In the charred giant pit, the six-colored lightning had yet to fully dissipate. Wisps of residual thunder scuttled like swimming snakes between the cracks in the void, letting out faint yet heart-palpitating crackles. The vast lotus pond had long since turned from a golden immortal realm into barren, scorched Ruins, with stinking poisonous blood and dark-green broken scales scattered across the cracked bottom of the pond, sizzling as they were seared by the intense heat.
Tang Xuanxuan stared blankly at the Green-Robed Figure kneeling on one knee in the center of the lotus pond, his whole body bathed in blood. Her lively big eyes blinked for a long while before she suddenly came back to herself. She lowered her head and looked again toward the far end of the lotus pond, at the massive creature sprawled in a pool of blood with only four heads left and its flesh and blood blurred beyond recognition. Her pink little mouth fell open, and her beautiful eyes were filled with shock.
"He won?"
"Brother Changsheng... really defeated Ao Chi?"
She murmured to herself.
Tang Shiyin's gentle, pretty face was likewise filled with disbelief and shock. She lightly covered her red lips with her fair hand, looking at the charred Ruins still giving off wisps of green smoke, then at the true body of the Nine-Headed Sea Snake that had been so insufferably arrogant moments ago and was now in an utterly wretched state. She felt as if her mind had gone completely blank.
That was Ao Chi!
One of the ten great sea-race overlords of the Southern Saint Domain, the young clan leader of the Nine-Headed Sea Snake Race, bearing a king-grade bloodline, at the peak of the Sixth-Rank Martial Venerable level—and after revealing his true body, a terrifying existence who had truly