Chapter 1513 - 1510: The Power of the Profound Celestial Ice Sword

It was a kind of aura that could make people feel the presence of death.

To better test the power of the Profound Celestial Ice Sword, the three of them went together to the Crystal Palace's training grounds to level up.

Before the enemy's sword could once again enter an attacking motion, I jumped back in a big step to maintain the distance between us.

"Hoo..."

Forcibly exhaling a big breath to adjust my rhythm. Ye Qiu's body in this place no longer needed oxygen, but on the other side—meaning Fang Wushang and Black Panther—their breathing must be extremely rough by now.

That was only natural.

Even if everything in front of us was just Magical Beasts for leveling up, for Ye Qiu it only consumed stamina, but I now realized that for Fang Wushang and Black Panther, they really were betting their lives in this fight.

From the perspective of staking one's life, this battle was truly quite unfair. Because the "enemy" in front of us—this half-human half-beast creature with shimmering dark green scales and long arms, a lizard's head and tail—was not only inhuman in appearance, we didn't even know if it had any sense of fear at all.

No.

Right now, this Snow Lizardman was observing and learning Ye Qiu's way of fighting, using it to continually improve its own response capability. But all of that learning data would disappear once this individual was eliminated, and it would not be fed back to any other individuals of the same kind that appeared in this area.

So, in a sense, this Lizardman in front of us could also be considered alive. You could say it was a unique existence in this world.

Although it was impossible for it to understand Ye Qiu's thoughts, the strongest of the Snow Lizardman species, the monster known as the "Lizardman Lord," actually bared the sharp teeth lining its slender lower jaw and let out a low, chuckling "woo-he-he."

I brought the double-edged Profound Celestial Ice Sword in my right hand up to the center of my body and assumed a stance.

The Lizardman also raised the round shield in its left hand, while its right hand pulled the Single-edged Scimitar back.

No one knew who forged the Magical Beasts' weapons, but someone had definitely given the Magical Beasts help.

In the dim Crystal Palace corridor, a gust of wind from who-knows-where made the torches on the walls sway. The flames flickered and reflected off the damp layer of ice.

"Owowaa!"

The Lizardman Lord stomped hard on the ground and charged toward us with a shrill roar. The Curved Saber swept out a sharp arc from afar, leaving a dazzling, vivid orange trail in the air as it pressed straight in toward my chest. This was a high-tier Sword Skill in the saber line, a single-strike heavy attack, a move many Magical Beasts knew how to use.

Unfortunately, Ye Qiu had already predicted its attack pattern.

In fact, Ye Qiu had deliberately not widened the distance between them, to lure the enemy into the exact spot he wanted it to appear in. To better use the Profound Celestial Ice Sword, Ye Qiu had to employ it once in all kinds of scenarios. Dodging the blade edge that passed just a few centimeters from his nose and smelling the scorched stench that entered his nose, Ye Qiu lowered his stance and rushed into the Lizardman's chest.

"He-ya..."

The Profound Celestial Ice Sword in his right hand swept out sideways with his shout, the blade carrying a water-blue freezing aura as it stabbed deep into the thinner-scaled abdomen. Bright red light sprayed out in place of blood. A heavy, anguished cry of "ya" followed.

Ye Qiu didn't stop his sword. The blade that slashed back from left to right tore open the Lizardman's chest once more; then I spun my body in a full turn and drove a third strike deep into the enemy's body.

"Oogururuwah!"

At the moment the Lizardman recovered from the stiffness of having whiffed its Great Skill, the Curved Saber in its right hand came chopping down, accompanied by a roar that might have been anger or fear.

But Ye Qiu's attacks were still not over. The sword that had just cut to the right bounced back toward the upper left like a spring, striking straight at the enemy's heart—its greatest weak point.

The four consecutive strikes drew a square of water-blue light around Ye Qiu, dazzling as it spread outward. This was the Profound Celestial Ice Sword's skill: "Rectangular Freeze Strike."

The vivid visual effect lit up the labyrinth's walls, then faded and vanished. At the same time, the large green body, still struggling, toppled backward and suddenly froze at an unnatural angle as the Lizardman's corpse was iced over by the aura emanating from the Profound Celestial Ice Sword.

Then, with a loud shattering sound like breaking glass, it exploded into countless tiny polygonal fragments.

And then the fragments were absorbed by the Profound Celestial Ice Sword.

Ye Qiu could feel that after absorbing the Lizardman, the Profound Celestial Ice Sword had grown stronger.

Perhaps because it was his first time using the Profound Celestial Ice Sword, Ye Qiu let out the breath that had been pent up in his chest, then shut his eyes tightly. A heavy stabbing pain came from deep in his temples. He shook his head a few times with force, and only after shaking off the pain did Ye Qiu open his eyes again.

"Time to head back."

Ye Qiu said to Fang Wushang and Black Panther, who were already completely exhausted.

The Profound Celestial Ice Sword run was finally over. It seemed they'd been lucky enough today to once again slip free from the hands of the Death God. But after they returned to town and had a brief rest, they would immediately have to face tomorrow's battle. Even if they made every preparation, as long as they kept fighting this kind of battle where the win rate was not one hundred percent, one day they would inevitably be betrayed by the Goddess of Destiny.

If survival were the top priority, then never leaving the town's safe zone and patiently waiting for someone else to fully clear the place would be the smartest choice. But Ye Qiu could not choose that path.

"Speaking of which, to kill that Snow Lizard Lord in a single move, this sword really is something!"

"Was that Lizard really that strong?" Hearing Black Panther say that, Ye Qiu asked.

"That Lizardman Lord has already lived for three hundred years. Over these three hundred years, countless experts are said to have challenged it and never returned. Quite a few of them were Divine Realm Powerhouses—an opponent even Divine Realm Powerhouses couldn't defeat!"

Hearing Black Panther say that made Ye Qiu even more confident that he could protect the people around him in the next wave.

"Uncle Black Panther is praising Dong for being amazing!" Ye Qiu said with a smile as he looked at Dong eating.

But Dong acted like he couldn't hear Ye Qiu at all; he was playing and eating with Fang Wushang at the same time. Since when had the relationship between those two gotten so good?

Seeing this scene, Ye Qiu felt a little unhappy… but seeing the two of them living safely like this was enough to satisfy him.

Ye Qiu began thinking about the future. Now that he had obtained the Profound Celestial Ice Sword smoothly, he no longer had any need to keep his distance from those people of the Hidden Clan. If they came to stir up trouble again, he would simply erase the Hidden Clan from existence.

But although the Hidden Clan targeted Ye Qiu, in order to protect the world from the Magical Beasts of the waves, the Hidden Clan had indeed contributed a lot. You could even say that the reason this world had not yet been destroyed by Magical Beasts was thanks to the Hidden Clan.