Wuxia: Become the 100-Victory Sword King at the Beginning

Chapter 282. Sirius's Poisonous Move Shocks the Snowfield, Frost Blade's Heroic Spirit Protects the Beautiful Woman.

“Look,” Shi Feiyang said softly, one arm around Guo Xiangyu, the other palm pressed against the cold rock of the cave wall. “This natural barrier, this secluded location…” Before he could finish speaking, Guo Xiangyu looked up, the snow on her eyelashes reflecting the pearl on the cave ceiling like a string of tiny stars: “Xiangyu doesn’t understand terrain, but Xiangyu knows… wherever the young master chooses, it is the best place.”

Her long hair fell to the edge of the stone bed, and the wind of the Helan Valley howled through the cave entrance. Just then, Xie Wen received a carrier pigeon. The unfolded secret letter fell before his eyes like a withered leaf. The description of the bronze mask and severed limbs made Guo Xiangyu's heart tremble.

"Xiangyu, you and Shixiong stay here." Shi Feiyang's voice was cold and unyielding, but it softened unconsciously when he touched her wrist.

Guo Xiangyu's nails dug deeply into his palm, her beautiful eyes instantly welling up with tears: "No! I want to go with you!" Her voice trembled with sobs, "I can make you the warmest ginger soup, bandage your wounds when you're injured... If anyone dares to hurt you, I'll give my life right now..."

"Don't say such things!" Shi Feiyang suddenly pulled her into his arms, the chill of the Frost Blade brushing against the top of her head. "Your life is mine, and no one is allowed to take it!" Guo Xiangyu struggled in his arms, looking up, tears dripping from her chin onto his blood-stained clothes: "But without you, young master, what meaning does Xiangyu's life have?" Outside the cave, the wind and snow intensified, and Shi Xiong shivered behind Xie Wen.

Guo Xiangyu's tears soaked Shi Feiyang's chest. He finally sighed and hugged her even tighter.

The light from the pearl on the cave ceiling flickered, illuminating the two embracing figures. All the wind and snow of the world seemed to be shut out by their burning love. Shi Feiyang's heart softened, and he reached out to wipe away her tears: "Nonsense! This is too dangerous."

"More than danger, I fear losing you!" Guo Xiangyu suddenly tiptoed and gently kissed his cheek. "From the first moment I saw you, my heart no longer belonged to myself. My lord, please, don't leave me worrying from afar..."

Looking into Guo Xiangyu's determined eyes, Shi Feiyang finally sighed, "Fine, you stay close to me and don't leave my side even for a moment."

The group rushed back to one of the salt fields in Ningxia overnight.

Under the moonlight, the salt fields presented a shocking sight.

Hundreds of corpses lay scattered beside the salt piles, each with their wrists and ankles severed cleanly at the root, the wounds as neat as if cut with a knife. The biting north wind whipped up icicles like thousands of cold needles, whistling down and carving white tracks into the vast snowfield.

Xie Wen knelt on one knee on the frozen ground, his fingertips tracing the purplish-blue palm print on the injured man's wrist. His expression changed drastically: "It's the 'Tendon-Severing and Meridian-Cutting Hand,' a technique lost for a hundred years! To master this skill, one must use the flesh and blood of living people as a guide and soak the palm in a blood pool in an extremely cold place!"

Before the words were finished, a strange, eerie laugh suddenly rang out in the clear sky, and thirteen dark figures descended slowly from the summit of the icy peak, their feet treading on the pure white snow.

The crowd saw that the shadowy figures all wore bronze demon masks, their fangs frosted with ice, and two blood-red ice crystals embedded in their eyes, gleaming eerily in the sunlight. The leader wore black iron chainmail and a scarlet cloak, his curved blade emitting a ghostly blue icy light; with each step he took, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the snow. "Shi Feiyang!" The voice was like a broken gong, causing icicles to fall from the distance. "Hand over the 'Five Poisons True Scripture,' and I'll spare your life! Otherwise, today will be the burial ground of your Xiong Ying Society!"

Shi Feiyang laughed loudly, his voice echoing across the snowy plains. As the Heavenly Frost Blade was drawn, a dragon's roar suddenly arose, and frost flowers condensed on the blade fell in a flurry: "If you want to obtain the true scriptures, you must first pass through this Heavenly Frost Blade in my hand! I, Shi Feiyang, have sworn to protect all living beings under heaven, how can I allow you evil bastards to covet them!"

Having said that, he took the "Seven Steps in Dragon Formation," leaving strings of ice lotuses on the snow. His blade flashed like countless cold stars, heading straight for the enemy formation.

In an instant, thirteen curved blades were drawn simultaneously, the resulting gust of wind condensing into a wall of poisonous mist and ice in mid-air. The "Netherworld Ghost Fang Blade" wielded by these masked men was unpredictable, its blades targeting the lower body and major acupoints throughout the body; wherever the blades passed, the accumulated snow instantly turned into black water.

Guo Xiangyu bit her red lips tightly, holding a bamboo knife, and used the "Qimen Sancai Knife Technique" which incorporated some moves of the Hundred Victories Knife Technique, personally taught by Shi Feiyang. She walked on the ice as if it were thin ice, her figure elusive, and the bamboo knife pointed at the opponent's knees, ankles and other vital points, splashing up ice flowers wherever it went.

In the heat of battle, a masked man seized the opportunity while Shi Feiyang was locked in combat with the leader, and with his curved blade like a venomous snake, he aimed straight for Guo Xiangyu's back! At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang roared, and his Divine Dragon Claw burst forth, five streams of azure true energy like dragons probing the sea, instantly piercing through the masked man's chest.

However, this attack also exposed his weakness, and the bronze-masked leader seized the opportunity to close in and plunge his scimitar into his left shoulder!
A bone-chilling cold spread along the wound, and in the blink of an eye, half of Shi Feiyang's body was covered with a layer of white frost.

"Young Master!" Guo Xiangyu cried out in anguish, rushing forward like a swallow returning to its nest, her bamboo knife transforming into a cold glint as she pierced the man's throat.

Shi Feiyang possessed his own protective divine skill, and his body was indestructible. The curved blade that pierced his shoulder merely penetrated a layer of white mist and ice emanating from his Mingyu skill, and could not harm Shi Feiyang at all.

At this moment, Shi Feiyang instinctively activated the eighth level of his Mingyu Gong – “Supreme Forgetfulness”. The white mist around him transformed into the phantom of an ice dragon, and the Heavenly Frost Blade in Shi Feiyang’s hand drew out the exquisite move “Golden Dragon Coiling Claw” from the “Hundred Victories Blade Technique”!
The golden blade light and the dark blue scimitar collided with a thunderous crash, the dazzling light illuminating the area within a ten-zhang radius as bright as day, causing the surrounding ice peaks to shatter and the ice fragments to shoot out like shrapnel.

When the light faded, the bronze mask of the leader shattered, revealing a hideous face covered in sores.

Shi Feiyang's pupils shrank sharply, and he exclaimed, "It's you! Sirius, the vice leader of the Five Poisons Sect! I have helped Leader Lan Xiaodie several times to resolve your sect's crises, why are you repaying kindness with enmity?"

Sirius let out a piercing, maniacal laugh, his exhaled breath condensing into poisonous mist in the air: "Why? Because you stole everything that should have been mine! The Five Poisons Scripture should have belonged to me, and the position of leader of the Five Poisons Sect should have been mine too! And..."

He stared greedily at Guo Xiangyu, "How can I let you have such a beauty all to yourself?"

Shi Feiyang laughed in anger, his body radiating a chilling aura that instantly froze the ground into a thick layer of ice, and the wind and snow within a hundred feet radius abruptly stopped.

"What a foolish view! If the true scriptures fall into your hands, they will only become a weapon to aid and abet evil! Today I will act on behalf of Heaven and eradicate this malignant tumor that plagues the martial world!" With that, the Heavenly Frost Blade was drawn again, and amidst the crisscrossing blade energy, ice shards rained down like a storm.

The north wind howled, whipping up icicles like thousands of arrows, turning the vast snowfield into a slaughterhouse. From where Sirius's mask shattered, a hideous scar below his left eye twisted with maniacal laughter: "If you hadn't killed Lan Xianglin back then, how could Lan Xiaodie have come to seize the position of sect leader? The Five Poisons Sect should have groveled at my feet long ago!"

After saying this, the thirteen bronze-masked men shouted in unison, their curved blades, like venomous snakes, thrusting upwards towards the sky.

In an instant, thick, ink-like mist gushed forth from the tip of the blade, condensing in the air into the phantom of a three-headed giant python.

The python's eyes were blood-red, and its forked tongue flickered as purplish-black venomous smoke billowed, turning ice and snow into black water in its wake.

Guo Xiangyu was pulled into the air by Xie Wen, but she still cried out in a hoarse voice, "Young master, be careful! This is the 'Ten Thousand Poisons Soul Devouring Formation,' a lost art from the Western Regions!"

Shi Feiyang roared to the sky, his voice shaking the surrounding area, and the white mist around him solidified and surged. He activated the Mingyu Gong to the eighth level, "Supreme Forgetfulness of the Ice Soul Cold Prison". He stepped on the "Seven Steps of Dragon Walking" and used the Heavenly Frost Blade to draw out the "Hundred Victories Blade Technique" move "Frosty Sky Covering the Sun".

The chilling blade energy surged like a reversed Milky Way, cleaving through the poisonous smoke and shattering the ice within a ten-foot radius. Before anyone could catch their breath, Sirius had already transformed into a black shadow and lunged forward, his curved blade aimed straight for their throats, his moves incorporating the Five Poisons Sect's lost "Jade Shattering Fist"!
Shi Feiyang roared, "So you colluded with the Western Regions Holy Sect to steal forbidden techniques!" His Heavenly Frost Blade blocked the attack, sparks flying as the thirteen masked figures simultaneously let out eerie, owl-like laughs. Suddenly, countless vines sprouted from the ground, their sharp spikes gleaming with a ghostly blue poisonous light, instantly binding his ankles.

These vines were actually the "Heart-Eating Vines" of the Western Regions. Their sharp thorns easily pierced the silver shield formed by the Mingyu Gong, but in reality, they were being devoured by the backlash from the Mingyu Gong's true energy vortex. Guo Xiangyu struggled desperately in mid-air, tears mingling with snowflakes as she cried out, "Release my young master!"

Amid her cries, Shi Feiyang's eyes widened in fury, and his dragon claw suddenly shot out, tearing apart three masked men with the azure true energy that splattered blood and flesh onto the snow like blooming red plum blossoms.

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang suddenly roared to the sky, and his aura surged.

Mingyu Gong was activated at full speed, and the Heavenly Frost Blade and Divine Dragon Claw exerted their power at the same time, unleashing a self-created ultimate move that he had never used before - "Heaven and Earth in Silence"!
The golden blade light and the azure dragon shadow merged, condensing into a huge yin-yang fish phantom in the air. Wherever it passed, vines snapped inch by inch, poisonous smoke dissipated without a trace, and even the air emitted a piercing tearing sound.

Sirius's expression changed drastically. He hastily swung his sword to defend, only to see the curved blade snap like paper under its unparalleled sharpness!

"Impossible..." He retreated in horror, a deep, bone-revealing wound already cut into his chest.

Shi Feiyang, however, was like a demon god descending to earth. He flashed forward and grabbed Shi Feiyang's throat with his left hand, which was like a dragon claw: "Lan Xiaodie treated you well, but you betrayed the Five Poisons Sect for your own selfish desires. You are worse than a pig or a dog!"

"Hahaha..." Sirius suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, spitting out a cloud of blood mist.

Countless tiny poisonous insects swarmed from the blood mist like a black cloud, revealing themselves to be the "Thousand Spider Poisons" of the Western Regions. Shi Feiyang's body suddenly surged with chilling energy, his Mingyu Gong transforming into an Ice Soul Frost Prison, instantly condensing the blood mist and poisonous insects into ice shards that fell softly onto the blood-stained snow.

Guo Xiangyu cried and struggled in mid-air, and Shi Feiyang took the opportunity to exert his strength, crushing Sirius's throat bone with his Divine Dragon Claw.

With a sharp crack, Sirius flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the ice wall, his brains splattering out.

Before Sirius's corpse even hit the ground, the remaining twelve masked men suddenly let out a sharp shriek in unison. Their eyes beneath their bronze masks glowed with an eerie red light, and their scimitars instantly melted into liquid, winding their way up their arms and solidifying into hideous scales on their skin.

"Blood sacrifice to Asura, all poisons return to their origin!" The shouts of the crowd shook the ice surface, causing countless blood-red grooves to suddenly appear on the ground, staining the surrounding snow crimson. Shi Feiyang's pupils contracted sharply as he smelled the stench of rotting corpses permeating the air.

These people were actually performing the most evil "transformation blood sacrifice" in the Western Regions, using their own flesh and blood as a catalyst to forcibly fuse with the soul of a poisonous insect.

One of them had veins bulging on his neck, and his whole body transformed into a scorpion-tailed man over ten feet tall. Wherever his poisonous needles swept, the ice peaks collapsed with a roar. The other man's arms transformed into the heads of giant pythons, and he opened his blood-red maw and pounced on Shi Feiyang.

Shi Feiyang moved like lightning, his dragon claw tearing through the void and ripping off the giant python's head.

The foul-smelling black blood splattered onto his dark cloak, instantly corroding it and creating countless holes.

He immediately used his mysterious lightness skill, "Concealing One's Identity and Name," and his Heavenly Frost Blade unleashed a barrage of blades, slicing the onrushing Scorpion-tailed man in half at the waist.

Strangely, what gushed out of the cut was not blood, but hundreds of venomous spiders the size of fingernails, frantically crawling along the blade.

"A mere trick!" Shi Feiyang roared, unleashing the Mingyu Skill to its fullest extent. The chilling aura emanating from the blade froze all the poisonous spiders into ice beads.

He stood with his feet aligned with the Big Dipper and unleashed the ultimate move "Nine Heavens Meteor Fall" from the "Hundred Victories Blade Technique." Nine golden blade lights fell like meteors, instantly turning the three masked men into mincemeat.

But the remaining enemies grew increasingly frenzied, tearing limbs from each other and throwing flesh and blood into the air, where they coalesced into a gigantic poisonous giant.

Guo Xiangyu, protected by Xie Wen in the Heavenly Silkworm Net in the sky, saw Shi Feiyang trapped in the encirclement and bit her lip in desperation: "Young Master, use 'Heaven and Earth in Silence'!" Before she finished speaking, the Poisonous Mist Giant had already swung out its giant hand covered with venomous tumors, and the air distorted and deformed wherever it passed.

Shi Feiyang's true energy swirled around him like a vortex. Suddenly, he plunged the Heavenly Frost Blade into the ground and shouted, "Ice Soul Cold Prison - Myriad Calamities Return to Ruins!"

In an instant, all the ice and snow within a radius of a hundred feet transformed into chains of ice crystals that shot straight into the sky.

The poisonous giant let out a deafening roar, but was pierced through the body by chains and exploded in excruciating pain.

Shi Feiyang used the momentum to leap into the air, unleashing both the Heavenly Frost Blade and the Divine Dragon Claw, and once again unleashing the peerless killing move "Heaven and Earth in Silence"!
The golden blade light and the blue dragon shadow intertwined to form a yin-yang symbol. Wherever it went, the masked man was shredded to dust before he could even scream.

At this moment, only Shi Feiyang remained standing on the snowfield. His clothes were tattered and stained with black blood and poison, yet his posture remained as upright as a pine tree.

Xie Wen carried Shi Xiong on his back and pulled Guo Xiangyu along as they floated down.

Guo Xiangyu broke free from the silken net and threw herself into Shi Feiyang's arms, her tears soaking his clothes: "Young Master, you scared Xiangyu to death..."

Shi Feiyang gently wiped away her tears and looked into the distance: "This is just the beginning. The martial world is in turmoil. Now that I have taken up the Heavenly Frost Blade, I must protect the peace of the world." At this moment, a melodious horn sounded in the distance, and another dark figure approached the snowfield.

Shi Feiyang gripped the Heavenly Frost Blade tightly, his eyes growing increasingly resolute, and pushed Guo Xiangyu into Xie Wen's Heavenly Silkworm Net with one hand.

Xie Wen used his "Flying Floss and Light Smoke Skill" to pull Guo Xiangyu up, carry Shi Xiong on his back, and float into the sky again.

Before the mangled limbs and flesh had even cooled on the snow, a sickeningly loud sound of bones twisting suddenly filled the air.

The corpses of the twelve masked men twitched eerily in pools of blood, dark green liquid seeping from beneath their bronze masks, corroding the snow and creating hideous holes.

Shi Feiyang's pupils contracted sharply, and he quickly shielded Guo Xiangyu behind him. The Heavenly Frost Blade emitted a dazzling blue light—those bodies that should have died actually stood up again in a way that defied common sense, with countless tiny black shadows surging under their skin, like puppets injected with evil spirits.

"Blood Puppet Technique!" Xie Wen exclaimed in shock as he looked down from mid-air, "They used a heretical technique from the Western Regions to turn themselves into living corpses!"

Before the words were even finished, a masked figure twisted its neck at an eerie angle, its five fingers growing three inches longer, the nails glowing with the eerie blue of corpse poison, aiming straight for Shi Feiyang's back. Shi Feiyang spun around and swung his blade, deflecting the sneak attack with a clang, only to see that where the blade touched, flesh clung to the blade like tar, actually corroding the runes on the blade! In an instant, the twelve blood puppets simultaneously let out inhuman roars, their bodies rising with purplish-black miasma.

They no longer use scimitars, but instead transform their arms into snake-shaped venomous stingers, scorpion-tailed barbs, and some even open their mouths to spit out strings of bone arrows.

Shi Feiyang, using the "Seven Steps of the Dragon," moved like lightning through the poisonous shadows. Each swing of his Heavenly Frost Blade brought forth a shower of blood, yet the wounds on the blood puppets that had been cleaved open quickly writhed and healed in the blink of an eye. Guo Xiangyu, anxious and frantic, cried out in a trembling voice, "Young Master, attack his Baihui acupoint!"

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang roared, and his Divine Dragon Claw tore through the miasma. Five streaks of azure light, like dragons emerging from the sea, shot straight at the top of the Blood Puppet's head.

With a crisp "crack," the Blood Puppet's skull shattered, and its foul-smelling brain matter gushed out before it finally stiffened and collapsed to the ground.

However, this brief victory was met with an even fiercer counterattack.

The leading blood puppet suddenly tore open its chest, stuffed the severed limbs of its companion into its body, and its body swelled up to three zhang tall like an inflating balloon.

It opened its enormous mouth, filled with fangs, and spewed out a cloud of poisonous mist that blotted out the sky. Wherever it went, ice peaks melted and the ground boiled and bubbled.

Shi Feiyang activated the eighth level of the Bright Jade Skill, and the white mist around his body transformed into ice armor. He raised the Heavenly Frost Blade high above his head, and the runes on the blade shone brightly.

Instantly, the chilling blade energy transformed into a hundred-foot-long ice dragon, colliding violently with the poisonous mist. A deafening roar resounded throughout the heavens and earth. Wherever the ice dragon passed, the blood puppets' bodies froze inch by inch, eventually shattering like glass into countless ice crystals.

The colossal blood puppet let out a defiant roar, but was completely annihilated before it could even scream as it was devoured by the ice dragon, its blood dripping down the Frostblade. The roar of the ice dragon's dissipation had not yet faded when a muffled tremor suddenly came from the ground.

Shi Feiyang suddenly retreated, only to see the snowfield where the fierce battle had just taken place suddenly crack open, with countless chains bursting out of the ground, their ends wrapped with jet-black iron balls, shattering the ice wherever they passed.

Dozens of figures emerged from the chains. They were dressed in dark red outfits, with half of their faces covered by bronze ghost masks. The curved swords in their hands were engraved with strange runes. They were the elite assassins of the Ningxia Red Scorpion Sect.

"What a brilliant plan to kill two birds with one stone!" Shi Feiyang's Mingyu Gong instinctively protected his body, and instantly his whole body was enveloped in bursts of white mist, while the Heavenly Frost Blade gleamed with a chilling light.

"First, use the Blood Puppet to deplete my true energy, then send the assassins to close the net!" The leader of the assassins let out a sinister laugh, and swung his scimitar, instantly filling the air with a sweet and pungent smell of blood.

These people actually injected their own blood into the blade, unleashing the "Blood Sacrifice Demon Blade Formation," a forbidden technique lost by the Crimson Scorpion Cult!
In an instant, the scimitar danced wildly like a blood python, each blade of light carrying corrosive true energy.

Shi Feiyang used his mysterious lightness skill, "Deeply Concealing One's Name," to dodge. The blade's energy grazed the corner of his clothes, and the brocade instantly turned to ashes.

What's even more troublesome is that the assassins formed a battle formation, their swords flashing in unison, weaving an impenetrable blood-red net in mid-air.

At that moment, purple lightning suddenly descended from the sky above the snowfield.

Shi Feiyang was greatly shocked—this was the "Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation Formation" of the Western Regions Holy Sect!
A huge lightning bolt appeared in the clouds, and where the lightning struck, a deep crater was blasted open on the ice.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Red Scorpion Cult's assassins launched a full-scale attack, their scimitars intertwining with lightning to create a deadly trap.

Shi Feiyang activated the Bright Jade Skill, his body enveloped in white mist that transformed into a shield, but he was still forced to retreat repeatedly by the lightning and fire. Taking advantage of the opportunity, a death warrior transformed into a blood shadow and launched a sneak attack.

Shi Feiyang spun around and swung his knife, only to see his opponent suddenly split into three afterimages, their curved blades stabbing at him from different directions.

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang unleashed the "Splitting Light and Shadow" technique from the "Hundred Victories Blade Technique," his blade swirling like a wheel, barely forcing the enemy back.

Before he could catch his breath, another assassin unleashed the "Scorpion Tail Bone-Piercing Nail." The sharp, piercing sound of the poisonous nails piercing the air formed a Bagua formation in mid-air.

The lightning grew increasingly intense, and the Crimson Scorpion Cult's Blood Blade Formation became ever more impenetrable. Shi Feiyang, gazing at the murderous intent filling the sky, suddenly threw his head back and laughed, plunging the Heavenly Frost Blade into the ground: "Since demons are running rampant, then let me show you the true power of heaven and earth!"

His Mingyu Skill instantly reached the eighth and a half level—"Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotions: Ice Soul Cold Prison." With a deafening roar, frost surged like a raging tide centered on the blade, freezing all the lightning and blood! However, the instant the frost surged like a raging tide, the sky suddenly cracked open with a spiderweb-like fissure, and several chains descended from the dark purple lightning, piercing straight through the ice wall frozen by Shi Feiyang.

The chain ends in a figure draped in black robes, whose face is indistinct, but whose palm is marked with mysterious runes of the same origin as the Five Poisons Scripture—it is the phantom of the long-lost first leader of the Five Poisons Sect! "Shi Feiyang, do you think you can stop the cycle of heaven with the mere Ice Soul Cold Prison?" The phantom's voice seemed to come from the deepest hell, making everyone's eardrums ache.

Upon seeing this, the Red Scorpion Cult's assassins all knelt and kowtowed, their scimitars plunging into the snow, blood flowing along the runes and seeping into the ground. A muffled roar echoed from beneath the snowfield, and countless white bones burst forth from the earth, piecing together in the rain of blood to form a three-headed, six-armed demon god, its empty eye sockets flickering with eerie green flames.

In the sky, Guo Xiangyu's hand gripping the bamboo knife trembled uncontrollably: "This...this is the legendary 'Nine Netherworld Demon God Descending to Earth'!"

Before he could finish speaking, the demon god's giant hand slammed down. Shi Feiyang used his Mingyu Skill to defend with all his might, but his ice armor cracked inch by inch the moment it touched him.

Even more strangely, the runes on the Frostblade began to dim, as if they were being forcibly suppressed by some kind of force.

Shi Feiyang's sword energy was actually sealed! Just then, Sirius's corpse suddenly twisted and reformed in a bizarre way, and three vertical pupils opened from under the shattered mask, letting out a shrill scream: "Shi Feiyang, you stole the true scripture from Lan Xiaodie back then, today I will make you pay for your blood debt!"

Shi Feiyang suddenly ripped open his shirt, revealing pale golden patterns on his chest that echoed the "Five Poisons True Scripture".

This was an unintentional resonance he experienced with the true scripture while suppressing the surge of internal energy.

"So that's how it is..." Shi Feiyang laughed heartily, his laughter filled with relief. "The true scripture is not a murder weapon, but a key!"

He suddenly gripped the Heavenly Frost Blade, channeling all his true energy and the patterns of the True Scripture into the blade.

The Heavenly Frost Blade erupted with dazzling light, its runes transforming into golden chains that clashed and intertwined with the chains of the celestial phantom. The moment the two chains snapped, the Nine Nether Demon God let out a furious roar of defiance, dissipating into dust amidst the intense light.

The remains of Sirius were completely reduced to ashes in the golden light.

In the distance, the assassins fled in panic, leaving behind only a scene of devastation. Shi Feiyang gazed at the Heavenly Frost Blade in his hand, now shining brightly again, and murmured, "So the true secret of the Scripture is to allow one's heart to resonate with the heavens and earth..."

Before the aftershocks of the broken golden chains had even subsided, the snowfield suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

The snowflakes around Shi Feiyang began to tremble strangely—the blood that had seeped into the frozen soil turned into countless tiny blood leeches, which crawled out densely along the ice cracks, and wherever they passed, the ice layer was quickly dyed dark red.

"Watch out! It's the Blood Leech Soul Devouring Formation!" Before Guo Xiangyu's warning had even faded, the blood leeches were already swarming in like a tide.

Shi Feiyang snorted coldly and swung his Heavenly Frost Blade. Wherever the blade's energy passed, the blood leeches exploded into a bloody mist, the stench so strong it made it impossible to open one's eyes. However, even more blood leeches surged in from all directions, instantly crawling up his ankles.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Red Scorpion Cult's assassins launched an attack. Their leader tore open his crimson cloak, revealing a chest covered in centipede-like venomous patterns: "Taste the flavor of my cult's 'Ten Thousand Gu Devouring Heart'!" With a shrill whistle, hundreds of palm-sized venomous centipedes darted out from his sleeves, each centipede's pincers glowing with a ghostly blue phosphorescence, igniting eerie poisonous fires in the snow wherever they went.

Shi Feiyang used the Mingyu Gong to try to freeze the poisonous fire, but found that when the cold air collided with the poisonous fire, it produced a piercing cracking sound, with ice shards and sparks flying everywhere.

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang roared and his Divine Dragon Claw tore through the air, but just as he was about to grab the poisonous centipede, his wrist was entangled by a blood leech, which forcibly pulled him off course.

Shi Feiyang's eyes widened in fury, and his inner energy surged wildly. He abruptly plunged the Heavenly Frost Blade into the ground, unleashing a bone-chilling cold that formed an ice prison ten zhang in diameter centered on himself. The blood leeches and poisonous centipedes were instantly frozen, but beneath the ice, they twisted into grotesque blood shadows.

The Red Scorpion Cult's assassins charged forward again, stepping on the broken ice, the poisonous frost on their scimitars gleaming eerily purple in the moonlight.

Shi Feiyang raised the Heavenly Frost Blade, and the runes on the blade resonated with the true scripture patterns on his heart, radiating an eerie red light.

He unleashed the "Evil Blood Calamity" divine skill, drawing blood from nearby into the Frost Blade in his hand. The blood flowed along the blade's patterns, and the Frost Blade's aura instantly transformed into a massive, blood-red blade. Wherever it passed, the air was ripped open with scarlet cracks. The assassins didn't even have time to scream before they were cut in half at the waist, their internal organs and limbs splattering everywhere, turning the entire snowfield into a hellish landscape.

The moment the blood-red giant blade shattered the last assassin, the Heavenly Frost Blade in Shi Feiyang's hand suddenly trembled violently, and black blood seeped from the runes on the blade.

A muffled rumble came from underground, and the entire snowfield undulated like a boiling pot of soup. Countless skeletal hands burst out of the ground, wrapped in rotten chains, aiming straight for Shi Feiyang's ankles.

The blood-red ice that had frozen on the snow suddenly transformed into a blood python, baring its fangs and biting at Shi Feiyang's nape.

"Young master, be careful!" Guo Xiangyu's scream was drowned out by the deafening thunderstorm on the ground.

The sky split open with a bloody gash, and seven bolts of purple lightning, like giant pythons, spiraled down, blasting scorched craters into the ground, emitting blue smoke.

Shi Feiyang used his profound "Hidden Identity and Name" lightness skill to dart through the thunder and fire, but the blade energy unleashed by the Heavenly Frost Blade was scattered by the lightning, turning into sparks. Taking advantage of the situation, the remaining assassins of the Crimson Scorpion Sect formed the "Blood Fiend Seven Star Formation," seven curved blades plunging into their comrades' hearts, their blood drawing grotesque runes on the snow. The instant the runes lit up, Shi Feiyang felt as if his limbs had fallen into an ice cave—the formation was draining his inner energy!

Even more terrifying, the frozen leeches and centipedes suddenly revived and, under the power of the talisman, fused into a poisonous beast half the height of a person, spewing viscous venom. Wherever it went, the ice melted and the ground turned into a boiling swamp of poison.

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang suddenly tore open his clothes and used his true energy to carve the ancient runes of the "Five Poisons True Scripture" on his chest. The instant the runes lit up, his aura surged, and the Heavenly Frost Blade emitted a clear whistle like a dragon's roar.

"Break!" With a roar, Shi Feiyang unleashed "Heaven and Earth in Silence," a fusion of the power of the True Scripture. The sword light transformed into nine giant ice dragons, and wherever they passed, poisonous beasts exploded into blood mist, lightning and fire were frozen into ice crystals, and the runes of the Blood Fiend Seven Star Array crumbled inch by inch.

Shi Feiyang's gaze swept over the writhing limbs of the poisonous insects on the snowfield, and he suddenly caught sight of the faint silver patterns beneath the ice layer—the true energy meridians that had been frozen when he cast the Ice Soul Cold Prison earlier.

He gripped the Frostblade and swung it swiftly, drawing streaks of cold light. The icy aura suddenly surged, freezing the ground into a mirror-like ice lake.

"Eight Trigrams Gate of Life, open!" Shi Feiyang identified the point where the true energy channels converged beneath the ice, and his blade flashed like lightning as it pierced the ice.

In an instant, the entire frozen lake shattered, and countless ice spikes shot out like a rain of arrows.

Caught off guard, the poisonous beasts and assassins hiding in the fog were pierced through the body by ice shards and fell down screaming.

However, the enemy leader saw through the plan. With a swing of his scimitar, the remaining assassins formed a "Poisonous Mist Chain Formation," where layers of poisonous mist intertwined and transformed into a swirling black vortex. Shi Feiyang frowned, suddenly grabbed half of a poisonous centipede's corpse from the ground, and used his Bright Jade Skill to freeze it into ice crystals.

He kicked up the ice crystals, swung his sword, and the moment the ice crystals shattered, the icy poison spread like a spider web, freezing the edge of the poisonous miasma vortex.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Shi Feiyang used his amazing lightness skill of "leaving without a trace" and his Heavenly Frost Blade went straight for the core of the formation.

The assassin at the heart of the formation hurriedly swung his sword to parry, but Shi Feiyang suddenly changed his stance, the blade grazing his throat and severing the copper bell hanging from his waist. With a clang, the bell fell to the ground, striking the ice surface with a sharp resonance.

Shi Feiyang sneered, "The way to break the Five Poisons Sect's 'Soul-Capturing Bell' is precisely to disrupt its rhythm with strange noises!"

Sure enough, the assassins in the formation paused, and the poisonous mist momentarily froze.

"Kill!" Shi Feiyang seized the fleeting opportunity, and the Heavenly Frost Blade transformed into ten thousand rays of cold light.

The flashes of blades, the threads of silk, and the shadows of swords intertwined to form a deadly web.

As the last assassin fell, Shi Feiyang wore a relieved smile.

The setting sun dyed the salt field a blood-red amber color. Shi Feiyang looked at the corpses of his enemies lying in disarray, and his tense back finally relaxed slightly.

The ice crystals mixed with blood droplets that had condensed on the Frost Blade reflected a cold yet beautiful light in the twilight, as if they were a reflection of all the bloodshed and carnage he had endured along the way.

(End of this chapter)