Jin Xun's natal flying sword, carrying a dazzling sword radiance, struck the ice wall.
The instant the sword's edge touched the ice, it let out a shrill screech, sending ice shards flying in all directions.
Cracks spread rapidly across the ice wall from the sword tip like a spiderweb.
Yet the ice wall did not shatter. Instead, an eerie chill seeped faintly from the cracks, slowly repairing itself as though it were alive.
However, the flying sword remained nailed to the ice wall, spinning ceaselessly as countless ice chips burst away.
The flying sword gradually pierced into the ice wall.
The cracks on the ice wall immediately ceased healing and spread outward once more, the gaps between them growing wider and wider.
"Crack—crack—"
Faint fracturing sounds came from within the ice wall.
Then, with a booming roar, the entire sphere of ice exploded apart.
Ice crystals of all sizes fell toward Lake like plummeting stars.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
A thousand towering waves surged across the vast Lake.
The extreme cold contained within the ice crystals erupted at once. Layer upon layer of white mist rose from Lake, which swiftly froze over with a thick sheet of ice.
The moment Jin Xun saw the ice sphere break apart, he did not hesitate in the slightest. His body flashed as he fled toward the sky.
Yet he had only risen several li.
Suddenly, a muffled bang rang out.
Jin Xun felt as though he had crashed into a wall of bronze and iron.
A powerful rebounding force struck him, forcibly sending him plummeting several zhang.
He focused his gaze and saw that, at some unknown time, a translucent black barrier had appeared overhead. Black runes flickered across it, radiating dense corpse qi.
Outside the barrier, Mi Hai stood in the air. A