With a roar, the exquisite azure-blue ice wings, like crystalline glazed ice, suddenly unfurled!
The Hurricane Force within them was instantly stirred!
The left wing turned cyan-green, while the right became deep blue, both erupting with dazzling radiance!
One brimmed with Hurricane Force, while the other contained the wrath of frost. Two completely different yet mutually complementary ultimate elements intertwined...
The next instant, an azure-blue spiral pillar of light, more dazzling than the aurora, roared forth!
Before the Four-Eyed Demon Fox's terrified, stunned, and bewildered gaze, it instantly struck her body!
Without the slightest resistance, in a single instant, the Four-Eyed Demon Fox was swallowed by that breathtakingly beautiful yet lethally dangerous pillar of light...
After swallowing the Four-Eyed Demon Fox, the azure-blue pillar did not pause. Instead, it shot diagonally toward the vast blue sky.
It left only beautiful trails of light in midair, like scattered and fading auroras, before vanishing completely.
And what about the Four-Eyed Demon Fox?
By the time Light of the Polar Night disappeared beyond the horizon, her body had long since vanished without a trace.
All that remained was a small pile of glittering, glass-like ice dust, as well as...
A pitch-black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
Having watched the entire scene, Ning Yurong, held in Xue Mingqing's arms, had her soft pink lips hanging open so wide they could barely close.
W-What was going on?
Hadn't they just been facing a life-or-death crisis?
How had they suddenly turned the tables and killed her?
That was not reasonable, was it?
Her face filled with shock and incomprehension, Ning Yurong turned to look at Xue Mingqing.
She opened her mouth. "Xue Mingqing, you...?"
But just as her question left her lips, Xue Mingqing, who had been overwhelmingly powerful moments ago, suddenly went limp.
His vision went black, and he collapsed straight into Ning Yurong's arms.
Xue Mingqing fainted in Ning Yurong's arms. After he lost consciousness, the stunning External Soul Bone, the Snow Wind Ice Wings, instantly crumbled—turning into azure-blue motes that filled the sky before returning to Xue Mingqing's body.
Seeing this, Ning Yurong hurriedly caught Xue Mingqing. Her exquisitely beautiful face, gentle yet imbued with an ethereal aura, quietly looked down at him.
Yet the tips of her ears grew faintly hot...
Because... the place where Xue Mingqing had fallen against her was somewhat...
After coughing awkwardly twice, Ning Yurong adjusted Xue Mingqing's position in her arms.
Holding Xue Mingqing, she slowly sat down on the ground.
Only after enduring so many hardships and dangers, finally escaping alive, did she dare let out a breath of relief.
With a gentle sigh, she looked at Xue Mingqing lying in her arms.
Ning Yurong lightly extended her slender jade-like finger and traced the contours of Xue Mingqing's brows and eyes.
Her crimson eyes were filled with gratitude and curiosity, as well as...
A few indescribable feelings.
"Xue Mingqing."
She repeated Xue Mingqing's name word by word. Looking at the sleeping Xue Mingqing in her arms, the corners of her lips could not help but curve upward.
"What kind of monstrous prodigy... are you, exactly...?"
After murmuring those words, Ning Yurong said no more. She merely watched Xue Mingqing quietly.
She remained kneeling on the dirt road, holding the boy in her arms as fine snow drifted down over both of them.
Suddenly, Ning Yurong's finger paused as it traced his brow. It was as though she had sensed something—
Her crimson gaze slowly shifted toward the ice dust left behind by the Four-Eyed Demon Fox...
There seemed to be something in there...
After a moment of silence, she reached out and brushed aside the cold powder. When she saw what was inside, her brows lifted!
It was a Soul Bone—a right arm bone, crystal-clear like precious jade and radiating a fatal allure to Soul Masters.
Her gaze sharpened as Ning Yurong reached out and picked it up.
At that very moment, Wang Chao and the others' voices rang out from afar along the dirt road!
"Quick! I can see the young master! They're over here!"
At the sound, Ning Yurong's delicate body trembled. Instinctively, she stored the Soul Bone in her storage Soul Tool...
Within the Spirit Sea.
Xue Mingqing lay in his spiritual space, his face full of relief and excitement after surviving a disaster.
"Damn, I thought you were unreliable, Teacher. I thought everything was going to blow up."
Hearing this, Feng Qingyang, seated cross-legged beside Xue Mingqing, raised an eyebrow.
"And now?"
Xue Mingqing gave him a thumbs-up and gave a Xiao.
"Teacher, you were the MVP. I was just carried to victory."
Feng Qingyang could not help but give a Xiao. He raised his increasingly illusory finger and flicked Xue Mingqing on the forehead.
"You brat, that's what you get for not trusting me. You deserve it!"
After suffering this "heavy blow," Xue Mingqing shuddered and quickly covered his forehead.
"Ow, ow... That hurts, it hurts! Teacher, don't break me. I don't care—you have to pay my medical bills."
Feng Qingyang raised his brows and gave a light Xiao.
"What do you want?"
Seeing Feng Qingyang play along, Xue Mingqing's dark eyes rolled.
A crafty grin immediately appeared on his youthful face.
"I think that rune you gave me is pretty good. Give me another eighty or a hundred of them, and I'll reluctantly forgive you."
After saying that, Xue Mingqing blinked and stared motionlessly at Feng Qingyang.
And Feng Qingyang?
He froze for a moment, seemingly not having processed it.
Once he did—
"Ha ha ha ha! Eighty or a hundred?! Are you planning to eat them like food? Want this old man to let you have a taste of Hurricane Twenty-Seven Swords?"
Watching Feng Qingyang blow his beard and glare after being angered by him, Xue Mingqing shook his head and gave a Xiao.
His voice became gentle and steady again.
"Alright, I was making a Xiao joke, Teacher. Is your soul body okay?"
Feng Qingyang raised an eyebrow, a faint and calm Xiao curling his lips. Naturally, he could tell Xue Mingqing was making a Xiao joke.
The only reason he had acted so worked up was to play along.
With a light Xiao, Feng Qingyang waved his hand.
"The same as always. I won't die."
"However, I won't be able to make a move for quite some time."
Hearing that, Xue Mingqing nodded. This was within his expectations, after all.
Feng Qingyang had only awakened less than a week ago after sleeping for a month.
And what had he done?
First, he had helped Xue Mingqing temper his body with Hurricane Body Tempering, then helped him kill a powerful enemy.
It would have been strange if Feng Qingyang still had strength to spare.
With a sigh, Xue Mingqing asked the other question that had been troubling him.
"Teacher, the External Soul Bone on my back... what exactly is it?"
He had already felt it. The attributes of this External Soul Bone were simply absurd. It had three passive effects alone!
Acceleration, Ultimate Ice, and Ultimate Wind!
Besides those three passives, it even had an active skill—Light of the Polar Night.
Xue Mingqing had never heard of a Soul Bone with one soul skill and three passive effects in his entire life.
Was this even a Soul Bone?
This was practically a god bone!
Hearing Xue Mingqing's confusion, Feng Qingyang explained.
"Earlier, I used a wisp of my soul fragment as the root and implanted it into your body. With your own bloodline and Soul Power as nourishment, this Soul Bone grew from it. Well? This old man didn't lie to you, did I? Was this opportunity big enough?"
As he spoke, Feng Qingyang proudly raised his brows.
Seeing that, Xue Mingqing did not say anything fancy. He simply raised a hand and gave Feng Qingyang a thumbs-up.
"You're amazing!"
As everyone knew, the greatest acknowledgment between men was a thumbs-up paired with a simple "you're amazing." That was exactly how Xue Mingqing felt right now.
At this, Feng Qingyang gave a wistful Xiao.
"Ha ha ha... Alright, brat, don't worry too much."
"The power I infused into your Soul Bone should still be enough for you to unleash that attack from earlier one more time."
"After that, you'll have to rely on yourself."
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