Above the Black Sea.
Little White Dragon's body was hurled sideways for dozens of yards.
Boom!
Great sheets of ice shattered along his path.
His claws tore through the ice, dragging out several savage fissures before he barely steadied himself.
Across his silver scales.
Black frost spread thick and dense.
Like a layer of rotting deathly aura, it burrowed through the gaps between his scales into his flesh.
Half his tail had almost gone numb.
Little White Dragon panted heavily, abruptly raising his head to stare into the depths of the Black Sea.
The ice covering the sea shattered completely.
A water wall hundreds of feet high collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Chunks of ice collided and broke apart, unleashing deafening booms.
But the black water did not surge skyward and roll back as Little White Dragon had expected.
Instead, it frantically collapsed toward a single point.
An invisible abyss seemed to have split open on the seabed.
Black water swept broken ice and shattered rock into it without end.
And that place.
Was precisely where Sha Wujing had entered the sea.
Little White Dragon's pupils abruptly narrowed to slits.
"Junior Brother Sha!"
He drove his foreclaws forward.
Ignoring the agony tearing through his entire body, he prepared to plunge back into the Black Sea.
But the next instant.
The Black Sea, which had begun churning again.
Suddenly froze.
The waves stopped.
The wind stopped.
All heaven and earth seemed forcibly pinned beneath an invisible hand.
Above the Black Sea, deathly silence descended.
Beneath the Black Sea.
Within the dark waters.
Sha Wujing floated quietly.
His left eye was pitch-black as an abyss.
White radiance flowed through his right eye.
Two lights, one black and one white, slowly intertwined beneath the sea.
Over his left chest.
The Great Black