Chapter 751: Fusion

The wind and snow gradually subsided. On the devastated ice field, the massive corpse of the Abyssal Profound Ice Alligator Turtle was piled into a collapsed mountain of flesh and blood.

"Roar——!"

Abyss Dragon Xiao Hei hovered in mid-air, raising its dragon head to let out a long roar.

Its dark golden slit pupils stared at the flesh and blood below as its body swooped down, opening its large mouth to prepare for a hearty meal.

This would allow its Bloodline to evolve once again.

Zhou Huai, suspended above the ruins, gripped the sword in his hand tightly.

He frowned, staring at the completely motionless System panel in the corner of his vision.

There was no prompt tone!

There was no Karma reward!

"Something is wrong!" Zhou Huai gritted his teeth. "This old bastard is a Quasi-God Level exotic beast! Even if I blasted it into mud, it should at least drop tens of millions of Karma points!"

"Now it's not making a peep at all, what does that mean?"

"It means it's not completely dead yet!"

"Xiao Hei! Stop eating! Keep breathing fire for me!" "Wash the ground with your breath! Burn it to ashes! Don't leave a single scrap behind!"

Xiao Hei paused its figure in mid-air, halting its motion of lunging toward the flesh and blood.

"Aargh-roar!"

The Abyssal Magic Dragon hovered in mid-air with its huge mouth wide open, and black annihilation Dragon Breath poured down, scorching the Alligator Snapping Turtle's corpse.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

The black Dragon flame adhered to the flesh and blood, emitting a burning sound. Under the incineration of the Dragon Breath, the turtle shell and rotten flesh rapidly turned into flying ash.

Just as the corpse was about to turn into charcoal,

"Whoosh—"

A faint deep blue light drilled out from deep within the Alligator Snapping Turtle corpse's head.

That was an illusionary shadow!

That was a palm-sized Alligator Snapping Turtle Divine Soul illusionary shadow. It exuded the aura of the Origin of Extreme Cold, and its mung-bean-sized eyes stared at Zhou Huai and Xiao Hei.

"You slipped away pretty fast!" Zhou Huai sneered.

Before he could make a move, Tsubaki, sitting on the dragon's back, pointed at the faint light fleeing in the wind and snow and shouted,

"Kid, over there! It's this old bastard's Origin Divine Soul!" Tsubaki pinched half a wild fruit in her hand, pointing at the faint light in the wind and snow and shouted, "Hurry! It's going to run back to that old hag's side! If the Quasi-God Level Divine Soul fuses with the Extreme Ice old hag, the trouble will be huge!"

"Xiao Hei, chase it to death!"

Xiao Hei let out an angry roar, flapping its huge flesh wings, and its body chased toward that illusionary shadow.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

While chasing, Xiao Hei continuously spat out several Dragon Breath fireballs, attempting to blast the illusionary shadow apart.

Having lost its Physical Body, the Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow actually gained an increase in speed. It shuttled and leaped through the gaps between the wind and snow and the Dragon Breath, dodging all attacks.

The direction it was fleeing toward was precisely the Extreme Ice Empress, who had just climbed out of the deep pit of ruins.

"Playing Soul Emergence right under my nose? Fat chance!"

Zhou Huai gripped his longsword tightly and took a step forward.

"Shrinking the Earth to an Inch!"

"Swish—"

Space rippled, and Zhou Huai's figure disappeared from the spot. The next second, he intercepted the path that the Extreme Ice Empress and the Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow had to take.

"Be obliterated for me!"

Zhou Huai swung his right arm, his five fingers forming a claw. Moria's Shadow Law and Gandalf's Soul-Devouring Nether Flame compressed in his palm, transforming into a demonic hand burning with dark green flames, grabbing toward the Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow.

"Get lost—!!!"

Seeing that her pet's Origin was about to be crushed by Zhou Huai, the Extreme Ice Empress screamed out.

She let out a shrill scream, her eyes turning completely pale white.

"Extreme Cold Sacrifice!"

She burned the last bit of her vital essence within her body, and the deep blue ice spear in her hand burst forth with cold radiance, sweeping toward Zhou Huai's chest with mighty momentum.

"Rumble—!!!"

Zhou Huai changed the trajectory of the Shadow Demon Claw that was reaching for the illusionary shadow, colliding it with the Empress's ice spear.

The Extreme Cold Law and the Soul-Devouring Nether Flame collided in mid-air.

The rebound force shook Zhou Huai into retreating dozens of steps, plowing two ravines on the ice surface.

This brief clash bought a fraction of a second for that Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow.

"Whoosh—"

The deep blue illusionary shadow let out a hiss, transforming into a stream of light that drilled into the Extreme Ice Empress's glabella.

"Not good!"

Zhou Huai stabilized his figure and looked up.

The surrounding wind and snow came to a standstill.

"Ugh, ahhhhh—!!!"

The Extreme Ice Empress raised her head, her face distorted, and let out a roar.

With her as the center, an Origin of Extreme Cold sufficient to freeze the Soul and surpassing all previous cognitive limits surged into the sky like a volcanic eruption!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Spatial cracks spread around her. The ruins that had originally been razed to the ground began to freeze again under this energy impact.

Dark blue light flowed across the Empress's skin, and Profound Ice Alligator Turtle scales grew along her cheeks, neck, and arms.

"This aura…" Zhou Huai gripped the thunderous longsword in his hand, feeling a sense of oppression.

The Quasi-God Level exotic beast's Origin, combined with the foundation of the old-era Dominator, allowed her power to undergo a leap.

"No matter what kind of monster you turn into, you must die today!"

Zhou Huai chose to strike first to gain the upper hand. He urged Yasuo's Law, and thunderous sounds erupted within his Dantian.

"Lightning Phantom Body!"

"Thunderous Strike!"

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Three phantom bodies entwined with purple-gold thunder rose from the ground. Cooperating with Zhou Huai's main body, they slashed out four streams of Sword Qi from four directions.

The Sword Qi roared as it strangled toward the Empress's location.

However—

Facing this blow, the Extreme Ice Empress didn't even open her eyes.

"Hum—"

Just as the Sword Qi was about to slash into her body,

a Profound Ice Alligator Turtle illusionary shadow composed of the Origin of Extreme Cold expanded around the Empress. That illusionary shadow was only more than three meters tall, yet the Defense Law flowing upon it was even more profound than that of the Alligator Snapping Turtle body itself.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The four thunderous Sword Qi hacked onto the Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow without even leaving a white mark, shattering into spots of light after emitting a loud sound.

"What?!"

Zhou Huai was startled and frowned.

Before he could change his moves, a rebound Law erupted from that Alligator Snapping Turtle illusionary shadow shield.

"Boom—!!!"

Zhou Huai only felt his chest suffer a heavy blow.

His Physical Body, blessed by the Undying Demon God, emitted cracking bone sounds, and his entire person was blasted flying hundreds of meters away by this force.

"Rumble!"

Zhou Huai's body continuously crashed through a dozen glacier ruins, finally embedding into an ice wall and smashing out a deep pit.

"Bah!"

Zhou Huai spat out a mouthful of blood foam, grabbed the edge of the ice wall with both hands, and pulled himself out of the pit.

He shook his numb arms and stared at mid-air.

In the ice and snow storm, the Extreme Ice Empress opened her eyes.

Those were eyes that fused human pupils with the Alligator Snapping Turtle's scarlet slit pupils.

She hovered in mid-air, the long dress on her body replaced by a set of Profound Ice Battle Armor. Barbs stood densely at the joints of the armor, exuding the coercion of a Quasi-God Level. With every gesture she made, the surrounding space collapsed and reorganized.

The Empress lowered her head, looked at her scale-covered hands, and felt the energy within her body.

Afterwards, she cast her gaze toward Zhou Huai.

"Hehe… Hahahaha…"

The Empress's laughter grew from small to loud, echoing across the ice field.

She stuck out her tongue, licked her lips, and looked at Zhou Huai below:

"Contemporary ant, I really need to properly thank you."

"If you hadn't driven this little imp to the point of its Physical Body's destruction, it wouldn't have been willing to fuse with me even unto death."

The Empress raised the ice spear in her hand, its tip cutting a cold radiance through the Void Realm, pointing straight at Zhou Huai.

"As gratitude to you, I will pull your Soul out and Seal it within my Extreme Cold Hell!"