This change steadied Claudia’s heart. She sneered, “Struggling is futile. To have fought me until now, you’re impressive enough.”
The giant tiger remained silent. Its breath was unstable, and it could not even speak to sustain the blood-colored vortex.
The rotation speed of the blood-colored vortex visibly slowed down.
The cracks on the surface of the cubic ice prison had disappeared, and the powerful cold air inside began to erode the blood-colored vortex.
“Break!” A fierce light flashed in Claudia’s eyes as her withered hands suddenly clasped together.
The blood-colored vortex inside the cubic ice prison shattered instantly under the invasion of the cold air.
At the same time, the giant tiger let out a painful howl, and a mouthful of fresh blood spurted from its mouth.
The once powerful aura of the giant tiger had weakened considerably.
Claudia did not give the giant tiger any chance to catch its breath. She waved her cane, sending a massive ice blade slashing towards the giant tiger.
The giant tiger tried to dodge, but the ice blade was too fast. In its current weakened state, it could not evade.
With a “pfft” sound, the giant tiger’s limbs were severed by the ice blade.
The severed limbs fell into the seawater with several splashes.
“Old witch, let’s die together!” The giant tiger roared in despair and hatred.
Even without its limbs, the giant tiger charged at Claudia, its body rapidly swelling.
In the distance, Leo’s face showed horror as he witnessed this scene.
He knew what the giant tiger intended to do.
Leo stepped on his Dragon Sword, changing direction and fleeing desperately.
The giant tiger was about to self-destruct, and he did not want to be caught in the blast.
Seeing the charging giant tiger, Claudia’s pupils contracted.
Claudia did not retreat. Instead, she extended her left hand and grabbed at the limbless giant tiger from a distance.
With a “crack,” the space around the giant tiger seemed to freeze momentarily. The powerful ice force tried to invade the giant tiger’s body to prevent it from self-destructing.
“Old witch, you can’t stop me. Let’s die together!” The giant tiger howled madly.
Claudia could not stop the giant tiger’s rapid expansion. In the end, she had to flash backward, attempting to escape.
At that moment, the giant tiger exploded.
The explosion was like a nuclear bomb going off on the surface of the West Sea.
From a high altitude, one would see a massive depression in the sea where the giant tiger exploded.
The unfortunate fish and creatures in the deep sea below the explosion point were almost all pulverized.
After the depressed sea surface closed up, it sent out huge waves.
The waves first blocked out the sky and then turned into seawater that fell back down.
Although Claudia dodged before the explosion, she was still affected by its terrifying power due to insufficient distance.
Blood trickled from her mouth as she stood shakily in mid-air.
After stabilizing her breath with great effort, Claudia looked down at the sea below and released her divine sense.
Her divine sense penetrated the deep sea and quickly captured a fist-sized fiery red light cluster moving rapidly underwater, trying to leave silently.
This fiery red light cluster was not some peculiar marine creature but Inferno Tiger’s primordial spirit.
Claudia sneered, “I knew you wouldn’t destroy your primordial spirit. Still trying to play tricks on me?”
Claudia extended her left hand and grabbed at the fiery red light cluster from a distance.
The fiery red light cluster was immediately confined by an invisible force, then rapidly floated up and broke through the water’s surface into Claudia’s hand.
The fiery red light cluster trembled in Claudia’s hand, and Inferno Tiger’s terrified voice sounded, “Old witch, don’t go too far. Do you know I am of Inferno Tiger royal bloodline?”
“If you dare destroy my primordial spirit, my Inferno Tiger clan will raze your Frostwhisper Clan!”
A mocking smile appeared on Claudia’s wrinkled face as she sneered, “Raze my Frostwhisper Clan? I look forward to that day. But you will never see it.”
With that, icy spiritual power surged from Claudia’s palm, freezing Inferno Tiger’s primordial spirit instantly.
Finally, with a squeeze of her left hand, Inferno Tiger’s primordial spirit shattered into pieces in her palm.
Thus, Claudia personally killed the powerful Inferno Tiger.
Claudia’s face turned pale. Killing Inferno Tiger had taken a great toll on her.
After scattering Inferno Tiger’s primordial spirit fragments into the sea, Claudia squinted her deep-set eyes and looked in one direction.
It was the direction Leo had fled.
Meanwhile, Leo had stopped after running for some time. The residual shockwave from Inferno Tiger’s self-destruction had injured him slightly, like a heavy hammer striking his back.
After catching his breath briefly, Leo hesitated. He wanted to go back and see if the old woman had perished in Inferno Tiger’s self-destruction.
If she survived, it would be troublesome.
Not only was he no match for her, but no one on Earth could be her opponent either.
Just as Leo turned back towards the spatial rift area, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He felt an extreme cold invading his body as if he had been teleported from Africa to the Arctic in an instant.
A white figure appeared in mid-air not far ahead of Leo.
It was none other than Claudia!
After a brief moment of fear, Leo cupped his hands towards Claudia. “Ma’ma…”
“You were secretly watching just now. I didn’t expect there to be a Cultivator in this mortal world.” Claudia frowned. “No, you’re only half a Cultivator. You have only half of a cultivation bloodline.”
Leo tensed up. In front of this old woman, he felt as if everything about him was laid bare.
What she referred to as half a cultivation bloodline meant that Leo was originally a mortal. He became a Cultivator because WONDER injected him with that mysterious liquid.
WONDER explained that he had genes of cultivators and that injecting him with that mysterious liquid merely activated those genes.
As for the cultivation techniques that spontaneously appeared in his mind after activating his immortal root genes, WONDER could not provide a reasonable explanation.
In the face of absolute power, any small tricks or schemes were useless. So Leo could only lower his stance and speak honestly. “It was my offense. I was attracted by sudden tsunamis and energy fluctuations and came here.”
Leo was not worried about being killed because Cultivators generally did not kill indiscriminately.
What he feared most was losing his Nine-Petal Ice-Soul Lotus, a rare spiritual item nurtured by heaven and earth.