Sea Princess

"Good!"

"I'll remember that!"

The Demon Empress's voice brimmed with joy. No one would mind having two more divine artifacts on them.

Di Tian gave a few more instructions regarding Zi Ji and Bi Ji, then left the Forging Masters Association's headquarters alongside Xue Ling.

The two made their way to the outskirts of Heaven Dou City. Though they were said to be walking, it was more like stepping through space, each step covering dozens of zhang. Their "walk" to the outskirts was not slow.

But all meetings must end in parting.

Xue Ling watched Di Tian's departing back, watched him wave goodbye to her, and muttered under her breath:

"Just waving without even saying goodbye. Anyone who didn't know better would think you were so carefree."

Gathering her melancholy thoughts, she turned to look north. Her vivid sky-blue eyes shimmered with spiritual light, filled with homesickness.

She had been away from the Far North Land for nearly a year. Compared to her age, it was an extremely short time, yet it was also the longest she had ever been away from the Far North Land.

After all, that was the place that had nurtured her. No matter what, she would always feel attached to it.

"Roar, roar~"

"Far North, I'm back!"

Her steps northward gradually became more exuberant. Now that she possessed Four-Word Battle Armor and a God-level Mecha and had become a Mecha Battle Maiden, she felt as though she were returning home in glory, laden with honors.

At the same time, she was immensely delighted that she now had the ability to hold up the sky over the Far North Land.

While Xue Ling was still swiftly making her way toward the Far North Land, Di Tian had already relied on his supreme spatial abilities to choose the nearest sea region and plunge headlong into the ocean.

Though the pressure of the sea was immense, it posed no obstacle to Di Tian. He did not even need to raise his Soul Power; his Dragon King's Aura alone was enough to keep his body from coming into contact with the seawater.

As he sank deeper, the surrounding seawater grew increasingly dark.

The Sea Soul Beasts swimming around him deliberately avoided Di Tian. Most of them fled in the same direction like startled birds.

Di Tian did not restrain his peerless aura. Instead, it gradually intensified as he descended.

That was why Di Tian had chosen to slowly sink rather than open a Space Channel directly into the deep sea.

He had come as a conqueror. He wanted every existing Sea Soul Beast race to know that Di Tian had arrived!

The moment he entered the deep-sea region, the water pressure surged sharply.

This was the paradise of Sea Soul Beasts over ten thousand years old, a forbidden zone for human life, even more so than the Far North Land.

Within Di Tian's Divine Sense, dense Spiritual Power spread over the entire Deep Sea Domain like a heavenly net.

The owner of that net-like Spiritual Power was naturally the Sea Princess, known as the foremost in Spiritual Power among the ocean, the leader of the merfolk clan, and the leader of the Neutral Faction among Sea Soul Beasts.

Only she could keep her Spiritual Power spread over the entire Deep Sea Domain all year round.

At once, from a point of light in the deepest part of the Deep Sea Domain came the Sea Princess's voice.

"It has been tens of thousands of years since the Beast God personally entered the sea. The last time I sensed your aura was ten thousand years ago, when the one about to ascend to godhood arrived carrying your True Dragon's Reverse Scale."

With a single thought, her spirit arrived in an instant.

A beautiful woman wearing palace attire on her upper body appeared. She wore a gleaming golden crown, and even the scales on her mermaid tail were golden, all symbols of her status as a member of the Merfolk Royal Family.

"After tens of thousands of years apart, I have made some slight progress. I hope the Beast God will offer me a little guidance."

As soon as she finished speaking, the Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores within the Sea Princess began to spin madly, manifesting the vast and boundless intent of Yin-Yang Vastness.

This was considered a tradition among soul beasts. After all, fists were the first language of the soul beast world. Only after fighting would they communicate, with the victor holding absolute dominance and the weak rarely having a place to speak.

Throughout the long years, Di Tian had fought soul beasts across the world. It was the same when the original Douluo Continent collided with the Sun Moon Continent: the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, the strongest soul beast of the Sun Moon Continent, had challenged Beast God Di Tian, the strongest of the original Douluo Continent. All of it continued and upheld this tradition.

Now that Di Tian had come to unify the Sea Soul Beast race, he naturally had to follow this tradition. Besides, he was more than willing to do so.

Fists might not be the best solution to problems, but they were the fastest way to solve them.

What was more, tens of thousands of years ago, he had once fought the Sea Princess above the sea and emerged victorious. Now that she had challenged him again, how could he retreat?

"Good!"

In an instant, Di Tian's aura soared. A vast, ancient aura like a desolate continent circulated around him as he stepped soundlessly through the sea.

Yet the Sea Princess could clearly feel that every one of Di Tian's steps was immensely heavy, as if a small island were crashing toward her.

The Sea Princess frowned slightly. It seemed that not only had she improved, but Di Tian's advancement was also considerable, far beyond what it had been back then.

However, she was unafraid. Having condensed the Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores and broken through seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, she was confident that even a divine envoy would not dare claim certain victory in the depths of this endless sea.

With a sweep of her slender arm, the surrounding seawater instantly twisted and pressed toward Di Tian, as though the entire ocean were a weapon she could wield at will.

It was not only the seawater, but also the endless Spiritual Power. Taking the seawater as its form, it transformed into tangible weapons and fiercely struck at Di Tian.

At the Sea Princess's level of cultivation, every move and casual strike was supremely powerful.

For a time, a vast Spiritual Power storm and underwater tornadoes rose around Di Tian, disrupting both aura and vision.

Even the Sea Princess, who had launched the attack, could not use sight or Spiritual Power to probe the situation within the storm, where the auras had become utterly chaotic.

But there was one thing she knew clearly: she could not allow even the slightest pause in her attacks, nor could she give Di Tian any opening to seek an opportunity.

Because she knew that Di Tian's profound accumulation of experience was beyond anything she could compare with. A tiny gap on her part, not even enough to count as a mistake, might be an opportunity for a killing blow in his eyes.

The Sea Princess's eyes lit up, turning a crystalline sea blue. That sea blue was even deeper and more azure than the true ocean, and rings of blue ripples spread out from her eyes.

"Drip, drip..."

Tears fell. A stream of clear tears flowed without end, each teardrop emitting a faint golden glow.

Merfolk Tears were also the most precious pearls in the world, and the Sea Princess's Mermaid Tears were the most precious of all. They contained the purest spiritual energy. If a thousand-year soul beast obtained one, it could awaken its Divine Sense early and raise its cultivation progress to the level of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

And the Mermaid Tears personally controlled by the Sea Princess were the most powerful Spiritual Power weapons in the world.

Golden tears, sharp as golden shuttles, turned into golden streaks that filled the Deep Sea Domain. They erupted from every direction and shot into the oceanic Spiritual Power storm where Di Tian stood.

Moreover, the points from which they fired were evenly distributed. There was absolutely no possibility of Di Tian evading them because she could not clearly see what was happening inside.

While the battle here raged fiercely, more and more Sea Soul Beasts gathered nearby.

"Princess, do you think His Majesty will win?"