Before that thought could fully take shape.
A backlash surged through her pincers, making her entire body go numb.
It felt as though she had clamped down on something ten times harder than ten-thousand-year mystic ice. The insides of her pincers creaked, and tiny cracks appeared in her crystalline ice carapace.
Her tail stinger struck Yang Xing's back as though it had hit an impenetrable steel fortress wall, the recoil leaving it throbbing with pain.
Hiss-
What?!
Before the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion could react.
Yang Xing swept out a kick.
Boom!
A sonic boom erupted, and his kick tore a white, cone-shaped shock wave straight through the air.
The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's massive body flew like a pebble struck by a giant hammer. With a piercing shriek, she tumbled several miles away amid fragments of shattered ice armor.
The Snow Empress's pupils contracted, and her divine body instinctively took a step forward.
Meanwhile, below.
Qian Renxue beat the wings of her eight-winged angel with all her might, flying upward with the Jade-Eyed Frostwing Chi beside her as they approached the battlefield above the clouds.
The edge of the blizzard tornado drew ever closer. Qian Renxue instinctively tensed, bracing herself against the icy winds.
But the moment her body passed through the edge of the blizzard, nothing happened.
The storm of ice blades that seemed capable of shredding everything swept past her, yet an invisible barrier appeared to keep it away, leaving her completely unaffected.
Qian Renxue froze for a moment, then understood why. Warmth filled her heart, but she gave it no further thought and accelerated upward.
In the end, Qian Renxue crossed the blizzard faster and more easily than even the Jade-Eyed Frostwing Chi, coming to a steady hover high in the sky, right at the center