CHAPTER 473: Long Distance Battle

One day later: The Forest Troll Village.

Han Shuo brought Elisabeth here. With his demonic blood essence implanted in Elizabeth's body, he could take Elizabeth's life with a single thought should she commit any act of treason. Besides, the Church of Light had forced her into a dead end. With such a solid and reliable master to cling to, if she had any common sense at all, she should have understood that there was nothing to be gained by betraying Han Shuo.

After arriving at the forest troll village, Han Shuo saw the dark dragon Gilbert standing guard over the dark dragons imprisoned in the jadefrost cage. Right next to Gilbert, the old forest troll priest was instructing some forest troll warriors to feed huge chunks of salted meat to Gilges inside the cage.

The dark dragons, who had been tormented by Ice Celestial Corey from the Ice Shrine, devoured the hunks of meat in their hands. They must have been starving.

When Han Shuo arrived, a group of forest trolls, led by the old priest, stared down at Han Shuo and shouted the name 'Datara'.

As for the forest troll race, although Han Shuo's original intention had been purely to exploit them, over time he had grown somewhat sentimental towards them. Aside from their innate tendency to loot and pillage, they were generally to Han Shuo's liking. No matter how cruel they treated others, because of the little skeleton, these forest trolls would treat them with unparalleled devotion and good faith.

"Stand up." Han Shuo gestured with his hand. After the old priest and his group stood up, Han Shuo said with a smile, "In the future, make sure you are in frequent contact with Trunks. He will provide you all with wise guidance."

"Rest assured, liaison. Under Lord Trunks' guidance, we have reaped great harvests these past few years." A satisfied smile appeared on the old priest's ugly face.

Han Shuo nodded. Then he glanced at Elizabeth and encouraged her. "Try it, see if you can absorb the divine energy of the Ice Goddess from the Jade Frost Cage."

"Understood, Master!" Elizabeth replied respectfully with an excited look on her face.

Elizabeth, who had been on the run for countless years, realised the importance of her own strength. She understood that if she wanted to better protect herself and ensure her own survival, she had to possess great power. This order from Han Shuo was undoubtedly beneficial to her. With her confusing body structure, if she could absorb the divine energy in the Jade Frost Cage, her strength would definitely advance one step further.

"Be careful. All my clansmen are in there," Gilbert warned, unsure of Elizabeth's strength as he saw her excitedly approaching the cage.

Elizabeth nodded. As she stood beside the Jadefrost Cage, she reached out and grasped the fences without saying a word. She closed her eyes and began to sense the energy within the Jadefrost Cage with her Body of Divine Favour.

Han Shuo blinked slightly. What appeared to be lightning flashed through his eye slits as he fixed his gaze on Elizabeth.

Suddenly, Han Shuo saw Elizabeth's face change to a look of exultation. Streams of green smoke began to drift out of her seven orifices. The green smoke, which resembled seven earthworms, clung to her nostrils, eyes, ears and mouth. Her already ugly old face looked even more sinister as the green smoke pulsed at her seven orifices.

"Mas... Master, can she make it?" Gilbert was shocked at the bizarre things on Elizabeth's face. Since those imprisoned in the Jadefrost Cage were his grandfather and clansmen, he was terrified that Elizabeth might accidentally hurt them.

Han Shuo made a silent gesture to Gilbert and slowly approached Elizabeth. His immaterial and formless consciousness began to search for any sign of activity in Elizabeth and the Jade Frost Cage.

Han Shuo could sense that Elizabeth's unique Body of Divine Favour had discovered the reservoir of the Ice Goddess' divine energy in the Jadefrost Cage. That was why Elizabeth was suddenly so excited. As the green smoke curled up from her seven orifices, the wrinkled skin on both of her hands seemed to have shrunk and dried up like two cyan iron hooks.

Her two wrinkled hands, much like the hands of a thousand-year-old mummy, glowed with a faint green nefarious light. Strands of frigid energy, like fine threads, flowed gracefully along her two bony hands and into her body. The unique structure of her Body of Divine Favour allowed her to digest the divine energy.

The sinister looking Elizabeth showed an excited and joyful emotion in her eyes throughout the process. Strands of divine energy slowly flowed into her body through the transmission of her two hands. She could feel the benefits the energy could bring to her body.

Han Shuo let out a sigh of relief, certain that he had definitely made the right decision to take Elizabeth as his slave. Being able to absorb this kind of divine energy, Elizabeth would definitely be of great use to him. As he felt the flowing streams of divine energy, Han Shuo wondered if he should take some of the energy she had digested for himself after she had finished absorbing it.

The frigid aura that constantly lingered around the Jadefrost Cage was slowly dissipating along with Elizabeth's actions. Gilbert, who had been watching from the sidelines, obviously felt the changes in the Jadefrost Cage as well, and was pleasantly surprised. His mood became much better. When he looked at Elizabeth again, that sinister face seemed much more pleasing to the eyes.

Just as Han Shuo and Gilbert both sighed in relief, Elizabeth's face suddenly turned frightened and her body shivered. An intense frosty aura permeated the air. Elizabeth tried with all her strength to remove the two hands that were clinging to the Jadefrost Cage, but it was as if her hands were glued to the cage, and she couldn't get them off, no matter how hard she tried.

At the same time, the pillars of the Jadefrost Cage suddenly overflowed with bone-chilling white smoke. The temperature in the surrounding area began to plummet. The once warm forest troll village seemed to have fallen into a world of ice and snow.

At an unknown time, under the caress of the cold wind, the entire forest troll village was covered in snowflakes. The forest trolls immediately shivered in the cold. One by one, they began to shriek and scream in fear, completely unaware of what was happening.

Han Shuo was terrified. He could clearly sense that there seemed to be some powerful energy being poured into the Jade Frost Cage. The energy came abruptly. Not only did it cause the entire area to suddenly become freezing cold, it even held onto Elizabeth's hands, not letting them move in the slightest.

It was the dark dragons trapped in the Jadefrost Cage that suffered most from the arctic atmosphere. Gilge's teeth chattered, the warm air exhaled from his mouth instantly freezing. As for the younger dark dragons, the expressions on their faces grew increasingly frozen, as if they were about to freeze completely.

"Damn it, what have you done? I will kill you!" Gilbert roared in anger, his hand already swinging towards Elizabeth. With Gilbert's strength, if he really continued, Elizabeth would undoubtedly be dead.

"Stop it! It wasn't her!" Han Shuo shouted, raising his hand to stop Gilbert.

Gilbert was startled by Han Shuo's shout. When he looked at Elizabeth's face again and saw her frightened and in pain, he came to his senses. But as the dark dragons in the cage began to stiffen, Gilbert sank into a state of irrepressible anxiety. He cried out anxiously, "What shall we do? What should we do?"

"Evacuate everyone!" Han Shuo shouted at the trembling old priest and immediately summoned the Fire Elite Zombie. After issuing a command, he arrived behind Elizabeth in a split second and instantly pressed his hand against her back.

Meanwhile, far away in the territory of the Kasi Empire, at the top of a frozen mountain covered in ice and snow...

At the top of the frozen mountain were countless palaces made of ice crystals. Among them was a conical shrine that reached through the blue dome of the sky. At the centre of this structure were a few Shrine of Ice experts, led by Ice Celestial Corey. They sat cross-legged in a semicircle at the centre of a huge magical field. Their bodies were frozen in ice, making them look like ice sculptures with no clear signs of life.

Each ach of them, Ice Celestial Corey and several others, wore solemn, respectful expressions as they sat facing a huge ice sculpture of their Ice Goddess. Still frozen in ice, they maintained their posture, casting magic from a great distance. A strong and intense chill filled the entire temple.

"He stepped in!" Suddenly, a cry came from Corey, now an ice sculpture.

"Freeze the air, freeze the earth...

Except for Corey, the other ice sculptures began to sing in a deep, synchronised chorus. Cold air radiated out from the main hall, giving off a solemn aura.

Thousands of miles away, Han Shuo pressed his two hands on Elizabeth's shoulders. Demonic Yuan surged from her shoulders to her hands, mixing with the bone-chilling cold.

Clouds of flame blossomed from the Fire Lotus held in the Fire Elite Zombie's hand, wafting far and wide. After the flames flew out of the fire lotus, the interaction between the scorching hot temperatures and the wintry cold air produced a thick white vapour that suddenly covered this world of ice and snow.

After the fire lotus was ejected and the clouds of flame fluttered about, the temperature in the entire village finally stopped its rapid descent. The forest trolls, whose movements had been slowed by the cold, began to speed up in their flight.

The entire clan of dark dragons, whose bodies had just been frozen in the Jade Frost Cage, quickly melted into water with the help of the flames from the Fire Lotus of the Fire Elite Zombie. Only then did the chattering sound of Gilge's teeth continue.

With Han Shuo's two hands pressed on Elizabeth's shoulders, Demonic Yuan quickly surged into her palm. Han Shuo used the Mystic Glacial Fire to the fullest, producing a scorching temperature to help her withstand the onslaught of cold air coming from the columns.

Through the cold air that erupted from Elizabeth's palm, Han Shuo sensed the divine energy activated by Ice Celestial Corey. He could be absolutely certain that the sudden changes in the Jadefrost Cage must have something to do with Ice Celestial Corey.

Han Shuo also understood that this Jadefrost Cage, blessed by the Ice Goddess, must have some kind of fantastic ability that allowed it to connect directly to Ice Celestial Corey and the others. It seemed that this time, Han Shuo had fallen for Corey's ruse. Perhaps the reason why Corey had left the Dark Dragon Canyon so quickly, unconcerned about the disappearance of the Jade Frost Cage, was because he had been planning to use it to plot against Han Shuo all along.

As he cursed Corey's wickedness and ruthlessness in his heart, a steady stream of demonic yuan in his body was wildly transforming into scorching red flames by means of the Mystical Glacial Fire Spell, helping Elizabeth to resist the onslaught of the cold air from the Jade Frost Cage at all costs.

It wasn't that Han Shuo cared whether Elizabeth lived or died. It was just that even if Elizabeth died right now, the cold aura in the Jade Frost Cage wouldn't disappear. Besides, having Elizabeth stand in between was definitely safer than having Han Shuo himself in direct contact with the cage to contain the cold air.

"Cold, so cold!" Elizabeth was finally able to speak despite her chattering jaws after Han Shuo had poured in his demonic yuan.

"Hang in there!" Han Shuo groaned coldly. He pushed away all distracting thoughts and furrowed his brow.

Under the effects of the rapidly dropping temperatures, some of the older and younger forest trolls froze to death in the biting cold before the flames from the Fire Elite Zombie could warm them. The entire village of forest trolls was gripped with fear. As the old priest roared, every living forest troll fled out of the village in panic.

The fire elite zombie was still relentlessly releasing flames with the fire lotus in his hand, holding on just like Han Shuo. Although Gilbert's duty was the least tedious, he was also the most frightened and restless of them all. Standing next to the Fire Elite Zombie, Gilbert was shivering from the cold, but he still managed to hold on.

Looking at the gloomy faces of his clansmen trapped in the Jade Frost Cage, Gilbert understood that once the Fire Elite Zombie and Han Shuo could no longer hold on, his people would face the fate of being frozen to death. This made Gilbert very worried, but unfortunately there was nothing he could do to help. All he could do was watch the Jade Frost Cage from the sidelines and hate the Ice Shrine with a burning passion.

"Father, it won't work if we stay like this!" Suddenly, the Fire Elite Zombie transmitted.

The cold air coming from the Jade Frost Cage grew stronger and stronger. Han Shuo also felt that he was gradually losing his strength and realised that the Fire Elite Zombie was right. Just as Han Shuo had no idea what to do, the Fire Elite Zombie continued, "Father, let's take the battle to my birthplace, then I'll have a way to deal with this!"

The place of extreme fire! Han Shuo's eyes lit up when he heard the Fire Elite Zombie's words.

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