Chapter 480

Chapter 480: Not Qualified To Trap Me
Elder Tie Shan was so angry that his nose almost twisted out of shape, but he still could not find any words to argue back. In the end, he simply sealed his hearing and stopped paying attention to Ancestor Sui Bian.

After Ancestor Sui Bian spoke a few more sentences and still got no response, he subconsciously looked in the direction of Burning Heaven Valley.

He thought to himself: if he went to talk to Fei Hong now, Fei Hong probably would not run away, right?

But then he suddenly froze.

[Huh? Where did Fei Hong go?]

…

Yu Zhao stood facing Lu Jiu Yuan. The air around them felt like it had turned solid.

The nearby disciples had already backed far away as soon as they saw the two of them facing off, afraid of being caught up in the battle.

Lu Jiu Yuan turned his wrist. The folding fan in his hand slowly opened. Faint frost patterns appeared on the fan surface. The temperature around them dropped at once, and a wave of cold seeped into the body.

Yu Zhao’s current body was only a will-body, so she could not feel temperature at all.

Yet Lu Jiu Yuan still made her feel a shiver that seemed to freeze her whole being.

Yu Zhao focused her mind. A warm current rose from the bottom of her heart and washed away the cold inside her. Faint spiritual light also appeared at her fingertips.

Yu Zhao whispered: “Be careful.”

As soon as her voice fell, Lu Jiu Yuan held the paper fan like a sword and swept it outward. An icy blue current burst forth like a tornado and rushed toward her.

The aura of extreme cold surged in from all directions. Yu Zhao felt as if the space around her was frozen solid by that terrifying low temperature.

Yu Zhao formed a hand seal with both hands. A gentle breeze blew past.

Her figure suddenly vanished from where she had been standing.

Lu Jiu Yuan frowned.

He looked around.

The place was completely empty.

Yu Zhao had disappeared into thin air.

[Interesting.]

Lu Jiu Yuan flipped his folding fan again. A faint icy blue glow rose around him and spread outward from his body as the center.

Very soon, countless tiny ice crystals appeared in the air. The gray and white world around them looked as if it had been covered by a thin layer of frost.

At that moment, Lu Jiu Yuan snapped his folding fan shut.

The ice crystals floating in the air exploded at once. The countless shards turned into blades, slicing through the space and letting out a harsh ripping sound.

Space shuddered violently.

Even so, Yu Zhao’s figure still did not appear anywhere.

Lu Jiu Yuan’s brows knit together again.

His Path of Extreme Cold should have been enough to tear apart Yu Zhao’s Illusion Dao. Why had Yu Zhao still not shown herself?

Just as he was wondering, the ice crystal fragments in the air suddenly gathered into a giant ice sword and shot straight toward him.

Lu Jiu Yuan’s face sank. When the ice sword was about to stab him right between the eyes, he lifted his hand and struck the sword tip with the end of his fan.

With a sharp creaking sound, the ice sword shattered.

But at that moment, the shattered ice crystals turned into tiny ice particles and brushed against Lu Jiu Yuan’s body.

In an instant, Lu Jiu Yuan felt the scene around him twist and change. The gray and white world disappeared. In its place, a boundless sea of fire stretched out in all directions.

The sea of fire surged and boiled. The blazing flames rushed at him like giant waves, burning his skin. Thick black smoke rolled through the air.

Lu Jiu Yuan’s expression grew even darker.

As someone who cultivated the Path of Extreme Cold, he hated places where fire Spirit Power was strong the most.

Even though he knew this was an Illusory Realm that Yu Zhao had set up, it still affected him to some extent. At the very least, it ruined his mood.

He had planned to spar with Yu Zhao a little longer, but now he felt there was no need.

Lu Jiu Yuan said coldly: “Yu Zhao, your Illusion Art really is impressive, but you are not qualified to trap me.”

Blue light burst from Lu Jiu Yuan’s eyes. He swung the folding fan in his hand. A wave of cold air strong enough to destroy heaven and earth exploded out from the fan and swept across the entire sea of fire in an instant.

Where the cold air passed, the flames froze at once. The sea of fire turned into a vast ice field.

Lu Jiu Yuan stood on the ice, his gaze icy and sharp.

Even so, Yu Zhao’s figure still did not appear.

Lu Jiu Yuan slowly lost his patience. In his heart, he could not help feeling a growing dislike toward Yu Zhao.

But after a moment, he took a deep breath and silently reminded himself that impatience was the greatest taboo in a fight.

The core of an Illusory Realm was the person who cast it. As long as he found where Yu Zhao’s Dao body was located, he could truly break this Illusory Realm.

He emptied his mind and blended himself into the surrounding environment.

Bit by bit, he sensed a faint fluctuation. That was Yu Zhao’s aura.

“That’s it.”

Lu Jiu Yuan pointed his folding fan toward a certain point in the void. A blue pillar of light shot out.

The moment the beam struck, the fiery Illusory Realm started to collapse. The scene around him changed again.

Yu Zhao’s figure finally appeared, but her body began to flicker, sometimes clear and sometimes faint.

Even then, Lu Jiu Yuan did not relax.

Any cultivator with rich battle experience knew that when facing an opponent skilled in the Illusion Dao, unless you killed them in one blow, you should never fully trust what your eyes were seeing.

He swung his fan twice more. Two beams of icy blue light burst from the fan surface and turned in an instant into two massive ice dragons that roared as they rushed toward Yu Zhao.

One dragon opened its jaws wide and bit down onto Yu Zhao’s body. The other wrapped tightly around her, locking her in place.

The two ice dragons exerted their strength at the same time. Yu Zhao struggled with all her might, but she still could not beat the ever-growing power of the extreme cold.

In the end, Yu Zhao’s figure grew dimmer and dimmer under the power of the Extreme Cold, then finally turned into glittering starlight and scattered into the air.

Lu Jiu Yuan stood where he was, his face grave, his expression still tense.

Time slowly passed. After a full hour with no movement around him at all, Lu Jiu Yuan finally became sure that Yu Zhao had been completely defeated and the battle should be over.

He let out a quiet breath, put away his folding fan, and turned to leave.

But just as he took his first step, his foot suddenly stopped.

A huge white cage rose from under his feet and quickly closed around him.

On the surface of the cage, a layer of black and white aura flowed, looking very strange.

Without any hesitation, he swung his fan. A streak of icy blue cold air shot straight at the cage. But as soon as that cold air touched the black and white aura, it vanished like a stone sinking into the sea, completely swallowed without a trace.

Lu Jiu Yuan’s pupils shrank as he muttered: “This black and white aura… it can actually swallow my Extreme Cold power?”

Wait. Something was wrong.

Yu Zhao cultivated the Illusion Dao, so why could she also use other kinds of attacks?

The cage that trapped him clearly came from Formation Array Arts. As for this black and white aura, he had no idea what it was for now, but he was certain it definitely did not belong to the Illusion Dao.

He closed his eyes for a moment and forced himself to calm down, then carefully studied the structure of the cage and the flow of that gray white aura.

After a long time, he reached a shocking guess.

Yu Zhao was not just a simple Illusion Dao cultivator. She was also skilled in other Dao Intents, and she could use each of them freely.

Thinking back to how solid her body had felt, Lu Jiu Yuan finally understood where that faint sense of wrongness he had felt before came from.

No matter how talented Yu Zhao was, with her current Cultivation Level, her will-body should not have been stronger than his.

Yet she had forced it to be.

Lu Jiu Yuan had thought it was just her amazing talent. Now he realized it was because she had other Dao Intents helping her.

After thinking it through, Lu Jiu Yuan tried attacking the cage again. But when his cold aura landed on the cage, half of it was swallowed by the black and white aura, and the other half was blocked by the cage itself.

He was trapped.

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