The Far North's overall outline formed an irregular trapezoid.
Below the trapezoid lay regions such as the Western Wasteland, the Vast Sea, and Great Zhou, while along its left and right sides and across its top stretched an immense body of water known as the Ice Sea.
It bore that name because the sea remained frozen year-round.
Just as Li Ping was teasing Xiao Yunzhi...
Hundreds of thousands of li away, near the center of the Ice Sea, a strange dragon's cry suddenly rang out. Then, with a thunderous boom, the ice for dozens of li around exploded.
An Ice Flood Dragon, its entire body like white jade, covered in hard scales and nearly a thousand zhang long, writhed as it burst out of the shattered ice.
Clearly, the ice had exploded because it had emerged from the sea.
A closer look revealed an enormous aquatic demon with three hideous heads dangling from the Ice Flood Dragon's right claw. Its aura had actually reached the third tier.
Out in the wider world, that aquatic demon would have been a demon king ruling its own domain.
Yet now, held in the Ice Flood Dragon's claw, it trembled all over, not even daring to struggle.
For the creature before it was the overlord of the Ice Sea-a fourth-tier Ice Flood Dragon!
"Aoo!"
The Ice Flood Dragon leaped into the sky and let out a deep cry, proclaiming its dominion over the Ice Sea.
Then it carried its captured meal down onto an enormous iceberg and began to eat.
Its movements were supremely elegant and regal, without the slightest hint of bloody savagery, as its sharp claws, like ice jade, plunged deep into the aquatic demon's body.
Soon, however, a trace of puzzlement appeared in its eyes.
Something felt wrong.
What's going on?