Chapter 126: The Sword Shatters, the Life Departs

Xiao Yang’s brows furrowed slightly, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart.

Suddenly, a snowflake drifted down.

Xiao Yang gave the Profound-Ice White Tiger a puzzled glance. What was this fellow trying to do? Why had it suddenly started snowing?

Yet all he saw was an innocent expression.

“It really wasn’t me this time.”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger shook its head and said helplessly.

“Not you...”

In an instant, Xiao Yang shuddered.

That left only one possibility: they had encountered a ghost.

The trouble was, neither of them could sense the ghost’s presence. That meant the ghost was rather powerful.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”

A sinister wind swept past.

Both man and tiger shuddered.

Xiao Yang immediately felt chilled to the bone, while the Profound-Ice White Tiger grew furious.

It was an expert in ice, yet it had shuddered because of the cold. Where was its dignity?

“Let me teach this thing a lesson.”

It spoke angrily.

At the same time, it opened its mouth, and pale-blue motes of light began to radiate from its body.

“Demon King Domain: Frozen World!”

The temperature around them plummeted. Even the walls beside them quickly grew coated in a layer of ice.

“Ice Roar!”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger let out an enraged roar.

A gale mixed with freezing air suddenly erupted and surged down the passage ahead.

In an instant, the passage was sealed beneath a thick layer of ice.

At that moment, Xiao Yang saw a translucent shadow struggling within the ice.

However, the Profound-Ice White Tiger had unleashed its attack in fury, and the demonic power it used was naturally immense.

No matter how desperately the shadow struggled, it could not break free from the ice’s restraints.

“When it comes to wielding icy energy, I’m your grandfather!”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger spoke disdainfully.

With that, it strode toward the shadow.

It was just preparing to slap the insolent thing to death when a stream of blue gas suddenly shot out and sprayed directly into its face.

“What the hell is this?”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger cried out in pain and instinctively staggered back two steps.

At that moment, the translucent shadow broke free of its restraints and flew deeper into the passage.

It moved so quickly that even Xiao Yang could barely keep up.

“Damn little specter! How dare you ambush me!”

Once it had recovered, the Profound-Ice White Tiger began to howl angrily.

The whiskers on its face were visibly shorter than before.

It was hard to say whether they had been frozen off.

“Kid... cough, cough! Young master, let’s hurry inside. This king is going to torture that little specter with his own claws.”

This time, unable to quell the resentment in its heart, it was actually urging Xiao Yang deeper into the passage.

That surprised Xiao Yang.

“Look at you. What a disgrace.”

Xiao Yang could not help rolling his eyes.

A dignified Demon King had actually been tricked by a lowly specter.

It was embarrassing just to watch.

“If I don’t kill that bastard today, then from now on, I, the Profound-Ice White Tiger, will be nothing more than a cat!”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger roared viciously.

Furious, it charged ahead, with Xiao Yang following behind.

The motes of light gradually expanded.

Soon, the two of them emerged from the passage and entered a vast open space.

“How huge!”

Xiao Yang swept his gaze around and was immediately astonished.

The place was at least a thousand zhang wide, while the ceiling was no less than one or two hundred zhang high.

The most conspicuous sight was the small palace standing at the very center.

Calling it a palace was somewhat of an exaggeration.

Nevertheless, its materials were extremely exquisite. It had been carved entirely from white jade.

Perhaps because of some formation, layer upon layer of white mist surrounded the small palace.

The first impression it gave was one of celestial splendor.

However, when the Profound-Ice White Tiger saw the palace, it instinctively drew in its neck.

It was plainly frightened.

Xiao Yang happened to notice.

“Does that zombie live in there?”

He asked the question hesitantly.

The Profound-Ice White Tiger hurriedly nodded, confirming his guess.

Upon hearing that, Xiao Yang could not help taking another look at the white-jade palace.

Then he sighed.

“Even after dying, it still gets to live in such a fine place. What a waste!”

As he spoke, his eyes remained fixed on the white-jade palace.

Xiao Yang would have bet that the palace was worth a fortune. Perhaps if he could recycle it, he might even be able to advance into the Marquis realm.

That was why he wanted to give it a try.

If he managed to take the palace away, he might become rich overnight.

He had just started forward when he felt someone tugging at his trouser leg.

“Young master, don’t do anything foolish. If you go over there, that corpse will wake up.”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger looked at Xiao Yang pleadingly.

But Xiao Yang’s purpose was precisely to find the Zombie King.

He simply lifted his foot and kicked the Profound-Ice White Tiger aside.

“Go on, go play somewhere else.”

Then he prepared to move closer.

However, the moment he took a step, strange-colored points of light suddenly appeared all around them.

Red. Blue. Green.

“There are quite a few of them.”

There was no need to think about it. They were clearly all ghosts.

A single glance revealed at least seven or eight hundred of them, perhaps even more.

Even the Profound-Ice White Tiger was stunned. It had not expected there to be so many ghosts.

The last time it had come here, it had not seen nearly this many.

There had only been a few dozen scattered about.

But now, there were at least seven or eight hundred.

“This place isn’t safe. We need to leave, now.”

Although these ghosts were only as strong as Grand Martial Masters, they were no less troublesome than experts in the Marquis realm.

Seven or eight hundred Marquis-level opponents would give even a Martial King a headache if he could not use his domain.

What was more, the Profound-Ice White Tiger dared not use its domain under these circumstances.

The moment it did, the Zombie King in the palace would certainly be awakened.

By then, with a Zombie King leading seven or eight hundred evil ghosts, even a seventh-level Demon King would be torn to pieces.

“There really are quite a few.”

Xiao Yang nodded instead.

The Profound-Ice White Tiger was beside itself with anxiety.

You know there are a lot of them, so why aren’t you leaving?

Why are you still standing here staring?

It nearly wanted to bite Xiao Yang and drag him away.

The danger here had already far exceeded its expectations.

“Uh... why are you taking out a wooden sword?”

The Profound-Ice White Tiger stared at the wooden sword Xiao Yang had suddenly produced and was completely dumbfounded.

Its new master was far too unreliable.

When facing evil ghosts, it would have been bad enough not to take out a spiritual weapon. But he had actually drawn a wooden sword?

Was he planning to give up without a fight?

“Roar!”

An evil ghost suddenly lunged forward.

Its hair hung loose around its face, and its mouth was filled with sharp teeth.

Its eyes were blood-red. As it charged, it raised its vicious ghost claws, intending to tear Xiao Yang to pieces in a single strike.

“Perfect timing!”

Xiao Yang smiled.

He raised the wooden sword and thrust it forward.

Seeing this, the Profound-Ice White Tiger could not help rolling its eyes.

This was an evil ghost close to the Ghost Marquis realm. Forget a wooden sword—even an ordinary spiritual weapon would never be able to harm those ghost claws.

The Profound-Ice White Tiger was already preparing to rescue him.

Screech! Screech! Screech!

There was no scene of the sword breaking and the man dying.

On the contrary, the wooden sword severed the evil ghost’s claws with astonishing ease.

At the same time, it pierced straight into the ghost’s chest.

Almost immediately, black smoke began pouring from the evil ghost’s body.

Soon, its entire body transformed into a mass of black smoke and dispersed into the air.

The Profound-Ice White Tiger’s mouth fell slightly open. It blinked several times in disbelief, thinking it must have seen wrong.

How could a broken wooden sword possibly injure an evil ghost comparable to a Ghost Marquis?

“How is this possible? That evil ghost was really killed?”

It stared uncertainly for a moment longer.

But the evil ghost had indeed been slain.