King Shuanglin's body erupted with a massive amount of Yin Qi Spiritual Power, freezing the air in front of him, and the approaching stone-throwing birds were also encased in ice.

King Shuanglin snorted coldly. Just as he prepared to dissolve the ice and dispose of the stone-throwing birds, a wave of heat that he found unbearable surged from ahead.

He was startled, then raised his eyes to look forward, only to see a firebird, with wings ablaze, had already arrived before him.

"It's that woman who inherited the blood of the Netherworld Azure Bird!" King Shuanglin panicked. He saw that the ice formed from his Spiritual Power in front of him was beginning to melt.

Thus, he immediately left the skies, returning above the heads of his forty thousand soldiers, and urged in a fluster, "Brothers, lend me your strength, lend me your Spiritual Power, so that with the power of all of us combined, we can eliminate that firebird!"

"Yes!" Tens of thousands of soldiers answered in unison.

"Come!" King Shuanglin shouted with a raised arm, "I'll count to three, and we all release our power together, one, two, three!"

No sooner had his voice faded than nearly all of the forty thousand soldiers directed their Spiritual Power within their bodies toward King Shuanglin. By this time, Ye Yuqiao had already completely melted the ice that trapped more than a dozen stone-throwing birds with the intense heat of her flames.

She needed this dozen or so stone-throwing birds to detonate the explosive flintstones beneath them, causing loud sounds and dazzling light to signal the Zhou Family's twenty thousand soldiers currently lying in ambush where the great wetlands met the Dayang Mountains.

But just as she had melted the ice, a mass of indescribable Yin Qi Spiritual Power rose from below, enveloping her and the dozen or so stone-throwing birds.

This mass of Spiritual Power was what King Shuanglin had absorbed into his body after sucking in the Spiritual Power of those more than forty thousand soldiers.

King Shuanglin let out a roar that shook the heavens, and immediately, countless ice crystals appeared in the air around Ye Yuqiao and the stone-throwing birds.

Suddenly, the ice crystals expanded dozens of times in size, interlocking with each other to form a massive block of ice, encasing Ye Yuqiao and the more than a dozen stone-throwing birds, and instantly extinguishing the flames on Ye Yuqiao.

Subsequently, the more than forty thousand onlookers fell silent, awaiting what would happen next.

After a long while, seeing that Ye Yuqiao, encased in the ice block, still showed no reaction, King Shuanglin slightly curled his lips, wearing an expression of joy;

Then he chuckled twice, his lion's mouth slightly agape;

Finally, he opened his lion's mouth wide, letting out an excited roar.

"Brothers, we've done it!" King Shuanglin shouted triumphantly!

Instantly, the forty thousand soldiers below erupted in a cheer like thunder.

"King Shuanglin, take this chance to eliminate that woman!" King Wumeng yelled at King Shuanglin.

King Shuanglin's eyes gleamed, nodding repeatedly, "King Wumeng, you are right, I will eliminate that woman right away."

At that moment, a figure appeared atop the mass of ice in the sky.

It was Zhao Chong arriving!

Seeing Ye Yuqiao trapped within the ice, teeming with tremendous Spiritual Power, Zhao Chong felt some regret, regretting that he hadn't stopped Ye Yuqiao earlier. Actually, it would have been fine for the stone-throwing birds to drop the explosive flintstones just about anywhere, but Ye Yuqiao, wanting to delay this army of the Ghost King Battalion, insisted on attacking them with the stone-throwing birds.

Ye Yuqiao was taking too much of a risk!

At that moment, Zhao Chong's eyes shone with a crimson glow, and he now wielded a Blood Jade Sword in his hand. He quickly infused his blood and Spiritual Power into the Blood Jade Sword, then thrust the sword into the ice below.

However, when the Blood Jade Sword pierced the ice, only a few small cracks appeared inside it.

Seeing this, King Shuanglin laughed scornfully from below, "This block of ice gathers the Spiritual Power of more than forty thousand people; it's not something you, Zhao Chong, can resolve alone! Zhao Chong, since you've come, don't even think about leaving!"

Speaking, King Shuanglin turned his head back and said, "Brothers, aid me once more, this time shall we capture the God of War Zhao Chong as well?"

"Yes!" The response was a unanimous roar from below!

"One, two."

"Stop!" King Shuanglin had not yet counted to three when he was interrupted by King Wumeng, "King Shuanglin, stop at once!"

Interrupted by King Wumeng, the more than forty thousand soldiers fell into uproar. Many couldn't stop in time, and their exerted spiritual power was wasted in vain.

"King Wumeng, what are you doing!" King Shuanglin was extremely angry.

"This is their stalling tactic!" King Wumeng explained with a pained expression, "They want to delay us here, waiting for their fifty thousand troops to arrive! Don't forget what I just told you."

"But I could have taken out Zhao Chong and that woman very soon!"

"I see this as a trap, let's go, hurry up!"

Just as King Shuanglin was about to retort, he heard a rumbling sound in the distance. He looked towards the night sky to the northwest and saw the silhouette of countless troops.

"King Wumeng, you're right!" said King Shuanglin, as he swiftly mounted his horse again, "Their large army is coming! Brothers, we must retreat quickly!"

After a loud shout, King Shuanglin and King Wumeng immediately turned around, leading the forty thousand soldiers to retreat southward.

Seeing the Ghost King Battalion recede into the distance, Zhao Chong breathed a sigh of relief, turning his head to the northwest and thinking that it was fortunate his own troops had arrived in time, otherwise he and Ye Yuqiao might have truly died here.

He crouched down, exerting great effort to pull the Blood Jade Sword out from the ice block beneath his feet.

About a quarter of an hour later, Zhou Ke finally arrived with the fifty thousand-strong army.

Seeing Zhao Chong standing on a block of ice infused with tremendous spiritual power, and the ice encasing Nether King Yuqiao, Zhou Ke was astounded and hurried a few steps on his horse to Zhao Chong, asking, "Family Leader Zhao, what happened, and how did the Nether King end up frozen in ice?"

"It's a long story; I'll explain it to you later when we return to Falling Shade Mountain," replied Zhao Chong. "For now, I need to borrow the spiritual power of the fifty thousand soldiers to break this solid ice beneath my feet!"

Once the fifty thousand of his own soldiers had arrived, Zhao Chong ordered all fifty thousand to exert their spiritual power and channel it into him. He then quickly infused the spiritual power into the Blood Jade Sword and inserted it back into the ice.

Immediately, countless cracks appeared within the ice, which then shattered into millions of pieces of varying sizes that fell to the ground, freeing Ye Yuqiao and several dozen boulder-throwing birds.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Zhou Ke asked.

Ye Yuqiao shook her head, then the dozen or so boulder-throwing birds took flight high into the air, dropping explosive fire stones to signal their allies.

Once the explosions from the fire stones were sensed, the two thousand troops of the Zhou Family, lying in ambush on the southeastern edge of the Dayang Mountains, immediately advanced westward.

Half an hour later, the two thousand-strong army reached the foot of Falling Shade Mountain. With the exception of the two thousand soldiers of the Zhao Zhou alliance left to defend on the Huiyin Mountain Range, all the troops from the five great families were assembled.

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Not long after, the thirty thousand warriors of the Crow Tribe who had been sent to raid the Zhou Family ambush in the Great River Marshlands received the signal and regrouped in the Black Forest with King Shuanglin and King Wumeng.

At the same time, the Dark Law King and King Qingyu also led the freshly gathered ten thousand royal guards to the scene.

The great battle of the Netherworld was imminent!

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