The Ice-Fire Twin Lotus's stem twisted slightly, and its two enormous blossoms suddenly unfurled like Ferocious Beasts waking from slumber!
A surge of crimson flame energy, far more violent than before, erupted explosively from the fire lotus, becoming a towering wave of fire that rushed straight toward Dai Youheng and Xiao Bai.
The flames were an almost transparent white, their temperature terrifyingly high. This was ultimate fire!
"Hmph!" Xiao Bai snorted coldly and thrust her plump palm forward. A crystal-clear wall of ice several meters thick instantly formed, blocking the wave of fire.
Although Xiao Bai's ice had not reached the level of ultimate ice, it was not far off. Moreover, she had nearly two hundred thousand more years of cultivation than this Ice-Fire Twin Lotus.
Xiao Bai was nominally a two-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast, but she was actually approaching three hundred thousand years. Since she had not survived the three-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, however, she could still only be counted as a two-hundred-thousand-year beast.
Hiss, hiss, hiss-!
Fire and ice collided violently, releasing huge clouds of white steam. The ice wall melted rapidly, but Xiao Bai's Soul Power flowed without end, barely holding back this first assault.
Yet just as Xiao Bai prepared to counterattack, a sudden change occurred!
The ice-blue lotus abruptly lit up as well! Without warning, a freezing beam of such deep blue that it was almost indigo, radiating the chill of absolute zero, shot from its center. The beam was astonishingly fast, instantly bypassing Xiao Bai's ice wall and striking straight at her body!
"What?" Xiao Bai and the Snow Empress cried out simultaneously!
Caught off guard, Xiao Bai could only form a layer of ice armor around herself.
Bang!
The ultimate ice beam slammed into Xiao Bai's ice armor with the clang of metal striking metal!