They stood frozen in place like five beautiful botanical artworks, unable to move or even speak, with only deep shock and disbelief in their eyes.
Immediately, the entire arena erupted in an uproar!
This control came too fast, too precise, and too unbelievable!
Without stopping his steps, Tang Chuan didn't even look at his opponents bound by the Blue Silver Emperor.
He simply looked up at the awe-inspiring ice Phoenix in the sky, a slightly wicked arc playing on his lips, and his clear voice echoed through the silent Fighting Soul Arena:
"Your ice can control people..."
"My Blue Silver Grass can do the same."
At this moment, his gaze seemed to penetrate the ice Phoenix's body, seeing the astonished expressions of Shui Binger and Xue Wu within.
"And the control ability... is stronger than your ice."
At this moment, Shui Yueer, tightly bound by the Blue Silver Emperor, trembled violently as she gazed at the blue-haired figure walking steadily towards her against the biting cold wind.
That incomparably handsome face, now bearing a look of disdain, began to furiously overlap and intertwine with a vague but incredibly familiar shadow deep within her memory—a shadow that had given her a glimmer of hope in her most desperate and helpless moment!
"It's him?!"
Shui Yueer murmured in a daze, forgetting to struggle, forgetting that she was in a competition, only staring blankly at Tang Chuan.
Meanwhile, in the sky, the ice Phoenix, fused with all the power and will of Shui Binger and Xue Wu, sensed Tang Chuan's undisguised provocation and immediately shouted coldly:
"How strong are you?! I don't believe that you alone can directly contend with our Martial Soul Fusion Skill! Ice and Snow Drifting — Extreme Cold Phoenix Cry!"
The giant ice Phoenix let out a clear cry that could tear through the sky, its wings violently flapped, and endless ice-blue light points converged at its beak, forming an ultimate ice ball containing destructive energy.
Immediately, the ice Phoenix swooped down, carrying absolute zero that could freeze the Soul and an impact force that could shatter everything, like a divine punishment descending, fiercely striking the tiny Tang Chuan!
Wherever it passed, the air solidified, and space itself seemed to be frozen and shattered!
Facing this world-destroying strike, Tang Chuan's eyes showed no fear; instead, a burning Battle Intent ignited within them.
He laughed loudly, his voice filled with endless heroism and confidence, saying:
"What a magnificent ice Phoenix! Its Aura is impressive!
Even if you were a true Ice Empress Scorpion with ultimate ice, what then?!"
As he spoke, his hands rapidly changed in front of his chest like a butterfly flitting through flowers, forming an ancient and strange hand seal, and the majestic Soul Power around him surged out like a river breaking its banks!
"Today, I shall use your Martial Soul Fusion Skill to test my self-created Soul Skill!"
As his voice fell, the ground behind Tang Chuan violently shook!
Countless Blue Silver Emperor vines, shimmering with sacred blue-gold light, swept out from around him at a speed and scale thousands of times greater than before, like raging Dragons emerging from the sea!
These vines were not chaotic; instead, under the precise control of immense Soul Power and mental force, they intertwined, converged, and condensed!
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic Thousand-Hand Great Buddha, so vast that it was almost as tall as the ice Phoenix, majestically stood behind Tang Chuan.
This Great Buddha had a solemn and dignified appearance, its entire body composed of countless Blue Silver Emperor vines, presenting a sense of life's resilience and the sacred indestructibility of Vajra.
Most shocking of all, countless massive arms extended densely from its back, each arm containing terrifying power capable of splitting mountains and cracking stones.
Blue-gold light flowed over the arms, and Sanskrit script faintly appeared!
"True Several Thousand Hands · Summit Transforming Buddha!"
The moment the Great Buddha formed, a majestic Aura that suppressed all directions and cleansed evil swept out, actually diluting the extreme cold brought by the ice Phoenix by several points!
When the majestic and solemn Blue Silver Thousand-Hand Great Buddha collided with the ice Phoenix, which was swooping down with destructive cold might, there was no earth-shattering explosion or energy annihilation as imagined.
Instead, a peculiar sight appeared.
Countless giant blue-gold Buddha hands did not forcefully clash with the ice Phoenix's extreme cold and impact.
Instead, the moment they made contact, they seemed to transform into tendrils of life.
On the Buddha hands, an extremely rich life Aura surged out like a warm spring tide.
That was not aggressive energy, but the purest, most fundamental life force!
Ice represents stillness, termination, and death; it is the state of water losing its vitality and fluidity.
And the Blue Silver Emperor, as the emperor of plant-type Martial Souls, especially after multiple evolutions, contained boundless life power, representing growth, revival, and vitality.
At this moment, extreme life force met the ice attribute.
The terrifying cold around the ice Phoenix, enough to freeze Soul Power and shatter metal, made strange hissing sounds as it came into contact with this vast, warm torrent of life.
It was as if the life Aura was forcibly awakening the vitality frozen beneath the ice!
The ice Phoenix was formed by the Fusion of Soul Power, mental force, and water-attribute Origin Qi with extreme cold; its essence still contained the Foundation of water.
And water is the Origin of life.
Under the invasive life force of the Blue Silver Emperor, the internal structure of the extreme ice that formed the ice Phoenix's body began to destabilize.
It was as if countless seeds of life were about to burst through the ice!
"Buzz—!"
The ice Phoenix let out a painful wail.
Fine, root-like blue-gold patterns began to appear on its brilliant and crystalline body.
These patterns were frantically absorbing the ice Phoenix's energy and, in turn, disintegrating the ice structure within its body!
Its unfailing freezing power seemed to lose its target in the face of this vast life force; how could extreme life force be completely frozen?
It would only lie dormant, then revive with even greater ferocity in a suitable environment!
The ice Phoenix's dive was forcibly halted mid-air, its massive body trembled violently, its light flickering erratically, and the ice crystals forming its body visibly darkened and cracked, as if a block of solid ice thrown into warm water was being disintegrated and melted from within!
"What? How is this possible?"
"His Martial Soul isn't fire attribute, yet our ice is starting to melt?"
Looking at the scene before them, Shui Binger and Xue Wu's faces were filled with shock and disbelief.
They could clearly feel that their power was being suppressed by a higher, more powerful force.
The opponent's energy seemed to be the natural nemesis of their ice, not by overpowering it with brute force, but by fundamentally subverting the very basis of ice's existence!
"Ice will eventually melt, transforming into sweet dew that nourishes life.
Your ice cannot trap my vitality." Standing beneath the Great Buddha, Tang Chuan looked calmly at the struggling ice Phoenix and said.
He was using life force to inversely erode and disintegrate the ice attribute!
This was precisely the most fundamental counter of the Blue Silver Emperor's life force against the ice attribute!
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