40: The Seventh Level of Divine Illumination! Ning Yudie's Declaration of Warming the Bed!

In the main room of the Thatched Cottage, starlight flowed.

Su Ningxue sat kneeling on a prayer mat, her deer-like eyes tightly closed, her long eyelashes trembling violently like butterfly wings; the condensed ice crystals had long since melted, turning into tiny droplets of water that slid down her flushed and burning cheeks. The Ice Soul Star Body within her was operating at full capacity, and the pure Ice Soul Star power flowed out continuously like a gentle stream, actively wrapping around and penetrating Jiang Linfeng's body.

Jiang Linfeng sat cross-legged with his eyes slightly closed. That cool and moist power was like the finest nectar, silently soothing the slightly restless blood and Qi within him due to his Breakthrough, and even more, it blended and resonated with his majestic Origin Spirit Power! In his Sea of Consciousness, that Ice Soul Star Fusion Seed seemed to be injected with vitality, slowly rotating and emitting an even more mysterious and profound Dao charm! The remaining power of the Star Origin Essence was thoroughly stimulated and refined! His cultivation at the Zhaoshen Realm Sixth Layer was stabilizing and consolidating at a speed visible to the naked eye!

[Ding! Dual Cultivation guidance in progress!]

[Ice Soul Star Body Origin resonance! Star power refinement efficiency +50%!]

[Star Origin Essence Fusion: 100%! Realm stabilized!]

[Source Spirit Body Origin strengthened! Nascent Star Domain Fusion +10%!]

[Obtained Rewards: Star Insight Fragments ×8! Star Origin Affinity +10%!]

Buzz—!!!

An invisible wave of Qi spread out with Jiang Linfeng as the center! Inside the Thatched Cottage, the starlight rippled like water! The aura around his body became deeper and more restrained, like an infinite sea of stars, vast and boundless! Zhaoshen Realm Sixth Layer Peak! He was just one step away!

"Ningxue..." Jiang Linfeng's deep voice rang out, carrying a hint of guidance, "Draw the power of the star river! Help me... break through!"

"Yes! Sect Master!" Su Ningxue's delicate body trembled slightly, her voice carrying a hint of suppressed excitement and determination! She suddenly opened her eyes, and starlight shone brilliantly in her deer-like eyes! Her hands formed seals! She put all her effort into communicating with the vast river of starlight cascading outside the Thatched Cottage!

"Ice Soul Star Attraction! Star River Inversion!"

Boom—!!!

Outside the Thatched Cottage, the cascading river of starlight seemed to receive an invisible summons and shook violently! An even more brilliant and condensed pillar of starlight, like the Nine Heavens' Silver River flowing backward, crashed through the roof of the Thatched Cottage! It accurately enveloped Jiang Linfeng!

The Star Origin power, majestic to the extreme, flooded into Jiang Linfeng's body like a bursting star river! The Source Spirit Body emitted a joyful hum, greedily devouring this gift from heaven and earth! In his Sea of Consciousness, the star origin essence seed shook violently, its volume expanding once again! Star runes flowed on its surface, emitting an even more ancient and vast aura!

Crack!

A crisp cracking sound rang out inside Jiang Linfeng's body! The Bottleneck of the Zhaoshen Realm Sixth Layer... shattered at the sound!

Boom—!!!

A pressure even more terrifying and overbearing than before erupted! It was like a sleeping Primordial Star God awakening! The entire Thatched Cottage shook violently! Tiles on the roof fell one after another! The ground cracked into spiderweb-like fissures! Outside the Thatched Cottage, the cascading river of starlight seemed to be pulled, pouring down even more frantically! A huge star vortex formed above Jiang Linfeng's head! In the center of the vortex, a blurry phantom stepping on the star river and holding Chaos faintly emerged!

Zhaoshen Realm Seventh Layer! Success!

[Ding! Host's Realm Breakthrough: Zhaoshen Realm Seventh Layer!]

[Source Spirit Body Origin has made a significant leap! Nascent Star Domain Fusion +30%! Power has skyrocketed!]

[Star Destruction Fist power +200%! Invincible Domain range expanded to three hundred meters!]

[Obtained Special Reward: Star God Infant Projection (Elementary)! Can briefly summon the Star Divine Infant phantom for battle!]

[Star Insight Fragments ×15! Star Origin Affinity +20%!]

"Phew..." Jiang Linfeng slowly opened his eyes! In his pupils, it was as if billions of stars were being born and dying! A terrifying will to control the star river and destroy the eternal ages permeated the air! He felt the power within him, surging to the extreme, and a cold arc curled at the corner of his mouth! Zhaoshen Realm Seventh Layer! Nascent Star Domain! Star God Infant Projection! At this moment, he... was enough to go toe-to-toe with the Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection!

"Congratulations, Sect Master! Hearty congratulations, Sect Master!" Su Ningxue's voice was trembling with excitement! She looked at the man before her, who was like a god, her heart filled with boundless worship and pride! She... actually assisted the Sect Master in his Breakthrough?!

[Ding! Su Ningxue's intimacy +10! (Current: 138%!)]

[Ice Soul Star Body (Nascent) stabilized under the wash of the star river! Ice Soul Origin purity +8%! Star Affinity +5%!]

[Obtained feedback: Origin Spirit Power (Ice Attribute) control +15%! Star Insight Fragments ×5!]

An even purer Ice Soul Star power was fed back, making Jiang Linfeng's control over the freezing cold even more smooth and natural. He looked at Su Ningxue; the girl's face was slightly pale due to over-exhaustion, but those deer-like eyes were startlingly bright, filled with dependence and admiration for him.

"You did very well." Jiang Linfeng's voice was deep, carrying a hint of praise. He reached out his hand, and a wisp of warm Origin Spirit Power was transferred into her body, instantly soothing her fatigue.

"Thank... thank you, Sect Master..." Su Ningxue felt that warm current, her cheeks flushed, and her heart was as sweet as if it were soaked in a honey jar. She plucked up her courage, leaned her body forward slightly, and her cool little hand gently rested on the back of Jiang Linfeng's hand. Her deer-like eyes were shy and timid, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito's buzz: "Sect Master... this Disciple... still wants to... help you... stabilize your Realm..."

Jiang Linfeng's eyes darkened slightly. This girl... has she developed a taste for it? However... the Ice Soul Star Body indeed has infinite wonderful uses.

However, just as he was about to respond—

Rumble—!!!

An extreme cold current, more terrifying and vast than when Ning Yudie arrived before, as if it were going to freeze the entire Northern Region into a block of ice! It tore through the void without any warning! It crashed down upon the Qingyun Ruins!

The sky was instantly frozen into a huge piece of blue glaze covered with mysterious ice crystal runes! The cascading river of starlight was forcibly solidified in mid-air! The plants turned into ice sculptures! Even the air condensed into fine ice crystal powder! An absolute cold originating from the level of life itself and... a hint of twisted, crazy, and violent aura! Like the roar of a Primordial Ice Demon! It swept across the world!

"Jiang Linfeng—!!!"

A shrill and sharp shriek, carrying monstrous hatred, crazy greed, and... a hint of indescribable burning heat! Like billions of ice cones exploding at the same time! It slammed hard onto the Qingyun Ruins!

Ning Yudie! She... was back! And... she was stronger!

The roof of the Thatched Cottage was instantly blown away by the invisible cold current! Revealing the apocalyptic frozen world outside! Above the broken mountain gate, a figure stepped on the sky full of ice crystals, slowly descending!

Silver hair danced wildly like a glacial waterfall! Her ice dress fluttered, outlining breathtaking curves! A point of ice-blue divine mark at the center of her brow was dazzlingly bright! The aura she emitted... was impressively... the Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection! Behind her, the ice soul divine talisman floated; the hideous crack on the talisman's body had already disappeared, replaced by even more complex and mysterious ice crystal runes! Its light was as intense as an ice soul blazing sun!

Ning Yudie! She actually... really forced a Breakthrough to the Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection! At the cost of a blood sacrifice of billions of living beings!

"Jiang Linfeng!" Ning Yudie's ice-blue pupils were deathly locked onto Jiang Linfeng inside the Thatched Cottage, her gaze complex to the extreme! There was bone-deep hatred! There was twisted greed! There was the humiliation of her pride being trampled upon! And even more... a hint of a crazy desire that she hadn't even noticed herself, ignited by that atmosphere of blending ice and fire! "Hand over the Fusion method! Hand over the Star Dao Body! Otherwise... this Palace Mistress... will freeze the Northern Region today! I will make your Qingyun Sect... sink for all eternity!"

She pointed her jade finger!

Buzz!

The light of the ice soul divine talisman surged! An ice crystal rune light screen, ten times larger and a hundred times more complex than before, instantly enveloped the entire Qingyun Ruins! Above the light screen, countless twisted and wailing Ice Soul Wraiths rose and fell! Emitting a terrifying aura that froze time and space and defiled the Divine Soul! The Everfrost Grand Array! Upgraded version! Ice Soul Blood Sacrifice version!

"Ice Soul Blood Sacrifice! Myriad Souls Everfrost!"

Boom—!!!

The light screen of the grand array crashed down! Space froze inch by inch! Laws wailed and crumbled! Even the river of starlight cascading above Jiang Linfeng's head was completely frozen! The entire Qingyun Ruins... instantly turned into a silent ice crystal Hell!

"Husband!" "Sect Master!" Luo Yan and Su Ningxue's faces were as pale as paper! Under this world-destroying frozen array, they felt as small as dust!

"Humph!" Jiang Linfeng's eyes were as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice! Facing that terrifying array that was enough to freeze a part of the world, he took a step forward! His figure instantly appeared above the ruins of the Thatched Cottage! He protected his wife and child behind him!

"Void Tribulation Great Perfection? Blood sacrifice of billions of living beings?" Jiang Linfeng's voice was calm, yet it carried a bone-chilling mockery, "Ning Yudie... your Dao... has gone completely... crooked!"

"Crooked?!" Ning Yudie let out a sharp, fierce laugh, her ice-blue pupils bloodshot, "As long as I can kill you! As long as I can seize your method! My Dao... is the path to the heavens! Now... die for me!"

Boom!

The power of the Ice Soul Blood Sacrifice Grand Array was pushed to its limit! Countless Ice Soul Wraiths turned into hideous ice crystal giant beasts! Carrying the terrifying power to freeze the Divine Soul and defile the Origin! They frantically bit down... toward Jiang Linfeng!

"Just with you?!" Cold light exploded in Jiang Linfeng's eyes! The aura around him erupted! The majestic pressure of the Zhaoshen Realm Seventh Layer, mixed with the overbearing will of the Star Chaos! It soared into the sky!

"Invincible Domain! Open!"

Buzz—!!!

The absolute suppression space with a radius of three hundred meters expanded violently! This time, within the Domain, it was no longer simple suppression! Countless ice-blue star chains instantly condensed! On the chains, bits of star fire flowed! Ice soul and stars perfectly blended! There was even a blurry phantom stepping on the star river and holding Chaos appearing faintly in the center of the Domain! The Star God Infant Projection!

"Star Domain! Ice Soul Star God-Locking Chains!"

Rumble—!!!!!!!

Countless ice-blue chains intertwined with star fire were like awakened primordial Vicious Beasts! They boldly met the pouncing Ice Soul Wraith giant beasts!

Shhh—!!!

There was no world-shaking explosion!

There was only... the clash of extreme cold against extreme cold! The annihilation of stars and wraiths!

Crack! Crack! Crack—!!!

Countless Ice Soul Wraith giant beasts instantly disintegrated under the strangulation of the Ice Soul Star God-Locking Chains! They turned into a sky full of ice crystal powder! The chains' momentum did not decrease! Like the tentacles of the God of Death! They slammed hard against the light screen of the Ice Soul Blood Sacrifice Grand Array!

Boom—!!!

The entire array's light screen shook violently! It emitted a piercing wail! Countless ice crystal runes flickered and shattered frantically! Three Ice Soul Divine Palace Elders hidden in the shadows, using themselves as the array's core, groaned simultaneously! Ice-blue blood overflowed from the corners of their mouths!

"What?!" Ning Yudie's pupils shrank suddenly! She felt a power of the same Origin but even purer and more overbearing—the Ice Soul Star power! That power... was actually reversely eroding and assimilating her blood sacrifice array?! "Impossible! I am already at the Void Tribulation Great Perfection! The power of the blood sacrifice is extremely pure and strong! You... you..."

"Your blood sacrifice power... is filthy beyond compare!" Jiang Linfeng's voice was as cold as a knife, "This seat's Ice Soul Star... is... the true Dao!"

He slammed his hands together!

"Break!"

Buzz—!!!

The Star God Infant Projection suddenly raised its hand! A huge chain, condensed to the extreme and entwined with ice-blue star fire! Like a god's spear that could split heaven and earth! Carrying the terrifying will to destroy all Laws and freeze time and space! It stabbed fiercely toward the core of the array!

Rumble—!!!!!!!

The light screen of the Ice Soul Blood Sacrifice Grand Array was like a punctured balloon! It exploded instantly! Turning into a sky full of ice crystal fragments! A terrifying shockwave swept out! Tearing countless Ice Soul Divine Palace Disciples into pieces! Freezing them into ice sculptures!

Poof! Poof! Poof!

The three Elders were hit as if by a heavy blow, spitting blood wildly, their auras instantly withering! Ning Yudie's delicate body also shook violently, and the ice soul divine talisman's light flashed frantically! Her eyes were filled with unbelievable horror and... a hint of... daze and... humiliation after her pride was completely crushed!

She... at the Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection! With a blood sacrifice of billions of living beings! Was actually... actually broken by a Zhaoshen Realm Seventh Layer... with a single strike?!

"Ning Yudie!" Jiang Linfeng stood amidst the starlight, holding Xingyu, like a God King in charge of the stars! His gaze was like lightning, penetrating the sky full of ice crystals and stabbing straight at the despondent Ice Soul Saintess, "Get back to your Ice Palace! If you dare to set foot in the Northern Region again... this seat... will surely... imprison you in the Star Prison forever!"

Ning Yudie bit her lower lip hard, and in her ice-blue pupils, anger, humiliation, horror, and greed... were frantically intertwined! Finally... they turned into a hint of... a crazy smile that was twisted to the extreme!

"Jiang Linfeng..." Her voice was hoarse, carrying a hint of trembling, a hint of... morbid burning heat, "You... won this round..."

"But... this Palace Mistress... has taken a fancy to you!"

"Your Fusion method... I will definitely have it!"

"Your person... I... will also have you!"

"Next time we meet... I... will definitely have you... warm my bed!"

Before her voice had even fallen!

Buzz!

The ice soul divine talisman wrapped a cold light around her heavily injured body and the three Elders, instantly tearing through space and disappearing into the horizon! Only leaving behind a ground full of ice crystal corpses and... a cold killing intent permeating the air along with... a hint of... hair-raising... crazy obsession!

The Ice Soul Divine Palace... retreated in defeat once again! But... Ning Yudie's declaration... like a curse... echoed over the Qingyun Ruins!

Bed-warming?!

Jiang Linfeng's eyes were cold, but a playful arc curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Bed-warming?" He lowered his head, looking at his son, who had stopped crying at some point and was now opening those big eyes that seemed to contain a river of stars, looking at him curiously, with a toothless smile on his face.

"Xingyu... what do you say... to letting her warm the bed?"