Within the Ice Seal, Dai Youheng was enduring excruciating pain unlike anything he had ever experienced.
The armor of ultimate ice formed by the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus protected his flesh as much as possible from being instantly torn apart by the rampaging ice and fire energy, but it also locked all the pain and every surge of energy firmly inside his body, leaving them nowhere to escape.
The immense energy of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was like a flood bursting through a dam, like red-hot branding irons forcibly driven into his comparatively slender meridians, scouring, expanding, and even tearing them apart!
Every impact brought agony as though his body were being smashed to pieces. And within that energy lay the two ultimate attributes of ice and fire, clashing and colliding violently in his meridians, bones, and organs!
One moment, he felt as though he had been thrown into the heart of the sun, his organs burning and melting under ultimate fire, every cell screaming in agony; the next, he felt as though he had been hurled into a cosmic abyss at absolute zero, his blood freezing, his soul on the verge of being sealed away by ultimate ice, even his thoughts slowing and solidifying.
Ice and fire, two extremes of suffering, alternated at a staggering pace and even struck simultaneously. This had long since surpassed the limits of ordinary endurance, enough to drive even the strongest mind utterly mad.
More terrifying still were the assaults on his soul.
Just as the Snow Empress had warned, although the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus possessed no sentience, the primal instincts and resentment it had accumulated over a hundred thousand years mixed with fragments of the laws of ultimate ice and ultimate fire, becoming an unimaginably violent spiritual storm that battered Dai