Peking Opera Cat: I Became A Zi's Brother

"boom……"

When the dead silence of the abyss was broken by the sound of a beating heart, Mo Yun's consciousness was emerging from the depths of the icy sea.

"..."

At the last moment of the seventh day, the frost on his eyelashes suddenly burst - not melted, but shattered by the ice-blue light exploding in his pupils.

That light was not the leaked rhythmic power, but the coldness that seeped out from the cracks in his bones, and the sparks from the collision of ice crystals and blood when the rhythmic core was reshaped. The moment the two beams of light pierced the void, the chaotic airflow of the entire abyss was frozen into motionless rime.

"Hmph, this last thing..."

He could sense the chains before he even opened his eyes. Their dark black bodies were embedded deep within the frozen earth, their runes radiating the final pressure of the system. Seven main chains pierced his shoulder bones, scapula, ankles, and heart, their ends sinking into the martial arts field barrier at the bottom of the abyss, clinging to the core of this imprisoned place like roots.

The last time the rhyme core was shattered, these chains had greedily sucked in his remaining breath, but now they were trembling slightly, as if they had a premonition of something.

Mo Yun's fingertips moved.

It is not a temptation to awaken, but the beginning of some kind of transformation.

His knuckles were quickly covered with ice-blue scales, his nails turned into translucent ice claws, and dragon patterns were moving under his skin, as if some huge monster was trying to break out of this body.

A "crackling" sound came from deep within his bones. It was the sound of his spine stretching and his ribs expanding outward. His body expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye. The permafrost cracked under him, and the ice crystal bed exploded inch by inch, but at the moment of splashing, it was condensed into icy mist by a stronger chill.

"Roar--!"

When a dragon roar rolled out from the depths of his throat, Mo Yun's outline had already become blurred.

An ice-blue light enveloped his body as it climbed upwards. The runes on the chains began to flash wildly, and the system's confinement instructions materialized in the roar. Countless black runes surged towards him like a tide, trying to nail down this transforming body again.

But it's too late.

The moment the light faded, an ice dragon suddenly appeared in the abyss.

The hundred-meter-long body is covered with diamond-shaped ice scales, each of which reflects a cold light that is enough to blind the soul. The dragon's horns are like swords carved from ice crystals, and the dragon's whiskers are covered with frost that can freeze time.

The most terrifying thing was those eyes. They were no longer human pupils, but two swirling ice vortices, reflecting the red light of the martial arts field, as if examining a toy that was about to be crushed.

And those chains were now firmly embedded in his dragon body.

The chain that pierced the scapula was stretched straight, and the barbs hooked into the icy scales, but could not draw out even a trace of blood - under the ice dragon's scales was a nothingness colder than the abyss.

The Ice Dragon lowered his head and glanced at the thickest main lock on his chest.

The next second, he moved.

It wasn't a tail swing, but a sudden twist of its entire body. The ice dragon's movements carried the gentle power of water, yet erupted with the brutality of ice. Its hundred-meter-long body lashed into the air like a giant whip, then violently rebounded. The seven chains were instantly stretched to their limit, and the chained body let out a dying wail.

The system runes moved frantically on the chain, trying to reinforce it, but they froze and shattered the moment they came into contact with the ice dragon's body temperature.

"boom--!!!"

The first explosion came from the ankle chain.

The ice dragon's hind claws kicked fiercely into the abyss, not at the chain, but using the reaction force to make the dragon's body tremble violently. The runes on the chain were instantly shattered into powder, and the chain broke into pieces under the friction of the dragon's scales. What spurted out of the broken parts was not spiritual power, but cold air that could freeze the space.

Next is the chain of the scapula.

The ice dragon suddenly raised its head, bent its neck into an incredible arc, and then suddenly rushed backwards - not with its head, but with the hardest scales in the middle of its body.

The scales stood up instantly before the impact and turned into countless ice cones. The moment the chain collided with them, it was like hitting a glacier that had not melted for billions of years. With a "crack", the dark chain body was pierced and shattered by the ice cones. The fragments were frozen into suspended ice particles by the dragon's breath as soon as they flew out.

The most important thing is the main lock on the chest.

This chain is connected to the core barrier of the martial arts arena. At this moment, it is frantically drawing water vapor from the abyss to strengthen itself. The chain body has begun to ooze black mucus, as if it wants to merge with the body of the ice dragon.

The ice dragon let out a roar that shook the abyss.

This time, he did not impact, but let the chain tighten—then, an extreme chill suddenly erupted from the dragon's body.

Starting from the heart, the ice-blue cold air spread wildly along the chains. It did not freeze the chains, but eroded the barrier in the opposite direction along the chains.

The red light of the martial arts field was defeated by the ice-blue force, and ice flowers quickly formed on the surface of the barrier. The power that originally imprisoned Mo Yun now became a channel for him to transmit cold air.

"break!"

The ice dragon opened its mouth, but what came out was not dragon breath, but the voice of Mo Yunben the cat, with the texture of ice chips, echoing in the dragon's throat.

He swung his long tail violently, not crashing into the chains, but sweeping across the entire abyss.

The tip of the ice dragon's tail condensed with immense power. Wherever it swept, ripples appeared in the air. The main lock connected to the barrier happened to be in the trajectory of the tail tip.

"boom--!!!"

The moment the chain exploded, the barrier of the martial arts field also shattered.

It was not broken by external force, but was frozen from the inside by the cold air that the ice dragon poured back through the chains.

The red light curtain spread out with countless cracks like a spider web, and then the entire barrier turned into a rain of ice crystals, falling down.

The ice dragon's long tail penetrated the broken barrier, and the cold air it brought out instantly froze half of the abyss, revealing the world outside that had already been thrown into chaos due to the system's out-of-control.

The ice dragon hung in the air, the ice mist on its scales gradually dissipated, its body began to shrink, and finally turned back into Mo Yun's cat form.

He stood barefoot on the shattered ice crystals. The wound on his heart where the chain had pierced it had healed, leaving only an ice-blue dragon pattern that rose and fell with his breathing.

The wind from the abyss blew again, this time, it no longer carried the smell of water, but was wrapped in his own breath - the breath of ice and freedom.

He raised his eyes to look at the chaotic world outside the barrier, and with a slight movement of his fingertips, an ice crystal condensed and spun in his palm.

"The system can't trap me,"

He spoke softly, his voice carrying the residual power of the ice dragon's roar.

"This abyss cannot be retained."

Ice chips swirled and fell in the abyss, and the fragments of the martial arts field's barrier glowed with a cold light. Just as Mo Yun stood firm, he heard the sound of bones rolling over frozen soil behind him.

"Roar……"

The Chaos Beast's consciousness emerged from the darkness, and countless pairs of eyes were wrapped in gray-black mist, staring at him intently.

Three days ago, this body was still bleeding under the chains, and its spiritual core was shattered into stardust. But now, there was ice-blue spiritual power flowing under the skin, and even the chaotic air currents around it were frozen into motionless ice needles.

"Your consciousness... is frozen?"

The sound of the Chaos Beast was like gravel scraping across ice, with an incredible vibration.

It has seen too many beings swallowed by this abyss, including those who thought they could defy fate, but in the end they all became nutrients in its fog.

Mo Yun didn't look back. He crushed a falling ice crystal with his fingertips, and the fragments condensed into tiny ice flowers in his palm.

"You actually broke this cage?"

The Chaos Beast's mist suddenly exploded, and the gray-black color surged like boiling mud.

"This place is built with the cold air from the cracks, it can even freeze time. How can you—"

"Because you don't understand 'vitality'."

Mo Yun turned around, and there was no trace of mist in her ice-blue eyes, only an indifference that could freeze the soul.

"You are like the runes carved into the chains. You always think that dead things can bind living things."

The mist of the Chaos Beast trembled violently, and countless eyes burned scarlet:

"How dare you! You think you'll win just by breaking a few chains? This abyss is built with the remnants of our souls. Why don't you take a step forward and try?"

Mo Yun raised her hand, her fingertips slicing through the air. The chaotic air currents at the edge of the abyss suddenly condensed, transforming into an icy ladder. The ice spikes on the steps shone with a sharp light, leading straight to the breach in the barrier—where the red light from the ice dragon's impact still lingered, like a stain of wet blood.

"Where are you going?"

For the first time, the Chaos Beast's voice was filled with panic. It screamed in the mist and rushed over, but was frozen into an ice sculpture by the invisible cold air three feet away from Mo Yun.

"Outside is a turbulent current torn apart by the rift! Those guys guarding the border have been waiting to take advantage of it. If you get out, you will—"

"It's better than rotting here."

Mo Yun stepped onto the ice ladder, the ice spikes making crisp sounds under his feet. He turned his head and his icy blue eyes swept across the frozen Chaos Beast.

"Besides, killing you now would dirty my ice."

The Chaos Beast suddenly stopped.

It suddenly saw clearly that Mo Yun in front of it was different from the young man covered in thorns.

His indifference was not fake, he really treated it as broken ice on the roadside - when the ice was broken just now, if he wanted, the cold air flowing along the chain could freeze its consciousness into a lump of ice that would never melt.

"you……"

The Chaos Beast wanted to say something, but saw that Mo Yun had already reached the top of the ice ladder.

He raised his hand and pressed on the red light in the gap of the barrier. The remaining traces of light instantly turned into icy mist, revealing the gray sky outside.

The wind carried the fishy smell from the cracks and blew the ice chips on the ends of his hair.

"Stay here,"

Mo Yun took one last look at the swirling mist in the abyss, and said in a voice as light as frozen water, "Or, wait until those rune carvers remember there's a 'waste' here and come and scrape you clean."

As he finished speaking, he had already stepped out of the barrier.

The ice ladder melted away behind him bit by bit, and the Chaos Beast's roar was muffled by the darkness that closed in again.

Mo Yun stood outside the gap, looking at the sky polluted by the cracks, and the ice-blue power in his palm gradually rose.

Some invisible fluctuations came from afar, as if something began to wake up after sensing "abnormality", and the laws and patterns in the air were quietly tightening.

Mo Yun raised his eyebrows slightly, and the roar of the ice dragon in his body resonated faintly.

He wanted to see what else in this world could stop him.

"I'm back!"