"Huh?" Li Xiaoya was being hurled away by the astral wind when he suddenly heard Blue Ice cry out. He hastily turned to look, but the blue and black light splashing everywhere obscured his vision. Golden light flashed in his eyes as he looked toward her. Blue Ice had actually been sucked into the raging current of astral wind stirred up by the collision between the Whale-Swallowing Beast's and Sea Flood Dragon's inner cores. Blue light flared all over her body, but she could not break free.
"Fairy Blue!" Li Xiaoya cried out. The Heavenly Feather Wings on his back beat furiously, erupting with golden light. His figure flashed and vanished into thin air, then reappeared beside Blue Ice in another flash! An irresistible suction immediately pulled at him. He reached out and wrapped an arm around her waist, making her slender body stiffen. The Heavenly Feather Wings beat hard behind him, stirring up golden light, but he could barely hold his ground against the pull. "Hah!" Li Xiaoya roared, thrusting the Fire Dragon Sword backward. A jet of flame blasted out with a thunderous boom, and he forced his way free, trailing fire behind him.
Seeing this, the Sea Flood Dragon began chanting an incantation in a strange language, making the surrounding air hum. Its enormous, blue-glowing inner core blazed with dazzling light. Relying on its slightly higher cultivation, it forcibly pressed the Whale-Swallowing Beast's pitch-black inner core downward. A fierce rumble rang out as blue light, frost, and inky darkness surged wildly outward. The Whale-Swallowing Beast's inner core was slowly forced down. Amid the muffled booms, even the seawater was pressed into an enormous depression nearly a hundred zhang across. Water surged outward in all directions, spraying around the depression and raising walls of towering waves dozens of