Mo Xie ignored the elders who were borrowing another's power to throw their weight around. His gaze settled on Sea Dongqing, and he murmured softly.
"A totem... is not yours to enslave!"
He turned to Qin Yuer beside him and spoke earnestly.
"Yu'er, I'm counting on you."
"All right."
Qin Yuer smiled and nodded. She looked up at the Haidongqing God in the sky, her gaze sharpening as she lightly swept her delicate hand through the air.
In an instant, a white ice mist enveloped Sea Dongqing. Clear, bitterly cold ice crept over the Silver Thunder Chains that shackled the Haidongqing God's will and freedom.
The next moment, countless cracks appeared across the completely frozen Silver Thunder Chains. Amid the myriad bolts of silver lightning erupting from Sea Dongqing's body, they finally shattered into ice crystals that scattered across the sky and earth.
At last, with a piercing cry, the Haidongqing God broke free of the Silver Thunder Chains and regained its freedom.
As the imposing presence of a totem beast returned, its eagle eyes, filled with long-suppressed fury, swept coldly over the elders below who worshipped it as their "guardian god."
At this sight, the beaming smiles on the faces of the elders, who had still been laughing wildly, froze abruptly before turning ashen with despair.
"We're finished. We're completely finished. The restraints on the Haidongqing God have been broken..."
Seeing the Haidongqing God's rage turn into terrifying power, Seventh Grandma collapsed to the ground and muttered in utter desolation.
The others wore much the same expressions as Seventh Grandma. The Haidongqing God had been their last hope, but this outsider had destroyed its restraining chains. Now they were about to face its wrath.
Grandpa and the others were already scared out of their wits. Even if they could