In the snow, dozens of kilometers away from Luo Feng, a dark shadow lay in wait.
“Ga ga ga ~ This human seems not to know how to teleport, but his strength is formidable. My clone, though only a small portion of my true power, was easily defeated by him. He must be at least at the peak of the King-level warriors. I should let others go first and let them gnaw on this bone.” The dark shadow vanished into thin air with a ‘swoosh.’
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Luo Feng continued walking through the snow, unhurried, as if admiring the scenery.
“So the Soul Devouring Beast didn’t come in person. Just showing a bit of my strength was enough to scare it off. It’s indeed cautious,” Luo Feng murmured as he walked. He had already traversed nearly ten million kilometers in a straight line through the Ice Prison, yet encountered no other imprisoned powerhouses besides the Soul Devouring Beast.
“Hmm?” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up as he gazed into the distance at a mountain of ice. Atop that icy peak stood a figure.
The distance between them was dozens of kilometers, but with their vision, as long as there were no obstructions, they could easily see each other.
The figure turned and looked at Luo Feng from afar!
He had a tall divine body, covered entirely in feathers, and his vertical pupils stared at Luo Feng from afar.
“It’s a Katu clan member,” Luo Feng thought.
The Katu clan was a subordinate race under the Monster Race Alliance. Katu warriors were known for their coldness and ferocity. When Luo Feng confirmed that the figure atop the distant icy peak was a Katu clan warrior, he realized there would likely be a battle ahead.
“Whoosh!” The Katu clan warrior instantly transformed into a streak of light, leaving only a brilliant trail in midair as he lunged directly toward Luo Feng.
Luo Feng stood in the snow, looking up at the approaching Katu warrior, silently waiting.
The distance between them grew closer and closer!
The Katu warrior’s eyes blazed with boundless killing intent and madness, forcing Luo Feng to conceal his own murderous aura: “In the Ice Prison, why do all the imprisoned powerhouses immediately attack upon seeing others?”
Buzz!
The Katu clan warrior immediately unleashed the ‘Spatial Sealing,’ suppressing spatial fluctuations within a certain radius, temporarily preventing both parties from teleporting.
This secretly amused Luo Feng. The Katu warrior before him probably didn’t know how to teleport. In reality, Luo Feng himself didn’t know how to teleport either, so there was no need to use ‘Spatial Sealing.’
“Human, die!” The Katu warrior’s fierce voice echoed, “It’s either me or you!”
Boom!
A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from the Katu warrior, causing Luo Feng, who had previously been calm, to be greatly startled: “Burning his immortal divine body? He’s gone mad. Even if this Katu warrior really wants to fight me to the death, why burn his divine body without even knowing my true strength? Burning the divine body once causes significant depletion, requiring a long time to recover.”
“Xiu.” Luo Feng flapped his wings and quickly dodged the Katu warrior’s close-range attack.
“Katu warrior, we’ve never met before, and you don’t even know my strength. Why burn your divine body right away? Even if you want to kill me, if my strength is weak, wouldn’t you be wasting your divine body’s power for nothing?” Luo Feng transmitted his thoughts.
Whoosh!
A blood-red blade of light slashed across the sky, and Luo Feng once again dodged far away.
Xiu! Xiu! Xiu! Xiu! Xiu! Xiu! With the Shiwu Wings, Luo Feng dodged repeatedly. Based on Luo Feng’s judgment, this Katu warrior was also at the peak of the King-level. Once he burned his divine power… Luo Feng really couldn’t afford to engage directly for now, so he decided to dodge and let the opponent expend more of his divine body’s energy.
“I burned my divine power, yet I can’t even dodge as fast as you?” The Katu warrior seemed somewhat frenzied. “Human, if you have enough strength, come and fight me head-on! Even if I die, let me die in a direct battle!”
“Katu warrior, do you think I’m that foolish?” Luo Feng easily dodged each attack.
No matter how fiercely the Katu warrior burned his divine power, he couldn’t land a single hit on Luo Feng… Had the Katu warrior known of the reputation of the “Daohe King,” he likely wouldn’t have acted so foolishly. However, it was clear that among the many imprisoned powerhouses in the Ice Prison, very few were aware of the “Daohe King.”
“Haha…”
Suddenly, the Katu warrior threw his head back and laughed, the sound spreading outward like shockwaves in all directions.
He hovered in midair, not chasing Luo Feng, just laughing loudly.
“Ha ha ha ha… Ha ha ha ha ha…” The Katu warrior laughed wildly. Although he stood in midair laughing and not pursuing Luo Feng, what shocked Luo Feng was that the Katu warrior was still burning his divine body, showing no sign of stopping.
“Katu warrior,” Luo Feng spoke up.
“Ha ha ha… This is fate, this is fate!” The Katu warrior laughed, looking up. “I, Nongcang, grew up as a prodigy from childhood… Grew all the way to the King-level, full of ambition… Just because I was too adventurous, I ended up trapped in the Ice Prison! Once trapped in the Ice Prison, there’s no way out. Endless eons wasted here in this icy prison. Through the long ages… My clan has probably already forgotten me, my loved ones have long since died, how many of my friends are still alive?”
“No way out.”
“Wasting away endless years, having to scheme and fight with you lot for that sliver of hope. Ha ha, through eons without a moment’s respite, I can’t take it anymore. Old blind man, Soul Devouring… You lot keep struggling. I won’t be joining you anymore. I’m leaving first.” The Katu warrior’s voice spread in all directions.
The Katu warrior looked at the shocked Luo Feng: “Human, I originally wanted to perish in madness, to die in battle, but it seems I won’t get that chance.”
“Are you just giving up?” Luo Feng asked.
“What else can I do? Human… Being trapped in the Ice Prison is the greatest torment.” The Katu warrior shook his head. “Unless a super existence from your race highly values you and personally comes to take you away. Otherwise, there’s no hope of getting out. My clan… Ha ha, they’ve probably already forgotten me.”
“Goodbye, goodbye.”
“Finally free.”
The Katu warrior suddenly exploded his divine body, instantly resembling a sun, with endless energy surging in all directions. The Katu warrior didn’t care about the human beside him when he self-destructed; he had already lost all hope, and whether the human died in his explosion was the least of his concerns. If the human died, it might even be his liberation.
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Deep within the icy mountains.
The Soul Devouring Beast was sitting there, and upon hearing the voice carried throughout the Ice Prison by the burning divine power, its fierce eyes showed a momentary start, a flicker of sorrow passing through.
“Old friend, you’re giving up just like that?”
“If you’re going to die, why not die by my hand? That way, I might have a slight chance of getting out.” The Soul Devouring Beast’s hoarse voice echoed in the cave.
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Deep underground in a snow-covered area, thousands of kilometers below the surface, in a cave, a figure coiled and lay in wait, possessing a head resembling a human. His eyes were closed as he softly sighed: “He is free now.”
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Inside a magnificent palace deep within a frozen ocean.
“Another fool has given up. Good, good, good. The more who give up, the more who die, the greater my chance of getting out. Die, you fools.”
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Within the Ice Prison, the captive super-powerful beings who had been confined for countless ages reacted in varied ways upon hearing of the Katu warrior’s demise—some resonated with grief, some sneered, some remained apathetic… Yet none were astonished, for such self-wrought deaths had occurred many times in the past.
In the chaotic air currents, Luo Feng, with his wings folded around him, slowly spread his wings.
Floating in midair, Luo Feng looked at the floating world ring, weapons, armor, and other items left behind by the Katu warrior—the remnants of that powerful Katu warrior.
“Suicide?”
“Each one who cultivates to the King-level possesses extraordinary willpower and unwavering belief. Yet they were driven to suicide.” Luo Feng murmured, his ears echoing with the words the Katu warrior had spoken earlier, making Luo Feng vaguely understand why the Katu warrior had chosen death.
“The Katu clan, a weak alien race. Even if a Monster Race warrior were here, they couldn’t contact their clan. Let alone the Katu clan, which is merely a subordinate race of the Monster Race.” Luo Feng said softly. “They don’t have a virtual universe to communicate with their clan, so they can only endure endless loneliness here.”
“Killing, is the theme of the Ice Prison.”
“Endless eons, always alone, always trapped in this Ice Prison, unable to contact their clan, always fighting, always struggling. A year, a hundred years, ten thousand years… Endless eons… Finally, they break.” Luo Feng sighed inwardly. This was the power of time and loneliness. Even an immortal King-level warrior would eventually break under the weight of endless solitude and time.
“What exactly is going on?”
Luo Feng was indeed shaken by the Katu warrior’s suicide. He no longer had the patience to walk slowly but instead transformed into a streak of light, flying at maximum speed through the high altitude.
Xiu!
The streak of light cut across the sky.
As Luo Feng flew through the air, the more he recalled and pondered, the more shaken he became: “When I accepted the life-and-death inheritance, I was able to endure it, even though it was only over six thousand years, each second felt longer than a year. But that was because I still had my obsession! If I had known, like that Katu warrior, that my loved ones were already dead, would I still persist for countless eons in the Ice Prison?”
Luo Feng silently questioned his inner self.
Would he persist?
“Yes!”
“Definitely yes!” Luo Feng silently nodded.
He would definitely get out, find a way to reverse time and resurrect his loved ones.
If he couldn’t bring his loved ones back to life, he would have to kill Venerable Qingkou to avenge them, for it was Venerable Qingkou who had robbed him of the precious time he could have shared with them.
“Strength, Venerable Qingkou possesses immense power, enabling him to imprison numerous formidable beings as a mere game.” Luo Feng thought to himself, “Most likely, if any of these imprisoned warriors were to become a Cosmic Venerable, Venerable Qingkou would eliminate them without hesitation.”
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Luo Feng flew continuously toward the edge of the sky and land, with endless snow-covered ground and infinite icy peaks below. Finally… Luo Feng saw that transparent, giant ice monument.
The monument was majestic, inscribed with Monster Race script.
“No wonder…” Luo Feng murmured as he looked at the script, “How ruthless the Venerable Qingkou is!”
Tai Sui Yellow Amulet Paper FuLu Taoist Love Talisman Traditional Chinese Spiritual Charm Attracting Love Protecting Marriage