Her voice was not loud, but it spread clearly throughout the entire open space. Her tone was calm, without an angry roar or a threat, as if she was stating an established fact.
She raised Ice Icicle Sword. The moment the sword was unsheathed, the temperature of the air plummeted by more than one step. Where the sword tip touched the air, water vapor condensed into fine ice crystals, which fell one after another.
Li Yun didn't make any fancy moves. She just poured all her spiritual power into the sword, and then pushed it forward slightly.
There was no sword light, no Sword Qi, not even any sound - with her as the center, a blue light spread out in all directions. The light was incredibly fast, like a breeze blowing by, silently passing through the open space, passing through the woods, passing by those figures who had not had time to make any reaction.
When the light passed over the positions of the two Ice Devil teams, the movements of the two Initial Stage Demon Generals and the five Devil Soldiers stopped at the same time. The expressions on their faces were still frozen at the previous moment - some were taking steps, some were turning their heads, and some were still opening their mouths to roar. Then, a layer of ice crystals spread from their feet, along their legs, torsos, and heads, quickly covering their entire bodies. The whole process took less than a breath.
When the light completely passed by, the seven figures had turned into seven ice sculptures. Then, a gust of wind blew by - cracks appeared on the surface of those ice sculptures, and the cracks expanded rapidly, spreading from the soles of the feet to the top of the head. Then, crackling sounds were heard one after another. The seven ice sculptures shattered and melted at the same moment. Ice shards and fragments covered the ground, shimmering with cold light under the moonlight. There was no blood, no wreckage, nothing left. The seven Ice Devil and Devil Soldier class existences were completely wiped out in less than two breaths.
Farther away, near the edge of the shadow of the forest, three figures that were also frozen into ice sculptures showed their original outlines before shattering. Shadow Devil. Three Shadow Devil, which were hidden in the shadows of the forest and were not even noticed by Qin Tiexin, were also exposed to the extreme cold at this moment, and then shattered without even a roar.
And on a big tree twenty feet away, a figure that had been lurking for a long time suddenly trembled.
He was already prepared to watch the show - waiting for the Snow Baleful Intent Tiger to kill the big man, and then watching Devil Race and Demon Beast both lose, before he took action to clean up the mess. He was even planning how to evacuate quickly after getting the secret treasure.
But when he saw the woman with white and blue hair walking out of the ice wall, his pupils shrank suddenly.
That female cultivator, Foundation Establishment Late Stage?
He almost made the decision to retreat the moment he saw the woman raise her sword. He immediately felt that he was no match for the woman.
Without a moment's hesitation, he jumped down from the tree, using all his spiritual energy, and rushed towards the pass without looking back. He ran fast enough. When the extremely cold light grazed his back, it only touched the edge. But that edge was enough to make the blood in his body tremble violently, and the movement of his spiritual energy was stagnant. He did not stop to check his injuries, but speeded up to escape from the place. He was secretly glad that he did not embarrass the big man.
The extremely cold fluctuations gradually subsided. Li Yun put down Ice Icicle Sword, and the ice-blue light around him slowly converged and disappeared into the body again.
There were no enemies left standing around. The Ice Devil team was destroyed, Snow Baleful Intent Tiger was frozen into an ice sculpture, and Shadow Devil turned into powder. Even the corpses that had been killed by Qin Tiexin were also affected by her Cold Qi, with a thick layer of white frost condensing on the surface.
Li Yun didn't move until she confirmed that the last dangerous aura had disappeared. She turned around, disappeared from the place, and appeared in front of Qin Tiexin almost in the next moment, squatting down.
Qin Tiexin was lying on his back, covered in blood, his left arm was slightly drooped, and the scratches on his back were deep enough to show the bones. He looked at her, opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just grinned, showing an expression that could barely be regarded as a smile. This smile pulled at the wound on his back, and he made another sound, and quickly closed his mouth.
"... Thank you, Senior Sister Li."
He spoke very softly, as if he was holding in a breath and finally let it out. His voice was hoarse, but there was a sense of relaxation in his tone. He didn't care what Li Yun went through, or why Li Yun became like this, but he knew that Li Yun came out intact, and that was fine.
Li Yun squatted in front of him. When he heard these words, the string that was still holding on suddenly broke with a snap.
She looked at his appearance - he was covered in blood, his left arm was bent unnaturally, the scratches on his back were so deep that the bones were visible, his clothes were almost torn, and he looked like he had just been fished out of a pool of blood. But his expression was not of pain, but a kind of reassurance that "you're fine, you'll be fine." Her eyes suddenly turned red.
"Junior Brother Qin, you..." Her voice was trembling, and she couldn't continue at the beginning of her sentence. She lowered her head, blinked hard, and pushed back the thing that was about to fall out, but failed. A tear slipped from her cheek and dripped on the blood in front of Qin Tiexin, leaving a shallow trace.
"Why are you so stupid?" Her voice was mute, "Didn't I ask you to go back early? I can do it alone..." She said, reaching out to take out the elixir from the storage ring, her voice had a clear nasal sound, "Why do you want to be like this? There is no need for me--"
"The sect leader said that fellow disciples should help each other." Qin Tiexin was lying on the ground, his tone was a little weak, but still with the usual unhurried calmness, "Besides, I'm fine." He tried his best to put on a smile, trying to prove that he was really fine - then he bared his teeth at the wound on his back, and quickly stopped it.
Li Yun looked at him holding on like this, feeling angry and funny, but the corner of his mouth only curled up briefly before falling.
She paused and her voice was very soft, as if she was talking to herself. "Are you from the same school..."
She was silent for a moment, lowered her head, and carefully brought the elixir in her hand to his mouth. "Stop talking. Take the medicine first."
Qin Tiexin opened his mouth and swallowed the elixir obediently. The power of the medicine dissolved quickly, and a warm breath rose from the abdomen and spread along the meridians to the limbs and bones. There was a slight itching from the deepest wound on his back - the medicine was promoting healing.