Chapter 1036 - 282: Sirius’s Deadly Move Shocks the Snowfields, Frostblade Hero Protects the Maiden

"Look." Shi Feiyang’s voice was soft as he held Guo Xiangyu with one hand and pressed the cool cave wall with the other. "This natural barrier, this hidden terrain..." He hadn’t finished speaking when Guo Xiangyu tilted her face upwards, snowflakes clinging to her eyelashes, reflecting the cave’s luminous pearls—like a string of tiny stars: "Xiangyu doesn’t understand terrain, but Xiangyu knows... as long as it’s a place chosen by you, it’s the best place."

Her long hair draped over the edge of the stone bed, the wind from Helan Valley howling past the cave entrance. At that moment, Xie Wen received a carrier pigeon. The secret message unfurled like a dried leaf before his eyes, and the description of the bronze mask and dismembered limbs caused Guo Xiangyu’s heart to shudder.

"Xiangyu, you and Shi Xiong stay here." Shi Feiyang’s voice was undeniably firm, but softened involuntarily as it touched her wrist.

Guo Xiangyu’s fingernails dug deeply into his palm, her beautiful eyes instantly welled with tears: "No! I want to go with you!" Her voice trembled with tears, "I can brew you the warmest ginger soup, bandage your wounds when you’re hurt... If anyone dares to harm you, my life, I can give it now..."

"Don’t say such things!" Shi Feiyang suddenly pulled her into his arms, the cold of the Celestial Frost Blade brushing past her hair top, "Your life is mine; no one is allowed to take it!" Yet, Guo Xiangyu struggled to lift her head in his embrace, tears trickling down her chin onto his bloodstained collar: "But without you, my life... what meaning does it have?" Outside the cave, the snowstorm intensified, Shi Xiong shivered behind Xie Wen.

Guo Xiangyu’s tears dampened Shi Feiyang’s chest, and he finally sighed deeply, holding her tighter.

The light from the luminous pearls on the cave ceiling flickered, reflecting the two embracing, excluding all the world’s blizzards from their passionate emotions. So, Shi Feiyang’s heart softened, and he reached out to wipe her tears: "Enough with the foolishness! This time it’s too dangerous."

"More than danger, I fear losing you!" Guo Xiangyu suddenly tiptoed and kissed him lightly on the cheek, "From the first moment I saw you, my heart was no longer my own. My lord, I beg you, don’t make me worry from afar again..."

Shi Feiyang looked into Guo Xiangyu’s determined eyes and finally sighed deeply: "Very well, stay close to me without moving a step away."

The group rushed back overnight to one of the salt fields in Ningxia.

In the moonlight, the scene at the salt field was shocking.

Hundreds of corpses lay sprawled beside the salt piles, each person’s wrists and ankles severed neatly, the wounds as neat as if cut by a blade. The biting north wind, full of ice crystals like countless cold needles, roared down, plowing white scars across the vast snowfield.

Xie Wen knelt with one knee on the frozen ground, his fingers brushing over the blue-purple palm marks on the victim’s wrist, his complexion changing drastically: "It’s the long-lost ’Tendon and Vein Cutting Hand’! Practicing this requires live human flesh and blood as the catalyst, immersing hands in a pool of blood in extreme cold to cultivate this extremely sinister Heart Shattering Palm Force!"

Before he finished speaking, a burst of eerie laughter exploded in the clear sky, and thirteen dark shadows slowly descended from the snow-capped peaks, stepping on the white snow.

Everyone saw those dark figures wearing bronze demon masks, with frosty fangs on the masks, and two blood-red ice crystals set in the eyes, glinting ominously in the sunlight. The leader was draped in Profound Iron Chain Armor with a scarlet cloak over it, a scimitar in hand emitting a ghostly blue icy glow. With every step, the snow underneath cracked like a spider web. "Shi Feiyang!" The man’s voice was grating like a broken gong, causing ice pillars in the distance to crash down, "Hand over the ’Five Poison Scripture,’ and I’ll spare your corpse! Otherwise, today will be the grave of your Heroic Sakura Association!"

Shi Feiyang laughed up to the sky, his voice shaking the snowfield. As the Celestial Frost Blade was unsheathed, a dragon’s roar suddenly arose, and frost flowers fell off the blade. "To take the scripture, you must first get past this Celestial Frost Blade in my hand! I, Shi Feiyang, swear to protect all living beings under heaven, never allowing you evil disciples to covet!"

With that, he stepped with "Dragon Form Seven Steps," leaving a trail of icy lotus flowers on the snow, and the blade’s light turned into countless cold stars, directly attacking the enemy line.

In an instant, thirteen scimitars were unsheathed simultaneously, creating a powerful wind that condensed into a poisonous mist ice wall in mid-air. The "Netherworld Ghost Fang Saber" employed by these masked people was strange and unpredictable, targeting below the waist and major acupoints. Wherever the blade touched, the accumulated snow turned instantly into black water.

Guo Xiangyu bit down hard on her crimson lip, holding a bamboo knife, executing moves infused with part of Shi Feiyang’s taught "Qimen Sancai Saber Technique," which integrated with the Hundred Victories Saber Technique. Her steps seemed to tread on thin ice, her figure hovering, the bamboo knife aiming at the adversary’s knee bend, ankle, and other critical points, causing splashes of icy flowers.

In the heat of battle, a masked figure seized the opportunity as Shi Feiyang was entangled with the leader, the scimitar like a venomous snake striking straight at Guo Xiangyu’s back! At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang let out a thunderous shout, the Divine Dragon Claw breaking through skyward, five strands of azure True Qi like a dragon probing the sea, instantly piercing through the masked man’s chest.

However, this strike left him exposed, allowing the leading bronze-masked man to close in, stabbing the scimitar viciously into his left shoulder!

The bone-chilling cold spread from the wound, and in the blink of an eye, Shi Feiyang’s half body was covered in a layer of white frost.

"My lord!" Guo Xiangyu cried out in sorrow, dashing forward like a swallow returning to the forest, her bamboo knife transforming into a cold gleam aiming at the man’s throat.

Shi Feiyang possessed a Divine Skill for body protection, his body akin to a Vajra Indestructible Body. That scimitar stabbed into his shoulder just penetrated only the icy layer of mist emitted by the Bright Jade Technique on his shoulder, without truly harming Shi Feiyang.

At this moment, Shi Feiyang’s Bright Jade Technique automatically operated to the Eighth Realm—"Supreme Forgetfulness," the surrounding white mist transformed into an icy dragon’s shadow, Shi Feiyang’s Celestial Frost Blade executed the exquisite move "Golden Dragon Coils Claw" from the Hundred Victories Saber Technique!