Peerless Douluo: Blood of the Black King Nidhogg!

Chapter 159 The Land of the Dead—Nibelungen! (4K)

The black snake, its body pierced by two blades, roared in agony as it crashed violently onto the sea, spraying blood everywhere. White foam surged, creating a thousand waves.

“Yuan…” Ye Guyi came to Mo Yuan’s side and said softly, clearly not yet fully recovered from the panic.

Mo Yuan's expression changed, and he revealed a faint smile. "Don't worry, it's over."

After saying that, Mo Yuan waved his hand, and the sea surface was broken open. The huge body of the black snake flew out under the cover of dark golden light and floated in mid-air.

The black snake was not dead yet; the two swords, Severing Life and Condemning Death, merely severed the channels of its soul power, causing it to lose all its strength.

Mo Yuan's initiative was not to kill it; on the contrary, it would play a significant role in the subsequent plan.

A deathly gray light surged, and the portal to the undead demiplane opened wide. After secretly giving orders to the End Dragon and the Death Knight, Mo Yuan then took the Black Serpent into the undead demiplane.

Ye Guyi looked at everything with surprise and asked, "Yuan, was this also created by alchemy?"

“Not really. To be precise, it was given to me by an elder of mine. But alchemy can create an alternate dimension,” Mo Yuan said meaningfully as he put away the undead demiplane. “If nothing unexpected happens, you will witness it with your own eyes soon.”

Ye Guyi nodded slightly and didn't ask any more questions. In her opinion, Mo Yuan was only not speaking now because the time was not right. He would speak when the time was right.

Mo Yuan and Ye Guyi landed back on the deck of the Sunshine Thousand Miles. The sea had calmed down, but not completely.

Countless sea fish and pale red blood were floating on the sea surface, and even the fishy smell of the sea breeze could not mask the strong smell of blood.

Perhaps it's not accurate to describe them as sea fish, because the scales on these sea fish have deviated from the category of fish scales and are more like dragon scales.

Some large sea fish even show faint signs of growing dragon horns.

This is the power of dragon blood; it can enable mortal beings to achieve a leap in life, or it can be a deadly poison.

Seeing this scene, Ye Guyi, who was covering her nose and frowning slightly, couldn't help but shiver. She had heard Mo Yuan say that dragon blood was a deadly poison to ordinary living beings, but she never expected it to have such power.

Compared to dragon blood, the venom of that black snake with a cultivation level of 100,000 years was like an ordinary beverage.

With a wave of his hand, Mo Yuan conjured crimson flames out of thin air, radiating heat and billowing white mist. In the blink of an eye, the dead fish in the ocean were burned to ashes and sank to the seabed to become nutrients.

"Let's go, let's continue deeper into the icy sea."

The Sunny Miles started up again, heading towards the mysterious sea shrouded in mist in the distance.

However, the day after the Sunny Journey left the area, another strange event occurred.

Countless silver dorsal fins sliced ​​through the sea surface, darting across the water at incredible speeds. Upon closer inspection, they were none other than the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.

Looking around, there were probably around a hundred of them, and each of them was at least a thousand years old.

The power of the Demon Soul Great White Shark goes without saying; it is one of the most powerful species in the ocean, and its thousand years of cultivation is enough to rival most sea soul beasts with ten thousand years of cultivation.

Even a typical 100,000-year-old sea spirit beast would probably be unwilling to face such a terrifying group of demonic soul great white sharks.

The leader of this group of demonic great white sharks appears to be around 80,000 years old. Its white body has a beautiful streamlined shape, and it swims incredibly fast in the water.

From the perspective of the Demon Soul Great White Shark, it is undoubtedly a first-class beauty, and in terms of its position, its status in the species must also be quite high.

"Strange, surely my nose isn't deceiving me? There must be some incredibly delicious food here..."

A melodious female voice echoed across the seabed, emanating from the lead demonic great white shark.

Bai Xiuxiu, the current princess of the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, looked left and right at the bottom of the sea, but there was no other creature besides the endless seawater.

But the scent of longing that it had smelled a couple of days ago, which seemed to originate from the depths of its soul, was indeed from here, Bai Xiuxiu was quite certain of that.

After all, the great white sharks of the Demon Soul clan are known for their excellent noses; as long as blood is present in the sea, they can smell it even from hundreds of miles away.

Furthermore, this keen sense of smell will continue to grow stronger as one's cultivation level increases.

"Hey, you guys should have smelled that odor a few days ago, right? Wasn't I right?" Bai Xiuxiu, still not giving up after looking around and not finding anything unusual, asked the Demon Soul Great White Sharks beside her.

“I smell it! I smell it!”

"Your Highness is right! That aura is coming from here!"

"..."

Several nearby demonic great white sharks nodded in agreement with Bai Xiuxiu's statement, as it was indeed the truth.

"Alright, Xiuxiu, let's go home. Even if something really existed here, it's all gone now. We're too late."

Another voice rang out from the sea, filled with doting affection for Bai Xiuxiu.

The gathered demonic great white sharks began to tacitly separate to both sides, revealing a royal path like subjects.

The seawater was broken open, and a Demon Soul Great White Shark with a body size of over forty meters emerged from the deep sea. It was none other than the King of Demon Soul Great White Sharks!
“Alright, Mother…” Bai Xiuxiu was somewhat disappointed. She then rejoined the clan and returned the way she came. Before leaving, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King surfaced and looked into the depths of the icy sea, his silver eyes filled with worry.

As a powerful sea spirit beast with a cultivation of 200,000 years, its sense of smell far surpasses that of Bai Xiuxiu. It is precisely because of this that it can perceive the existence of dragon blood more clearly.

It also yearned for it intensely, even to the point of near madness, yet it also felt a deep fear and apprehension.

It wanted to get closer, yet it was also afraid.

Like a moth drawn to a flame, wanting to embrace warmth and light, but the price is being burned to ashes.

After much deliberation, it made a decision.

Don't forget, since ten thousand years ago, the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan has had a close connection with the Sea God...

……

As the sun and moon alternated, ten days passed in the blink of an eye. As they ventured deeper into the icy sea, the temperature grew increasingly frigid, even approaching the extreme cold found only in the depths of the far north.

The sea breeze at night is icy cold, and there are more and more floating ice floes on the sea surface. The seawater is no longer the main feature; icebergs and floating ice are the norm.

Moreover, as they ventured deeper into the icy sea, the strength of the sea spirit beasts began to increase exponentially. At the beginning, it was rare to see a five-thousand-year spirit beast, but now ten-thousand-year spirit beasts roam everywhere.

To be a little bolder, it's possible that a sea spirit beast, some 100,000 years old, is currently entrenched in the deep sea beneath the Sunny Horizon.

After finishing his cultivation, Ye Guyi, wrapped in a thick coat, walked out of the cabin and onto the deck, standing beside Mo Yuan as they gazed at the ever-undulating sea.

A cold wind caressed her delicate, flawless face, her golden hair falling casually to her forehead. Paired with the falling ice flowers, she resembled a snow lotus blooming atop a snow-capped mountain, pure and ethereal, like a celestial being.

A fleeting look of realization crossed Mo Yuan's eyes as he watched everything, but he quickly regained his composure.

Ye Guyi naturally noticed Mo Yuan's unusual behavior at that moment. The time they spent together day and night had included many intimate physical contacts, and thinking of this, her cheeks couldn't help but feel a little hot.

Looking at Mo Yuan's profile, she tilted her head and asked jokingly in a soft voice, "Am I handsome?" Mo Yuan pretended to ponder for a moment, then nodded and said, "When we first met, I did think you were very handsome."

So you mean I don't look good right now?

"No, no, no," Mo Yuan shook his head, "I can't get enough of watching it now."

Ye Guyi's cheeks flushed, her eyes shy, and her alluring red lips curved slightly into a perfect smile. "So good with words? Do you often use these kinds of lines to attract young girls?"

Mo Yuan laughed at this moment, then changed the subject and said, "But you can only be considered the second most good-looking now."

"Huh?!" Ye Guyi's smile froze, and she quickly asked, "Tell me, tell me, who do you think is prettier than me?"

Faced with Ye Guyi's questioning, Mo Yuan opened his mouth as if he wanted to answer. Just as Ye Guyi was getting impatient, he suddenly pointed to a piece of floating ice not far away, and his eyes flashed with amazing light.

"Look! It's the polar bear king!"

Mo Yuan then leaped out and soared through the air, landing instantly on the vast ice floe, which was as wide as an ice field. In the center of the ice floe, a huge white bear covered with ice thorns was on all fours, turning its head and looking at Mo Yuan with a bewildered expression.

Ye Guyi's forehead creased with a few black lines. She pursed her lips, utterly speechless. Then, looking at Mo Yuan wrestling with the ice bear, she suddenly chuckled softly, her smile as radiant as a flower.

"You're such a grown-up, yet you still act like a child, so immature..."

Half an hour later, this five-thousand-year-old king of the polar bears was beaten by Mo Yuan and rolled into the icy sea, disappearing from sight.

"I wonder if that old scoundrel from Jiangnan is deliberately messing with Caesar, managing to come up with such a laughable joke as a polar bear..." Mo Yuan clapped his hands, finding it somewhat amusing.

Ye Guyi arrived on the ice floe at this moment. After carefully examining the ice floe, she asked in confusion, "Yuan, is there anything special about this place?"

She believed that Mo Yuan wouldn't be so naive as to want to fight a bear just because he saw one; it was highly likely that he had discovered something he hadn't yet perceived.

However, she was wrong this time. Mo Yuan shook his head and said calmly, "There's nothing special about this place. It's just an ordinary piece of floating ice."

"Huh? What are you doing here? You didn't really just come here to beat up that so-called King of the Arctic and Bears, did you?"

"That won't happen."

Hearing this, Ye Guyi became even more puzzled. Then, Mo Yuan led her on a casual stroll on the floating ice.

Listening to the sound of the waves, after walking on the ice floes for a while, Mo Yuan returned to the center of the ice floes. Then he laughed, his tone full of profound meaning.

"As you can see, this ice floe is quite ordinary, but now that we're here, it's destined to be extraordinary."

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember what I told you not long ago after I captured the black snake?"

Ye Guyi lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized something, and abruptly raised her head, her eyes showing astonishment, "You mean you're going to use alchemy to create another dimension here?!"

Mo Yuan snapped his fingers, confirming Ye Guyi's guess. His tone became excited, and his eyes gleamed. "You're right! But to be precise, it's not another dimension. Its real name is the Land of Mist, or the Land of the Dead. Of course, you can also call it..."

"—Nibelungen!"

Ye Guyi was stunned by Mo Yuan's demeanor. "Nibelungen, the land of the dead?"

"That's right, Nibelungen doesn't belong to any dimension of this world. Within Nibelungen, there is dead matter everywhere. There is no day or night there, and a dim light always floats in the sky."

The ground and mountains were bronze-colored, composed of dead metal and earth; the sky was gray, the air of death; the flames were blue, made of dead fire element; water could not float anything, for water itself was dead; the fifth element, 'spirit,' was concentrated within, capable of forging the legendary 'Philosopher's Stone.'

Ye Guyi remained silent, her eyes filled with indescribable shock. She could no longer understand or imagine what a wondrous existence the Nibelungen was.

She said softly, her tone complicated, "Yuan, are you already capable of creating such miracles?"

"Of course, after all, I am the Dragon King."

Mo Yuan smiled. The reason he had been spending his time either vacationing on the beach or traveling by boat was to learn alchemy, with the aim of creating his own Nibelungen.

After all, he is now the Dragon King and should have his own kingdom. As for why the Ice Sea is the reason, it is because, according to the original Dragon Raja, the Black King Nidhogg was born in the Ice Sea. Since he didn't know which one to choose, he might as well choose the Ice Sea as well.

And that black snake naturally had its use, which was—to serve as a dragon attendant.

A cold wind swept past, dislodging the ice and sand from the floating ice, revealing the smooth, mirror-like ice surface below. The next moment, in the reflection of the ice, a pair of ancient, solemn, profound, and noble golden eyes appeared.

With a wave of his hand, Mo Yuan caused countless golden particles of light to undulate in the air, then rapidly extend and connect to form an innumerable alchemical matrix, causing the floating ice to tremble and the waves to roll.

A thick gray fog quietly spread outwards, enveloping Mo Yuan and Ye Guyi, and then continued to expand outwards, as if trying to devour the entire world within it.

……

……

"Quick! Quick!"

"Faster!"

The pitch-black sea was violently ripped open by an ironclad ship bearing the word 'scientific research' on its surface. The blue soul-guided protective shield crashed through the waves that were coming from the front, some several meters high. Thunder roared, lightning ripped through the night sky, and the pale white electric light illuminated the blood-stained deck.

The young man, dressed in the Mingdetang uniform, gripped the railing with difficulty and shouted anxiously towards the teacher leading the group in the distance.

"Teacher, what do we do now?! If we go any deeper, we'll be in the depths of the icy sea! Even without these beasts behind us, we're doomed!"

Professor Ma, the teacher leading the Mingdetang team on this overseas scientific research trip, pursed his dry, cracked lips and looked solemnly into the darkness behind him.

Under the blinding flash of lightning, hundreds of enormous white dorsal fins could be seen breaking through the waves.

This is a group of demonic great white sharks! They are also the culprits that led them to the depths of the icy sea!
A week ago, he was leading a scientific expedition team of ten people out to sea to test a new type of marine soul tool. In theory, as long as they didn't go too deep, his strength as a top-tier Soul Douluo should have been sufficient. But who would have thought that they would encounter this group of demonic soul great white sharks after only two hundred miles out to sea!
So what if they encountered them? At worst, they would just die. But he never expected that after the group of demonic great white sharks discovered them, they would not attack them but would just follow them.

He initially thought he had escaped unscathed by sheer luck, but just as they were about to turn and leave, the group of demonic great white sharks launched an attack!

He didn't kill them all; after killing a third of them, he stopped. What could he do? He could only continue to order them to go deeper into the icy sea.

After several experiments, he discovered a clue: whenever they turned around or deviated from their course, the group of demonic great white sharks would launch an attack.

It's obvious they want them to follow a predetermined route.

After a week, they reached the depths of the icy sea, and almost everyone was dead.

Thinking of this, Old Ma felt a surge of frustration. He gritted his teeth and wanted to order the ship to stop and fight the Demon Soul Great White Shark, since the worst that could happen was death.

Just as he was about to give the order, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the direction of the deck ahead.

"Teacher, look! There's an ice field ahead!"

(End of this chapter)