Sign-In System: Starting With Invincible Physique

Chapter 39: Seris in danger

"It seems my luck in this Hollow Realm is quite good," Valerius spoke, an amused smile playing on his lips,. "To think I would meet such a breathtakingly beautiful girl so soon. Azure Cloud Sect truly hides its treasures well."

Seris’s heart clenched. She stiffened, her guard instantly rising.

Valerius was the undisputed strongest disciple of the Ironpeak Sect.

An expert who had already stepped into the Essence Condensation Realm.

The gap between them was not something that could easily be bridged.

Without saying a word, Seris slowly took a step backward, desperately looking for an escape route through the massive ancient roots.

"Going somewhere?" Valerius chuckled, his face showing a teasing look. "Don’t be so cold. Let’s get to know each other!"

With an unbridled laughter, he abruptly pounced on her.

His speed was like whirlwind.

He crossed the distance between them in the blink of an eye, his hand reaching out like an eagle’s claw, aiming directly to grab her delicate shoulder.

"Ah!"

Panicked and driven entirely by her survival instincts, Seris didn’t try to dodge.

She reflexively tightened her small hand into a fist, wrapped in a dazzling silver-blue light, and punched towards Valerius’s incoming chest.

Valerius didn’t even bother to put up a guard.

In his eyes, a strike from an Essence Awakening disciple was nothing more than a gentle massage.

He casually reached out his other hand to catch her fist.

BOOM!

The moment her small, delicate fist collided with his palm, Valerius’s arrogant sneer immediately froze.

An immense, horrifying force, completely disproportionate to her fragile appearance, erupted from her strike.

"What—?"

Valerius was caught totally off guard.

The impact shattered his stance, forcing his tall figure to stumble backward three or four steps before he could regain his footing.

He looked at Seris, rubbing his numb palm.

A flash of genuine surprise and excitement crossed his face.

"Unbelievable," Valerius laughed, his eyes burning with even more desire. "To see a beautiful lady with such astonishing strength... I like you even mo—"

His words were abruptly cut off.

Valerius’s eyes widened to the size of saucers.

A sudden, unimaginable cold sensation exploded from the exact spot where her fist had touched his palm.

A bone-piercing freezing essence tore through his defenses, and surged into his meridian channels.

"What is this!!!" Valerius cried out in horror.

Before his very eyes, a thick layer of pristine white frost rapidly crawled up his arm, spreading across his chest, and violently shooting downward.

Within the span of two breaths, the chilling cold essence had fully encased the lower half of his body in solid, unyielding ice!

He was instantaneously frozen in place, turning into a half-ice sculpture!

"Damn it!" Valerius roared, fear overriding his arrogance altogether.

He drew upon his level 1 Condensation essence desperately, just to stop the freezing power from invading his heart and lungs.

Seeing Valerius immobilized, Seris’s purple eyes lit up.

This was a perfect opportunity!

She didn’t waste a single heartbeat. She spun around and tried to run off.

But she hadn’t even run thirty paces when her body abruptly stiffened once more.

Standing ahead, blocking her path, was a middle-aged man in grey robes.

Seris recognized him.

He was one of the three Level 9 Essence Condensation experts of the Ironpeak Sect!

The middle-aged elder frowned deeply, his sharp, murderous gaze sweeping past Seris to look at the groaning, half-frozen Valerius in the distance.

"What did you do to my young master, little b*tch?" He asked, his voice dripping with deadly hostility.

Fear gripped Seris’s heart. She didn’t care about answering.

She suddenly changed direction, pivoting sharply to flee into the thicket on her left.

But her speed, no matter how extraordinary for her realm, was no match for a peak Condensation expert.

Swoosh!

The grey-robed elder blurred, bypassing the distance and appearing directly in front of her once again in a flash.

"You aren’t going anywhere," he stated coldly.

Seris stumbled to a halt, her face turning pale grimly, "Let me go! He... he will be fine after a while! The ice will melt on its own!"

"You dare harm the young master of the Ironpeak Sect, and expect to walk away?" His face was warped into a cruel, ruthless sneer.

Without a shred of mercy, he raised his palm.

A ghastly, bloodthirsty essence, carrying the indomitable oppressive weight of the ninth level of the Essence Condensation Realm, furiously gathered in his hand. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The suffocating pressure locked Seris in place.

In that split second of sheer, direful crisis, the extreme fear and desperation in Seris’s heart forcibly pushed her concentration beyond its very limits.

She suddenly remembered Rhain’s words.

Do not hesitate. Do not talk. Just kill them.

Her eyes sharpened.

An astonishing silver-blue light erupted from her right hand.

She raised her delicate hand.

This time, the martial art did not shatter into specks of light.

Due to the massive concentration forged in the crucible of life-or-death, the essence stabilized perfectly.

In the blink of an eye, an exquisite, crystal-clear Ice Sword forged of pure ice essence materialized in her grasp!

With a desperate cry, Seris swung the Ice Sword forward with everything she had, slashing straight toward the elder.

The Ironpeak elder’s eyes glinted with deep contempt.

An Essence Awakening trying to fight back against him?

It was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

But in the exact millisecond the Ice Sword descended, the elder’s contempt vanished.

His pupils contracted to pinpoints.

A frightening, transcendent chill—an aura that felt as if it belonged to an ancient, supreme deity of frost—radiated from that crystalline blade.

It was a power that utterly defied the logic of the Awakening Realm!

He realized the fatal threat entirely too late.

Never in his wildest dreams did he expect an Azure Cloud Sect disciple to possess a strike capable of harming him.

In a state of sheer panic, the elder hastily withdrew his attack and violently erupted his Level 9 essence, erecting a thick, impenetrable shield of condensed energy in front of his chest.

CRACK!

The sound echoed in the silent forest like shattering glass.

The impervious essence shield of a Level 9 Essence Condensation expert... was effortlessly sliced open!

The Ice Sword cleaved right through the dense essence barrier as if it were cutting through thin paper, and slashed across the elder’s chest.

"AAAAH!"

The elder let out a horrifying shriek of agony.

A deep, grisly wound was torn across his torso, blood instantly spraying into the air.

But the blood didn’t even have time to hit the ground.

The petrifying chilling power of the Ice Sword forced its way into his body on impact, literally causing the blood spraying from his wound to freeze solid mid-air!

He stumbled backward wildly, his face pale as a sheet.

Absolute dread filled his eyes as he felt the apocalyptic cold essence surge into his meridian channels, attempting to freeze his very heart.

He crashed onto his knees, coughing up ice-laced blood.

He had to thoroughly abandon any thought of attacking Seris, frantically circulating every single drop of his Level 9 essence just to suppress the lethal frost from killing him on the spot.

Clatter.

The Ice Sword in Seris’s hand suddenly shattered, dissolving into a mist of sparkling blue light.

Her legs completely gave out.

Seris fell heavily onto her knees, her delicate shoulders heaving as she gasped for air.

That single sword strike had consumed every last drop of her essence.

She looked weakly at the trembling Level 9 elder.

A bitter thought flashed through her exhausted mind.

If only my cultivation was higher...

It would have definitely cleaved that elder in two.