The voice gradually dissipated into the wind and snow. Light Feather Douluo, carrying the Chrysanthemum and Ghost duo, turned into a stream of light and somewhat sullenly left this ice plain where his mission had been thwarted.
Not long after he left, in the endless snowstorm, a staggering, emerald green figure dripping with blood was struggling forward, relying on her last shred of willpower.
In her arms, she was still clutching the snow lotus that emitted a faint radiance.
In a dark, quiet room at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.
Castorice slowly opened her eyes, which had returned to their original purple color, revealing a look of deep exhaustion.
She raised her hand and rubbed her throbbing temples vigorously, feeling as if her mental force had been drained, sending waves of needle-like pain.
Even with the assistance of the Regent of Death Ruonawa, forcing a subtle modification of a level 96 Super Douluo's cognition through the "myriad karma true blood" from such a vast distance consumed far more than she had imagined.
This was not just a loss of Soul Power, but a squeezing of her mental Origin.
"It's finally... over."
She whispered to herself, her voice carrying a hint of hoarseness.
Her gaze seemed to pierce through the Void Realm again, landing on that land of ice and snow, "Next, it depends on what happens over there..."
All she had done was forcibly tear open a tiny, variable-filled rift in a must-kill situation.
"I hope the following'story' can be 'written' smoothly."
She exhaled gently, closed her eyes again, and began to regulate her breathing with all her might, recovering her overly depleted mental force.
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Extreme North Ice Plain, an unknown corner.
"Okay, then let's hurry and leave."
Seeing Caelus agree, Zhang Lexuan felt a little more at ease and did not hesitate any longer.
She took a deep breath of the freezing air, struggling to suppress the palpitations caused by the terrifying explosion in the distance. Relying on her powerful sense of direction as a Spirit Douluo and the repeated confirmation of stars and terrain during her evasion, she chose a direction and moved forward rapidly with Caelus.
She was very confident that she would not get lost in this white World of death.
Caelus followed silently behind her, his footsteps making a slight "crunching" sound as they landed on the accumulated snow.
His gaze was calm, occasionally sweeping over the surrounding environment; no one knew what he was calculating in his heart.
If someone could look down from the extremely high firmament, they would discover a startling coincidence—the evacuation route Zhang Lexuan had chosen was constantly approaching the same direction as that staggering emerald green figure clutching the snow lotus.
The threads of fate were silently tightening invisibly.
"Crunch... crunch..."
The sound of footsteps seemed exceptionally clear on the silent ice plain.
Suddenly, Zhang Lexuan, who was walking in front, stopped abruptly, her body stiffening in place as if frozen by ice.
A terrifying sense of crisis, originating from the deepest part of her Soul and almost suffocating her, swept over like a tsunami, instantly drowning out all her perceptions.
This feeling... was several times more intense than that time in the Star Dou Great Forest, when she was following the Inner Court team to hunt spirits and unfortunately encountered that One Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast, which resulted in eight of the twelve Inner Court Disciples dying in battle, and she herself barely escaping with her life.
That was the despair of facing a destructive force that was absolutely impossible to resist.
Her pupils contracted sharply, and the hair on her body stood on end. Her gaze was locked tightly on a spot not far ahead—a petite figure with emerald green twin tails leaning against an ice wall.
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