Seeing their kin injured, a cruel red glint flashed in the Ice Fang Boar leader's eyes. Its three-meter-long curved tusks glowed blue, intensifying the cold in the air. A small, ice-blue storm swirled from the leader's luminous tusks, and as the frigid white light met the dark golden mask, it exploded, freezing the mask into a block of ice. It trembled stiffly in mid-air for a moment before falling onto the thick snow.
This was an ability unique to the Ice Fang Boar, the Frost Tusk Wind. It could gather ice and snow energy from its tusks to generate a freezing wind, which, as the name suggested, could freeze anything or anyone it touched.
Tang Sui's pupils constricted. Her right fist, infused with soul power, narrowly dodged the tusks that lunged towards her. Her heavy punch landed directly on another Ice Fang Boar standing beside the leader.
With a muffled thud, the three-meter-tall Ice Fang Boar, its tusks nearly a meter long, let out a series of pained squeals. Its coffee-colored fur billowed in the cold wind like waves of wheat, becoming dusted with snowflakes after a few undulations before it crashed into the snow, creating a massive crater.
"Roar—!"
The Ice Fang Boar, now embedded in the crater, emitted a cacophony of roars. Its limbs thrashed in the air, scraping against the snow as it struggled to rise.
However, the blood mixed with internal organ fragments that continuously spilled from its mouth was a testament to its severe internal injuries. Tang Sui's unchecked punch had pierced through its vital organs, and even its crucial ribcage had snapped.
"Roar!"
"Roar, roar!!"
The other Ice Fang Boars witnessed the tragic state of their kin. A bloody red hue appeared in their once distinct brown and white eyes. The white mist they exhaled condensed into countless tiny ice crystals that glinted sharply, like exquisite hidden weapons or volleys of arrows, raining down on Tang Sui.
Tang Sui raised her hand and opened a dark red demonic power barrier, blocking all their attacks. The enraged Ice Fang Boars began stamping their feet alternately on the thick snow. Immersed in their fury, they failed to notice that the dark golden mask, frozen by the leader's tusks, had disappeared into the ice block that was now buried in the snow by their weight. Silently, it reappeared among the masks that were launching a counter-offensive.
"Roar—!"
A special sonic wave spread with the roars of the Ice Fang Boars. Their stamping shook the very ground, a sure sign of an impending avalanche.
Fortunately, they had not yet reached the higher snow-capped mountains. Even though there was a cave here, the mountain it was on was not particularly high, and the forest provided a natural buffer. However, while the force of a flood breaking through a dam was absent, the trees here were laden with heavy snow!
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Mu Liao shouted, warning everyone as he sensed the commotion caused by the Ice Fang Boars.
Just as he spoke, a large mass of snow accumulated on the branches was dislodged by the Ice Fang Boars' movements, nearly striking a lucky individual. Fortunately, he had stumbled backward due to the unstable ground and had grabbed the iron railing of the heavy sled, preventing him from falling.
But while he was unharmed, the snowdrifts that cascaded from the trees landed on the sled loaded with supplies, burying it halfway. The supplies on the sled were as vital as their lives. The villager's face contorted, and he let out an animalistic roar from his throat. His white soul ring floated up, and a Snow Baboon with white fur materialized behind him.
The villager's physique immediately swelled several times over, his strong muscles mirroring his Snow Baboon martial soul. Clearly, he was a beast-type soul master who had already completed his martial soul fusion and activated his first soul skill, doubling his current strength.
"We can't let the sled be buried!"
He shouted and lunged forward. With his low soul power, he could only resort to the most direct and brute-force method of digging through the snow to unearth the half-buried sled. The others, jolted into action, prepared to grab the reins of the Snow Spirit Deer and steer them away from the area.
Meanwhile, the Ice Fang Boar leader was using its strong, massive body to push aside its kin, who were still being targeted by other masks. It precisely stepped on another mask that had been frozen into an ice block by it, using its terrifying weight to embed the ice block deep into the thick snow. It raised its head, its blue-glowing tusks aimed to repeat its tactic of eliminating the assassin-like masks.
"You dare?"
A dark red halo of demonic power materialized in Tang Sui's azure pupils. Instantly, an overwhelming aura of a dominant-tier existence, erupting from her soul at close range, descended upon the Ice Fang Boars, leaving them no escape. They felt a paralysis akin to being locked onto by a natural predator-type soul beast, and a lingering fear that occupied all their thoughts.
With their minds blank, Tang Sui, multitasking, leaned forward slightly. Ripples of space expanded, and the tusks that had been positioned to block her all missed their mark. A blurry afterimage moved above the Ice Fang Boars, who were caught off guard and in their blind spot.
Her slender, white fingers splayed open, and in the blink of an eye, dark red demonic power condensed into two slender blades. Tang Sui moved like a ghost, dodging the curved tusks. While the Ice Fang Boars were agitatedly searching for the enemy, she positioned herself beside their heads, where their tusks could not reach. With swift movements of her slender blades, she pierced through their most prized thick hide defense and plunged into their burning flesh.
A surge of violent demonic power swept through, instantly shredding the Ice Fang Boars' brains. She withdrew, and using her unique agility, approached the next Ice Fang Boar, pierced, shredded, withdrew, and then the next.
"Roar—!?"
Sensing the danger, the Ice Fang Boar leader frantically issued a retreat order. However, they had already lost three of their kin! Only it and another Ice Fang Boar with about four thousand years of cultivation remained, along with the cave behind them. Hearing the leader's warning, young Ice Fang Boars rushed out from the cave with roars.
Simultaneously, a group of masks surrounding Tang Sui twisted and disappeared into the air, suddenly appearing above the villagers who were desperately trying to drive the Snow Spirit Deer away from the battle. In the next second, a dark red barrier unfolded, forcefully sweeping away all the snow falling from above, enveloping the bare trees, the panicked villagers, the Snow Spirit Deer, and the cold sled.
The villagers' hearts, which had leaped into their throats, finally settled back into their chests. They looked back with lingering fear at the snow blocked by the barrier, then turned with gratitude towards Tang Sui, who had begun a one-sided slaughter.
"Brother Mu, luckily... I didn't stop you from choosing this distinguished lady back then..."
The villager, finally able to breathe, trembled as he wiped the snowflakes from his face, some still clinging to his eyebrows. But he didn't care. He turned his head, his face filled with relief as he looked at the awestruck Mu Liao. He had been displeased when Tang Sui had evasively concealed her soul power level and had wanted to drive her away. Who would have thought... Showing restraint in one's words was indeed important.