The Ice Phoenix raised its head and let out a clear, resonant cry. Opening its enormous beak, it spewed a deep-blue stream of icy breath dozens of zhang thick from the depths of its throat.
The icy breath was the purest shade of profound ice. Wherever it passed, countless fine ice crystals scattered through the air.
At the same time, the World-Purifying White Lotus moved as well.
Layer upon layer of lotus petals unfurled at once, and an exquisitely condensed phantom of a white lotus shot forth from its seedpod.
The white lotus phantom glowed with holy, gentle white light across its entire body. Like an exquisite jade lotus shrunk countless times over, it radiated majestic power capable of purifying all things.
One blue and one white, the two attacks streaked across the night sky like meteors and slammed directly into the pitch-black light barrier surrounding the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
Qin Yan watched the two attacks strike the black light barrier without expression, not even entertaining the thought of intercepting them.
This black light barrier had been condensed by Imperial Crown Verdict, the Spirit Weapon Skill of the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown. Its defensive power could not be broken by anyone below the Venerable realm.
Not to mention these two attacks that were merely at the Late-Stage Grandmaster level—even if another ten or eight came, they would never leave so much as a trace on that barrier.
And the result was exactly as Qin Yan had expected.
The Ice Phoenix's deep-blue icy breath and the White Lotus's holy phantom crashed against the black light barrier. After producing only two dull booms, they were silently swallowed whole by the dense Darkness Force.
Not even the faintest ripple appeared on the barrier's surface. It remained as black and unfathomable as