In the world of frost and snow, great wind howls while the earth shifts.
The ground was covered in solid ice, snowy mountains could be faintly seen. Like the backdrop of a painting, it slowly came to, stone by stone. At the center of this frost filled world were two figures.
One was a man in white blue robe, while the other was a grey white dragon.
It was none other than the Great True Daoist Chu Fu and Zhou Zaizhi.
At this moment, the Great True Daoist had an expression of great satisfaction on his face. Seeing his Divine abilities hit the demon so squarely, a slight smile appeared on his face.
'The lord's technique is truly powerful. I could only blend in four Divine abilities, yet the damage was astronomical.'
Chu Fu squinted his eyes, carefully examining the flood dragon while thinking, 'This attack targets and disintegrates all things of five elements, returning them into nothingness.'
Chu Fu nodded to himself, satisfied with the results.
But the next moment, clear water softly rises from the flood dragon's remaining body parts. The water rose and fell softly in smooth motions, transforming into bones and flesh.
In the next instant, the missing dragon body was healed back into its former state, with not even the slightest scratch.
The Great True Daoist eyes widened in shock upon seeing this.
'Living Water Nurtures the Origin… As expected.'
In truth, this attack alone could heavily injure any normal mid stage Golden Core cultivators, if not kill. The flood dragon surviving was within his expectations.
But what shocked him was not what did the healing, but how.
In that instant, Chu Fu's mind raced as he pondered at lightning speed.
'Both of us are Great True Daoists, possessing roughly equal strength. I may lack his strong dragon body, but my mastery over combat spell arts is superior to his. He shouldn't' have recovered so easily.'
'Although my fifth Divine ability Dark Winter Hidden the Way has yet to be perfected and the spell has not reached its full potential, the gap shouldn't be that wide… Not good!'
The Great True Daoist finally realized something was wrong, but it was too late.
The flood dragon had appeared behind him at an unknown point in time. Its jaw seems to contain something as red liquid flowed down through the gaps of its teeth.
The dragon chewed twice, then swallowed.
Chu Fu scanned with his spiritual senses, and realized with horror that the upper half of his body was gone!
The unknown object in the dragon's mouth was none other than his head and torso!
At this moment, the world of frost and snow crumbled apart like shattered glass.
Before, it was Zhou Zaizhi. Now, it was his turn being caught off guard.
One careless mistake, and he's on the verge of death!
The Great True Daoist's first reaction was not to heal his injuries, but to pour all spiritual powers into a talisman.
In the next moment, he appeared a thousand Li away from his original spot.
The remaining lower half of the Great True Daoist's body squirmed and moved at the spot where it was bitten. The mangled fresh squirmed and mended, but the progress was unbelievably slow.
Compared to the flood dragon's recovering speed, his was simply too slow.
All he could do was create an ice statue on top of his body and put on illusion spells to use as a temporary upper body. Looking at the flood dragon before him in a daze, the Great True Daoist couldn't help but spoke out in shock:
"Perfected Divine abilities, all divine wonders completed, the Dao in harmony… How is this possible?!"
"Weren't you beaten to the verge of death like a stray dog!? It's one thing for you to survive, but to cultivate your sixth Divine abilities to perfection too!"
This situation completely defied common sense!
Years ago when the flood dragon was ambushed, he had dared risk asking his family's True Monarch. The answer he received at that time was exactly this:
"That flood dragon does not have long to live, its death was certain this time. Depending on what wondrous methods that Lord from back then imparted to the flood dragon, its fate could go either way."
"But one thing is for certain, its Life mandate would be severely damaged, its Divine abilities unstable, its Dao Foundation ruined."
"That is inevitable."
'Those were the exact words spoken by the True Monarch himself!' Chu Fu thought in exasperation.
The True Monarch of his family was not only his supreme ancestor, but also the foremost cultivator of Frost Qi of the current era! Back then, despite his usual pride and status, Chu Fu did not dare even move a muscle, much less doubt "Him." He could only bow his head low, knelt on one knee and listened to his ancestor's words like they are Heavenly decrees.
Meanwhile, the flood dragon on the other side was pondering his course of actions and reviewed his plans the instant Chu Fu teleported away.
Seeing the man not dead despite having his head down bitten clean off, the flood dragon frowned.
Zhou Zaizhi activated his second Divine ability, Ten Thousand Streams Converging Sea.
This Divine ability that didn't seem to work well at the beginning now activated seamlessly like flowing water. Before, it was like a frozen lake whenever he tried to probe Chu Fu.
Now, it's like river water in a hot spring. Flowing ceaselessly and smoothly.
With Ten Thousand Streams Converging Sea, Zhou Zaizhi heard all the things the Great True Daoist involuntarily spoke out and thought about. He was shocked to find out that there was actually a True Monarch behind Chu Fu, connected by blood!
'This is bad… I can't kill him, but I can't let him go unpunished either, or else he would come back and harass me endlessly…' Thoughts immediately raced through his mind as he adjusted his strategy.
'I must deal with him properly!'
In that instant, the flood dragon tore through empty space with its claws, creating a rift in space. The scaled beast rushed in and disappeared.
In the next second, the massive flood Dragon appeared directly before the Great True Daoist, sending chills down the man's spine.
Well, the remaining part of the spine, that is.