Chapter 229 | Ice and Primordial Fire(Bonus - )

Chapter 229: 229 | Ice and Primordial Fire(Bonus Chapter)

The shockwave from the collision blew the drifting smoke clear off the walkway.

Commander Xue skidded backward four full steps, his scarred face twisting in shock as a violent tremor ran from the hilt of his Blood-Skull Hooked Cleaver all the way up into his Early Core shoulder.

"A Foundation Establishment brat blocked my Core strike with one arm?!" Commander Xue murmured, his bloodshot eyes dropping to the dark-gold Profound Void-Yang Blade in Lin Tian’s right hand.

Beside Lin Tian, Su Ling felt the warm, powerful arm around her waist calmly release its hold.

As Lin Tian stepped half a pace forward to stand beside her right shoulder, Su Ling’s fingers tightened around the hilt of her frost-wrapped longsword.

The spot on her waist where his hand had just rested still burned with a distinct, lingering warmth that seemed to banish the biting chill of her own cultivation art.

For the first time in her life, a faint, almost imperceptible trace of rose colored her snow-pale cheeks before her clear eyes locked coldly onto the demonic commander ahead.

"Thank you," Su Ling said quietly, her voice cool and steady despite the faster beat of her pulse.

"Save your thanks until his head is on the floor," Lin Tian replied calmly, his golden eyes scanning Commander Xue and the three remaining Peak Foundation executioners rushing up from the lower steps.

Before those three executioners could even reach the top of the platform to flank them—

SWISH—PUFF!

A brilliant arc of crimson sword light flashed up the side staircase like a rising phoenix, lighting the steps!

Instructor Qing landed cleanly at the edge of the walkway, her crimson martial coat unstained as the headless corpse of a Peak Foundation demonic officer tumbled back down the stairs behind her!

Moving with crisp, lethal precision, Qing’s longsword wove a tight crimson barrier across the stairwell, intercepting the remaining two executioners on her own, her stance firm and steady, so not a single subordinate could interfere with the platform above.

"These are mine!" Qing called out coldly without turning her head, her gaze fixed ahead. "Cut that demonic cultivatore dog down!"

On the wide northern platform, only Commander Xue remained facing Lin Tian and Su Ling.

Seeing his subordinates blocked and hearing the furious roars of Elder Mo being pushed back in the sky above, Commander Xue’s eyes turned a savage crimson, his jaw tightening visibly.

He slammed the flat of his two Tier-3 Low-Grade Blood-Skull Hooked Cleavers together in front of his chest with a metallic crack!

CLANG!

Thick, viscous dark-red blood-qi poured out of his Early Stage Golden Core, wrapping around his seven-foot frame in a writhing layer of Corrosive Blood-Marrow Armor while drawing in the spilled blood from the dead executioners on the floor to continuously regenerate his Qi.

"You think two little Foundation brats can hold off an Early Core commander just because you have a good blade?!" Commander Xue roared, his dual cleavers spinning into two howling wheels of blood-fire. "I’ll tear your bones out and feed them to my blades!"

Beside Lin Tian, Su Ling took half a step forward, her pale-blue silk robes fluttering as a biting white mist rose beneath her boots.

"His Blood-Marrow Armor draws vitality from the spilled blood on the stone to cushion physical impacts," Su Ling spoke rapidly in a low, clear tone meant only for Lin Tian. "My Extreme Frost-Yin can freeze the blood-mist around his joints for a single breath, but my realm cannot pierce his Core shield."

Lin Tian glanced sidelong at the cold swordswoman beside him.

Unlike panicked disciples who needed orders explained twice, Su Ling had instantly read the enemy’s defense and offered herself as the opening edge.

"One breath is more than enough," Lin Tian said evenly, gripping the long hilt of the Profound Void-Yang Blade with both hands. "Lock his feet. I’ll break his shell."

Su Ling’s clear eyes flashed with sharp understanding.

At that exact moment, Commander Xue stomped the stone platform and charged forward like an armored blood-rhino, swinging both hooked cleavers in a devastating, cross-shaped Crimson Skull Blood Storm that tore deep gouges across the walkway!

Instead of retreating behind Lin Tian, Su Ling stepped straight into the edge of the howling blood-wind!

Deep within her Dantian, knowing Lin Tian was standing half a step behind her, she did not hold back a single drop of her Extreme Frost-Yin—even knowing the full burst would usually leave her meridians aching with frostbite!

"Frost-Moon Secret Art—Absolute Zero Glacial Lotus!"

SHIIIIING—CRACK!

Su Ling’s frost-wrapped longsword stabbed directly into the bloodstained stone slab three paces in front of Commander Xue’s charging boots!

A blinding ring of pure, crystalline ice-blue light exploded outward across the platform.

In the span of a single heartbeat, every drop of spilled blood on the floor froze into solid blue crystal, cutting off Commander Xue’s regeneration!

More than that, twelve blooming petals of bone-piercing Extreme Frost shot up from the stone, wrapping around Commander Xue’s ankles, knees, and elbows in a six-inch-thick shell of glacial ice!

"Break for me!" Commander Xue snarled, flexing his Early Core blood-qi violently to shatter the ice around his arms—yet that momentary clash between his blood-heat and Su Ling’s Extreme Frost caused the swing of his two hooked cleavers to stall in mid-air for half a heartbeat!

As the recoil of unleashing her strongest frost art sent a cold tremor through Su Ling’s wrist, a tall dark figure blurred right past her right shoulder!

As Lin Tian passed within an inch of her side, he deliberately let a warm, gentle wave of his Primordial Yang Qi brush across her back—instantly dissolving the frost backlash in her wrist before it could even sting her nerves!

Then, facing the half-frozen Commander Xue five feet ahead, Lin Tian’s golden eyes blazed with crimson runes.

Insight Eye.

Primordial Yang-Tyrant Body.

Through the cracking blue ice covering Commander Xue’s chest and weapons, Lin Tian saw the metal grain of the two Tier-3 Blood-Skull Hooked Cleavers turned brittle and fragile from Su Ling’s extreme cold!

Pouring a concentrated torrent of his Pure Yang Qi into the Profound Void-Yang Blade, Lin Tian did not hold back a shred of his monstrous physical strength.

In the instant immediately following Su Ling’s absolute cold, Lin Tian swung the Blade horizontally in a roaring crescent of pure, molten-gold Primordial Yang Fire!

BOOM—KCHHHHHK!!

When metal and demonic blood-armor frozen to absolute zero by Extreme Frost-Yin were struck a fraction of a second later by the volcanic heat of Primordial Yang and Tier-3 Peak-Grade artifact, the heat and physical shock was catastrophic!

Commander Xue didn’t even have time to scream.

SHATTER!!

Both of his brittle Blood-Skull Hooked Cleavers exploded into hundreds of tiny iron fragments like struck glass!

Without losing momentum, the blazing dark-gold edge of the Profound Void-Yang Blade tore straight through the frozen Blood-Marrow Armor across Commander Xue’s chest—shearing cleanly through his ribs, his Early Stage Golden Core, and his spine in a single unstoppable sweep!

"Gaaah—!"

Commander Xue’s eyes bulged wide with horror as his upper torso slid off his lower waist.

Before a single drop of his corrupted Core blood could splash onto the walkway, the raging golden Primordial Yang Fire clinging to Lin Tian’s blade roared over the two halves of the corpse—incinerating the Early Core Formation demonic commander into a pile of drifting grey ash on the spot!

Behind Lin Tian, the five Frost-Moon Valley junior disciples stared in stunned silence at the pile of ash on the frosted stone.

Even Su Ling, still holding her sword in its low thrusting stance, looked at the tall dark-robed back in front of her with her heart beating harder than it ever had in a duel.

Her ice had held an Early Core Formation commander for half a breath—and Lin Tian had used that half-breath to slaughter a Core Formation expert in a single strike!

At that exact moment, a terrifying explosion of emerald-gold fire lit up the sky of the colosseum!

"NOOOO—! Elder Liu, spare—AAAGGHH!!"

High in the air above the central pit, Elder Mo’s left arm had already been severed by Grand Elder Jin’s sword light, and now Elder Liu descended above him like an empress of verdant fire!

With her Middle Stage Core completely freed of years of accumulated alchemical toxicity and nourished to peak perfection by Lin Tian’s Primordial Yang, Elder Liu showed no mercy to the man who had tried to ambush her ship and cripple her disciples.

"Verdant Flame Core Art—Nine-Petal Sky Incineration!"

A colossal lotus of emerald-gold Core fire swallowed Elder Mo whole in mid-air!

Under the horrified gaze of the surviving cultists below, the scheming Elder of the Black-Sun Sect burned like a human torch for three breaths before his charred remains crumbled into black ash and scattered across the wind.

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Second Bonus Chapter delivered! Huge thanks to AlwaysHimself for the Luxury Car. With the crisis over, the real battle for the Sovereign’s attention begins. Expect some intense jealousy and rewards tonight. Drop your Power Stones and Golden Tickets.

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