The center of the battlefield.
Ice Venerable steadied his footing, and a sinister smile finally spread across his face.
"You little bastard, of all the places you could have gone, you chose to barge into Ice River Valley's territory alone!"
"With the earth-vein cold energy bolstering it, the Dry Dragon Dark Nether Array is inexhaustible. Today, you won't be able to escape even if you grow wings!"
Before his voice had even faded, Ice Venerable pressed both hands down. The Ice Venerable Force within him poured out without reservation, transforming into four enormous black ice walls that completely sealed off Lu Heng's escape route above.
Below, the two-hundred-zhang-long Crystal Ice Nether Dragon opened its bloody maw and spewed three blizzards laced with violently poisonous cold energy, sending them straight at Lu Heng.
Attacked from both front and rear, with nowhere to retreat.
Facing the encirclement from above and below, Lu Heng's expression remained utterly calm. He gave a contemptuous smile.
"Is that all?"
The next moment, Lu Heng formed hand seals with both hands.
The Five-Color Wheel hovering behind him suddenly spun faster.
Gray ripples spread across the wheel's outer ring. The worldly energy within a thousand-zhang radius was drawn in by the Five-Color Wheel and surged madly into Lu Heng's body.
The gray-white robe on Lu Heng's body snapped loudly in the gale. The aura that had originally remained at the One-Star Dou Zun level began to soar steadily.
After only a few breaths, that vast and powerful Dou Qi pressure directly crossed the threshold of Four-Star Dou Zun, shaking several cracks into the surrounding void.
On a distant ice cliff, Hei Qing was stunned.
"My goodness, what's going on with this kid?"
"He forcibly drained all the worldly energy within a hundred-mile radius, and his aura has actually