Chapter 65: The Uncrowned King
A palace of purple ice, a chilling mist filling the air, a single, brilliant star shining in the night sky.
This place, like a dimension out of time, its transparent, crystalline walls and floors reflecting like mirrors, a deep, abyssal beauty.
At the center of the palace stood a blue-haired girl, her expression lost. This wasn’t her spirit space, a place she had never been before…
Like a dream, her mind hazy, she had even forgotten her own identity, driven only by instinct and a deep-seated mission—to choose a battle technique.
Whoosh!!!
Suddenly, eight faint lamps on either side of the palace ignited, releasing an icy mist that made the already cold air even more chilling.
At the same time, a line of burning dark text appeared in the girl’s mind.
[Eight-Star Burning Ice: Unleash your spirit energy, creating eight burning ice planets that dissipate as your energy depletes.]
“…”
Looking away from the lamps, the blue-haired girl’s gaze fell upon a shimmering screen.
Instantly, the walls and floor of the palace pulsed with a brilliant purple light.
[Fan of Flowing Fire: Condense spirit energy into a fan shape, covering a wide area.]
Like choosing a class in an online game, wherever the blue-haired girl’s gaze landed, the image would magnify, displaying relevant information.
She knew, instinctively, that five more battle techniques remained unseen.
The most prominent was a frozen throne at the end of the ice palace, upon which sat a frozen skeleton wearing a crown, radiating an aura of dominance.
[Throne of Destruction: All frozen things shall be destroyed.]
[Crown of Bones: Grant life to frozen things.]
[Abyssal Horde: Create three ice demon puppets with offensive and defensive capabilities comparable to ordinary Saint-rank spirit beasts.]
Behind the throne stood a massive, ice-sealed gate, emanating a despairing aura of death.
And above the gate hung a massive, deep purple planet.
[Ice Emperor City: Eternal within the ice.]
[Death Tribulation: Her most beloved star.]
–Ice Emperor City and Death Tribulation were the battle techniques associated with the gate and the planet, respectively.
Although the descriptions of these two techniques were abstract, the auras they radiated were undeniably the most powerful.
Within this mysterious spirit space, the girl had a total of seven battle techniques to choose from. She felt that it was… few. She had never had so few options before.
Without hesitation, the blue-haired girl simply pointed at the object that intrigued her the most.
The next second, above the girl’s head, a swirling deep purple, icy mist enveloped the palace, and the massive star in the sky slowly descended.
A falling star, its surface covered in a layer of purple ice and frozen earth, yet burning with icy flames. A beautiful, mesmerizing sight.
As it approached, it shrunk, landing in the girl’s palm and disappearing.
[Battle Technique – Death Tribulation]
Wind Valley
Boom!!!!
A swirling vortex of deep purple spirit energy erupted, condensing around the unconscious, blue-haired girl, forming an illusory, purple crystal prism that enveloped her completely.
Frozen within the dreamlike purple crystal, Gong Lianyue sat with her legs drawn up, her hair still, her eyes closed as if in eternal slumber.
Not only her spirit beast, physique, and bone age, but even her spirit energy form had transformed completely, as if she had become a different person.
Meanwhile, lying nearby, playing dead, the three green figures stared in disbelief at the purple elemental spirit beast behind Gong Lianyue.
A female, elemental figure formed from purple ice crystals, its body possessing graceful curves, its surface shimmering with beautiful star patterns.
Two long, intertwined legs covered in purple sparks, but its arms were missing, like a limbless torso.
The purple elemental figure was beautiful, yet it radiated no offensive aura.
And then…
Crack!
Crack!
The sound of ice cracking echoed through the air as the very air itself froze solid.
Two terrifying, massive, crystalline arms, each with an eyeball growing on its wrist, emerged from the void behind the purple elemental figure. Deep purple swirls covered the arms, forming strange cloud-like patterns, a terrifying yet mystical sight.
Even more bizarre, two ice-blue, teardrop-shaped eyes, like frozen cores, grew on the wrists of the crystalline arms, darting around restlessly.
Looking at the arms floating beside its empty sockets, the elemental figure awkwardly raised them, tilting its head as it examined them, then clenched its fists. With a bang, the icy arms swelled, becoming several times thicker than elephant legs or pillars.
Compared to the weak and delicate purple elemental figure, the aura radiating from these floating arms was terrifying, making one’s scalp tingle.
These were the same arms that had crushed the head of the Eight-Headed Mist Crow’s master on Fallen Whale Island!!!
At this moment, the Sorrowful Saintess Gong Lianyue’s companion spirit beast, hidden for years, finally revealed itself.
“Sorrowful Saintess… just how many Saint-rank spirit beasts is this woman hiding!?”
The green figure stared at the purple spirit beast, dumbfounded.
Besides the Bloodbath Fox Sovereign, Weaver of the Sun, and this creature, there was also the core taken by the Frost Snow Woman, which also seemed to be Saint-rank.
Suddenly, a chilling dread ran down her spine, and the Wrathful Saintess Luo Kuxin’s hair stood on end.
The icy eyes on the purple elemental figure’s wrists rolled upwards, a mocking, comical expression directed at the fleeing Frost Snow Woman.
A bone-chilling cold…
Something was wrong…
It seemed… unconcerned with the fleeing Frost Snow Woman, despite her possessing ten strands of the Snow Monarch’s fur.
This Saint-rank spirit beast was unlike anything Luo Kuxin had ever seen, fundamentally different!!!
Arms, body, and stars, a trinity, the uncrowned king of elemental spirit beasts.
The pinnacle of ice-type spirit beast evolution.
[Ice Soul Cold Star]
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