Rumble! The instant the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast entered the underground glacier, he attacked. Ice chips and chunks flew everywhere below, and the entire hidden realm seemed to shudder violently, as though it were about to collapse.
Li Yan darted through the underground expanse filled with icy mist, repeatedly changing direction at high speed. He used blocks, spikes, and boulders of ice to obstruct the attacks from behind, occasionally turning to strike back.
Under the bombardment of their powerful spells, the glacier that had remained frozen for ten thousand years shattered into swirling ice mist and fragments. If a cultivator with a weaker cultivation base ventured into that haze, the ice grains and sharp chunks of every shape would instantly riddle them like a hornet's nest!
"Think you can escape? Trying to exhaust my magical power this way? Then let's see which of us weakens first!"
As Li Yan skimmed swiftly along an ice wall, another wall suddenly loomed larger in his pupils ahead. He was moving too fast, and the underground glacier's terrain was exceedingly complex. One careless moment would send him crashing straight into it.
Li Yan exerted a burst of strength through his waist, sending his speeding body skimming diagonally past the mirror-smooth ice wall. The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast's voice came from behind, but Li Yan paid his words no heed.
The demon beast's enormous, serpentine body was not as sluggish or clumsy as Li Yan had imagined. His scaleless python body resembled another smooth block of ice, sliding along the frozen layers like a shadow through the underground glacier, scarcely slower than Li Yan.
The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast also kept casting ice spells, changing the glacial terrain ahead or launching icy attacks. Though these could not inflict lethal injuries on Li Yan, they continually