Hundred-Thousand-Year Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast's Sneak Attack, Ice Empress's Pursuit
Ye Qing stared at the Sea Soul Beast with heterochromatic red and blue eyes beneath the surface of the sea, a strange feeling rising in his heart.
He originally thought he would run into the Evil Orca King, or the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.
There are only a handful of overlords in the Douluo Sea Region who have reigned for hundreds of thousands of years; you can count them on your fingers.
But the outline of the thing emerging from the water had absolutely nothing to do with those two.
The sea surface was pushed open.
A colossal beast covered in dark gold scales crouched in the center of the vortex.
With the body of a fish and the tail of a dragon, a row of bony spikes runs along the spine from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, each spike pulsating with alternating blue and red energy patterns.
The upper body resembles a dragon.
The lower half is a fish.
Its size was more than three times larger than most of the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Ye Qing had ever seen.
The most eerie thing about it is its aura.
Water surged and churned on the left side of his body, while heat surged on the right side.
Two things that shouldn't coexist are intertwined within it in an unusually stable way, like a knife that simultaneously carries the sharpness of water and fire.
Ye Qing narrowed his eyes. "There are things like this in the ocean?"
He mentally reviewed the known list of 100,000-year-old Sea Soul Beast in the Douluo Continent.
Evil Orca King, Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Sea Princess... none of them match the appearance of this fish-dragon before us.
Just as he was pondering, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast spoke.
"Ignorant humans."
The sound was like two iron plates grinding against each other on the seabed, dull and violent.
"How dare you trespass on my territory! You're asking for death!"
Its heterochromatic pupils were fixed on Ye Qing, and the vortex around it spun even faster.
Ye Qing picked at his ear, his face showing no sign of being threatened.
"Quite a loud voice, and quite wild."
He silently called out in his heart, "Snow Empress, Ice Empress, do you know them?"
Ice Empress's senses spread across his Sea of Consciousness, and he answered in just two seconds, "Never seen it before."
"The marine world is teeming with strange creatures, but I spend most of my time in the Far North and have little interest in things from the sea."
Ye Qing turned his spiritual gaze toward the Snow Empress in the Chaos World.
Snow Empress remained silent for a long while, as if searching through extremely distant memories.
When her voice finally rang out, it carried a hint of surprise that even she herself wasn't entirely sure of.
"Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast".
Ye Qing was taken aback. "What?"
"Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast. Look at the bone spurs on its back; there are nine segments from its head to its tail, each corresponding to a Soul Power node."
"This is a top-tier Sea Soul Beast that has been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years.
Ye Qing's heart skipped a beat.
Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast!
The name was like a key, unearthing all the long-sealed comic book plots from the depths of his mind.
Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials.
The Sacred Pillar Stone Trial.
That Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that originally attacked Sea God Island alongside the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
He was later suppressed by Bo Saixi himself, and his soul was sealed inside the Sea God's Sacred Pillar.
In the original novel, Tang San spent a long time obtaining this Hundred-Thousand-Year God-Bestowed Soul Ring in order to pass this divine test.
"It was it..." Ye Qing murmured, the surprise in his eyes slowly turning into the excitement of watching prey.
"What are you muttering to yourself?" Ice Empress asked.
Ye Qing did not answer.
He was quickly calculating something else.
property.
The core attributes of this Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast are water and fire.
This is a Soul Ring that suits me fairly well!
"Want it?" Snow Empress's voice was soft and indifferent, yet it precisely struck Ye Qing's heart.
Ye Qing smiled and said, "Yes."
"I want this Soul Beast."
He said it so casually, as if he were just talking about adding a dish to lunch.
The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast on the sea surface obviously heard it too.
The pair of red and blue pupils were stunned for a moment, and then the entire sea surface trembled along with its laughter.
"How dare a mere human treat me like prey!"
It laughed so hard that the bony spurs on its back trembled.
Ye Qing sighed. These Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast were good in every way, except that they were too arrogant.
Snow Empress's voice carried a hint of languor. "If you've taken a liking to him, just say so. He's just a little guy; there's no need to make such a fuss."
Two streams of energy began to seep outwards from Ye Qing's body.
It's very slow.
It was so slow that even the movement of air became sluggish.
The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast was still laughing.
As it laughed, its laughter caught in its throat.
The aura emanating from Ye Qing was too strange.
It was as if something extremely ancient was slowly opening its eyes from behind this person.
The smile on its face vanished, replaced by an instinctive reaction from the depths of its blood.
The nine bone spurs on my back began to tremble uncontrollably.
It has lived for tens of thousands of years, seen countless Soul Grandmaster, and also become sworn brothers with powerful Soul Beast in the sea.
However, the two powerful pressures emanating from Ye Qing's body at this moment were completely beyond its comprehension.
That's the pinnacle of ice-type Soul Beast.
One is the sky over the Far North.
One was an emperor who reigned over the icy plains for millennia.
The two auras overlapped, like the entire Far North Ice Plains suddenly pressing down on the sea.
Tiny ice crystals condensed in the air, the sea began to freeze, and the seawater temperature within a radius of several miles plummeted.
The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast's body froze on the sea surface.
Its red and blue pupils contracted sharply, and all the scales on its body stood up.
This is something it can't fight against!
Even the most powerful overlord at its peak could never simultaneously confront two Ferocious Beast from the Far North.
"Get out of here when the wind gets strong!"
Only these four words remained in its mind.
Without hesitation, without testing the waters, without uttering a single harsh word.
The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast, which had just boasted of killing Ye Qing, flicked its tail, and its massive body cleaved through the sea like a blue lightning bolt, heading straight for the deepest part of the ocean.
They ran with crisp, clean movements, at an outrageous speed.
Ye Qing blinked. "Did it just say something in code?"
Ice Empress laughed out loud in his Sea of Consciousness, a boastful and unrestrained laugh, "You're quite sensible. But can you escape?"
Ye Qing looked down at the figure that quickly disappeared into the sea.
Ice Empress's tone was filled with undisguised fighting spirit. "Leave this little thing to me."
Ye Qing raised an eyebrow, neither saying "okay" nor "be careful."
He knew that those two words were an insult to Ice Empress.
He asked another question.
"Can we spare it alive? I have to kill it myself, otherwise I can't absorb the Soul Ring."
Ice Empress laughed even louder, "You have absolutely no idea of my strength!"
The words fell.
A pale, icy blue figure emerged from behind Ye Qing.
The moment she appeared, all the moisture in the air froze into frost, and within a radius of tens of feet below the sea surface, the seawater turned into a mixture of ice crystals and foam.
Ice Empress's scorpion-like body lightly touched the surface of the sea.
A white crack, hundreds of feet long, split open across the entire sea surface, as if the sea's spine had been broken by a single step.
I'm going.
The illusory image of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion transformed into an extremely cold light, following the direction in which the Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast disappeared, and disappeared into the deep sea.
Ye Qing stood on the Green Lotus Sword and exhaled a puff of white steam.
"Snow Empress, can she catch up?"
"You should be worried that she might freeze the entire sea area," Snow Empress said, a hint of schadenfreude in her voice.
Ye Qing looked down at the sea.
Beneath the cracked Ice Surface, two figures, one in front of the other, were closing the distance in the deep sea.
The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast fled frantically, while the Ice Empress pursued it with ease.
Ye Qing sat cross-legged on the sword, one hand supporting his chin.
"Alright, I'll wait here then."
"Hopefully, when she gets back, that guy'll still be alive."