In the Heavenly Screen, just as Huo Yuhao and the others were discussing going to find the Snow Empress, the scene shifted to the Divine Realm.
[Wisps of light drifted like mist. The Divine Realm was vast and silent, as if it had remained unchanged since time immemorial.
Inside a towering, magnificent temple, Sea God Tang San leaned on his trident, his face gloomy as he gazed at the boy on Douluo Star.
"Hmph... You still want to find that Heavenly Snow Woman and have her sacrifice herself for you?"
"I've arranged so many contingencies for you. It wasn't so you could become a god so soon!"
"Don't think that leaving Shrek and getting away from Tang Ya and Xiao Tong means you can escape my grasp! Just follow the path I've laid out for you!"
Tang San smiled faintly, as if muttering to himself, or perhaps speaking to Huo Yuhao on Douluo Continent. "I've already written the script for your life. You have no choice! Dai Yuhao!"
Then Tang San's gaze shifted slightly, settling on a figure deep in the Extreme North of Douluo Star.
"Heavenly Snow Woman... Snow Empress, heh."
"You want to take human form and cultivate anew? Hmph, I'll grant your wish... But if some accident happens while you're transforming, you can't blame me..."
"The space in the Extreme North's Core Circle has been a little unstable lately. I can make some use of that..."
"Snow Empress, oh, Snow Empress. For the sake of my Ten Thousand Year Plan, go in peace... Perhaps you'll be lucky enough to survive after being sucked into the Space-Time Turbulence. Hehehehahaha..."
The Sea God's laughter echoed through the vast temple, sounding strange and sinister, utterly devoid of anything divine.
The next moment, the scene shifted back to the Extreme North.
A faint sea-blue glow flashed across Huo Yuhao's chest. He had just finished discussing things with Tian Meng and Ice Empress and was preparing to set out to find the Snow Empress.
"Hm? Yuhao, what just happened?" Electrolux, who had been deep asleep in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, suddenly awoke and asked weakly.
Huo Yuhao asked in surprise, "Nothing happened. Elder Yi, didn't you say you'd be asleep for a long time? How did you wake up so soon?"
Electrolux said gravely, "I just sensed a hidden power leave your body. Its quality was extremely high—not something that should exist in the Mortal World of this realm! That's what woke me."
"The power I sensed left from your chest!"
At his words, Huo Yuhao instinctively pulled a Metal Ribbon from beneath his collar. A small triangle hung from it.
"Remember how I treated Wang Dong to Grilled Fish before? He gave me this amulet and said wearing it would earn me the Sea God's protection... Could this amulet really have something to do with the Sea God?"
"Quite possibly!" Tian Meng suddenly chimed in. "Wang Dong has the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul, and Sea God Tang San has the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul too. They must be family. Maybe this amulet is a treasure the Sea God left for his descendants!"
"A few meals of Grilled Fish for a treasure like this—you made a fortune, kid! It could save your life at a critical moment!"
Elder Yi pondered for a moment, then said, "There's no power left on it now, but the power I sensed earlier must have been released from this amulet."
"What? It just stopped working for no reason?" Tian Meng sounded displeased. "That Sea God's no good. He leaves behind something that just breaks out of nowhere..."
"Getting it was good fortune; losing it is fate. I only ever treated it as a token of friendship." Huo Yuhao tucked the Triangle Amulet back inside his clothes, then stepped toward the Core Circle of the Extreme North.
The next moment, the scene shifted.
At the very center of the Extreme North's Core Circle, inside a hidden Ice Cave, the peerless Snow Empress was absorbing the essence of a Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus. Fierce white icy mist enveloped her as she underwent a transformation from Ferocious Beast to human.
At the crucial moment of her transformation, a faint sea-blue glow flashed not far from the Ice Cave.
Then, in the once silent and frigid heart of the polar region, tiny, scattered noises suddenly appeared. The air began to twist faintly, and the swirling Extreme Cold mist was swept into motion.
As time passed, those tiny disturbances gradually intensified and spread. Before long, it was no longer just the air being twisted—vast swaths of space were being crushed by an invisible force! Thin black cracks suddenly appeared across the snowy polar region!
A terrifying Space-Time Turbulence disaster was on the verge of fully taking shape.
But just then, an even more sinister Crimson Energy appeared out of nowhere, forcibly taking control of the Space-Time Turbulence.
The tiny black cracks stopped appearing and were smoothed over one by one. Yet a passage to another terrifying realm opened with a rumble!
A surging tide of blood-colored energy poured from the passage in waves of mist. Then it rose into the sky above the heart of the Extreme North, forming a sinister crimson pillar!
The Blood Light shooting skyward even cast the bright moon above in a terrifying crimson glow!
From the scarlet passage, one twisted, grotesque Demonic Shadow after another darted out. Within seconds of emerging, a small number of them had the cold at the very heart of the Extreme North drain away their warmth, turning them into fragile ice sculptures.
But most of the Demonic Shadows withstood the bitter cold. With bloodthirsty shrieks, they charged in every direction.
After this had continued for a short while, a pair of enormous Demonic Claws reached out from deep within the scarlet passage. Gripping the space at its edges, they tore it open with force!
"Roar!!!"
Accompanied by a furious roar brimming with Madness and Malice, a terrifying being stepped onto this continent!
The next moment, the scene returned to Huo Yuhao.
"Brother Sky Dream, doesn't the moon look a little strange tonight?" Huo Yuhao, who was traveling through the night so he could meet the Snow Empress sooner, looked up at the sky as he walked.
The snowy plains of the Extreme North were pure white, reflecting the moonlight and making the night seem bright.
But the moon Huo Yuhao was watching now seemed to have taken on a faint red tint. And the closer he got to the heart of the Extreme North, the more pronounced the redness became.
"It does. The moon looks strange tonight," Tian Meng agreed.
"I sense unease and danger... I have a bad feeling!" Even Ice Empress, who rarely spoke, joined in.
But before Ice Empress had finished speaking, a world-shaking boom came from the direction Huo Yuhao was headed.
"Boom!!!"
As if the heavens and earth had split apart, the terrifying explosion rumbled toward them. Right behind it, avalanches thundered down the snow-covered mountains, jolted awake by the blast!
The entire Extreme North seemed to tremble. Storms sprang up without warning, and thick clouds blanketed the sky, as if the world had suddenly descended into an apocalyptic catastrophe!
"What's going on? What happened?!" Huo Yuhao quickly released his Soul Power and took shelter behind a windbreak that offered some protection from the snow. He stared at the disaster unfolding before him, uncertain and alarmed.
Tian Meng cried out in panic, "It's the Snow Empress! I recognize her aura! The shockwaves from that explosion contain her power!"
"Could something have happened to the Snow Empress?!"
Ice Empress, meanwhile, had fallen into a daze the instant the explosion occurred.
As if she'd lost her soul.
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