NOVPUBBoth of them looked around, there were thousands of ice sculptures, and even more densely packed at the mountaintop.
More and more sculptures began to awaken.
Upon seeing Xu Zimei and his companion, a furious roar erupted.
"Those who offend Huang Nation shall die!"
Countless statues marched in neat steps towards Xu Zimei and his companion.
"What should we do?" Da Zhi the monk quickly asked.
"Every man for himself," Zimo laughed and sprinted towards the mountaintop.
Despite their strength and coordinated movements, the sculptures were ultimately no match in power.
Xu Zimei was almost advancing one punch at a time, racing towards the mountaintop.
Seeing this, Da Zhi’s gaze shifted slightly, and with a light shout, "Boundless Heavenly Venerate,"
his body grew dozens of times larger, as did the Daoist robe he was wearing.
With each stride, he covered tens of meters, quickly following in Xu Zimei’s footsteps.
As they neared the mountain summit, they encountered increasingly stronger sculptures.
When they reached the top, they saw a royal throne standing tall.
On it sat a man in royal robes, with over a dozen Generals clad in armor standing on both sides.
"Halt, intruders," a General stepping forward, spear in hand, cried out, "Meeting our Monarch, you dare not kneel?"
"Trash," Zimo chuckled lightly.
The Tyrant Shadow unsheathed, and a sharp Blade Qi split the General in two.
"Audacious," the man on the throne uttered lightly.
Suddenly, the sky above underwent rapid changes, as a golden dragon circled overhead.
This Golden Dragon seemed as if it truly existed, rather than being an illusion.
The dozen Generals all charged at Xu Zimei.
"Da Zhi the monk, stop them," Xu Zimei shouted.
The giant figure of Da Zhi, who had followed, did not hesitate and stood in front of the Generals.
Xu Zimei walked forward step by step, facing the man on the throne, and smiled, "How about a match?"
The man in royal robes slowly stood up, waving his right hand, and the Golden Dragon roaring above charged at Xu Zimei.
Xu Zimei clenched his right hand into a fist and smashed it directly at the Golden Dragon.
A loud "boom" resonated, the Golden Dragon wailed, accompanied by the fracturing of the space around it.
The Golden Dragon was sent flying with a single punch.
The man on the throne’s gaze flickered as he stepped into the air, with the majesty of heaven emanating all around him.
He was like a Monarch ruling over everything, or perhaps he truly was a king.
An invincible, tyrannical aura radiated from him.
"Emperors, domineering indeed," the man snorted coldly and struck towards Xu Zimei with his palm.
"Huang Nation is no more, what Emperor do you claim to be?" Xu Zimei said with a shake of his head and a smile.
Above the Tyrant Shadow, the Way of Inquiry’s sixteenth form "Bury the Heavens" was unleashed.
The blade shadow enveloped by a cloud of dark mists descended directly towards the man.
A "boom" like an explosion rang out, as if a mushroom cloud burst in midair.
The entire sky seemed to be buried within it.
Looking up, Xu Zimei saw that the man in royal robes was surrounded by a golden aura of Spiritual Energy.
It seemed as if he was impervious to any attack.
"That’s the Wishes of All Beings, capable of shielding against all attacks," Da Zhi the monk shouted from below.
"Before the pinnacle of assault, there’s no such thing as a shield," Xu Zimei said, shaking his head.
He directly activated the eighteen Extraordinary Meridians within his body, and the Azure Cloud Eighth Transformation opened up behind him once again.
The entire firmament was gathering the continuous Spiritual Energy around Xu Zimei.
"Way of Inquiry Seventeenth Form, Slaying the Gods," Xu Zimei uttered with a cold huff.
The Tyrant Shadow in his hand trembled slightly.
The so-called Slaying the Gods involved focusing all one’s strength to a single point and then unleashing it with a hundredfold power.
It was also one of the ultimate forms among the Way of Inquiry’s nineteen forms.
Zimo could be seen slowly raising the Tyrant Shadow, as endless Blade Intent condensed around him.
This Blade Intent seemed like his left and right arms, changing wildly with his every move.
Xu Zimei stepped back halfway with his right foot, and his right arm slowly lifted, as a chill emanated from the blade of Tyrant Shadow.
In the next moment, boundless Blade Qi gathered at the tip of the blade as the Azure Cloud steps behind Xu Zimei spread step by step to the firmament.
He let out a light shout, and the Tyrant Shadow, accompanied by the roar and myriad Blade Qi, was cleaved forth.
A loud boom of explosions followed.
Just the residual force of the Blade Qi caused another avalanche on Tianyu Mountain.
The sky was filled with falling snow as the Blade Qi split open the entire firmament.
It was as if the firmament was divided into two, creating a chasm.
The man in the imperial robe watched the scene in front of him, as the Blade Intent instantly magnified before his eyes, appearing all around him.
Golden Wishes of All Beings wrapped around him, sometimes morphing into roaring tigers, and sometimes a descending giant dragon on his right hand.
When the Blade Qi arrived, it only resisted for a moment before the man in the imperial robe was completely penetrated by the Blade Intent.
He was obliterated within the Blade Intent.
"My king," the generals around him cried out in misery upon witnessing this scene.
The moment the man in the imperial robe died, those generals and the thousands of soldiers below didn’t choose to live, but instead, they all slit their own throats on Tianyu Mountain.
Their bodies were buried beneath the snow mountains.
Xu Zimei’s strike had cleaved off half of the snowy mountain, nearly splitting it in two, leaving a bottomless crack behind.
Xu Zimei looked up – goose feather-like heavy snow began to fall from the sky.
The heavy snow seemed to chant a dirge, desperately falling down.
In just the blink of an eye, the snowy mountain was covered again.
And it seemed as though this white snow possessed a mysterious power.
As it fell, Tianyu Mountain began to heal bit by bit, the fissures starting to close.
And new ice sculptures began to appear.
These sculptures were modeled after the people who had died previously.
"This is," Da Zhi the monk looked at the scene before him.
He then took a deep breath and said to Xu Zimei, "Tianyu Mountain is no ordinary place."
"I’ve noticed," Xu Zimei replied.
"I do not know what force has caused this, but these people simply cannot be killed," Da Zhi the monk replied.
"It’s the Wishes of All Beings that those from Huang Nation set forth with their deaths," Xu Zimei pondered for a moment and said.
"Each year, at a certain time, they will revive.
But that’s all there is to it, they cannot leave Tianyu Mountain, and when the time passes, they’ll turn back into ice sculptures."
"Then we should leave quickly, battling them is meaningless," Da Zhi the monk stated.
Xu Zimei nodded, and the two of them crossed over the mountain’s summit, beginning to sprint wildly towards the other side of Tianyu Mountain.
From the summit, the surrounding scenery could be seen clearly.
The distant blurry expanse of the Endless Heaven Sea came into view.
