The playful smile at the corner of Mo Lin's lips had yet to fade when a thought stirred, and the mighty power of the Immortal Eye was unleashed!
Buzz!
Space rippled like water. In the next instant, Mo Lin, Yao Yao, Cai Lin, and the rest of their group of eighteen, including Little Lingxi, vanished from where they stood and appeared directly in the path of the raging energy storm!
They had appeared so abruptly and silently that it was as though they had always been standing there, fused with the shattered void around them.
Almost the instant their figures solidified—
Whoosh!
A streak of light, swift as lightning and radiating bone-piercing cold, shot toward them at a nearly frantic, life-or-death speed!
Within that streak of light, a petite and exquisite figure could vaguely be seen. She wore crystalline ice armor, and her delicate, doll-like face was pale and anxious!
She was none other than the Ice Empress!
She was clearly using her escape technique at full force, her divine sense focused entirely on the pursuers behind her and the path ahead. She had never expected anyone to appear so bizarrely right in front of her! Moreover, Mo Lin and the others had appeared without causing the slightest spatial fluctuation, as though... they had always been part of that void!
Thus, in the Ice Empress's perception, the space ahead... was empty! She could pass through it at full speed!
Then—
Bang!
A dull thud rang out!
Under the astonished gazes of everyone present, including the pursuers behind her, the Ice Empress, flying at full speed, crashed headfirst into a warm, solid embrace! The tremendous momentum drove her tiny body completely into it, her head burying itself directly against the other person's chest!
Because she had been moving too quickly and