A magical journey of a sharp-tongued woman and a goofy man

Dark purple light seeped from the cracks in the ice cave's dome, and three strands of the golden bell on Ye Shuli's wrist suddenly snapped.

Jiang Ye shielded the person behind him with his back. When the Ice Soul Sword Sheath smashed the falling ice spikes, he found that the ice fragments condensed into sharp wolf fang shapes in mid-air.

34; The protective shield will last at most three minutes. 34; The scepter of the Elemental Master leader carved scorched cracks into the ice, and the gray patches spreading across his neck were visibly eroding his skin. 34; Thirty miles to the northeast, the Snow Soul Spring. 34;

Ye Shuli flung out a fragment of the Golden Bell, shattering the attacking Ice Wolf Fang, and her burning fingertips etched a flame totem onto Jiang Ye's breastplate.

She suddenly pressed down on Jiang Ye's bleeding left shoulder—the wound there, corroded by dark elements, was beginning to heal in reverse, and the icy blue mark was forcing the dark purple poisonous mist out of his body.

&34; Clang! &34;

The black iron wristband of the elemental controller leader suddenly shattered. He stared at the glowing ice-blue mark on Jiang Ye's palm, his pupils contracting sharply: "Snow Soul Recognizes Master?"

This is impossible... The totem at the top of the scepter suddenly burst out with a blinding light, freezing the approaching gray mist into ice shards.

Jiang Ye suddenly pulled Ye Shuli back seven steps.

The spot where they had stood exploded with rings of ice spikes, the silver threads on the cloak of the Elemental Master leader turned completely black, and his scepter slammed heavily towards Ye Shuli's brow: "You lowly alien ants!"

&34; Your jealousy looks really ugly. &34; Ye Shuli spun around to avoid the fatal blow, her burning skirt sweeping across the ice and creating steaming puddles.

She deliberately used a shard of the golden bell to scratch the mark on Jiang Ye's palm. The icy blue light instantly surged into a barrier. Three seconds later—seven steps to the left!

Jiang Ye glided in a semi-circle on the ice, his sword tip precisely piercing the leader's blind spot as he finished his attack.

The shockwave generated when the Ice Soul Sword collided with the scepter shattered three ice pillars, and Ye Shuli took the opportunity to kick the fragment of the dark element crystal core into the Snow Soul Spring.

&34; Watch out for changes in wind pressure! &34; Ye Shuli suddenly swung out the silver chain that bound her hair and wrapped it around Jiang Ye's ankle, pulling him back from the edge of the collapsing ice cave.

She stared at the flickering totem at the top of the chieftain's scepter, the flame at her fingertips suddenly splitting into seven clusters; &34; His right earlobe would twitch twice before each blizzard. &34;

The furious roar of the Elemental Master leader shook down more ice spikes, and the gray mist had spread to the entrance of the ice cave.

Ye Shuli suddenly pressed her burning fingertips to her chest, and the spray of blood mist condensed into a flame array on the ice surface: "Now!"

(End of this chapter) The cold light of the Ice Soul Sword, along with the blood-red array, soared into the sky. The moment Jiang Ye flipped his wrist, he heard a crisp sound of bones dislocating.

He took off using the propulsion of Ye Shuli's flame array, and the frost element condensed on his sword suddenly cracked into hexagonal ice crystals—the mutated spiritual power he had accidentally absorbed while soaking in the Snow Soul Spring last night.

&34; The third crevice of her right rib! &34; Ye Shuli's blood-stained skirt swept across the melting ice, and the flames remaining on her fingertips suddenly turned cyan.

This is a cold flame improved using modern chemical knowledge, capable of briefly freezing the flow of elements.

The scepter of the elemental master leader left afterimages above his head, but the vortex formed by the blizzard was torn into fragments by the ice crystals.

Jiang Ye's sword tip precisely pierced the weakest point of the opponent's protective barrier, and the ice spikes instantly exploded into seven sharp cones along the totem pattern of the scepter.

The shattered fragments of the black iron wrist guard grazed the leader's cheek as he stumbled backward, shattering the millennia-old ice pillars supporting the ice cave.

Dark purple light condensed into a spiderweb-like seal at the wound, which was the dark element trap that Ye Shuli had planted in advance in the Snow Soul Spring starting to take effect.

"How dare you—" The roar, accompanied by ice shards, caused cracks to appear in the protective shield, and the cloak of the Elemental Master leader suddenly transformed into thousands of ice blades.

The temperature in the entire ice cave plummeted by thirty degrees, and Jiang Ye's eyelashes were instantly covered in frost, while the Snow Soul Mark on the back of his neck emitted a scorching heat.

Ye Shuli tore off the second golden bell-shaped silk thread and threw it into the air. The bell, which was wrapped in cold flames, suddenly exploded into an umbrella-shaped barrier.

The defensive array, incorporating modern mortise and tenon joints, precisely blocked the eye of the storm, deflecting the incoming ice blades towards the surrounding ice walls.

The shattered ice crystals reflected her pale, cold laugh: "In your elemental berserk state, the meridians in your left leg will twitch once every three breaths."

The scepter of the elemental controller leader suddenly deviated from its intended trajectory by half an inch.

Jiang Ye seized this opening with his Ice Soul Sword, and the sword energy wrapped in Snow Soul Spirit Power severed three strands of his white hair.

The instant her hair fell to the ground and turned into an ice snake, Ye Shuli suddenly spat out blood foam mixed with ice shards towards the southeast corner—that was the last trigger point of the chain formation they had set up last night.

A sickening cracking sound came from the ice cave's dome, and the gray fog and blizzard froze simultaneously.

The elemental master leader was about to unleash a deadly attack when the frequency of the totem flashing at the top of his scepter suddenly synchronized with the Snow Soul Mark on Jiang Ye's palm.

&34;Disappeared......&34;Ye Shuli wiped the icy blood from the corner of her mouth, and the fragment of the golden bell on her wrist suddenly stopped trembling.

The terrifying pressure that enveloped the northeast was like a pencil mark erased by an eraser, leaving only a few charred streaks on the ice surface still smoking.

The scepter of the elemental master slammed heavily into the ice, and blue-green Snow Soul Spring water seeped out from the spiderweb-like cracks.

He stared at the ice lotus mark that had appeared below Jiang Ye's collarbone, his Adam's apple bobbing three times before he finally managed to squeeze out a hoarse voice: "Snow Soul Holy Spring... really chose an outsider..."

Jiang Ye stabbed the Ice Soul Sword into the ice to steady himself, and the blood seeping from the wound on his left shoulder condensed in mid-air into the shape of an ice crystal necklace.

This is the self-protection mechanism of Xuepo after recognizing its master. Only now does he fully understand the meaning of the spring's strange changes last night.

"Those gray spots on your neck," Ye Shuli suddenly kicked away the fragments of black iron at her feet, "If they spread two more inches, they'll erode your vocal cords." The cold flame dancing in her palm illuminated the leader's neck, and the writhing gray spots were eerily shrinking.

The leader of the elemental controllers suddenly snapped the bone chain around his neck and threw it toward the spring. From the bursting black mist came the whimpering sound of a young beast.

As he turned and walked toward the crack in the ice cave, the silver threads on the tattered cloak began to glow faintly again, and several clusters of snow-flowers sprouted from the ice marks left by the scepter.

Jiang Ye reached out and caught the falling petals, discovering that each petal was imprinted with a miniature array.

Ye Shuli pressed down on his wrist, which he was trying to use to pursue, her bloodied fingertips drawing a fragmented star map on the ice: "His scepter contains meteorite iron from the far north."

The blizzard had stopped sometime earlier, and the sunlight filtering through the cracks in the ice cave was tinged with an eerie crimson hue.

The figure of the elemental controller leader suddenly blurred into mist a hundred feet away, with only the blue light remaining on the totem at the top of the scepter flickering like an unburnt spark in the dark night.

Ye Shuli suddenly coughed violently, and the cold flame in her palm burned the last half of the golden bell silk to ashes.

When Jiang Ye turned around to support her, he noticed that the ice beneath their feet reflected the unusual phenomenon of two overlapping moons—a celestial phenomenon that should only appear on the full moon of the following month.

&34;Beware of the spring water. &34;Ye Shuli crushed the condensing ice flowers with the tip of her shoe. Thin black lines, about the thickness of a hair, floated in the otherwise pure Snow Soul Spring water.

Her left hand, hidden in her sleeve, always clutched half a dark element crystal core, the only "souvenir" she had brought from the modern world.

Jiang Ye suddenly raised the Ice Soul Sword horizontally above his head, and the sky reflected by the sword was cracking with spiderweb-like fine lines.

The direction of those cracks completely overlapped with the ice marks left by the leader of the elemental controllers, as if someone was using a giant brush to draw an ancient array on the sky.

A muffled sound of ice collapsing came from the direction of the Snow Soul Spring, faintly mixed with the clanging of metal against metal.

Ye Shuli bent down and picked up the half of the black iron wristband that the leader had left behind. She found that the inside was engraved with a totem that had been scorched by flames—it was clearly a simple line drawing of the benzene ring structure commonly used in modern chemical experiments.