Yang Huai's icy face suddenly broke into a smile.
"Since that's the case, why can't I take the treasures on you and spare your life?"
Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable froze, then laughed.
"You? With your Dao attainment and cultivation, you dare boast so shamelessly?"
Though the other party possessed such a peerless killing treasure, he was not the Ice Tiger Emperor, someone who could be bound and slaughtered at another's leisure!
His patience had completely run out. Just as he was about to strike, his expression suddenly stiffened. Specks of starlight had appeared somewhere in the depths of the void around them, and a vast, magnificent river of stars abruptly emerged in every direction. One galaxy after another seemed to drag him into the depths of a stellar universe.
It was not only the dozen or so figures before him. Even within the depths of the various glaciers, many tender green buds trembled as they discovered that, without realizing it, they had fallen into a cosmos of stars.
"This is... a second innate Dharma treasure?"
Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable's heart jolted, and he sensed that something was amiss. He hurriedly shouted.
"Wait, Daoist friend! This matter can still be reconciled..."
Yet his hands did not slow. That enormous axe condensed from boundless life force appeared once more, faintly carrying the aura of splitting heaven and earth apart.
His body transformed into a thousand-zhang emerald giant.
But one of the surrounding galaxies suddenly turned purple-black. Looking closely, its depths were packed with dense shadows of black insects. Under Yang Huai's urging, they exuded an aura that brought heaven and earth to ruin and caused all things to wither.
A strange, sweet fragrance also filled the stellar cosmos, and many stars took on the appearance of decay and destruction.
After only the