Chapter 30: Leaving the Eastern Wasteland

The Four-Armed Ice Ape actually possessed the strength of a Great Perfection stage, with its innate Water Energy permeating the entire Ice Palace. As soon as Qu Yi appeared, the Four-Armed Ice Ape rushed at him immediately. All the Water Energy in the Ice Palace turned into ice, forming an ice wall that pressed down on Qu Yi like a solid barrier.

Qu Yi quickly sidestepped to avoid the direct attack from the Four-Armed Ice Ape. He already had the Six Harmonies Blade in hand and fiercely slashed at the incoming ice wall. Although it wasn’t powered by his true energy, the sharpness of this top-tier spiritual weapon made it impossible for the ice wall to withstand it. Wherever the Six Harmonies Blade passed, the ice wall shattered instantly, creating an ice tunnel.

Qu Yi sneered and immediately darted out through the ice tunnel he had cut, arriving right at the ice platform in the center of the Ice Palace.

Seeing that its attacks hadn’t crushed Qu Yi, the Four-Armed Ice Ape roared furiously. The ice wall disappeared instantly, and it turned angrily—only to see Qu Yi standing on the ice platform, waving triumphantly.

At that moment, after seeing Qu Yi on the platform, the Four-Armed Ice Ape stopped attacking. Though still filled with rage, it no longer took a step forward, seemingly determined to devour Qu Yi but unable to act.

Qu Yi said with a smile, “Ice Ape, it seems that the Ice Palace set up by Emperor Hao ensures that as long as a cultivator reaches this ice platform, you can’t attack them.”

Hearing this, the Four-Armed Ice Ape began pounding the air with its four arms as if trying to tear Qu Yi apart alive.

Qu Yi waved his hand and stepped onto the spatial teleportation array in the center of the ice platform. Suddenly, a flash of white light appeared, and he vanished.

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The nine major sects continued to fight against the ice-shaped monsters that kept emerging on the ice platform, while the gaps in the ice wall beside it gradually widened.

After ten thousand ice-shaped monsters died, the gaps in the ice wall in front of the nine sects had widened enough for a person to pass through.

Let’s go!

As soon as the powerful warriors from the nine sects saw an ice tunnel form, they quickly flew into it to escape the attacks of the ice-shaped monsters.

The first sect to escape was the Taiyuan Sect. Upon entering the Ice Palace, the four members of the Taiyuan Sect, just like Qu Yi, saw the Four-Armed Ice Ape turn all the Water Energy in the palace into an ice wall, pressing down on them.

“Damn it! There’s another Great Perfection stage monster here!” Ta Ming shouted angrily. Along with the other three powerful warriors, he used their four top-tier spiritual weapons to slash at the incoming ice wall.

The ice wall shattered at the slightest touch. The four members of the Taiyuan Sect were overjoyed in their panic—finally finding a way to counter the Four-Armed Ice Ape.

The Four-Armed Ice Ape, seeing that the four members of the Taiyuan Sect, just like Qu Yi, each possessed an elite spiritual weapon that completely nullified its ice wall spell, became furious and fell into a state of madness.
Roar! Roar!
The Four-Armed Ice Ape had already allowed Qu Yi to gain an advantage, and it refused to let the four Taiyuan Sect members reach the ice platform so easily as well. As the ice wall shattered, the Four-Armed Ice Ape stomped its feet and crossed its arms, creating four ice vortices that rushed toward the four Taiyuan Sect members.
Inside these ice vortices were countless sharp ice blades spinning at high speed. If they cut into someone’s body, they could freeze their vital energy.
The four Taiyuan Sect members reluctantly created protective energy shields while swiftly swinging their elite spiritual weapons to shatter the ice blades in the vortices. At the same time, they noticed the ice platform in the center of the ice palace and sensed the spatial teleportation array on it.
“Let’s work together to reach the ice platform,” Tai Ming exclaimed, realizing something.
Soon, the four Taiyuan Sect members gathered close together, connected their vital energies, and began spinning simultaneously, forming a powerful vortex of vital energy that collided head-on with the ice vortices sent by the Four-Armed Ice Ape.
Although the ice vortices of the Four-Armed Ice Ape possessed the power of the Great Perfection stage and were beyond the combined strength of the four Taiyuan Sect members, the constant depletion of their vital energy by the ice blades did not stop their vortex from persisting, and their bodies continued to move rapidly toward the ice platform.
At this moment, smiles appeared on the faces of the four Taiyuan Sect members.
Seeing that its ice vortices still couldn’t hold back the four Taiyuan Sect members, the Four-Armed Ice Ape roared frantically. Suddenly, it transformed into four afterimages of itself, attacking the vortex of vital energy formed by the four Taiyuan Sect members from all directions.
The four Taiyuan Sect members reacted swiftly. Their vortex suddenly changed shape into a tornado, enveloping them as it lifted them straight to the ice platform.
When the vital energy tornado disappeared, the four Taiyuan Sect members stood on the ice platform, smiling coldly as they watched the Four-Armed Ice Ape running wildly in the ice palace.
“Goodbye!” Tai Ming said with a light smile.
The four Taiyuan Sect members stepped into the spatial teleportation array, and in a flash of white light, they vanished.
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Not long after the four Taiyuan Sect members left, five members of the Jin Yang Sect entered the ice palace and soon found an ice ape with four arms charging at them violently.

After realizing that the ice walls it created were no match for humans, the Four-Armed Ice Ape stopped using them and focused all its vital energy on its own body. It swung its arms, firing waves of ice fists at the five members of the Jin Yang Sect. These ice fists were formed from the primordial energy of water, and as they struck the five individuals, the entire space seemed to transform into an icy world, filled with extreme cold. The five members of the Jin Yang Sect reacted quickly, merging their vital energies into a large golden light sphere that protected them, before charging forward to collide with the incoming ice fists. When the ice fists hit the light sphere, it was covered with a thin layer of ice, but the five’s vital energies quickly shattered the ice, allowing the attacks to continue toward the ice altar at the center of the ice palace. The five members of the Jin Yang Sect had also discovered the secret of the ice altar. Just as the Four-Armed Ice Ape was furious and ready to launch another barrage of ice fists, two more ice holes appeared on the four walls of the ice palace—strong warriors from the Qing Yun Sect and Bai Shou Peak had also entered. Roar! Realizing two more groups had arrived, the Four-Armed Ice Ape let out a fierce cry before splitting into three clones, each attacking the warriors from the Jin Yang Sect, Qing Yun Sect, and Bai Shou Peak simultaneously. These three clones all possessed the strength of the Mahayana stage, and their ice fists were just as powerful. The warriors from the three sects created vital energy shields to protect themselves while quickly moving toward the ice altar at the center of the ice palace. Seeing that its three clones couldn’t break through any of the shields, the Four-Armed Ice Ape became enraged and recombined into one entity, launching a full-force attack at the Qing Yun Sect. From previous attacks, it had realized that the Qing Yun Sect was weaker than the Jin Yang Sect and Bai Shou Peak, despite having six members. This gave the warriors from the Jin Yang Sect and Bai Shou Peak an advantage, allowing them to easily land on the ice altar. The five members of the Jin Yang Sect and the five from Bai Shou Peak exchanged glances but did not attack each other immediately. The five from the Jin Yang Sect entered the spatial teleportation array first, and after they left, the five from Bai Shou Peak followed. Seeing that the warriors from the Jin Yang Sect and Bai Shou Peak had gone, the six members of the Qing Yun Sect understood that the ice altar was the key to leaving the Dong Huang region of the Haotian Immortal Mansion. They gathered their vital energies once more to withstand the furious ice fists thrown by the Four-Armed Ice Ape. A blue light shield carried the six members of the Qing Yun Sect slowly toward the ice altar.

The Four-Armed Ice Ape watched helplessly as Qu Yi, the Taiyuan Sect, the Jinyang Sect, and the Hundred Beasts Peak left one after another effortlessly. Seeing the Qingyun Sect about to leave the Ice Palace just like the other sects, it became so enraged that it finally lost its sanity.

Suddenly, the Four-Armed Ice Ape transformed into five afterimages, or five avatars. One of these avatars struck the blue light shield formed by the six people from the Qingyun Sect and exploded outright.

An avatar at the Mahayana stage’s explosion was beyond the resistance of the true energy shield of those six people in the later stages of the tribulation. The shield shattered instantly, and all six of them spat out mouthfuls of blood.

At that moment, the other four avatars of the Four-Armed Ice Ape rushed forward simultaneously, attacking the four strong members of the Qingyun Sect.

All six members of the Qingyun Sect were severely injured. With four of them already under attack from the Four-Armed Ice Ape, whose strength was at the Mahayana stage, how could they possibly resist?

Suddenly, one of the strong members of the Qingyun Sect channeled all his true energy, enveloping the other five and pushing them straight toward the Ice Altar, while detonating his own Yuan Ying.

The detonation of a strong person’s Yuan Ying in the later stages of the tribulation carried a destructive power comparable to that of a Mahayana being. It managed to injure all four of the Four-Armed Ice Ape’s avatars, with one of them even losing two arms.

The five strong members of the Qingyun Sect arrived at the Ice Altar and cried out in grief, “Bi Luo!”

Bi Luo, the strong member of the Qingyun Sect, had already detonated his Yuan Ying, so naturally, he could not respond to them.

The Four-Armed Ice Ape, now reassembled, had a weaker aura, its eyes radiating cold fury as it glared at the five members of the Qingyun Sect on the Ice Altar.

Qing Xu, the leader of the Qingyun Sect, sighed and said, “Let’s go!”

Soon, the five members of the Qingyun Sect entered the space teleportation array inside the Ice Altar. With a flash of white light, they disappeared.

The Four-Armed Ice Ape let out furious roars, nearly losing its mind. It frantically grabbed its own head as if trying to tear it off.

At that moment, five ice caves appeared simultaneously on the four walls of the Ice Palace. Strong members from the Blue Sun Palace, the Ying Tian Sect, the Cang Yang Valley, the Xian Yue Cliff, and the Nine Palaces Island all arrived in the Ice Palace at the same time.

Before the Four-Armed Ice Ape could react, the strong members of these five sects each unleashed their ultimate spells to attack it. At the same time, they flew straight toward the Ice Altar.

The Four-Armed Ice Ape’s aura weakened slightly, and it was too slow to react. It could only defend against the spells coming from all five directions. Ice layers formed, freezing the spells sent by the strong members of the five sects.

By then, all the strong members of the five sects had arrived at the Ice Altar.

Roar! Roar!

The Four-Armed Ice Ape let out another furious roar.

“Goodbye, Four-Armed Ice Ape!”

As the strong warriors from the five factions entered the space teleportation array one after another, they jokingly greeted the four-armed ice ape. By the time the strong warriors left the Ice Palace, Qu Yi, who was the first to leave, had already arrived in a world filled with stone mountains and forests.