On the other side, just as the Snow Emperor used Imperial Palm—Great Cold Without Snow to smash apart Mu Xiyue's Fire Shadow True Body, more than twenty li away, Mu Yang, who was in the midst of advancing with the aid of a God-bestowed spirit ring, had more or less guessed the identity of this unexpected visitor.
He knew well the strength of his aunt. Across the entire continent, there were only a handful of beings capable of destroying her Fire Shadow True Body with a single strike.
Couple that with the opponent's ice-attribute, and considering he himself had just pulled off a big operation in the Extreme North—if this wasn't the Snow Emperor coming for revenge, Mu Yang would never believe it even if he died!
Of all times—why now?! Damn, what timing!
Mu Yang couldn't help but curse inwardly.
The Snow Emperor was over six hundred thousand years old, incomparably powerful, and wielded the ultimate Extreme Ice and Snow. In the Extreme North, Mu Yang didn't think he could defeat her at all. At best, even with a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, he might manage to save his own life.
But in the outside world, especially with the academy's many experts to assist, Mu Yang would not be afraid in the slightest—provided he was free to act.
Had he not been in the middle of attaching a new spirit ring, then with Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow's strength, and the academy's experts joining forces, driving off the Snow Emperor would be entirely possible.
If, moreover, he had already completed his advancement to Nine Rings Title Douluo, then with Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow stepping into the divine threshold as expected, not only would repelling the Snow Emperor be easy, even capturing her alive wouldn't be impossible.
But her arrival was simply too perfectly timed. At this very moment, he was undergoing advancement through the spirit ring, unable to fight, and worse—his immobility made him a glaring weak point his allies would be forced to protect.
After a moment's thought, Mu Yang split his concentration—on one hand fully refining the God-bestowed spirit ring's energy, on the other he removed the soul tool storage bracelet from his wrist, erased his spirit imprint, and tossed it to Shui Bing'er nearby. Through spiritual transmission, he instructed:
"Bing'er, the one who's come is a mighty foe wielding the ultimate Extreme Ice. She suppresses ice Spirit Masters and restrains fire Spirit Masters weaker than herself. My bracelet still holds many spirit power consumables. Have vice dean Feng Ye deliver them to the Dean and the others."
The Silver-Jade Undying Ginseng could be preserved indefinitely, and Mu Yang had produced many before. Huo Lie and the others already carried two or three each as life-saving trump cards.
But as for other spirit power foods, Huo Lie and the rest had none in storage.
After all, other Spirit Masters couldn't fully exploit the Purple-Jade Xuanhuang Ginseng's effects. For them, it only doubled the potency of their next spirit skill. Since Mu Yang himself required the Purple-Jade Xuanhuang Ginseng to create doubled-effect consumables, he hadn't handed them out.
Moreover, ordinary consumables could not be stored indefinitely due to the age of the spirit skill they were crafted from. Unless certain of an impending powerful enemy, Mu Yang never distributed such foods in advance, lest they go to waste.
Even he himself carried no permanent supply. He would craft them only when needed.
Fortunately, this time was different. Before setting out to hunt in the Extreme North, Mu Yang had known what enemies he would face. Thus, he stocked his storage tool with many consumables crafted from sub-Seventh Ring spirit skills—even including the narrowly useful Yellow-Jade Detox Ginseng.
That one was specifically for the Ice Emperor.
The Ice Emperor's true body was the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor. And as a scorpion, poison was inevitable.
If stung by her tail, the agony would surely be unbearable. The Yellow-Jade Detox Ginseng cost little to make, so having some on hand was simply prudent preparation.
Most importantly, because of rewards from the God Trials, even Mu Yang's lowest spirit ring was now over ten thousand years old.
For instance, the Red-Jade Soul-Returning Ginseng, which at its weakest only lasted three days, had gained extended preservation when made with ten-thousand-year skills—up to ten days. Right now, all of these consumables were still within their effective duration.
The only reason they hadn't been used earlier was that the recent hunt had gone too smoothly.
Now, with the immortality granted by the Silver-Jade Undying Ginseng, the buffs from various spirit herbs, and the aid of Feng Ye—once the Vice-Dean of Divine Wind Academy, now one of the Four Commissioners of the Elemental Sacred Academy—Huo Lie's group would have no trouble restraining the Snow Emperor.
As long as they held her down until Mu Yang finished refining his spirit ring and advanced to Nine Rings Title Douluo, the Snow Emperor would no longer be able to stir any waves.
Upon receiving the message, Shui Bing'er immediately caught the bracelet Mu Yang had tossed. She distributed the consumables within to all present, and gave the rest to Vice dean Feng Ye, who, unrestrained by the Snow Emperor's suppression, went to aid the battle.
At first, the Snow Emperor paid little mind to Feng Ye's arrival.
Though this man had only eight rings, his spirit power aura was as strong as a newly advanced Nine Rings master—strange, but hardly something she considered threatening.
After all, a fresh Nine Rings opponent was not enough to trouble her.
But once Feng Ye handed out the consumables to Huo Lie's trio, the Snow Emperor suddenly found herself with a pounding headache.
Quite literally a headache—for she realized that after ingesting the various spirit ginsengs, Huo Lie and the others' strength surged massively. Her attacks on them produced far less damage, and worse, each strike she landed triggered a backlash of fierce spiritual shock.
The Azure-Jade Thorn Ginseng, when consumed, formed Thornlight that reflected 40% of physical and energy damage back to the attacker in the form of spiritual impact.
With the amplification of the Purple-Jade Xuanhuang Ginseng, that reflection rose to 80%. Though it was purely spiritual shock and only at 80% of the original attack's strength, it was still enough to make the Snow Emperor extremely wary.
Fortunately, she had not used Imperial Palm or Imperial Sword when first unaware of this reflection. Otherwise, killing her opponents "again" would have simultaneously subjected her to spiritual backlash equal to 80% of Imperial Palm—Great Cold Without Snow or Imperial Sword—Peerless Ice. That much force could have grievously wounded her spirit.
With Feng Ye's joining—in truth, with Huo Lie's trio empowered by the spirit ginsengs—the battle instantly shifted.
Opponents who had been mere undying sandbags suddenly became prickly hedgehogs impossible to grasp. The Snow Emperor found herself bound hand and foot.
It must be said—on the Douluo Continent, whether a Spirit Master had strong auxiliary teammates could utterly transform their effective strength.
Take Mu Yang for example. Even setting everything else aside, just a single Blue-Jade Ascending Dragon Ginseng that raised all attributes by 80% would be enough to make a Spirit Master below level 90 invincible among peers, and even allow Title Douluo above level 90 to challenge across ranks.
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