Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Zhong Xiu's attack arrived first. Her right fist, wrapped in golden flames, swooped down from the sky and accurately struck the back of the neck of the frost bear below.

A dull thud resounded across the empty ice field, and the giant bear's massive body staggered forward several steps from the force of the punch.

The moment it lost its balance, it turned and counterattacked, its thick bear claws sweeping towards Zhong Xiu with a whooshing sound, but with just a slight flap of its golden wings, Zhong Xiu's figure had already retreated from its attack range.

Gulna followed closely behind, her demonic wings suddenly folding in mid-air as she plummeted down like a meteor, her long hammer striking a frost giant squarely on the head, causing the giant to sway twice.

At the same time, Cao Bing was facing a monster that was on all fours and resembled a giant lizard.

The monster was over ten meters long, with a layer of blue-white ice crystal armor covering its back, and its four thick claws leaving deep indentations on the ice.

When the monitor lizard opened its mouth, it revealed a row of dense, sharp teeth, each gleaming with a cold, icy blue light.

Cao's soldiers neither dodged nor avoided.

His figure left a straight trail on the ice, his right hand gripping a massive, black sword, its blade as wide as a door panel, entirely black, with a faint purple halo emanating from its surface.

He leaped about five meters away from the giant lizard, soaring into the air. He raised the greatsword high above his head and brought it down, the blade striking the center of the giant lizard's head with a dull thud.

The giant lizard's head sank sharply downwards from the impact, and its massive body lay flat on the ground as if pressed down by an invisible force.

On the other side, Cao Yan stood on a slightly elevated ice platform about fifty meters away from the battlefield, holding a longbow in his right hand, with a blue halo flowing around the bow arm.

His firing rate was extremely high, with an arrow flying off the bow every two seconds on average.

The arrows burst into a deep red flame the moment they left the bowstring, leaving dark red trails in the twilight as they precisely struck the wounds of the monsters whose defenses had been torn apart by the battle ahead.

The flaming arrows exploded the moment they touched the wounds, and crimson flames lit up the icy plains, each flame tearing the already cracked ice armor even further apart.

Chen Ye also moved quickly across the ice.

He did not choose the giant beasts that were already surrounded, nor did he deliberately try to seize the target that Zhong Xiu and Gulina were suppressing in mid-air.

His gaze swept across the entire battlefield, locking onto another humanoid monster approaching the crowd from the right front of the advancing troops.

The monster was about the same size as the Frost Bear we killed yesterday, its entire body covered in thick ice crystal armor, its arms hanging down at its knees, and the tips of its ten fingers were sharp ice spikes.

Chen Ye did not slow down. When he was about five meters away from the monster, he had already turned the Dragon Scale Halberd halfway in his hand. The spear shaft, with a faint purple halo, rose from the bottom and the tip of the spear precisely sliced ​​across the monster's left knee joint.

"Snap—!"

The sound of the ice crystal armor shattering was particularly crisp in the twilight. A horizontal crack appeared on the monster's left knee, and fragments broke off to the sides, revealing the grayish-white tissue underneath.

The monster suddenly stopped, its left leg lost its support, and its body tilted to the right. Chen Ye did not give it a chance to readjust its center of gravity. He retracted the Dragon Scale Halberd and then thrust it out again.

The spear tip left a pale purple trail in the twilight, precisely piercing the monster's neck where ice crystals covered the vulnerable spot, penetrating it and exiting from behind.

The monster's body froze, then its heavy frame tilted forward, crashing onto the ice with a dull thud.

The fighting continues.

The sounds of battle echoed across the icy plains, the flashes of skills and sparks of melee combat mingling in the twilight, the roars of monsters and the shouts of passengers mingling together.

More than thirty giant beasts were scattered across the ice field, divided into independent battle groups by more than a hundred passengers. Some were fighting one-on-one, some were surrounding and killing, some were attacking from a distance, and some were fighting in close combat.

Chen Ye pulled the Dragon Scale Halberd from the monster's neck, shook off the remaining ice crystals on the spear tip, and then looked around.

The giant beasts that were originally scattered across the ice field have now mostly fallen to the ground. Their massive blue-white bodies lie across the ice and are slowly being covered by falling snowflakes.

Dusk was falling, but the sounds of battle were gradually fading away.

The last behemoth crashed to the ground amidst a swooping descent of golden wings and a head-on impact of a giant sword, leaving only scattered wreckage on the icy plain.

More than a hundred people stood on the ice, each adjusting their breathing.

Some people were panting with their knees on their hands, some were checking their kill score on the system panel, and some were bending over to pick up items that had fallen from the remains of the giant beast.

Chen Ye put the Dragon Scale Halberd back into his storage space, his gaze sweeping across the ice plains and landing on the ice crystal palace shrouded in twilight.

The palace walls gleamed with a faint blue light in the last rays of daylight.

Gu Qinghuan walked up behind Chen Ye and stopped beside him, her gaze falling in the same direction: "The aura inside the palace is much stronger than outside."

Chen Ye nodded slightly but did not reply.

He looked at the ice crystal palace in front of him. The main gate was tightly closed and there was no movement. Although there had been a fierce battle outside, not a single monster had come out from inside.

Lu Qingchuan led his team over and stopped beside him, his gaze also falling on the tightly closed palace gate: "It seems this door won't open by itself. I wonder if there are any mechanisms or something like that."

As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow wrapped in deep red flames shot out from not far away at great speed, leaving a dark red trail in the air before accurately embedding itself in the center of the tightly closed ice crystal door.

"boom--!"

A violent explosion rang out across the empty ice field, and crimson flames suddenly blazed in the twilight. The shockwave blew away a layer of snow from the surrounding area.

When the flames died down, the ice crystal door still stood perfectly intact, without even a crack.

All eyes turned to the direction from which the arrow had been shot.

Cao Yan was standing on an ice platform about fifty meters away, holding his longbow in his hand, the bowstring trembling slightly.

Qin Zhaoyang shrank back and lowered his voice: "This guy is too reckless."

Wang Zekai chimed in, "Indeed, if some mechanism or gate retaliates, it would harm both ourselves and others."

Other passengers also had some complaints, but didn't say much.

Zhong Xiu stood on the other side of the crowd, arms crossed, and glanced at Cao Bing: "Cao Bing, keep your men in check."

Cao Yan's face instantly darkened. He placed the longbow to his side, turned his head, and stared directly at Zhong Xiu through the twilight: "What did you say? Say it again!"

Zhong Xiu didn't even look at him directly, maintaining his posture with his arms crossed over his chest: "You ignorant fool, if it weren't for your brother, you would have been dead long ago."

"You..." Cao Yan's face flushed red, and his voice rose several octaves: "If you're so capable, go open that door! How are we supposed to get in if you don't break it down?"

Before he could finish speaking, a hand reached out from the side and pressed on his shoulder.

Cao Bing walked to his brother's side, his hand not heavy, but the force firmly pressed down on Cao Yan's shoulder.

He glanced at Cao Yan, his tone not stern: "Alright, enough talk. We all have the same goal: to kill the Ice Lord of Extreme Cold, not to stand here arguing."

He paused, his gaze shifting to the intact ice crystal door: "Besides, nothing unusual happened after the door was attacked. Just don't do anything reckless once we're inside."