The Vanished Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast, Another World

Ice Empress is back, his face colder than the eternal ice of the Far North.

They came back empty-handed, without bringing anything with them.

"They ran away?"

Ye Qing asked a question.

Bing remained silent, staring intently at the Ice Surface below, her chest heaving violently.

This super Ferocious Beast, ranked second among the Three Kings of the Far North, exuded a malevolent aura so powerful it could boil and then refreeze the surrounding seawater.

"Impossible."

Snow Empress spoke first, her brows furrowing slightly.

She knew Ice Empress's fighting strength all too well.

With nearly 400,000 years of cultivation, coupled with the absolute suppression of extreme cold attributes.

Even in the ocean, a territory exclusively for Sea Soul Beast, there was no reason for that Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast to slip away from the Ice Empress's grasp.

The absolute difference in strength is undeniable.

"What exactly happened?" Snow Empress pressed.

Ice Empress was silent for two seconds before gritting their teeth and forcing out four words.

It disappeared.

"What do you mean by 'disappeared'?" Ye Qing raised an eyebrow.

"I have already Ice Seal."

Ice Empress raised his hand, a wisp of lingering, eerie blue aura still clinging to his fingertips.

"Its tail is frozen solid, and its meridians have been completely severed by my Ultimate Ice. It's just one final blow away."

She took a deep breath, as if even recalling that scene was a profound disgrace.

"Then it was right in front of me, and gone."

"They didn't run away, nor did they use any trickery like using water to escape; they simply vanished into thin air."

These words silenced both Ye Qing and Snow Empress.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was beaten half to death, used all its trump cards, and then vanished on the spot?

This is completely illogical.

Even if the opponent possesses some secret technique that burns their bloodline, they absolutely cannot escape Ice Empress's powerful mental lock.

"Is this some kind of ghost?" Ye Qing chuckled, breaking the deathly silence.

"Stop being sarcastic!"

Ice Empress glared at him fiercely. "I'm not blind! That guy vanished into thin air without leaving a trace, not even a flicker of energy!"

"Take me to see it."

Ye Qing was too lazy to argue with her, and her tone was crisp and decisive.

The three of them descended.

They followed the ice path left by Ice Empress straight into the deep sea.

The ice rink is flanked by solidly frozen seawater.

It's like an icy tunnel leading to the depths of the ocean, where the light gets dimmer the deeper you go.

The terrifying water pressure of the deep sea was forcibly pushed aside by the Ultimate Ice, and the surroundings were so quiet that not even the slightest sound of undercurrents could be heard.

This is it.

Ice Empress stopped at the end of the ice ramp, pointing to a vast, dark expanse of sea.

Ye Qing and Snow Empress split up and explored the area.

There were no unusual fluctuations.

It was spotless, as if that 100,000-year-old Nine-Segment Fish Dragon Beast had never existed in this world.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Snow Empress asked again.

"I'm not at the point of being old and blind yet."

Ice Empress rolled its eyes and paced irritably in the water.

"I was just in that spot, less than ten meters away from it."

Ye Qing didn't speak, and closed her eyes.

The darkness of the deep sea had no effect on him.

The Eighth Soul Ring lit up.

A deep black Soul Ring rippled across the seawater, creating an eerie wave.

The Void Realm Black Lotus.

This is his eighth Soul Skill, a pure space-based ability.

Although it's not commonly used in normal fights, in this bizarre situation, brute force is meaningless; only spatial awareness can come in handy.

An invisible ripple spread outwards from Ye Qing in all directions.

Water flow, ice crystals, fish swimming on the seabed, and tiny plankton.

All the images were broken down into the most basic spatial coordinates in Ye Qing's mind.

moment.

"A discovery has been made."

Ye Qing opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on a seemingly ordinary body of water not far away.

There are spatial fluctuations there.

"It was very faint, almost completely gone, but it definitely existed."

"Why didn't I sense it?"

Ice Empress frowned and followed Ye Qing's gaze, but couldn't see anything.

"You don't have spatial abilities."

Ye Qing didn't hold back in her criticism.

"The thick layer of ice refracted the ripples in space, perfectly concealing that faint spatial node."

Ye Qing spoke, he moved swiftly and approached.

He stretched out his hand, a faint, ethereal light emanating from his fingertips.

Mobilizing the spatial power of the Void Realm Black Lotus, Ye Qing's fingers seemed to pierce through some invisible membrane, gently touching that abnormal node.

At the very moment their fingertips met.

The world is spinning!

Without any warning, the entire space seemed to be brutally crushed by an invisible giant hand, and then forcibly pieced back together in a tyrannical manner.

A strong feeling of dizziness was tugging at my nerves.

When their vision cleared again, the surrounding scenery had completely changed.

This is not the deep blue sea we just saw.

The temperature changed, the smell changed, and even the rules of the universe seemed to have undergone a subtle shift.

The entire ocean was a dark, gloomy gray-black color that was extremely depressing.

The turbid waves rolled and overlapped, and the sound of the seawater crashing against them was deafening.

A strange dark red layer floated on the water's surface, like dried rust mixed into ink, and a pungent, fishy smell assaulted the nostrils.

The sky was covered by thick, leaden-gray clouds that blocked out all light.

Lightning bolts darted wildly through the depths of the clouds, like giant electric pythons trapped in the sky.

Pale lightning bolts tore through the clouds one after another, striking the sea with deadly force.

The murky water column was blasted dozens of meters high.

The wind was extremely strong.

With its biting cold and immense tearing force, it could easily pull you off from mid-air if you weren't careful.

Ye Qing steadied the Green Lotus Sword and quickly scanned his surroundings.

The sea surface is covered with jagged black reefs.

These reefs are extremely hard, and the parts that protrude above the water are covered with wounds from weathering and lightning strikes, resembling broken giant swords sticking out from the seabed.

In the far distance, a few lonely islands can be barely seen.

There were no trees or flowers on it.

There were only scattered oddly shaped rocks and low, withered vegetation.

The entire land looked as if it had been devoured by some enormous creature, riddled with holes, with large swathes of grayish-white, cracked ground exposed.

"What kind of hellhole is this?" Ice Empress looked at the extremely harsh environment around him, his brows furrowed into a knot.

"Completely lifeless."

Snow Empress's voice remained cold, but now carried a rare hint of wariness.

"The Soul Power in the air was extremely mixed, carrying a heavy aura of death."

Ye Qing did not respond.

His attention was completely drawn to the seabed below.

Although the seawater was extremely murky, Ye Qing's current eyesight still allowed him to clearly see the outline of the seabed dozens of meters deep.

He glanced down at it, his pupils contracting sharply.

The seabed is full of skeletons.

Densely packed, layer upon layer.

A massive skeleton lies lying between the abyss and ravines on the seabed.

Some are half-buried deep in the black mud and sand, some are diagonally inserted above the steep rock walls, and some are directly intertwined and overlapped, forming a pale white wall of bones.

Even the smallest skeleton picked out at random is tens of feet long, shaped like a giant whale.

Deeper still, the massive skeleton lying on the bottom of the trench is barely visible, its end in sight.

Those ribs were as thick as ancient trees reaching for the sky, and the skull resembled a small, towering mountain.

This is no ordinary sea area.

This is an island built entirely of bones, a terrifying ancient graveyard of colossal beasts.

Even after countless millennia of seawater erosion, those bones still faintly exude a terrifying and chilling aura.

One can only imagine the earth-shattering power these Sea Soul Beast possessed in their lifetimes.