Xuanwu War Sovereign

Above the Firmament, white clouds drifted lazily. Dozens of powerhouses stood in a tense standoff, the two factions clearly divided. Beneath their feet, Heaven-Reaching Ridge resembled a colossal, prostrating Demon Dragon, majestic and immense.

The Emperors from the Demon God Temple were all beaming, their faces flush with triumph.

The missing Shi Wushuang stood behind one of the Emperors, a burly and imposing figure. Shi Wushuang’s head was bowed, his eyes filled with resentment and fury.

In stark contrast, the powerhouses from All Stars Academy wore grim expressions.

The perilous situation of All Stars Academy’s many prodigies within the Demon Hunting Canyon was perfectly clear to the powerhouses on both sides.

"The outcome is already set. Ouyang Xu, Yuqing Tian, your All Stars Academy has lost this time! It seems the so-called prodigies of All Stars Academy are nothing special after all!"

The speaker was the Scorpio Emperor, a middle-aged man with fair, pale skin. He was beardless, and his eyes were sinister. Draped in a Cicada Robe, he spoke with a smile, his eyes narrowed.

He was twisting the knife in the hearts of the All Stars Academy Elders.

The Wood Emperor at his side chuckled. "Ten Spirit Mountain Blessed Lands are ours. What a fine harvest!"

He sighed in appreciation before his tone suddenly shifted. "The women of the Human Race are quite fine, though. This Emperor has already instructed my son to ’show mercy’ to the human elites when the time comes!"

The Tiger Emperor laughed as well. "So Brother Mu has already made preparations," he said with a grin. "What a coincidence. I also instructed my son, Bai Yu, to cherish the tender flowers. They are, after all, top-grade material for refining Chong Slaves!"

The Tiger Emperor’s gaze was domineering, his words incomparably venomous.

Chong Slaves are similar to War Slaves—slaves completely controlled by their masters. The difference, however, is that a Chong Slave retains their full consciousness yet can never escape the eternal torment of their servitude.

This Secret Technique was utterly vile and inhumane.

The enslaved women could never free themselves; it was a state of eternal suffering.

The Celestial Serpent Emperor was shrouded in a black robe, their gender indiscernible. With a strange, hoarse voice, they cackled, "KYEKYEKYE! This time, All Stars Academy is doomed to infamy! All the prodigies from its newest class, annihilated by the younger generation of the Barbaric Wilderness. Is All Stars Academy’s fame undeserved? Has it already fallen into decline? What do you think of that news!"

The powerhouses from All Stars Academy stood with stone-cold faces, their expressions growing darker by the second.

...

Behind a rock, Qin Feng’s Silver White True Power transformed into two Ancient Divine Runes that flowed into the Ice-Sealed Gourd. A crystalline radiance seeped from the gourd’s surface, as if it had devoured some Divine Object and been greatly nourished. The entire gourd began to emit a Divine Light.

Qin Feng closed his eyes. He could feel that the Ice-Sealed Gourd’s full potential had been unleashed and was now growing stronger with each passing moment.

A surging, roiling power of ice churned within it.

If he couldn’t unleash this power, the gourd would explode in a quarter of an hour at most!

The Ice-Sealed Gourd was a Treasure of Heaven and Earth, and now, having been activated by Qin Feng’s Secret Technique, its explosion would be no less powerful than the self-destruction of a Martial Arts Giant.

’What is that treasure!’

The girls’ expressions shifted slightly, their gazes shaken as they stared at the gourd in Qin Feng’s hand.

The Treasure Gourd shimmered with a bright Spiritual Light, and the innate mystique of a Treasure of Heaven and Earth flowed from it. A single glance was enough to tell it was an extraordinary item.

"It’s a gourd from a several-thousand-year-old Gourd Spiritual Root!" Xuelian’s beautiful eyes widened in shock; she recognized it immediately. When she had entered the Gourd Valley, she had also come across a Gourd Vine several thousand years old, but it had been completely bare.

At the time, she’d wanted to search the area more thoroughly, but she didn’t understand Arrays and hadn’t dared to wander.

She never imagined that Qin Feng had actually managed to pick a Spirit Gourd.

A trace of bitterness and envy flickered in Xuelian’s beautiful eyes.

"What? A Spirit Gourd from a several-thousand-year-old Gourd Spiritual Root?"

Hearing this, Ye Qinghua and Jiang Bing’er were also stunned, and a fervent glow couldn’t help but appear in their eyes.

’A Treasure Gourd from a Spiritual Root that’s thousands of years old... this is a Treasure of Heaven and Earth.’

’Treasures of Heaven and Earth are things of chance, not things one can actively seek out!’

This little gourd alone, if exchanged at the All Stars Academy’s Contribution Hall, would be worth at least ten thousand Points.

Tens of thousands of Points could purchase tens of thousands of Thousand-Year Spirit Medicines.

What’s more, it was a priceless item with no ready market!

’If I had a gourd like this, I wouldn’t fear even the young Emperors of the Demon Monster Alien Race in the slightest!’

Ye Qinghua lamented to herself.

"All of you, fall back. Wait for my signal to act!"

Qin Feng gently caressed the Ice-Sealed Gourd, a sharp pang of regret flashing in his eyes. ’Using this treasure as a one-time consumable is such a waste.’

He suppressed the ache in his eyes, transforming it into boundless killing intent. Raising his head, a grim light flashing in his eyes, Qin Feng gave the order. His figure blurred, and in the next breath, he appeared a hundred zhang outside the Demon Hunting Canyon.

Seeing someone from All Stars Academy suddenly and brazenly appear outside the valley, the patrolling Demon God Temple powerhouses were startled for a moment before bursting into raucous laughter.

"It’s a Two-legged Sheep! This Two-legged Sheep must be insane, delivering himself right to our doorstep!"

"Such an audacious Two-legged Sheep, daring to show his face right here in Demon Hunting Canyon! Kill him!"

"A fat sheep, served right up. Excellent!"

"Mince him to pieces! I’m going to eat him raw!"

...

One after another, the Demon God Temple powerhouses let out excited howls. Sand and stones flew as dark clouds blotted out the sun. With savage grins, they shot through the air toward Qin Feng.

RUMBLE!

The commotion outside alerted all the powerhouses within Demon Hunting Canyon! One after another, they rushed out from the large camp at the canyon’s entrance!

Qin Feng remained expressionless. He took out the Ice-Sealed Gourd, silently broke its seal, and aimed it at the Demon Hunting Canyon. A silent, colorless, cold wind gusted out.

As the cold wind blew, one of the Demon God Temple powerhouses charging at Qin Feng froze. The next instant, a look of panic flashed in its eyes, and it scrambled to retreat.

"Not good! It’s the Ice Soul Cold Wind! Everyone, run! This wind can freeze a Tier Two Beast King to death!"

These were the elites of the various races under the Demon God Temple’s dominion; many of them knew what they were seeing!

"How does this Two-legged Sheep have something so terrifying!"

Some of the Demon God Temple powerhouses were so frightened their legs went weak.

’Too late. You can’t escape.’

Killing intent flared in Qin Feng’s eyes.

The cold wind swept out like a gentle breeze, yet its speed was astonishing. In just two breaths, it overtook the fleeing Demon God Temple powerhouses, and these elites instantly froze into solid blocks of ice.

CRASH!

The ice sculptures that had once been prodigies of the Bai He Clan, Shadow Swallow Clan, and Red Eagle Clan plummeted from the sky. Upon impact, their bodies shattered, exploding into countless crimson Ice Crystal shards that littered the ground.

A cold glint in his eye, Qin Feng’s figure flashed to the canyon’s entrance. He aimed the gourd at the Demon Camp stationed there. As the cold wind howled, hundreds of tents instantly transformed into transparent, crystalline ice sculptures.

Demon God Temple powerhouses who were just emerging from their tents froze instantly, the terror on their faces preserved with lifelike clarity.

Each ice sculpture radiated a bone-deep chill.

In less than a few dozen breaths, over a thousand Demon God Temple elites had been wiped out completely!

Qin Feng weighed the gourd in his hand. This Ice-Sealed Gourd seemed to contain the primordial chill of an eternal glacier. Freezing the Demon Camp at the canyon entrance had only used one-tenth of the Ice Soul Essence Qi within this Ice Crystal Gourd.

The treasure was still bulging, threatening to explode!

A savage glint flashed in his eyes. His figure blurred, a black shadow appearing a hundred zhang away at the entrance to the Demon Hunting Canyon. After a moment’s hesitation, a vicious light flared in Qin Feng’s eyes. He raised his hand and aimed the gourd’s mouth at the canyon’s only entrance.

The Ice Soul Essence Qi, carried on the wind, poured endlessly into the depths of the Demon Hunting Canyon.

This Ice Soul Essence Qi was a primordial cold energy of heaven and earth. So-called Cold Soul Essence Qi and even ten-thousand-year-old frosts had to bow before it.

Once touched by the Ice Soul Essence Qi, even a grand figure at the Sea of Reincarnation Realm would inevitably be turned into an ice sculpture.

Deep within the Demon Hunting Canyon, the otherworldly chill of the Ice Soul Essence Qi swept through the entire chasm. The powerhouses at the rear of the massive Demon Fiend army marching toward Demon Mountain were instantly turned into Ice Crystals, without even a moment to react.

The entire Demon Hunting Canyon seemed to be encased in a layer of invisible, colorless, transparent ice.

In just two breaths, a contingent of nearly a thousand was completely frozen over. The six Young Emperors, who were marching toward Demon Mountain, instantly sensed that something was wrong behind them.

They whipped around to look!

The group, who had just been laughing and joking about carving up All Stars Academy, now looked like startled rabbits.

"Not good! It’s the Ice Soul Cold Wind! Run!"

A look of profound terror appeared in their eyes. The six Young Emperors exchanged a glance, a flicker of frantic rage erupting in their gazes.

’This is cheating!’

The six of them scrambled madly in the direction of Demon Mountain.