The Ice Empress hovered to one side, her emerald eyes fixed unblinkingly on the battlefield.
At first, she had watched with an attitude of enjoying the spectacle, even harboring a bit of competitiveness—she wanted to see how much of Jiang Zhen's strength the Sea Princess could force out.
However, as the battle progressed, the ease in her compound eyes gradually gave way to solemnity, ultimately transforming into unconcealable shock.
She knew Jiang Zhen was strong. She had personally experienced it not long ago and knew how troublesome he was.
But that had been a spar. Both sides had held back, making it more like an exercise in controlling power.
Now, facing a furious six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast with the advantage of home territory, Jiang Zhen displayed something entirely different—a highly efficient, ruthless, almost crushing dominion!
He had already suppressed the Sea Princess!
His strength control, precise to the extreme; his endless combinations of powerful Spirit Skills; and his astonishing immunity to Mental Attacks.
And that final point-breaking strike, which contained terrifying power that even made her heart tremble...
"This monster..."
The Ice Empress unconsciously murmured,
"When he fought me... he wasn't using his full strength at all?!"
She had originally thought she had more or less figured out Jiang Zhen's capabilities, but now it seemed that the spar had merely been a warm-up for him to familiarize himself with his strength.
The Jiang Zhen before her, in his true combat state, possessed unfathomably deep strength. In particular, the threat of that final strike had sent a chill down her spine.
Seeing the Sea Princess heavily wounded and defeated by a single strike, the shock in the Ice Empress's heart reached its peak.
She reined in all her casual bearing. Her gaze at Jiang Zhen became incomparably complicated, mixed with disbelief, a