Chapter 393 376: Dragon Maiden's Body Sculpting Complete, Fusing Together, Realm Skyrockets

Hun Tian and the other high-ranking members of the Soul Race had never expected Jiang Qiu to suddenly return for the kill. Caught completely off guard, they were directly sucked into Jiang Qiu's Dragon Spirit Secret Realm Space.

They truly never imagined that Jiang Qiu would dare to come back!

In their minds, Jiang Qiu had only fled because his Spirit Charm was depleted, or maybe some other energy source had run out. That, coupled with his fear of them, was why he ran.

Furthermore, after using the Space-Time Travel Secret Technique so many times within the bounds of the Soul Race Oasis City, he should have been in a weakened state. He had no reason to return.

But the situation developed beyond their expectations. He simply came back. And not only did he return, he used that move on them—the one that had wantonly slaughtered the Soul Race. It was unstoppable!

A terrifying suction, like a powerful magnet pulling in iron filings, drew them in. They were like helpless scraps, their defenses shattered as they were absorbed. In the blink of an eye, they vanished from Oasis City, reappearing in a mysterious dimension of space and time.

"Damn it all, he actually dared to come back and fight us?" After confirming the space had stabilized, Hun Tian roared in fury. "Jiang Qiu, you bastard, show yourself!"

His shout echoed into silence. Instead of a response, he sensed something was wrong. 'Why is it so cold in this dimension?'

This wasn't a physical chill, but one that pierced the very soul. It was the feeling of a mouse with a cat looming over it, of his own soul being flayed open for casual inspection.

A bizarre pressure permeated the air. Their hearts began to pound, and a tide of fear and confusion washed over them. Whirling around, they stared at the center of the dimension. There, a Dragon Maiden, already in her nascent form, sat hugging her knees with her eyes closed. An incorporeal mask hid her face, but a terrifying pressure unique to the Dragon Race billowed from her.

'Dragon Race pressure?!'

The term surfaced in their minds unbidden, shocking all of them. 'How could that be my first thought?'

To be fair, none of them had ever seen a member of the Dragon Race, but they had heard plenty of legends. Dragons were common elements in creative works, so recognizing their features was a simple matter.

Strictly speaking, it couldn't be called a mask. It was more like a Dragon Race member retaining their draconic features, which, being incompatible with a human form, gave the appearance of a mask.

It was similar to Jiang Qiu's Dragon-shaped Mask.

But this Dragon Maiden didn't just have a Dragon Form; she herself radiated the pressure of the Dragon Race. It was a pressure that came from the depths of her bloodline—the suppression exerted by the blood of an ancient, superior race over all of creation.

A bloodline from long before the previous age, second only to the Ancient Races closest to chaos. It was as if she were the progenitor of all life in the current age. How could the paltry Soul Race possibly compare?

When the pressure from the Dragon Maiden allowed them to recognize her as part of the Dragon Race, their very souls trembled. They began to cautiously fly away in the opposite direction.

"How did Jiang Qiu bring us to a place like this?" Hun Tian was drenched in sweat, his terror now eclipsing his enmity for Jiang Qiu. Survival had become his top priority. 'We have to get out of here first.'

He now understood why over a billion of his people had been annihilated in an instant. Faced with a powerful being who treated Soul Power as a mere nutritional supplement, wasn't anyone who came here just courting death?

It wasn't just his clansmen with their lower Realms. Even he, upon arriving in this dimension, felt a profound helplessness. He couldn't muster even a shred of defiance.

He could already foresee how he would be absorbed if he dared to resist.

But when he tried to use Space-Time Travel to return to his Soul Race Oasis City, there was no response. His face fell. "Impossible! Space-Time Travel is restricted here?!"

Restricting space and time was a considerably advanced technique, though not impossibly so. In fact, he could do it himself, he just rarely had a reason to.

This type of restriction was, by its very nature, a suppression of a lower level by a higher one. In other words, the deeper one's comprehension of the Space-Time Dao, the stronger their ability, and the more capable they were of suppressing others.

But he was a dignified expert at the Peak of the Fusion Realm. How could there be a Space-Time Dao capable of suppressing him?!

Of course, an existence in the Harmonization Realm could suppress him with ease. But that was the Harmonization Realm—they weren't a dime a dozen, seen as easily as spotting a common bird.

In this situation, Hun Tian was still unwilling to believe that this restrictive Space-Time Law was Jiang Qiu's doing. He preferred to believe that a mysterious and powerful dimension already existed here, and Jiang Qiu had simply stumbled upon it, binding and using Refinement to make it his own.

In fact, he was right.

And for that, he was rewarded with a melting soul.

SHWIIISH—

Once the previous members of the Soul Race were fully digested, the Dragon Maiden began on the fresh "ingredients" that had just arrived. Her body visibly matured at a rate the naked eye could perceive.

Moreover, she seemed to be subtly supplementing a unique Dao, or perhaps a racial Talent. She wasn't just absorbing nutrients; from the massive influx of homogenous nourishment, she was also extracting Talents beneficial to her own growth…

No more screams were heard. Jiang Qiu perceived that the Soul Race experts inside the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm Space were being refined to death. He then casually pulled the rest of the dregs from the Soul Race Oasis City inside as well, to help with the Refinement process.

THUMP, THUMP, THUMP…

A strange heartbeat echoed from within the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm Space, as if a powerful being was gestating, about to be born. In that dimension where yin and yang were inverted, day and night began to cycle. Intertwining light and shadow of black and white enveloped the being known as Snow.