232: Chapter 232 Ice and Snow's Resolve, Comrades-in-Arms

The sky was filled with a rain of death, like the scythe of a Shinigami, ruthlessly crashing down.

"Sss! Sss! Sss!"

In the ruins on the periphery of the battlefield, pungent white smoke rose frantically.

"Get lost!" Jiang Feng's eyes were blood-red as he let out a deafening roar.

He gripped the mountain-splitting giant axe tightly with both hands, swinging it crazily above his head!

The giant axe transformed into an impenetrable black shield, attempting to use its violent Protective Aura to forcefully disperse the corrosive blood rain crashing down!

But the blood rain was too dense! And its corrosiveness was simply horrifying!

"Sizzle! Sizzle!"

A few drops of the blood rain leaked through, slamming onto Jiang Feng's shoulders and back! His blue-gray Rokushiki: Iron Body defense, which even Tier 3 exotic beasts couldn't bite through, acted like butter meeting a red-hot iron brand the moment it touched the blood rain!

It didn't even last a second!

"Urgh!" Jiang Feng let out a pained groan.

The flesh on his shoulder instantly corroded and rotted, exposing the bone! Even the bone inside was scorched black!

"Battalion Commander! The gate can't hold!" Not far away, a Zhenyuan Army soldier cried out in despair.

Jiang Feng turned his head sharply. His heart instantly sank to the bottom of the valley.

That ten-meter-thick special alloy gate, which protected the five hundred thousand civilians in the underground shelter, was rapidly thinning and melting at a terrifying, visible speed under the drenching rain of blood!

The surface of the gate was pitted and scarred, and the pungent toxic smoke almost sucked the air dry from the surroundings.

"Hold it! Everyone hold the line!" The battalion commander, covered in blood, ripped off his bulletproof vest and desperately plugged a gap that had been corroded in the gate.

"Sss!" The bulletproof vest was instantly burned through, and drops of blood rain landed on the battalion commander's chest. His whole body convulsed violently, but he gritted his teeth and didn't retreat a single step!

"If the gate is breached, the five hundred thousand civilians inside will instantly turn into blood!" The battalion commander roared hoarsely. "Use your lives to fill it! You have to block it for me!"

The remaining few hundred battered soldiers, eyes red, rushed up. They used their bodies and broken shields to desperately block the top of the gate.

But in the face of such indiscriminate, full-coverage AOE annihilation, human power seemed so ridiculous and desperate.

Humanity's last line of defense was facing true annihilation at this moment!

...

At the rear of the battlefield, behind a relatively safe ruin.

Lin Qinghan leaned against the wall. Her face was pale, and blood from when she coughed while crossing the spatial turbulence still remained at the corner of her mouth.

Because of her severe internal injuries, Su Chen had forcibly placed her here, not allowing her to join the battle.

"Argh!" The screams coming from the front were like sharp knives, stabbing fiercely at Lin Qinghan's heart.

She lifted her head with difficulty. Her cold, clear eyes looked through the sky full of smoke and fire toward the high sky.

There, Su Chen was floating alone in mid-air. Facing the overwhelming rain of death, facing the arrogant mockery of the High Priest from above.

Lin Qinghan clearly heard Su Chen's words just now.

"The dimension of destruction isn't high enough?" Lin Qinghan bit her bloodless lower lip tightly.

She looked at that black silhouette fluttering in the strong wind. She looked at his slightly heaving chest.

Lin Qinghan knew that Su Chen's stamina was nearing its limit. To continuously blow up that kind of conceptual-level monster a hundred times—even a god would feel exhausted.

"He still has a trump card." Lin Qinghan's eyes underwent a drastic change in this instant.

The original weakness and paleness were swept away. In their place was a trace of extremely resolute, unshakable determination!

"The Great Xia has not yet fallen to the point where it needs to rely on you alone to carry it!" Lin Qinghan gripped the sword hilt beside her tightly with her blood-stained hands.

She slammed her eyes shut.

"Boom!" Inside her body, the SSS-level Origin of Extreme Cold that had been dormant due to her severe injuries was forcibly ignited without reservation at this moment!

"Girl Qinghan! Are you crazy?!" Not far away, Major General Lei Wuji, who was struggling to hold on, sensed this fluctuating aura and turned his head in shock. "You're injured like this and you're still forcibly squeezing your Origin! You'll ruin your martial arts Foundation!"

Lin Qinghan did not answer.

She suddenly opened her eyes! That pair of originally clear, cold eyes now radiated an extremely blinding, icy-blue divine light!

"Crack! Crack!"

With her as the center, the scorched ruins for a dozen meters around were instantly covered by a thick layer of frost!

This most proud Ice Goddess of the Great Xia stood up without any hesitation in the desperate situation where humanity faced annihilation!

"Whoosh!"

Lin Qinghan stomped her foot hard. The ground instantly exploded into a cloud of ice mist.

Her entire body transformed into an icy-blue stream of light rushing upwards!

Braving the falling corrosive blood rain, like a beautiful snow lotus blooming proudly in purgatory, she charged directly into the core of the most dangerous battlefield!

...

In mid-air.

Su Chen watched the blood rain falling from the sky. The pupil power in his right eye was frantically compressing and brewing.

Just as he was preparing to forcibly activate his Mangekyo.

"Swish!" An extremely biting cold wind suddenly swept up from below!

Su Chen frowned slightly, his peripheral vision scanning the area.

He saw an icy-blue figure crashing through the blood droplets. Extremely precisely, she landed beside him!

"You..." Su Chen was about to speak.

"Domain of Extreme Cold: Ice Defense!" Lin Qinghan didn't waste words. She gripped the re-condensed frost sword with both hands, flipped her wrist, and swung the sword fiercely above their heads!

"Hum!" The remaining SSS-level Law of Extreme Cold in her body was poured out without reservation!

A massive, crystal-clear ice shield, two meters thick, instantly formed in mid-air above them! Like a huge umbrella of ice and snow, it protected them underneath.

"Sizzle! Sizzle!"

The corrosive blood rain, like dense machine-gun bullets, smashed crazily against this ice shield!

Pungent white smoke rose instantly. The surface of the ice shield was burned with countless pits. But under Lin Qinghan's reckless output of Law energy, the ice shield shattered and reformed, reformed and shattered.

Forcefully blocking the pouring rain of death from the outside!

"What are you doing here?" Su Chen turned his head to look at Lin Qinghan beside him. His brows were tightly knitted. His tone carried a rare hint of sternness.

"Your injuries haven't healed, and you're forcing yourself to squeeze your Origin—are you trying to die? Get back."

Su Chen's order allowed for no doubt. He didn't need anyone to block blades for him, and even less did he need a severely injured woman to try to be brave.

However, facing this invincible Shura who had slaughtered his way through Kyoto and made countless tycoon Old Ancestors tremble, Lin Qinghan did not retreat a single step.

She turned her head, meeting Su Chen's deep, pitch-black eyes. Her cold, stunningly beautiful face was now stained with a few shocking bloodstains. Even her snow-white lips had been bitten by her own teeth, leaving deep marks.

But her eyes were firmer than ever before. Clear, without a single trace of Impurities.

Lin Qinghan looked at Su Chen. She looked at this young man who had descended like a demon god in a desperate situation and carried everything on his shoulders. This Ice Goddess, admired by countless Prodigies of the Great Xia, willingly let go of all her pride and all her stature at this moment.

"Su Chen." Lin Qinghan's voice was very soft, but on this deafening battlefield, it carried a power that struck directly at the Soul.

"I know you still have a trump card."

Lin Qinghan gripped the sword hilt tightly, maintaining the precarious ice shield above her head. In those icy-blue eyes, absolute trust flickered.

"I know you must have a way to eradicate that monster."

Lin Qinghan looked directly into Su Chen's eyes without the slightest evasion.

"Tell me."

"What can I do for you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the sound of the wind around them seemed to freeze for an instant.

Su Chen looked at Lin Qinghan's firm eyes. He looked at her frail body, which was tottering but desperately holding up the ice shield. In those black eyes, deep like an ancient well of ten thousand years, a rare, unusual ripple flashed.

He did not scold her again.

Su Chen slowly turned his head. His gaze crossed the ice shield that was melting frantically, locking onto the Undead Blood Beast below that was spraying blood rain, its size as huge as a small mountain.

"Fine."

Su Chen's voice returned to that bone-chilling, extreme coldness. It even carried a hint of crazy Battle Intent.

"Since you want to help, then listen carefully."

Su Chen spoke extremely fast. Without a single word of nonsense, he directly issued the most extreme tactical order.

"I want you to release all your life force." Su Chen reached out and pointed at the roaring monster below.

"Freeze this monster, along with every drop of blood around it! Every cell that is dividing!"

"Freeze it completely for me!"

Su Chen's voice sounded like thunder from the Nine Heavens, exploding in Lin Qinghan's ears. "I want it to be absolutely unable to move a single inch in a short time!" "Not even a single cell is allowed to move!"

Hearing this extremely harsh request, Lin Qinghan was stunned for a moment.

She looked at the conceptual-level monster below that could even immunize against the Martial King's thunder, and then felt the Origin of Extreme Cold inside her body that was about to dry up.

She gritted her teeth and, without hiding anything, spoke the cruelest reality.

"Su Chen." Lin Qinghan's voice carried a hint of hoarseness, "My Law of Extreme Cold cannot kill it."

"If I burn all my Origin and Lifespan, I can indeed forcibly freeze its massive body." "But..."

Lin Qinghan clenched her fists tightly, a trace of unwillingness flashing in her eyes. "Facing the internal backlash of such a high-dimensional creature," "I can at most... at most, freeze it for ten seconds!"

"After ten seconds, my Law will completely collapse."

"It will completely break out of the ice!"

Only ten seconds! To trade the life and martial arts Foundation of an SSS-level Genius for a mere ten seconds of stiffness for this conceptual-level monster!

This sounded absolutely absurd to the extreme! It even made one feel despair!

However, hearing the word "ten seconds," Su Chen was not disappointed. Instead, he sneered extremely satisfactorily.

"Heh."

Deep within Su Chen's pitch-black eyes, a terrifying, Soul-trembling scarlet light was faintly, frantically brewing and leaping!

Even the surrounding air was slightly distorted because of this terrifying pupil power that was about to erupt!

"Ten seconds?"

Su Chen's voice carried an extreme arrogance that could trample gods underfoot.

"Is enough for me to..."

"Completely erase it from this world."