Tang San's eyes flashed with ferocity when his trident was recognized. Without wasting words, he gripped the trident and casually swept it out.
The sea beneath Nan Liujing and Leng Yaozhu's feet began to whirl in an instant. A terrifying suction force surged from within, as if trying to drag them down into it.
Without the slightest hesitation, Leng Yaozhu grabbed Nan Liujing. Blazing white phoenix wings of incomparable brilliance unfurled from the shoulders of her battle armor, and she immediately shot into the sky, attempting to find an opportunity to escape.
" Tang San" calmly watched the two figures in the air, raised the trident in his hand toward the sky, and softly said, "Forbidden!"
A rippling distortion, like reflected flowers and moonlit water, spread across the sky. As the Sea God, Tang San could forbid any opponent below his level from flying above the sea.
Leng Yaozhu immediately felt a mountain-heavy pressure crash down upon her. Even with the cultivation of a Limit Douluo, she could no longer fly.
The suction force surging from the sea instantly dragged the two of them in, and endless splashes pounded against their bodies.
The True Phoenix Fire burning around Leng Yaozhu visibly extinguished at a rapid rate. This was a sea controlled by the Sea God. Unless one was a god-level powerhouse, breaking free of its restraints was simply impossible.
"If you don't want the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and your treasure destroyed, stop."
Leng Yaozhu took the pressure and the sea's suction force upon herself. Her entire body trembled violently, and Nan Liujing saw it all. His voice was incomparably low.
Don't you, Tang San, want the treasure? Then come take it yourself.
"You truly have some special treas... evil object on you. Otherwise, you wouldn't know about the Golden Dragon King Bloodline." "Tang San's" gaze shifted slightly, and his Divine Sense locked onto Nan Liujing. "Do not try to play tricks with me. Otherwise, even if I have to lose these things, I'll make you taste the pain of never being able to reincarnate."
Nan Liujing held the unconscious Leng Yaozhu and looked directly at Tang San. "Could it be that you, a god-level powerhouse who has surpassed a Limit Douluo, are afraid I might kill you instead?"
"Sharp-tongued!" "Tang San" snorted coldly and casually waved his hand. The unconscious Leng Yaozhu rose from the depths of the sea and floated upon the surface.
Layer upon layer of chains formed from ocean waves wrapped around Nan Liujing's body, and the power of the sea pushed him before Tang San.
"Take it out yourself," Tang San said indifferently. The reason he had not immediately killed him was that he feared the man's death would destroy the treasure, along with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline. After all, his current power was only a strand of Spiritual Sense, not his true body.
"The treasure that took the Golden Dragon King Bloodline is parasitic in my Sea of Spirit. It can't be taken out. You can only take it yourself." Nan Liujing remained calm. He was gambling—gambling that the Heavenly Tribulation Bead, which had already acknowledged him as its master, would unleash god-level power to salvage the situation.
As for failure, he had never considered it.
Tang San frowned upon hearing this. Feeling the loss of his Spiritual Sense power, he did not dare waste time. A strand of Divine Sense burrowed into Nan Liujing's Sea of Spirit. He wanted to see exactly what this evil object was that could ignore the seal of his twin divine powers and forcibly seize the Golden Dragon King's bloodline.
Nan Liujing's consciousness gradually blurred, but just then, a pleasant laugh suddenly rang out beside his ear.
"You've gotten yourself into quite a bit of trouble. As a senior, I'll reluctantly help you out!"
Silently, Nan Liujing's dark blue pupils turned blue-gold. At the same time, ignoring the restraints of the seawater chains, he fiercely swung one hand forward.
Tang San, who was controlling his Divine Sense, did not have time to react at all.
Slap! The crisp, resounding sound of a slap echoed across the silent sea.
Tang San's head was smacked to one side by that force. The burning pain left him completely stunned.
"What did you do?" A second later, savage features appeared on the Water Element figure's face for the first time.
A trace of mockery appeared in Nan Liujing's blue-gold eyes. The chains of waves around him inexplicably fell away and even coiled back toward Tang San instead.
"Something's wrong."
Feeling the Water Element's power gradually resisting him, the savagery on Tang San's face instantly turned to alarm. His body was wrapped in surging seawater, and he retreated several thousand meters in the blink of an eye.
Just as he had attached his Spiritual Sense to Tang Wulin, another strand of Spiritual Sense had attached itself to Nan Liujing's body.
Tang San fled, and Nan Liujing chuckled. A pleasant female voice came from his mouth. "I never would have imagined that, besides me, someone else in the universe could cultivate the position of Sea God to the level of a God King."
"But though we are both Sea Gods, your divine position was not condensed by yourself. Other than an increase in cultivation, your comprehension of authority over the sea has practically stagnated. My authority surpasses yours!"
As her words fell, Nan Liujing grabbed through the air. The boundless sea below rapidly gathered before Tang San's horrified eyes, quickly transforming into a longbow flowing with blue-gold radiance.
"Divine Wrath, Bow of Will!"
Nan Liujing drew tight the bowstring formed from the sea. Vast blue-gold brilliance surged forth and condensed into a deep, shadowy arrow that seemed to contain the sea's most primordial will.
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, he fired. At that moment, the sky was dyed blue-gold. Heaven and sea seemed to merge as one, while the entire ocean boiled madly and raised endless colossal waves.
"I've actually become the sea's enemy?"
Feeling the overwhelming hostility rushing toward him, Tang San was deeply shocked. This sea had been formed with the energy of the Heaven Dou River and should have been under his control, yet it now regarded him as an enemy.
Whether he could defeat it or not, he absolutely could not let his Spiritual Sense be exhausted here.
Tang San gripped the Sea God's Trident as dazzling blue-gold light bloomed around him. The Spiritual Sense energy left within Tang Wulin's body poured out madly, quickly wrapping him into a cocoon of light that contained astonishing spatial law power.
As the arrow bearing the sea's will descended, the spatial coordinates inside the cocoon immediately shifted, and Tang San vanished entirely.
The arrow of will passed through the cocoon, but no corresponding figure appeared.
"The sound of a spatial imprint shattering." Nan Liujing frowned. The next moment, a valiant and striking figure separated from his body.
She looked around thirty years old, with a peerlessly beautiful face and a gentle, approachable temperament, like the tender older sister next door. Her skin resembled seawater under moonlight, carrying a faint pearly sheen. Delicate and smooth, it seemed able to reflect the ocean's depth and mystery.
Her long dark-blue hair fell casually behind her back, occasional glimmers flickering among the strands like scattered sea foam under starlight. Her armor was covered in marks, as though she had experienced countless bloody battles, lending a hint of iron-blooded severity to her gentle aura.
"Hey, wake up." Xia Mi lightly patted Nan Liujing's back.
Nan Liujing instinctively opened his eyes, his gaze full of vigilance, but Tang San was nowhere to be seen.
I won the gamble!
Xia Mi said calmly, "That person has already run away."
The tension in Nan Liujing's heart finally eased. He respectfully guessed, "Are you one of the former masters of the Heavenly Tribulation Bead, Senior?"
"You're clever, but don't call me Senior. Call me Sister. My surname is Xia." Xia Mi broke into a smile and, without caring whether Nan Liujing was willing, reached out and pinched his face.
Nan Liujing was helplessly made to experience what Na'er often went through when he kneaded her cheeks.
Xia Mi was quickly satisfied and said with a smile, "You were lucky. A god-level powerhouse targeted you, so the others and I could intervene to help you settle it. If it had been a non-god-level powerhouse, your one chance to save your life would have been wasted."
Feeling as though every bone in his body had been shattered, Nan Liujing inwardly complained, So does that mean I should be grateful that Tang San himself came to attack me?
No, wait—the others?
That meant that, aside from this former master of the Heavenly Tribulation Bead whose number he did not know, the other seniors could help as well. Could they be hiding inside the Heavenly Tribulation Bead too?
Seeing the meaning in Nan Liujing's expression, Xia Mi explained, "With the Heavenly Tribulation Bead, all of us climbed step by step from the very bottom to the peak. So, beginning with the first eldest brother, we left behind a tradition: anyone who had received the Heavenly Tribulation Bead's help had to leave behind a strand of Spiritual Sense in it from the day they became a god, to support the future masters of the Heavenly Tribulation Bead."
"But eldest brother thought it wouldn't be good for us to help at every turn, so he established some rules. In any case, it's rather troublesome, so I won't explain the details."
Thunder God had never mentioned this to him. For a moment, Nan Liujing did not know whether he should feel fortunate about his luck, but as he thought about it, he sighed inwardly.
Tang San's escape had become a Sword of Damocles hanging over his head.
He had thought drawing in the Golden Dragon King Bloodline was a good thing, but he had not expected it to nearly get himself killed, and nearly get... Nan Liujing blinked.
Oh no, that powerhouse whose legs were longer than her life was still lying in the sea.
Just as he was about to ask Xia Mi for help, the world suddenly spun. The so-called sea surface had long since vanished, leaving only an empty plaza. Soul-guided lamps along the roadside emitted soft light, and everything seemed like a dream.
Xia Mi had also disappeared, but her voice still sounded in his mind. "Seizing that guy's authority took quite a toll on me. I can only disperse and return to my original state. If there's anything you want to ask, you can ask me, but only tonight."
"Thank you." Nan Liujing expressed his gratitude inwardly.
The voice fell silent, and no one answered.
Nan Liujing looked around and saw a figure lying not far away.
He hurried over.
The person lying on the ground had already had her battle armor automatically retract. He was certain he had never seen her before, and a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes.
Her face was extraordinarily beautiful, enough to rank first among all the women he had seen so far.
She had a delicate, alluring face, even a few degrees more beautiful than Sister Xia, who had just helped him. She was tall, and her elegant, understated black dress had been slightly soaked through. It was not revealing, but it made her full, voluptuous curves even more pronounced. Her drenched fiery-red hair resembled blazing flames, and together with the snow-white skin at her neck, it stirred an uncontrollable heat in one's heart.
Even lying there quietly beneath the hazy lights, she was as beautiful as a painting.
Suddenly, the woman on the ground stirred her tightly closed eyes, then rapidly opened them. Her wine-red pupils happened to meet Nan Liujing's dark blue eyes.
An astonishingly sharp aura swept outward. Nan Liujing immediately heard the clanging cry of a phoenix beside his ears, but it quickly faded away.
Leng Yaozhu breathed lightly, her ample chest rising and falling. "After the sea sucked us in, what happened next?"
Having already realized that the situation had abruptly changed, she did not panic. Instead, she remained composed.
Nan Liujing had already prepared his words. "Senior, when we fell into the sea, it suddenly became unstable, as if it had suffered cultivation deviation, and collapsed directly. Afterward, it returned to how it is now."
"Cultivation deviation?" Leng Yaozhu rose from the ground. Her tall, 1.78-meter figure looked as exquisite as a sculpture beneath the hazy lights. Her willow brows furrowed slightly as she pondered, He used a trident and could even wield power at least at the peak of the Quasi-God level, or perhaps even god-level. It must be related to the Sea God. I need to ask Vast Sea Douluo.
"How are you feeling?" Leng Yaozhu then looked toward the boy before her, who had remained calm from beginning to end. She was quite satisfied with that.
Nan Liujing smiled bitterly. "I was inexplicably beaten up. If not for your help, Senior, I might have been killed long ago."
"You have quite a good mentality." Leng Yaozhu smiled softly and placed a jade-like hand upon Nan Liujing's shoulder. The next moment, a gentle heat flowed forth, instantly evaporating the water droplets from both of them.
"Thank you, Senior." Nan Liujing bowed again, neither servile nor overbearing.
Beep beep beep!
Just as Leng Yaozhu was about to say something else, an urgent ringtone sounded from Nan Liujing's body.
"Answer it." Leng Yaozhu smiled.
Nan Liujing nodded and took out his somewhat cracked yet still sturdy phone. The moment he answered, an anxious voice came through.
"Can you hear me? Where are you? How did you suddenly disappear?"
Three questions in one breath.
It was Ye Xinglan.
Nan Liujing calmly explained, "Wait for me at the entrance to the food street. I'll be right over."
"Then hurry. I told Na'er you went to the bathroom." Ye Xinglan let out a sigh of relief on the other end.
The call soon ended.
Leng Yaozhu smiled faintly. "We'll meet again tomorrow. Then we can make a proper introduction."
Nan Liujing was slightly stunned. Red light flashed before him, and the tall figure was gone, leaving behind only a faint, elegant fragrance.
Looking up at the sky, Nan Liujing smiled as though he had survived a disaster. "Battle armor with phoenix feathers, and it's fire-attributed. Who else could it be besides Spirit Pagoda's Sky Phoenix Douluo?"
But why had Sky Phoenix Douluo suddenly rushed out to help him? And why had she said they would meet again tomorrow?
Nan Liujing could not figure it out. Feeling the pain throughout his body, violent lightning flashed in his eyes.
"Tang San, failing to kill me today will definitely be the greatest regret of your life."
Elsewhere.
At the entrance to the food street.
Ye Xinglan appeared calm, but she had long been worried sick inside. Na'er had also lost the happiness she had worn when they arrived at the food street. She held food in her hand without taking a bite, because every time her brother left, he would always tell her.
So when Sister Xinglan said her brother had gone to the bathroom, she did not believe it at all. Something must have happened to him.
"Brother!"
Suddenly, just as Na'er was pretending not to know and waiting alongside Ye Xinglan, she saw a figure emerge from the crowd.
Na'er's eyes lit up. She hurried over and threw herself into that familiar embrace.
"Alright, alright. Brother just went to the bathroom. It's not like I got kidnapped." Nan Liujing affectionately rubbed Na'er's head.
Na'er said nothing and only hugged him tighter.
Ye Xinglan walked over, completely relieved. If he had delayed any longer, she had been planning to call her father and say Nan Liujing had been abducted.
Nan Liujing looked at her, his lips moving silently to say: Thank you!
A faint smile curled Ye Xinglan's lips. She waved a hand, indicating that it was nothing.
"Na'er, do you want to keep walking around the food street?" Nan Liujing pinched Na'er's smooth, soft, bouncy cheek.
"Yes!" With her brother here, Na'er's interest was reignited.
"Let's go."
Everything seemed to begin anew. Just in time, the food street's atmosphere had also reached its peak.
The Spiritual Senses inside the Heavenly Tribulation Bead would not appear at every turn, so there was no need to worry about that.
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