Half-step Main God

Long Ya's throat bobbed. She raised a hand to wipe her cheek, forcing down the turmoil in her heart.

"Do you know how this sea came to be?"

Jiang Ping An shook his head. This sea was far too unusual—the fierce winds never ceased, and the water was black as poisoned ink, seemingly able to corrode even light itself. Everything about it was strange.

Long Ya gazed at the rolling darkness in the distance, her voice carrying a trace of reverence.

"You've heard of the Fifth Main God, right? He once had a mount named Nether. Its cultivation was stuck at the Half-step Main God level, only a thread away from becoming a Main God."

"Legend says Nether possessed the strongest Corrosive Power in the world. So long as something had not reached the Lord God Level, whether divine artifact or high-level deity, anything touched by its Corrosive Power would be corroded."

She paused, lowering her voice as she recounted that distant epic. "Back then, the Four Great Main Gods besieged the Fifth Main God. That battle shook heaven and earth, spreading across the entire God Realm."

"The Fifth Main God's mount, Nether, joined that Unparalleled Battle to protect its master. Though it was only a Half-step Main God, it forcibly held back the attacks of a Main God."

"But it was still only a Half-step Main God. It could not fight a true Main God."

Long Ya's fingertips tightened slightly. "In the end, Nether's body was blown apart, and fragments of its remains scattered everywhere."

"A piece of its corpse fell into this sea back then. That was why, affected by the rules it left behind, this sea became what it is now—the winds never stop, and the water carries Corrosive Power."

She looked at Jiang Ping An, her