Battle Ice Empress 2

"Clang!"

The Ice Dragon spear and the scorpion tail collided with a thunderous boom; as sparks showered down, shards of ice fell in a flurry.

Jiang Che flipped his wrist, sweeping the spear shaft horizontally. The brute force, bolstered by the phantom of an Ice Dragon, smashed toward the Ice Empress's flank. The Ice Empress stomped her six legs rapidly, the cold light on her carapace flaring as she forcibly withstood the blow. Her front pincers seized the spear shaft, and she exerted sudden, immense force.

"Break for me!"

The Ice Empress roared, her pincer tips clamping down with lethal intent. The spear shaft instantly became riddled with cracks. Jiang Che's eyes sharpened; he abandoned the weapon and spun, his dragon-transformed right leg wrapped in cold air as he swept it out, striking the Ice Empress squarely in the lower abdomen. The Ice Empress winced in pain, her long tail lashing out, the hook at its tip stabbing straight for Jiang Che's throat.

Jiang Che leaned back to dodge, ice shards erupting from his fingertips, but they were deflected by the Ice Empress's carapace. He pressed the attack, his fists hammering against her head like war drums, while the Ice Empress used her pincers as fists, meeting him blow for blow.

The sound of fists and pincers clashing was as dense as rain, with pale blue and emerald lights colliding frantically. The Ice Empress's long tail snaked around Jiang Che's left leg with cunning precision; Jiang Che's left dragon claw clamped onto the scorpion tail, while his right arm landed a heavy blow on the Ice Empress's face.

The Ice Empress recoiled in pain and thrashed violently to break free, but Jiang Che seized the opportunity, flipping onto her back and pinning her carapace down with his dragon claws.

The Ice Empress twisted her body frantically, causing the ice layer to shatter, yet she could not shake Jiang Che off. Jiang Che leaned down, his dragon pupils cold and piercing, raining down punch after punch. Each strike carried the chill of Ultimate Ice, causing the Ice Empress's carapace to hum and vibrate.

"Ah! Human! Die!" The Ice Empress roared, the power of her beast origin erupting completely. A cold mist, interwoven with emerald green and brilliant white, surged into the sky.

In an instant, with the Ice Empress at the center, the Eternal Frozen Domain erupted outward!

The temperature between heaven and earth plummeted to the absolute freezing point in a heartbeat. The howling cold wind froze solid; the ice shards in the air and the scattered fragments of the ice spear were all locked in place. The entire Far North Ice Plains was shrouded in this deathly domain of ice.

A thick, emerald-colored ice layer spread rapidly across the ground. Wherever it touched, all things were frozen. Even the space itself rippled with crystalline frost patterns, completely sealing off all vitality and movement.

Within the domain, the Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice power was amplified infinitely. The cold air transformed into fine, dense ice needles, infiltrating Jiang Che's flesh and soul power, seeking to freeze him into a statue of ice.

Seeing this, Jiang Che felt a surge of alarm. He flapped his dragon wings, instantly flying a thousand meters away, but the Ice Empress's domain expanded too rapidly. Jiang Che had no choice but to use a soul skill to defend: "Sixth Soul Skill, Winter Guardian!"

The ice-crystal dragon wings on Jiang Che's back vibrated violently, and pale blue soul power surged frantically. As the Sixth Soul Skill, Winter Guardian, was activated, a thick, ice-blue dragon-patterned shield condensed around him. Ice Dragon motifs swirled across the shield, desperately holding back the encroaching chill of the Eternal Frozen Domain.

However, the power of the Eternal Frozen Domain, fueled by the Ice Empress's 399,900-year origin, far exceeded his expectations. The emerald, icy force crashed against the dragon-patterned shield like a surging tidal wave.

Within moments, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the shield. The ice layer peeled away, and the once-brilliant ice-blue light faded rapidly. Jiang Che's Ice Dragon soul power was being continuously eroded. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth again, and he braced his arms against the shield, his veins bulging and his dragon scales frosted white from the extreme cold.

"Damn it!" Seeing that the Winter Guardian could no longer hold, Jiang Che cursed under his breath, and his Eighth Soul Ring flashed with red light.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Extreme Ice Dragon Might Domain!" This was a domain-type soul skill granted by Jiang Che's Eighth Soul Ring. Initially, it was merely a Dragon Might domain, but after merging with the Extreme Ice domain of his own Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, it had evolved into the Extreme Ice Dragon Might Domain.

Both domains contained the power of Ultimate Ice. Dragon Might and the ice-blue cold air swept out, colliding head-on with the Ice Empress's emerald-green Eternal Frozen Domain.

The two Ultimate Ice domains clashed fiercely. There was no earth-shattering roar, only the sizzling sound of two origin-level cold forces eroding and crushing each other. The cold air in the heavens and earth boiled, and in mid-air, emerald and ice-blue energy halos continuously intertwined and exploded.

The Ice Empress attacked again, her yellow diamond-like eyes burning with murderous intent. She stomped her six legs, shattering the ice within the domain, and her form turned into a streak of emerald light. Ignoring the turbulent energy of the dual-domain clash, she lunged at Jiang Che with her front pincers and long tail glowing with lethal, icy light!

Her speed, bolstered by the Eternal Frozen Domain, reached its absolute limit. The diamond-shaped protrusions on her carapace refracted the icy light, each one appearing like a blade capable of slicing through space.

Her front pincers locked onto Jiang Che's neck, while her scorpion tail snaked toward his lower back with cunning precision, sealing off every angle of escape.

Jiang Che's pupils contracted. The Ice Dragon phantom within his Extreme Ice Dragon Might Domain roared and dove down, transforming into countless ice-blue dragon claws to block his front.

But the Ice Empress's attack was too fierce. Her pincer tips tore through the dragon claw phantoms, and her tail hook pierced through a weak point in the domain, striking fiercely toward Jiang Che's Avatar of Martial Soul with a chill that could freeze the soul!

"Hmph!" The Dragon Might of the Extreme Ice Dragon Might Domain surged three times over. The temperature within the domain plummeted, and pale blue Ice Dragon patterns crawled over his entire body. His dragon claws met the Ice Empress's front pincers in a brutal, head-on collision!

"Bang--!"

This time, Jiang Che was sent flying, his body recoiling through the air like a kite with a broken string. The biting gale scraped his cheeks painfully, and the blood in his chest churned violently, nearly forcing him to spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot.

He flapped his ice-crystal dragon wings hard, the ice patterns on their surface shattering and falling away as fine shards. Enduring the agonizing tremor in his bones, he flapped the wings several more times to barely stabilize his momentum.

Jiang Che twisted his waist, carving a dangerous arc through the air. He stomped his feet in mid-air, and pale blue Ice Dragon soul power exploded beneath his soles. Using the recoil, he forcibly halted his retreat and hovered in the sky.

He raised a hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. Instead of fear, his ice-blue eyes burned with even greater fighting spirit. The light of the Extreme Ice Dragon Might Domain around him grew more intense, and countless Ice Dragon phantoms circled and roared within the domain, ready to strike.

Although Jiang Che's strength was comparable to a Super Douluo, he was at most at the level of a ninety-fifth or ninety-sixth rank, still significantly weaker than the Ice Empress, who was nearing the ninety-eighth rank.

At the beginning, he had barely held the upper hand due to the Ice Empress's arrogance and his own surprise tactics. But once the Ice Empress utilized her origin domain and went all out, that advantage vanished instantly, and he even fell into a disadvantageous position.

"Human, this place will be your burial ground today." The Ice Empress looked at Jiang Che in the air with a cold sneer.

"Is that so? But I don't believe I will fall here." Jiang Che's tone was extremely calm, as if he were not the one currently at a disadvantage.

"Hmph! Still so stubborn when death is at your doorstep." The Ice Empress said disdainfully, "Very well, being able to die at the hands of this Empress can be considered your good fortune."

Before the words had even faded, the soul power around the Ice Empress surged frantically. The emerald-green cold air of the Eternal Frozen Domain gathered in front of her, and her entire carapace lit up with an intensely dazzling emerald luster. Her yellow diamond eyes flashed with cold light as she shouted sharply: "Wrath of the Ice Emperor!"

The Wrath of the Ice Emperor erupted in a ring from the Ice Empress as the center, a giant emerald-green shockwave blasting directly toward Jiang Che.

"Ninth Soul Skill, Ice Dragon Bow!"

"Ninth Soul Skill, Wrath of the Ice Dragon King!"

Two low, deep shouts erupted from Jiang Che's mouth simultaneously as he unleashed his strongest trump card, just recently acquired.

Jiang Che's arms bulged with veins, his dragon-transformed hands pulling the Ice Dragon Bow until the string was drawn to a full moon. The cold air at the tip of the Ice Dragon arrow flared, confronting the Ice Empress's Wrath of the Ice Emperor shockwave across the distance.

"Boom!"

The next instant, the Wrath of the Ice Dragon King flew from the string, carrying the momentum to tear through space, and collided violently with the emerald-green shockwave of the Wrath of the Ice Emperor!

ps: I'll take down the Ice Empress tomorrow!