Chapter 489: Chapter 281: Cultivation World 71_2

Nine Nether Sea Realm.

The moment Si Lingle stepped in, she felt a slight heaviness descend upon her body.

The space laws here were completely different from the outside world, more "viscous" and "heavy," as if she was in the sedimentation of countless millennia.

The air was not void, but carried a slight deep sea pressure and chill.

The world presented a profound indigo hue, surrounded by gigantic reefs so towering their tops couldn’t be seen, resembling a solidified ocean, covered with peculiar holes and crystals.

Underfoot was "Vast Sand," flowing yet not true water flow, fine, icy, and flowing silently.

All around was deathly still, and the landing points of her fellow disciples had been randomly scattered.

Si Lingle’s silver-gray eyes shimmered with a faint, almost imperceptible light, cautiously "combing" through the space within ten zhang around her, merging like a drop in the ocean, her aura and divine sense extremely introverted. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

However, a sudden change occurred!

Just as she stepped onto a slightly open indigo vast sand plain, the giant reef before her, towering a thousand zhang and covered in clusters of dark blue crystals, suddenly exploded!

Not from an external bombardment, but an internal disintegration!

Rumble—!!!

The sound was like the muffled roar of thunder within a sealed space. Rather than scattering in all directions, the crystal stone fragments and reef dust were drawn together by an immense suction force, forming a colossal, inverted black vortex!

From the center of that vortex, a giant claw covered in obsidian-like scales emerged!

Merely its extension caused the space its claw tip traversed to groan under unbearable strain, leaving five twisted, flickering pitch-black fissures, like ink splattered on a painting, lingering persistently!

A suffocatingly terrifying pressure descended like a substantive tsunami!

Late Stage Daluo Golden Immortal—Sky-breaking Demon Python!

It was not a true dragon, its head ferocious, resembling a giant crocodile, with a spiral horn on its forehead, the space around the horn slightly collapsing.

Its massive body was covered in streamlined black thick scales, just emerging from the reef’s seal-like binding, exuding a violent and savage aura.

Its cold vertical pupils instantly locked onto Si Lingle below, as insignificant as dust.

Heavenly Immortal Stage versus Daluo Golden Immortal Stage, worlds apart!

Si Lingle didn’t plan to use the Thunder Magnetic Cannon, intending to test her own strength!

The Demon Qiu didn’t even deign to roar, its massive body stirring the viscous space vast currents, the giant claw tearing through space casually, with a sort of indifferent crushing of an ant, descending upon her!

Before the claw reached, the spatial fissures left by its scaly claw had already woven into a net, preemptively enveloping, blocking all angles of evasion!

This was precisely the innate divine skill of the "Sky-breaking Demon Python"—its claws contained space-shattering power, able to disintegrate most space-based evasion techniques!

A split-second between life and death!

Si Lingle’s pupils suddenly contracted! An unprecedented sense of impending death piercing through her bones like icy needles! The might of a Daluo Golden Immortal, especially such a beast with innate spatial powers, its strength level utterly overwhelming any opponent she had faced before!

She couldn’t withstand it head-on! Any conventional space shifting was helpless before the fissures torn by its claws!

"A Step to Eternity"—ineffective!

"Space Folding Evasion"—potentially slashed by the fissure net!

She had to break convention!

At the instant the enormous claw, laden with Daluo Golden Immortal might and spatial fissures, was about to strike, Si Lingle’s dao heart, tempered through a hundred years of sitting, abruptly became clear as a mirror. Instead of retreating, she took a step forward!

This step didn’t target the safety zone beneath the claw, but directly at the convergence point of the power weaving through the spatial fissures when the Demon Qiu’s claw tore space, and the most unstable space!

The silver-gray immortal power under her feet instantly dimmed to the utmost, no longer seeking "control," but pursuing the ultimate "adaptation" and "distortion."

The space within a zhang around her, at the moment she stepped down, was like a stone cast upon the calm water surface—centered on her, it abruptly formed a violently collapsing space singularity!

No! It was like a mirror "folding inward" all external force imagery!

Boom!!!

The Demon Qiu’s world-destroying giant claw struck this "collapsing inward" bizarre space domain!

A deafeningly terrifying sound! Daluo Golden Immortal power unleashed furiously!

Yet the anticipated carnage did not occur.

The claw capable of shattering mountains struck the "mirror surface" a zhang before Si Lingle, its power and spatial fissures akin to hitting an extremely smooth, internally folded sphere!

The majority of the destructive power was directed away, tearing furiously through the surrounding "vast sand" and reefs, instantaneously reducing that area to powdered black holes.