Soulbound: Dual Cultivation

Chapter 566: Ice belle vs Ken 3

Ken blocked another strike.Then another.

But unlike the ice element, this was far harder to predict.

The attack patterns shifted continuously.

Some strikes curved.

Some accelerated mid-flight.

Others vanished into surrounding air currents before reappearing from impossible angles.

Ken realized immediately what had happened.

She hadn’t merely changed elements.

She had changed the rhythm of the battle itself.

And worse—

He was now the one adapting again.

A razor-thin blade of compressed wind suddenly cut across his shoulder before he fully avoided it.

Blood sprayed lightly into the air.

The spectators below gasped.

The two observing celestials stiffened immediately.

Ken glanced briefly at the shallow cut across his shoulder.

Then slowly looked back up at her.

The Ice Belle hovered amidst spiraling storms of ice and wind combined now, her silver hair whipping violently around her while the sky itself churned unnaturally above Rus.

The battlefield grew strangely quiet.

Not truly silent, buildings still burned in sections of the city, debris still collapsed in the distance, terrified civilians still fled through frozen streets below, but around the Ice Belle herself, the chaos seemed to thin unnaturally.

Ken noticed it immediately.

After driving him downward with the overwhelming shift in momentum from her wind element, the Ice Belle did not continue attacking.

That alone was wrong.

A fighter who had seized advantage should have pressed harder.

Should have forced openings.

Should have continued the assault before the opponent recovered.

But instead...

She descended slowly toward the shattered district below.

The cratered ground beneath her was a landscape of fractured stone and frozen destruction, mist rolling through cracks while pieces of ruined structures smoldered nearby. She hovered just above the ground, her feet never fully touching the surface.

Then she began to move.

Slowly.

Gracefully.

One gentle step.

Then another.

Her hands drifted through the air with fluid precision while the currents around her followed the motion like obedient streams. Her waist turned subtly, silver hair flowing around her as the winds spiraled outward in smooth expanding circles.

It looked almost unreal amidst the destruction.

Like a dance unfolding in the center of war.

The spectators watching from distant rooftops and streets were completely confused.

Even the soldiers below who had witnessed the terrifying battle until now couldn’t understand what they were looking at anymore.

Because the Ice Belle no longer looked like she was fighting.

She looked...

Majestic.

Beautiful.

Dangerously calm.

Every movement of her fingers altered the wind.

Every subtle shift of her body caused unseen currents to bend around the battlefield in widening arcs. Frost spread across the ground beneath her in elegant circular patterns while invisible pressure rippled outward through the district.

The remaining two celestials hovering high above frowned immediately.

One of them muttered, "What is she doing?"

The other stared harder, sensing something beneath the elegance.

Something hidden.

Ken already understood.

Or at least...

He understood enough.

And that realization made his expression change for the first time since the battle began.

His eyes narrowed sharply.

The pressure around him intensified immediately as instinct screamed at him that whatever she was preparing could not be allowed to complete.

Below, the Ice Belle continued.

Slow turn.

Gentle extension of the hand.

Another flowing step through the air.

The wind surrounding the battlefield no longer moved chaotically now.

It moved with rhythm and control.

And beneath the frozen streets, cracks began spreading quietly through the district itself.

The observing celestials sensed it next.

Their faces changed instantly.

One of them spoke sharply, "Stop her!"

Both launched downward immediately.

But before they could even fully descend, something struck them.

An invisible force erupted outward around the Ice Belle’s position with terrifying precision.

The two celestials were hit mid-flight as if they had slammed into an unseen wall.

BOOM.

The air exploded violently.

Both men were hurled backward at terrifying speed, their bodies spinning uncontrollably through the sky before they crashed through distant structures far across the district.

Shock rippled across the battlefield.

The spectators below stared upward in horror.

Because no one had seen the attack itself.

There had been no visible strike.

Ken’s expression darkened immediately.

Now he was certain.

The Ice Belle continued moving calmly within the center of the ruined district, her motions never breaking rhythm despite the attempted interruption. Wind spiraled wider around her now, carrying ice crystals through the air in slow elegant currents while the atmosphere itself began feeling heavier with every passing second.

Ken stood there trying to read what she was constructing before it fully manifested.

But even for him...

It was difficult.

Because whatever the Ice Belle was doing, It was unlike anything she had shown before.

The atmosphere over Rus finally broke.

What began as subtle currents around the Ice Belle escalated with terrifying suddenness as the winds around the ruined district lost all natural behavior. The air pressure dipped sharply, powerful enough that people across the nearby streets stumbled or grabbed onto walls instinctively.

Then the sky began to rotate.

Dark clouds above the battlefield twisted inward violently as spiraling currents converged toward the Ice Belle’s position. Dust, frost, shattered stone, debris from ruined buildings, and streams of loose ice were ripped upward from the devastated district below, circling faster and faster around her.

The spectators watching from a distance backed away in fear.

Some soldiers dropped their weapons entirely.

Even experienced cultivators among the forces below could feel it immediately.

This was no ordinary elemental attack.

This was something far beyond simple manipulation.

The Ice Belle remained at the center of it all.

Hovering calmly above the cratered ground.

Her silver hair moved gently despite the catastrophic storm building around her, while the spiraling winds accelerated into something monstrous. Ice crystals flashed within the rotating currents like stars trapped inside a natural disaster.

Then the tornado fully formed.

It erupted upward into the sky with terrifying scale, connecting earth and clouds in a violently rotating pillar of destruction that swallowed the battlefield whole. Buildings near its edges were torn apart instantly, entire rooftops ripped away and consumed into the spiraling force before being shredded apart within the storm itself.

Yet despite its immense violence...

The Ice Belle remained perfectly still inside it.

Not resisting it.

Not controlling it from outside.

She was the storm.

Ken stared upward at the colossal tornado with genuine shock for the first time.

Not because of its raw destructive capability.

But because he immediately understood something far more dangerous.

This...

This was incomplete.

His eyes narrowed sharply as he sensed the unstable brilliance hidden within the technique. The structure of the tornado was still evolving even while active. Certain currents lacked full refinement. The layering of pressure inside the spiral was still imperfect in places.

And yet despite all that...

It was already this powerful.

Ken felt a cold realization settle heavily in his thoughts.

This is only a fragment of what it could become.

If she perfected it...

If she fully mastered whatever terrifying art she had just revealed...

She would become nearly impossible to stop.

Even for people at his level.

The realization sent genuine alarm through him.

Then the tornado moved.

The Ice Belle raised her hand slowly from within the center of the spiraling storm.

And the entire tornado shifted toward Ken.

The sky roared.

The massive storm tore violently across the ruined battlefield, devouring everything in its path as it surged forward with impossible speed. Entire sections of shattered streets were ripped upward into the rotating vortex while debris spun within the storm like lethal projectiles.

Ken moved instantly.

But the moment he attempted to retreat, he realized the true danger.

The tornado wasn’t simply chasing him.

It was pulling him.

The gravitational force within the spiraling winds dragged violently at everything around it. Airflow itself became distorted, making movement increasingly difficult the closer the storm approached.

Ken accelerated hard across the sky, but the pull intensified immediately.

Below, enormous chunks of stone and shattered structures lifted helplessly into the vortex.

Even the two remaining celestials were caught.

Their expressions changed instantly as the pull seized them unexpectedly.

"What is this?!"

One tried to stabilize with brute force, but the rotating winds tore him sideways violently. The second celestial attempted to break free upward, only for invisible pressure currents within the tornado to drag him back downward again.

The storm consumed them both.

The spectators below screamed and fled as the colossal tornado carved through the already evacuated battle district like a living disaster. Entire ruined towers vanished into the spiraling destruction while the sky darkened further overhead.

And yet...

The civilians themselves remained untouched.

That was the most terrifying part.

The tornado moved through the battlefield with impossible precision.

The Ice Belle controlled it so finely that the outer edges curved around populated areas naturally, avoiding the fleeing citizens entirely while focusing all destructive force toward Ken and the trapped celestials.

Even amidst such overwhelming destruction...

Her control remained absolute.

Ken realized it too.

And that disturbed him more than the tornado itself.

Because overwhelming power was dangerous.

But overwhelming power combined with this level of precision...

That was catastrophic.

The tornado closed around him fully now.

Ken unleashed a massive burst of force to stabilize himself against the pull, but the spiraling winds immediately shredded apart his surroundings, destabilizing his footing in the air over and over again.