"Cut off emotions? It's just self-deception."
Liu Mei's voice was calm, but it spread clearly throughout the entire competition field. He said indifferently, "Emotions are not a burden, but a manifestation of the principles of heaven and earth. If you cut them off forcibly, it is just an escape."
"My way is to see through the essence of all emotions and allow them to change. My heart will remain unmoved."
After the words fell, Liu Mei shook his long sword, and the clouds and mist around him instantly boiled. Countless illusions intertwined together, turning into a long river composed of thousands of figures, sweeping towards Hong Die's heartless realm.
Wherever the long river passed, the ice and snow covered by Hong Die melted rapidly. When the condensed ice sculptures came into contact with the long river of illusion, they actually began to melt, revealing the outline of the human form again, and their faces seemed to have regained some vitality.
Hong Die's face changed. She felt that her Heartless Intent was being eroded. She threw Kunji Whip into the air and quickly formed seals with her hands.
"Ice Seal of Eternity!"
In an instant, the temperature of the entire competition ground dropped sharply, the flow of the Illusion River slowed down significantly, and ice began to condense on the river.
Hong Die's Heartless Intent was pushed to the extreme, and countless ice edges emerged from the ground, intertwining into a huge ice network, tightly trapping the illusory river, trying to freeze it completely.
When Liu Mei saw this, his eyes narrowed, the sword in his hand shone brightly, and Thousand Illusions Heartless Path's artistic conception exploded with all its strength.
In the long river of trapped illusions, countless figures let out silent shouts, and then exploded one after another, turning into the power of pure artistic conception and impacting the ice network.
"Cut!"
With a soft drink from Liu Mei, the long sword turned into a stream of silvery white light, slashing out along the path of the illusory river. Wherever the sword light passed, the ice cracked inch by inch, and a huge hole was instantly torn out of the ice network.
Hong Die groaned, her blood surged with shock from the impact of the artistic conception. She recalled Kunji Whip, her eyes becoming even colder. "Since you are so stubborn, don't blame me for being cruel!"
I saw Hong Die suddenly inserting Kunji Whip into the ground. The thunder runes of Heartless Intent and Kunji Whip merged with each other. A faint purple thunder light appeared in the originally cold ice and snow.
These thunders were not ordinary thunder and lightning, but thunders of destruction that contained ruthless meaning. When they fell on the ground, they instantly blasted deep pits into the frozen soil.
When ice and snow encountered lightning, instead of melting, they became tougher and exuded a destructive aura.
"Thunder-Ice Heartless Kill!"
Hong Die formed a seal with his hands, and countless ice edges with thunder light rose from the ground and shot towards Liu Mei.
These ice edges combine the violence of thunder and the coldness of ruthlessness. Once touched, not only will the lightning be severely injured, but the soul will also be eroded by ruthlessness.
"She is indeed the proud daughter of Snow Domain State. What the teacher said is indeed true."
Liu Mei took a deep breath, and the illusion around her changed again. This time, the illusion was no longer a human form, but turned into countless long swords, echoing the physical long sword in her hand.
"Cut!"
Liu Mei instantly waved his long sword, and countless phantom long swords gathered in an instant, turning into a huge sword shadow, and slashed towards Lei Binglin with an invincible momentum.
The moment the sword shadow collided with Lei Bingleng, the entire Wild Mountain Arena seemed to have been pressed on the mute button, and then a deafening roar broke out.
Lightning flashed, ice and snow flew, and the two artistic conceptions were constantly intertwined and annihilated during the collision, forming a terrifying energy storm that spread towards the surroundings.
The ban on the competition ground was activated, and a faint golden light glowed, barely suppressing the storm within the venue.
Hong Die was thrown away by the storm, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth. She wiped away the blood, and the coldness in her eyes became even worse.
Kunji Whip trembled slightly in her hands. It was obvious that the collision just now also put a lot of pressure on this magic weapon.
She could feel that Liu Mei's Thousand Illusions Heartless Path was far stronger than she imagined. The other party was not without emotions, but had completely controlled his emotions and turned them into part of his own artistic conception. This state was much more advanced than her forcibly cutting off emotions.
Liu Mei also felt uncomfortable. Although she stood firmly in place, her face was a little pale.
Hong Die's Heartless Intent is extremely domineering. In the collision just now, a ray of ruthless intention invaded her body along the sword shadow, causing her soul to sting.
Liu Mei Bai Qia bit her lower lip gently and used her spiritual power to suppress the ruthless intention. Her eyes became more and more indifferent. "Although your artistic conception is strong, it is too extreme. You will definitely lose today."
"Not necessarily!"
Hong Die roared, and the Heartless Intent around her surged again. This time, she actually began to burn her own cultivation to enhance the power of her artistic conception.
At this moment, her hair turned white at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her breath became unstable, but her eyes became more determined.
"I have been practicing hard for hundreds of years to reach the peak of the Ascendant Realm. I can never lose here!!"
As Hong Die shouted, the ice and snow around her began to shrink, and eventually condensed into a huge ice ball, wrapping her and Kunji Whip in it.
The surface of the ice ball was covered with lightning runes, exuding a destructive aura, and slowly pressed towards Liu Mei. Wherever it passed, the space cracked inch by inch, and even the illusion created by Liu Mei was forcibly torn apart.
Liu Mei felt the terrifying aura coming from the ice hockey ball and knew that Hong Die had already tried his best.
She no longer held back, and pushed the artistic conception of Thousand Illusions Heartless Path to the extreme. The clouds and mist around her completely dissipated, replaced by nothingness.
In this void, only the long sword in Liu Mei's hand exuded a faint light, and her eyes became empty, as if they were integrated with the heaven and earth.
"Qianhuan State is ruthless, the road is unified!"
Liu Mei gave a soft drink, slowly raised the sword, and then slashed it down.
A seemingly ordinary sword light shot out from the sword, without earth-shattering momentum, but with a kind of ruthlessness that ignored everything, and slashed straight towards the huge ice ball.
The moment the sword light came into contact with the ice ball, the thunder runes on the surface of the ice ball were instantly extinguished, and the ice and snow began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Hong Die let out a shrill scream inside the ice ball. She could feel that her Heartless Intent was being disintegrated bit by bit by the sword light, and the power brought by the burning cultivation was also rapidly draining away.
As the ice ball completely shattered, Hong Die fell out of it in embarrassment, covered in injuries and weak in breath. Kunji Whip also fell aside, losing its former luster.
"You lost."
Liu Mei put one hand behind his back and held the long sword tightly in his right hand. He walked slowly in front of Hong Die. The tip of the sword pointed at her eyebrows. His eyes were still indifferent and he said through the voice:
"According to the previous agreement, I will not kill you, but Master asked me to tell you something. Death is imminent. This jade pendant can help you get rid of control, but whether you can survive or not depends on you."
Hong Die was lying on the bitterly cold ground, looking at Liu Mei's cold eyes, feeling an unprecedented sense of frustration in his heart.