Chapter 744: The Empress Appears!

The blood seal of the Law of Death and the frost of absolute zero fell alternately.

The extreme torture of ice and fire, combined with the swarm's tearing, made this lofty Quasi-God Level alien beast experience what it meant to wish for death.

"Roar——! Wuwuwu——!"

The huge Alligator Snapping Turtle outside had completely lost its ability to resist, its massive body slumping limply on the ice while emitting wave after wave of blood-curdling and miserable wails.

There was no longer the arrogance of a higher-dimensional creature in that sound, leaving only a shrill lament.

It was calling for help!

It was crazily calling for help from its arrogant master, the Extreme Ice Empress!

"What a bunch of useless trash!"

Just at this moment, from the depths of the ultimate darkness inside the Alligator Snapping Turtle's body that had not been illuminated by light, an ice-cold angry snort suddenly came.

The woman finally couldn't hold back anymore and made her move!

"Whoosh——!"

There was no magic fluctuation, nor any pre-charge wind-up.

Within a thousandth of a second after the Empress's cold snort fell, in the darkness, a high-speed ice spear, pitch-blue throughout and radiating the aura of the ancient Origin of Extreme Cold, silently pierced through the Void Realm, heading straight for Zhou Huai's vital back-heart!

The speed of this ice spear was simply too fast—so fast that even space didn't have time to make a sonic boom, and so fast that even Zhou Huai's spiritual perception, which was enough to rival a deity, only captured an extremely blurry afterimage!

"So fast!"

Zhou Huai's heart tightened, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

At that critical moment, Zhou Huai pushed the combat instinct of Overlord Xiang Yu and the agile movement technique of Hou Yi to the extreme!

His waist bent to the right in a distorted posture, and his entire body was forcibly shifted sideways by half a body-width in mid-air.

"Screech——!"

The high-speed ice spear brushed past Zhou Huai's left ribs, and the sharp chill even shredded Gabriel's indestructible layer of absolute holy shield!

Although Zhou Huai barely escaped the fatal fate of being pierced through the heart by a single strike, the extreme chill contained in that ice spear still unavoidably grazed his left arm.

"Crack—— Crack——"

At the instant of contact, an overbearing Law of Absolute Zero frantically spread along Zhou Huai's left arm!

There was no room for any resistance, and even the pain didn't have time to be transmitted to the brain.

Zhou Huai's left arm, which had been strengthened by the Undying Demon God and was strong enough to go toe-to-toe with divine Sharp Weapon, along with the surging mana and blood inside it, was frozen into a crystal-clear deep blue mysterious ice!

"Hiss…"

Zhou Huai drew a sharp breath, his figure retreating dozens of meters in mid-air before he barely managed to stabilize his footing.

He lowered his head and glanced at his left arm, which had completely lost sensation, his gaze turning incomparably solemn.

"Such an overbearing Law of Extreme Cold! This old hag's strength is even more tricky than I imagined!" Zhou Huai exclaimed inwardly.

Merely a grazing attack was able to break through his defense of Ten Thousand Aspects into One and forcibly disable one of his arms.

The foundation of this old-era empress truly could not be underestimated!

Zhou Huai didn't care about that frozen arm, instead raising his head and looking in the direction from which the ice spear had flown.

In the darkness at the deepest part of the Alligator Snapping Turtle's stomach pouch, a Soul-shuddering extreme cold storm was slowly condensing.

Following that, within the nothingness wrapped by flesh and gastric juices, a slender figure emitting light-blue fluorescence slowly floated over from the distant darkness.

As that slender figure approached, the surrounding Soldier Beetles that were preparing to pounce and gnaw didn't even have time to emit a scream before they were frozen into powder, pattering down into the sea of blood.

That was a woman.

A woman draped in a deep blue ice-crystal long dress, with a peerlessly beautiful yet cold and arrogant visage.

Her long silver hair danced wildly in the windless stomach pouch, and within that pair of sapphire-like eyes, there were no human emotions and desires, only apathy toward all things.

This was precisely that ancient Dominator whose voice had always been heard but whose person had never been seen—the Extreme Ice Empress!

Looking at this peerless powerhouse who had finally walked from behind the scenes to the front stage, Zhou Huai not only didn't panic, but instead grinned, revealing a wildly arrogant smile.

"Hehehehe… I thought you were hiding in some different dimension playing ghost and pretending to be a god."

Zhou Huai ignored the piercing chill coming from his left arm, extended his right hand, and pointed his index finger—stained with the Alligator Snapping Turtle's blood—from afar at the Extreme Ice Empress floating in mid-air, a bloodthirsty glint flashing in the depths of his eyes.

"After all this fuss, it turns out you've been hiding in this big turtle's belly."

The Extreme Ice Empress floated in mid-air, looking down condescendingly at Zhou Huai.

Under the oppression of her extremely cold aura, even the flow of time in the surrounding foul-smelling flesh space became sluggish.

"I didn't originally want to kill you."

The Empress let out a cold snort that echoed in this dark stomach pouch, shaking the surrounding flesh walls until they were covered with a layer of frost.

"It is you who insist on courting death."

She slowly raised the pitch-blue spear in her hand, its tip pointing far away at Zhou Huai.

"Who on earth are you?" the Extreme Ice Empress questioned, "What is your ultimate purpose in coming to find me?"

Without waiting for Zhou Huai to reply, she tightened her grip on the spear and continued to pursue: "Furthermore, where on earth is Duan? Make him come see me right now!"

Facing this barrage of head-on questioning, Zhou Huai met her gaze.

"Heh…"

Zhou Huai chuckled, his tone casual: "Apologies, Your Majesty Empress. Mr. Duan does not want to see you."

He shrugged: "He sent me here to completely end your life. After all, the remnants of the old era have no place in the new world. Isn't that right?"

Hearing these highly provocative words, the Extreme Ice Empress was stunned for a moment.

Immediately afterward, she let out a cold laugh.

"An ant of the present world, put away your clumsy tricks; you cannot fool me."

The Empress's voice was low: "Duan could not possibly do such a thing."

"If he really wanted to kill me, I wouldn't have recovered from my slumber at all right now.

He spent such great effort and price, even willing to forcefully resist the backlash of the Heavenly Dao to awaken me…" The Extreme Ice Empress raised her chin: "If it were just to kill me once more, there is no need to go through such redundant trouble."

Zhou Huai raised an eyebrow.

Although this old hag had slept for countless epochs, her brain turned quite fast, and she had a certain trust and understanding toward that Mr. Duan of the Dawnbreaker Guild.

The Extreme Ice Empress tightened her grip on the ice spear in her hand.

"It seems you and Duan are not in cahoots."

She tightened her grip on the ice spear in her hand, and the surrounding temperature dropped once more: "In that case, killing you will not give me any psychological burden at all."

"You can give it a try," Zhou Huai sneered, "if you really can kill me."

During the few seconds of conversation just now, he had been secretly mobilizing the mana in his body, trying to resolve the fatal threat on his left arm.

"Hum——"

The dark green Soul-Devouring Nether Flame quietly ignited at Zhou Huai's left shoulder.

This was an S-Class strange fire from the depths of the Nine Nether Purgatory, hailed as being able to burn the Soul!

He attempted to use this flame to forcibly melt the layer of deep blue mysterious ice wrapping his left arm.

However, the Soul-Devouring Nether Flame, which burned nothing and everything, encountered a high wall of Law the moment it touched this layer of mysterious ice.

"Sissh——"

Not only did the strange fire fail to melt the ice crystal, but it was instead counter-attacked by that extremely cold Qi.

The dark green flame's light dimmed, the flame tip swayed violently, and even the violent fire element showed a tendency to be forcibly frozen!

It couldn't be melted at all!

Zhou Huai's eyelids twitched wildly.

The Law hierarchy of this extremely cold power was several notches higher than the S-Class strange ice heart of aurora he possessed!

This had already touched the Origin power of the world's underlying logic.

"As expected, every SSS-Class Professional cannot be underestimated…"