Snow piled atop thick ice, sealing off the lake. At a glance, hardly a patch of color could be seen—only boundless, desolate white.
The frozen lake stretched for more than a thousand miles, vast as the North Sea. Explosions kept erupting in the sky above, the light waxing and waning. At times, fire rained down in torrents; at others, black-and-white magnetic force surged, as though the apocalypse had arrived.
Zeng Ruoxuan of the Biyue Sword Sect and Mingfa of Shuiyue Nunnery were surrounded by Has Ula and four Golden Tent Warriors, and could only struggle to hold on.
Two fists were no match for four hands. Defeat already loomed, and it seemed only a matter of time before disaster befell them. Yet they remained calm and unruffled, because they had seized an opportunity just moments ago to send out a distress signal. Given the distance between them, at least four reinforcements should arrive before they could hold out no longer, turning the tables and surrounding Has Ula and the others.
Has Ula swung his saber without revealing that the Sun-Shooting Bow was on his person. He patiently waited for an opening—and for the enemy's reinforcements to arrive. The more, the better!
Not far away, in a place shrouded in frost and mist, a coffin floated silently, its blood-yellow aura drawn in until it appeared a heavy, iron-black.
High above, a streak of light shot up and burst into dazzling fireworks, so brilliant that it could be seen for thousands of miles around, like a real shooting star.
"Ice Fairy" Ye Yuqi was treading across muddy ground as she searched a primeval forest. Suddenly, she sensed something and looked up. Through the gaps in the branches and leaves, she saw the "fireworks."
Has Ula and the others really launched a counterattack!