Faced with Ian Song's threat, Selena Owens truly didn't dare to refuse outright. Her avatar had already been killed by Ian, so if he killed her now, it would be her real death—with no chance of revival.
So, after agonizing for a while, she nodded. "Fine, I agree to be your female slave."
"That's more like it! A wise person knows when to yield!"
Ian grinned and had the puppet body withdraw the sword from Selena Owens's brow.
"Give me back my Soul-Binding Rope and Sky-Lock Bead!"
Suddenly, Selena reached out, demanding those two Heaven-grade artifacts.
"Is that how you talk to your master?"
Ian looked at her with playful amusement.
"...You...!"
Selena Owens was so angry she could hardly speak, but wanting her Heaven-grade artifacts back, she forced herself to say in a low, submissive voice, "Master, could you please give me back the Soul-Binding Rope and Sky-Lock Bead?"
"What? Are you worried I'll just keep your Heaven-grade artifacts for myself?" Ian asked coldly.
Isn't that exactly what you're doing?
Selena thought to herself, but out loud she said, "I trust Master won't keep my Heaven-grade artifacts for himself!"
"Since you trust me, why bother taking them back? I'll hold onto those two Heaven-grade artifacts for now. If you behave, maybe I'll return them to you!"
"...You...!"
Selena Owens was furious—she'd never met anyone so shameless.
And now, this shameless guy was actually her master.
"Not good, run!"
Ian shouted, instantly commanding the puppet body to grab him and dash toward the entrance of the forbidden zone—because at that moment, a sense of unprecedented crisis erupted in his soul.
Selena Owens reacted quickly too, shooting after them.
Just then—
A gigantic figure formed from swirling black mist appeared in the sky above the Primordial Forbidden Zone, radiating an utterly terrifying pressure that made both Ian and Selena Owens tremble with fear deep in their hearts.
"Boom!"
Suddenly—
The mist-giant reached out its hand to grab them both.
With that grab, Ian was horrified to find that the surrounding void was frozen solid. Neither he nor the puppet body could move an inch, and Selena Owens was just as helpless.
Then—
Everything went black before their eyes as the giant hand seized them. Instantly, they lost all consciousness.
After grabbing them—
The black figure slowly faded away, and the Primordial Forbidden Zone returned to silence.
No one knew how much time passed.
Ian Song slowly woke up. His eyes darted around, and he realized he was in a bizarre space shrouded in mist.
"Hmm!"
Suddenly, he frowned, sensing his soul power slowly draining away—being absorbed by the space itself.
"There's something weird about this space!"
Ian called out softly. Then he saw Selena Owens lying not far away, still unconscious. Her soul power was draining too—much faster than his.
It was probably because his soul had undergone ten metamorphoses and was now extremely resilient, making it harder for the space to drain his soul power.
"Wake up!"
Ian channeled a strand of Chaos Immortal Force into Selena Owens's body. Stimulated by the chaos energy, she slowly opened her eyes.
Suddenly, her expression changed—she could feel her soul power vanishing at a frightening rate. At this pace, her soul would be completely wiped out in ten days at most.
So she hurriedly activated her Godhead Crystal, trying to stabilize her god-soul and stop her soul power from draining away.
But she was disappointed—no matter how much she powered her Godhead Crystal, she couldn't stop her soul power from draining.
Where is this place?
Selena Owens asked in despair. Her face was pale from the loss of soul power.
Ian shrugged. "I only woke up a little earlier than you!"
After a brief silence, Ian added, "Let's go. Let's look around this space."
This space was strange—it not only drained their soul power but also strongly suppressed their souls. Divine Sense couldn't leave their bodies at all.
In the gray, hazy space, Ian and Selena Owens walked forward slowly.
After walking about a kilometer, a corpse appeared in their field of view.
That's a Heavenly God!
Selena Owens declared, then walked over to investigate. "It's a mid-tier Heavenly God, but the soul inside is completely gone!"
At this, Selena Owens's face grew even paler. She realized that if even a mid-tier Heavenly God couldn't resist the soul-draining force of this space, what hope did she, a Lower Heavenly God, have?
Is that so?
Ian replied, then took a storage God-ring from the mid-tier Heavenly God's finger.
Because the owner was dead, the imprint inside the storage God-ring had vanished, so Ian's Divine Sense easily entered.
Haha, I'm rich!
Inside the ring were over eight thousand upper-grade god-crystals—worth more than eighty million lower-grade crystals—plus two mid-grade Heaven-grade artifacts, and several bottles of divine pills Ian couldn't identify.
Still, if a mid-tier Heavenly God kept these pills, their quality must be pretty good.
Selena Owens looked at Ian with contempt. "If you don't solve the soul power loss, what's the point of grabbing all this stuff?"
Heh, my luck is always pretty good!
Ian just laughed carelessly. "Maybe we'll be out of this hellhole soon!"
As he spoke, Ian kept moving forward.
Sure enough, they hadn't gone far before they found another corpse—this time, just a Lower Heavenly God.
Ian didn't hesitate to take the storage God-ring from its hand. Inside were more than thirty million god-crystals, plus divine pills, divine medicines, and four lower-grade Heaven-grade artifacts.
During this, Selena Owens stubbornly tried to split the space open.
But even at full power, she couldn't break open the space at all.
They kept going, and soon Ian found another corpse. Unlike the first two, this one had already decayed.
A Heavenly God's body is usually extremely tough and rarely decays.
That meant this corpse probably wasn't a Heavenly God. Sure enough, after taking its storage God-ring, Ian saw it was only worth a little over a million.
Hey, can you stop doing useless things?
Selena Owens couldn't stand watching Ian gleefully loot corpses.
Is that any way to talk to your master?
Ian glared at her.
Selena Owens snorted. "Hmph! Stop acting like my master. We're going to die here anyway. Even if I break the contract and get erased by the Heavenly Dao, it's just death either way!"
You have a point!
Ian nodded in agreement. "In that case, let's go our separate ways. Do what you want—I'm going to keep looting corpses!"
With that, Ian kept moving in a certain direction.
After a while, he noticed Selena Owens was still following him. Annoyed, he asked, "Why are you still following me?"
I do what I want! Mind your own business!
Selena Owens said proudly. But the real reason was that she thought Ian seemed so calm—he probably had a way to get out of here. That was why she kept following him.