With this sword, the Ice Plains Celestial Lord died!
Jiang Ding's gaze flickered.
His eyes seemed somewhat hazy, somewhat blurred. Affected by the karma of the Metal-Extinguishing Sword, he saw an extremely distant place.
This place was not even in the Western Desert. It was within an endless vast sea, beneath a ten-thousand-zhang ocean abyss, where a giant ice-crystal egg lay quietly on the ground.
This scene had persisted for who knew how many years—perhaps several thousand, perhaps over ten thousand.
It had always been this way, never changing. No living being had ever come beneath this ten-thousand-zhang ocean abyss. No one had ever known of it.
Crack!
At a certain moment, the giant ice-crystal egg changed.
A crack appeared on its shell. The crack spread, soon covering the entire egg. Cracking sounds rang out without end before it finally shattered apart.
Cry!
Amid dust flying through the sky, an ice-crystal phoenix the size of a carriage was born. It stretched out its neck and sang, its clear and melodious cry spreading in all directions, bringing life to this dark, deathly silent ten-thousand-zhang ocean abyss.
"Tushan!"
"Tushan!"
"I will remember you! I will remember you! Once you die, I will slaughter your bloodline and kin! I will destroy your Tushan Central Court! I will kill every human in the world, leaving neither chickens nor dogs alive..."
The voice issuing from the beautiful ice-crystal phoenix was sweet and pleasant, yet it carried none of a divine bird's ethereal sanctity. It was filled with resentment and venom, making one's hair stand on end.
This was, in truth, the tradition of long-lived beings.
If I cannot defeat you in this generation, fine. I will enter a seal and remain sealed for thousands or tens of thousands of years. No matter what formidable enemy