Within the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye valley, the air seemed to have solidified into heavy amber.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's enormous single eye stared deeply at the youth before him, whose aura was as unfathomable as the sea.
His gaze was incomparably complex, carrying the pride and unwillingness of one who had roamed the oceans for nearly a million years, concern and trust for the future of his wife and daughter, and, more than anything, final relief and resolve in the face of an ordained fate.
The silence lasted only a brief instant, yet it felt as long as a century.
At last, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King slowly and solemnly nodded his mountain-like head. His deep, majestic voice carried the solemnity of a martyr as it echoed between heaven and earth:
"This king... is ready."
"Jiang Zhen, remember your promise..."
At the foot of the mountain.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's incomparably massive body suddenly erupted with a dazzling radiance beyond description!
It was a divinely radiant glow of ultimate combustion, mingling dark red, deep purple, and brilliant gold!
"Roar—!!!"
A Whale Song that seemed to come from primordial antiquity, piercing through endless time and space, suddenly rang out. It no longer possessed the depth of the ocean, but was instead filled with resolve, sacrifice, and a boundless roar of energy!
Boom!
A colossal pillar of light over a hundred meters wide, mixed with unimaginable terrifying energy and Soul Origin, erupted from within the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and shot into the sky, piercing straight through the clouds!
In an instant, the sky above the entire Sunset Forest was dyed a vast, boundless blood-gold!
It was as though the whole firmament had turned into a boiling sea of blood, then been set