I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield Chapter 642 - 484: Ice Qilin, Heaven-Burning Purgatory Super Evolution

Once the spatial ripples faded away, Qin Tian and his four companions materialized in a vast expanse of pure white snow.

A thick sheet of ice lay underfoot, crunching sharply with every step they took. The atmosphere brimmed with a frigid chill that bit deeper than the storms beyond the ruins.

The landscape lay barren and expansive, dominated solely by a massive ice peak at its heart, soaring over a hundred meters tall, utterly translucent like it was sculpted from ancient Profound Ice. Faint outlines of a gigantic beast lurked within its frozen depths, hidden behind dense layers that concealed its exact form.

Behind this ice peak loomed a stone portal forged entirely of ice, silently enduring, adorned with complex runes of the Ice God Race.

"The guardian beast for this stage should be inside that ice mountain, right?" Taishi Feng fixed his gaze on the ice mountain, then glanced at the far-off frozen gate, proposing, "How about we rush past it and enter the next stage while it hasn’t awoken yet?"

Yet right after his words ended, the ice beneath them quaked fiercely.

"Crack crack—!"

Fissures spiderwebbed across the central ice mountain, ice fragments tumbling down and splintering upon impact with the ground.

A horrifying presence stirred to life gradually, making the four hold their breaths for a moment.

Ice-cracking noises grew thicker and faster, layers of the mountain crumbling away until it burst apart in a thunderous explosion, shrouding everything in frosty vapor.

From within the swirling ice fog, a colossal shape gradually revealed itself.

This ice creature resembled a Kirin, standing roughly ten meters high, armored in overlapping scales of ice crystals like flawless frozen plate. Its every stride imprinted crystalline frost marks on the ice, a lone horn thrust upward, its mane waving like threads of ice, radiating an aura of grandeur and holiness, akin to the sovereign of all frost and blizzards.

However, the moment its eyes snapped open, all four faces twisted in unison.

The left eye gleamed like flawless crystal with icy blue radiance, radiating sanctity and majesty; the right eye, however, twisted with thick black energy coiling like wriggling serpents, emanating an otherworldly vibe matching the demons from beyond.

All present distinctly felt two opposing powers warring inside the Kirin.

One pure and razor-sharp ice power, holy and overbearing; the other malevolent and ghostly Dark Energy, icy and savage.

These powers raged against each other inside it, making the beast shudder nonstop, alternating between spewing ice vapor from its scale gaps and venting black fumes from its pores.

Yet the conflict ended swiftly—without the ice mountain's restraint, black energy flooded forth like a wave, devouring the blue glow in an instant; the Kirin's eyes drowned fully in darkness, its former holy presence vanished, overtaken by feral, murderous rage.

"Roar—!"

A earth-shaking bellow resounded across the realm, the ice around the Kirin shattering outright as a dread aura beyond Tier Seven exploded outward, crashing over them like a tidal surge.

"Tier Seven! And at the pinnacle of Tier Seven!"

Somber expressions darkened every face.

This presence outstripped even Asaki's prior might, fusing ice power and Dark Energy into an even more suffocating pressure that slowed their Spiritual Energy flow.

Before the group could respond, the Kirin barreled forward with thunderous strides, its horn condensing a swirl of blue-black energy, hurtling at them with apocalyptic fury.

"Fight!"

Taishi Feng bellowed, thrusting his Heaven-piercing Halberd forward as golden Spiritual Energy erupted, aiming to halt the assault.

"Boom!"

The horn slammed into the halberd's shaft with savage force; Taishi Feng sensed a colossal impact surge through it into his frame, churning his qi and blood, sending him tumbling back like a snapped puppet, slamming hard into the ice where his armor frosted over instantly, blood trickling from his lips.

"Taishi Feng!"

Huoyuan Sheng witnessed it and vaulted forward, his longsword blazing with silver Spiritual Energy as it arced toward the Kirin's throat.

Yet the blade merely rang out with a sharp "clang" upon hitting the ice crystal scales, sparks erupting harmlessly, leaving no scratch, while the scales' freeze made the sword quiver.

Zhuge Yu quickly triggered his array plate, cyan-gold formations unfurling across the floor, erecting energy shields to ensnare the Kirin.

But with a casual stomp, the Kirin demolished the patterns in a blast, its massive claw smashing the barrier into fractures; Zhuge Yu grunted as his array teetered on the brink of ruin.

With the Demon King’s Wings beating behind him, Qin Tian grasped the moment, his form blurring into a shadow that raced to the Kirin’s flank, Black Frost Blade sheathed in thick purple lightning as it slashed savagely toward the Kirin’s waist.

"Ting—"

Purple lightning sword Qi rent through the ice crystal scales, carving into the Kirin’s body and hurling ice fragments soaring into the heavens.

However, the strike merely gouged a faint fissure across the Kirin, its frame tougher by far than Profound Ice forged over millennia.

"Roar!"

In rage, the Kirin whipped around, its claws raking toward Qin Tian.

Qin Tian dodged aside with haste, yet a piercing frost surged over him, frost rapidly encasing his shoulder while his blood threatened to congeal.

He swiftly circulated his qi and blood to banish the chill.

The four stayed on high alert, reestablishing the four-element array: Qin Tian hammered away at the beast, Taishi Feng and Huoyuan Sheng hemmed in its wings, Zhuge Yu oversaw the formation’s barriers and scanned for openings.

Qin Tian’s Thunder Saber battered the Kirin time and again, purple lightning smashing against ice, splintering scales and scoring cracks on every hit; Taishi Feng’s Heaven-piercing Halberd zeroed in on joints and horn to throw off its strikes; Huoyuan Sheng’s longsword prowled the edges, hunting chances to thrust at soft targets like the eyes; Zhuge Yu shifted the array nonstop, weaving energy chains now to bind the Kirin, erecting snares next to hinder its lunges.