Xue Wuxia's eyes opened blankly, a manic smile frozen on her face, and a sliver of despair grew within her gaze.
*Puff!*
She coughed up another mouthful of blood.
Her aura plummeted from the Great Accomplishment King realm.
Instantly.
She was utterly withered.
Ling Fan cast a cold glance at her.
Then, his gaze fell upon the vast Snow King Palace.
As his gaze sharpened.
The Red Lotus imprint quietly appeared.
*Boom!*
*Boom!*
*Boom!*
In mere moments, terrifying flames erupted from every corner of the Snow King Palace, transforming the entire palace into a boundless sea of fire.
Amidst the crackling explosions of flames.
Were interspersed countless cries, desperate wails, and struggles.
These were the powerful figures of the Snow King Palace who had no time to escape.
They, too, turned to ashes along with the great fire that consumed the entire Snow King Palace.
"No! No! Don't!"
Xue Wuxia's body trembled violently. Watching her life's work, painstakingly built over decades, go up in smoke, she felt as though she could not breathe from the pain.
At this moment.
She was no longer the aloof Ice Snow Queen she once was.
She suddenly knelt towards Ling Fan, kowtowing repeatedly and pleading, "Please, stop! Spare our Snow King Palace! Your wife merely suffered a little grievance, and you have collected more than enough interest. Are you still not satisfied! Must you utterly annihilate our Snow King Palace!"
"You are correct. In my eyes, a single little finger of my wife is worth ten thousand times more than all your lives in the Snow King Palace combined!"
"Therefore, die!"
Ling Fan said indifferently.
"Ancestor, Ancestor! How long will you stand by and do nothing? Are you afraid of this brat! Why haven't you acted yet!"
Xue Wuhen suddenly roared frantically towards the deepest recesses of the Snow King Palace.
Ling Fan narrowed his eyes and looked towards the depths of the Snow King Palace.
However, after waiting for a long time.
There was no movement whatsoever.
Ling Fan let out a disdainful laugh.
He looked at Xue Wuxia.
Xue Wuxia gave a self-deprecating smile, her face filled with bitterness.
"My greatest mistake was allowing someone to escort your wife from the Flowing Cloud Kingdom. If I had known this day would come, I should have let your wife leave earlier, or perhaps, continued to pour all my resources into cultivating her. Maybe then the Snow King Palace would not have fallen to this state today."
"Lan Xueyi, I envy you. You have a good husband."
Xue Wuxia cast a deep look at Lan Xueyi.
After speaking, she closed her eyes abruptly.
She struck her own heart with a palm.
*Boom!*
With that palm strike, Xue Wuxia's heart was instantly shattered by her own hand. Her entire being transformed into an ice sculpture in an instant, frozen in the posture of helplessness and despair as she knelt.
Lan Xueyi felt a twinge of reluctance.
But ultimately, she said nothing.
She would not question any of Ling Fan's decisions.
"Wait for me, I'm going to take everything from the Snow King Palace treasury."
After Ling Fan spoke, he walked alone into the sea of fire.
The incredibly fearsome flames parted to create a path.
Soon, the flames closed in.
Ling Fan's figure was once again swallowed by the flames.
...
In the sky surrounding the snow mountain.
The powerful figures from the various forces of the Upper Realm silently watched the Snow King Palace, now reduced to a sea of fire, falling into silence.
The Snow King Palace...
Was destroyed!
Before their arrival, they had never anticipated such an outcome.
They had expected Ling Fan to be thwarted by the Snow King Palace.
Perhaps even to be forcefully suppressed by the Snow King Palace.
However, they never imagined that Ling Fan would ultimately be the one to destroy the Snow King Palace single-handedly!
Even Xue Wuxia, a supreme giant of the Upper Realm and a dignified Great Accomplishment King, could only commit suicide in despair.
It could now be foreseen.
When this news spread throughout the entire Upper Realm, the entire Upper Realm would be shaken as never before.
...
"Fierce! So fierce!"
The toad exclaimed excitedly, its eyes filled with fervor.
It became even more resolute in its decision to follow Ling Fan.
"Lord Toad, how high do you think Senior Ling's strength is? Can he be compared to the legendary Core Formation realm Martial Venerable!"
Wu Zhi, still reeling from the shock, said with awe.
"Who knows! In any case, Venerable Ling is invincible!"
The toad said nonchalantly.
...
Within the sea of fire.
Ling Fan spread his divine sense and quickly located the Snow King Palace's treasury.
Soon.
The Snow King Palace's millennium of accumulated treasures was swept up by him.
Its richness even surprised him slightly.
Judging by this foundation alone, the Snow King Palace was indeed worthy of being one of the top three behemoths in the Upper Realm.
"I need to see someone."
Just as Ling Fan was about to take Lan Xueyi away, Lan Xueyi said.
The two of them went to the back mountain of the Snow King Palace.
Lan Xueyi quickly found Zhou Lu.
"Ling Fan, this is Sister Zhou Lu. She took good care of me when I was assigned as a menial laborer."
Ling Fan smiled slightly at Zhou Lu.
"Thank you."
"No, no, I treat Xueyi like my own sister. This is what I should do." Zhou Lu waved her hands repeatedly.
She knew very well that this seemingly harmless young man before her was a terrifying existence who had single-handedly destroyed the Snow King Palace.
"None of you need to be menial laborers for the Snow King Palace anymore. I will have Wu Zhi of the Four Symbols Sect make arrangements for you."
Ling Fan said.
The hundreds of female disciples who were menial laborers at the ice crystal mine let out a thunderous cheer.
"Sister Zhou Lu, you should come with us first."
Returning to the front of the Snow King Palace.
Wu Zhi quickly scurried over.
"Congratulations, Senior Ling, congratulations, Senior Ling. After this battle, you are the number one person in the Upper Realm. Who dares to contend with you!"
Ling Fan said to Wu Zhi, "Stop flattering me. I have something to ask you to do."
Ling Fan explained the matter of arranging for the menial laborers from the back mountain.
Wu Zhi's eyes lit up and he said, "What's so difficult about that? Senior Ling, rest assured, it's all on me! I'll arrange it in minutes! With so many beauties from the Snow King Palace joining our Four Symbols Sect, our disciples in the Four Symbols Sect will be overjoyed."
"They are not joining, just temporarily residing at your Four Symbols Sect. Also, do not let me hear anyone harassing them."
"Yes!"
Wu Zhi indeed handled the matter efficiently.
Soon, all the women were arranged by him and headed to the Four Symbols Sect under his personal escort.
Ling Fan waited until they were far away before mounting the demonic beast and flying away from the snow mountain.
On the demonic beast.
The toad's gaze fell upon the depths of the Snow King Palace ruins.
After a long while, it turned its head and said to Ling Fan, "Venerable Ling, I always feel like there's still someone in the depths of the Snow King Palace... and a very powerful existence at that!"
Ling Fan nodded.
"Your feeling is correct."
The toad was startled.
Lan Xueyi was also surprised.
" then why didn't this person act, and watch with folded arms as you destroyed the Snow King Palace."
"Because this person lacked confidence."
Ling Fan said.
After speaking, he thought for a moment and added, "Although I am not afraid of this person, I am worried it might affect Xueyi, so I did not kill them all."
The toad said with a hint of shock, "Could this person be in the Core Formation realm!"
"Even if they haven't reached the Core Formation realm, they should be close."
Ling Fan said calmly.
"Hiss, there is such a powerful existence within the Snow King Palace!"
The toad took a deep breath.
...
At the Four Symbols Sect.
Ling Fan immediately began preparing to help Xueyi through her tribulation.
Based on her current condition, the second tribulation of the Nine Deaths Spirit Phoenix Body was expected to erupt in less than a month.
This blood tribulation was far more perilous than the first.