Against the Gods - Volume 10 - Snow Song Flame God

by Mars Gravity

  Yun Che looked to the side, as he spoke coldly, “You lot definitely won’t go to save my master, isn’t that right!?”

  At these sneering words, Yan Wancang, who knew he was in the wrong, could only sigh deeply, as he closed his eyes, “It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that with our strength, even if…”

  “No need to explain, I knew you wouldn’t!” Yun Che was laughing, ever so coldly laughing. “You refused even just a tiny warning, a warning that wouldn’t have any negative effects at all, that could have saved my master’s life, how could you be willing to risk your life to save my master now? Even if she had fallen to such a hopeless situation because of you!!”

  “...” Yan Wancang’s breathing stagnated. His lips moved but in the end didn’t say anything, as his gaze that was fixed at the Vermillion Bird projection turned dazed.

  The various Vermillion Bird Sect elders all had angry looks but this time, none of them rebuked him.

  “Haah!” Huo Rulie heavily sighed, “The only one who can save her now, is herself. Perhaps, she can find a chance to escape… That’s the only way.”

  But seeing Mu Xuanyin’s current condition, as well as the suppression by the two horned dragons as though they’d gone mad, he clearly knew in his heart how insignificant such chances were.

  Back then, the flames of the horned dragon were so easily sealed and destroyed by Mu Xuanyin but now the tables had turned… several times more intensely. The moment her ice froze, it would be instantly shattered. Mu Xuanyin was retreating with every breath, the blood leaking from the corner of her mouth had long dyed her entire neck red… And at this moment, Yun Che saw a hint of abnormal flush from her face.

  That was...

  Poison!!

  Horned dragon poison!!

  “Sssss!!” Blood leaked from between the fingers of Yun Che’s clenched hands… The poison from a horned dragon’s breath was not normally dreadful to Mu Xuanyin but that was during normal conditions. Now, it was fatal.

  Just as like Mu Bingyun a thousand years ago. With her power, after being poisoned with the horned dragon’s poison, she could have very quickly neutralized it with profound strength but she had no chance to do so at all after being poisoned. Moreover, she had to fiercely battle with Huo Rulie. The more severely profound energy was channeled, the more acute the poison’s effects. Afterwards, she was even more heavily injured by Huo Rulie and had to use all she had to escape… After falling into the Profound Sky Continent, there was a time where all her profound strength was lost. Only then, did the acute poison invade her soul and become hopeless.

  The current condition of Mu Xuanyin, was just like Mu Bingyun back then! After being hit by the horned dragon’s poison, not only was she unable to neutralize it, the acute poison would spread and worsen at an extremely rapid pace during all-out combat. Furthermore, the non-stop worsening horned dragon poison would cause the conditions of her body and profound strength to continuously fall even more, greatly expediting the approaching fate of death.

  BOOM!!

  Mu Xuanyin was once again blasted into the Inferno Prison… But this time, she flew out in just an instant, as she sprayed out a large amount of blood mist onto the Snow Princess Sword in her hand.

  Yun Che’s Ice Phoenix bloodline suddenly throbbed intensely at this moment. He quickly raised his head… Within the Vermillion Bird projection, an extremely thick and intense wave of Ice Phoenix aura, shrouded down.

  The expression in Yun Che’s eyes instantly transformed, revealing deep fright...

  Ice Phoenix’s origin blood!?

  But then, his terror magnified itself by countless times...

  No! This is… blood essence!

  Not only the Ice Phoenix origin blood but also blood essence!!

  Could Master be… be...

  Ding!

  The world suddenly became incomparably quiet.

  The churning of the sea of fire stopped, the entire Inferno Prison seemed to have gone entirely quiet, as though it was suddenly sealed.

  The blue light that was weak to the point of almost extinguishing on Mu Xuanyin’s body suddenly turned berserk… becoming more than a few dozen times thicker than at any point in time before!!

  Even the two ancient horned dragon that were ready to kill Mu Xuanyin with all their might suddenly slowed their movements. The red colored scales reflected back a colder and colder light. Then, they uttered an odd roar as they both retreated at the same time. The flames burning on their bodies were extinguishing at a very rapid pace.

  The blue light was spreading. The surrounding flame prison as well as the Vermillion Bird projection had all entirely turned blue.

  Mu Xuanyin’s beautiful eyes were unfocused, the blood that dyed her entire body portraying a cold, yet vivid bleak beauty. The Snow Princess Sword in her hands slowly raised up, as a tiny profound formation slowly rotated and glimmered on the tip of the sword.

  The moment the profound formation took form, the two ancient horned dragon became motionless like the surrounding ice prison, as though space was sealed and time had stopped.

  “This… This is...”

  Through the Vermillion Bird projection, everyone felt a chill and fear that went straight into their souls.

  “Could it be… the Forbidden Ice Phoenix Formation from the legends?” Huo Rulie muttered.

  “Forbidden Ice Phoenix Formation? What’s that?” Yun Che spoke in a urgent tone while clenching his teeth.

  Huo Rulie stared at the Vermillion Bird projection and said blankly, “Many dominant sects have a forbidden skill that would only be used in dire straits. Out Vermillion Bird Sect has one and so does the Divine Ice Phoenix Sect… Yours is called Broken Moon Oblivion.”

  Yun Che, “...”

  “Though I’ve never seen it, I’ve seen records. The forbidden profound formation needs Ice Phoenix’s origin blood as well as large amounts of blood essence to activate and its might is enough to destroy worlds… However, not only does it take up an enormous amount of power, it will also cause one’s profound cultivation to fall back a large extent, as well as greatly reducing lifespan and… natural aptitude. If one’s cultivation is not enough and they forcibly activates it, dying straight away from the rebound is quite possible.”

  “What!?” Yun Che’s eyes widened, as two of the teeth in his mouth shattered from him biting down. Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, but he felt no pain at all.

  “Looks like, your master knows that there’s no hope of escape and under certain death, she…” Huo Rulie’s body tensed up and didn’t continue.

  Mu Xuanyin’s expression was extremely beautiful and peaceful… That was a peacefulness that Yun Che had never seen before. Within the miracle-like azure-blue world, her arm slowly pushed out...

  Ding!

  Time really seemed to be frozen. There was not the slightest bit of sound left. Within the Vermillion Bird projection, as well as everyone’s eyes, there was only that stream of light transformed from the Snow Princess Sword.

  That stream of light flew very slowly, seemingly not moving at all. After an unknown amount of time passed, the sword’s tip finally touched something and the profound formation on the tip of the sword also erupted at that instant, releasing extremely blinding blue colored rays of light.

  Where the sword’s tip hit, was shockingly a horned dragon’s dragon fault!

  The uninjured ancient horned dragon that appeared later!

  Within the rotating ice-blue profound formation, the Snow Princess Sword did not stop and continued on, soundlessly piercing through.

  Within the heaven and earth, it slashed open a dream-like blue colored trace of light.

  So much so that people didn’t even notice that it had actually pierced through a body of an ancient horned dragon.

  Clang!

  Clang!

  The two ancient horned dragons were still immobile but two streaks of blue rays shot out from the two sides where Snow Princess Sword pierced the dragon fault.
Then, it was the third streak of light, the fourth and the fifth...

  Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang...

  The tenth!

  The twelfth!

  Amidst the blue colored rays of light, the ancient horned dragon kept its entirely unmoving posture and quickly turned ice-blue in color.

  The moment all the light rays dispersed completely, a very long crack suddenly split open on the ancient horned dragon’s body before quickly spreading all the way to the claws and tail. Then, its enormous dragon body loudly collapsed as it rapidly burst and cracked.

  It turned into shattered ice pieces as far as one’s eyes could see and scattered onto the frozen flame prison below.

  Chapter 1061: That Flash of Fire

  Crash—

  The blue light dispersed and the world became scarlet once more. Turbulent sea of flames once again dominated the world.

  Everyone staring at the Vermillion Bird projection looked like they were shell shocked, however. No one managed to recollect themselves until a long time later.

  “Dead… is it dead?” Yan Juehai muttered.

  They had witnessed with their own eyes… the shattering… of an ancient horned dragon!!

  It wasn’t the dragon that was covered in wounds, but the one who emerged later. It was the dragon that was at full power and almost perfectly unblemished except for the damaged dragon fault from a thousand years ago!

  A dragon like this… dead just like that!!??

  Although the air here was scorching hot, they felt as if their noses and lungs were full of icy air.

  The Flame God Realm had records of the Divine Ice Phoenix Sect’s “Broken Moon Oblivion” from a long time ago but no one had ever seen it with their own eyes. Even then, they had never realized that it was this powerful. Despite having used up most of her profound energy and being in a state of terrible poisoning and grievous wounds, the technique still sealed the Inferno Prison for an instant and shattered a Divine Master ancient horned dragon instantly!

  This scene was even more stunning than the appearance of another ancient horned dragon.

  The Flame God Realm had dreamed for countless generations about killing the horned dragon and finally their dream had been realized perfectly before their eyes in a way they could never imagine. Yet, not a single person was showing even a trace of happiness...

  The ancient horned dragon that was shattered into countless ice bits by the godlike Broken Moon Oblivion fell into the sea of flames and was devoured in an instant. Not a trace of the horned dragon could be seen any longer.

  It quickly sank to the bottom of the endless Inferno Prison.

  Without a source of power, the shattered dragon corpse was quickly burned into nothingness by the Inferno Prison.

  This also meant that they failed to grab even a dragon scale off the ancient horned dragon even though it was killed… they could only watch it burn in the flame sea and do nothing about it.

  “Aooo!!!!!”

  “AWOOoo!!!!!!!”

  A draconic roar filled with infinite anger, pain and sadness awakened everyone’s convulsing soul. The ancient horned dragon that was still alive roared again and again, causing stunning tides to surge towards the sky, “How dare you… how dare you kill them… how dare you kill him!?”

  “You despicable human! I will kill you! I will turn you into the pettiest speck of dust! Roar!!”

  The ancient horned dragon at its angriest and deepest loathing was almost insane. After an air shredding roar, it pounced toward Mu Xuanyin, surrounded her with dragon flames, and sealed all off her escape routes.

  Covered in blood, Mu Xuanyin’s complexion alternated between deathly white and bloody red constantly. When she had executed “Broken Moon Oblivion” in grim determination, she had also spent all of her Ice Phoenix origin blood and a large amount of blood essence… the loss also meant allowing the horned dragon’s poison to invade straight into her soul.

  She hadn’t depleted all of her profound strength yet, but it had fallen below ten percent. After her Ice Phoenix origin blood had gone still, the ice powers she unleashed no longer contained the divine power of Ice Phoenix behind them. Now that the might of her attacks had fallen off sharply, her death was all but certain.

  Still, she didn’t resign herself to her fate. With eyes still as cold as the abyss, she raised a weak arm and resummoned the Snow Princess Sword back to her hand. With her final strength and spark of her life, she charged towards the rampaging ancient horned dragon.

  Ding!!

  Ice melted instantly the moment it struck fire. In a flash, Mu Xuanyin was knocked several kilometers away from the point of impact while enveloped in draconic flames. The flames were also burning away the last spark of her life.

  Yun Che slowly grew absent minded as he stared blankly at the fight.

  Eight years ago, north of the Blue Wind Empire where the Wasteland of Death lies, he and Chu Yuechan once encountered a male and a female flood dragon. Chu Yuechan was cornered into a dead end, so at the price of her profound veins, she unleashed the Frozen Cloud forbidden technique 【Zeroth Aurora】 and killed one of them. After that… she waited quietly for the arrival of her own death.

  The scene happening now was so similar to that day.

  At the time and just like today, he could do nothing but watch because he was far, far, far too weak to do anything to help. Jasmine was there at that time, so after he begged her to save Chu Yuechan, Jasmine ended the other flood dragon’s life at the price of allowing the devilish poison to spread.

  It was also the day he and Chu Yuechan became completely involved in an “ill-fated relationship”.

  “Sect master Huo…”

  Yun Che opened his mouth weakly but Sect Master Huo was already shaking his head and sighing before he could finish. “I’m sorry but we cannot save her. Although that horned dragon is doing poorly and covered in wounds, it still is… a Divine Master death match. Forget you, even I would die for sure if I got close to that battlefield. As for saving her, that is nothing more than a pipe dream.”

  Yan Juehai also shook his head helplessly and said, “If there was even a sliver of hope to save your master, we absolutely wouldn’t stand by and do nothing about it. But… there simply is no hope at all. Even if everyone of us were to join the battle right now, we cannot do anything to save her life. We will only be sacrificing our own lives for nothing.”

  Yun Che couldn’t understand the power difference between Divine Sovereign Realm and Divine Master Realm but there was no lie behind Huo Rulie and Yan Juehai’s words.

  Yun Che stopped talking. His eyes reflected the swaying scene of the Vermillion Bird projection.

  The Snow Princess Sword was still being swung even though the blue light was growing weaker and weaker. He could smell the scent of death coming from Mu Xuanyin even through the projection but still she didn’t stop slashing at the draconic flames surrounding her...

  Master… hasn’t given up yet!

  Even now, she hasn’t given up and resigned herself to her fate!

  That’s right. Master’s pride wouldn’t allow her to accept death while doing nothing if she had even one breath left in her body. She would fight bitterly to the end even when knowing that her death was certain.

  Yun Che bit down on the tip of his tongue strongly. Intense pain and blood stench filled his mouth and sent shivers down his soul.

  I cannot do nothing! My master is fighting with all she has, even when she is down to her last bit of life and energy, so how can I, her disciple, watch from the sidelines and do nothing to help her!?

  The only one who could sacrifice everything to save master out of everyone here is me and me alone! No one else is dependable no matter how high their strength or status… I can only depend on myself!

  Calm down… calm down now! Master is still alive, so there must be hope! There must be a way!

  On faith alone, I have created many miracles that even Jasmine thought impossible, so...

&nb
sp; There must be a way!!

  Yun Che’s breathing slowly returned to normal. His confused mind did its best to calm itself down. He even closed his own eyes and sealed his own ears so that the only thing he could hear was his own heaving breathing and heartbeat.

  Think carefully… recall everything that I have...

  There must be a way… Even the tiniest possibility or hope may potentially save my master!

  So I have to find it… I must find it!!

  In just a few breaths’ time, Yun Che’s mind went from total disorder to perfect clarity.

  The Flame God Realm had stood for hundreds of thousands of years but its Divine King and Sovereign Realm experts could do nothing but tremble helplessly before the God Burying Inferno Prison they were most familiar with.

  Meanwhile, Yun Che, someone at the Divine Origin Realm who sat at the bottom of the power level and hadn’t arrived at the god realm for more than a year, was searching for a way to rescue Mu Xuanyin from a Divine Master level entity...

  No one would think that his efforts amounted to anything more than a joke.

  No one would believe that he could find any hope… just like they wouldn't believe that a speck of sand could bury a sea.

  Still, Yun Che was still searching with all his willpower and soul for a way to save Mu Xuanyin.

  He was staking all of his willpower and soul just like that day he plucked that Netherworld Udumbara Flower for Jasmine.

  Everywhere around him, the people of the Flame God Realm were absorbed in sadness, pain, or regret. They could never forget the moment heaven and hell switched places before their eyes. All of the beautiful dreams they had shaped in their minds were popped like a bubble in that one moment.

  Worse, the Snow Song Realm King was going to lose her life for this endeavor… they had no doubt that Snow Song Realm would become their sworn enemy from this day onwards.

  “The Profound God Convention is right around the corner, Poyun. You don’t need to push yourself too much anymore. Haah,” Huo Rulie sighed heavily with bone deep helplessness behind his tone. “This is fate.”

  “Even if I’m not destined to enter the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm now, there is still the future, Master! Poyun will work hard and reach the Divine Master Realm for sure; it’s just going to take longer than expected, that’s all!” Huo Poyun’s eyes were still clear and determined.