I just want to kill you all, or be killed by you all.

"Clang!"

Li Yang kicked away the troublesome Mu Ningxue, and upon meeting her, he immediately unleashed a stunning sword strike.

They still treat their ultimate move like a basic attack.

Li Yang had never learned, nor was he willing to learn, any sword techniques.

Now that he has mastered the ultimate killing sword technique, the "Sword of the Startling Swan," he has replaced his original ordinary attacks.

"The Three Forms of Changhong—Startling Swan!" The Evil Ice Demon Lord's pupils constricted to pinpoints as he saw Li Yang charging towards him in a streak of blood-red light. His voice was filled with fear and disbelief. "How do you know this move? Are you not dead?! Or are you his successor?"

However, what arrived before Li Yang's answer was his sword.

Now, the sword in his hand has been replaced by the Xuanyuan Sword. The sword turns into a red light, and a blood dragon of sword energy swirls around it, greatly increasing its power.

Even if the Demon Lord of Evil Ice's physical body was only at the late Nascent Soul stage, or even at the early Divine Transformation stage, he would still have to dodge Li Yang's sword strike.

You're just kidding, there's no way to escape it.

The Evil Ice Demon Lord didn't need to form hand seals or cast spells; his attack consisted of a ten-thousand-year-old iceberg that crashed down from the sky.

At the same time, his eyes burst forth with a deep blue evil light, drawing upon the power of wind and snow between heaven and earth, and influencing the universe with his own artistic conception.

Just like the previous Mighty Demon Lord, the Evil Ice Demon Lord also unleashed his Ice Dao Domain at this moment.

Within the domain, all the ice and snow seemed to come alive, gathering on that ancient ice mountain. Any spiritual energy that approached was immediately frozen.

This iceberg was enormous, more than 100,000 feet high, lying across the sky and in front of Li Yang.

Such a terrifying ice-based divine power would require even a prodigy like Mu Ningxue, whose ice-type skills are unparalleled, to exhaust her physical strength in order to unleash it.

However, at this moment, the Evil Ice Demon Lord seemed to have witnessed the power of the Astounding Sword, and he couldn't even muster the thought of confronting it head-on. He only wanted to use this iceberg to delay Li Yang's offensive.

"boom--"

The red light that Li Yang transformed into crashed violently into the iceberg, producing a tremendous, continuous roar.

The sword intent was so sharp that it shattered the iceberg, which was harder than metal and stone, with overwhelming force, causing it to explode.

Moreover, an incomparably scorching sea of ​​fire erupted from Li Yang's dantian—his dantian fire—the True Fire of the Sun!

Two rebirths, two unconventional paths.

The Qianyang Emperor's Body and the Innate Sword Embryo had been completely shattered and merged into his body. Perhaps no trace of the two top-tier physiques could be found, but the essence of the two top-tier physiques filled his entire body.

Therefore, Li Yang's Dan Fire, with the blessing of the Qianyang Emperor's Body, is no weaker than the fire of those Ancestral Blood-level fire-type alien beasts.

He just doesn't practice the fire path.

With the blessing of the mutated true fire of the sun, the ancient ice, which had existed for ten thousand years, was shattered by the sword intent and melted by the fire waves before it could even get close.

It serves no purpose whatsoever in delaying things.

"I don't have the habit of explaining things to the dead. If you have something to say, tell it to my sword!"

Li Yang instantly appeared in front of the Evil Ice Demon Lord.

The Evil Ice Demon Lord originally intended to escape after summoning the ice mountain, but he did not expect Li Yang's sword to be even more terrifying than he had anticipated.

There's no way around it; a ruthless character who uses their ultimate move like a basic attack is impossible to escape safely from.

"Pfft!"

A sword pierced through his body.

But Li Yang frowned; something felt off.

The blade touched not flesh and blood, but rather a block of incredibly solid ice.

The Demon Lord of Evil Ice looked down at the Xuanyuan Sword that had pierced his chest and protruded from his back, his icy blue pupils reflecting the dragon patterns flowing across the sword.

The sword intent invaded his meridians, disintegrating his ice-type true essence inch by inch, like a mountain collapsing and snow melting away.

His body was torn open with countless cracks, and the power of the true fire of the sun also erupted within him.

But he was laughing.

The smile was twisted and manic, as if someone had grasped at the last straw in a desperate situation.

He suddenly spread his arms wide, and the remaining power of his domain no longer resisted Li Yang's sword intent, but instead surged back towards himself—

"You think... killing this body means you've won?"

An icy blue light emanated from his body, like a blooming, eerie snow lotus, yet carrying a putrid stench.

The flesh began to crack inch by inch, and ice crystals grew from the cracks, stretching and replacing pieces of flesh.

The evil Ice Demon Lord before them was melting.

Or rather, it is undergoing restructuring.

The shattered flesh turned into ice shards and scattered, replaced by a translucent ice crystal body. Its eyes transformed into two deep ice crystal pupils, reflecting the phantom of an ancient glacier.

"Nirvana Mystic Ice True Body!"

Seeing this, Mu Ningxue, who was behind, gasped in shock.

She clearly recognized this method and knew its power.

"Fellow Daoist Li, be careful! This is an Ice Dao Immortal Technique. No matter what kind of injury you suffer, it can be instantly healed by the abundant ice and snow here!"

Without her saying anything, Li Yang already realized it.

The fatal sword strike failed to take the life of the Evil Ice Demon Lord, and Li Yang immediately used his sword to create distance.

Centered on the Evil Ice Demon Lord, the skeleton and veins of a colossal giant appeared in the void, with boundless ice and snow power converging to form the flesh and blood of the ice giant.

Li Yang could sense that the immortal spirit of the Evil Ice Demon Lord had completely merged into this ice giant.

He wouldn't just stand by and watch the enemy transform before making his move.

"Clang!"

He activated the Xuanyuan Sword with all his might and unleashed another stunning sword strike, piercing through the head of the ice giant.

His head exploded with a bang, but even more icy power gathered back together, as if he were impossible to kill.

"In his Nirvana True Form, he is almost invincible in this icy continent; at least no one can kill him!" Mu Ningxue clearly knew this, and her tone was urgent.

"You are Li Yang? To be able to inherit his swordsmanship, even if you are not him, is still amazing enough." The Evil Ice Demon Lord transmitted his will, his body continuing to grow larger. "If this were elsewhere, you might actually be able to kill me. But this is my home ground. If you want to kill me, you will have to destroy the entire Ice Plains Continent."

The arrogance in the tone of the Evil Ice Demon Lord was palpable.

"Clang!"

Li Yang unleashed another powerful sword strike, cleaving the ice giant, which had grown to a height of ten thousand feet, in two from head to toe.

His sword was invincible; there was nothing it couldn't cut through.

It can be cut open, but it can't be killed, which is extremely troublesome.

"Perhaps I am no match for you on my own, but—" the Evil Ice Demon Lord still conveyed his will.

Where it was severed, countless ice and snow veins are reorganizing, intertwining and merging together.

As soon as he finished speaking, more than 500 cultivators surged forward from behind him.

These cultivators were originally from the Langya Ice Palace, but Mu Ningxue took them all away, and they didn't get any benefits.

Seeing the Demon Lord of Evil Ice fighting with Li Yang, they all became excited.

Seeing that Li Yang was alone, they immediately split up and surrounded him.

"Don't be reckless! He's too strong; he can easily break through the encirclement. Enter my body, lend me your power, and I can unleash the power to kill him, leaving him nowhere to hide in this icy plain. Even teleportation talismans will be useless!"

The Demon Lord of Evil Ice roared, his killing intent aimed directly at Li Yang.

With the combined power of these five hundred-plus cultivators, he would be invincible in this icy continent.

"I've already unleashed my killing move, yet you still won't run? Heh heh heh, since you won't escape, then stay here forever!"

Li Yang smiled as he watched the cultivators disappear into the massive ice body of the Evil Ice Demon Lord.

"Fellow Daoist Li, they outnumber us and have the upper hand. We should avoid their attacks for now," Mu Ningxue said urgently. She sensed the increasingly terrifying and powerful aura of the Evil Ice Demon Lord, a power that no single cultivator could contend with on their own.

"Me, avoid their sharp edge?" Li Yang laughed even more wildly.

I never imagined that one day, we sword cultivators could also crush others with sheer numbers.

"My men have arrived as well."