The Evil Emperor looked at her. "Not playthings. You'll be serving the Venerable Lord. There is a difference."
"Not to me." The Sea Princess's voice rose sharply. She raised her hand, and the icy sea behind her began to churn. Countless ice-blue columns of water rose from the surface, forming a dense array of ice blades in midair, all aimed at the Evil Emperor.
The Evil Emperor sighed, sounding somewhat helpless. "Then there's nothing more to say."
As his words fell, an immense field of mental power silently spread outward from him.
The ice blades suspended in the air seemed to strike an invisible wall. Every one of them stopped dead, trembling slightly.
Then fine cracks began to appear across their surfaces. One after another, the blades shattered into powder and scattered on the sea breeze.
Meanwhile, the Evil Emperor's mental power field bore down on the Sea Princess opposite him, as though it would engulf the entire icy sea.
The weaker mermaids rolled their eyes back and sank. Their companions hurriedly caught them, keeping them from plunging straight into the depths.
The Sea Princess was the only one still holding out. They were both mental-type soul beasts, yet she had no ability to resist at all. Could a gap of two hundred thousand years of cultivation really be this vast?
She desperately drove her mental power to form a protective barrier, but each time it was about to take shape, his oceanlike mental power field crushed it like foam.
Standing in midair, the Evil Emperor looked down at her. "You won't last much longer. Be good and go serve the 'Venerable Lord.'"
The Sea Princess tipped her head back to look at him. "Even if you kill me... I won't let my people become someone else's playthings..."
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