The blood seal of the Law of Death and the frost of Absolute Zero fell in turns. The extreme torment of ice and fire, combined with the biting of the swarm, allowed this high-and-mighty pseudo-divine rank exotic beast to experience what it meant to wish for death over life.

"Roar—! Wuwuwu—!" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Outside, the giant Alligator Snapping Turtle had completely lost the ability to resist. Its massive body lay limp on the ice, emitting bursts of hair-raising, shrill wails.

There was no longer the arrogance of a higher-dimensional being in that sound, only a piercing cry of misery.

It was crying for help!

It was frantically crying for help from its insufferably arrogant master, the Extreme Ice Empress!

"What a bunch of useless trash!"

Just then, from deep within the absolute darkness inside the Alligator Snapping Turtle's body where the light did not reach, a cold, frost-like snort of anger suddenly echoed.

The woman could finally hold back no longer; she had taken action!

Swish—!

There were no magical fluctuations, nor was there any charging time.

Within a thousandth of a second after the Empress's cold snort fell, a rapid ice spear, deep blue in color and radiating the ancient Origin aura of extreme cold, silently pierced through the Void Realm from the darkness, heading straight for Zhou Huai's vital point behind his heart!

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

"So fast!"

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

In that hair's breadth of time, Zhou Huai pushed the combat instincts of Overlord Xiang Yu and the agile movement of Hou Yi to their absolute limits! His waist twisted to the right in a distorted posture, and his entire body forcibly shifted half a position in mid-air.

Screech—!

The rapid ice spear grazed past Zhou Huai's left ribs. The sharp cold air even shredded Gabriel's indestructible Absolute Holy Shield!

Although Zhou Huai narrowly avoided the fatal fate of having his heart pierced in one strike, the extreme cold contained within that ice spear still inevitably grazed his left arm.

Crack— Crack—

At the moment of contact, a domineering Law of Absolute Zero frantically spread along Zhou Huai's left arm!

There was no room for resistance; even the sensation of pain didn't have time to reach his brain. Zhou Huai's left arm, which had been strengthened by the Indestructible Demon God and was strong enough to clash head-on with a Sharp Weapon, along with the surging mana and blood inside, was frozen into a block of crystal-clear, deep blue Mystic Ice!

Hiss...

Zhou Huai sucked in a breath of cold air, his figure retreating dozens of meters in mid-air before he managed to steady his stance.

He looked down at his left arm, which had completely lost all sensation, and his gaze became incredibly solemn.

"What a domineering Law of Extreme Cold! This old woman's strength is even more troublesome than I imagined!" Zhou Huai marveled inwardly. Just a grazing attack could break through the defense of his All-Aspects Unity and forcibly disable one of his arms. The foundation of this ruler from the old era was indeed not to be underestimated!

Zhou Huai ignored his frozen arm and instead raised his head, looking in the direction the ice spear had come from.

In the deepest darkness of the Alligator Snapping Turtle's stomach, an extreme cold storm that made the Soul tremble was slowly gathering.

Then, within that void enveloped by flesh and gastric juices, a beautiful figure radiating a faint blue fluorescence slowly floated out from the distant darkness.

As that figure approached, the surrounding Armored Beetles that were preparing to pounce and gnaw didn't even have time to scream before they were frozen into powder, falling rustlingly into the sea of blood.

It was a woman.

A woman draped in a deep blue ice-crystal gown, her face peerlessly beautiful yet cold and arrogant.

Her long silver hair flew wildly in the windless stomach, and in those sapphire-like eyes, there were no human emotions or desires, only a disregard for all things.

This was the ancient Dominator who had only been heard of but never seen—the Extreme Ice Empress!

Looking at this peerless powerhouse who had finally stepped from behind the scenes to the stage, Zhou Huai did not panic; instead, he grinned, revealing a wild smile.

"Hehehe... and here I thought you were hiding in some alternate dimension playing god."

Zhou Huai ignored the bone-chilling cold from his left arm and extended his right hand. Using his index finger, which was covered in the Alligator Snapping Turtle's blood, he pointed from afar at the Extreme Ice Empress floating in mid-air, a bloodthirsty light flickering in his eyes.

"After all that, it turns out you were just hiding inside this big turtle's belly."

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

Under the pressure of her extreme cold aura, even the flow of time in the surrounding foul-smelling space of flesh and blood became sluggish.

"I originally did not want to kill you."

The Empress snorted coldly, her voice echoing in the dark stomach and causing the surrounding fleshy walls to be covered in a layer of frost.

"It is you who insists on seeking death."

She slowly raised the deep blue spear in her hand, the tip pointing toward Zhou Huai from a distance.

"Who exactly are you?" the Extreme Ice Empress questioned. "What is your purpose in coming to find me?"

Without waiting for Zhou Huai's answer, she gripped the spear and continued to press: "Furthermore, where exactly is Duan? Have him come see me at once!"

Facing this barrage of questions, Zhou Huai met her gaze.

"Heh..."

Zhou Huai chuckled, his tone casual. "My apologies, Your Majesty. Mr. Duan does not wish to see you."

He shrugged. "He sent me here to thoroughly end your life. After all, 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 first stunned.

Then, she let out a cold laugh.

"Ant of the present world, put away your clumsy tricks; you cannot deceive me."

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

"If he truly wanted to kill me, I would not have recovered from my slumber now. He spent so much effort and paid such a high price, even risking the backlash of the Heavenly Dao to wake me..." The Extreme Ice Empress raised her chin. "If it were just to kill me again, there would be no need for such redundant efforts."

Zhou Huai raised an eyebrow.

This old woman might have slept for countless eons, but her mind worked quite fast, and she possessed a certain trust and understanding of that Mr. Duan from the Dawnbreaker Guild.

The Extreme Ice Empress gripped her ice spear tightly.

"It seems you and Duan are not on the same side."

She tightened her grip on the ice spear, and the surrounding temperature dropped once more. "In that case, I will have no psychological burden in killing you."

"You can try," Zhou Huai sneered, "if you truly can kill me."

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

"Buzz—"

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, said to be able to burn the Soul! He attempted to use this flame to forcibly melt the layer of deep blue Mystic Ice enveloping his left arm.

However, the moment the Soul-Devouring Nether Flame, which could burn anything, touched this layer of Mystic Ice, it encountered a wall of Law.

Sizzle—

Not only did the strange fire fail to melt the ice crystals, but it was also counter-attacked by the extreme cold aura. The dark green flame's light dimmed, the sparks flickered violently, and even the berserk fire [N O V E L I G H T] elements showed a tendency to be frozen solid!

It couldn't be melted at all!

Zhou Huai's eyelids twitched wildly.

The Law level of this extreme cold power was several grades higher than his S-Class strange ice, the Aurora Heart! This had already touched upon the Origin power of the world's underlying logic.

"As expected, one cannot underestimate any SSS-Class Professional..."