This move—ejecting a blade from her left arm—was the same dirty trick Liu Jing had used to defeat Ruo Xuan.
The folding blade within her immortal remains was not only a Rank 5 divine artifact, but its primary function was shield-breaking.
It could pierce through a cultivator’s various protective spiritual lights and shields, making it notoriously difficult to defend against.
Ruo Xuan’s Frost Moon Sword was extremely powerful; anyone who drew near would suffer constant frostbite.
Even their immortal remains would be frozen solid. For a martial cultivator who primarily relied on close combat, it was a terrible matchup.
It was precisely because she possessed this Rank 4 ice-attribute divine artifact that Ruo Xuan had dared to challenge Liu Jing.
Even without using her most powerful attack, the plasma cannon, she had been confident in defeating Liu Jing, who was only at Level 14 of the Qi Refining stage.
However, at the critical moment, Liu Jing had suddenly ejected a folding blade from her left arm and lunged at Ruo Xuan. She had used a suicidal fighting style, completely abandoning her own defense.
Ruo Xuan, unwilling to kill her fellow disciple, had subconsciously diverted the Frost Moon Sword.
But Liu Jing, despite seeing the blade veer off, had still plunged the folding blade into Ruo Xuan’s body and slashed outward from the waist.
The strike had carved through one-third of Ruo Xuan’s body, leaving her severely wounded.
Now, Liu Jing was repeating the same trick. She wasn’t afraid that Mu Yanxi knew about the folding blade hidden in the immortal remains of her left arm.
Her tactic this time was different. She would wait for Mu Yanxi to block a palm strike from her left hand before ejecting the folding blade for a forward thrust.
The speed of such a sudden sneak attack was almost impossible to react to, and even if one did, it was nearly impossible to dodge.
Yet, the moment Liu Jing’s left arm opened, Mu Yanxi had already retreated. As the folding blade shot forward, the Undying Blade swept across in a horizontal slash, parrying the folding blade away.
“How is this possible?! You knew about the function of my immortal remains?! Did Ruo Xuan tell you?” Liu Jing asked in a mixture of shock and rage. If this strike failed, she would lose half of her trump cards.
“Do I really need someone else to tell me? A low-life method like that can only fool a fellow disciple who doesn’t want to kill you. Who else would it work on if they were actually on guard?” Mu Yanxi said with a look of disdain.
In reality, it wasn’t as simple or easy as she made it look. Liu Jing’s sneak attack was both sinister and dangerous.
Usually, only a cultivator wearing precious armor or possessing an extremely powerful defensive divine artifact could hope to block it.
Mu Yanxi was able to dodge it only because her immortal brain had actually predicted that Liu Jing would use a folding blade for a sneak attack.
It had even displayed a simulated recording of the blade ejecting and thrusting. Because of this, she was able to dodge with calm composure.
However, that didn’t stop Mu Yanxi from mocking Liu Jing’s actions. As a member of a righteous Great Sect, Mu Yanxi utterly despised such underhanded methods.
It was precisely because Liu Jing had used a hidden blade to ambush Ruo Xuan that Mu Yanxi had felt compelled to stand up for her.
“Fine! Fine! Fine! Then try this move of mine! Ice Wind Frost Flower!” Liu Jing laughed in her rage.
With a wave of her right hand, a blast of icy wind blew toward Mu Yanxi, leaving sharp ice flowers blooming everywhere it passed.
Liu Jing’s left immortal remains arm hid a Rank 5 folding blade divine artifact, while her right immortal remains arm sealed a Desolate Rank – Upper Grade wind and ice dual-attribute spell: Ice Wind Frost Flower.
Liu Jing, who intended to follow the path of a martial cultivator, knew that spells were not her forte.
To compensate for this weakness, she had spent a fortune to purchase an immortal remains prosthetic arm with an integrated spell.
The Ice Wind Frost Flower sealed within this prosthetic was at Level 7 mastery, and its power was equivalent to a standard late foundation building level.
Mu Yanxi raised the Undying Blade and slashed forward. The blade light instantly cleaved the icy wind, but the wind quickly converged again.
It seemed the blade light of the Undying Blade could only sever energy aggregates like plasma; against an erratic spell like wind, it could cut through, but it could not stop the wind from reforming.
Mu Yanxi then expanded a water shield around herself. The moment the icy wind blew past, the water shield was instantly frozen into a block of ice, trapping Mu Yanxi inside an ice shell.
“See that? I don’t need any dirty tricks to overwhelm you. You brought this on yourself!” Liu Jing sneered. She lifted her right hand, and countless ice spikes rose from the ground, piercing toward Mu Yanxi.
This was the second stage of Ice Wind Frost Flower. The ice frozen by the spell could also be controlled.
Not only the ice spikes on the ground, but even the ice shield surrounding Mu Yanxi shattered instantly, stabbing toward her body.
But there was more.
Mu Yanxi activated the protective spiritual light of the Spirit Moon Ring to shield herself. The crushed ice shattered continuously against that layer of hazy moonlight, causing the light to flicker.
Seeing this, Liu Jing couldn’t help but sneer. The Spirit Moon Ring was just an ordinary divine artifact distributed by the Spiritual Moon Sect that every disciple possessed.
How could it possibly withstand a spell from an immortal remains prosthetic that she had spent a massive amount of money to install?
It looked as if the piercing icy wind and crushed ice were about to completely break through the final layer of protective spiritual light.
However, Mu Yanxi’s left eye suddenly glowed with starlight. A blazing sea of fire erupted, scattering the remaining cold wind and crushed ice.
This was the very sea of fire Mu Yanxi had absorbed into her star-imprint eye during her earlier fight against Wei Ling.
“You’ve installed a divine eye too? It’s useless!” Liu Jing raised her hand again, releasing an even larger scale of Ice Wind Frost Flower.
The cold wind completely filled the Arena, even causing the water screen to begin freezing. The sea of fire, which had already lost most of its power, was instantly extinguished.
Liu Jing had calculated everything perfectly. The power of that sea of fire was inferior to her Ice Wind Frost Flower. Her temporary cultivation level of Level 17 Qi Refining was also higher than Mu Yanxi’s.
Furthermore, the extreme low temperature of the Ice Wind Frost Flower countered fire-attribute cultivation methods.
Even if the opponent’s immortal skeleton eye could release fire spells, they were no match for her. She could steadily freeze her opponent into an ice sculpture.
Mu Yanxi’s left eye glowed with starlight once more, but the sea of fire Liu Jing expected did not erupt.
Instead, the snow and wind filling the air were all sucked into the star-imprint eye. In an instant, it was as if nothing had ever happened.
“How is this possible?!” Liu Jing cried out in shock. “What kind of immortal remains did you install?!”
It turned out she didn’t even know what a star-imprint eye was. Mu Yanxi had stalled for so long precisely to give her immortal brain time to analyze the Ice Wind Frost Flower.
Now that the spell had been fully analyzed, Liu Jing’s grand ice-attribute spell was completely useless against her.
“As a martial cultivator, you actually tried to rely on a spell that isn’t your own power to defeat your opponent. Your purity is far too low,” Mu Yanxi mocked.
“If you had used nothing but martial techniques, I really wouldn’t have had a way to counter you. But unfortunately, you have no confidence in your own martial arts.”
“I can defeat you using only martial techniques just the same!” Liu Jing roared in fury. She charged directly at Mu Yanxi, the folding blade on her left arm slashing toward Mu Yanxi’s body once more.
This time, it was no longer a sneak attack, but the arm blade was still incredibly sharp in a head-on confrontation.
She also possessed a complementary blade technique called the Golden Mantis Blade Sutra.
It was originally designed for arm blades, which was why her hand-blade strikes could serve as a substitute before. However, only by using a real arm blade could this blade technique display its true power.
As a martial cultivator, Liu Jing’s physical attributes were second only to a physical cultivator. Under her full-force assault, blade qi surged in all directions, creating an incredibly perilous situation.