Just as all the Sea Soul Beasts on Douluo Star were sucked into the Blood Martial Soul in Lin Tian's arm,
and reduced to the size of cells,
the Divine Realm, deep inside the black hole at the heart of the Space-Time Turbulence,
where Tang San was resisting the Space-Time Turbulence,
suddenly faced a deadly crisis.
The Space-Time Turbulence swept in without warning.
The Destruction God King and Life God King had both sacrificed themselves.
The God Kings, led by Tang San, brought out their respective Super Divine Artifacts to sustain the God Realm Hub,
forming a barrier by sheer force,
and struggling to withstand the relentless erosion of the Space-Time Turbulence.
As the Divine Realm's top fighter,
Tang San held the god-king godhoods of both the Sea God and the Asura God.
Among them,
the Sea God Godhood had originally been only that of a First-Level God.
Through his cultivation,
and his meticulous schemes on Douluo Continent,
he had first plotted to kill all the land Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent,
making the faith of the Sea Soul Beasts more valuable.
Then he had raised the sea Soul Beasts in the deep-sea regions,
protecting them exceptionally well,
so that they could provide him with a steady stream of faith power.
That was how he had raised the Sea God Godhood to the god-king level.
The steady conversion of faith from Douluo Continent into divine power
was Tang San's greatest source of confidence as he resisted the Space-Time Turbulence.
The most troublesome enemy, the Destruction God King, had already been plotted against and killed by him.
As long as he endured this wave,
the entire Divine Realm would be his to command.
But the instant all the Sea Soul Beasts disappeared,
the faith power Tang San had drawn from the sea Soul Beasts inside his body suddenly halved without warning.
The Sea God Godhood relied primarily on faith power.
With his faith power suddenly cut in half,
the core power supporting his Sea God Godhood's ascension to god-king level was instantly depleted.
The light of his Sea God Divine Ring rapidly dimmed.
The pressure that had once been steady at god-king level began to plummet,
and his status fell from god king to First-Level God.
The sharp drop in his godhood caused his overall strength to plummet by twenty percent.
Before, he had relied on the support of his two god-king godhoods
to make up for the loss caused by the deaths of the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life,
and his twin god-king godhoods had let him run the God Realm Hub at full capacity with ease.
But now,
his Sea God Godhood had been cut in half.
What was going on?
Why had most of the sea's faith power suddenly vanished?
Tang San gritted his teeth.
As he forcibly squeezed the power of the Asura God King to keep his Super Divine Artifacts running,
he focused his mind
and sensed Douluo Continent.
His method of sensing Douluo Continent was simple and crude.
He directly roused the divine soul he had attached to his son, Tang Wulin.
This wisp of soul was both his protection for his son
and an important medium through which he sensed the movements on Douluo Continent.
Even though crossing through time and space would consume a tremendous amount of divine power,
he could no longer afford to care.
This was a matter that struck at his very foundations.
This terrifying power descended,
and Tang San's divine soul appeared.
The entire Aolai City fell still in time and space.
Tang San's divine sense erupted and swept across the entire sea.
Along with it,
the aura of the Golden Dragon King on Tang Wulin erupted as well.
But when the feedback from his divine sense returned,
Tang San's face instantly turned ashen.
His eyes were filled with disbelief.
Across the entire sea,
from the nearby shallows
to the endless deep sea,
even the Abyss,
there wasn't a single Soul Beast to be found.
The oceans of all Douluo Continent had become a lifeless wasteland, devoid of Soul Beasts.
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Tang San's divine soul trembled.
What was going on?
Who was plotting against me?
Who?!
These Sea Soul Beasts were the foundation of faith for his Sea God Godhood.
But now, all the Sea Soul Beasts had vanished,
without even a single seed left behind.
He didn't even know how to make things right.
In his furious rage,
Tang San's divine power fell into utter disarray.
With the Space-Time Turbulence interfering as well,
he completely lost control of Douluo Star.
That wisp of his soul
returned to Tang Wulin's Mental Sea,
where it would wait
and appear automatically once Tang Wulin unlocked the seal.
Everyone was utterly bewildered,
as though something had just happened.
Deep within the Space-Time Turbulence,
Tang San's true body was filled with killing intent.
The Asura aura around him
boiled over with murderous fury.
"Whoever destroyed my foundations,
I will repay today's scheme a hundredfold.
You have earned your death!"
At that moment, in Red Mountain Academy in Aolai City,
Lin Tian had already been placed in the academy's infirmary by one of its teachers.
The one treating him was a Soul Elder with three rings, specializing in healing.
"How is he, Teacher Liu?
What exactly is wrong with him?"
Teacher Liu shook his head.
Lin Tian's condition was already beyond the limits of what he could heal.
He was only a Soul Elder—how could he possibly treat the backlash caused by Twin Martial Souls?
This was ridiculous.
"Dean,
the little fellow's condition is extremely unusual.
It seems his soul has been injured.
But at the same time,
the life force in his body is rapidly draining away."
He glanced at Lin Tian's rapidly withering right hand.
"The energy we're giving him
is a mere drop in the bucket."
"Then what can we do?
This child is the only one with Twin Martial Souls in our Aolai City in decades.
We absolutely can't let anything happen to him!
Bring out the academy's treasured life-essence supplement at once
and give it to him.
Let's make sure he keeps that arm first!"
"His Blood Body Martial Soul is far too powerful.
It's actually devouring its own master.
But that also proves just how powerful his Martial Soul is.
If he can get through this,
his future will be limitless."
There wasn't the slightest trace of reluctance over the treasure in the Dean's eyes.
He only wanted to invest in Lin Tian's future.
The other teachers didn't hesitate either.
After taking the permission card the Dean gave him,
one of them hurried outside.
Every second counted.
"Where is this?"
Lin Tian had fallen unconscious,
but his soul suddenly appeared in a vast Blood Sea.
"Have I transmigrated again?
No..."
What kind of perspective was this?
Lin Tian discovered
that he could move freely through this Blood Sea.
He could also see everything across the entire sea,
as though it were laid out in a three-dimensional model inside his mind.
"What is this place...
Where is this Blood Sea?
Right,
I remember that I passed out,
During Martial Soul Awakening, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his soul,
then passed out.
So he was dreaming now, right?
Yeah,
he had to be dreaming,
since he didn't even have a body."
Lin Tian readily accepted the fact that he was dreaming,
then began exploring this world.
It was an incomparably terrifying ocean,
and a sea of blood, at that.
The Blood Sea teemed with countless members of the Blood Sea Clan:
red creatures about the size of sharks,
shaped like donuts.
White spherical monsters several times larger than the donuts.
Giant monsters twice the size of the Red Donut Monsters,
shaped like horseshoes.
There were also monsters a little larger than the Donut Monsters,
shaped like giant dumbbells.
And Furball Monsters about the same size as the Donut Monsters.
There were also Blue Little Monsters much smaller than the Donut Monsters,
shaped like flying discs.
These monsters lived in the unfathomably deep Blood Sea,
preying on all kinds of monsters in the ocean whose names he didn't know.
What a strange world.
Lin Tian was quite interested in these bizarre monsters.
It was only a dream, after all.
Anything could happen in a dream,
so imagining all these monsters wasn't strange.
But just then,
a shocking sight appeared.
Right above his soul,
a gigantic rift suddenly split open across the entire Blood Sea.
Immediately afterward,
countless Sea Soul Beasts appeared through the rift,
descending into the Blood Sea.
He had been in Douluo Continent for six years already,
and Soul Guidance Technology was advanced,
so he wasn't unfamiliar with the Sea Soul Beasts of Douluo Continent.
Sea Soul Beasts from Douluo Continent descending into the Blood Sea?
This dream was way too cool!
Were the Blood Sea Monsters about to battle the Sea Soul Beasts of Douluo?