226: Nine towers appear on the permafrost ice field

Three days later, above the Pill Tower Holy Domain.

A suffocating shadow of slaughter... countless flying ships, warships, and powerful figures standing in the air, converged into a terrifying torrent that could make heaven and earth lose their color! This was the Anti-Alliance's entire peak fighting strength of Dou Saints and above that it could muster in a short period!

The Yan Clan's Fire Dragon Army, clad in crimson armor, exuded a murderous aura! The Dragon Guards from Ancient Dragon Island possessed mighty dragon prestige and formidable scales! The Flower Sect disciples were surrounded by a myriad of flowers, forming a strict formation! The Sound Valley disciples held strange instruments, their melodies invisible! The strong cultivators of Starfall Pavilion were like stars in the dark night, their auras sharp! Furthermore, there were Dou Saint elders from other forces across the continent who were forced to unite; although their intentions varied, under the vast imperial might of Xiao Chen, no one dared to make the slightest move!

Xiao Chen, dressed in a green robe, stood at the very front on the bow of a gigantic starship, condensed from the power of the star tower. His gaze was calm yet profound as an abyss, sweeping over the allied army behind him, which represented the last hope of this world.

"This journey to the Northern Plains is a near-certain death," Xiao Chen's voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears. "But for our home, for survival, we can only fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" The earth-shattering roars pierced through the clouds! Everyone's eyes burned with resolute flames!

"Depart!" Xiao Chen said no more, waving his sleeve! The gigantic starship was the first to transform into a streak of light, tearing through space and speeding towards the north! The mighty allied army followed closely behind! Like a sharp sword piercing towards the extreme north of the continent!

The extreme north of the continent, the Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain.

This was a white hell eternally frozen. As far as the eye could see, there was only endless pallor. The cold wind, like billions of ice blades, howled as it cut through space. The temperature was so low that it could instantly freeze the souls of Dou Zun powerhouses! Even light seemed to be solidified by this extreme cold! The air was filled with a dead silence where even time seemed to stop flowing!

"What terrifying extreme cold power..." Even Yan Huang, a peak powerhouse who controlled fire, couldn't help but activate his protective flames with a solemn expression. He could feel that the cold here was not ordinary; it contained a strange power that seemed capable of freezing even laws!

"Everyone, be careful! The cold here can erode Dou Qi and soul power!" The Dragon Emperor let out a low dragon roar, warning everyone.

Xiao Chen stood at the bow, his brows slightly furrowed. His Chaos Emperor Domain naturally feared not this bit of cold, but he could feel that deep within this seemingly dead ice plain, a fluctuation that even made him feel a chill in his heart was hidden! That fluctuation was of the same origin as the burial emperor coffin, yet it was even more obscure, even deeper!

"star tower, sense!" Xiao Chen's mind stirred, and the phantom of the star tower on his forehead flickered slightly! An invisible probing fluctuation spread out from him towards the depths of the ice plain!

"Buzz—!"

Suddenly, in the depths of a huge ice rift valley, approximately ten thousand miles away from them, the star tower emitted a violent resonance!

"Found it!" A sharp glint flashed in Xiao Chen's eyes! "It's right ahead! Full speed ahead!"

The fleet struggled to approach the ice rift valley, enduring the violent extreme cold storm! The closer they got, the clearer the heart-pounding fluctuation became! Even the surrounding space began to show signs of distortion!

"Rumble—!!!"

When the fleet finally arrived above the ice rift valley, the sight before them made everyone gasp in cold air!

That was not some ordinary rift valley at all! It was a colossal abyss beyond description! The bottom of the abyss was not dark, but a vast complex of ice crystal buildings emitting a faint, dark blue light! And at the very center of that complex, a majestic ten-thousand-zhang tall ancient pagoda, carved entirely from some bizarre, ink-black cold ice, stood towering!

The ninth ancient pagoda!

Unlike any ancient pagoda before it! This ancient pagoda did not emit death qi or resentment, but an extreme coldness! An absolute chill that seemed capable of freezing souls and solidifying time! The ancient pagoda body was covered with intricate frost patterns, and these patterns were not static; they flowed slowly like living things! The aura it emitted had clearly reached the level of an Emperor Armament! And it was a perfectly intact Emperor Armament!

"This... is the ninth ancient pagoda?" Yan Huang said with a dry voice, "What terrifying ice-elemental imperial might... it seems even more complete and powerful than the burial emperor coffin!"

"No..." Xiao Chen's expression, however, became incredibly solemn. He stared intently at the top of that black ice ancient pagoda. "There's something there..."

Everyone followed his gaze... only to see that at the very top of the ten-thousand-zhang ice ancient pagoda, there was no spire, but a huge platform. On the platform, a crystal-clear ice coffin was prominently placed!

Within the ice coffin, a blurry figure was vaguely visible! An imperial might, countless times more terrifying than the ice ancient pagoda itself, was emanating from within that ice coffin! As if some extremely terrifying existence was slumbering within!

"Could that be the so-called 'Emperor Corpse' from the burial emperor coffin?" The Dragon Emperor let out a horrified low growl!

"No..." Xiao Chen slowly shook his head, his eyes sharp as knives! "What's inside is not a corpse..."

"It's alive!"

As soon as his words fell—

"Crack... crackle..."

A tiny crack suddenly appeared on the lid of that crystal-clear ice coffin! A terrifying aura that made the entire Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain tremble, like a ferocious beast that had slumbered for eons, slowly awakened!

Was the final enemy finally about to appear?