"Whoosh—!"
A terrifyingly condensed palm wind erupted with explosive force!
This power instantly stirred the vast deep sea.
With the direction of Xia Ming's palm strike as its axis, the seawater across an enormous area more than ten thousand meters in diameter was forcibly dragged by an irresistible force.
A colossal vortex of horrifying scale, with internal pressure sufficient to crush refined metal, formed out of nowhere!
The vortex's edges swept up murky sand and terrified Sea Soul Beasts fleeing in panic.
At its center, a brief vacuum passage formed, pointing straight at the Abyssal Star Puffer lurking in the darkness!
Yet the Abyssal Star Puffer, which bore most of the palm wind's force head-on, experienced something entirely different.
To its senses, it was a solid wall pushing forward, as though the will of the entire ocean had condensed into a single strike and crushed down upon it!
Its once-proud domain was swept clean before this force like mist beneath the sun!
The darkness receded, fully exposing its enormous body.
Then—
Boom-crack!
A dull, earth-shattering blast rang out, as though two stars had collided in the depths of the sea!
The back of the Abyssal Star Puffer, covered in blue-black crystal scales and capable of withstanding a nine-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, took the blow solidly.
It only felt an indescribably immense force pierce straight through its body.
"Wuu—!"
A muffled roar of pain escaped uncontrollably.
Within its utterly shocked, even slightly dazed senses—
Its crystal scales, tempered by Heavenly Tribulations and a hundred times tougher than black iron—
Had actually cracked like glass struck by a massive hammer, forming dense spiderweb-like fractures several meters deep!
Countless fragments of scale armor exploded outward, revealing thick flesh beneath that was likewise riddled with cracks and seeped golden-red light.
Its mountain-like body was forcibly