What is going on?

Where did this ice wall come from?

A flash of astonishment crossed Kalen's eyes, but it was immediately replaced by thick disdain.

He was a powerful SS-Rank Professional!

Did a mere ice wall think it could block his path?

"Break for me!"

Kalen roared, without using any fancy skills.

His sturdy body carved a brutal straight line through the air, like a humanoid cannonball, fiercely slamming toward the crystal-clear ice wall.

He was going to use the purest physical strength to smash this overconfident ice wall into a sky full of ice chips!

However.

"Boom—!!!"

A dull roar to the absolute extreme.

Kalen only felt as if his head had crashed into an unshakeable piece of divine iron, making him see stars and feel dizzy.

On the other hand, that huge ice wall only let out an unbearable cry of agony, with an insignificant crack appearing on its surface.

Kalen's body was bounced away by a huge recoil force, rolling clumsily in the air for several circles before barely steadying his figure.

He shook his somewhat dazed head, looking in disbelief at the ice wall that had only cracked a seam.

So hard!

The hardness of this ice wall far exceeded his imagination!

"Damn it!"

An expression of annoyance surfaced on Kalen's face.

He had just prepared to mobilize the energy within his body, releasing a large-scale destructive skill to completely blast this damned ice wall into pieces.

But right at this moment.

An extreme cold wind, as if capable of freezing the soul, blew without warning from behind the ice wall.

That wind was silent, yet it carried an irresistible absolute zero.

Kalen's movements suddenly stiffened.

He discovered in shock that his body was being covered by a layer of crystal-clear frost at a speed visible to the naked eye under the blowing of this cold wind.

Along with the Pendulum of Life that he had just obtained in his arms, it was also completely frozen in an instant.

He couldn't even struggle a bit before his consciousness fell into pitch darkness.

The next second.

A lifelike ice sculpture fell straight down from midair.

"Kalen!"

Polina in the distance let out an exclamation.

The black wings on her back suddenly flapped, stopping her forward-rushing figure, and her charming azure eyes were filled with solemnity.

She looked up toward the direction above the ice wall.

An unprecedented sense of crisis enveloped her heart.

I saw that above the ice wall, a small figure had quietly floated there at some unknown time.

He wore an exquisite blue and white kimono, his skin was as white as snow, and his facial features were as cute as a porcelain doll.

A head of silver-white short hair gently fluttered in the cold wind, holding a snow-white tachi in his hand that was extremely disproportionate to his height.

He just stood there quietly without any expression on his face, and in his ice-blue eyes was a pure, impurity-free indifference.

As if everything in the world was no different from ice and snow in his eyes.

Polina's heart suddenly sank.

She had seen this shikigami.

In the top shikigami illustrated guide of Sakura Country, there were records about him.

Named, Yukimusha.

He is the Incarnation of ice and snow, the specter ruling over death and freezing.

Being able to summon this level of shikigami, the opponent's identity was ready to come out.

Right at the moment when Polina's mind was violently shaken.

A fierce and peerless blade wind attacked from below without warning, targeting directly at her back!

That blade wind was fast to the extreme, as if it could tear space apart, carrying an indomitable and tragic killing intent.

Polina's expression changed drastically, wanting to dodge, but it was already too late.

At the critical moment.

"Hum—"

Thousands of Soldier Beetles appeared out of thin air, quickly stacking behind Polina to form a thick black insect shield.

"Pfft!"

The fierce blade wind easily tore open the insect shield.

Thousands of Soldier Beetles were instantly ground into powder.

But this brief obstruction bought Polina zero point one second of reaction time.

The wings on her back flapped fiercely, narrowly avoiding this fatal blow.

A wisp of golden hair was cut off by the blade wind and slowly drifted down.

Polina broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly pulling away and looking downward.

Only then did she notice.

Besides that eerie Yukimusha on the ice wall, another person was standing in the messy ruins below.

That was a young girl wearing a red and white miko outfit.

The girl looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, with delicate features, but her expression was as cold as frost.

In her hand, she grasped a ferocious tachi taller than her entire person.

On the blade, dark red patterns slowly wriggled like blood vessels, exuding an ominous aura.

Yorukihime.

Polina's heart sank bit by bit.

Yukimusha, Yorukihime.

These were all great yokai comparable to Hell-level BOSSes.

That man was actually able to, while summoning Ōtengu and Shuten-dōji.

Summon two more such powerful shikigami!

Big trouble.

In the air further away, a figure dragging a long trail of black smoke quickly flew back.

It was none other than Chong Wenguma.

His appearance at this moment was extremely disheveled, his pristine white Shinto priest robe was tattered, blood hung from the corner of his mouth, and his complexion was so gloomy it was almost dripping water.

Behind him was that huge ghost god over ten meters tall, Shuten-dōji.

At this moment, Shuten-dōji, the fanaticism and obsession in his eyes had completely faded, returning to clarity.

It carried that huge Spiked Club on its shoulder, following step by step behind Chong Wenguma, its expression appearing exceptionally docile, as if the violent fierce creature that had devoured its master earlier was just everyone's illusion.

This High Priest from Ise Grand Shrine coldly swept his gaze across the battlefield below, finally landing on Caesar and Polina in the distance.

That look was as if he were looking at two dead people.

"Want to leave with the Pendulum of Life?"

"It's not that simple."

At the same time.

City center.

That huge golden cocoon suspended high in the air, whose light had dimmed because the Pendulum of Life was snatched away, suddenly trembled violently.

"Crack!"

"Crack! Crack!"

Crisp shattering sounds continuously came from the surface of the golden cocoon.

Ferocious cracks, like spider webs, quickly covered the entire body of the cocoon.

The next second.

"Boom—!!!"

The golden cocoon exploded with a bang!

Amidst the sky-filling golden light fragments, a ferocious sharp claw covered in blood-colored scales abruptly reached out from inside!

Followed closely by.

A ferocious ghostly face filled with endless violence and fury!

"Who!!!"

"Who ruined this lord's resurrection ritual!"

"This lord will make them… pay the price in blood!!!"

The terrifying roar, like hundreds of millions of thunderclaps, exploded deafeningly over Fuji City!