What... did death actually feel like?
Li Chang'an's current sensation was quite strange.
After all nine of his heads had been snapped off by the Ice Empress and his body had fallen, declared dead, his consciousness detached from his body at that instant.
His perspective became that of a god.
His consciousness seemed to exist in some higher-dimensional space, observing everything happening in the lower-dimensional world below.
Li Chang'an looked at the headless snake body below him, which had suffered decapitation—nine times, in fact—yet his mood was unusually calm. Because if he wanted to, he could revive the headless snake body below at any time, heal all its injuries, and bring it back at full health!
But if he revived on the spot like this, he would probably only be killed again immediately.
Fortunately, he could choose where to revive.
Li Chang'an turned his gaze into the distance. He discovered that in this higher-dimensional state before revival, the range his senses could cover was extraordinarily vast. It was as though a map of reality had appeared in his mind.
He could choose his revival location according to the directions on the map.
Thus, he decisively chose a concealed Ice Cave a thousand kilometers away from where he had died as his revival location.
The next moment, Li Chang'an involuntarily withdrew from that higher-dimensional state, and his consciousness began returning to his body.
At the same time, the Ice Empress looked at the Nine-Headed Monster Serpent, which had completely lost all signs of life before her. She picked up one of its snake heads with her foreclaw and was about to enjoy it when... she suddenly discovered that the snake head in her claw had begun to fade, rapidly disappearing.
"What's going on?!"
The Ice Empress hurriedly shifted her gaze to