Wan Qi had drawn most of Taixu Hall's firepower onto himself. No one had managed to make it over to the pond and disrupt the standoff between Xiang Feifei and Yu Sui.
Neither of their Black Tortoise Star Arrays had dissipated.
Countless tiny Dark Serpents coiled around the corridor pillars, watching Yu Sui with restless intent.
The Ice Serpent's tail encircled Yu Sui. Its head stretched in from outside the corridor, looking down from on high at Xiang Feifei, who was hidden behind the Dark Serpents.
During their last clash, Xiang Feifei had learned that her opponent possessed a star sea of Three Thousand Stars. But she'd only caught a glimpse of it, and she still felt unwilling to give up. She wanted to test her again.
Both sides struck at once. The temperature above the pond plunged. Two waves of ice, one black and one white, spread across the water, swiftly freezing everything.
The emerald pines and brilliant red lotus flowers lost all their color beneath the black and white frost. The world turned monochrome as the two sides secretly vied for dominance.
They were both testing their control over the Five Elements Qi. As Star Generals in the same Black Tortoise Star Array, they both wielded the power to freeze all things. Now, whoever controlled the Five Elements Qi more precisely would devour the other's Star General and freeze her.
Xiang Feifei focused on the standoff as the Five Elements Light Core within her spun rapidly. Unfortunately, the Ice Serpent had bitten her, and Ice Power had seeped into her body through the wound. The bone-deep chill stabbed straight toward her soul.
Xiang Feifei's Five Elements Light Core had already reached the Ninth Realm.
Yu Sui's Five Elements Light Core was only at the Sixth Realm. The gap