The Crystal Ice Immortal King hovered high in the sky, his aura constantly surging, his robes whipping wildly.
Around him, countless wisps of freezing qi coalesced, raising howling gales.
This kind of momentum far exceeded an ordinary Eighth Transformation killer move. If the Crystal Ice Immortal King successfully activated it, it would be earth-shattering. Fang Zheng immediately sensed this and moved to activate the Demon Slaying List to interfere.
"Quick, let us assist Fellow Immortal Crystal Ice!"
"Block the Demon Slaying List!"
The other two Variant Human Gu Immortals possessed at least this much combat sense. They all struck out to intercept the Demon Slaying List.
For a moment, killer moves of all kinds flew in every direction, blazing like fireworks.
The Demon Slaying List was hindered amid the bombardment, but a crucial bolt of crimson blood-light shot forth once more, striking straight at the Crystal Ice Immortal King.
The Crystal Ice Immortal King remained still, still condensing his killer move, utterly motionless.
At the critical moment, An Xun suddenly opened his immortal aperture and tossed out an Ancient Soul Beast.
The Ancient Soul Beast moved with blinding speed, positioning itself in front of the Crystal Ice Immortal King, and took the crimson blood-light head-on.
Boom!
An explosion erupted.
The Ancient Soul Beast let out a mournful wail, its body shattered through more than half, and it plummeted toward the ground.
The Crystal Ice Immortal King immediately cast a grateful glance at An Xun. The aura surging around his body settled rapidly — clearly, he had already passed the most dangerous juncture, and his killer move was about to be fully charged.
"Ancient Soul Beasts have no blood at all, so the Blood Path killer moves of the Demon Slaying List are far less effective," An Xun thought excitedly. "My lord, had it not been for your guidance, I would never have been able to block that crimson blood-light. That Crystal Ice Immortal King would have been in serious trouble."
"He would not," Phantom Demon Venerable analyzed from within. "The move the Crystal Ice Immortal King is condensing contains profound mysteries — it carries a measure of defensive power even during its activation. Even if struck, the Crystal Ice Immortal King would only suffer minor injuries at most. His killer move would absolutely not fail."
"Heavenly Court! Now taste my clan's ultimate technique — Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin!" The Crystal Ice Immortal King bellowed. The ferocious aura raging around his body instantly retracted to nothing.
The next instant, his entire body detonated with a thunderous boom, scattering into countless rays of crystalline cold light.
The rays lanced outward, impossibly cold! Everywhere they reached, the air froze solid, forming chunks of floating ice that then tumbled toward the ground.
Fang Zheng sensed danger and tried to move the Demon Slaying List, but how could its speed compare to the Crystalline Light?
In the blink of an eye, the Demon Slaying List was struck by countless rays of Extreme Crystalline Light.
Crack, crack, crack.
Each beam of crystalline light that hit the Demon Slaying List transformed into a small patch of solid ice, clinging to its surface.
Rays of crystalline light shot in from every conceivable direction — the Demon Slaying List had nowhere to dodge. In moments, countless layers of ice formed across the surface of the immortal Gu house.
Fang Zheng's heart sank. He hurriedly activated the Demon Slaying List, deploying its killer moves to dissolve the ice.
But his speed was nowhere near fast enough to keep up with the rate of freezing. Before long, the Demon Slaying List was completely encased in a layer of solid ice half a zhang thick.
"Not good — the thicker this ice layer becomes, the more power the crystalline light penetrates through it gains from the amplification!" This realization left Fang Zheng horrified.
This move had been impossible to evade from the very start, its power tremendous, yet its true terror still lay ahead. The longer it persisted, the more devastating it became!
Fang Zheng frantically poured everything into the Demon Slaying List, rapidly depleting the Eighth Transformation Immortal Essence stored within, mobilizing the Gu house's most powerful killer move.
Blood-light flared, and the ice layer on one side began to melt rapidly.
However, the sky full of crystalline light reacted instantly, surging toward the direction of Fang Zheng's attempted breakout, making the Demon Slaying List's efforts ever more futile.
Every Gu Immortal present stood stunned.
"The Crystal Ice Immortal King is actually this powerful!"
"He single-handedly sealed the Heavenly Court's Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House — the Demon Slaying List!"
"This is incredible. What is this move called?"
"Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin!"
For a time, every immortal savored the name of this killer move on their lips, searing it deep into their hearts.
"This is a Snow People clan-sealing technique from the ancient era. Heh — I never expected the Snow People here had unlocked a racial inheritance." Phantom Demon Venerable, dwelling within An Xun, chuckled softly.
Only then did An Xun realize the truth: "So this move is a Snow People racial inheritance. No wonder it's so powerful! Wait — that doesn't make sense. A killer move from the ancient era, can it still be used in the present day? The current Heaven and Earth differ greatly from the ancient world. Wouldn't something so archaic have been rendered obsolete?"
"Heh heh heh." Phantom Demon Venerable laughed. "Back when the Variant Humans ruled the world, their killer moves were as numerous as the stars. But the ones that were carefully selected and placed into the racial inheritance naturally contained unique mysteries. Take this Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin for example — its core is not an Immortal Gu, but the Variant Human executing the move itself."
Phantom Demon Venerable's knowledge was extraordinary in ways beyond the ordinary, for he had once harvested countless souls within the Gate of Life and Death. Many of those souls originated from the ancient, remote, and even Primordial eras.
As a result, Phantom Demon Venerable possessed extensive intelligence from these periods.
Though his realm had fallen to rock bottom, these memories remained remarkably well-preserved.
Just as Phantom Demon Venerable had said, the Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin shared certain similarities with Wu Yong's Infinite Wind technique. When Wu Yong activated Infinite Wind, it would permanently consume the Wind Path Dao Marks on his body. The Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin not only consumed the Crystal Ice Immortal King's Ice and Snow Path Dao Marks but also cost him his lifespan.
Because the Extreme Crystalline Light Immortal-Sealing Coffin placed the Snow People Gu Immortal at its core, it was less affected by the passage of eras. At the same time, this meant that even if Gu Immortals of other races obtained this technique, they could not wield it directly.