# 721
Chapter 722: Slaying the Snow Woman
Lin Qiye's display of slaughtering massive numbers of demons and monsters was witnessed by both Wu Xiangnan and the knights.
Both fell into profound shock.
Three blades killed so many demons and monsters—who exactly was this person? And what were those blades in his hands?
It seemed like Jialan knew him?
Wu Xiangnan stared at the figure wearing Sun Wukong's mask, for some reason feeling a sense of familiarity...
Lin Qiye gazed at the Snow Woman floating in the air, locked onto her coordinates, and thrust the [Black Rope] in his hand deep into the earth beneath him.
In the next moment, an enormous blade projection appeared in the sky above the Snow Woman's head, carrying terrifying power as it plunged downward. The blade edge cut through the air, producing a mournful howl.
The Snow Woman looked up at the sky, her brow faintly furrowing. She gently raised one arm and pointed into the air.
An octagonal snowflake ice mark凝聚ed above her head, with endless blizzards swirling around it. This ice mark was only about five millimeters thick, yet it resembled an immovable heavy wall, blocking the falling blade projection.
BOOM—!!
The sky-concealing blade projection collided with the snowflake ice mark, producing a thunderous, muffled roar. The blade projection's surface emanated a desolate, ghostly glow, forcefully cracking the snowflake ice mark's surface into dense, web-like patterns.
The Snow Woman's expression stiffened. Her form dissolved into large swaths of ice and snow, vanishing without a trace. Simultaneously, the [Black Rope] projection had already shattered the snowflake ice mark completely and slammed into the earth below, crushing several demons too slow to escape into fragments.
Several hundred meters away, vast amounts of ice and snow gathered, forming the Snow Woman's silhouette once more.
Just then, a streak of night descended from thin air before her.
Lin Qiye's twin blades gleamed like twin moons, slicing through the continuous rain curtain. The surrounding rainwater suddenly froze in mid-air, then converged entirely around the blade bodies, transforming into a ferocious, roaring rain dragon that charged directly toward the Snow Woman's neck with its snow-white blade light.
The Snow Woman's movement speed was swift, but Lin Qiye's [Night Blink] was no slower. Coupled with his psychic perception constantly monitoring the battlefield, no matter where the Snow Woman fled, Lin Qiye could swiftly pursue and attack.
The Snow Woman's eyes narrowed. Her lips parted slightly, as if murmuring something. As the obscure characters吐 from her lips, the charging rain dragon suddenly slowed. Under the blizzard's erosion, snow-white frost flowers began forming inside the rain dragon's body, gradually freezing it into a dragon-shaped ice sculpture.
As this sound spread, the torrential rain in the sky began freezing into ice needles, breaking free from Lin Qiye's control. The frost on the surface of his [Rainfall Collapse] was slowly freezing over...
Before the Snow Woman, [Rainfall Collapse] was completely countered.
Not only that, the ice and snow around Lin Qiye also danced frantically, crystallizing layers of frost upon his body surface. In a few more seconds, he would be frozen solid into an ice sculpture.
The entire world had become a realm of ice and snow.
"What a nuisance..." Lin Qiye's eyes fixed on the Snow Woman, the queen of ice and snow, his brow faintly creasing.
Just as he was about to act, a graceful figure burst forth from the distance like a cannonball. A deep blue hanfu raged wildly in the ice and snow. Jialan forcefully crashed through the blizzard, charging toward the Snow Woman with bare fists.
"Why are you here?" Lin Qiye shouted, seeing Jialan rush in again.
"I've come to fight alongside you!" Jialan's black hair, now speckled with snowflakes, fluttered in the wind, like a girl whose hair had whitened from longing. She turned back, smiling at Lin Qiye. "Don't send me away. I've waited for this day for so long. Even if I can only throw punches today, I want to stand with you!"
Saying this, Jialan rolled up her sleeves, waving her bare white arms twice in the Snow Woman's direction, making a fierce expression.
Lin Qiye stood frozen for a moment. After a long while, a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He reached into his pocket and took the [Celestial Gate] spear, which Jialan had been disarmed of, from his [Comfortable Space], placing it into the Jialan beside him.
"Be careful. Stay behind me later, don't get trapped by the ice and snow, understand?" Lin Qiye looked into Jialan's eyes, speaking seriously.
When Jialan saw the familiar golden spear, surprise flickered in her eyes. She took the [Celestial Gate] and nodded obediently, "Understood."
Lin Qiye sheathed the frost-covered [Rainfall Collapse] and placed his hand on the hilt of [Du'e], though he did not draw it immediately. After all, this blade's side effects were too severe; it was best to unsheathe it at a critical moment.
Lin Qiye had one hand on the blade hilt, the other gripping [Black Rope]. His feet violently stomped the ground, night shattered the ice and snow on his body, and his form shot forward like lightning toward the Snow Woman!
Jialan raised the golden spear, closely following behind Lin Qiye.
The two figures—one black, one blue—nearly simultaneously engaged the Snow Woman amidst the endless blizzard!
Despite the long time that had passed, their coordination remained excellent. Their attacks came in rolling waves, one after another, without the slightest gap, forcing the Snow Woman to retreat steadily.
With [Celestial Gate] reclaimed, Jialan's combat power exploded. The golden pillar of light pierced from the spear's thrust—even the Snow Woman did not dare face it directly. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye疯狂输出 with two Magatsu Blades, completely sealing off the Snow Woman's escape routes.
A verdant green lawn spread beneath Lin Qiye once more. As time passed, fresh flower buds bloomed on the Snow Woman's skin surface. These buds opened in the ice and snow, devouring her power and vitality.
CLANG—!!
Jialan thrust her spear out. The dazzling golden pillar of light directly shattered the ice frost wall the Snow Woman had gathered. Simultaneously, a black figure holding twin long blades swept toward the Snow Woman's front, twin blades like butterfly wings, dancing through the ice and snow.
Under the continuous weakening of [Eternal Secret Garden], the Snow Woman's movements grew increasingly sluggish, her wounds multiplying...
And these wounds were all inflicted by Lin Qiye's [Du'e].
As the wounds accumulated, the disaster curse afflicting the Snow Woman grew stronger and stronger. Her movement errors increased sharply, and her combat power began plummeting.
Lin Qiye blocked the barrage of ice blades with [Black Rope], then violently stepped forward. A tinge of pitch-black night dyed both blade surfaces. He used the momentum to spin half a circle in the blizzard, and as the Snow Woman hastily retreated before him, he slashed out an X-shaped strike.
Night tore through the air, as if to cleave the stars from the sky. In that instant, Lin Qiye poured the vast majority of his spiritual power into this single strike, as chilling killing intent erupted forth!
[Star-Cleaving Technique].
The Snow Woman's pupils contracted. She wanted to dissolve her form into ice and snow once more to escape, but under the disaster curse's effect, her movement was directly interrupted. Her form returned to its original position.
At the same moment, two absurdly massive幽色 X-shaped blade strikes passed through the Snow Woman's body, cutting the endless blizzard asunder and surging straight up into the clouds!