no idea how, but with a single movement, he found himself in a frozen wasteland. Ice covered the ground, and snow blanketed everything in sight.
A bitter wind howled, whipping up ice shards and snowflakes that scraped his face like blades. Cries and roars filled his ears, while a bleak, desolate air seeped into him. An utterly frigid force battered his mind.
Ice began to cover his body. In an instant, icicles hung all over him, glittering like crystal. His joints grew heavy, and his bat wings felt as though they had been filled with lead, barely able to move.
Boom!
A thunderous crash sounded ahead.
A massive snowball rolled down the mountainside, transforming into a huge humanoid monster. It raised an enormous fist and slammed it toward the ground.
The demonic youth circulated his spiritual energy throughout his body. He shuddered, and with a series of cracks, the ice covering him shattered. He raised both fists and charged at the snow monster.
The snow monster swung its giant arm. Seeing the youth attack, it whipped the limb around at once, sending snow swirling through the air. Its arm swung faster and faster until the limb, forged from ice and snow, tore free and shot toward him with blinding speed.
The snow arm was as hard as