Chapter 2446: Clash of Ice and Fire

“Reminisce the past? We don’t know you.” Horse Face smiled. He didn’t mean to mock, but his smile looked so jarring that Zu An understood why Ox Head was so angry earlier.

Ox Head snorted shrilly. “Why waste words with him! Get him first!”

As he charged at Zu An, white gas spurted out of his nose.

Horse Face didn’t dawdle around. He attacked Zu An from another direction with his trident. Even though the two of them often put each other down, their timing was so in tune that there was no question they were old comrades.

Alarmed, the Mermaid Queen strummed her harp to layer blessings on Zu An.

Zu An swung his sword, and two massive water vortices formed under the two giants’ feet. They quickly manifested into two humongous waterspouts that enveloped their massive bodies.

The charging Ox Head and Horse Face staggered as the waterspouts threatened to wash them away.

Even so, they were not top-notch experts for nothing. They quickly anchored themselves by plunging their weapons into the ground as they tried to break free of the waterspouts’ momentum.

The Mermaid Queen was stunned.

The waterspouts weren’t from a skill. It felt like someone was directly controlling the water to create those waterspouts. She could tell the difference because of her high affinity for the water element.

She reflexively looked at the East Sea Dragon King.

That looks like the ability of the Crown of the Ocean Deity. Is he secretly helping us? But does he have the spare energy to intervene here when he is already battling with the other two monsters?

She just so happened to meet eyes with the confused East Sea Dragon King. The latter looked at her as if asking if the waterspouts were her doing.

This enlightened the Mermaid Queen to the truth.

This must be his ability. To think he can directly control water, just like the Crown of the Ocean Deity! This man is truly enigmatic!

Ox Head and Horse Face were powerful experts with physiques comparable to mountains, granting them incomparable strength. How could mere waterspouts possibly stop them?

Their muscles suddenly bulged as they mustered their strength to rip through the waterspouts before emerging from it.

The Ocean races’ experts were horrified.

Water might be the gentlest element in the world, but its destructive might couldn’t be underestimated. Those waterspouts were so powerful that even the Dragon Kings would twirl helplessly in them, yet those two monsters easily tore a way through them.

In contrast, Zu An was unfazed. He had known that the waterspouts couldn’t stop them from the start; he was merely stalling for time. His sword flashed across the air, and delicate snowflakes began falling around him.

Those from the Ocean races were stunned. “Why did it suddenly start snowing?”

In the first place, how could there be snow in the ocean?!

However, it quickly dawned on them that it might be the phenomenon that naturally came with Zu An’s swordsmanship. The fusion of ice and water greatly amplified the prowess of the attack.

A terrible snowstorm fell upon the two giants. Each snowflake was comparable to the sharpest sword ki in the world, inflicting countless lacerations on the giants.

Snowflake Sword!

Now that Zu An was much stronger, its prowess was far greater than before. The idea of a stronger move was a fallacy; what was more important was finding the most suitable move given a certain environment at a certain time.

This underwater world was a good fit for Snowflake Sword. It helped that he could control water to further complement the swordsmanship, thus raising its prowess to an unprecedented level.

The giant Ox Head and Horse Face, with their formidable regenerative capabilities, could heal from those lacerations at a visible rate, but that wasn’t the issue here. What was more troubling for them was how their surroundings were slowly freezing up as the snowflakes fell.

They had just emerged from the waterspouts and hadn’t had a chance to plant their feet on the ground yet when they were already covered in frost. Their bodies were swiftly freezing up, turning into ice sculptures.

Even their expressions were frozen in place!

The water element experts in the Ocean races were startled too. They couldn’t begin to imagine the amount of ki required to freeze those two mountain-sized experts.

We couldn’t have pulled it off even if we were drained ten times over, not to mention that the enemy would surely struggle to break free with all their might.

Even the combined prowess of all the Ocean races’ ice element experts wouldn’t have been enough to freeze those two giants.

They looked at Zu An with longing eyes as they thought that they absolutely had to find an opportunity to seek Zu An for pointers about the ice element.

“Is it over?” The Peacock Princess looked at the two ice sculptures in disbelief.

“It isn’t that simple.” The Mermaid Queen nervously stared at the two ice sculptures.

Her words rang true. Black stains suddenly appeared inside the two ice sculptures, and their exteriors began showing signs of melting.

“Black flames?” Zu An murmured. It resembled Pei Mianman’s field of specialty. “Since you are so determined to melt the ice, let me give you a helping hand.”

He took out a delicate white lotus. It slowly floated toward the two sculptures and landed on them before abruptly vanishing. Shortly after, a massive white lotus-shaped flame suddenly blazed beneath two ice sculptures, enveloping an area even larger than the two giants.

Boom!

The two ice sculptures immediately melted.

Ox Head and Horse Face had ignited the underworld’s black flame to melt the ice around them, only to find themselves faced with the even more vigorous White Lotus Flame.

The abrupt temperature change from cold to hot was too much for even their resilient bodies to bear. Their black flames extinguished as more White Lotus Flames blossomed around them and burned away their flesh and skin.

Soon, there was no uncharred flesh or skin on their bodies anymore. Some of their injuries were so severe that it exposed their bones and organs.

“Ugh, this is too much to bear!” The two giants frantically tried to put out the flame as they cried in agony.

The Ocean races’ experts were stunned.

Aren’t you an ice element expert? Why are you suddenly conjuring flames out of the blue? How are you able to control two opposite elements? This defies common sense!

The fire element cultivators in the Ocean races puffed out their chest. “We knew our fire element skills boast greater destructive prowess!”

Few in the Ocean races would choose to specialize in fire element. It would be squandering their high affinity for water, and it would also be hard to draw the true prowess of flames in the ocean. Weaker fire element cultivators might even find their flame extinguishing right after it was conjured.

For those reasons, they were often mocked by others. But now that someone had shown them the possibilities of the fire element, they could finally walk with their heads up.

“Damn it! We need to retreat quickly!”

Ox Head and Horse Face exchanged looks before turning tail to flee. Their giant bodies morphed into two surges of black energy before disappearing into thin air.

They could have quickly recovered from their injuries and launched a counterattack, but judging from his casual attitude, the other party was clearly not using his full strength yet. It felt like they would be disadvantaged in a prolonged battle.

The Golden Cangue General and Silver Chain General, who were gaining the upper hand over the Four Dragon Kings, stiffened up at that sight.

That unreliable old ox and old horse!

Despite often looking down on one another, they were aware that the four of them were in the same power class. Now that Ox Head and Horse Face had made their getaway, there was no reason for them to continue fighting.

The two of them turned into a golden and silver ray of light and vanished.

Perhaps embarrassed, they left behind some parting ways, “We have just escaped from our imprisonment and hadn’t found time to recover yet. This battlefield is also disadvantageous to us. We dare you to fight us in our territory!”