I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield Chapter 629 - 479: Crushing, Troublesome, Awakening (Part 3)

Fine cracks spread across the ice layer's surface, and eyes resembling black holes gradually opened, radiating a bone-piercing chill, quietly observing the two fighters clashing outside.

Slash~

The Black Frost Blade stabbed straight through the heart.

Karen's form abruptly melted into a pool of dark red blood, flowing down the blade and blending into the undissolved Sea of Blood below him.

As waves of blood churned, his mind swiftly adapted, a intense desire to flee surging from deep within his heart.

He had to concede he couldn't match Qin Tian, and persisting would drain him completely, leaving him unable to activate his final lifeline.

"As long as the green hills remain..."

Karen prepared to unleash his clan's hidden blood escape technique for retreat, even if it required forsaking the ice stele—survival came first.

But right then, a sharp "crack—" boomed from the distant ice mountain, echoing like ancient Profound Ice fracturing, stabbing fiercely into their ears.

The clash stopped abruptly, both turning toward the ice mountain.

Before, in the midst of Qin Tian and Karen's brutal fight, black flames and blood glows had pulverized the permafrost and thawed snow heaps. The shockwaves even shook the ice mountain a kilometer off, shedding ice shards, yet it stood firm, seemingly unbreakable.

Now, though, spiderweb cracks suddenly webbed across the ice mountain's face, racing from the base up to the peak's ice stele.

Even more horrifying, a terrifying aura far beyond Tier Six seeped slowly from the fissures, laced with primeval desolation and frenzied bloodthirst, instantly shrouding the whole snowfield and freezing the howling winds and flakes as if time itself halted.

Qin Tian's eyes narrowed; his figure blurred like a ghost, flashing back dozens of meters to land on a jutting permafrost outcrop. He paused his chase of Karen—the Hunting Mark already tagged him, letting precise tracking anywhere. The ice mountain's disturbance clearly menaced more than Karen.

In the Sea of Blood, Karen also halted his blood escape prep, reshaping into a translucent human silhouette floating in midair.

Fierceness drained from his face, replaced by grim focus, eyes glued to the relentlessly splitting ice mountain.

"Boom—!"

A massive explosion thundered as the mountaintop ice stele shattered first, bursting into countless ice fragments.

Seconds later, the entire ice mountain detonated savagely, enormous ice boulders slamming down like meteors, each crash excavating deep craters in the permafrost.

Through the whirling dust and ice haze, a enormous shadow slowly emerged from the ice mountain's wreckage—

It was the hugest monster Qin Tian had witnessed, exceeding twenty meters in height, rivaling a small tower.

Featuring a beastly head with jutting tusks, eyes like bottomless black pits leaking viscous black ooze; a humanoid frame with bulging muscles clad in thick black scales, dark red blood seeping from the scale crevices; a tail sprouting from its back, armored in bone spikes, every whip carving meter-deep gashes in the ground.

Once completely freed from the ice mountain's bonds, relishing freedom after endless ages, it flung its head skyward and unleashed a thunderous, savage roar!

The roar rattled the heavens, flinging ground snow several meters aloft, forcing Qin Tian and Karen to stagger back further together, faces set in heavy solemnity.

Karen instinctively gripped his Magic Staff tighter, shock gleaming in his dark red eyes:

"What...what creature is this? What exactly did the Ice God Race suppress back then!"

Qin Tian stayed silent, his hold on the Black Frost Blade clenching firmer.

He could distinctly feel this beast's aura hitting at least Tier Seven High Tier.

A foe far deadlier than Karen by multiples had surfaced.