The instant the ice marrow entered her body, Ice Empress seemed to become an erupting volcano of ice. Terrifying cold spread wildly outward from her, and the falling snowflakes froze midair before exploding into ice dust that filled the sky.
Crack, crack, crack—
The ice began to fracture. Ice Empress's aura rose steadily as she kept her eyes shut tight, brows furrowed, clearly suppressing that immense power and guiding it toward her bottleneck.
"Four hundred thousand years... has it finally come?"
She murmured to herself, her voice trembling slightly with both excitement and reverence for the unknown.
At that moment, the previously calm sky abruptly changed color.
Ink-black clouds seemed to surge in from every direction, instantly pressing down over the sky. A suffocating pressure enveloped the entire icy peak.
"It's here!"
Yu Chen's expression tightened in the distance, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes.
Rumble—!
The first heavenly lightning did not need much time to gather. It directly condensed into a ferocious purple lightning dragon amid the clouds and struck down at Ice Empress with the force to destroy everything.
"Hmph, you think that little trick can stop me?"
Ice Empress abruptly opened her eyes, and the icy-blue light within them surged. Rather than dodging, she rose to her feet and reached toward the sky with her right hand.
"Ice Empress's Fury!"
A dazzling pillar of extreme cold shot into the sky and collided directly with the purple lightning dragon.
With a thunderous boom, the pillar and the lightning dragon crashed violently together in midair. Terrifying energy ripples spread in all directions, instantly reducing the surrounding rocks to dust.
She had taken the first strike head-on.
But this was only the beginning. The heavenly tribulation had only just begun to reveal its power.
Then came the second, the