Chapter 204: True Thousand Hands, Buddha at the Top! Able to suppress ice-attribute life force!
"Attack!"
A simple word came from Tang Chuan's mouth.
Instantly, Oslo and Yu Feng flashed, with astonishing speed, one on the left and one on the right, forming a pincer movement to rush towards the flanks of the Tianshui Academy formation!
Their speed was so fast that they only left faint afterimages in their original positions.
However, Tianshui Academy was obviously prepared for this.
Just as Oslo and Yu Feng moved, Yu Hairou and Shen Liuyu, who were standing at the front of the formation, exchanged glances at the same time, tacitly in sync. Immediately afterwards, their soul rings flashed at the same time, not the dazzling purple soul rings, but the yellow second soul rings!
"Second Soul Skill, Ice Shard Path!"
"Second Soul Skill, Cold Current Surge!"
Although Yu Hairou and Shen Liuyu's spirits were not the ultimate ice, they both belonged to the water and ice attributes. At this moment, their soul skills were linked together, and the effect was multiplied!
"Crack—!"
A strange scene occurred!
Right in the path of Oslo and Yu Feng's charge, without warning, a visible, deathly white aura suddenly erupted from the polished surface of the Soul Arena, then swirled upwards!
The chill was far more intense than usual, instantly condensing countless ice crystals in the air.
Although Oslo and Yu Feng were fast, the appearance of this chill was too sudden, and its range precisely covered their path. The two felt an irresistible, extreme cold instantly spread from their feet to their entire bodies, their soul power seemingly frozen!
"Not good!"
Yu Feng and Oslo only had time to utter a half-uttered cry.
In an instant, under the gaze of tens of thousands of astonished eyes, the two Soul Masters, renowned for their speed, were now instantly covered in a thick layer of solid ice while still charging forward. They went from extreme motion to extreme stillness, ultimately transforming into two lifelike ice sculptures!
Even the frozen expressions of astonishment on their faces were clearly visible!
Tianxing Academy's initial swift attack was swiftly and decisively thwarted by Tianshui Academy's exquisite soul skill coordination and unparalleled ice control in a single exchange!
On the Soul Arena, a chilling aura permeated the air, two ice sculptures stood erect, and the scene fell silent.
However, the faces of the Tianshui Academy girls did not show any triumph; instead, they grew even more solemn, for they knew that the real challenge had only just begun.
Although they had temporarily controlled two of the opposing agility-type soul masters, the core of their opponent, the blue-haired Soul King, had not yet made a move.
"Not good! They're using a Soul Fusion Technique!"
Looking at Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, whose figures were constantly dancing gracefully behind them, Dugu Yan's expression changed drastically, and she shouted urgently to Tang Chuan beside her.
At this moment, on the Soul Arena, the clear cry of the Ice Phoenix intertwined with the flowing light of the Delicate Snow Satin, and a terrifying chill and soul power fluctuation far exceeding the previous ones were rapidly condensing and rising.
This heart-palpitating energy fluctuation even made the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Spirit within her feel somewhat restless.
"Don't panic." Hearing this, Tang Chuan frowned slightly. He had naturally sensed the powerful threat that was taking shape, and a look of seriousness flashed in his eyes, but his voice remained steady as he said,
"Shi Mo! Shi Mo! You split into two groups, left and right, and launch a strong attack!"
"Rongrong! Amplify their abilities with all your might!"
"Understood!" Ning Rongrong nodded slightly, her pretty face becoming solemn. The dazzling Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in her hand suddenly shone brightly, its body spinning, and the four soul rings on it lit up simultaneously!
"The Seven Treasures have names!"
"First: Strength!"
"Second: Speed!"
"Third: Soul!"
"Fourth: Defense!"
Four incredibly thick and solid colored beams of light shot out from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then accurately struck Shi Mo and Shi Mo.
Having received the terrifying amplification of the four attributes from Ning Rongrong's all-out effort, the Shi brothers' aura suddenly surged, like two ancient behemoths about to awaken!
"Roar!"
With a deep roar, the Shi brothers, perfectly in sync, charged forward like two heavy chariots, one on the left and one on the right!
Simultaneously, their third and fourth spirit rings shone brightly.
With the release of their spirit skills, the heavy phantom of the Black Tortoise tortoise shell solidified, covering their entire bodies and granting them astonishing defensive power.
As they continued their charge, a powerful gravity spread outwards from them, causing the ground to shake with every step and exerting an invisible suppression on the surrounding chill.
"Crack...crack..."
The biting cold air emanating from the prelude to Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's spirit fusion skill, attempting to block everything, shattered upon contact with the Shi brothers' bodies, producing a sound like ice crystals breaking!
The cold remained piercing, but it could no longer freeze these two incredibly strong fortresses like it had frozen Oslo and Yu Feng. It could only condense a layer of frost on the surface of their thick tortoise shells, slowing their speed but not stopping their advance!
"What? Completely controlled in just a few rounds?"
Seeing the Shi brothers restricted by layers of ice control and their slow progress, while the energy fluctuations behind Tianshui Academy were becoming uncontrollable like a volcanic eruption, Dugu Yan's eyes flashed with a fierce light. The illusory image of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent King swirled around her, and a dense green poisonous mist began to slowly condense.
She prepared to forcibly corrode a passage with her deadly poison.
Or directly attack the two who are currently using their Spirit Fusion Technique!
However, Dugu Yan had just taken a step when a steady and powerful hand gently pressed on her shoulder.
"Yanzi, wait."
Tang Chuan's gaze was fixed on the area behind Tianshui Academy, where a soaring blue-white light had already erupted, and he said in a slightly low voice.
"While their ice cannot freeze your Jade Phosphorous Serpent King Poison, its potency is still too great. Once unleashed, those with slightly weaker opponents will likely be unable to withstand it, and casualties are inevitable."
As the words fell, not far away, Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's figures merged completely in a dazzling blue-white light, becoming indistinguishable from one another.
The next second, a massive blue-white pillar of light shot into the sky, piercing the arena and radiating an extreme chill and majesty that sent shivers down one's spine!
As the light dissipated, an incredibly large ice phoenix, entirely formed from crystal-clear solid ice, spread its magnificent yet icy wings and hovered in mid-air! With a slight flap of its wings, countless ice crystals and snowflakes fell.
The temperature of the entire arena plummeted instantly, as if the air itself were about to freeze!
This was Tianshui Academy's trump card, the Spirit Fusion Skill—Ice and Snow Drifting!
"Such overwhelming pressure!"
Sensing the terrifying power emanating from the ice phoenix, Dugu Yan's expression turned solemn. In her view, this energy level was at least at the Soul King level!
"Take Rongrong to the edge of the arena first. The people from Tianshui Academy... have a past connection with me. Leave the rest to me."
Tang Chuan said as he lifted his foot, calmly walking towards the giant ice phoenix.
Upon hearing this, Dugu Yan glanced at the ice phoenix exuding an aura of destruction, then at Tang Chuan's tall and composed back. She bit her lip, ultimately choosing to trust him.
Immediately afterward, she turned around, protecting Ning Rongrong, and quickly retreated.
At this moment, Tang Chuan faced the sky-covering ice phoenix alone. His steps were unhurried, as if he were not approaching a powerful fusion technique, but strolling in his own garden.
The terrifying cold air around him, enough to instantly freeze a Soul Master, surged towards Tang Chuan like a raging tide.
However, the moment it touched his body...
A soft, blue-gold light naturally emanated from Tang Chuan's body, forming a faint halo that enveloped him completely.
The biting cold air that struck the halo was like waves crashing against ancient reefs, unable to penetrate even a fraction, only scattering in vain, leaving behind two swirling streams of cold air.
"What? How is this possible?"
"Our ice is ineffective against him!?"
The girls from Tianshui Academy were shocked to see Tang Chuan ignoring the biting cold air that was enough to freeze a Soul Master, walking towards them as if strolling in a garden.
"We can't let him interfere with Big Sister!"
Shui Yu'er shouted, suppressing the thrill of the inexplicable familiarity she felt towards Tang Chuan. Her three Soul Rings lit up simultaneously, ready to launch an attack.
Yu Hairou, Shen Liuyu, Gu Qingbo, and Qiu Ruoshui also activated their Soul Power at the same time, the light of various ice-type attack Soul Skills gathering in their hands, preparing to join forces to block this unfathomable opponent.
However, just as they gathered their soul power and were about to unleash their attack, a sudden change occurred!
"Puff, puff, puff, puff..."
A series of soft yet rapid sounds of breaking through the ground suddenly rang out!
Centered on Tang Chuan, countless vines shimmering with a blue-gold luster, far more resilient and agile than ordinary Blue Silver Grass, surged forth from beneath the hard Soul Arena floor without warning, like living tentacles!
These Blue Silver Emperor Vines moved with lightning speed and unparalleled precision, giving the girls from Tianshui Academy no time to react.
Like serpents, they swiftly coiled upwards, instantly binding the ankles, wrists, and waists of Shui Yu'er, Yu Hairou, and the other three!
Not only did they firmly imprison their bodies, but they also cleverly sealed their soul power circulation points upon contact, rendering them utterly powerless!
In the blink of an eye, except for Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu in their Spirit Fusion state...
The remaining five members of Tianshui Academy were all tightly bound by the sudden appearance of the Blue Silver Emperor vines, like five beautiful botanical works of art, frozen in place, unable to move or even speak, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Instantly, the entire arena erupted in uproar!
This control was too fast, too precise, too unbelievable!
Without pausing, Tang Chuan didn't even look at his opponents bound by the Blue Silver Emperor, but instead gazed up at the imposing Ice Phoenix in the sky, a slightly wicked smile curving his lips. His clear voice echoed in the silent arena:
"Your ice can control people..."
"My Blue Silver Grass can too."
At this moment, his gaze seemed to pierce through the Ice Phoenix's body, seeing the astonished expressions of Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu inside.
"And, the control ability... is stronger than your ice."
At this moment, Shui Yu'er, tightly bound by the Blue Silver Emperor, watched the blue-haired figure walking resolutely towards them against the biting cold wind, her delicate body trembling violently.
That incomparably handsome face, now radiating an air of disdain, began to overlap and intertwine wildly with a vague yet incredibly familiar figure from the depths of her memory—a figure who had given her a glimmer of hope in her most desperate and helpless moments!
"It's him?!"
Shui Yu'er murmured absently, forgetting to struggle, forgetting she was on the field, simply staring blankly at Tang Chuan.
Meanwhile, in the sky...
The Ice Phoenix, now imbued with the combined power and will of Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, sensed Tang Chuan's undisguised provocation and immediately roared:
"So what if you're strong?! I refuse to believe that you alone can withstand our Spirit Fusion Skill head-on! Ice and Snow Drifting—Extreme Cold Phoenix Cry!"
The enormous Ice Phoenix unleashed a clear, resounding cry powerful enough to tear the sky apart. Its wings flapped violently, and countless icy blue light points converged before its beak, forming an extreme ice sphere containing destructive power. Then, the Ice Phoenix swooped down, carrying the absolute zero temperature that freezes the soul and the impact force that shatters everything, like a divine punishment descending upon the world, fiercely crashing towards the tiny Tang Chuan!
Wherever it passed, the air solidified, and space itself seemed to freeze and shatter!
Faced with this devastating attack, Tang Chuan showed no fear, but instead ignited a burning fighting spirit. He laughed loudly, his voice filled with boundless pride and confidence, saying,
"Well done, Ice Phoenix! Impressive aura! Don't think you're the Ice Phoenix, or even the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion with ultimate ice power!"
As he spoke, his hands moved rapidly in front of his chest like butterflies flitting among flowers, forming an ancient and strange hand seal. His boundless soul power surged forth like a river bursting its banks!
"Today, I'll use your Spirit Fusion Technique to test my self-created soul skill!"
As his words fell, the earth behind Tang Chuan trembled violently!
Countless Blue Silver Emperor Vines, shimmering with a sacred blue-gold luster, surged forth from his body like a raging dragon emerging from the sea, at a speed and scale hundreds of times greater than before!
These vines were not chaotic; rather, under the precise control of his immense soul power and spiritual energy, they intertwined, clashed, and coalesced!
In the blink of an eye, an unimaginably colossal thousand-armed Buddha, almost as tall as the Ice Phoenix, stood majestically behind Tang Chuan.
This Buddha was solemn and dignified, its entire body composed of countless Blue Silver Emperor Vines, exuding a tenacious vitality and a sacred, indestructible aura. Most awe-inspiring was the countless enormous arms that stretched out from behind it, each arm containing terrifying power capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, with blue-gold light flowing across them and Sanskrit characters faintly appearing!
"True Thousand Hands - Buddha Atop the Crown!"
The instant the Buddha was formed, a powerful aura that suppressed the eight wastelands and cleansed evil swept out, even diluting some of the extreme chill brought by the ice phoenix!
When the majestic and solemn blue-silver thousand-handed Buddha collided with the ice phoenix that swooped down with destructive chill, there was no earth-shattering explosion or energy annihilation as expected.
Instead, a strange scene appeared.
Countless enormous blue-gold Buddha hands did not brute force their way through the extreme cold and impact of the ice phoenix, but at the moment of contact, they seemed to transform into tendrils of life.
From the Buddha hands, an extremely rich life aura surged forth like a warm spring tide. It was not offensive energy, but the purest and most primal life force!
Ice represents silence, end, and death; it is the form of water without vitality and fluidity.
The Blue Silver Emperor, as the emperor of plant-type spirits, especially after multiple evolutions, contains boundless life force, representing growth, revival, and vitality.
At this moment, extreme vitality met ice.
The terrifying chill emanating from the Ice Phoenix, powerful enough to freeze soul power and shatter metal, hissed strangely upon contact with this boundless, warm torrent of life, as if winter snow had met the blazing sun.
It was as if the life force was forcibly awakening the frozen vitality beneath the ice!
The Ice Phoenix was formed from the fusion of soul power, spiritual power, and water-attribute elemental energy with extreme cold, its essence still containing the foundation of water.
And water is the source of life.
Under the influence of the Blue Silver Emperor's aggressive vitality, the internal structure of the extreme ice that constituted the Ice Phoenix's body began to become unstable.
It was as if countless seeds of life were about to break through the ice beneath!
"Buzz—!"
The Ice Phoenix let out a painful cry. On its dazzling, crystalline body, fine, blue-gold patterns, like plant roots, began to appear. These patterns were frantically absorbing the Ice Phoenix's energy and, in turn, disintegrating the icy structure within its body!
Its invincible freezing power seemed to lose its target before this vast life force. How could such extreme life force be completely frozen?
It would only lie dormant, and then, under suitable conditions, revive in an even more ferocious manner!
The Ice Phoenix's swooping motion was abruptly halted in mid-air. Its massive body trembled violently, its light flickering. The ice crystals that made up its body were visibly dimming and cracking, like a block of solid ice thrown into warm water, disintegrating and melting from the inside!
"What? How is this possible?"
"Our ice is actually starting to melt?"
Looking at this scene before them, Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's faces were filled with shock and disbelief. They could clearly feel that their power was being restrained by a higher, more powerful force.
The opponent's energy seemed to be the natural nemesis of their ice, not using brute force to overcome skill, but fundamentally overturning the very basis of ice's existence!
"Ice will eventually melt, transforming into life-nourishing rain. Your ice cannot confine my vitality." Standing beneath the Buddha statue, Tang Chuan calmly gazed at the struggling ice phoenix and spoke.
He used his life force to erode and disintegrate the ice attribute!
This was precisely the most fundamental restraint of the Blue Silver Emperor's life force against the ice attribute!
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