"Boom... boom... boom..."
After the Ice Peak beneath Jade Gate Pass struck three times in succession, it exploded into fragments underground. The attack was over.
Fine cracks appeared across Jade Gate Pass's walls, yet it still stood firm!
Fang Yun was completely unharmed.
The Frost Lord seemed to let out a soft sigh before fading away.
Zong Jibing was stunned. He had never expected his most powerful force to fail.
This poem praised the Frost Lord of the Ten Cold Ancient Land. His authority was equivalent to that of the rulers of the Ten Kingdoms, yet his status was even higher. He was the true ruler of the Ten Cold Ancient Land, which had no institution comparable to the Sacred Academy.
Zong Jibing's purpose was clear: using the bloodline of the Ice Clan, he would chant the name of the most powerful person in the Ten Cold Ancient Land.
Then he would absorb the chill of the Great Sage Ice Emperor, followed by the power of the Hanlin Academician War Poetry Ode to Winter.
Such absorption and stacking of power was absolutely impossible for ordinary members of the Human Race, unless they used Linked Poetry or had the aid of a Half-Sage. But Zong Jibing possessed the bloodline of the Ice Clan and was different from others.
Yet this Ode to the Cold Lord had gotten off to a bad start. Before the poem could be completed, the power of Ode to Winter was scattered by Jade Gate Pass.
Jade Gate Pass was a vital northern stronghold of the Wu Kingdom and the Human Race, gathering the wills of countless heroic souls of the Human Race. Naturally, it could not tolerate the power of an alien race.
In the end, Ode to the Cold Lord absorbed only the Ice Emperor's