The Bitter Cold

"God—The Apex of Change—!" Little Li Sushang had a trace of blood oozing from the corner of her mouth. Her once rosy, cute face was now as pale as paper.

This complexion made the streak of blood all the more jarring, but what was equally piercing were her eyes, which were glaring ahead, radiating a sense of determination.

She was out of options... The four swords together couldn't do anything to her opponent. Not to mention that ferocious ice armor, even if a few swords occasionally bypassed the protection and landed on a relatively "soft" spot, it didn't have much effect.

Is it because I'm too useless...

Li Sushang clearly remembered that both she and her Shifu could control the Xuanyuan Sword like this, but except for the final strike, her Shifu was better than her in every form.

If Shifu were here... she would definitely do better than me... and she could hold on for longer...

Li Sushang's consciousness was already a little hazy. The Xuanyuan Sword was, after all, a Divine Key. Even if its formation process was a bit strange, the power it housed was beyond common sense.

But—it was, after all, a Divine Key.

And Li Sushang was just a seven-year-old child.

Forcibly activating a Divine Key was very damaging to her. To be able to hold on for nearly ten minutes in front of this Honkai Beast had already pushed her to her limits...

And what was the real limit?

Li Sushang raised her small hand, not wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, but stubbornly wiping away the snot that was running down due to the cold. Then she raised her hand, one hand forming a sword finger pointing to the sky.

An air of contempt erupted from Li Sushang's body, or rather, from the sword named [Xuanyuan].

The four flying swords that were circling the battlefield received the call, flew back from the battlefield, and once again circled around Li Sushang.

Finally free of these flying swords that had been tickling its armpits, Parvati raised its head and let out an angry roar at Li Sushang in the sky.

At the same time, the ice-blue patterns on Parvati's body began to flicker and flow, beating like a pulse.

Li Sushang raised her other hand and also aimed at Parvati in front of her.

"All things are my words!"

At this moment, the power that had accumulated in Parvati dissipated. It felt as if the world had entered another realm.

Everything was hostile to it. Everything was like a sword, trying to slice it into frozen raw pork slices. The grass on the ground was, and so were the trees in the distance.

Even the ice crystals it breathed out exuded a strong hostility and sharpness towards it.

This was "All things are my words"... it was the language of all things, and also the expression of one's own will through all things!

"Not—to be defined by form!"

This last sharp cry seemed to be mixed with seven voices. A soft sword floated out from Li Sushang's body. The sword under her feet and the sword on her back also began to glow.

The seven swords merged into one, responding to the peerless strike that had once stunned the world!

"Taixuan Sword God!"

A huge blade descended from the sky. Parvati let out a terrified wail, and then its head was pressed down by the sword that fell from the sky.

Its short, thick limbs went limp, and its huge body fell to the ground.

The edge of the giant sword easily cut through the solid ice armor, then broke through Parvati's white shell with the force of a bamboo splitter, and with great difficulty, broke through the dark body and the ice-blue pulse with its remaining strength.

It finally stopped an inch from its core.

Li Sushang's energy was depleted... the seven-year-old child still couldn't hold on until the last moment.

The giant sword that had responded to the entire world suddenly disappeared into thin air, along with the hostility and sharpness that the world had emitted.

It was as if it had just been a nightmare for Parvati, and now that it had woken up, nothing had happened.

If it weren't for the unforgettable cut on Parvati's body.

Little Sushang fell from the sky, landing in a snowdrift. The swirling snow quickly tried to bury her here.

And the "heavily injured" Parvati was still in the world that specialized in attacking consciousness. Its chaotic mind, which could only think in the form of [dreams], had not yet realized that it was actually still alive.

But the snow in the sky began to fall. It fell on Li Sushang, taking away her warmth and about to bring her death.

It also fell on Parvati, but it was repairing the wounds on its body, waking it up from its dream.

After about a minute of calm, a figure suddenly broke in, quickly found the golden hilt in the knee-deep snowdrift, and then dug out the exhausted and unconscious Li Sushang, whose body temperature had dropped to a critical point, from the ice and snow with both hands.

Rita quickly unfastened Li Sushang's armor, threw away the clothes soaked in snow, and then hugged her tightly, sharing her body heat.

Her own armor had been left on the road. There was no more usable medicine on it, and the rest was just useless weight against Parvati.

Rita only glanced at the wound on Parvati's body, then turned and left without any hesitation.

This was not something she could make a judgment on. Even if the other party had been cut to pieces, until someone she considered reliable gave a definitive answer, she would consider it still alive and in a state where it could attack at any time.

Holding Li Sushang, Rita struggled to move forward in the rapidly deepening snowdrift. Before, she could use some special skills to travel faster.

But now she had Li Sushang, who was relying on her body heat to stay alive, in her arms. She could only use the most clumsy method to move forward slowly.

The somewhat dim Xuanyuan Sword was used by Rita as a cane to probe the snow, assisting the two of them forward. This time, Rita didn't feel any sharpness from the sword.

The snow was heavy. Rita looked back. The place where she had dug Li Sushang out was almost filled up again by the falling snow, and the deep wound on Parvati's back was also about to disappear.

Looking at the wound filled with snow, Rita's heart trembled. Then she turned around and gritted her teeth, continuing to move forward in the snow.

At this moment, the snow had already passed her thighs and was almost up to her waist.

Her lower body could be said to be soaked in ice water, which more or she less affected Rita's condition. Even if Rita had had such experience before, in her current state of physical and mental exhaustion, she also felt a little helpless.

Reinforcements... how long until the fastest reinforcements arrive?

Rita asked herself in her heart.

Probably a few more minutes... if the Titan squad were to use their overload mode suicidally, consuming all their energy to forcibly cover this hundred-kilometer distance in twenty minutes...