Bang! Bang!

Bang!... The hemispherical depressions in the ice valley shattered incessantly.

At that moment, Nie Kong clearly sensed a massive surge of vitality darting frantically through the ice fissures, moving at incredible speed. Dozens of meters later...

The formidable force, condensed from Nie Kong's divine power, the essence of nature, and the physical might of his 'Crimson Star Battle Form,' barely managed to catch up to it. "Ah!" Amidst a cry of pain, a faint white shadow shot upward through the dense ice shards, only to drill back into the ice layer with even greater speed, weaving rapidly through the depressions.

By the time Nie Kong reached the spot, cradling Tai Yan, the vitality signature that represented Bai Yetian had vanished without a trace. However, where Bai Yetian had just appeared, a faint reddish hue flickered faintly—the trace of blood left from his injury.

"Such speed!" Nie Kong was secretly alarmed. Under the force of his attack, an ordinary Heaven Spirit expert would likely have been reduced to dust, yet Bai Yetian managed to flee dozens of meters before even being brushed by Nie Kong's offensive.

And this was achieved through a sneak attack; had Bai Yetian been prepared, Nie Kong would have found it difficult to strike him at all. However, through that single exchange, Nie Kong had gained a clear picture of Bai Yetian's strength.

If using the Spirit Master cultivation realm as a reference, Bai Yetian should have reached the Ninth Grade of Heaven Spirit, but he absolutely had not yet passed the Spirit Tribulation, nor had he fully transformed into human form. Otherwise, his blood would be a deep crimson, not pale red.

Tai Yan lamented regretfully, "A pity, he got away." "It's fine; he will surely reappear," Nie Kong smiled. "Tai Yan, you performed very well today." Seeing Tai Yan beam with delight and about to speak, Nie Kong quickly changed the subject, "But there are no rewards." "Oh." Tai Yan pouted, her rosy lips flattening, and she sagged slightly.

"Bastard! You absolute bastard!

You actually injured me! The consequences of injuring me are severe—die!" Nie Kong's prediction materialized almost instantly.

Bai Yetian was no longer arrogantly referring to himself as 'Brother'; his hysterical roar reverberated violently across the heavens and earth. "Hoo!

Hoo! Hoo..." Piercing wails rose and fell incessantly.

Countless blurred white figures suddenly burst forth from the icy depressions, swooping down on Nie Kong and Tai Yan like phantoms. Along with these white figures, waves of chilling coldness poured down, drilling incessantly into the marrow of their bones.

Nie Kong's spirit tightened slightly. Fortunately, his physical body had been tempered to be incomparably robust; otherwise, he would certainly have been affected by the cold, leading to a significant drop in power.

"Be careful!" Glancing over quickly, Nie Kong saw that Tai Yan was unaffected, but he still offered a warning. He then swept his right hand, sending a streak of force slashing through the void.

The dozens of white figures charging at the front instantly dissolved. However, after only a moment, they reformed and lunged again.

Nie Kong frowned slightly and stopped wasting his primal energy. In the next instant, nearly a hundred white figures simultaneously slammed into Nie Kong's body, and almost every moment of impact, an icy chill pierced into his flesh.

With a flicker of will, Nie Kong’s muscles and skin began to writhe at a frequency barely visible to the naked eye. As soon as the coldness seeped into Nie Kong's body, it was immediately expelled through his pores.

But the white figures continued to swarm in relentlessly. In merely a few short seconds, Nie Kong was completely enveloped by the ant-like density of the white shapes.

Almost every moment, Nie Kong's physical form endured thousands of impacts. Nie Kong ignored attacks of this level, focusing instead on spreading his spiritual sense to its maximum extent to closely monitor the surrounding movements, guarding against Bai Yetian launching a sneak attack hidden among the figures.

Beside him, Tai Yan had already transformed into a vast sea of blood. However, Tai Yan, having controlled the vast majority of her power, did not engage her natural instinct to devour.

Like Nie Kong, she allowed the white figures to crash against her. Although Tai Yan did not possess Nie Kong's incomparably strong and indestructible 'Crimson Star Battle Form,' she was currently like a crimson ocean, and those white figures were like countless sharp arrows.

Her unique physical form rendered the innumerable impacts of the white figures completely useless. "Hmm?" Bai Yetian's surprised low exclamation suddenly echoed through the world.

A faint smile touched the corner of Nie Kong's lips. His figure suddenly merged with the void.

The next moment, an unimaginably massive fist materialized sixty or seventy meters to his right. "Bang!" The giant fist smashed heavily into the depression below, and only then did Nie Kong step out of the void.

"Ooooh..." The ice valley cracked, and a shriek faded rapidly into the distance. Two or three seconds later, Bai Yetian screamed in agony from a thousand meters away: "Bastard, another sneak attack!

You forced me to do this! Ten Thousand Ice Seal!" The instant his cry faded, the shattered ice valley suddenly restored itself.

Immediately after, just like the other intact depressions, they abruptly transformed into deep, dark ice caves, from which countless pillars of frigid air, seemingly substantial, jetted out. In an instant, the clear landscape became shrouded in white mist.

"Kacha, Kama...,..." Strange cracking sounds reached Nie Kong's ears. He frowned but suddenly discovered that the void around him had been completely frozen solid.

Nie Kong tried to move his will but found he could not condense a void passage, nor could he employ techniques like 'Merging with the Void' as before. "You think this can trap me?" Nie Kong scoffed internally, about to mobilize his full divine power to enter the 'Crimson Star Battle Form' state, but he abruptly felt a warning in his heart and suppressed the thought.

After only a moment, Nie Kong felt the thick ice layer beneath his feet vanish without a trace. His body lost support and plummeted straight down.

"Thump!" The sensation of his feet hitting solid ground returned in an instant. Nie Kong looked around and found himself in a narrow space, surrounded by thick ice walls, identical in size and shape to the hemispherical depressions outside.

Nie Kong tentatively probed, discovering that his spiritual sense could barely penetrate the surrounding ice layer, as if obstructed by an invisible barrier. "Bastard!

Enjoy the taste of fear and terror within my Ice Seal Space! Before long, you won't even feel fear or terror anymore, because you will have become an ice sculpture!" Bai Yetian's triumphant voice drifted in, though his tone betrayed unconcealed exhaustion.

"It seems the technique of the Ten Thousand Ice Seal Moon has completely drained your power. Should you perhaps rest a bit before coming back to watch the process of me turning into an ice sculpture?" Nie Kong remained unfazed and teased with a smile.

"Jokes!" Nie Kong's words seemed to hit a sore spot, causing Bai Yetian to roar in shame and anger, "Forget one Ten Thousand Ice Seal Moon, even if you made me do it again, 'Brother' could handle it! Bastard, laugh all you want now, but soon you won't be able to.

In this place, the coldness doubles for every day spent inside. Once you enter, no one can escape.

The longest anyone has lasted is sixty days. My Ice Seal Space already stores quite a few ice sculptures—you're about to become one of them!

Are you regretting it now?"