Recognizing the trident, a vicious glint flashed through Tang San's eyes. He said nothing, merely gripped the trident and gave it a casual sweep.
The sea beneath Nan Liujing and Leng Yaozhu's feet began to whirl in an instant. A terrifying suction force surged from within, as though it intended to drag them under.
Without the slightest hesitation, Leng Yaozhu grabbed Nan Liujing. Brilliant incandescent phoenix wings spread from the shoulders of her Battle Armor, and she immediately soared into the sky, attempting to find a chance to escape.
"Tang San" calmly watched the two figures flying through the air. He raised his trident toward the sky and softly said, "Forbidden!"
A rippling distortion like reflections in 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-like pressure slam down upon her. Even with her cultivation as a Limit Douluo, she could no longer fly.
The suction force surging from the sea instantly dragged the two of them in. Endless splashes crashed against their bodies.
The True Phoenix Fire burning around Leng Yaozhu rapidly went out at a visible rate. This was a sea controlled by the Sea God; unless one was a Divine Level powerhouse, breaking free of its restraint was simply impossible.
"If you don't want the Golden Dragon King bloodline and your treasure to be destroyed, then stop."
Leng Yaozhu took on both the pressure and the sea's suction force herself, her entire body trembling violently. Nan Liujing saw it all, and his voice was incomparably deep.
Didn't you, Tang San, want the treasure? Then come take it yourself.
"You truly have some special treas... evil thing on you. Otherwise, you wouldn't know about the Golden Dragon King bloodline." Tang San's gaze Slightly Moved, and his Divine Thought locked onto Nan Liujing. "Don't try to play tricks on me. Otherwise, Even If I lose these things, I will still make you taste the pain of never being reborn for all eternity."
Nan Liujing held the unconscious Leng Yaozhu in his arms and looked straight at Tang San. In a Deep Voice, he said, "Could it be that a Divine Level powerhouse who has surpassed a Limit Douluo is afraid that I might kill you instead?"
"Sharp-tongued!" Tang San snorted coldly and waved his hand. The unconscious Leng Yaozhu rose from the seabed and floated atop the water.
Layer upon layer of Waves formed chains 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 directly killed him was because he feared that the man's death would destroy the treasure and take the Golden Dragon King bloodline down with it. After all, his current power was only a strand of Divine Thought, not his true body.
"The treasure that took away the Golden Dragon King bloodline is Parasitism in my Sea of Consciousness. It cannot be removed; you can only take it yourself." Nan Liujing remained calm. He was gambling—gambling that the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl, which had already acknowledged him as its master, would unleash Divine Level power to turn the situation around.
As for failure, he had never considered it.
Hearing this, Tang San frowned. Sensing the loss of his divine consciousness power, he did not dare waste time. A strand of Divine Thought entered Nan Liujing's Sea of Consciousness. He wanted to see what this Evil Thing was that could ignore the seal of his twin divine powers and forcibly seize the Gold Dragon King's bloodline.
Nan Liujing's consciousness gradually blurred. But at that moment, a pleasant laugh suddenly sounded beside his ear.
"You're in quite a bit of trouble. As your senior, I'll reluctantly lend you a hand!"
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 Thought, had no time to react at all.
Slap! The crisp, resounding sound of a slap echoed across the silent sea.
Tang San's head was slapped to one side by that force. The burning pain left him completely stunned.
"What did you do?" A second later, savage Facial Features appeared on the Water Elemental Figure's face for the first time.
A Trace of mockery appeared in Nan Liujing's Blue-gold eyes. The Waves chains around him detached for no reason at all and even wrapped around Tang San instead.
"Something's wrong."
Sensing that the power of the Water Element was gradually resisting him, Tang San's savage expression instantly turned to alarm. His body was engulfed by surging seawater, and in an instant, he retreated several thousand meters.
Just as he had attached his divine consciousness to Tang Wulin, another strand of divine consciousness had also attached itself to Nan Liujing's body.
After Tang San fled, Nan Liujing chuckled. A pleasant female voice emerged from his mouth. "I never would have imagined that, aside from me, someone else in the universe could cultivate the Sea God Position to the level of a God King."
"But though we are both Sea Gods, your God Position was not condensed by yourself. Aside from your increased cultivation, your comprehension of the Authority of the Sea has almost completely stagnated. My authority surpasses yours!"
As her words fell, Nan Liujing reached out and grasped the air. The boundless sea below rapidly gathered under Tang San's horrified gaze, soon transforming into a longbow flowing with Blue-Gold Light.
"Divine Wrath, Bow of Will!"
Nan Liujing drew back the bowstring formed from the sea. Vast Blue-Gold Light surged forth and transformed into a deep, shadowy arrow that seemed to contain the sea's most primordial will.
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, he released the arrow. From that moment onward, the sky was dyed blue-gold. The sky and sea seemed to merge into one, while the entire sea boiled wildly and raised endless colossal waves.
"I actually became the sea's enemy?"
Feeling the overwhelming hostility rush toward him, Tang San was greatly alarmed. This sea had been manifested through the energy of the Heaven Dou River, and its power should have been under his control. Yet now, it regarded him as an enemy instead.
Whether he could defeat it or not, he absolutely could not exhaust his divine consciousness here.
Tang San gripped the Sea God's Trident, and brilliant Blue-Gold Light bloomed around him. The divine consciousness energy remaining in Tang Wulin's body poured out wildly, quickly wrapping him into a cocoon of light that astonishingly contained powerful Space Laws.
Just as the arrow carrying the sea's will descended, the spatial coordinates within the cocoon immediately shifted, taking Tang San away and making him vanish.
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 female figure separated from his body.
She looked to be around thirty, with peerless beauty and a warm, approachable temperament, like a gentle older sister next door. Her skin resembled seawater beneath moonlight, carrying a faint pearly sheen. It was delicate and smooth, as though it could reflect the ocean's depth and mystery.
Her Deep Blue hair was casually draped behind her back, with faint glimmers occasionally flickering between the strands like scattered sea foam under starlight. Her armor was covered in marks, as if she had endured countless bloody battles, lending a trace of iron-blooded sharpness to her gentle disposition.
"Hey, wake up." Xia Mi lightly patted Nan Liujing on the back.
Nan Liujing subconsciously opened his eyes. His gaze was filled with vigilance, yet Tang San was nowhere to be seen.
I won the gamble!
Xia Mi said calmly, "That man has already run away."
The tension in Nan Liujing's heart finally eased. He respectfully guessed, "Senior, are you one of the former masters of the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl?"
"You're quite clever, but don't call me Senior. Call me Sister. My surname is Xia." Xia Mi smiled brightly, then reached out without caring whether Nan Liujing was willing and pinched his cheek.
Nan Liujing helplessly experienced what Na'er often went through whenever he kneaded her face.
Xia Mi was quickly satisfied and said with a smile, "You're lucky. A Divine Level powerhouse targeted you, so the others and I were able to intervene and help you resolve it. If it had been a non-divine powerhouse, then your one and only chance to save your life would have been wasted."
Feeling as though every bone in his body had been shattered, Nan Liujing complained inwardly, Doesn't that mean I should thank Tang San himself for attacking me?
Wait, the others?
That meant that, besides this unknown former master of the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl before him, the other seniors could help as well. Could they all be hidden inside the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl?
Seeing the meaning in Nan Liujing's expression, Xia Mi explained, "With the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl, we all climbed step by step from the very bottom to the peak. So, starting with the first Boss, we left behind a tradition. As long as someone received help from the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl, from the day they became a god onward, they had to leave behind a strand of divine consciousness within it to support subsequent masters of the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl."
"But Boss thought it wouldn't be good to help at every turn, so he established some rules. It's rather troublesome, so I won't explain the details."
Thunder God had never told him about this. For a moment, Nan Liujing did not know whether he should be glad that his luck was so good. Yet as he thought about it, he inwardly Sighed.
Tang San's escape had become a sword of Damocles hanging over his head.
He had thought drawing in the Golden Dragon King bloodline would be a good thing, but he had not expected it to nearly get him 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. The Soul Guide Lamps by the roadside emitted a soft glow, and everything felt like a dream.
Xia Mi had disappeared as well, but her voice still sounded in his mind. "Seizing that fellow's authority consumed quite a lot of my strength. I can only disperse and return to my original state. If there's anything you want to ask, you may 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 automatically retracted her Battle Armor. He was certain he had never seen her before, and a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes.
Her appearance was breathtakingly beautiful, enough to rank first among all the women he had seen so far.
She had a Gentle Charm pretty face, even a few degrees more beautiful than Sister Xia, who had just helped him. She was tall, and her elegant, reserved black dress was slightly soaked. Though it was not revealing, it made her curves appear even fuller and more voluptuous. Her drenched Fiery Red Long Hair resembled blazing flames, and paired with the snow-white skin of her neck, it stirred warmth deep in one's heart.
Even lying there quietly beneath the hazy lights, she was as beautiful as an oil painting.
Suddenly, the woman on the ground's tightly shut eyes Slightly Moved, then swiftly opened. 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 by his ear, but it quickly faded.
Leng Yaozhu panted softly, her ample chest rising and falling. "After the sea pulled us in, what happened next?"
Having already realized that the situation had changed abruptly, she did not panic. Instead, she remained composed.
Nan Liujing had already prepared his wording. "Senior, when we fell into the sea, it suddenly became unstable, as though it had suffered cultivation deviation, and directly collapsed. Afterward, it returned to how it is now."
"Cultivation deviation?" Leng Yaozhu stood up from the ground. Her tall, one-meter-seventy-eight figure looked as exquisite as a sculpture beneath the hazy lights. Her willow eyebrows furrowed Slightly as she thought to herself, He used a trident and could even wield power at least at the Peak Quasi-God level, perhaps even Divine Level. It must be related to the Sea God. I need to ask Vast Sea Douluo.
"How do you feel?" Leng Yaozhu looked again at the boy before her, who had remained calm from beginning to end. She was quite pleased by that.
Nan Liujing gave a Bitter Smile. "I was inexplicably beaten up. If not for your help, Senior, I might have been killed long ago."
"You have quite the mindset." Leng Yaozhu smiled. A jade-like hand reached out and rested on Nan Liujing's shoulder. The next moment, a gentle current of heat flowed, 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 said with a smile.
Nan Liujing nodded and took out his somewhat damaged 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 a row.
It was Ye Xinglan.
Nan Liujing calmly explained, "Wait for me at the entrance to the food street. I'll be right there."
"Then hurry up. I told Na'er you went to the bathroom." On the other end of the call, Ye Xinglan Breathed a Sigh of Relief.
The call ended quickly.
Leng Yaozhu smiled faintly. "We'll meet again tomorrow. Then we can make a proper introduction."
Nan Liujing was Slightly Moved. A red light flashed before his eyes, and the tall woman 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 Feather, and it's Fire Attribute too. Other than the Spirit Pagoda's Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, who else could it be?"
But why had Heavenly Phoenix Douluo suddenly come 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, a violent flash of lightning burst from 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 on the surface, but she had long been extremely worried inside. Na'er's happiness from arriving at the food street had disappeared as well. She held food in her hand but had not eaten any of it, because every time Ge left, he would tell her.
So when Sister Xinglan said Ge had gone to the bathroom, she did not believe it at all. Something must have happened to him.
"Ge!"
Suddenly, just as Na'er pretended not to know and waited with Ye Xinglan, she saw a figure emerge from the crowd.
Na'er's eyes lit up. She hurried over and threw herself into a familiar embrace.
"All right, all right. Ge just went to the bathroom, it's not like someone kidnapped me." Nan Liujing lovingly rubbed Na'er's head.
Na'er said nothing and only hugged him tighter.
Ye Xinglan walked over and finally Breathed a Sigh of Relief. If he had delayed any longer, she would have planned to call Father and say that Nan Liujing had been abducted.
Nan Liujing looked at her, his lips moving to say: Thank You!
The corners of Ye Xinglan's lips curled into a smile. She waved her hand, indicating that it was nothing.
"Na'er, do you want to keep wandering around the food street?" Nan Liujing pinched Na'er's smooth, soft, springy cheek.
"Yes!" With Ge by her side, Na'er's enthusiasm was rekindled.
"Let's go."
Everything seemed to begin again. Just in time, the atmosphere on the food street had reached its peak.
The divine consciousness within the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl would not appear at every turn, so there was no need to worry about that.
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