With this sword, Ice Plains Heavenly Monarch died!
Jiang Ding's gaze flickered.
His eyes seemed somewhat hazy and blurred. Affected by the karma of the Sword of Gold Annihilation, he saw a place incomparably far away.
That place was not even in the Western Desert, but within an endless vast sea, beneath a ten-thousand-zhang abyss, where a massive ice crystal egg rested quietly upon the ground.
No one knew how many years this scene had lasted—perhaps several thousand years, perhaps tens of thousands.
It had always been this way, without the slightest change. No living being had ever come beneath this ten-thousand-zhang sea abyss. No one had ever known of it.
Crack!
At a certain moment, the massive ice crystal egg changed.
A crack appeared upon its shell. The crack spread, swiftly covering the entire egg. Crack after crack rang out without cease, until at last it shattered apart.
Screech!
Amid dust swirling through the sky, an Ice Crystal Phoenix the size of a carriage was born. It raised its neck and sang, its clear and melodious cry spreading in all directions, bringing life to this dark and deathly ten-thousand-zhang sea abyss.
"Tushan!"
"Tushan!"
"I will remember you, remember you! After you die, I will surely slaughter your bloodline and kin, destroy your Tushan Central Court, kill every human beneath heaven, leaving not even chickens and dogs alive..."
The voice issuing from this beautiful Ice Crystal Phoenix was pleasant and sweet, yet it held none of a divine bird's ethereal holiness. It was filled with hatred and venom, enough to make one's hair stand on end.
This was, in truth, the tradition of long-lived beings.
I may not be able to defeat you in this generation. Fine. I will enter a seal and remain sealed for thousands or tens of