Chapter 381: Chapter 270 Heavenly Ruins Ice Collapse
The dark clouds blocked the sun, the chilly wind howled with rage, icy rain filled the sky, and avalanches toppled mountains.
The frigid storm swept in from the Returning Ruins, carrying with it a world-covering blizzard. Raindrops froze into blade-like ice fragments in the upper air, swept by the Gang Wind, striking against everything, shredding rocks and vegetation into dust, and smacking layers of ice onto the mountain rocks like crashing waves.
The cold current pierced to the bone, like a sword plunging into marrow. The icy wind howled, stirring up a storm of snowflakes as if a storm giant lifted a carpet, lifting the ice and snow throughout the mountains like a wall of water to a hundred feet high, as if an inverted mountain and a collapsing mansion. Amid thunderous noise, it collapses and crumbles down, triggering an avalanche as dense as a waterfall and as powerful as metal rain, sweeping away everything, destroying everything, tearing all living things to shreds, burying them under the thick white snow.
In such an ice and snow storm, not to mention humans, even demons must find a cave to hide in, not daring to show their heads.
Yet within the great snow, a figure resembling a snow monster—a hairy man—was rushing, racing through the ice and snow storm!
Yes, Tie Dan! Charging forward undeterred, advancing against the wind in this ice and snow storm, using Ice Escape, sprinting through the snow!
He must seize the time, taking advantage of the moment when even demons have to hide to avoid danger, racing southeast along the Yan Zhi Mountain Range, against the avalanche storm!
At this moment, all of his life’s cultivation had been pushed to its limits, and the Essence Blood coursing through his body was spurred to the utmost. This was no longer about resisting the cold; it was about breaking the cold!
It was wrapping his body with Heavenly Ruin Sword Qi, using sword energy to break open the cold current, carving a path through the ice, wind, snow, and rain!
With Blood Jade Technique constantly activated, healing, reviving, and reshaping the blood and flesh that were frozen and necrotic by the severe cold, and cut into pieces by the ice fragments!
It was repeatedly cleansing the impurities from the snow with the Heavenly Breath and Earthly Evil Sword Embryo, transforming them for his use! Strengthening bones and refining the Dao body!
In this severe cold, icy wind, frost swords, and avalanche, there were no other thoughts.
It was just Qi Manipulation, just Energy Transfer, just persevering forward, just moving onward.
Unwittingly, Tie Dan fell into an unprecedented realm of clarity, as if his whole being transcended his skin sack, floating in mid-air, observing his Dao body advance from a third-person perspective.
Under this all-encompassing, sweeping ice wind and snowstorm, under the trial of wind knives and frost swords, under the bone-chilling cold,
The weaknesses of this body, its deficiencies, its flaws, every slip and gap were laid bare, all shortcomings and weaknesses seen clearly.
Crushed then repaired, broken then strengthened, destruction, evolution, destruction, evolution, honed to perfection, refined to the extreme, sharpening the sword in the snow! Sharpening the sword in the ice! Casting the sword in the Dao!
Only the most perfect, the sharpest sword, could break through this ice wind, could cut through this snowstorm!
Thus, after moving against the blizzard for three days and nights, finally, a figure broke through the glacier, burst out of the storm, and emerged from the ice and snow.
The demon beast fur on his body was long since shattered and split by ice knives and frost swords, pulverized to powder, and his blood, flesh, and bones had been washed and strengthened countless times.
So much so that at this moment, his entire skin had been refined to resemble frost crystals and ice soul, actually shimmering under sunlight, reflecting cold gleams.
Standing amidst the icy expanse now was a true man, refined by cold frost!
A seven-foot frame, as firm as a rock, eyes as icy as frost, face cold as frost, iron bones and ice soul, Qi sinking deep as an abyss.
It seemed that merely by standing there, his sudden killing intent, his fierce sword breath, could quiet the howling fierce wind like a mountain.
Tie Dan looked at his hands, clenched his fists, feeling the astonishing power within this snow-refined Dao body capable of directly facing the ice and snow storm, able to break a path through the frost-cold way.
Hmm... For training and tempering, this ghostly weather is quite good...
Originally, Tie Dan thought that after gritting his teeth to charge through the ice wind storm, he would need to rest and recover, but unexpectedly, he accidentally grasped an insight, refining his Dao body.
However, is he now Nascent Soul level?
Tie Dan was a bit confused, after all, the path of ’My Sword’ was entirely new, not fitting the usual logic.
But just from the Blood God’s son’s primordial spirit and the self-perception of this snow-refined Dao body at the moment, Tie Dan felt he should definitely be far beyond the Golden Core Peak State’s limit.
As for the level of Qi Manipulation, it goes without saying, it had long reached Nascent Soul Level, while earlier the Golden Core Dao body couldn’t contain vast amounts of True Qi.
But now, after enduring the storm, being refined by ice and snow, unknowingly, the meridians and Qi Sea could already accommodate the vast True Qi of Nascent Soul Level.
The problem is, however, that his Heavenly Breath Earth Evil Sword, though significantly heavier, remains in the sword embryo state, and the sword energy is still of Heavenly Ruin quality.
Moreover, though his meridians and Qi acupoints had been toughened by frost, they hadn’t reached the peak, full-to-bursting feeling.
In other words, this current state wasn’t Tie Dan’s limit, it was merely a beginning.
He could still continue forging his sword, could still continue to grow stronger, to a level never seen before.
Hmm...
Saying more is pointless, better try killing a couple of beasts first.
Just right, the tide of demons was already approaching. Nearby, a large group of demons assembled, numbering in the thousands, hiding in the valley of Shanyang to shelter from the severe cold, clustering together for warmth, their Demon Qi soaring to the sky.
Thus, Tie Dan’s heart stirred, he lifted his foot forward, and with an Ice River Escape...
"Whoosh——!"
Ice scales, azure eyes! The azure dark ice dragon glided across the sky! Soared through the firmament! The Heavenly Dragon rode the clouds! Overlooking the horde of demons!