"Boom, boom, boom..."
Almost instantly, the fireballs descended, covering the small grove where Abe Hatsu was standing.
For a moment, flames soared, all the fires merging into one. The scorching heat instantly turned the trees and shrubs in this area into charcoal!
These twenty fireballs were no ordinary fireballs; they were explosive fire talismans. This massive blaze, emitting thousands of degrees of heat, was enough to burn a person to ashes.
After more than ten seconds, the flames finally extinguished, not because they were put out, but because everything flammable within the covered area had been burned up!
Even some of the sand and stones on the ground had been fused into glass!
The rain was still falling, though much lighter now. The raindrops hit the scorching ground and evaporated rapidly, shrouding the entire grove in layers of steam.
Dozens of meters away, Aurora and Bis collapsed on the ground, staring in disbelief at the scorched earth.
When the fireballs had appeared, the two had already felt despair, believing they couldn't escape the attack. After all, they were only four or five meters away from Abe Hatsu.
However, they felt a gust of wind, and then their waists were grabbed, and they were instantly pulled over twenty meters away.
Even so, the two women felt the terrifying wave of heat. They could only cling to the ground to avoid being affected by the heatwave.
As the heat gradually dissipated, they discovered a man standing behind them. This man was Ling Tian!
Aurora suddenly understood, and the bizarre situation from before became clear.
Ling Tian had just emerged from the spiritual realm and found the two women cornered by Abe Hatsu. Without a word, Ling Tian pulled out two explosive fire talismans, injected his spiritual energy, and unleashed them all at once, targeting Abe Hatsu!
At this moment, Ling Tian also saw the location of the two women. He quickly increased his speed, his form so fast it was almost invisible to the naked eye. In the nick of time, he scooped them up by their waists, thus preventing them from dying in the explosion.
"Ling Tian, you... weren't you frozen into an ice sculpture?" Aurora asked, finding it hard to believe seeing Ling Tian again, but she was more than happy.
"No, but the situation was indeed very dangerous. That monster's extreme cold energy was too powerful!"
Aurora nodded, appearing somewhat shaken. Her own extreme cold attack had been absorbed by that monster as a great tonic.
Bis patted her chest with her hand and let out a sigh of relief.
"That was too close. I thought we were dead for sure this time. Now we're finally safe..."
"No, it's not that simple. Things aren't over yet!"
Ling Tian said, his eyes fixed on the grove, which was still shrouded in white smoke.
The raindrops hitting the ground were continuously evaporating.
Seeing this, Aurora and Bis also stared intently at the grove.
Finally, as the rain continued to fall, the heat on the ground finally dissipated. At this moment, all three were astonished. In the bare, burnt grove, a massive block of ice, about three meters in length, width, and height, stood upright on the ground!
Suddenly, the surface of the ice block made cracking sounds, and then cracks began to appear on the ice.
Finally, with a loud crack, the ice block shattered into pieces, and within the fragmented ice, two figures emerged!
The three peered closely, and their hearts sank. These two figures were none other than the Onmyoji Abe Hatsu and the Shikigami, the Ice Snow Woman!
However, among the shattered ice on the ground, there were also some corpses and the remains of Shikigami.
It turned out that the moment the fireballs fell, the Ice Snow Woman sensed the danger. Thus, this Shikigami quickly floated to Abe Hatsu's side and unleashed a large amount of cold air, enveloping both him and Abe Hatsu.
Of course, here, the Ice Snow Woman had performed precise control, ensuring that Abe Hatsu would not be directly frozen into an ice sculpture by this cold air.
However, Abe Hatsu's followers were not so fortunate. The two warrior spirit Shikigami, a conch spirit, and Abe Hatsu's attendant, Da Li Wan, were all frozen within the ice block.
The cold air released by the Ice Snow Woman was close to absolute zero. These things were instantly killed by the low temperature. Even the conch spirit, instinctively releasing a shield, could not withstand the invasion of this cold air.
However, it was precisely this ice block that could withstand the thousands of degrees of heat generated by the explosion of those fire talismans.
Even so, the outer layer of ice on the entire ice block had melted by more than a meter!
At this moment, Abe Hatsu was extremely disheveled. He was soaked, partly from the ice water melted by the high temperature and partly from the cold sweat of fear.
Abe Hatsu became even weaker. Having lost three more Shikigami, his spirit was once again severely damaged, and he became listless.
Abe Hatsu looked up and saw Ling Tian. He gasped, finally realizing that the instigator of all this was the person in front of him.
"You... you're not dead? How is this possible..."
"Heh heh, everyone has to die eventually. But even if you have to die, you have to die before me!" Ling Tian said playfully.
"Kid, don't be arrogant. You were lucky to escape just now, but you won't be so fortunate this time. Today, I will freeze you into an ice sculpture, leaving you without even a complete corpse!"
After speaking, Abe Hatsu directly issued a command to the Ice Snow Woman in his mind. The Ice Snow Woman let out a roar, and her pair of scarlet eyes immediately locked onto Ling Tian.
Ling Tian waved his hand behind him and said to Aurora and Bis, "You two, leave first. Stay far away, be careful not to get caught in the crossfire!"
"Okay, be careful!" Aurora said, then turned and pulled Bis to run.
Now, Aurora's confidence in Ling Tian was soaring. She knew that since Ling Tian dared to stay, it meant he already had a way to deal with that monster!
The Ice Snow Woman lunged directly at Ling Tian. When she was about ten meters away, the monster suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed a large mouthful of extreme cold energy.
Just as Ling Tian was about to be enveloped by the extreme cold once again, a massive figure nearly three meters tall suddenly appeared in front of Ling Tian.
The freezing energy directly hit this giant figure and was then absorbed!
Ling Tian smiled and took two steps back. Abe Hatsu finally saw clearly that the figure that had appeared in front of Ling Tian was a giant white bear.