Soon, Xu Jingming and Frost Crown Dominator stepped through the portal to the Water Domain.
The moment he entered, Xu Jingming felt a chill all around him.
Then the view before him opened up.
A vast, boundless world of icy blue spread out before him.
There was no land, only an endless ocean.
But the water was not the usual azure. It was a deep, icy blue.
The surface lay still as a mirror, reflecting a faint silver-white glow in the sky.
"What is this Water Domain?"
Xu Jingming hovered in the air and swept his gaze across his surroundings.
His Divine Thought surged outward like a tide, covering millions of kilometers in an instant.
What he sensed gave him pause.
"Huh? The Water Domain isn't entirely water?"
Xu Jingming was surprised.
To his Divine Thought, this vast ocean was not made entirely of liquid water.
Deep beneath it, countless enormous ice peaks rose like mountain ranges.
The ice was over ten thousand meters thick and crystal clear, with faint blue patterns flowing within it.
Farther away, countless ice floes drifted on the sea.
The smallest measured only a few meters across, while the largest rivaled continents and stretched for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Their surfaces were smooth as mirrors, reflecting the light from above and illuminating the entire domain.
"Ice is a form of water."
Frost Crown Dominator's cool voice sounded beside him.
Her ice-blue eyes swept over the world as she said softly:
"More precisely, it's water's strongest form.
At extremely low temperatures, water freezes into ice, giving it a more stable structure.
It becomes harder, and the Apex Realm laws it contains are purer."
She paused, then pointed toward a towering ice peak in the distance.
"See that peak? The faint blue patterns flowing inside it