Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

The human-sized octahedral ice instantly shattered into countless egg-sized octahedral ice shards, shooting towards Bai Jin and the others.

Iyas quickly raised the Holy Light Shield, the egg-sized octahedral ice shards smashed onto Iyas’s shield, turning into countless tiny ice crystals, falling down.

The intensity of this attack wasn’t high, not even piercing Iyas’s Holy Light Shield.

However, this was just the beginning of the assault.

Many of the egg-sized octahedrons didn’t crash towards Iyas and the others, but collided with nearby octahedrons instead.

A ”bam” sound echoed, and under the impact of smaller octahedrons, other octahedrons gradually grew unstable, erupting with numerous egg-sized octahedral ice shards, shooting in all directions.

The first octahedral ice shard exploded, like the first domino falling, triggering a series of chain reactions, causing chained explosions.

In an instant, numerous spindle-shaped octahedral ice cones flew everywhere, densely occupying every space in the sky.

The explosion quickly reached Yang Yu’s position, Yang Yu unfolded his shield and activated [Interception], quickly spreading a giant Illusion Shield, octahedral ice shards hitting his Illusion Shield with a bam, turning into a mist of ice.

Ultimately, Yang Yu had no way to block every octahedral ice cone, with the tiny octahedral ice cones striking more octahedral ice, triggering another series of explosions.

Egg-sized octahedral ice cones collided mid-flight, creating various sizes of ice cones, layer upon layer, densely flying towards Yang Yu from all directions.

Yang Yu quickly figured out how to avoid these densely packed ice cones.

The myriad tiny ice cones would crumble to dust when hitting Tian Hanxue’s pillar.

As long as one stood next to Tian Hanxue’s pillar, one direction could be safeguarded from attack.

The problem was that Yang Yu couldn’t be sure whether the position around Tian Hanxue wasn’t a trap.

In the end, Yang Yu chose to approach Tian Hanxue’s light pillar, using his shield to fend off the oncoming heavy ice from the front, allowing only a thin layer of ice mist to gather on his back.

After withstanding the first few rounds of attacks, the subsequent attacks would gradually weaken, with gaps between the octahedrons, and the newly formed tiny octahedral ice cones having their flight range, unable to fly endlessly in one direction.

As long as one could endure the initial few seconds of the attack, the later assaults wouldn’t reach Yang Yu and the others, posing no real threat.

Bai Jin also realized this; after her barrier withstood the initial few seconds of attack, she immediately withdrew it to conserve magic power for the subsequent attacks.

Due to the fragmentation of the octahedral ice crystals, a large empty space emerged around Tian Hanxue, with wisps of ice fog spreading.

Perhaps fighting in this cleared area could avoid Tian Hanxue suddenly unleashing any skills.

A magic of this scale, is that all? The effects of this magic certainly aren’t just that.

The countless tiny ice crystals scattered on the ground seemed to heed some command, gradually gathering, reforming into egg-sized octahedrons, which in turn layered over each other, restoring into one octahedral ice shard after another at their original positions.

A similar scene played out once more.

An octahedral ice shard grew unstable, then exploded into countless tiny octahedral ice shards, like dominoes falling, causing surrounding octahedrons to explode.

Bai Jin and Yang Yu could only each raise their defenses, once again defending against this sudden explosion.

Due to the skill cooldown, Bai Jin and Yang Yu couldn’t perfectly defend this time, countless sharp ice crystals grazed everyone’s cheeks, blood slowly oozing from the wounds.

The explosions gradually ceased, with scattered ice crystals flying into the air once more.

A streak of red light pierced his palm, coating Yang Yu’s sword blade with orange, as Yang Yu unleashed a powerful strike towards the light pillar where Tian Hanxue stood.

The light pillar adorned with countless images stood unwavering, instantly repelling Yang Yu’s sword blade.

”It’s useless.”

Tian Hanxue continued to wave her fan, reforming the scattered ice crystals into octahedrons again,

”This is our clan’s Secret Treasure, the [Ice Sealed Scroll].

As long as the snow continues unabated, this place can persist indefinitely, repeatedly restoring to its original state, exploding over and over.

Even if you stay by this unaffected light pillar, as long as it attacks over and over, the damage will eventually accumulate.

However, I don’t really need to waste that time.

You should know what I’m getting at by now.....”

Yang Yu understood what Tian Hanxue was hinting at, for the Star Eyes Clan had told Yang Yu that Tian Hanxue’s ability to make time seem to halt was achieved through the accumulation of ice magic power.

Now that Tian Hanxue was using the effect of the [Ice Sealed Scroll], it was certainly accumulating ice magic power.

During that pause, the ice fog in the air, and the snow on the ground could still move, forming one octahedron after another in the air...

When Tian Hanxue used her barrier to make everything around her stop, the exploding ice cones would be able to launch a fierce attack, unaffected by the almost frozen space around them.

Yang Yu and the others, unable to bring out any defensive skills and unable to move, would be inevitably pierced into sieves by these countless ice cones.

Tian Hanxue smiled slightly, believing Yang Yu couldn’t possibly be unaware.

But even if Yang Yu was aware, what could he do about it?

Yang Yu was in a very distant position from his companions.

After enduring two more rounds of attacks, Bai Jin and the others’ defensive measures were gradually depleted, and even if they had other means, they would definitely wait until the attack was imminent to use them, and this, was their flaw...

The time to decide victory or defeat had arrived!

Tian Hanxue saw Yang Yu start running, actively distancing himself from the light pillar, and heading towards Bai Jin and the others.

”Quick response.

But the magic I’ve accumulated in the barrier is more than you can imagine.

This time it really should be over!

Don’t be sad, I’ll soon take you home.”

Tian Hanxue couldn’t help but smile, her cheeks flushed a bright red, and at the thought of what she was about to do, her excitement grew.

At the moment of octahedral fragmentation, Tian Hanxue slightly lowered her folded fan, everything around seemed unchanged, after the first octahedral ice shattered, the rest followed suit like dominoes, exploding.

Yang Yu’s swift steps slowed in an instant, with the space around him haltingly slowing, once again almost coming to a standstill.

Egg-sized octahedral ice shards collided, producing a ”bam” sound, mercilessly and fiercely crashing towards Bai Jin and Yang Yu from all directions.

Bai Jin swung her magic wand only to find it felt immensely heavy, impossible to wield, and she struggled to gather any magic, having no choice but to watch countless ice shards closing in, closer and closer!