Though his words were bold, Mu Xinyuan truly found Ice Venerable exceptionally troublesome at this moment. Yet whether by sentiment or reason, he would never entertain the slightest thought of abandoning Xiao Yan.
Seeing that Mu Xinyuan had not yielded in the slightest, Ice Venerable lost patience with waiting. With a flick of his right hand, ice and snow roared toward Mu Xinyuan alongside a biting cold wind. Mu Xinyuan's muscles bulged all over his body, and the flow of blood through his veins abruptly accelerated. Deep azure wind-attributed Dou Qi gathered within Mu Xinyuan's iron fists, and the force emanating from them shook space until it became extremely unstable!
Having temporarily held Mu Xinyuan back, Ice Venerable had no desire to keep tangling with him. He had no intention of killing Mu Xinyuan anyway, and instead headed straight for Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian. His target had always been the Woeful Poison Woman. Due to his cooperation with Soul Hall, he would take Xiao Yan away as well.
Just as he was about to reach the two of them, a deep cry of a luan rang out. Mu Xinyuan had caught up after all! After ice and snow clashed with iron fists once more, though the snow filling the sky was terrifying, Mu Xinyuan still relied on his pair of iron fists to charge through it!
Mu Xinyuan was somewhat embarrassed at this point. He had only just made such bold claims, yet in the next instant, Ice Venerable had trapped him, nearly allowing him to threaten Xiao Yan.
Ice Venerable's brow tightened as blackish-gray frost gathered in his hand and swept toward Mu Xinyuan. Within that frost was Ice River Valley's prized Ice Venerable Strength. An ordinary Dou Zong would be frozen into an ice sculpture in