The powerful mental power smashed directly into the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's body, but at that moment, golden light rose around him.
"Soul Skill — Nine Treasures Invincible Divine Light."
Ning Rongrong's skill completely neutralized the Sea Princess's strongest mental attack.
The Sea Princess was greatly shocked. She hurriedly pulled her daughter Liya and rapidly retreated to open up distance.
"Do you think you can escape?"
Seeing that Ning Rongrong truly able to defend for him, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King no longer held back.
Previously he had been cautious because his spirit could not withstand the strain after being injured.
Now he could go all out without worry—what was there to fear?
Quasi-god peak strength was not something a half-god could look down upon.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King immediately reverted to his original form, opened his massive serrated jaws, and fired a terrifying beam of light.
"Damn it!"
The Sea Princess hurriedly raised a protective barrier around herself.
The gap in strength caused her to be sent flying by the attack. In order to protect her daughter, she took the full brunt of it.
"Pff—"
The Sea Princess spat out a mouthful of crimson blood.
"Soul Skill — Mental Blade Slash!"
A crescent-shaped energy blade fell and slashed across the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's nearly three-hundred-meter-long body.
"Soul Skill — Nine Treasures Invincible Divine Light."
The hundreds-of-meters-long body was once again enveloped in golden light.
The golden radiance flashed and completely negated the Sea Princess's skill.
"Bastard! Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan soul master, my ice sea clan swears eternal enmity with you!"
"We were already at eternal enmity. Does Your Highness Sea Princess still harbor any illusions?" Ning Rongrong's voice was cold.
"When you decided to obey certain people's orders and attack Vast Sea City, all of this was already destined."
"The only difference is the manner in which you perish."
"Don't underestimate us!"
The Sea Princess roared in fury pulled her daughter and rapidly retreated.
Then she roared:
"Domain — Ice and Snow World!"
Besides mental attacks, Ultimate Ice was one of the ice sea clan's strongest abilities.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King excelled in the open sea and had the advantage of water, but the Sea Princess excelled at using mental attacks within ice and snow.
Sure enough, the sudden blizzard slowed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in his original form.
"Human, I want you dead!"
"You can try." Ning Rongrong replied softly to the gnashing voice opposite her. "A domain is not something only its user can borrow power from."
A faint sword hum rang out; the Sea Princess's brows knitted tightly.
She had observed the battle on this side earlier, but only in passing—she had been fighting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. If she got too distracted, she would have died.
"Not good!"
Suddenly Liya seemed to remember something and shouted, "Mother, quickly withdraw the domain! This person can borrow the power of Ultimate Ice to attack!"
"What?"
The Sea Princess was stunned. Before she could react…
"Too late."
A sudden voice sounded.
The Glazed Holy Sword glowing with white light vanished from in front of Ning Rongrong.
The next instant it appeared behind Liya.
"Shiiing—"
A streak of crimson blood surged from Liya's chest.
"Mother…"
Liya spat blood as she spoke.
The Sea Princess stared blankly as the flying sword pierced straight through Liya's body from behind. She could not believe her eyes.
"No… impossible… Liya!"
Compared to her elder sister, Liya possessed the golden blood of the mermaid clan and was supposed to be the next princess of the sea clans.
"Damn you!"
Blood flowing from Liya's chest began to freeze; in the blink of an eye her entire body was encased in ice.
Fury beyond words filled the Sea Princess's face.
"Human!"
The Sea Princess's body trembled. Five—five 100,000-year soul beasts, two of them her own daughters.
"I… I want you dead!"
The Sea Princess crossed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King at extreme speed, thrusting a white spear condensed from Ultimate Ice straight at Ning Rongrong's heart.
Yet the spear that should have pierced Ning Rongrong's chest hit nothing but air.
She had clearly seen Ning Rongrong standing there, but the spear struck empty space.
"What a pity. I'm not actually there!"
"Your Highness Sea Princess, if you cannot stay calm, you will never be able to defeat us."
As Ning Rongrong spoke, the body that had been pierced by the ice spear began to fade away.
Her voice came abruptly from within the blizzard, its source impossible to locate.
"Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, hurry up and finish this."
"We don't have much time left."
"Ah, right!" The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King snapped out of it, feeling he had been a half-beat slow.
He opened his ferocious maw and fired a terrifying soul skill beam straight at the Sea Princess.
"Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, get lost!"
The Sea Princess hurled her ice spear.
BOOM!
Fury upon fury.
In her extreme rage, the Sea Princess actually managed to block the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's skill.
"Hmph!" The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's face darkened. Though he had not used his full strength, being blocked by a half-god still made him lose face.
"Ice Sea Queen, so what if you block my attack with everything you have?"
"How long can you keep that up?"
With those words, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King condensed another beam and fired.
This time the Sea Princess did not block. Having regained her senses, she understood clearly that dragging this out against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King would only end in her defeat.
Even though both were at the level of Limit Douluo, he was a quasi-god while she was merely a half-god.
The gap was not quite dimensional, but she could not win in a direct fight.
Earlier she had been able to fight evenly because the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul and spirit were wounded and he dared not go all out, while she specialized in mental attacks.
But now that evil human soul master was using strange soul skills to block every single one of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's mental attacks for him.
To win, she had to find another way.
The Sea Princess's perception was far inferior to Ning Rongrong's and she could not sense the situation in Vast Sea City at this moment, but that did not affect her judgment.
Both daughters were dead. Revenge was now the most important thing. If she herself died too, everything would be over.
Using her Ice and Snow World domain, the Sea Princess rapidly dodged, evading the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's attacks and hiding within the blizzard, refusing to fight him head-on.
Her current goal was to stall for time—stall until Bo Saixi and Tang Chen arrived.
Then she would win.
Even within her own domain she could not detect Ning Rongrong's presence.
This shocked the Sea Princess greatly, but she had no time to care. She only needed to stall until the moment to kill her enemies appeared.
The dead were gone; the living had to take the enemies' heads to honor their spirits.
Several consecutive attacks were all dodged.
The Sea Princess did not counterattack either—she simply kept evading.
Even if the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was slow, he could guess the Sea Princess's intention.
His face turned black as the bottom of a pot. He instantly changed from his original form back into the middle-aged man and stood protectively beside Ning Rongrong.
"This woman is too slippery. Do you have a way to deal with her? If you do, use it quickly—she's waiting for Tang Chen and Bo Saixi."