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In mid-air, Zhao Qishan and Song Jing stood still, while Lin Ye had already infiltrated the underground Heavenly Rank Base below.

As official personnel of Tian Shu, they could not act arbitrarily on someone else's territory without orders from above, so they simply stayed on the periphery and observed the situation.

Suddenly, Zhao Qishan's pupils narrowed slightly, and his battle intuition, honed through countless trials, made him realize that something was wrong.

The air around him twisted like the surface of water, and vortex-like ripples suddenly formed, carrying an astonishing suction force that instantly swallowed Zhao Qishan.

When he could see his surroundings again, he found that everything he could see was pitch black. A dozen steps away from him, he could sense a young man with a cold face standing there using his magnetic field.

"Welcome to my 'Land of Ignorance'," Choi Ho-jin said in Xia Shang language.

"We originally just pretended to leave the branch, hoping to lure the Igarashi family out and have them come to us. We really didn't expect that your Tian Shu would be involved with the Igarashi family. It's quite surprising."

"Young man, you'd better tone it down." Zhao Qishan's eyes were filled with disdain. "I am a Five Powers and Seven Laws holder, and you are just an ordinary Chen-level expert. Who gave you the guts to drag me here?"

Choi Ho-jin showed no fear, instead chuckled softly in the darkness: "So what if it's the Five Powers and Seven Laws? I've never lost here..."

On the other side, a thousand meters in the air.

Zhao Qishan vanished instantly. Song Jing frowned, about to investigate his surroundings, when a figure appeared in front of him like a ghost.

The right sleeve of the newcomer fluttered freely in the wind. It was Kamiya Suke, one of the Eight Calamities, the Heavenly Rank Chen-level man whose arm was severed by Gu Qingxin with the "Disloyalty" technique.

Kamiya looked at Song Jing, recognizing his identity, and said cruelly, "That woman from your Tian Shu cut off my arm. Today, I will make you pay for this in blood. I will cut your limbs to pieces, turn you into a human pig, and then enjoy watching you struggle and scream in despair before finally sending your corpse back to Tian Shu."

"Let's see if you have the ability." Song Jing sneered, and the moment his words fell, he used his own power.

Pale Realm.

The air around Song Jing suddenly dropped, and the trees below turned from their vibrant green to white, even the ground was covered with a layer of frost.

The moment the Pale Boundary opened, Kamiya's figure suddenly moved dozens of meters horizontally in the air, like an arrow released from a bow.

Almost at the same instant he left, an extreme chill burst forth from that void of air.

A massive, dark blue ice peak, tens of meters high and resembling a modern residential building, appeared out of thin air.

If Kamiya had hesitated even slightly, the extreme cold, enough to rob him of his life, would have sealed him to death within the ice.

A sinister grin spread across Kamiya's crazed face as his figure flickered repeatedly in the night sky.

As he moved, Song Jing's gaze turned icy, and he frantically activated the Pale Realm.

In the night sky, one after another, huge ice blocks, like skyscrapers, appeared out of nowhere, connecting end to end along Kamiya's dodging route, forming a Great Wall of Frost.

After a brief moment of suspension, these enormous creatures, now without support, plummeted toward the earth with tremendous force.

Huge ice peaks crashed into the forest below one after another, creating deafening roars.

The earthquake trembled, felling many trees and stirring up clouds of ice and dust.

Kamiya had no intention of continuing this cat-and-mouse game. He suddenly accelerated and charged straight at Song Jing, his remaining fist carrying immense momentum, heading straight for Song Jing's face.

The speed was too fast, and Song Jing did not have time to make any extra dodging movements. He could only raise his arm and block in front of him.

The cold air instantly gathered, and a thick and indestructible dark blue ice shield quickly solidified on the outside of his forearm.

A dull thud exploded in mid-air as Kamiya's fist slammed into the ice shield.

Strangely, the hard ice shield remained undamaged and as smooth as ever.

However, Song Jing's expression suddenly changed. He let out a muffled groan, and a large amount of bright red blood flowed from his arm behind the ice shield.

Using the recoil from the collision, Song Jing quickly retreated. After creating a safe distance, he lowered his head and stared intently at his blood-soaked arm.

To recklessly traverse calamities.

Song Jing silently recited the name in his heart. This was the ability that Kamiya Suke, as one of the Eight Calamities, possessed. It could bypass external defenses and directly attack the player's body.

Even more deadly is that deep within those open wounds lies a highly destructive energy.

This energy, like a maggot clinging to the bone, hides within the flesh and blood, continuously causing harm, and is extremely difficult to eradicate using ordinary means.

Kamiya's figure blended into the night, and with a speed that was difficult for ordinary people to catch, he quickly moved through the huge ice block made by Song Jing.

The Pale Realm pursued him relentlessly, countless ice shards and spikes condensing in the void, but they were always just a little too slow, unable to even touch the hem of his clothes.

Finally, just as Kamiya launched another surprise attack from the flank and rear, Song Jing found that fleeting opening.

The temperature around him dropped to an unbelievable absolute freezing point at that moment.

A transparent glacier, hundreds of meters high and resembling an inverted mountain peak, suddenly froze in mid-air, freezing Kamiya's blurry afterimage in an instant.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment. Kamiya, in that huge glacier, was like an insect that had fallen into amber, still retaining his forward-rushing posture.

Song Jing took a slight breath and prepared to check the wound on his arm.

Just as his gaze swept across the center of the glacier, he unexpectedly saw Kamiya giving him a strange smile.

A warning bell rang in Song Jing's mind, and before he could react, a sharp pain shot through his chest.

His shirt was soaked with blood, and his body swayed precariously in the air.

The effects of the calamity he had unwittingly witnessed were even more severe than he had imagined.

As Song Jing's magnetic field weakened, Kamiya Suke unleashed his power, broke through the ice, and flew out of the glacier, heading straight for Song Jing.

Despite the excruciating pain in his chest, Song Jing attempted to reconstitute the ice shield.

Just then, a dark shadow pierced through the hard soil and emerged from the depths of the earth.

He was so fast that he plowed a vacuum tunnel through the atmosphere.

The dark shadow that burst forth from the ground only slightly "bumped" into Kamiya during its rapid ascent.

The chilling sound of bones breaking clearly echoed through the night sky.

Lin hovered high in the air, looking somewhat puzzled, before muttering something.

"What fell down?"