Before the words could fade, the Empress's face, covered in Alligator Snapping Turtle scales, darkened.

She narrowed her eyes and took the initiative to launch an attack!

"Absolute Cold Domain: Eternal Frost!"

The Empress's hands rapidly formed seals in front of her chest. A burst of Absolute Cold Origin, powerful enough to freeze space itself, transformed into a massive blue net that blotted out the sky and lunged toward Zhou Huai's head!

Immediately after, tens of thousands of Deep Blue Ice Crystal Chains pierced out from the Void Realm, entwining Zhou Huai's limbs, torso, and even his neck from all directions.

"Ice Prison Strangling!"

The Empress roared in anger. She intended to restrain Zhou Huai until he died, then pierce his heart with an ice spear!

However...

Facing these overwhelming top-tier crowd-control skills, Zhou Huai didn't even dodge, nor did he even bother to raise his hand to block.

He simply stood there quietly, allowing the ice crystal chains containing the Absolute Zero Law to wrap around his Abyssal Blood War Armor layer after layer.

"Hahahaha! Foolish!" Seeing this, the Empress laughed wildly and unrestrainedly. "Once entangled by my Absolute Cold Chains, your Physical Body, blood, and even your Soul will fall into a deathly stiffness! Right now, you are nothing more than meat on a chopping block!"

"Is that so?"

A chuckle suddenly echoed from within the layers of ice chains.

The next second.

"Crack—!"

A tooth-gritting sound of shattering rang out!

Zhou Huai merely moved his neck slightly and stretched.

Those supposedly indestructible Absolute Cold Chains, said to be able to freeze the Soul, shattered inch by inch the moment they touched the Dark Gold Dragon Flame flowing on the surface of the Abyssal Blood War Armor!

Clatter—

Shards of ice filled the sky, falling like a torrential rain.

Zhou Huai stepped out of the ice crystal storm completely unscathed. He brushed off the remaining ice fragments from his shoulder guards and spoke in a mocking tone.

"Sorry about that, old hag." Zhou Huai chuckled, shaking a finger. "In my current state... I'm magic immune."

A five-fold boost to all attributes, combined with the control immunity from Yasuo's Thunder God Armor, and the terrifying resistance stacking from Xiang Yu's Super Armor state!

The Absolute Cold control Law the Empress was so proud of was less than a breeze to the current Zhou Huai!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"

The Empress's eyes widened, and she screamed, "My Absolute Cold Origin transcends the Laws of the mortal world! How could you be completely immune?! I don't believe it!"

"Alligator Snapping Turtle Divine Soul! Devour him for me!!!"

The Empress completely lost her mind. She slapped her chest, and a brilliant burst of deep blue light erupted from between her eyebrows.

"Roar—!"

A hundred-meter-tall phantom of an Abyssal Profound Ice Alligator Turtle, formed entirely from Absolute Cold Origin and defensive Laws, roared as it charged out from her body!

The Alligator Snapping Turtle phantom opened its massive maw, large enough to swallow mountains, and radiated a terrifying pressure that could freeze everything as it bit down hard toward Zhou Huai!

"Playing a summoned beast duel with me? Are you even worthy!"

Zhou Huai's gaze sharpened. Refusing to back down, the vast Mana in his body poured into the Abyssal Blood War Armor like a dam bursting!

"Xiao Hei! Get out there and take it down!"

"Roar—!!!"

A domineering Dragon's roar that shattered the firmament exploded from deep within Zhou Huai's armor!

Towering black demonic flames soared into the sky. Above Zhou Huai's head, a phantom of an Abyssal Demon Dragon over two hundred meters long rapidly condensed!

This was the Absolute Bond of the Abyssal Blood War Armor!

With Zhou Huai's current insanely high all-attribute boost, this Demon Dragon phantom was even larger and more ferocious than Xiao Hei's true body! 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

The phantoms of two ancient behemoths collided like two crashing meteors above the ruins of the Ise Grand Shrine!

Boom—!!!

The world trembled, and the Void Realm shattered!

The Absolute Cold Law and the Abyssal Demonic Flame clashed violently in mid-air, forming a world-destroying energy storm!

However, the battle showed a one-sided crushing situation.

"Roar!"

The Alligator Snapping Turtle phantom tried to rely on its mystic ice turtle shell to endure, but it was pinned to the ground by a single swipe from the Demon Dragon phantom!

The Demon Dragon phantom's claws, burning with black flames, were incomparably sharp. They directly pierced through the Absolute Cold shield the Alligator Snapping Turtle took pride in. It opened its bloody maw and bit down savagely on the Alligator Snapping Turtle's neck!

"Crunch! Crunch!"

Large chunks of Absolute Cold Origin were forcibly torn off by the Demon Dragon and swallowed into its stomach.

With Zhou Huai's Heaven-Defying boost, Xiao Hei's phantom was ferocity personified, actually staying on top of the Alligator Snapping Turtle phantom the entire time, pinning it to the ground and beating it to death!

"Your turtle got thrashed by my Dragon." Holding his dragon spear, Zhou Huai stepped into the air, closing in on the Empress with a voice full of mockery. "Now, it's your turn!"

"Arrogant bastard! You're looking for death!!!"

Seeing her Origin phantom suppressed, the Empress was fuming with rage. She tightly gripped that deep blue Absolute Ice Divine Spear and turned into a bolt of blue lightning, proactively charging at Zhou Huai!

"Die!" The Empress's spear struck like a Dragon, its tip concentrating a Destructive Cold Current compressed to the extreme, stabbing straight at Zhou Huai's heart!

"Just this speed? Too slow!"

Zhou Huai sneered.

He didn't even use any fancy Spells or skills, instead revealing the most terrifying close-combat capability of the SSS-grade hidden class, the Sky-Ruling Ancestral Dragon Rider!

Facing the Empress's thunderous spear strike, Zhou Huai tilted his body slightly, dodging the sharp edge by a hair's breadth. Then, the dragon bone spear in his hand turned into an afterimage as he delivered a horizontal sweep!

Bang!!!

The spear shaft slammed heavily against the Empress's ice spear!

The massive recoil numbed the Empress's hands, causing her palms to split open and blood to spray!

"Your strength... how can it be this great?!" The Empress was knocked back dozens of meters by this blow, her eyes filled with horror.

"Surprised already? This is just the beginning!"

Zhou Huai pressed °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° his advantage, stepping into the Void Realm!

The air let out a sonic boom from his step!

Zhou Huai's speed was so fast that he left behind over a dozen afterimages in mid-air as he closed in on the Empress!

Clad in the Abyssal Blood Armor, he was practically invincible, transforming into a soulless humanoid meat grinder!

"Void-Piercing Dragon Spear!"

"Holy Radiance Charge!"

Zhou Huai roared repeatedly. The spear in his hand turned into a sky full of spear shadows, pouring down on the Empress like a torrential storm!

Terrified, the Empress frantically mobilized her Absolute Cold Origin, condensing dozens of mystic ice shields several meters thick in front of her!

"Absolute Defense! Absolute Ice Wall!"

"Defend my ass! Break for me!!!"

The muscles in Zhou Huai's arms bulged, and the demonic flames on his dragon armor burned to the limit. The spear tip radiated a sharpness that could pierce the firmament as it slammed into the ice walls!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Before Zhou Huai's unreasonable and terrifying brute force and Abyssal Law, the layers of mystic ice were like fragile thin paper!

The first layer, shattered!

The fifth layer, shattered!

The tenth layer, completely pulverized!

"Impossible! My Absolute Defense..."

Before the Empress's desperate scream could end, Zhou Huai's spear had already broken through all defenses. With a flick of the spear body, he changed from a thrust to a strike, hitting the Empress's chest with the force of a thousand tons!

"Pfft—!"

The Empress felt as if she had been struck by lightning. The mystic ice war armor on her body shattered into countless cracks, and she spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with visceral fragments. She was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string!

"Weren't you acting all high and mighty just now?! Didn't you want to extract my Soul?! Why are you running!"