515: Snatching food from the tiger's mouth

Above the Ice Abyss, the standoff had reached a fever pitch.

Lan Dongyong was the first to lose his patience; his temperament was as explosive as fire.

He threw a punch, violently smashing against the profound ice barrier that the cold marrow had spontaneously formed.

Boom—Crack!

The indestructible profound ice barrier shook violently. The center where it was struck was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and a large amount of crushed ice shot out in all directions like cannonballs!

However, the power of the primeval cold marrow Origin was endless, and the cracks rapidly mended themselves within the ghostly blue light.

"Idiot! Brute force will only provoke the primeval cold marrow Origin!"

The Ice Fiend Old Monster gave a raspy sneer, though a sharp glint flashed in his grayish-white eyes.

His withered claw shot out like lightning, and five grayish-white, deathly silent icicles condensed at his fingertips, silently firing toward the cracks on the profound ice barrier that Lan Dongyong had just struck and had not yet fully recovered!

Quan Xufang also moved.

He did not attack the barrier directly. Instead, his hands formed seals, and several ancient, obscure syllables escaped his mouth.

A cold moon condensed above his head, suddenly casting down an incredibly concentrated beam of cold light, accurately shining just ahead of the Ice Fiend Old Monster's five deathly silent icicles!

Sizzle... Hum!

As the deathly silent icicles crashed into the range of the cold light, their speed suddenly became incredibly slow, and fine ice crystals even condensed on the surface of the cones!

The Ice Fiend Old Monster's expression darkened, and he was forced to expend more power to drive the icicles forward.

The brief balance where the three parties restrained each other, each with their own hidden agendas, was at this exact moment!

Di Juetian's heart was nearly leaping out of his throat!

An opportunity! A once-in-a-lifetime chance!

He was lurking in the shadows of the ice waterfall, less than a hundred zhang away from that crack-filled profound ice barrier!

The attention of the three experts was on each other and the cold marrow. The storm formed by the collision of their terrifying auras had instead become his best cover!

"Now!"

A sharp light exploded in Di Juetian's eyes! The Space-Time Bloodline power lurking deep within his Bloodline was ignited by him without reservation!

The Di Clan Bloodline talent, Time Acceleration, was applied to his own body!

The flow of time around him suddenly accelerated several times over!

To the outside world, his figure instantly blurred and elongated, turning into a streak of light that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye!

His second Bloodline talent was activated simultaneously: Space Folding!

The distance of a hundred zhang, under the clever distortion of the Power of Space, seemed to be violently folded and compressed by an invisible hand!

Di Juetian felt as if his body had been thrown into an invisible slide, and the space ahead rapidly enlarged and approached before his eyes!

Fast! Fast! Just a little faster!

The streak of light ignored the flying ice shards and the chaotic energy turbulence along the way. In an inconceivable manner, he plunged headlong into the profound ice barrier that was covered in cracks, being bombarded by the three experts, and whose Origin power was fluctuating violently!

"Ant! How dare you!!"

The Ice Fiend Old Monster was the first to react, his voice filled with shock and rage!

He never expected that under the very noses of the three of them, a little bug who didn't know the meaning of death was actually hiding!

His withered claw suddenly turned, and a grayish-white cold current, more condensed than before, lunged like a poisonous dragon from the Nine Serenities straight toward the back of Di Juetian's heart!

Lan Dongyong and Quan Xufang also changed expressions simultaneously.

Lan Dongyong roared and instinctively threw a punch, while Quan Xufang's brow furrowed slightly as ice energy circulated at his fingertips, and a bolt of ice Sword Qi shot out!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The already crack-riddled barrier could no longer hold. It let out an earth-shattering bang and shattered into pieces!

Countless ice shards containing terrifying cold energy shot out in all directions like billions of sharp blades!

The moment the barrier shattered, Di Juetian also rushed in front of the primeval cold marrow!

The ghostly blue crystal was within reach, and the extreme cold it emitted almost froze his Soul!

He could even see the Origin Dao patterns surging inside the crystal like miniature ice rivers!

"Come here!"

At the critical moment of life and death, Di Juetian exploded with his full potential. His right hand, wrapped in a thin but fully operational layer of Space-Time Power, fiercely grabbed toward that mass of ghostly blue!

Hum—!

Just as his fingertips were about to touch the cold marrow, a sudden change occurred!

Beneath the shattered profound ice barrier, deep within that seemingly calm and dark ice abyss, a pair of incredibly massive, blood-red vertical pupils suddenly snapped open!

An ancient, tyrannical, and terrifying aura filled with primeval ferocity rose into the sky, like a slumbering prehistoric beast suddenly awakening!

Immediately following, a terrifying claw covered in thick, ghostly blue ice armor and as large as a mountain emerged without warning from the darkness of the abyss. It swiped down heavily toward Di Juetian, who had just grabbed the primeval cold marrow, and the three pursuers behind him—the Ice Fiend Old Monster, Lan Dongyong, and Quan Xufang!

"A guardian beast?!"

The Ice Fiend Old Monster shrieked in horror. No longer caring about Di Juetian, his deathly silent cold current instantly swirled back, laying down layer upon layer of ice shields in front of him.

Lan Dongyong and Quan Xufang also condensed ice shields before themselves.

As for Di Juetian, who bore the brunt of it, he felt as if the entire firmament had collapsed!

Before the giant claw even arrived, the terrifying pressure and cold energy already made his entire skeleton groan under the unbearable weight, and his blood nearly solidified!

The primeval cold marrow he had just grabbed, with its extreme ice Soul power, had now become a life-ending poison, frantically eroding the Meridians in his arm!

"Roar—!" As the shadow of death loomed, Di Juetian let out a beast-like roar, his survival instinct overwhelming his fear!

The Space-Time Bloodline within his body, which was exceptionally active due to the stimulation of the cold marrow, boiled frantically once again in this life-or-death crisis!

"Space-Time... Overlapping Barriers!"

His eyes were bloodshot as he recklessly activated his Bloodline Origin!

Visible spatial ripples, like waves of water, instantly centered on him and spread outward in layers!

This was not defense, but an attempt to fold and displace the small patch of space he occupied countless times, forming a chaotic spatial labyrinth to distort and deflect the attack trajectory of that destructive giant claw!

This was the limit of what he could currently achieve!

At the same time, his right hand holding the primeval cold marrow had almost lost all sensation due to the erosion of the marrow's peerless ice Soul power.

At the moment of life and death, an even crazier thought flashed through his mind—swallow it!

"I'll risk it!"

A flash of ruthlessness crossed Di Juetian's eyes. In the instant before the giant claw's shadow fell, he actually shoved that mass of primeval cold marrow, which emitted a destructive cold aura, into his own mouth!

Rumble—!!!

The giant claw fell!

The ice shields of the three experts shattered like paper! The three figures were sent flying like swatted stones, coughing up blood as they were thrown backward, smashing into the distant ice mountains and kicking up a sky full of ice dust!

As for the position where Di Juetian had been, it was completely covered by the giant claw armored in ghostly blue ice!

A massive crater appeared on the ice surface, where chaotic and violent energy turbulence and cold energy capable of freezing the Soul raged frantically!

Everything seemed to have ended.

The Ice Fiend Old Monster struggled to crawl out from the ice pile. His gray robes were shredded, his aura was withered, and he looked toward where the giant claw had fallen with eyes full of wariness and lingering fear.

Lan Dongyong and Quan Xufang also emerged from the ruins in a rather pathetic state, their faces solemn as they stared at the pair of slowly receding blood-red vertical pupils deep in the ice abyss, and that terrifying giant claw slowly withdrawing into the depths.

The aura of that guardian beast made even them feel shaken.