Trials of the Abyss

Chapter 329: Nine Glaciers Suppress the Eel Dragon

"Pang Jian..." Chen Lushi repeatedly murmured.

Her beautiful face, which was smeared with foul-smelling saliva, twisted into an expression of sorrow.

Pang Jian hovered in the sky, nine glaciers surrounding him and a radiant, heart-shaped crystalline artifact suspended above his head.

At that moment, Pang Jian exuded the aura of a primordial mountain, as if one with heaven and earth.

His imposing presence seemed on par with the Outer Gods in the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God.

Chen Lushi had no idea what had transpired since she had last seen him, but when she recalled Fu Wangchen's easy defeat and the subsequent humiliations they had suffered after diving into the lakes, her heart surged with regret.

"I was wrong. I was wrong from the beginning..."

Tears trickled down her face and her memories started to blur into a fog.

She forgot about her fellow disciples from the Demon Sect, the many young talents coveting her beauty, and even about her circumstances in Absolute Heaven.

Jiang Chao sat in a viscous glob before her, but she could no longer remember who he was.

"I made the wrong choice..." she muttered repeatedly, remorse deepening as the image of Pang Jian sharpened in her mind.

Everything else faded into obscurity.

"Pang Jian..."

Jiang Chao and Xiao Yu also stared blankly at Pang Jian.

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon closed its jaws with a loud snap, and the world before them plunged into darkness.

"Hmph!" The Thunderveil Godbeast eyed the Ice Armor Eel Dragon with disdain but showed no interest in addressing its presence.

"Yang Luo, are you here to fight me for the Thunder Pool?" Lei Meng frowned at the Spider God. "Did some other Thunder God promise you something in exchange for getting involved in this battle?

"Yang Luo, I know you're a mid-rank God. I may not be a match for you in the outer worlds, but this is the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God.

"This is the divine domain where the Duke of Thunder once forged the Divine Court of Thunder! And I have the repaired Thunder Pool on my side. Here, you are no match for me!" The Thunderveil Godbeast warned.

"You're overthinking it, Lei Meng." The Spider God, Yang Luo, shook her head before glancing at Pang Jian. "I'm only here to watch you kill him. That human, Pang Jian, destroyed one of my puppet bodies in a fragmented land in the Abyss.

"Because of him, I had to endure the agony of having Nether Abyss Spirit Bees devour my divine consciousness.

"That pain is unforgettable. I cannot forgive him!

"I cannot descend here with my true body, so dealing with him and his Nether Abyss Spirit Bees will be difficult. So, I ask you to kill him for me. All I want is to see him die here."

Yang Luo's hatred saturated the vast skies of the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God.

"That's a small matter." The Thunderveil Godbeast bared its teeth in a mockery of a grin. Then, a lecherous gleam flashed in his eyes as he added, "Yang Luo, once I refine this Thunder Pool and gather the fragments of the Divine Court of Thunder, I'll ascend to a mid-rank God.

"When I, too, become a mid-rank God, I'll be worthy of pursuing you." The Thunderveil Godbeast chuckled wickedly.

Yang Luo's cold eyes gleamed with contempt and she scoffed disdainfully. "A mid-rank God? That's not enough. There are already several high-rank gods pursuing me. If you want a chance, you'll have to reach the level of the Duke of Thunder."

"The Duke of Thunder! Again with the Duke of Thunder!" The Thunderveil Godbeast growled in frustration.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Lightning Dao Seals beneath its feet erupted with apocalyptic thunder, filling the Thunder Pool with blazing lightning.

The Thunder Pool soared up to hover directly in front of the Ice Armor Eel Dragon.

"I don't recall such a powerful sea creature existing in the Sea Race's Heavenly Sea World," the Thunderveil Godbeast remarked, eyeing one of the Sea Race members standing on the Ice Armor Eel Dragon's back. "A sea creature of this strength shouldn't be able to reach this place under the laws of the bizarre mist."

"We will elevate it to the status of a Sea God and take it to the Heavenly Sea World. There's still a vacant position in our Heavenly Sea World, and it's the perfect fit," the Sea Race warrior replied in a respectful tone.

"I come from the Fifth World of the Abyss. I was captured when I was younger and raised in Absolute Heaven. When I first arrived, my bloodline was only Rank Five," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon explained, revealing peeks of Chen Lushi, Fang Boxuan, and the others when it spoke.

The confusion in Chen Lushi's and the others' eyes had deepened, and they no longer seemed to recognize Pang Jian.

"I evolved and advanced step by step in Absolute Heaven to achieve the strength I wield today!" The Ice Armor Eel Dragon continued. "I still don't fully understand what the Divine Court of Thunder is, nor do I grasp the mysteries of your Thunder Pool. All I know is that it's useful to me!"

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon fixed its greedy eyes on the Heart of Winter above Pang Jian's head and the nine towering glaciers.

"My bloodline's attributes are of cold and lightning. I also have mastery over water. Outer Gods cannot descend here with their true bodies, which means I'm the strongest being here!

"The Forbidden Land of the Thunder God and the Frozen Land will be my domains from today onward!"

Boom!

Blinding lightning and dazzling ice burst forth from its gleaming silver scales.

"Cold and lightning! Bloodline resonance!" The Ice Armor Eel Dragon roared, throwing its head back.

Strands of ghostly lightning, containing the secrets of cold and thunder, flashed in its eyes. Its pupils locked onto the Heart of Winter and the Thunder Pool.

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon's bloodline resonance affected the nine crystalline glaciers. Its heart acted like a magnetic field that exerted a powerful attraction over both lightning and cold.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The glaciers swayed unsteadily as they drifted toward the Ice Armor Eel Dragon.

However, the Heart of Winter above Pang Jian's head did not move.

The same was true for the Thunder Pool.

"A creature like you—if you dared to appear in the Thunder Abyss, I'd unleash a single burst of lightning and kill you on the spot." The Thunderveil Godbeast snorted coldly. "Even without my true body, killing you is no challenge!

"Thunder Blaze!"

Red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, and purple—Seven brilliant lightning bolts corresponding to each color burst out of the Thunder Pool. The Thunderveil Godbeast wielded them like whips and lashed out at the surrounding heavens and earth.

Crack!

Two massive lightning bolts—one blue and one yellow—shot toward the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and struck the drifting glaciers.

The glaciers gleamed with flashes of lightning and cold light as the whips of lightning struck them.

Pang Jian grunted in pain.

The Heart of Winter trembled and the cold energy in his spiritual sea's ice pool started to drain rapidly in response to the glaciers being whipped.

Pang Jian's golden figure deep within the Heart of Winter watched as nine shards of ice appeared around the core of Winter.

The nine shards were smaller than the crystal core in his palm and corresponded to the nine glaciers outside.

The crystal core and the ice shards are linked to one another. This artifact is far more intricate than I imagined!

Pang Jian's golden figure gripped the crystal core of Winter with one hand and manipulated the nine drifting ice shards with his other.

His divine sense was being consumed, and the cold energy in his ice pool was rapidly depleting.

The nine ice shards stopped in their tracks!

Whoosh!

The profound mysteries of the Ice Soul Demon Divine Scripture unfolded in Pang Jian's mind, and he quickly comprehended them with his divine sense.

His ethereal figure within the Heart of Winter now had complete control over the divine artifact!

The Frozen Land harmonized with Pang Jian and the nine glaciers merged with his divine sense.

It was like he was back on the Resolute Expanse.

One of the towering glaciers moved as though a chaotic divine power had abruptly taken hold of it, transforming into a blade in the hand of a god as it thrust directly toward the Ice Armor Eel Dragon.

Boom!

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon howled in agony at the impact and fell out of the sky with a resounding crash.

Its massive body slammed into a deep pit, shaking the ground with a tremendous quake.

Howl!

It struggled out of the pit, then charged toward the Thunder Pool with a furious roar.

Crackle! Crackle! Boom!

The Thunderveil Godbeast's lightning whips, twisting and lashing out, striking the massive creature repeatedly and causing it to fall back into the depths of the pit with a wretched wail.

Many Sea Race warriors riding on its back and nestled within its scales perished from the repeated blows.

Sensing the dire situation, the Ice Armor Eel Dragon absorbed several Sea Race warriors into the flesh beneath its scales, using its body to shield them.

"So this is the power of a God? They're too much for me to handle, even with their puppet bodies." The Ice Armor Eel Dragon once again rose from the deep pit, only to be struck back down. "No, this isn't right! Outer God Puppets have also descended in the past, but none were ever this powerful!"

Its shiny scales cracked and its injuries worsened as it fell back into the pit, half-buried in the earth.

It watched the battle between the Thunderveil Godbeast and Pang Jian in the sky with a feeling of helplessness.

"It wasn't lying. If we were in the Thunder Abyss facing its true body..." The Ice Armor Eel Dragon's eyes dimmed with despair. "I would be killed in an instant."

Huff! Huff!

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon panted heavily, deeply regretting its decision to emerge from the lake so soon.

"It doesn't make a difference. The four fragmented lands have converged here from different times and spaces. Even if I hadn't come out, I still wouldn't have been spared once the battle on the other three fragmented lands finished." It sighed dejectedly.

The survivors on its tongue caught glimpses of the fierce clash of lightning and glaciers outside as it spoke.

At that moment, Fu Wangchen of the Forsaken Expanse Sect finally awoke from his unconscious state and rubbed his eyes in confusion.

"Pang Jian..."

Opening the third eye at the center of his forehead, he saw the massive crystalline heart suspended above Pang Jian's head.

"I knew it. An Outer God has corrupted you! I was right, you're the real aberration!"