Just before the attack on Ling Xue, in the sky above an endless-looking forest.
Numerous people were flying, seemingly waiting for something. The ancestor of the sacred southern land had planned how to save Li Yuemei while killing Ling Xue.
She used the sealing gates, a treasure of the sacred southern land, to create a vast formation over an area the size of a small kingdom.
These gates served as an isolator from the world, preventing anyone who entered from leaving until those controlling the formation allowed it, and they sealed a specific type of elemental Qi in the region.
Even though it required significant resources, the ancestor didn't care at all. After learning that Ling Xue used the Law of Ice, the gates became the first part of her plan to destroy him.
The ancestor felt intense rage towards Ling Xue, especially after the young master of the medicinal mountain told her about Li Yuemei's condition.
After Li Yuemei was kidnapped, the sacred southern land spent weeks trying to find her whereabouts to save her but got nowhere.
Thus, the ancestor and the great elders, already concerned about Li Yuemei's situation, were predisposed to believe the worst could happen. Everything the young master told them seemed credible in their eyes, while his narrative of the events involving Ling Xue and Li Yuemei confirmed their worst fears.
Moreover, the Medicinal Mountain had a good reputation and great prestige across the continent, making the words and lies told by the young master taken as truth by everyone in the room at that time.
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In the sky above the vast forest, right after the attack by the saints of the sacred land, stood the ancestor with several great elders, one of them looking utterly exhausted as if he had suffered a major blow.
Before the ancestor and everyone else, the man in black who attacked Ling Xue appeared, carrying the unconscious Li Yuemei in his arms.
"Ancestor, it seems that what the young master of the sacred land told us is true," said the man as he showed Li Yuemei to the ancestor and the great elders.
Everyone then looked at Li Yuemei's face.
Suddenly, in the sky, a terrifying murderous intent emerged from her, pressuring everyone around, but despite this, the great elders didn't care.
In fact, they all had a similar expression; their intense hatred for Ling Xue increased even more. The words that Li Yuemei had been abused and hurt seemed true after seeing her body full of marks.
Everyone's disgust for Ling Xue grew exponentially.
The ancestor looked at Li Yuemei and then said with a grave voice for everyone to hear:
"Do not let that bastard breathe even for a second more; I want to see his head and his lifeless body in front of me now."
"KILL HIM!!!"
"YES!" The great elders exclaimed as they quickly disappeared. Even without the ancestor's order, they had already decided that Ling Xue was a dead man.
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In the forest below where the first confrontation took place, a circular area in the forest was destroyed by the impact of the attacks, and Ling Xue fell with great force.
Dust obscured the view around, but in the middle of the rubble of stones and earth, a barrier of pure ice was visible.
The ice barrier then began to crack slowly and break, unable to withstand the impact of all the attacks along with the great hit on the ground.
After the entire ice barrier fell to the ground, the ice seemed to disappear quickly, and from within the barrier, Ling Xue emerged completely unharmed.
At the moment, Ling Xue did not care about the destruction around him and just looked at the sky in the direction where the man took Li Yuemei and from where the attacks came.
His expression was freezing, while a light, murderous intent emerged in his mind.
Ling Xue then suddenly disappeared from the ground and reappeared in the sky, looking at the people who appeared at a great distance.
In front of him were fifteen people, but the person who took Li Yuemei was not seen. Ling Xue's eyes exuded intense coldness as he looked at the people in front of him.
The saints of the sacred land saw Ling Xue appear before them, and their hatred intensified, but despite this, they immediately raised their guard. After seeing him emerge unscathed from the attacks of several of them together, they knew they could not underestimate him.
But in everyone's mind, Ling Xue was already a dead man.
The Saints looked at Ling Xue who appeared, and then immediately dispersed into a large circle surrounding Ling Xue from all sides.
Ling Xue, surrounded by the Saints, remained calm and expressionless on the surface, but had already decided in his mind that these people were unknown enemies like the Dream Tower.
They were all dead.
As soon as they surrounded him, half of the Saints quickly used their devastating techniques. Ling Xue felt countless attacks coming his way again.
The Saints used their Qi to manifest great attacks of different affinities, but Ling Xue didn't put them in his eyes when he was surprised, especially now that he knew about the attacks.
He then suddenly raised one of his arms, and three ice barriers appeared in the surrounding air. The attacks of the Saints immediately hit them, breaking two but completely failing on the third.
The other half of the saints then appeared with terrifying speed around the third barrier, wielding numerous weapons imbued with terrible Qi.
Ling Xue saw them approaching, and then, in the surrounding air, a multitude of pure ice stalactites appeared. As soon as the third barrier was destroyed, the sharp stalactites were launched at everyone around.
The ice barrier that broke near the Saints suddenly rejoined around them, trapping them and preventing them from dodging the stalactites.
All the saints then used the maximum of their Qi to form a protective barrier around them, but even these barriers were not strong enough, and the expression of all changed when their barriers started to break rapidly.
The Saints near Ling Xue seemed like they would be severely injured or killed by the attack. But another immense wave of attacks emerged again at extreme speed, some attacks directed at Ling Xue, others sent to defend the other saints from Ling Xue's attack, forcing him to stop attacking and defend.
"Tsk, this is annoying."
A low and cold voice suddenly sounded, while all fifteen saints suddenly felt an ominous feeling.
Ling Xue among all the saints, after seeing the little strength of these people, decided to end it quickly. Then suddenly, his entire body released an icy and intense aura like the one he released when he woke up from the cocoon.
A wave of extreme cold radiated from his body, causing the environment in a large area to plummet suddenly, and small ice crystals formed rapidly.
In the sky, as soon as this happened, the ancestor of the sacred land instantly felt imminent danger and reacted intuitively while screaming at everyone.
"RUN TOWARDS ME NOW!!"
The fire Qi of the ancestor was released from her body like a furious beast as she concentrated her force to the maximum and flew towards the Saints and Ling Xue.
The saints, even before hearing the ancestor, had already started flying with all their movement techniques towards the ancestor, but the feeling of death increased with every millisecond.
Ling Xue, still with a cold expression, suddenly raised his arms, and then a cold and bluish aura was released in all directions. The energy expanded at a terrifying speed, and wherever it passed, it transformed everything around into pure ice while growing in speed and intensity, sending waves of cold to all places around.
All the attacks previously launched by the saints were completely transformed into pure ice, and the energy followed the saints, fleeing at full speed.
In moments, they would be completely dead, but they felt the climate warm up suddenly when a familiar voice sounded, and a person appeared above them.
"SOLAR INFERNO!"
The ancestor of the sacred land appeared suddenly, summoning a massive wave of fire and heat and creating an intense fire barrier that expanded towards Ling Xue.
When the terrible energies met, a devastating explosion occurred. The force of the impact of the energies caused a shockwave that spread instantly in all directions for miles, shaking the sky and the earth while devastating the region below. This created a chaotic zone where a forest once existed, where the opposing energies of fire and ice met.