"Looks like you've really been reduced to a useless mortal!"
Xiao Lintian's wild laughter echoed, while the Heavenly Prides around him looked at Chu Kuangren, lost in thought.
Was the Chu Kuangren they once knew truly gone for good?
"Phew..."
Chu Kuangren rubbed his hands and breathed into them. "It's cold. Especially after hearing that cold joke. Now it's even colder."
"Chu Kuangren, even if you've become a useless mortal, don't think the humiliation you once brought me can simply be wiped away!"
He sank into a horse stance, stepped forward, and threw a fierce punch.
Overbearing fist energy surged like a golden torrent, only to be stopped by a barrier of runic light as it approached Chu Kuangren.
The surrounding Heavenly Prides' gazes sharpened.
"Sure enough, he has some sort of runic means."
"How did he do that?"
Runes also required Spiritual Power to activate, yet Chu Kuangren could easily activate thousands upon thousands of runes without the slightest fluctuation of Spiritual Power coming from him.
That was something none of them could understand.
"Wind and snow are powers born of nature." Chu Kuangren held out his hand, and snowflakes drifted into his palm and melted. He chuckled. "To think someone would actually look down on wind and snow, on nature."
He seemed to be speaking to Xiao Lintian, yet also to everyone present.
As his words fell, the wind and snow around them abruptly intensified. A blizzard ten, even a hundred times fiercer than before filled the world!
The sudden change shocked everyone present.
"What's going on?!"
"Can Chu Kuangren control wind and snow?"
"I've heard that runes are a power that distills and simplifies the Daoist Rhyme of the natural world. In other words, they're the power to control nature itself. It's hardly surprising that Chu Kuangren