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323: Crazy GuardianThe biting wind was like a knife, whipping up ancient snow dust from the ice plain, howling like ghosts and wolves.

Lin Jingyu was hidden behind a massive ice prism, his Spirit Refining Art operating at its peak, merging his aura with the surrounding frigid ice environment, becoming almost imperceptible.

His gaze, sharp as an eagle’s, pierced through the swirling wind and snow, fixed on the towering, ancient Ice and Snow Temple several miles away, and the purgatorial scene before it.

Tens of thousands of guardian deities! Each exuding terrifying pressure comparable to a Golden Core Cultivator!

They varied in form, some as vast as mountains, either prostrate, standing upright, or circling in the low sky. Their ice crystal bodies were covered in grotesque wounds, and frozen blue blood resembled eerie tattoos. Their crimson eyes burned with pure savagery and madness, and low roars rose and fell, filled with a desire to destroy everything.

Unconcealed hostility filled the air between them. Every heavy stomp, every swipe of a sharp claw, caused the earth to tremble and ice shards to fly.

A dense, unyielding Evil Qi, mixed with their primal, savage aura, formed a suffocating force field that enveloped the entire area.

And deep within that temple, an even older, colder, and more majestic will pulsed slowly and powerfully, like the heart of a slumbering primordial beast.

Each pulse seemed to resonate with the icy Laws of this world, causing the Void Realm to tremble slightly.

That will carried a supreme indifference, as if observing the group of frenzied “servants” before the gate, yet also as if waiting for something.

”Roar!”

A deafening sound came.

Many guardian deities of various forms.

All lowered their heads.

Several kilometers away, an exceptionally massive strange beast approached.

It was a giant bear wreathed in frost power, dozens of meters tall, its body covered in light blue runes.

Its aura was incredibly terrifying; even facing the Sect Master of Qinglan Sect that day hadn’t evoked such bone-deep fear.

It was clearly the leader among these guardian deities.

”So many guardian deities gathered here... and they clearly slaughtered many Human Race tribes. Why are they so frenzied? Is the awakened will deep within the temple the ’Ancient God’ mentioned by the Prophet and Ancestor Ape? Or is it the root cause of all these anomalies?”

Lin Jingyu’s thoughts raced, his brows tightly furrowed. The situation before him far exceeded his imagination. Not to mention that he was only at the Peak of Ninth Level Qi Refining now, even if he successfully achieved Foundation Establishment and Core Formation, being besieged by this group of frenzied guardian deities would undoubtedly lead to certain death.

He cautiously tried to extend his Divine Sense forward, but as soon as it approached the outer perimeter of the temple, it was torn to shreds by countless violent and chaotic mental energies. Several hostile Divine Senses instantly swept over, startling him into immediately retracting his Divine Sense completely, not daring to make any further moves.

What secrets does this temple hold?

Perhaps only by entering it could he find out.

”I can’t force my way in,” Lin Jingyu instantly judged.

He scanned his surroundings, looking for a possible Breakthrough point. The front of the temple was an absolute death trap, and the steep, smooth ice cliffs on either side, towering into the clouds, also seemed unscalable.

Perhaps... he could only wait for an opportunity, or search for another entrance.

So many Guardian Strange Beasts had come here, clearly not just for a stroll, so it was best to wait for a while.

Just as he was observing intently, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

The two massive ice crystal gates of the temple, a hundred zhang tall and carved with countless Ancient Gods and demons in battle, suddenly trembled violently.

A denser blue light emanated from the gap in the gates, and the slumbering will suddenly became much clearer, as if something was awakening behind the gates, about to emerge.

”Roar—!”

This was like dropping cold water into a boiling oil pot; all the frenzied guardian deities in front of the temple completely erupted.

One after another, they exuded a tyrannical aura.

The enormous guardian deity bear, closest to the temple and bearing ice peaks on its back, let out an earth-shattering roar. It stood upright, swinging its mountain-like giant paw, wrapped in a freezing current that solidified space, and slammed it fiercely against the tightly shut temple gate.

”Boom! Boom! Boom!”

The giant paw collided with the temple gate, creating an earth-shattering roar!

Ice shards splattered, runes flickered, but the temple gate remained motionless. Instead, a powerful rebound force erupted, shaking the giant bear guardian deity backward, the sound of its shattered metacarpals clearly audible.

The residual energy from the collision alone spread out like a tangible shockwave.

A Guardian Strange Beast, shaped like a leopard, unable to dodge in time, was instantly pulverized into a plume of shimmering ice crystal dust under the violent energy, vanishing into the wind, without even a chance to scream.

This strike was like igniting a long-accumulated powder keg.

”Awoo!”

A monstrous bird guardian deity, with wings spanning the sky and feathers like ice blades, shrieked into the heavens. Its wings flapped wildly, unleashing countless swirling ice blade storms capable of cutting metal and shattering jade, pouring down like a breached celestial river, overwhelming everything.

The temple gate also began to rumble.

”Hiss-Ang!”

A colossal ice crystal python, its scales shimmering with eerie blue light, coiled like a mountain, suddenly shot out. Its gaping maw opened, and a pale white freezing breath swept out like a death ray. Wherever it passed, the space emitted an unbearable ”crackling” sound, as if it were about to be completely frozen and shattered.

Chaos! Utter chaos!

The accumulated madness of the Guardian Strange Beasts completely erupted at this moment!

They were no longer merely threatening and confronting but launched an extremely tragic and irrational attack.

Using all means to attack the great gate of the Ice and Snow Temple.

And each ripple from the temple gate’s vibration would extinguish several Guardian Strange Beasts.

Various innate ice Divine Abilities violently collided and exploded, brilliant and deadly light constantly flashing, transforming this ice plain into the most brutal battlefield of gods and demons.

Ice-blue blood splattered like torrential rain, dyeing the pristine snow a bizarre and desolate blue canvas.

Violent energy shockwaves rose higher and higher, spreading wildly like a tsunami, stirring up thousands of snow piles and shattering ten thousand-year-old ice.

Lin Jingyu held his breath, pushing the Spirit Refining Art’s concealment ability to its limit, his mind shaken beyond measure.

He saw a majestic lion-shaped guardian deity, its aura comparable to a Foundation Establishment Mid-stage Cultivator, swept by a divine light.

Its protective spiritual light was torn apart, its massive body was ripped asunder, and divine blood spilled across the sky.

More guardian deities were wounded and roared in the melee, even indiscriminately unleashing destructive attacks on all moving targets around them, the battlefield becoming utterly chaotic.

”Are they attacking the temple, or are they slaughtering each other?”

Lin Jingyu frowned deeply, looking at the hundreds of incredibly frenzied guardian deities, completely disregarding friend or foe.