94: Chapter 94: Snow Empress vs. Deep Sea Demon Whale King

Hearing the words of the Snow Empress, Lu Jing frowned deeply. He took a step forward and, facing that suffocating pressure, asked aloud: "What do you want with her?"

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King glanced at Lu Jing with his lantern-sized scarlet eyes, his gaze full of contempt, as if looking at an ant; he couldn't even be bothered to respond.

The Snow Empress shook her head, her tone carrying a hint of helplessness: "How would I know? I don't even know it."

She took a deep breath and looked up at the dorsal fin that resembled a "black mountain." Her voice rose sharply, carrying clearly through the storm: "Who are you? What business do you have with me?"

The sea surface churned violently as the massive shadow slowly rose, revealing more of its body above the water.

Its pitch-black skin was like the hardest black iron, covered in dense white spots that shimmered with an eerie light under the lightning.

When it fully emerged, the entire hanhai ship seemed as small as a toy before it.

"I was about to ask you the same thing."

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King's voice boomed like thunder, carrying the briny stench of seawater and violence. "To run wild in my domain and even injure my subordinate—you certainly have some nerve."

The Snow Empress met his gaze without showing any weakness, a fighting spirit rising in her ice-blue eyes: "We were just passing through. As for your subordinate, it was purely a case of it bringing it upon itself."

She raised a finger, pointing at the pitch-black sea, and said in a cold tone: "It was the one who provoked us first; shouldn't it pay the price?"

"Oh?"

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King seemed somewhat surprised, tilting his massive head slightly as he asked: "Where do you come from? How could there be a Spirit Beast like you on the mainland?"

"The Far North." The Snow Empress replied indifferently, the extreme cold energy around her intensifying, even freezing the surrounding rain into ice mist.

"The Far North..." A flash of surprise crossed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's scarlet eyes as he exclaimed: "I never expected that frozen land to harbor a powerhouse like you."

He fell silent for a moment, his tone becoming more complex: "With your cultivation, you must be ranked in the top three among the Spirit Beasts of the mainland."

The Snow Empress gave a light laugh, neither humble nor arrogant: "I cannot compare to you. You are approaching a million years, the master of this vast ocean."

"Master?" The Deep Sea Demon Whale King let out a low laugh that made the sea surface tremble, mocking himself: "What does a million years matter? Stuck at this step, unable to break through, time has long since become a torment for me."

He paused, his scarlet gaze locking back onto the Snow Empress, and asked: "Come to think of it, your age is probably even greater than mine, isn't it?"

"What meaning does the length of time have?" The Snow Empress replied calmly: "The strength of a Spirit Beast ultimately depends on cultivation and combat power."

She raised her eyes to look directly at the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and said: "If there is nothing else, please step aside. Or are you saying you want to avenge your good-for-nothing subordinate?"

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King suddenly let out a piercing laugh, the waves churning wildly with his laughter: "It? It is not worthy of me taking action on its behalf."

The laughter stopped abruptly, and his eyes instantly became violent and greedy: "I came looking for you because I want to taste the flavor of the ruler of the Far North. Your power is so pure; if I devour you, perhaps I can break through the shackles, truly transform into a dragon, and take that final step!"

Before his words had even faded, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King suddenly opened his massive maw. A pitch-black water column, mixed with countless sharp ice shards, swept towards the Snow Empress like a wild dragon emerging from the sea.

Wherever the water column passed, space seemed to be torn apart, emitting a piercing hum.

"How insolent!" The Snow Empress's eyes sharpened. She sneered: "Do you really think I am afraid of you?"

She tapped her right foot lightly on the deck, her figure floating up like a snowflake, standing steadily in mid-air.

Her white dress fluttered in the gale, her silver-white hair flying, and the extreme cold energy radiating from her body instantly froze the surrounding rain into a crystal-clear ice domain.

"Ice Seal!" The Snow Empress waved her right hand, and that extreme cold energy, capable of freezing a raging sea, erupted suddenly, transforming into a massive ice-blue torrent that collided violently with the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's black water column.

"Boom!" The two terrifying forces collided, emitting a deafening roar.

The black water column and the ice-blue torrent annihilated each other, and water vapor and ice mist spread out, forming a huge, hazy area.

The surrounding waves were lifted a hundred meters into the air by this force, then crashed down heavily, and the entire sea surface shook violently.

The hanhai ship was like a leaf in a gale amidst the giant waves, ready to capsize at any moment.

"What powerful strength..." Wang Donger's face was pale. She gripped Lu Jing's arm tightly and asked: "Can Senior Snow Empress win?"

Lu Jing stared intently at the battle in mid-air and said in a deep voice: "It is hard to say. The Deep Sea Demon Whale King is, after all, approaching a million years of cultivation, but the Snow Empress's extreme cold energy restrains the water element. For the time being, it cannot do anything to the Snow Empress."

In mid-air, the battle between the Snow Empress and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had entered a white-hot stage.

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King continuously churned the seawater, sometimes spraying pitch-black corrosive water columns, sometimes slapping the sea surface with its massive tail fin to raise monstrous waves; every attack carried the power to destroy heaven and earth.

Its body was incredibly tough; the ice cones condensed by the Snow Empress, when striking its body, could only leave faint white marks before being shattered.

But the Snow Empress's movement technique was extremely agile, weaving through the waves and water columns like a ghost.

She continuously released extreme cold energy, freezing and neutralizing the incoming attacks.

Whenever the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's massive maw approached, she would instantly condense a huge ice wall, forcibly blocking the suction force capable of devouring everything.

Even more amazingly, the Snow Empress could instantly convert the surrounding water vapor into ice blades. Dense swarms of ice blades shot towards the Deep Sea Demon Whale King like a rainstorm; although they could not inflict heavy damage, they could still injure the opponent.

"Roar!" The Deep Sea Demon Whale King, enraged by the Snow Empress's entanglement, let out a sudden roar, and a thick black mist emanated from his body.

The mist spread rapidly, and wherever it passed, the seawater turned as black as ink, emitting a pungent, devouring aura.

The Snow Empress's eyes narrowed. The extreme cold energy around her erupted once again, forming a huge ice-blue barrier that kept the black mist at bay.

Ice-blue runes flickered on the barrier, continuously neutralizing the corrosion of the mist.

"Interesting." Seeing this, a flash of surprise crossed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's eyes. He said: "Your extreme cold energy can actually resist my devouring ability?"

He no longer held back, his massive body diving suddenly into the sea. The next second, countless black water dragons condensed from seawater attacked the Snow Empress from all directions, each water dragon carrying the power to tear through space.

The Snow Empress took a deep breath, formed seals with her hands in front of her chest, and softly shouted: "Snow Dance Radiance!"

In an instant, the temperature between heaven and earth plummeted. Those incoming black water dragons were frozen instantly in mid-air, turning into lifelike ice sculptures, then shattered with a roar. With the Snow Empress at the center, an ice domain with a diameter of a thousand meters formed rapidly, completely freezing this area of the sea, even freezing most of the seawater the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had dived into.

"Damn it!" The Deep Sea Demon Whale King, trapped by the ice layer, let out an angry roar, his massive body struggling violently.

The ice layer emitted "crack, crack" sounds of shattering, and countless cracks spread rapidly, but for a moment, he was indeed frozen in place.

The Snow Empress hovered above the ice domain. She looked at the Deep Sea Demon Whale King trapped in the ice and said coldly: "Now, do you still think you can devour me?"

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King struggled frantically, his eyes full of disbelief.

He did not expect that his cultivation of nearly a million years would actually be trapped by a seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast.

"Break for me!" The Deep Sea Demon Whale King let out a roar that shook heaven and earth, his whole body erupting with terrifying black Soul Power. Under the impact of his power, those solid ice layers finally shattered with a roar.

His massive body surfaced again, his scarlet eyes staring fixedly at the Snow Empress, filled with killing intent but also a bit more wariness.

He admitted that he had underestimated this ice and snow ruler from the Far North.

The opponent's extreme cold energy not only restrained his water-type abilities but was also controlled with exquisite precision and possessed great tenacity; it was almost impossible to take her down in a short time.

The Snow Empress did not launch another active attack either, just hovering in mid-air, watching the Deep Sea Demon Whale King vigilantly.

She knew that the previous strike had only temporarily trapped the opponent; if she really pushed this giant beast approaching a million years of cultivation to the brink, she would not benefit either.