CHIIIIIIING—KREE-OOOOOOOH!
As thirty-two-year-old Gu Changsheng channeled his newly perfected Rank 7 Late planetary Household Qi into Empress Luo Qingxue’s [Ice-Phoenix Soul Hairpin], a clear, heaven-shaking phoenix cry echoed out of the translucent blue jade. It carried the undying maternal love of a mother who had endured twelve years in the ninth sub-zero level of the Frozen Astral Prison to protect her husband and children.
Out of the tip of the hairpin soared a breathtaking, three-hundred-mile-wide phantom of a Nine-Heavens Sovereign Frost Phoenix. Its wings were woven from pure blue-silver starlight and warm golden household faith.
Ten feet in front of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard’s] white picket fence—and less than thirty feet above the flagpole of Willow-Creek Boarding Elementary School. The roaring, one-thousand-foot-tall tsunami of black floodwater and Rank 7 Corrosive Heavy-Water collided head-on with the sweeping wings of the Frost Phoenix.
Up on the dam parapet, Chosen One Long Aotian leaned forward over his red velvet carpet, waiting for the corrosive heavy-water to melt the ice-phoenix phantom into black sludge.
Instead—
CRACK-KRAK-KRAK-KRAK-SHIIIIIIING!
Because Empress Luo Qingxue was a genuine Rank 8 Star-Realm Frost-Sword Empress whose innate law stood a full major realm above every substance in the Lower Astral Corridor. Because Gu Changsheng’s Rank 7 Late Synthesis & Household Qi automatically purified the toxic heavy-water molecules on contact—the five thousand barrels of corrosive poison didn’t melt the ice at all!
