The entire lake surface was trembling violently, and Ye Xuan felt the forces of heaven and earth around him crazily surging toward the Xuanbing Flood Dragon, an ominous premonition quickly arising in his heart.
Suddenly, the Xuanbing Flood Dragon moved. Its enormous body remained stationary, but its massive dragon head began to stir. Its maw slightly opened, and an astounding sound wave was released without warning.
An extremely high-frequency sound wave assault swept across the lake, originating from the Xuanbing Flood Dragon’s location and raising monstrous waves in every direction. Even the large trees near the lake were uprooted and shattered to pieces.
After the sound wave passed, a great number of dead fish and aquatic creatures surfaced in the lake, all vibrated to death, their blood staining the entire body of water. Ye Xuan, who was directly in front of the Xuanbing Flood Dragon, indisputably became the primary target of this terrible sound wave.
In just the blink of an eye, Ye Xuan’s figure was shot backward, yet although he appeared to be in a sorry state, he actually hadn’t suffered much damage.
This was because he had used the Dragon God Sound Wave at the exact moment the Xuanbing Flood Dragon unleashed its sound wave attack. It was known that the most effective defense against such assaults was to release a sound wave attack of one’s own, disrupting the incoming attack, which was much more effective than using True Yuan for defense.
However, even so, Ye Xuan still couldn’t overcome the Flood Dragon, which showed just how vigorous the demonic power of the Xuanbing Flood Dragon was.
Seeing that its sound wave had been unable to deal with Ye Xuan, the Xuanbing Flood Dragon suddenly erupted in fury. It let out an enraged roar to the sky, a flicker of crimson flashing in its massive pupils, and suddenly, its speed surged. Then it opened its maw and expelled a blood-colored chill. This eerie cold energy was incredibly strange, solidifying the moisture in the air into blood crystals wherever it went, covering an area of several hundred meters around in ice within an instant.
This peculiar chill came too quickly. Ye Xuan only managed to move half a step before the terrifying chill hit him, turning him into a human-sized blood ice statue.
In the next moment, the dragon claw of the Xuanbing Flood Dragon tore through the void, distorting the air as it reached directly for Ye Xuan’s chest and abdomen.
On this dragon claw, terrible cold energy gathered at the tips, forming sharp ice spikes that ferociously tore towards Ye Xuan.
If struck by this claw, even Ye Xuan’s defenses would likely be torn open, smashing his body to pieces.
Faced with intense danger, Ye Xuan’s innate strength erupted. His black hair flew wildly as the Sword Intent around his body reached an unprecedented level of sharpness. Confronted with the threat of the Xuanbing Flood Dragon, he highly focused his spirit and an astonishing Sword Qi slashed out from within, shattering the blood ice encasing him and breaking free of the restraints.
However, at this time, the dragon claw had already crashed down.
Ye Xuan’s body was torn into three parts by the dragon claw, ripped asunder.
At this moment, about thirty meters behind where Ye Xuan was split, his figure emerged. He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, and his aura weakened substantially.
A moment before the dragon claw had been about to hit, Ye Xuan had replaced his body with a doppelgänger, which was torn apart by the claw. But his real body, despite having broken free from the ice, was still struck by the force of the dragon claw, suffering a serious internal injury.
A strong chill attempted to penetrate the wound and invade Ye Xuan’s internal organs. At this time, the power of the Molten Lava Earth Core Fire released a portion of its force to help Ye Xuan resist the incursion of the cold. Meanwhile, Ye Xuan himself accelerated, creating multiple afterimages to confuse the Flood Dragon and buy time.
A series of extremely cold light waves bombarded outwards, enveloping Ye Xuan who was constantly flickering in shape. With each impact on the ground, a tremendous explosion was set off, leaving behind an area sealed by ice. The whole lake vicinity was in shambles due to the Flood Dragon’s rampage.
Countless wounds had appeared on Ye Xuan’s body, each coated with shattered ice, aggressively eroding towards the interior of the wounds. The main function of the Molten Lava Earth Core Fire was to suppress the Xuanbing Cold Flame, so the portion of strength it provided was retreating step by step under the invasion of the cold air.
Just as Ye Xuan faced a dire situation, a figure rushed over from the distance, like a streak of red light weaving through the air, it was none other than Xue Lingzi.
Ye Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, as reinforcements had finally arrived.
As soon as Xue Lingzi arrived, a blood blade reeking of a strong stench of blood appeared out of nowhere, as if ignoring the spatial distance, and slashed viciously onto the Flood Dragon.
Dragon Scales shattered, blood spray scattering, the Xuanbing Flood Dragon was directly blasted into the waters of the lake by this force, its massive body plummeting down, creating towering waves.
"You actually provoked a Xuanbing Flood Dragon, my goodness, even Fei Yue might not be a match for this Xuanbing Flood Dragon, how did you dare to provoke it?"
Xue Lingzi was somewhat astounded as he looked at Ye Xuan, this Xuanbing Flood Dragon’s cultivation was merely like that of a Fourth Grade Demon Venerable, but due to the richness of the Dragon Clan bloodline in its body, even an average human Fifth Grade Martial Venerate would find it difficult to contend with it. Considering the innate advantages, the Demon Clan’s advantages were too significant, not to mention a mutated quasi-Dragon Clan Demon Beast like the Xuanbing Flood Dragon, born alongside Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects such as the Xuanbing Cold Flame, was a formidable creature.
"I didn’t mean to, who knew that this beast was lurking at the bottom of the lake, it’s just bad luck, that’s all."
Ye Xuan spread his hands with an innocent look. Of course, he wouldn’t say that he had collected the Xuanbing Cold Flame. Although Xue Lingzi wasn’t the type to covet treasures, there were some things better left unknown by anyone.
"You haven’t perished after encountering this beast, and you still say your luck is bad?"
Xue Lingzi shook his head. If he had only Ye Xuan’s cultivation, he probably would have been instantly killed by the Xuanbing Flood Dragon, while Ye Xuan had held on for so long. Discarding the talk of strength, Ye Xuan’s luck was already quite good. It must have been because the Xuanbing Flood Dragon didn’t employ its most powerful attacks, otherwise Ye Xuan would definitely have been doomed by now.
What he didn’t know was that the Xuanbing Flood Dragon had already unleashed its powerful attacks a moment ago, nearly claiming Ye Xuan’s life.
Just as Xue Lingzi finished speaking, the water beneath them once again erupted violently, and a roar that pierced the skies spread wildly across the heavens and the earth.
"Let’s go, no need to fight this beast head-on."
Xue Lingzi didn’t plan to continue battling with the Xuanbing Flood Dragon. After all, this Demon Beast wasn’t something that could be easily killed. Even for him, it would take considerable effort for no real gain, so why bother exerting so much?
"Not so fast, Xue Lingzi, Elder Brother, could you extract a strand of this Xuanbing Flood Dragon’s origin bloodline? That item would be of great use to me."
Ye Xuan indeed had intended to leave, but suddenly, a spark of inspiration flashed through his mind, as if he remembered something, and then his gaze turned towards Xue Lingzi.