The speeding Ice Arrow spun slightly through a full turn, then finally slammed into the Black Shield He Pingsheng had erected, carrying tremendous force.
A mighty surge of ice-attribute energy turned into a rippling tide of ice and snow, exploding outward in every direction from the point of impact.
The shock wave sliced across the void.
Yet after that wave passed, something happened that astonished Ruo Kai.
He Pingsheng's little shield, only three zhang across, had not broken.
It still stood solidly in the void.
In fact, sustained by the magic power within He Pingsheng, the shield grew even brighter and thicker.
He Pingsheng smiled.
He had known his shield was strong, but he had never expected it to be this strong.
The power unleashed by Five Elements Unity was far more than merely five times the strength.
This was a fusion of Daoist laws!
A reversal of the five elements.
"Good, good, good..." Ruo Kai was losing face, and a vicious edge crept into his voice. "I did indeed underestimate you just now..."
"But that doesn't matter!"
"If I couldn't kill you the first time, you certainly won't escape the second!"
"I want to see just how powerful a legendary Golden Core Dao Access Practitioner really is!"
As he spoke, his divine sense had already drawn forth an eruption of ice-attribute spiritual power from within his body, condensing another Ice Arrow in the void in an instant.
This time, Ruo Kai used his full strength.
In the void ten thousand zhang overhead, an Ice Arrow thirty zhang in size took shape.
"Go!"
Ruo Kai shouted, and the enormous arrowhead swept through the void, plunging toward He Pingsheng's head once more like a meteor crashing to earth.
He Pingsheng still did not flee.
His divine sense spread out in a