Upon hearing Lu Yin’s question, the Frost Emperor replied, “None of them can hold me on their own. Rather, I can keep them all busy.”
“There are power vessels in this universe, and according to this junior’s understanding, the Blaze Realm has existed for a long time. Thus, I believe that the Blaze Realm, the sylvan dragon clan, and the Ross Empire must each have a powerful power vessel. Is Senior still confident in dealing with those?” Lu Yin asked another question.
The Frost Emperor went silent for a moment. “Do you have a solution?”
Lu Yin raised his hand. “What does Senior see?”
The Frost Emperor stared at Lu Yin’s palm, but there was nothing there—no! The Envoy’s eyes narrowed. “Such an arrow actually exists?”
Lu Yin had brought out the Arrow of Valiance, which was an invisible arrow. “Senior did not see it at first, and this junior believes that Leader Hong and the others will be no different. I can lend this for Senior to use.”
Lu Yin then tossed the Arrow of Valiance over to the Frost Emperor.
The Frost Emperor shook his head. “This invisibility only exists in certain layers of space, and as long as you look carefully, you will see it. Also, at the Envoy level, all powerhouses have developed a strong sense for danger. Thus, this arrow is not powerful enough to hurt an Envoy.”
Lu Yin then took out the bottle of poison and tossed it over to the Frost Emperor. “This bottle of poison is potent enough to even injure an Envoy. The effectiveness also depends on the person who uses it. If you use it along with the Arrow of Valiance, then while I’m not sure if Senior can fight off all three opponents, it might still be worth trying, no?”
The Frost Emperor grabbed the poison in shock and stared at Lu Yin in surprise. “Why do you have so many items that are able to injure even Envoys?”
The corners of Lu Yin’s mouth curled up, and he said, “This junior has someone supporting me.”
The Frost Emperor believed this statement fully, and he also believed that it was more than just one person, as how could anyone have so many powerful items?
At this moment, three figures appeared off in the distance in front of the crack in the void. The Frost Emperor turned, his eyes already sharp. “Leave my Royal Frost Continent!”
Leader Hong and the other two looked at each other. “Let’s kill this old ghost.”
After that, the sky broke open.
Lu Yin stared in shock. The world froze over as the Frost Emperor revealed his true power. The cold that he controlled instantly froze Leader Hong’s flames, and it simultaneously froze Emperor Luo as well. Then, a long spear of ice appeared in the Frost Emperor’s hand and shot towards Long Yi.
There was a bang that shook the entire Royal Frost Continent.
A terrifying, crushing pressure fell down and enveloped the entire continent. Lu Yin was already wearing his universal armor and was therefore uninjured, but when he looked back up, the four Envoys had all disappeared.
They were fighting in the true universe, and their battle was not something that he could watch, though he could vaguely observe their rune lines. The four were all Envoys, and thus, the number of runes that he saw stung his eyes.
Leader Hong’s presence and battle techniques raised the temperature of the Royal Frost Continent, and it just barely managed to counter the cold air that leaked from the seal.
This had been the goal all along: to save the Royal Frost Continent with Leader Hong’s flames. At this moment, they had already achieved their primary goal, so now, everything depended on how long the Frost Emperor could hold the other three off for, as he needed to stall until Geoffrey arrived.
Lu Yin hid beneath the ice and stared up at the sky where he could vaguely see the rune lines of four people fighting.
As Lu Yin had guessed, the trio of attackers wanted to break into Subzero City, and they made such an attempt after two days of fighting, but they were stopped by the Frost Emperor. The Frost Emperor’s cold covered too large of an area, and his range extended across the entire Royal Frost Continent. He was truly powerful enough to threaten the three Envoys.
The Frost Emperor deliberately slowed the battle down and dragged things out with the other three. He managed to stall them for half a month, and during this time, the sky often cracked open and leaked out some overpowering star energy that suppressed the Royal Frost Continent.
Some distance away stood Subzero City’s experts. Although none of them were Envoys, they were all Enlighters and were barely able to resist the pressure wracking the continent.
The topography of the Royal Frost Continent had completely changed due to this fight.
Leader Hong used high-temperature flames. Long Yi took advantage of his body and speed, but the most concerning one was Emperor Luo. His attacks were completely unpredictable, and he also attacked Lu Yin a few times. It seemed as though he was testing something.
Lu Yin started to suspect that Emperor Luo might have recognized him.
The three Envoys could not tolerate being stalled by the Frost Emperor, and they eventually issued some orders to the outside world. After receiving the orders, Monster Chi and others raced through the cracks in the void. At the same time, the three Envoys switched things up with Leader Hong moving to occupy the Frost Emperor and block him from rescuing Subzero City.
The Frost Emperor was in no hurry. He was fully confident that Leader Hong was actually being restrained by the cold air.
Ice covered a majority of the continent, but so did flames. The Frost Emperor took advantage of the cold air to freeze the attacks of Leader Hong and the other Envoys, so he was naturally able to extend his attacks to strike at the area of the sky with cracks in the void.
When Monster Chi and the others first appeared, they were nearly frozen to death, and they immediately fled in terror.
Despite the fact that Lu Yin could not understand the Envoys’ battle, he felt that the Frost Emperor was worthy of his title of emperor. This man was truly amazing at utilizing ice.
There was a roar in the sky as Long Yi suddenly appeared only to disappear once again.
Right after that, flames rained down from the sky, and it looked as though lava was falling and trying to drown Subzero City, but the flames were quickly frozen by the terrible cold.
Finally, Emperor Luo released dozens of energy beams that swept towards Subzero City. However, when the beams were only halfway to the city, Emperor Luo was frozen by ice and plummeted to the ground.
One of the beams stopped just a thousand meters away from Lu Yin.
Lu Yin approached and reached out to touch it. The ice cracked apart, and the remnant energy blasted Lu Yin a few meters back. His hand ached so badly that he knew that if he had not had his universal armor equipped, his hand would have simply disappeared.
An Envoy and an Enlighter truly did stand on completely different levels.
Emperor Luo suddenly appeared up in the sky and looked down at Lu Yin. The powerhouse had mechanical eyes, and it was impossible to know what he was looking at. Suddenly, he fired at Lu Yin, and a beam shot through the void as it raced towards Lu Yin.
Lu Yin’s scalp went numb, and he dodged away, but he could not move faster than the beam.
The light beam slid across Lu Yin’s back and smashed him down onto the ice. It felt like his back was on fire, and he was overwhelmed by a burning pain.
Emperor Luo was stunned. “That thing actually blocked this emperor’s attack? That is a very strange armor. Give it to me.”
As the Envoy spoke, he rushed towards Lu Yin, but the cold air froze the sky in front of him. Emperor Luo struck the ice, and he looked up into the sky where the Frost Emperor was wielding a long spear that stabbed forward. “You stay with me.”
Emperor Luo asked in a deep voice, “Who is that person?”
The Frost Emperor did not respond. Five interlocking rings of snowflakes appeared in the sky and locked down the void. The next moment, the rings disappeared, but the world froze over with Emperor Luo, Long Yi, and Leader Hong all stuck inside. Lu Yin raised his head and looked at Emperor Luo and the other two frozen people.
“Hit Leader Hong!” Lu Yin shouted loudly. As he spoke, Lu Yin’s pupils transformed into runes. He stared intensely at Leader Hong, and for a moment, blood and tears flowed from his eyes. He was erasing as many of Leader Hong’s runes as possible.
Upon hearing Lu Yin’s words, the Frost Emperor reflexively attacked Leader Hong.
The two sides had already experienced many exchanges, and they were both clearly aware of each other’s strength. When the Frost Emperor took action, Leader Hong already had an idea of his attack’s strength. He immediately moved to shatter the ice, and flames rippled out in front of him. As far as Leader Hong was concerned, his attack would be enough to stop the Frost Emperor’s attack, given that the Frost Emperor also had to remain on guard against Long Yi and Emperor Luo.
But strangely enough, Leader Hong felt that something was wrong, as his power had weakened.
The ice spear pierced straight through the flames and stabbed into Leader Hong’s shoulder. The intense cold instantly spread throughout his body from the wound.
Leader Hong’s pupils instantly dilated, and he grabbed hold of the ice spear and shattered it with a crisp sound. The Frost Emperor raised his right index finger, and Leader Hong vomited blood. The cold air was rampaging throughout his body.
The Frost Emperor had not expected his attack to land so smoothly. He then moved through the scorching flames without hesitation as he brought out the Arrow of Valiance and thrust it at Leader Hong.
Leader Hong did not even notice the Arrow of Valiance at first, but he was an Envoy, and he had accumulated a tremendous amount of combat experience over the years. So, even if he did not see the arrow, his sense of danger still reacted to it, and he quickly retreated. The Arrow of Valiance did not strike true.
The Frost Emperor sighed. Sure enough, a sneak attack was useless. He was not able to continue launching any more attacks on Leader Hong, as Long Yi and Emperor Luo had already caught up.
Right when Leader Hong believed the Frost Emperor’s attack was over and that the man was resetting the situation, the Arrow of Valiance suddenly disappeared only to reappear and pierce the wound where Leader Hong had just been stabbed by the Frost Emperor’s spear of ice.
Leader Hong’s pupils shrank to pinpricks; a secret technique?
He grabbed the Arrow of Valiance and quickly pulled it out. He glanced at the Frost Emperor, but the old man had had nothing to do with the arrow momentarily disappearing. Suddenly, Leader Hong’s eyes shot down to where Lu Yin stood. That was the person responsible for this attack.
Given the effect of the secret technique, Leader Hong could only think of one person, and he glared angrily at that person. “Lu Yin!”
Down on the ground, Lu Yin knew that he had been exposed, but he had already succeeded.
“You’re asking to die!” Leader Hong roared and rushed at Lu Yin. A blazing sphere appeared in the sky and crashed down towards the ground. The miniature sun was hot enough to dry out the entire Royal Frost Continent.
The Frost Emperor hurriedly attacked.
However, the next moment, Leader Hong suddenly twitched and spat out a mouthful of black blood. He had been poisoned. His expression darkened, and he gritted his teeth as he looked down at his wound.
However, he had been poisoned by something that Lu Yin had upgraded to the point where its runes had exceeded a power level of 500,000—how could it be easily suppressed? Leader Hong roared in pain as his flames surged. “Lu Yin, I’ll kill you!”
As he spoke, he waved a hand and sent a wave of rolling flames shooting towards Lu Yin.
The heat of the flames instantly melted the ice covering the ground, and it evaporated shortly after. Lu Yin was struck by the flames and sent flying away. But that just caused him to cough. Although there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, he was relatively fine.
After attacking Lu Yin, Leader Hong fell to the ground.
“Leader Hong, be careful,” Emperor Luo shouted.
Leader Hong looked up to see the Frost Emperor high in the sky above, surrounded by five interlocking rings of snowflakes. Long Yi shot through the sky to smack the Frost Emperor away with a clawed hand, but it was already too late. Leader Hong was frozen through by the Frost Emperor’s cold.
Emperor Luo landed next to Leader Hong and fired a beam of light to shatter the ice, causing Leader Hong to fall out. The Envoy’s body had turned black and white from the poison, and most of his organs had already stopped functioning. This was a serious injury, and it would take him a long time to recover.
Emperor Luo turned to stare at Lu Yin off in the distance.
Lu Yin stood back up and raised a hand. Nine lined battle force wrapped around the hand as Lu Yin released his full strength and unleashed a Vacuum Palm.
Emperor Luo raised a hand and erected a barrier of light in front of him. The Vacuum Palm struck the barrier, causing ripples to spread across it as the massive impact forced Emperor Luo back.
Emperor Luo was absolutely shocked; Lu Yin was just barely a Hunter, but he had managed to push him, an Envoy, back!
In the distance, the cold continued to rage, and the Frost Emperor stabbed Emperor Luo with a spear.
The Sylvan Dragon Lord slammed into it fiercely, and the Frost Emperor threw out the spear, swept past the Dragon Lord, and pierced the crack in the void.
At the other end of the Void Crack, Monster Chi checked the time. Leader Hong had asked the man to enter the Royal Frost Continent every other day in order to distract the Frost Emperor. Whenever it was time, Monster Chi would lead a group of experts from the Blaze Realm to the other side, including Si Penghai.
The Heavenflame Army once again rushed into the Royal Frost Continent, but this time, a long spear shot through the crack in the void, stabbing straight through Monster Chi and continuing on, skewering the powerhouse right behind him.
