Chapter 102: Do you want to come here on your own, or do I drag you back

? The leaders of the various sea regions, seated on the seats on either side of the hall, all sensed the dragon roar the king had previously heard in the southern seas and were gathering around them.

Regarding the attendant who had suddenly appeared behind the Demonic Serpent Leader's throne, holding him hostage—no, that woman, though dressed as a servant, possessed no aura of sea spirits, clearly an outsider to the seas.

Before this, they had never actually seen the ancient divine phoenix raised by Shang Que, and Ying Shixue hadn't announced Shang Youqing's return to the depths of the Dragon Cave.

For a moment, they naturally had no idea that the fierce and beautiful woman before them was the phoenix they had just been ridiculed and mocked.

Including the demon snake leader himself, whose neck was pressed by a flaming blade. At first, he thought it was a demon spirit that had a grudge against him, and immediately arrogantly swung out his scorpion tail from under his armor in an attempt to intimidate the people behind him -

"Who are you! Surrender now and I can spare your life!"

As soon as the words fell, the flaming blade cut the scorpion tail in two. Shang You said coldly, "Who will spare who?"

As half of the demon snake's scorpion tail was cut by the flaming blade, screams rang out. The sea beast soldiers who were originally stationed outside the temple received the danger signal inside the temple and filed in.

The leaders of each faction drew their weapons and cautiously surrounded the woman holding the Demonic Serpent Leader. However, Shang Youqing, remarkably calm, held the still-bloodied flaming blade and thrust it into the Demonic Serpent Leader's heart once again. "Let me go."

The Demonic Serpent Leader could clearly feel a slight heat rising in his heart, fearing that if he screamed again, she would pierce his heart. He pleaded in a trembling voice, "Quick, let her go! Let her go!"

Several leaders shouted in unison, "We can't let her go so easily!"

"Really?" Shang Youqing's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, blazing phoenix fire already gathering deep within them, a threat that threatened to consume the entire palace.

At that moment, the leader of the New North Sea Green Eagle, who had been sitting motionless on the right, stood up.

Clad in dark green scale armor, she towered over everyone present. She stared at the flaming blade in Shang Youqing's hand, a faint glimpse of something, and suddenly spoke: "Let her go."

As the leader of the several sea regions within the palace, the Green Eagle Leader's words carried far more authority than those of the others nearby.

The soldiers retreated hesitantly. Shang Youqing abducted the demonic snake leader to the palace gate and fiercely kicked him several meters away. With a piercing phoenix cry, he transformed from the flames into his true form, spreading his golden feathers. His tail feathers shone with a stream of light, stirring the waters and waves as he soared into the sky.

"Is that... is that a phoenix spreading its wings?"

"Haven't you realized yet?" The Green Eagle leader sneered. "She just said 'let me go,' not begging us to let her go, but giving us a last chance to survive. Otherwise, the ancient god's phoenix fire will burst in, and we will be burned to ashes along with this palace. There will be no escape."

At the same time, a storm, rare in centuries, erupted in the center of the southern sea, blocking all radar signals detectable by humans beyond the cloud layer.

Penglai, one of the Guixu Immortal Mountains hanging above the sea, was torn apart by dragon claws, revealing its original form. The vast ocean was like a source of endless power for the Dragon God.

A massive, icy-blue dragon's tail slowly rose from the sea, its breath of incomparable sacredness and power radiating down upon the looming Penglai Island.

From his vantage point, he could clearly see a vast magic circle had been set up at the entrance to Penglai.

The person who had set up the formation was stationed at the entrance, seemingly fully prepared for his arrival.

However, Ying Shixue's dragon claws, like a river of ice and snow, crashed down from above, instantly shattering the magic circle at the entrance.

With a clear, cold breath, the massive dragon suddenly leaped down from hundreds of meters in the air. Its

sharp, upright dragon scales, like a sky-splitting axe, locked onto its target and slashed down towards the Penglai defenders.

A phoenix, trailing flaming feathers, soared from the sea, its wings flapping through the clouds. As the dragon-scale axe's light descended upon Shen Jichuan, it unfurled its full wings to block him.

When her long tail feathers were cut off by the arc of dragon scales, she still endured the severe pain of her tail feathers being shattered again, and used the spiritual energy of her whole body to resonate with the heaven and earth to block the rear, and shouted to Shen Jichuan - "

I will hold him back, you go quickly! Find a way to notify the guardians of the other four fairy mountains in Guixu!"

"Phoenix! -"

Phoenix was about to fall back to the sea, unable to hold on. She used all her strength to block the dragon breath that was getting closer and closer behind her, and roared at Cheng Huang who was almost pouncing on her, "Take Shen Jichuan away!"

Cheng Huang's eyes were red, and he knew that now was not the time to talk nonsense, so he had to grit his teeth and take Shen Jichuan away from Penglai.

The bones of her tail feathers were shattered even more severely than last time. She couldn't even maintain her true form, and was inevitably plummeting from the height. She expected to be shattered on the sea, but instead, she landed on a hidden reef. She lay dripping wet on the jagged rocks, her lips bleeding from the pain. She trembled as she pushed herself to a sitting position, her eyelids fluttering slightly as she caught sight of the snow-white figure standing still on the cold sea. Ying

's silver hair clung to his slender, peak-like back. A storm raged around him, yet he seemed still.

His features remained deep and clear, his cold, unwavering eyes fixed on her, a gaze even colder than the one he'd cast upon the snowy peaks of Kunlun Mountain.

"Do you want to come here on your own, or do you want me to drag you back?"

Shang Youqing didn't move.

The next second, a slender, icy dragon emerged from the sea, giving Shang Youqing no chance to break free. Its tail, imbued with immense power, wrapped around her fragile form and mercilessly dragged her into the underwater glacier.

Unable to muster any resistance, Shang Youqing choked repeatedly in the icy water, her body nearly slipping and falling.

Finally, a bony hand grasped the back of her neck, leaving her powerless to struggle. She

nearly passed out from the layers of tough dragon scales wrapped around her waist.

Upon regaining consciousness, Shang Youqing slowly opened her eyes and found herself once again transported back to the depths of the icy Dragon Cave.

This time, a water barrier had appeared at the entrance to the Dragon Cave's Evil Pool, a faint, rippled pattern of dragon scales.

She lay naked on the ice bed, her only covering being her dark hair.

Both of Shang Youqing's ankles were bandaged, preventing her from moving. She could only hold her knees and legs with her hands, slowly pulling her calves in front of her.

Just as she was about to peel back the bandages to examine her ankles, she heard footsteps approaching from the nearby Dragon Cave.

Shang Youqing blinked his eyelashes, put his hands together and covered his body with his legs, and stared at the entrance of the evil pool.