Lu Changfeng raised his hand and grasped at the air. A broken piece of darksteel wood flew into his palm from nearby. Holding two fingers together like a sword, he gathered true qi at their tips and swiftly carved the pitch-black wood. Within a few breaths, a black flute roughly a foot and eight inches long took shape.
Darksteel wood was one of the hardest woods in the world, impervious to raging fire and resistant to blades.
Yet with Fifth Realm true qi infused into his fingertips, Lu Changfeng cut through it as though slicing mud.
Once the flute was finished, he raised it to his lips.
True qi flowed into it.
Flute Music rang out, clear and bone-chilling, like ice cracking for the first time. In an instant, it became a surging cold wave that swept across heaven and earth.
Every note carried a biting chill that pierced straight into the soul!
With his Fifth Realm cultivation and heaven-and-human resonance, Lu Changfeng unleashed the full force of his Sonic Wave Art. The origin qi of heaven and earth answered him, and in an instant, invisible sound waves spread outward in every direction!
Wherever the sound waves passed, the air began to freeze. Dust floating in the air instantly solidified into tiny ice crystals and fell with a crackling patter; stones tumbling from the cavern ceiling froze in midair, then shattered into icy fragments upon hitting the ground.
But more terrifying still was the flute music's power to subdue the mind.
Everyone on the island heard the flute music at the same instant.
The old Daoists of the Maoshan Sect who were about to charge the formation suddenly went rigid. The excitement froze on their faces, the fighting spirit froze in their eyes, and they stood motionless, as though struck