The one-eyed Qilin, moving with absolute frenzy, rose to its full, colossal height and charged directly toward Chen Feng! The formidable body, backed by profound Xuan Bing Dou Qi, hurtled to a stop directly before him.
Chen Feng twisted his frame into a bow shape and violently sprang back, using the recoil of that compression and release to leap five meters away. He had barely dodged the impact, feeling the entire silent chamber reverberate as the Qilin’s massive head slammed into the opposing wall of pure Xuan Bing!
The sheer force of the collision created visible ripples of air that spread outwards. If this chamber hadn't been a consecrated cultivation space, reinforced with powerful seals, that single impact would have buried everyone at the bottom of the lake!
The enraged Qilin, regardless of the severity of its injuries, was nothing short of terrifying! Failing to land a blow, the beast became even more volatile.
Seeing Chen Feng retreat toward Luo Bo’s flank, it let out another deafening roar and lunged again! The shout was laced with venomous malice; had Chen Feng remained stationary, he would surely have been devoured!
Chen Feng’s face was grim and cold; all fear, dread, and panic had been banished far behind him. Influenced by the dark energy cyclone, the stronger the opponent, the more his spirit refused to yield.
A surging will to fight pressed against his chest, threatening to erupt! Even so, Chen Feng’s mind remained sharp: the peak burst state could only be sustained for one minute.
These two assaults had already consumed over twenty seconds. If he couldn't fell the Qilin in the remaining time, the moment his amplified state vanished, he would be left completely at the creature’s mercy!
No more evasion! Chen Feng stomped down hard, causing faint stress fractures to appear in the Xuan Bing floor.
The dark cyclone beneath his feet generated a powerful thrust, causing his speed to increase exponentially! His figure, fleeting as a phantom, instantly closed the distance to the Qilin.
Both moved with incredible velocity, hurtling toward each other relatively. They met in the blink of an eye.
The Qilin’s thick nostrils blasted out twin jets of chilling air, and it lowered its head, aiming its massive skull directly at Chen Feng’s chest. Its icy Xuan Bing Dou Qi coalesced above him, forming a razor-sharp spike of pure energy.
The Dou Qi remaining within the Qilin was insufficient to unleash large-scale destructive attacks, forcing it to rely on physical impact or forming energy spikes against Chen Feng. Otherwise, with its immense inherent strength, a casual Dou Technique would have instantly reduced Chen Feng to ash!
Yet, the very fact that it could materialize its Dou Qi into tangible spikes spoke volumes about the terrifying level of control it possessed! Chen Feng did not attempt to dodge.
With a mighty shout, he drove his right elbow toward the creature’s massive skull. In the next instant, his left elbow struck the exact same spot!
Finally, he bent his waist into a deep arc and drove both elbows toward that singular point once more! Sunflower Three Forms!
Though the triple strike of the Sunflower technique couldn't shatter the Qilin’s defense, it caused its massive head to reel slightly, significantly reducing its forward momentum and lessening the force of the impending collision! Simultaneously, the Qilin’s Xuan Bing Dou Qi spike pierced Chen Feng’s body.
As the full force of their combined momentum struck—an immense impact—he was immediately sent flying backward like a snapped kite, tumbling four or five times before crashing into the Xuan Bing wall behind him! With a resounding "boom," he smashed a human-shaped hole into the icy surface and became lodged within it!
"Cough, cough..." Blood immediately trickled from the corner of his mouth! Had his physique not been so extraordinarily tough, he would have been reduced to a pulp!
The point of impact on his chest held a perfectly circular puncture, three to four centimeters in diameter. The edges of the wound were crusted with Xuan Bing, appearing slightly translucent—identical to the ice statue he had observed in the Ice Palace!
Qilin Xuan Bing Dou Technique—Ice Sculpture Art! In its prime state, this technique could turn even ninth-level magical beasts a hundred meters away into frozen effigies!
Chen Feng felt an intense, dead cold spread across his chest, followed by numbness. His left arm went limp and useless.
Shaking his shoulders violently, the cyclone energy behind him surged. He leaped out of the Xuan Bing cavity, landing heavily and gasping for air.
A Divine Beast was indeed formidable. Even near death, it was far beyond his current cultivation level to kill.
His earlier success in blinding it must have been pure luck. How to deliver the killing blow?
Chen Feng's mind raced frantically. ………… Struck by the Sunflower Three Forms, the Qilin only suffered a momentary daze before snapping back to consciousness, its rage amplified tenfold!
"Aooo!" it bellowed again, opening its massive jaws to eject a perfectly spherical core. The rich Xuan Bing elemental energy on the ice platform immediately converged upon this core like a frenzy, instantly forming a massive vortex!
"Dragon God, flee quickly! That is the Qilin’s Innate Dou Technique—World of Xuan Bing!" Luo Bo roared out.
The Qilin was a Divine Beast cultivating Dou Qi; its most devastating technique was naturally its Innate Dou Technique—the ultimate offensive power unleashed via its core! However, due to its severe injuries, its control was impaired, resulting in a brief buffering period before the technique fully manifested.
If this move were unleashed at the Qilin's peak, the surrounding hundred-mile radius would instantly transform into a world of pure Xuan Bing, freezing every living thing within it and extinguishing all vitality. Even now, though the Qilin was nearing its end, unleashing its Innate Dou Technique meant the resulting power could not be underestimated!
A flash of insight struck Chen Feng: he had to disrupt the technique during that crucial buffering period before the vortex fully formed! Otherwise, even if he fled now, how could he escape an attack that covered such a vast area!
Staring at the increasingly dense and powerful Xuan Bing vortex, Chen Feng’s heart remained devoid of sorrow or joy, only an escalating will to fight. He tilted his head back, his blood-red hair flowing behind him, then suddenly snapped his eyes open.
A blazing fire ignited within his jet-black pupils. Cang Yan instantly materialized in his palm, crackling audibly in the airflow created by the vortex, its color deepening, appearing increasingly bizarre.
Simultaneously, his own aura began to climb steadily. The shockwaves radiating from the Qilin core’s formation collided around him, sounding like kernels popping in oil.
A serpentine dark cyclone coiled and snaked around his body. Wherever the cyclone passed, the air warped, sending out faint wisps of heat; from a distance, it appeared as if he were shrouded in steam.
"Ah..." Chen Feng roared through the side effects of the immense power. With a "bang," his outer garment shredded, revealing the robust musculature honed by his burst state.
The tattered cloth dissolved into ash under the influence of the dark cyclone, burning like myriad dancing, fiery butterflies. "Cyclone Power at 53%!
Dark Hook!" Chen Feng muttered the command! He flicked his hand, and the flame shot out like a cannonball directly toward the enemy!
Previously, when Chen Feng used the Great Serpent Pheasant Cyclone Power in his amplified state, he only managed 40%. Now, a single Dark Hook alone was releasing 53% of that power!
However, this Dark Hook differed from those prior: it advanced slowly toward the Qilin. Immediately after, Chen Feng flicked his right hand again, launching a second Cang Yan flame to trail closely behind the first!
The two flames met in mid-air, but instead of exploding, they combined through a strange power amplification! The doubled Cang Yan surged forward with overwhelming might toward the Qilin!
The target was not the Qilin itself, but the core hovering before it! The Qilin’s defense was too formidable; Chen Feng knew even at 53% Cyclone Power, he couldn't breach the creature’s physical shell.
He had no choice but to target the floating core. If the core was struck, the Innate Dou Technique would instantly abort, drastically reducing its potency!
Furthermore, Luo Bo, injured and unable to rise, lay directly behind the Qilin!