The snow quickly condensed and transformed into a river that would not stop flowing and expanding.
The long river was expanding its area while freezing at the same time. In the end, the huge glaciers which Yan Zhaoge had a deep impression of had appeared again, and filled the entire cosmos.
When the Concealed Sovereign’s Heaven Engulfing Palm befell upon the glaciers, cracks instantly appeared on the glaciers. The glaciers were shaking as if they were going to crumble soon.
However, the Astro Sovereign still held his blade in front of him. He did not move his body at all.
Layers of frigid air surged, and continuously toughened the glaciers that were breaking apart. It made the ice glaciers stand still within the engulfment of the world filled with darkness.
In this instant, the two of them were evenly matched.
“The fourth art of the Great Frozen Seven Arts, Frigid Long River.” The Sword Sovereign – Yue Zhenbei muttered.
The Astro Sovereign – Chen Xuanzong utilized everything he had learned within the Heaven Opening Scripture and his own knowledge and fused them together to release an extraordinary supreme art, which created the Cold Wave Locale’s lineage.
Among them, the Profound Cold Sabre’s name was well-known throughout history. It was the Early Heaven Water which existed between the Early Heavens and the Later Heavens. It contained boundless life force and warmth, while also containing boundless killing intent and frigidness.
As for the Great Frozen Seven Arts, it was an unparalleled supreme art that was created after utilizing the Profound Cold Sabre to its maximum.
Among them, the fourth art – Frigid Long River was the only art among the seven which acts solely as a defense art. When casted, boundless glaciers would be formed to freeze the enemy’s attack and protect the caster’s body.
Seeing the glaciers that were constantly breaking apart and condensing back together, Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Afterwards, there will be the fifth art, Melting Frozen River.”
Although the Frigid Long River was a pure defense art, and possessed no attack power, it didn’t imply that it had to always be on the defense. Instead, it possessed an attack within its defense, which would catch the enemy off-guard.
Beneath the glaciers, hidden waters were surging. The intensity of the hidden waters was even more than that of a normal flowing river.
After the Great Frozen forth art – Frigid Long River, the follow-up attack would be the fifth art – Melting Frozen River.
The raging waters that were surging slowly became more and more apparent. It automatically broke apart the frozen ice glaciers and exploded with a horrifying force enough to shatter even vacuum itself to counter-attack the enemy.
Although the Concealed Sovereign had gained the upper-hand, as long as the Concealed Sovereign couldn’t break through the defense of the Frigid Long River, he would have to face the counter-attack of the Melting Frozen River soon after.
Within the blue-black darkness, the Concealed Sovereign’s expression was very calm.
His understanding of Chen Xuanzong was even higher than that of Yan Zhaoge and Yue Zhenbei.
Yang Ce was very clear of the horrifying sword intent which would slash even the void when the frozen river melted, and the glaciers shattered.
Because of that, the strength of his Heaven Engulfing Palm’s strength seemed to be boundless and endless, and was constantly oppressing the ice glaciers!
The blue-black dim radiance seemed to have its own life. It continuously seeped within the ice glaciers and corroded it.
The ice glaciers that were polluted with the jet black radiance did not vanish and dissolve. However, they seemed to not be under the Astro Sovereign’s control any longer.
The Concealed Sovereign didn’t want to give him a chance to unfreeze the river.
If you dare to counter-attack, then let’s counter each other’s attacks with our attacks, and let the two of us suffer damage.
Compared to the Astro Sovereign who had a hidden wound on his body, the Concealed Sovereign wouldn’t mind using such a method to fight.
However, in this situation where they were stuck in a deadlock, the Concealed Sovereign’s expression suddenly moved.
Originally, it was hard to differentiate the directions within the cosmic void. However, the void suddenly seemed to have its own boundaries.
Vast ice rains fell from the sky, and numerous raindrops engulfed the two of them who were fighting against each other.
Every single drop of rain seemed to be a sword’s edge!
The condensed swords which filled the skies were like rainstorms, and were slashing towards the Concealed Sovereign!
Great Frozen Seven Arts, second art, Rime Atmosphere.
The whole sky filled with sharp rimes!
When the Concealed Sovereign saw it, his gaze flickered.
His entire body was engulfed with a layer of dim darkness and was surrounded with the boundless corrosive power.
The swords formed by ice sunk within the dim darkness, and immediately disappeared without any trace of it existing anymore.
However, after being affected by this, his corrosiveness towards the ice glacier beneath him had slowed down.
At this moment, the Astro Sovereign’s White Jade Broken Sabre which had always remained in front of him slashed outwards!
This slash seemed to have no changes and was very straightforward.
However, only overbearingness and ruthlessness were contained within.
Wherever the slashes reached, the ice glacier would shatter.
Without any sounds, the world seemed to have become a shattered mirror and was shattering together with the ice glacier.
Melting Frozen River!
[1] Heaven Enveloping Fan’s previous translation was “Cover Sky Fan” but we thought that Heaven Enveloping sounded nicer.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1281 - One-foot-long Broken Cold Sabre
The Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce braced himself in the Astro Sovereign’s Rime Atmosphere with his Ketu Dim Encompass Mantra.
The vast corrosive power corroded a huge amount of the blades formed by the snow and protected Yang Ce from getting hurt.
However, with that, the Heaven Enveloping Palm used to oppress the Astro Sovereign was affected.
The palm’s strength was still surging indefinitely as if it was boundless.
However, the dominating and unparalleled aura and sharpness seemed to have suffered some damage.
If it was another opponent, this was nothing. However, what kind of person was the Astro Sovereign – Chen Xuanzong?
The situation in front of him was created using his Rime Atmosphere. Now that his chance was here, how could he just let it go?
In an instant, Chen Xuanzong switched from defense to offense.
The Great Frozen fifth art – Melting Frozen River did not necessarily have to be used only after the fourth art – Frigid Long River.
However, with the Frigid Long River building up the momentum, the Melting Frozen River’s power output would undoubtedly escalate even more!
The Astro Sovereign slashed with his saber and switched from defense to offense. He forcefully made the Concealed Sovereign’s Heaven Enveloping Palm retreat!
The Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce wasn’t discouraged by it. With the Ketu Dim Encompass Mantra as protection, it devoured and dissipated the ice and extreme chill. He remained calm and steady.
At this moment, the two feet long White Jade Broken Sabre seemed like a snow dancing within the void. It stirred up the skies full of snow and immediately counter-attacked.
The sword within the Astro Sovereign – Chen Xuanzong’s hand, the Broken Cold Sabre became illusory like the mist. It melted within the snow, and it became hard to determine its location.
The edge of the saber was illusory. It seemed to appear and disappear all of a sudden. and it was hard to determine its movements. Whenever it appeared, the aura it brought about was as ferocio
us as the avalanche coming down with high speed.
Within the Great Frozen Seven Arts, the first art – Dance of the Rime and the third art – The Unpredictable Snow was fused together within Chen Xuanzong’s sword. Along with the explosive strength brought about by the Melting Frozen River, they endlessly enveloped towards the Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce.
Chen Xuanzong’s counter-attack was ruthless and everlasting. It was much fiercer than the Heaven Enveloping Palm that Yang Ce cast previously!
The Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce’s expression was calm. He wasn’t frustrated or unresigned because he had lost the advantage.
His supreme arts had all originated from the fusion of other top-notch martial arts together with the Jade Clear Heaven Opening Scripture.
However, contrary to the Profound Cold Sabre which could produce the Water of Heaven Opening, the Yin Yang Earth Heaven Breaking Hammer was able to produce Soil of Heaven Opening; the Jade Illusory Heaven Opening Sword was able to produce the Wind of Heaven Opening; the Concealed Sovereign’s Ketu Dim Encompass Mantra displayed the scenery of dim darkness before the heavens had opened.
Conceptually, it was somewhat similar to the Prime Clear Taiyi Fists in defensive mode.
The Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce’s strong art wasn’t the Heaven Enveloping Palm only.
While the Heaven Enveloping Palm was strong, it was strong within the public eyes. Anyone could feel how strong it was.
As for other powerful arts in Concealed Sovereign’s disposal, they wouldn’t be so visible anymore.
Those arts might seem ordinary. However, when the opponent realized it, it was already too late for them to block the attack.
Just like his mannerism.
Currently, he switched from offense to defense and countered all attacks thrown at him. He displayed the Ketu Dim Encompassing Mantra to protect himself, which struck him with a balance between offense and defense. His defense was just like a castle wall, and it defended him against the continuous ruthless attacks from the Astro Sovereign.
“Dance of the Rime, Rime Atmosphere, Unpredictable Snow, Frigid Long River, Melting Frozen River…”
Yang Ce calculated within his mind, “There’s still the sixth art – Three Feet of Frost and the final art – Eternal Silence of Heaven and Earth.”
The frigidness of the Astro Sovereign’s martial arts were overbearing. If the frosty power wasn’t dissipated, it would remain within the void for a long time.
When fighting against an enemy, the frigid saber intent would continuously corrode the opponent in secret, just like a leech sucking the opponent off his blood. It would be hard to prevent corrosive power.
Most of the people that fought against the martial art practitioners of the Cold Wave Locale would have to endure the long period of bone-chilling torture after the battle.
As for the minorities that were able to disperse the chilling effect, they would have to find a quiet place after the battle to focus on dispersing the chilling effects in order to disperse them off.
The longer the time of combat, the deeper the chill accumulated. It would weaken the opponent’s vitality and strength, and cause subtle changes within the martial art practitioner.
As for the Great Frozen’s sixth art – Three Feet of Frost, was based on the Chinese proverb “It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep [1]”.
This art wasn’t just a simple art of offense and defense. Instead, it was a special kind of art that would cause the accumulated chilling effect within the opponent’s body to explode. It causes the chilling effect to be accumulated within one spot, and explode from within, which would cause a horrifying killing force.
The explosion happens from within the body, which made it hard for the enemy to put up a defense against it.
Yang Ce believed that Chen Xuanzong was finding an opportunity to use this attack on him.
Because of how equal their strength was, casting the Three Feet of Frost earlier might do nothing against Yang Ce.
Therefore, Chen Xuanzong’s best choice wasn’t to mindlessly cast the Three Feet of Frost first and use the strongest ultimate move – the Eternal Silence of Heaven and Earth later. There wouldn’t be much meaning behind it.
If he were to cast the Eternal Silence of Heavens and Earth and cast Three Feet of Frost after that, it would bring about the best effects.
Even the Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce was wary of the killing force of the Great Frozen Seven Arts’ last art, the Eternal Silence of Heavens and Earth. In a sense, it was a horrifying killing ability that would harm both the user and the one receiving it.
While the price required to pay was huge, its power output was even larger.
As expected, Chen Xuanzong’s aura kept on rising. After his saber intent was raised to the maximum, it was retracted!
All of a sudden, all the snow within the cosmos disappeared.
After that, a bright and cold saber-light lit up from the dark void.
The saber-light reached the middle of the void and dispersed within the dark. Everything became silent.
At this moment, the entire universe seemed to have turned ice cold and silent. It was a dead silent cold world.
There wasn’t any sound, any light, any heat, or any life force.
Everything was buried within the coldness and darkness which existed eternally and were obliterated eternally.
The last art of the Great Frozen Seven Arts – Eternal Silence of Heavens and Earth!
“It’s coming.” The Profound Sovereign – Yang Ce sighed in his heart. He posed his fist stance and was prepared to both attack and defend. He was prepared to receive this strongest attack from the Astro Sovereign, and the Three Feet of Frost follow-up attack.
Since the start of the fight, the Astro Sovereign – Chen Xuanzong never held back in every single attack of his. He had exerted every ounce of his strengths within each attack and had even surpassed the limits of his body..
He wasn’t going to fight a long battle against the Concealed Sovereign. Instead, he wanted to end everything as fast as possible.
The victory would be determined within these seven arts of the Great Frozen Seven Arts!
Yang Ce had already known about this and wasn’t surprised.
He was also confident that he could withstand the seven attacks coming from Chen Xuanzong’s Broken Cold Sabre with his Heaven Enveloping Fan alone.
If Chen Xuanzong didn’t obtain victory within the seven attacks, victory would undoubtedly belong to Yang Ce.
However, the Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce’s expression had a drastic change.
Within the dark and chilly saber intent, Chen Xuanzong’s White Jade Broken Sabre remained extremely stable as he held it within his hands.
However, changes were happening to the White Jade Broken Sabre in his hands.
The two-foot-long broken saber immediately snapped from the middle!
The first half of the blade turned into ice crystals. They dispersed and faded from existence.
Currently, the saber was only a feet long!
One-foot-long Broken Cold Sabre!
The unprecedented power of the saber intent which would cause the humans in the entire world to cease to exist, and bring about the entire world to eternal darkness and silence had forcefully broken apart the Concealed Sovereign – Yang Ce’s defense.
Yang Ce snorted. He waved the feather fan in his hand to block Chen Xuanzong’s one-foot-long Broken Cold Sabre.
However, the frigid bone-chilling sword intent and sword qi were continuously invading his body.
The pain and chilling numbness from the sword-slashing him were all rising.
Even if Yang Ce continuously used the Ketu Dim Encompass Mantra to continuously devour and dissolve them, it was still unbearable for him.
He took a deep breath and worked up his courage. The corrosive power surged towards Chen Xuanzong and corroded Chen Xuanzong’s sword intent. He used attacks to counter the o
pponent’s attacks in order to ease his situation.
“Open!”
However, at the same time, Chen Xuanzong shouted softly.
All of a sudden, within Yang Ce’s body, numerous tiny frigid air was like a hundred rivers returning back to the sea. They accumulated together, and exploded!
The Great Frozen Sixth Art – Three Feet of Frost!
[1] The meaning of the proverb – Rome was not built in one day.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1282 - Seven Attacks to Decide the Outcome of the Battle
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1283 - Origins of World Beyond Worlds
The Concealed Sovereign had already planned his escape route.
The treasured light shook the void and caused the entire universe to freeze. It blocked Yan Zhaoge and the others’ path.
It would be very eye-catching for someone to have a treasured light with such an effect.
Yan Zhaoge had a vague guess within his heart. He looked at the Astro Sovereign.
From his mother – Xue Chuqing, Yan Zhaoge knew that the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries had studied the Heavenly Opening Scripture together. Under the support of the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor and the North Star Emperor, they established the World beyond Worlds together.
During that time, they had borrowed a certain treasure’s effect, which allowed them to establish their land in such a huge world like the World beyond Worlds.
At that time, while the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries were all prodigies, they were still at the True Immortal Realm.
It was easier to destroy than construct. Even if they had read the Heavenly Opening Scripture, it was still difficult for them to establish the World beyond Worlds. They needed the help of outsiders.
As for that treasure, the Mars Halberd had unknowingly mentioned about it before when he was having a chat with Yan Zhaoge, which then proves its existence.
However, even Mars Halberd didn’t know what object it was.
The only ones that knew about it might just be those that were involved. The Sword Sovereign – Yue Zhenbei might know of such a treasure, but wouldn’t know its uses as well.
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