Longxi and Tu Shiqi, the couple, were being suppressed by Singh and the masked woman, respectively. Given the current situation, it seemed unlikely that Longxi and Tu Shiqi could reverse the tide without outside help.
Shi Yan racked his brain, desperately searching for a solution...
In the shadows, the powerhouses from the minor clans quietly drew closer, lurking around the masked woman.
They still believed the masked woman was the weak point, especially since their primary target—Shi Yan—was currently in her grasp.
That gigantic, crystalline snow lotus, chilling to the bone, imprisoned the Tu Shiqi couple within. Despite their confinement, they exerted all their strength, striving to break free.
The masked woman of the Phantom Race had to divide her attention to deal with this, while simultaneously remaining wary of Shi Yan; her position was not entirely stable.
Therefore, those truly confident in themselves kept their focus fixed on her, hoping to strike once and instantaneously seize Shi Yan before whisking him away.
In their eyes, Shi Yan was a plump medicine cauldron; capturing him could unlock the true meaning of dark energy, propelling them to the peak of the Domain Ancestor realm.
Shi Yan sealed his five senses, perceiving his surroundings through consciousness formed by dark energy, keenly detecting four alien powerhouses closing in like vipers!
Those four were all at the third layer of the Immortal realm, the same level as the Tu Shiqi couple!
These were the most refined experts among the onlookers, possessing the greatest patience, the ruthless ones who had only now chosen to act after long surveillance.
“Hmph!”
The masked woman of the Phantom Race let out a cold, charming snarl, having also sensed the ill intentions of those individuals. Her graceful body twisted like a water snake, emitting a heart-stopping, seductive allure. Lines of enchanting, beautiful illusions materialized around her—countless stunning, bare forms gasped softly, weaving toward the four third-layer Immortal martial artists.
At that very moment!
The Tu Shiqi couple beneath the massive, glittering snow lotus suddenly unleashed their full power. Beams of concentrated divine energy, blazing with brilliant light, violently pierced toward a single lotus petal!
The masked woman’s delicate body shuddered, her bright eyes flashing with frigid intent, as if genuinely angered.
And at this juncture!
“Boom!”
Shi Yan, who had sealed himself, erupted with ferocious, savage power, instantly breaking free from her grasp.
A Boundary Stone tumbled out, growing instantly upon meeting the air, transforming in a flash into a vast, milky-white new world. This world acted like a giant hand closing, grasping both the masked woman and the four ambushers who were affected by her charm, dragging them all into the new realm condensed by the Boundary Stone.
A streak of white light flashed past.
Shi Yan broke free and flew out. Without a hint of hesitation, his surrounding power surged forth, and another Boundary Stone spun out.
Infused with his divine power, this new Boundary Stone unfurled an entirely new world. This world was still vast and indistinct, but significantly larger than the first. It suddenly enveloped the original world that had trapped the masked woman and the ambushers!
A greater boundary was layered over an outer boundary!
The two Boundary Stones formed two worlds: the large one enveloping the small one, and the small one restraining the masked woman and the four attackers, while Shi Yan remained outside both.
The obstruction of the two boundaries greatly weakened the masked woman’s connection to the snow lotus, causing the flower to lose the continuous power reinforcing its restraint.
The Tu Shiqi couple immediately burst forth!
They looked toward Shi Yan with surprise, secretly filled with excitement and delight.
Shi Yan gave a slight nod, raised his hand, and pointed remotely toward Singh’s true body.
The Tu Shiqi couple instantly understood. Without a word, they transformed into two streams of light, rushing toward Singh’s main form.
Suspended in the void, Shi Yan’s expression was extremely grave. Threads of divine sense permeated the new world condensed by the Boundary Stone, searching for the faintest fluctuation.
While a Boundary Stone could instantly form a world, this world was not real and could only sustain confinement for a short duration.
The power generated if Shi Yan triggered this world to explode, shattering space, would be terrifying—perhaps even difficult for an Immortal realm expert to withstand fully.
However, he had only recently entered the Immortal realm, meaning the spatial barriers within that new world were extremely fragile. If he detonated the spatial collapse, he might not be able to truly strike the masked woman hard enough.
But he had another plan...
He was waiting for the imprisoned masked woman and those four individuals who also had designs on him to first break through one of the layers from the inside.
In the dreamlike, vast world, the Phantom Race masked woman and the four third-layer Immortal experts all looked dreadful, their gazes chillingly assessing their surroundings.
They were powerful cultivators, yet they had been tricked by Shi Yan, falling into the trap, and were now collectively confined within this world.
Individually, any one of them possessed enough strength to shatter this world's barrier. The reason they hadn't acted was their awareness that once a world collapsed, the instantaneous spatial explosion would be terrifyingly potent, making it difficult for even them to escape unscathed.
“How dare you compete with my Phantom Race!”
The masked woman’s voice was icy cold, her eyes sharp. Threads of divine sense, like tentacles, probed the thickness of the spatial barrier.
This new world resembled a glass sphere; the surface was the spatial barrier. The thicker the barrier, the harder it was to shatter, and the more violent the resulting spatial explosion wave would be.
As she sensed the barrier, she sneered and mocked the four who had plotted against her.
The four remained silent, like mute statues. None answered—because their cultivation was lower than the masked woman’s; they lacked the ability to simultaneously probe the barrier thickness while speaking.
“That brat is cunning, but his strength is lacking; this spatial barrier... is too thin!”
After several seconds, a flicker of pleasant surprise bloomed in the masked woman’s bright eyes, and she couldn't help but laugh again, a soft giggle laced with malice. Her pale, delicate hand reached out toward the void, unleashing a cold, biting force like countless ice blades exploding and tearing!
Simultaneously!
Outside the larger boundary, Shi Yan’s body convulsed violently. He focused all his attention, sending his thoughts into the inner world.
Just as the inner world was being impacted by ice blades and cracks began to appear, threatening to shatter, he actively triggered the outer, larger boundary. Any expert proficient in spatial mysteries would notice that the outer boundary was slowly fragmenting like breaking glass, fine fissures already emerging.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Two massive sounds exploded almost simultaneously. The inner world was shattered by the masked woman, spatial fragments shooting outward, while the outer boundary, which Shi Yan had deliberately fractured, violently burst open, sending countless spatial edges blasting inward.
The outward explosion of the inner space and the inward explosion of the outer space violently compressed each other, instantly magnifying the destructive force severalfold!
“Crack, crack, crack, crack!”
A continuous series of loud bangs erupted before Shi Yan, resembling a collapse of the void, the annihilation of heaven and earth, generating spatial shockwaves instantly capable of devastating creation!
Shi Yan retreated, his face etched with horror, shaken even by the shockwave from the simultaneous explosion of the outer and inner worlds.
That power, even for him who cultivated spatial mysteries, seemed unsurvivable; once engulfed, there would be no chance of escape.
“Bang, bang, bang, bang!”
Four masses of flesh exploded like balls of meat, mercilessly lacerated by countless spatial blades, dissolving into countless specks of blood and gore. Even their Soul Altars were utterly annihilated.
The four third-layer Immortal experts, who had hoped to use him to break through to the Domain Ancestor realm, perished instantly, their main souls completely extinguished.
Shi Yan’s eyes snapped wide open, a look of utter disbelief on his face, his mouth agape.
Amidst the world-ending spatial blast, petals of a massive snow lotus scattered, seemingly sliced by countless sharp blades. Inside the lotus, a perfectly sculpted, sensual form was ** exposed: snow-white, flawless skin, full, generous breasts, a waist slender enough to be grasped, beautiful hips and legs, and a face exquisite as a work of art...
Instinctively, he looked downward and found that the snow lotus binding the Tu Shiqi couple had indeed vanished.
He didn’t know when the lotus disappeared or when the masked woman recalled it. In the instant the two worlds exploded, the masked woman managed to gather the snow lotus to cover herself, blocking the inevitably fatal wave of attack. Though her clothes and menacing mask were pulverized into smoke, her life was spared.
The giant snow lotus withered mournfully. The woman at its center, with ice-bone and snow-like skin, was flawless, her figure and face the epitome of worldly perfection.
However, her gaze was as cold as a sharp blade, fixed directly upon Shi Yan now!
A chill ran down Shi Yan’s spine. Under her gaze, a sense of unease, as if being drowned in endless cold, washed over him.
“Crack, crack, crack!”
Sounds of cracking explosions echoed beside him. Shi Yan startled and couldn't help but turn his head to look.
He saw ice sculptures shattering—these were the frozen bodies of various alien clansmen who harbored notions toward her but whose cultivation wasn't particularly high. Under the masked woman’s furious wrath, they were instantly frozen and killed.
Perhaps they died merely for inadvertently seeing something they shouldn't have.
By the time Shi Yan realized the gravity of the situation and snapped back to attention, everyone on the Longxi Continent, except for Longxi, Singh, and the intensely battling Tu Shiqi couple who were too preoccupied to notice, was dead!
The ruthless woman of the Phantom Race had slain every remaining soul who didn't flee, even killing a Water Tribe clansman who had stayed behind to gather intelligence.
“Hoo!”
A piece of pure, white silken robe wrapped around the woman’s body. With her snow-white feet bare, she slowly descended from within the wilting snow lotus.
Her eyes, filled with the chill of countless icebergs, were unswervingly locked onto Shi Yan. The soul-level coldness in her gaze caused his Soul Altar to emit a "creak, creak" sound, as if it were slowly freezing over!
Her gaze could freeze the Soul Altar—this profound meaning was terrifying to the extreme!
“Your figure and appearance are perfect. To be granted the privilege of seeing you undressed and yet survive, I am truly blessed three lifetimes over.”
Shivering, Shi Yan stared at the woman and uttered those words. Abruptly, he activated his Heavenly Fire power; clusters of blazing flames spread, swirling and dancing within his Soul Altar.
The soul-chilling coldness was expelled. The Heavenly Fire continued to permeate his divine body, and he gradually returned to normal. He glared fiercely at the woman one more time, then his body began to blur, suddenly vanishing into invisibility.
The Phantom Race woman’s bright eyes turned fiercely cold. The giant snow lotus around her disintegrated into smaller snow lotus flowers, rolling like snowballs and whirling in the vicinity.
Her cheeks were pale, and she reapplied the menacing mask, concealing her peerless beauty.
“You cannot escape,” she whispered coldly.