novelraw Chapter 448: Snowpeak Fortress Cluster (6)
Chapter 448: Snowpeak Fortress Cluster (6)
Su Zhan pressed his advantage relentlessly, his figure sticking to the Frost Giant Ape like a shadow. His fists rained down on its ice armor like a violent storm.
The cracks on the ice armor multiplied, shards of ice flying in all directions.
The Frost Giant Ape roared in fury, but could only defend passively. Its occasional counterattacks were easily dodged by Su Zhan's exquisite footwork and Time Acceleration.
The Ice Golem tried to interfere with Su Zhan again by manipulating its ice-crystal domain, but Su Zhan, while focusing on the ape, remotely disrupted it with streams of Flame of Destruction. It could no longer exert effective suppression as before.
Seeing the situation turning sour, the Ice Burrow Spider spat ice-crystal larvae in an attempt to ambush Su Zhan. However, a net of flames casually waved out by Su Zhan incinerated them all before they could even get close.
The tide of battle had reversed in an instant!
Su Zhan completely suppressed the Frost Giant Ape while effortlessly dealing with the harassment from the other two.
He was no longer in a hurry to use the highly draining Time Remolding. Instead, relying on his newly broken-through formidable strength and the absolute counter provided by the Flame of Destruction, he fought steadily and methodically, gradually wearing down his opponents.
The defenders on the city wall watched with boiling blood, their cheers rising wave after wave.
They witnessed firsthand how Su Zhan broke through from a desperate situation.How he crushed the powerful enemies that had once filled them with despair, with an overwhelmingly domineering posture!
"He's too strong! Su Zhan is too strong!"
"That monkey is being beaten without any chance to fight back!"
"See that! Even the Ice Golem's hand is cracked!"
...
Under Su Zhan's relentless barrage of destructive fists, the ice armor on the Frost Giant Ape's body finally couldn't withstand the pressure and exploded into pieces, revealing the relatively vulnerable body beneath.
A cold glint flashed in Su Zhan's eyes as he seized this fleeting opportunity.
He pointed his fingers together like a sword. A Flame of Destruction spear, condensed to its utmost limit, instantly materialized and pierced directly through the Frost Giant Ape's exposed heart area.
"ROAR——!"
The Frost Giant Ape let out a shrill roar. Its massive body stiffened in place. The Flame of Destruction erupted from within, instantly igniting it from the inside out, transforming it into a giant black torch.
A few breaths later, it followed in the footsteps of its previous companion, collapsing to the ground with a crash and turning to ashes.
The fifth one!
Another surge of immense Life Essence poured in.
Su Zhan's aura climbed another notch. His condition was unprecedentedly good.
He slowly turned around, his icy gaze locking onto the last two remaining.
The Ice Golem's cracked hand was slowly repairing itself, but the look it directed at Su Zhan was now filled with deep apprehension.
As for that Ice Burrow Spider, it had even begun to slowly retreat, thoughts of fleeing sprouting in its mind.
"Thinking of leaving now? Too late."
Su Zhan's voice was cold. The fleshy wings on his back unfurled, and his figure transformed into a streak of light as he charged first towards the Ice Burrow Spider that was attempting to escape.
The outcome held no suspense.
Under the absolute disparity in strength and the attribute counter.
The Ice Burrow Spider couldn't even organize a decent resistance before Su Zhan caught up to it.
A handful of Flame of Destruction incinerated it, along with the fortress ruins it inhabited, into ashes.
The sixth one!
Finally.
Su Zhan shifted his gaze to the center of the battlefield, towards the only figure still standing, and also the strongest one.
The Ice Golem.
Having lost all its helpers, with its hand injured and its domain broken.
The Ice Golem seemed to understand that there was no chance of survival today.
An even more massive energy fluctuation emanated from within the Ice Golem's body.
The ground beneath its feet began to rapidly cover itself with a layer of deep blue solid ice, several meters thick, centered on it. This ice layer continued to expand outward, transforming this battlefield into its absolute frozen domain.
The moisture in the air was instantly frozen.
Su Zhan's eyes narrowed slightly. He could feel the surrounding temperature plummeting at a terrifying rate. Even the Flame of Destruction on his body's surface was suppressed, its activity reduced.
This was no longer the previous cutting domain targeting individuals. It was closer to an... environmental alteration, a suppression at the level of law!
Can't let it complete!
Su Zhan's back wings furiously beat. Time Acceleration was pushed to its limit. His figure transformed into a dark red lightning bolt, charging straight at the Ice Golem.
His right fist clenched, the Flame of Destruction highly compressed, as he punched towards the Ice Golem's chest.
The Ice Golem raised its intact left arm, its index finger gently pointing in the direction from which Su Zhan was charging.
The space in front of Su Zhan seemed to turn into semi-solid ice-crystal amber.
His speed plummeted abruptly. Every inch of advancement required tremendous effort.
Not only that, the extreme cold ignored the flames and Spiritual Energy defense on his body's surface, frantically seeping into his body.
Time Deceleration!
Su Zhan immediately applied a reverse effect to the space ahead, counteracting this congealing effect.
Two invisible forces of time collided fiercely in the air.
Su Zhan's speed recovered somewhat, but it was far from before.
The Ice Golem's attack followed in quick succession.
That massive left palm opened, its five fingers slightly curved, making a grasping motion towards Su Zhan from a distance.
"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"
All around Su Zhan—above, below, left, right—six walls of deep blue ice, several meters thick, instantly materialized out of thin air.
The ice walls closed in at an astonishing speed, forming a massive cubic cage, aiming to seal Su Zhan completely.
At this critical moment.
Su Zhan's Future Vision flashed frantically.
It captured the fleeting gap in the instant before the ice walls fully closed.
"ROAR!"
Su Zhan held back no longer, unleashing the dual-system power within his body completely.
The vast Spiritual Energy of the Ocean Realm Fifth Stage intertwined with the Mist Energy of the Calamity Fifth Stage, all pouring into the Flame of Destruction covering his body.
The originally calmly flowing dark red flames suddenly erupted violently.
Su Zhan violently thrust his palms apart to both sides.
A towering tide of dark red flames, centered on him, wildly expanded in all directions.
"HISS——!!!!!"
The six-sided cage, imbued with the ultimate law of ice, completely annihilated the moment it came into contact with this enhanced version of the Flame of Destruction.
A massive gap was forcibly burned open in the cage.
Su Zhan's figure flashed, shooting out like lightning through the gap.
The Ice Golem's long-prepared true killing move finally descended.
Its right leg lifted fiercely, then... stomped down heavily upon the earth.
"BOOM——!!!"
It was as if the entire northern mountain range groaned under this stomp.
An enormous frost shockwave, fan-shaped, swept towards the mid-air space where Su Zhan was.
Wherever the shockwave passed, space froze inch by inch, leaving behind a crystalline, ice-sealed path.
This was no longer a mere physical attack. It was the manifestation of law, containing the Ice Golem's lifelong power!
Can't dodge it!
The area is too vast!
And it contains a powerful locking will!
Su Zhan's pupils contracted to their limit.
In his Future Vision, all evasion routes were sealed!
Take it head-on?
He had no doubt that even with his current strength and the Flame of Destruction, being hit head-on by this law-imbued shockwave would absolutely mean death or severe crippling.
Only... use a point to break a surface!
Su Zhan made the most insane choice.
To compress all his power...
Spiritual Energy, Mist Energy, mental strength, condensing it all onto the tip of the index finger of his right hand.
That fingertip devoured all light and heat, leaving only the purest destruction!
Then, he pointed that finger towards the very core of the sky-collapsing frost shockwave!