The ice in the Sea of Consciousness suddenly shook violently. Thick snow billowed high into the air under the tremors, like dense fog.
Boom-
Amid an unbroken series of thunderous crashes, the vast sheet of ice fractured as though collapsing, splitting into several enormous cracks with no end in sight. The cracks spread rapidly, and the broken ice revealed a bottomless Ice Abyss.
From beneath the Ice Abyss came a dim, jade-green glow.
A rift suddenly opened beneath Tian Meng and the Ice Empress. With nowhere to stand, they plummeted.
The Ice Empress's gaze sharpened. Curling her right hand into a claw, she plunged it into the cliff beside her, stopping her fall into the Ice Abyss. Behind her, Tian Meng clung tightly to her tail.
The scorpion and silkworm hung from the icy cliff like that.
The Ice Empress looked down at the dim jade-green light deep within the Ice Abyss and felt a hint of familiarity.
"What's going on?" she asked coldly.
"Waaah-Bingbing, stop moving your tail! I'm losing my grip..." Tian Meng struggled to hold on to the Ice Empress's tail. "This space is closely connected to Yuhao. Any change means something has happened to him."
"He's fusing with your soul ring right now."
"This space..." the Ice Empress murmured.
Although she did not possess a mental attribute, she had studied spiritual power to some extent over her four hundred thousand years of life. Yet she had never imagined that a living being's Sea of Consciousness could open up a new, real space.
Even she, who had abandoned her original body, could retain considerable strength and a tangible body in her transformed form.
"Bingbing, let's go out and take a look," Tian Meng said.
The Ice Empress frowned. "We can still go out?"
"Hehe, of course we