Chapter 871: Recapture

Only those who can genuinely convince their followers can give them orders.

Finally, ice shards repeatedly pierced Yun Yixuan's last line of defense. Just as an icicle was about to pierce his head, an incredibly powerful aura descended once again!

However, this time, the aura had nothing to do with Yun Yixuan himself.

Yun Yixuan, who had closed his eyes, awaiting death's judgment, regained his vision...

It was then that he saw the figure he had yearned for finally appear!

He swore that he had never in his life felt such gratitude and longing for a man as he did at that moment. Xu Yang seemed to be the first to arrive, embodying the grace of a savior. Within a hundred meters, all ice-attribute energy lost its effect.

"Who are you to dare intrude upon my Glacial Battlefield? Have you come to rescue this good-for-nothing?"

Xu Yang swept a glance at the Winter Goddess before him and gave a cold smile: "No matter how useless he may be, he is still an envoy of the Central Domain Imperial Family. And no matter how bold you are, you are ultimately just royal subjects. How dare you defy your superiors like this, openly resisting the Central Domain Imperial Family? Are you not afraid that this young man will return one day and lead the Imperial Family's vast army to raze your Western Imperial Tomb to the ground?"

The Winter Goddess, however, burst into laughter: "If the Imperial Family could truly eradicate us so easily, then our three major bandit forces in the Eastern Domain wouldn't have been rampant for so many years! Don't try to intimidate me with the Imperial Family's name; that won't work on me. Since you have the audacity to trespass here, I'll show you what the Winter Berserkers are all about!"

Xu Yang had never heard the name "Winter Berserkers" before. Though unfamiliar, he knew it must be related to the ice crystal warriors who served under the Winter Goddess.

Sure enough, with a gentle wave of the Winter Goddess's hand, thousands of ice crystal warriors behind her immediately sprang into action.

They formed various bizarre and unique independent formations, each consisting of about a hundred ice crystal warriors, possessing extremely powerful independent combat capabilities.

"Thousand-Formation Wolf Slaughter, attack!"

As the Winter Goddess's command was given, all the independent hundred-man formations around them took turns launching a siege attack on Xu Yang.

A myriad of flashy techniques continuously appeared around Xu Yang's body, yet these attackers couldn't even touch his physical form.

"Glacial Battlefield, this place does feel familiar. I once fought in the Glacial Ruins long ago and gained a lot.

I know very well how to leverage my advantages in a battlefield with extreme ice attributes. Therefore, your independent space might suppress someone like Yun Yixuan, but it has no effect whatsoever in front of me, Ah Yang."

These berserker soldiers seemed to feel no pain. Facing Xu Yang's sharp sword gleams that continuously appeared in various directions in the void, they showed no trace of fear.

In their eyes, there was only endless slaughter; they would absolutely not stop without the Winter Goddess's command.

Xu Yang quickly discerned that these Winter Berserkers weren't just mindlessly following the Winter Goddess's guidance; their souls had been brainwashed.

Or rather, a command for forced execution had been implanted! It was similar to a very special curse, making them obey all of the Winter Goddess's orders without question.

After realizing this, a new idea immediately formed in Xu Yang's mind. He stood still, his face calm, and suddenly withdrew all the power from his body.

The instant countless Winter Berserker attacks struck the body, Xu Yang's true form vanished, replaced by an illusory body that was effortlessly shattered by these individuals.

And when his true form reappeared, Xu Yang was already by the Winter Goddess's side, smiling calmly at her.

"To be honest, and you might not like to hear this, but you're the ugliest person I've ever seen who still dares to call herself a goddess."

For a woman, Xu Yang's words were undoubtedly the greatest insult to the Winter Goddess.

And her appearance was the one weakness she cared about most.

Upon hearing Xu Yang's words, the Winter Goddess became enraged, unaware that it was precisely at this moment that she revealed a fatal vulnerability.

Without hesitation, Xu Yang pointed a finger at the Winter Goddess's brow. In that instant, her will within her mind seemed to be completely sealed by Xu Yang.

This was a special spiritual Qigong technique from Xu Yang's Shangqing Vitality Dao. Once hit, the target's soul world would fall into a state of absolute stillness for a period.

During this period, Xu Yang once again employed a wondrous technique, allowing his spiritual aura to swiftly surge into the Winter Goddess's soul world. He located the cursed inscription she used to control all the surrounding Winter Berserker warriors and forcibly extracted it from her mind, letting it float gently in his palm.

"All Berserkers, halt!"

Xu Yang didn't actually speak these words aloud. Instead, he used his spiritual power to weave the command into the inscription in his palm.

Sure enough, at that very instant, tens of thousands of Winter Berserker warriors in the Glacial Battlefield all ceased their movements.

"Hahaha, how interesting. I didn't expect this foolish woman to fall for it so easily."

After Xu Yang succeeded, a second command was immediately issued.

Within this Glacial Battlefield, all the Winter warriors, under Xu Yang's arrangement, had the will to be loyal to the Sacred Fire Divine Sect Alliance implanted in them, and they themselves obliterated all memories of the Winter Goddess's name and image from their minds.

In a matter of minutes, the Winter Goddess before him hadn't even regained her consciousness, yet she had already completely lost all control over the entire Glacial Battlefield.

And these tens of thousands of Winter Berserker warriors, the culmination of the Winter Goddess's lifelong efforts, had, in just moments, come under Xu Yang's command.

After successfully acquiring such an incredibly powerful Winter legion, Xu Yang immediately issued a third command: he instructed these Winter Berserker warriors to follow Yun Yixuan and leave the area together, returning to Mount Qizong, which was the Eastern Domain territory recently occupied by Xu Yang's team.

The entire sequence of events left Yun Yixuan utterly stunned. He never dreamed that Xu Yang possessed such incredible, heaven-defying abilities, capable of replacing the Winter Goddess and perfectly taking control of this invincible army of tens of thousands in just three minutes.