The early Great Encompassing snow deer's assault was ferocious. Ice spears, dense as rain and radiating a chill that could freeze all things, howled toward the Island-Guarding Grand Formation.
Earth-shaking explosions rang out one after another, and countless fine, spiderweb-like cracks instantly burst across the formation's light barrier.
Under this relentless bombardment, the spiritual light flowing across the formation's barrier grew ever dimmer. A cold fierce enough to freeze and shatter heaven and earth swept madly through the cracks into the formation.
This was no ordinary chill. It had been condensed from the ice Great Dao origin the early Great Encompassing snow deer had cultivated for ten thousand years. Wreathed in Dao resonance, it could freeze even elusive, intangible space.
Some cultivators near the formation's edge were merely brushed by a wisp of cold, yet their bodies and Primordial Spirits froze in an instant. In the blink of an eye, they became crystalline, lifeless ice sculptures, then fell to the ground and shattered into countless fragments.
Even the Spirit Treasures in the cultivators' hands became useless scrap metal upon contact with the slightest trace of that cold.
The early Great Encompassing snow deer soon locked onto its enemy, Liu Changxu, inside the formation and immediately launched an even fiercer assault.
Seeing that the Great Encompassing snow deer had located him, Liu Changxu neither shrank back nor succumbed to fear. He immediately summoned the Wishful Lotus Cauldron.
The moment the Wishful Lotus Cauldron appeared, it swelled rapidly, soon becoming an enormous golden cauldron spanning the void.
A moment later, its lid opened slightly, and blazing great sun immortal flame surged from its mouth. It transformed into a colossal fire dragon with distinct scales and claws and an overwhelming aura, then swept toward the cold engulfing the sky.
The great sun immortal