"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The ice spikes shattered against the ground, sending thousands of ice crystal fragments flying like razor-sharp hidden weapons, pelting Huo Yuhao from head to toe!
Huo Yuhao reached back and pressed Wang Qiu'er tightly against his chest, taking the full impact of the fragments with his back!
"Riiip!!"
His black combat clothes were instantly sliced into strips, his flesh torn open!
But the instant his flesh split, an intensely radiant red-and-white light burst from deep within Huo Yuhao's bone marrow.
The octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot!
His golden body, impervious to water and fire, held his wounds firmly shut. The ultimate fire within his blood surged wildly, forcibly melting and expelling the ice poison invading his body!
"Yuhao!!"
Wang Qiu'er was so frantic in his arms that tears spilled down her face.
"Don't get distracted! Watch where you're going!"
Huo Yuhao spat out a mouthful of bloody froth flecked with ice and shoved Wang Qiu'er toward a sheltered corner by the ice cavern's entrance.
"Stay there! Don't come over!"
Before his words had faded, a bone-chilling murmur of astonishment came from the ice crystal throne ahead.
"A human brat... a ten-thousand-year black ring? And such spiritual power and physique?"
The Ice Empress slowly raised her body. In her jade-green compound eyes, astonishment instantly turned into the fury of someone toyed with by an ant.
"You can be proud of surviving one blow from me! But my bedchamber is no place for vermin like you to prance about!!"
"Boom!!"
The Ice Empress abruptly pressed one enormous foreclaw, studded with diamond-like granules, against the empty air!
The famed ultimate technique of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North-[Eternal Frozen Domain]!!
In an instant, the entire hall fell into absolute deathly stillness.
There was no