A Target for You

The next morning, at dawn.

Outside the tree hollow, Jiang Bai stood on a relatively level patch of ground and began his daily cultivation.

Now that he possessed the External Soul Bones of the Ice Dragon and Fire Dragon, even without Martial Soul Possession, his affinity for and control over the elements of ice and fire had reached an entirely new level.

His mind settled. He loosely formed a sword hand with his right hand while his left slowly swept across his palm as though wiping a blade.

Guided by Soul Power and condensed chill, moisture and ice elements in the air rapidly gathered. An ice sword roughly three feet long, crystalline and transparent throughout, radiating biting cold, gradually materialized in his right hand.

The blade was like a mirror, reflecting the lake and forest.

He first practiced a set of Angel Swordsmanship that Qian Renxue had once taught him.

This swordsmanship was originally known for its holiness, swiftness, and majestic righteousness. Yet in Jiang Bai's hands, it incorporated the qualities of ice, losing some of its blazing brilliance while gaining a cold precision and killing intent.

As sword light flowed, cold air spread in all directions, and fine frost crystals formed upon the surrounding grass and leaves.

Then his sword stance shifted, and his aura suddenly became ethereal and vast.

This was the swordsmanship taught by the Snow Empress.

Wherever the blade pointed, it seemed to draw in the surrounding cold and mist. Wherever the sword light passed, the air appeared frozen and severed, leaving behind fleeting traces of ice.

More than an hour passed before Jiang Bai slowly sheathed his sword.

The ice sword dissolved into specks of blue light in his hand.

He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, regulating his slightly unsteady breathing and Soul Power.