"Lu Ren, since this old man dared to come kill you, I had twelve parts confidence! I know every one of your trump cards like the back of my hand!"
Ice Demon Old Ghost sneered, looking utterly confident.
As he spoke, frigid energy surged around him. Spear after spear of ice, each dozens of feet long, condensed overhead and pierced toward Lu Ren.
As the ice spears shot forth, the surrounding cold air likewise gathered around Lu Ren, freezing even his body solid.
This was Ice Demon Old Ghost's ambush strike, and he intended to kill Lu Ren in a single move.
A savage smile filled Ice Demon Old Ghost's eyes. He knew every trump card Lu Ren possessed inside and out, including the Nine Yang True Fire with twenty-five thousand years of cultivation.
But his cold energy was not Exotic Water. It was an earth-attributed Exotic Five Elements element, the twenty-thousand-year Heavenly Cold Frozen Earth.
This Heavenly Cold Frozen Earth could freeze everything and seal everything. Exotic Fire could only disperse the cold air; it simply could not undo the ice seal.
This was not his first time assassinating a Martial Emperor Realm expert, and he had almost never failed. Learning that his target was the Nine Dragon Ancient Sect's Holy Son, the number one genius on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, had only made him more excited.
If he killed Lu Ren, Ice Demon Old Ghost's vicious name would surely resound across the Xuanhuang Continent. More importantly, he would obtain a rare Body Transformation Pill, change his foundation, break through the bottleneck of the third-stage Martial Emperor Realm, and charge into the fourth stage.
For Martial Emperors like them, their foundations were shallow. After entering the Martial Emperor Realm, each stage was a different world. He had been stuck