Chapter 2336 - 2295: Aura of Ice Sandalwood

"Compete in physical bodies? You're way out of your league. Hmph!" Wang Xiaoqiang snorted coldly, his will moving in an instant. The Patterned Beast shot out and guarded in front of him. Although Wang Xiaoqiang had no fear of those two Bronze Armored Corpse Puppets, he had to stay wary of Fairy Bing Tan. After all, she was a Fifth Step Heaven-Stepping Realm powerhouse—her movement technique was fast, and her Immortal Techniques were released with extreme speed.

The two Bronze Armored Corpses were not slow either; in the blink of an eye they were upon him—one pounced at the Patterned Beast, the other at Wang Xiaoqiang. The Patterned Beast's twin wings trembled, and lightning erupted at once. With a thunderous roar, dozens of bolts of lightning slammed into that Bronze Armored Corpse.

Whether zombie or Bronze Armored Corpse, they all belonged to corpse-yin objects, and anything corpse-yin feared Yang Fire Qi the most. Lightning was Heaven's Tiangang Ground Fire, a lethal weapon that restrained yin objects. Those dozens of lightning bolts blasted into that Bronze Armored Corpse, directly knocking it flying backward. At the same time, its corpse body crackled, as if something had shattered, and then with a muffled boom, the lightning turned to fire. Flames roared, engulfing that Bronze Armored Corpse completely, which let out a shrill, ghost-like scream.

At the same time, Wang Xiaoqiang swung his hand in a slap, unleashing Thunderclap Annihilation Palm. At once, dozens more lightning bolts blasted out, striking the other Bronze Armored Corpse. When its corpse body was shattered with crisp cracking sounds, the lightning turned to fire and wrapped around it entirely. Amid the raging flames, that Bronze Armored Corpse let out a piercing scream identical to its companion's.

Seeing her two Bronze Armored Corpse Puppets wrapped in flames and shrieking miserably, Fairy Bing Tan's jade-like face changed drastically. She hadn't expected that Wang Xiaoqiang and his pet beast would both be adept in lightning spell techniques, directly countering her two Bronze Armored Corpse Puppets.

She waved her hand, sending out two streams of water-green light. The light was gentle like water as it rushed toward the two Bronze Armored Corpses. Clearly, she intended to use an Immortal Technique to extinguish the flames on her puppets.

Wang Xiaoqiang gave her no chance. His will moved, and the Divine Sense Wheel suddenly contracted sharply, like a giant whale sucking in water, all collapsing into a single mass and then condensing to a point. Sixty thousand strands of Divine Sense condensed into one, shooting toward Fairy Bing Tan.

In that hair-trigger moment, Wang Xiaoqiang's Instant Annihilation Technique was not only swift but also soundless, colorless, without form or shape. It silently streaked straight for Fairy Bing Tan, and judging from the speed, it seemed even faster than the Immortal Technique Fairy Bing Tan had just cast.

Fairy Bing Tan was, after all, a Fifth Step Heaven-Stepping Realm powerhouse. Although the Instant Annihilation Technique was extremely concealed, she still sensed it.

Once she sensed it, her pretty face changed. Without time to think, she flashed aside to evade. Her movement technique was quick, and when that strand of Divine Sense reached her face, she narrowly dodged away.

Seeing the Instant Annihilation Technique miss, Wang Xiaoqiang did not relent. His will drove the condensed Divine Sense once more, sending it charging at Fairy Bing Tan.

Fairy Bing Tan's beautiful eyes narrowed, locking onto that strand of Divine Sense. Toward the Divine Sense rushing from Wang Xiaoqiang, she parted her sensual red lips and exhaled a breath of qi.

That qi was formless yet seemed to have substance, carrying icy cold and fragrance, crashing together with Wang Xiaoqiang's Divine Sense.

It was a clump of Aura of Ice Sandalwood. This Aura of Ice Sandalwood was Fairy Bing Tan's bottom-of-the-chest spell technique, her unique Ultimate Technique—in precise terms, her ancestral inheritance spell.

To protect this exclusive Ultimate Technique, she had never displayed it before. In Divine Nun's Nunnery she didn't dare show it at all, because once discovered, the spell would certainly be confiscated by the sect. Only here on the Ancient Continent did she dare unleash it—after all, there were no people from the Primordial Era here; even if someone discovered it, it wouldn't matter much.

That Aura of Ice Sandalwood was extremely fierce. Its coldness could freeze the very air; its biting sharpness could tear through anything. In essence, Aura of Ice Sandalwood was both icy and fragrant, a current of frigid scent. Its chill had reached the extreme, forming tremendous power, and its spicy fragrance had also reached a certain level, becoming extraordinarily strong.

Qi is something the human body cannot do without. Qi can move blood and can also heal illness. Many medicines with strong, pungent qi can treat disease, relying precisely on that pungent energy.

Take Wood Fragrance, for example—Wood Fragrance can regulate qi and treat obstruction of the middle burner's qi mechanism, but its biting sharpness is far inferior to Sandalwood. To give an example: a pregnant woman may ingest Wood Fragrance, yet cannot ingest Sandalwood, cannot even smell it. That alone shows how fiercely pungent Sandalwood's scent is.

And this Aura of Ice Sandalwood was refined by absorbing the Essence of Ice Crystal and the fragrance of Sandalwood. When this spell reached the extremes of both ice and fragrance, it formed tremendous power.

While cultivating this Aura of Ice Sandalwood, Fairy Bing Tan didn't know how many portions of Essence of Ice Crystal she had absorbed, nor how much Sandalwood fragrance she had taken in before finally succeeding.

To cut the idle chatter short: after that Aura of Ice Sandalwood collided with Wang Xiaoqiang's Divine Sense, it immediately clung to it like a ball of sticky cotton, wrapping that Divine Sense up.

In the instant it wrapped around, a trace of delight flashed across Fairy Bing Tan's face, then turned frigid as killing intent surged. Her eyes closed and opened again, fixing on Wang Xiaoqiang. In those beautiful pupils, light flickered, and two streaks of white qi burst out at once. That qi was formless yet seemingly substantial, even shimmering with white radiance, like icy light, shooting toward Wang Xiaoqiang.

"Break for me!" Wang Xiaoqiang shouted coldly. Lightning flashed from his brow in an instant, thick as an adult's thumb, meeting the two streaks of white qi head on.

Just as they were about to collide, the lightning crackled. The electric arc forked, splitting in two, each bolt blasting toward one of the white streams of qi.

Those white streams of qi were Ice Aura.

They were the Spell Decomposition of Aura of Ice Sandalwood.

Aura of Ice Sandalwood could split or merge. Split apart, it became the two spell techniques of Ice Aura and Sandalwood Qi; merged, it was Aura of Ice Sandalwood. Once decomposed, Aura of Ice Sandalwood's power was greatly diminished.

Lightning was fire. Once it struck those two streams of Ice Aura, it immediately turned to flame. Ice and fire mutually restrained one another, exploding at once and canceling each other out.

This Fairy Bing Tan's Immortal Techniques came one after another, high-level and swift. If Wang Xiaoqiang continued trading spells with her, he'd be dead. He made a snap decision—his figure blurred and transformed into a Lightning Leopard, lunging straight at Fairy Bing Tan, intending to engage her in close combat.

Fairy Bing Tan had long seen that Wang Xiaoqiang was a Body Refining Master with the Power of Blood Qi, and that close combat with him was inadvisable. Seeing him pounce, she immediately turned tail to retreat. As she flew away, she glanced back quietly and once more parted those red lips, exhaling a breath of qi toward Wang Xiaoqiang—that was Sandalwood Qi.

Aura of Ice Sandalwood was the combination of Ice Aura and Sandalwood, extremely powerful but also extremely difficult to cultivate—especially the fusion of Ice Aura and Sandalwood, which was painstaking and time-consuming.

From birth, Fairy Bing Tan had been swallowing ice and smelling sandalwood; afterward, she was even named Bing Tan, showing how much hope her family placed in her. Later, they passed this spell to her and ordered her to cultivate it. After decades of painstaking cultivation, by the time she reached forty, she had only managed to cultivate this single strand of Aura of Ice Sandalwood.

However, while Aura of Ice Sandalwood was hard to form, she had stored a great deal of Ice Aura and Sandalwood within her body. Ice Aura and Sandalwood were themselves spell techniques, usable for defense and offense. What Bing Tan was using now was Sandalwood.

This sandal scent was not ordinary sandal scent. Ordinary Sandalwood was extremely pungent, yet far inferior to this strand of Sandalwood, which couldn't even be mentioned in the same breath. To give an analogy: ordinary Sandalwood could harm a mortal, while this strand of Sandalwood could kill a Divine Thought cultivator, even a Heaven-Stepping Realm powerhouse.

Once that strand of Sandalwood was spat out, its speed was swift, rushing straight toward Wang Xiaoqiang. Even before it came near, a wave of biting, pungent qi surged over.

Wang Xiaoqiang was not afraid in the least. When he caught the scent, he let out a wicked chuckle. "Heh heh, Immortal Maiden, your breath is like orchids, secretly wafting fragrant winds my way. Are you perhaps interested in me? Come, come, why not lower your noble airs, cast aside grudges, and get a little closer to me—let's blow into each other's mouths."