The outskirts of the Far North.
From the Earth Dragon Sect to here, Xu Qing had taken less than ten breaths.
His overwhelmingly powerful physique and monstrous depth of Soul Power had allowed Xu Qing to gain the ability to fly ahead of time while still only at the rank of a sixtieth-level Soul Emperor.
"Crack, crack... cra—ck!"
Several crisp sounds of ice crystallizing rang out. The places where Xu Qing and the Ice Empress's bodies touched were frozen by dark-blue ice that radiated emerald Soul Power.
"Damn it... why is that old bastard's seal so complicated?!"
Xu Qing held his hand in the air over the Ice Empress's lower abdomen. Dense Soul Power symbols echoed with the faintly visible emerald Soul Core beneath her skin.
Every time his fingers hooked, threads of Xu Qing's Soul Power pierced through her skin and reached deep inside, canceling out the golden seal and violently cracking it open.
The current situation did not allow Xu Qing to slowly undo the seal.
The Ice Empress curled up in Xu Qing's arms, all her focus gathered in her dantian as she did everything she could to guide that pure origin power away from her Soul Core, so that Xu Qing's Soul Power could enter her body without obstruction.
"Just one final step—"
The instant Xu Qing's words fell, several thousand meters high above the two of them, a cluster of dim gray cloud suddenly appeared, but it had almost no time to gather power or prepare.
The moment it appeared, it rapidly swelled and expanded. In one brief instant, it had grown into a heavy bank of dark clouds large enough to cover dozens of miles around.
"Rumble—!!!"
Thunder exploded! The air boomed and roared!
Deep-purple lightning fell, transforming into streaks of lightning serpents that