Chapter 71 - Frozen
That faint but real heartbeat was like a spark ignited on the deadly ice field, instantly burning through the despair that enveloped everyone.
Chu Linyuan knelt on the scorching lava ground, his curled fingers unconsciously closing together. The remaining heat of the Soul Fire Star remained on his fingertips, forming a chilling contrast with his own icy black ice evil spirit.
He lowered his head, his cold gaze like a physical chain, tightly wrapped around Xie Zhao's pale chest which was finally rising and falling slightly.
Every imperceptible rise and fall was like a heavy hammer, hitting the frozen lake of his heart hard, causing cracks to spread on the frozen lake surface.
The cold tip of the Immortal-Slaying Spear reflected his profile, which was as tense as stone. The red glow of the tassel on his waist was still as faint as a candle in the wind, but it was swaying tenaciously, just like Xie Zhao's vitality at the moment, weak, but present.
"Stop crowding around! Disperse! Let some air flow!" Luo Hongyi's voice carried the exhaustion of a survivor and unquestionable authority. She struggled to her feet, her beautiful face stained with sweat and dust, but her eyes remained as sharp as ever.
She quickly gave orders, "Iron Ox! Bring us a large, flat stone slab! It's going to be cold! Quick! Su Tang! Put away the image stone! Maintain the aura of willpower, don't make it too strong, and don't let the fire in his heart burn out! Little Deer! Bunny! Be alert! If anything gets close, just swallow it!"
"Hey!" Tie Niu's massive body exploded with astonishing speed. In a few steps, he rushed to a nearby platform of solidified lava. Xingchen poured brute force into his fists and growled, "Get up for me!" Boom! He forcibly broke off a dark red lava slab the size of a door panel and half a foot thick, carrying it on his shoulder!
The edge of the stone slab was still emitting high heat, burning his bronze skin with a sizzling sound, but he was completely unaware of it. He strode quickly to Xie Zhao's side and carefully placed the stone slab flat on the ground.
"Gently! Put it down gently!" Luo Hongyi watched nervously. Tie Niu held his breath, as if holding fragile glass, and placed the heavy stone slab down steadily, without a single tremor.
Su Tang hurriedly put away the photo stone, and used her psychic eyes to work at full power, carefully guiding the thin halo of wish power, which covered Xie Zhao's heart like the softest veil.
The red spark that was ignited by Chu Linyuan's thoughts and protected by Luo Hongyi's poison chain seemed to stabilize a little under the nourishment of his will.
White Fawn held the weakened Moon-Eating Rabbit, standing alertly on the periphery. Its ruby eyes scanned the vast, silent void, a low gurgling sound emanating from its throat, its small body tense like a ferocious beast poised for action.
Luo Hongyi leaned forward, and a faint green poisonous mist lingered around her fingertips again. This time, the poisonous mist was no longer aggressive, but instead carried a strange vitality.
She was like a skilled embroiderer, her fingertips brushing over Xie Zhao's heart, eyebrows, and dantian very gently. With each brush, a trace of pure poison energy with a sense of harmony and nourishment seeped in, carefully combing his exhausted and chaotic meridians, like guiding a trickle of water on a dry and cracked riverbed, protecting the soul fire that could be extinguished at any time.
"His vitality has been locked... but the backlash from the Burning Life Talisman's blood has taken root in his soul. The Mysterious Ice Evil Qi has only locked up the last bit of vitality in his body. His soul..." Luo Hongyi's voice was low and solemn, "... like a dying lantern in the wind, it could dissipate at any moment."
She raised her eyes and looked at Chu Linyuan, who was still kneeling beside Xie Zhao, like an ice sculpture. "Ice lump! Your evil spirit! The purest source of profound ice! Keep inputting! Don't stop! Use your will to freeze that soul fire...! Freeze it deep in your sea of consciousness! Buy me some time to find a solution!"
Chu Linyuan's body trembled almost imperceptibly. He slowly raised his head. Deep within his cold pupils, beneath the pried-open gap, surged a surge of intense pain and determination.
He didn't speak, merely extending his right hand, still stained with blood and burns. From his fingertips, a pinprick of blue light, condensed to the utmost and emitting the chill of absolute zero, shone once again! This time, the light was no longer violent, but carried an exquisite control, like the most precise chisel of an ice sculptor.
He carefully and extremely slowly pointed his fingertips at Xie Zhao's eyebrows.
The subtle sound was like ice crystals condensing. The dark blue murderous aura of black ice was like the gentlest cold current, flowing along the fingertips, extremely slowly and cautiously seeping into Xie Zhao's sea of consciousness between his eyebrows.
He closed his eyes, concentrating all his will on the tip of his finger, feeling the broken and desolate desolation in Xie Zhao's sea of consciousness, and the loneliness and fragility of the faint soul fire swaying in the endless silence.
This was the only power he excelled in. At this moment, he had to use this power to freeze everything to protect the spark that could be frozen out at any moment.
The precise balance required was far more dangerous and demanding than wielding the Immortal-Slaying Spear. The dark-gold dragon pattern on his cheek flickered as his mind and spirit were consumed. Fine beads of cold sweat oozed from his forehead, then instantly frozen into ice crystals by the murderous aura.
"Not stable enough! Bingtuzi! Heart! Your mind! Thinking about him! Thinking about him being alive! Thinking about his noisy appearance! Use 'thinking' to guide the evil spirit!" Luo Hongyi shouted sternly while quickly mixing several kinds of spiritual herbal poisonous strains emitting strange vitality in his backpack, as if instructing a clumsy apprentice.
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