Chapter 1843: Chapter 1828: Xueh Ying’s Pride

In this scene, with these ruins before them, probably no one who saw this place would be able to connect it with that once-prosperous giant city of the past.

"It’s said the Sinister Demon City was guarded by several Ancient Barriers. Ordinary power simply couldn’t destroy them. This... just what kind of battle broke out here? Back then, what kind of mighty power was it!"

A young man muttered to himself again as he spoke.

The faces of Qingg Yan and her two companions were still filled with shock.

"Who! Who is it?" Just then, a cold, delicate shout suddenly rang out from the distance.

It was Xueh Ying, kneeling in the distance, who had noticed the arrival of Qingg Yan and the other two.

Then, Xueh Ying slowly stood up from the ruins where she had been kneeling. She turned around, her pretty face frosty as she coldly stared toward the three of them. An invisible surge of Ice Power immediately spread out from her body, sweeping toward the three.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

The two young men beside Qingg Yan were only at the Realm of Five-star Demigod in Martial Arts Realm. Under that sweeping Ice Power, cries of alarm burst from their mouths, and their bodies couldn’t help but tremble.

At this moment, the two of them felt as if at any time they might be frozen into ice by this Ice Power!

The Xueh Ying before them was a Seven-star Demigod genius Heavenly Pride Girl!

Yet under the same Ice Power, Qingg Yan seemed as though she had not been attacked at all. Her pretty face remained calm as she gazed at the white‑clothed woman in the distance.

"Hm?" When Xueh Ying noticed Qingg Yan’s state, her brows knit. Then she spoke coldly toward the three:

"You—who are you?"

As she spoke, Xueh Ying’s figure flashed, and she appeared a short distance in front of the three, standing proudly on a shattered boulder as she sized them up.

At this moment, as Xueh Ying faced these three, her appearance was completely different from when she had faced Shi Feng days ago. An invisible arrogance flowed from her.

This was the pride she held as a Seven-star Demigod Expert facing Five-star Demigod and Four-star Half God existences.

Qingg Yan did not answer Xueh Ying’s question. Instead, she opened her mouth and asked, "You just mentioned Shi Feng. Can you tell me where Shi Feng is now?"

These ruins had already been secretly searched by Qingg Yan with the Ice Desolate Mirror, yet she had found no trace of Shi Feng at all.

"You came here to look for him?" When Qingg Yan mentioned the name "Shi Feng," the cold and proud expression on Xueh Ying’s face stirred slightly.

But right after, as if she had thought of something, she instantly returned to that Leng Ao look and said to the three, "You’d best go back. Lord Shi Feng will not see you."

These three had come here to seek an audience with that man; they must be just like her, wanting him to instruct them in Martial Arts, wanting to seize this heaven‑defying opportunity.

But just relying on these three—what wishful thinking. She, a dignified Seven-star Demigod, had been kneeling here all this time and still had not moved that man with her sincerity. One at Four-star Half God Realm, two at Realm of Five-star Demigod—just them, and they think they’re worthy?

Thinking of this, a look of utter disdain surfaced on Xueh Ying’s cold and proud face.

"He won’t see us? Why won’t he see us?" Qingg Yan didn’t quite understand Xueh Ying’s words. Then she asked again, "Where exactly is Shi Feng right now?"

Seeing this woman she had found detestable from the very beginning still chirping on and on, not leaving even after hearing her words, Xueh Ying’s expression grew even colder as she shouted:

"I told you to go back. Did you not hear me?"

As Xueh Ying spoke coldly, a massive Ice Hammer suddenly appeared above the heads of Qingg Yan and the other two, then blasted down at them with wild ferocity!

"Ah! No!"

"Don’t!"

Staring at the wildly smashing Ice Hammer, the two young men’s eyes bulged wide, filled with incomparable horror, and they let out screams of extreme terror.

This Ice Hammer was condensed with the power of a Seven-star Demigod Power. The two of them were merely Realm of Five-star Demigod, a full Three-star Rank weaker. They had absolutely no power to resist.

"Am I... going to die?" This thought flashed through the mind of one of the young men.

"I don’t want to die!" This was the other young man’s inner cry.

"You!" But just then, a delicate shout suddenly rang out beside them. Ice-colored Light flared from Qingg Yan’s body, and under that Ice-colored Light, the wildly descending Ice Hammer abruptly exploded with a "peng," shattering into countless shards of ice that sprayed in all directions.

Qingg Yan had actually broken that strike of the Ice Hammer just like that! She had actually broken the power of a Seven-star Demigod just like that!

"Th‑this... how is this possible!" At that moment, an expression of extreme disbelief surfaced on Xueh Ying’s fair, pretty face.

This was just a mere woman at Four-star Half God Realm, yet she had broken her attack!

The difference between them was a full Three-star Rank!

Three stars!

"This!"

"This!"

Not only Xueh Ying, but even the two young men beside Qingg Yan were even more shocked, their faces filled with horror.

Even they had never expected that this woman traveling with them would be so fierce!

"Is... is her Realm really just Four-star Half God Realm?"

"C‑could she be hiding her true Realm? She... she’s actually this powerful!"

Back in the Sinister Forest, seeing that Qingg Yan was a woman and that her Realm was only Four-star Half God, the two young men had always handled any trouble they encountered along the way.

They had even secretly thought that this woman who knew Shi Feng, with her pretty face and tall figure, might well be one of Shi Feng’s women, and that they had to protect her well.

Yet they had never expected that once this woman made a move, her Battle Power would be so monstrous!

"Xueh Family’s Xueh Ying is a Seven-star Demigod after all! Could the one in front of us be a fake Xueh Ying?"

No, that wasn’t it; it was definitely her! It had been about six years ago, when she’d participated in the genius battle. I’d come to the Sinister Demon City with my father back then, and the one I saw was indeed her!" One of the young men confirmed firmly in his heart, certain that this was indeed the Heavenly Pride Girl of the Xueh Family, Xueh Ying.

"I understand. I get it now. So that’s how it is! So that’s how it is, hehe!" At this moment, as if she had realized something, Xueh Ying suddenly let out a cold, icy laugh. Then she spoke again, her gaze fixed tightly on Qingg Yan:

"You must have a Secret Treasure on you, right? A Secret Treasure that lets you, a mere Four-star Half God, break this young lady’s power!"

"So what if I do." To Xueh Ying’s surprise, Qingg Yan did not deny it at all but directly admitted it.

"A Secret Treasure!"

"So it’s a Secret Treasure!"

Hearing Qingg Yan’s admission, the two young men cried out again in shock.

To them, it was truly hard to imagine what kind of Secret Treasure could let a Four-star Half God break the power of a Seven-star Demigod!

If it really was a Secret Treasure, then it was practically defying the heavens!