227: The ice coffin awakens, revealing the true form of the emperor.

Crack... crackle...

The subtle sound of ice cracking echoed particularly harshly across the dead silent ice plain, like a death knell striking everyone's hearts!

As the cracks on the ice coffin lid spread, an indescribable aura of terror, like a breached dam, burst forth! The extreme cold of the entire Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain seemed to find its master, madly converging towards the ice coffin! The ice and snow falling from the sky instantly froze! The dark blue light in the abyss below suddenly intensified! The massive, pitch-black star tower emitted a deep hum, and the frost patterns on its body rapidly slithered like living vipers!

"Retreat! Quick, retreat!" Xiao Chen's pupils suddenly constricted, and he roared loudly! He could feel that the existence about to awaken in the ice coffin emitted an aura that was even purer and more terrifying than the previous extra-dimensional phantom! This was a true Emperor Realm pressure! Moreover, it was an Emperor Realm in his peak state!

Boom—!!!

The Star Battleship, under Xiao Chen's control, violently retreated! The allied fleet behind also hastily pulled back! However, several slower flying boats were swept by the surging Emperor Realm power, instantly turning into ice sculptures, then shattering into countless ice crystals!

"Protect the low-level cultivators!" Yan Huang roared, simultaneously unleashing monstrous flames and Dragon Origin with Dragon Emperor, forming a thick energy barrier in front of the allied forces! Flower Without Shadow and Wonderful Sound also attacked with full force, their sound waves and illusion arrays layering on top of each other!

Thump—!!!

The lid of the ice coffin was finally blasted open from within by an invisible, immense force! It slammed heavily onto the ice tower platform, emitting a deafening roar!

A figure slowly sat up from within the ice coffin.

It was a man clad in a tattered, ice-blue Emperor Robe. His face was so handsome it was almost demonic, his complexion pale and bloodless, and his long hair, like a frozen galaxy, cascaded behind him. His eyes slowly opened, revealing pupils entirely composed of ice-blue crystals! Within his pupils, there was not a trace of emotion, only an extreme coldness that overlooked all beings and disregarded everything!

Hum—!!!

The moment he opened his eyes! Time across the entire Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain seemed to completely stop! An Emperor Realm pressure, ten, a hundred times stronger than before, like a substantial ice mountain, fiercely pressed down on everyone's souls!

Thump... thump-thump...

Among the allied forces, except for a few high-level Dou Saints who could barely stand, everyone else was unable to withstand this terrifying pressure, falling to their knees, some even fainting directly! Even the barrier set up by Yan Huang and Dragon Emperor groaned under the strain, instantly covered in cracks!

"Emperor Realm... true body?!" Dragon Emperor's massive dragon eyes were filled with unbelievable horror! He could feel that this being before him was absolutely not some Emperor Corpse or puppet! But a living, and in his prime, ancient Dou Emperor!

"No..." Xiao Chen stared intently at the Ice Emperor, his chaos emperor heart furiously operating, sensing the strange aura emanating from him. "His aura, though powerful, is filled with a dead, icy coldness, as if devoid of life's fluctuations... more like a tool controlled by some will!"

"Hehehe..." The Ice Emperor slowly turned his head, his crystal-like pupils coldly sweeping over the allied forces below, who were like ants, finally fixing on Xiao Chen. A stiff and eerie arc appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he emitted a hoarse voice, as if from countless ice crystals rubbing together:

"I have waited for ten thousand years... and finally, I have found a suitable sacrifice... and vessel..."

"The Origin Qi on you... is very delicious..."

"Become the first nourishment for this Emperor's descent into this world!"

As his voice fell! The Ice Emperor slowly raised a finger! And gently pointed it at Xiao Chen!

"Absolute Zero Emperor Finger!"

Whoosh—!!!

A subtle ice-blue ray of light shot from his fingertip! Wherever the light passed, space was not frozen, but directly annihilated! Turning into the most fundamental void! An extreme chill, capable of freezing souls and obliterating laws, instantly enveloped Xiao Chen's entire body!

"Chaos Heaven-Opening Fist!" Xiao Chen roared furiously! Not daring to be the slightest bit slow! He pushed his Chaos Emperor Power to the extreme! And punched towards that ice-blue ray!

Boom—!!!!!

The fist light and finger glow collided head-on! What erupted was not an energy storm, but a dead silent void zone! As if everything in that area had been completely erased from the world!

"Pfft—!" Xiao Chen's figure swayed violently! His face instantly turned pale! He could feel that his fist intent, and even the Chaos Laws, were being madly eroded and disintegrated by that extreme cold!

"What terrifying power!" Xiao Chen was horrified in his heart! This was absolutely the strongest enemy he had encountered since achieving the Emperor Realm! Without a doubt!

"star tower... appear!" Xiao Chen dared not hold back any longer! His glabella shone brightly! The massive star tower descended with a roar! Millions of star-lights cascaded down, firmly protecting him! At the same time, the tower body fiercely pressed down towards the Ice Emperor!

"Oh? The Star Emperor's tower?" The Ice Emperor seemed to recognize the tower, a flicker of fluctuation in his crystal pupils, but it immediately turned into even more intense greed! "Perfect... I'll take it too!"

"Ice Emperor... Domain... open!"

Hum—!!!

Centered on the Ice Tower, an Emperor Realm domain, entirely composed of extreme ice laws, suddenly unfolded! Instantly, it enveloped the star tower, along with Xiao Chen!

A true Emperor-level duel thus erupted! And the allied forces could only watch helplessly as the void, covered by the two great Emperor Domains, constantly collapsed and annihilated, yet they were utterly unable to intervene!

The situation instantly became extremely critical!