This felt completely different from the joint cultivation last night.
In this situation, it was more as though her ice-element Martial Soul had been completely assimilated and controlled by this foreign aura of extreme cold.
That extreme cold altered her entire bearing, making her colder, purer, and more powerful.
Across from her, Ma Xiaotao sensed that frigid aura. The sudden stimulation made the violence and madness in her heart burn even more fiercely.
Her body suddenly jerked free, and the Phoenix Flame burning around her surged violently as a clear phoenix cry rang out.
A huge phantom of a Fire Phoenix, formed entirely from dark-red flames, slowly emerged behind her.
Two yellow, two purple, and two black Soul Rings rose up as well.
The Fire Phoenix phantom abruptly spread its enormous wings. Ma Xiaotao transformed into a streak of dark-red light and lunged at Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao behind her at astonishing speed.
In her current state, Ling Luochen merely watched the charging Ma Xiaotao with cold eyes.
She raised the Ice Staff in her hand above her head.
In an instant, a dense ice-blue halo exploded outward from her, dyeing her entire body ice-blue.
Immediately afterward, an ice-blue pillar of light shot into the sky.
The air, which had become scorching and distorted due to the Phoenix Flame, was swept clean the instant the ice-blue pillar appeared. In its place spread a domain of extreme cold that seemed capable of freezing souls.
After rising ten meters into the air, the icy current rapidly spread outward in all directions, pressing toward Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Flame like a tide.
The dark-red flames and ice-blue current—two utterly opposing extreme energies—collided in an instant.
Yet the earth-shattering explosion everyone expected did not occur.
The blazing, violent Phoenix Flame seemed to have encountered