Chapter 400: A quick and clean attack.
"Have you ever fought with an Eternal Ice Bird?" Tang Yin asked as he ran alongside Jia Yijie through the huge mountainous forest.
Jia Yijie shook her head at his question.
"No, I've never faced one. But I've heard some things. They say it's the apex of the icy illusion, is it true?" She said.
Tang Yin nodded.
"That's right, this is one of the most complicated spirit beasts to hunt for those who are solitary precisely because of that. It's a good thing our attribute isn't ice though, if it were, we'd be useless." Tang Yin replied, and she looked at him doubtfully.
"Do you have a high defense against ice?" she asked, and Tang Yin shrugged his shoulders.
"High defense? It is impenetrable by ice. It is immune to all ice arts unless they are explosive or penetrating, but even then, to those, it has a very high defense. It's a bird no icy cultivator would want to encounter for that very reason." He replied, and she was surprised but nodded.
"And how do his illusions compare to mine? I've never fought against someone strong and who also uses illusions, most fall very easily." She said smiling, and Tang Yin nodded.
"Your spirit weapon is special. In assassination tactics it might be the best among the existing ones, it is so rare that it makes me question where you are from or who your parents are. It's an illusionary spirit weapon made for assassination, so it goes a bit against the icy illusion, which focuses on illusions for defense, thus, you are one of its counters." Tang Yin said smiling.
Then they continued talking about various things and strategies to hunt this beast.
Hours passed until they finally arrived at the place.
As usual, the bird was flying above this place, or at least it appeared to be, but in reality, this was also an illusion.
"How amazing, that guy can make pretty powerful illusions, but I have a question." Jia Yijie said doubtfully as she looked at the exact spot where the Bird of Eternal Ice did indeed stand.
Tang Yin was surprised that she had spotted it so quickly, but he smiled.
"Ask whatever you want, if I know, I'll answer." He replied, and she then nodded.
She looked at him with a strange smile, and then pointed at the huge bird lying down and tilted her head slightly.
"Why the hell is that thing on the Tenth Level of the Emperor Realm?" She asked with surprise and a strange smile on her face.
Tang Yin looked at her in confusion, "Why, you ask? Why was it cultivated to that extent?" He replied, not knowing how to answer that question.
But she quickly shook her head and grabbed him by the arm, "No, no, no. When we came here you told me it was to look for a spiritual bone for you, you are at the Ninth Level of the Sixth Realm, how the hell are you going to absorb the spiritual bone of a beast at the tenth level of the next realm!?" She asked in shock.
"It's over 150 thousand years old, you know!" She repeated in shock, and Tang Yin then understood where her doubt was.
"Hehe, don't worry about the details. I can absorb it with no problem right now. Besides, I'll need it to be able to endure the spiritual bones of the Seventh Realm. Remember that in the Seventh Realm, you can obtain 2 at Level 9." He replied calmly.
No spiritual bone would be difficult for him to obtain, so he was confident.
Right now...
With his new Natural Law, it would be a shame if he obtained a Spiritual Bone of lesser age than that, although that one was already at his limit.
She looked at him in shock, but although she wanted to retort, after seeing the confidence in his eyes, she couldn't.
She could only look at him for a couple of full minutes and then sighed.
"Tsk, I didn't think that the person I proposed to, would want to commit suicide as soon as we met, maybe I really bring bad luck?" she said suddenly, as she mumbled between her lips.
Still, she turned away.
"Fine, if that's what you want, I'll help you. Let's make this quick, I'll cast my most powerful illusion ability on him as we planned and you take care of the rest." She said, and without paying any more attention to Tang Yin, she summoned her spirit weapon.
The ball that appeared in her hand soon transformed into a beautiful flower, and her beautiful clear eyes shone brightly in a pinkish color.
She opened both arms sideways, and a large number of petals flew from side to side, and a flash arrived in front of the Eternal Ice Bird.
He instantly realized that he was under attack, so he let out a cry towards the sky and flapped his wings vigorously, causing the spiritual energy to slam into the surroundings with force.
He flew to dodge the attack, but the next thing he heard was a slight smirk.
"Hehehe, please be still. You are very precious to my future husband." Jia Yijie said smiling as her voice came from all ends of this place.
"The Demonic Phoenix?" Eternal Ice Bird said at that instant, quickly realizing what was going on.
The whole place seemed to be encircled by a strange white spiritual mist that was almost indistinguishable to anyone, for this whole world was white. Even so, the Eternal Ice Bird is not a normal being, so it was able to immediately notice what was going on.
"Hehehe, exactly~" Jia Yijie replied, but she didn't care. Even though the Bird had discovered her, it was a normal thing coming from a bird like this.
Still, she knew that the bird had no idea where she was.
"GET OUT!" the bird shouted angrily as it struck the surroundings with a powerful surge of icy energy, freezing various things present.
Just then, Jia Yijie clenched her hands where she stood, right in front of the bird, and countless petals of her spirit weapon flew at great speed toward where the Eternal Ice Bird was.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA!" the bird's mighty roar came as soon as it felt various things piercing through its body.
'Did I hit it?' she thought in confusion, she didn't think it was that simple...
Just as she thought so, she noticed the image in front of her of the icy bird disappear among ice petals and felt a strong presence behind her.
She smiled, and just as a claw struck her body, it dispersed among particles of spiritual energy as she appeared behind the icy bird.
"You are dead." She said as she attached her hand firmly to the bird's body to hold it...
Her spirit weapon flew back and soon pierced hard through the bird's body, making it let out a cry of pain mixed with blood...
This brought a smile to Jia Yijie's face, so she threw herself backward.
The bird did not stand still and immediately launched an attack at her and took distance.
Jia Yijie frowned as she dodged the attack easily and looked at this bird's body.
"Tsk, so this is a regenerative attribute. Shit, that's almost being immortal." She said a bit annoyed, as she looked at all the wounds she had left on this bird's body had healed.
The eternal ice bird glared at Jia Yijie, "Heh, I finally got you, little one. How will you escape my sight now?" he asked angrily, but Jia Yijie didn't answer him with anything more than a smile.
This annoyed him, so he prepared to attack.
But just at that moment, a voice came from behind him.
"Run away from this, little bird." Tang Yin said as he appeared with two beautiful heavenly hammers in his hands, leaping over the bird.
"Demonic Destroyer." Tang Yin said as he slammed his two heavenly hammers against the huge body of the bird that had no way to dodge.
Tang Yin made sure to hit it just at the exact moment when the bird could neither dodge nor cast an illusionary skill, so the blow hit it squarely and sent it crashing hard into the ground.
The impact created a huge crater that left Jia Yijie in shock.
Still, something surprised her even more...
'Heavenly Hammer!?' She thought in shock, and various diverse and strange memories came to her mind at that moment, but...
She sent all these memories deep into her mind and jumped at an extreme speed towards where Tang Yin was falling, while all the petals of her spirit weapon flew forcefully towards him...
Just then, Tang Yin sensed a change in the environment that made him frown, 'A Domain?' He thought in shock after seeing that the environment had changed drastically from one moment to the next.
The once-visible ice soon became a thick, pinkish mist that prevented his senses from traveling far.
Just then, it was that he sensed Jia Yijie's presence. She was standing very close to him, with a 'murderous' and strange look on her face...
She unhesitatingly slammed him to the ground, grabbing him by his chest as countless petals flew forcefully towards him.
Tang Yin felt stunned at that moment...