At the wedding venue, nearly a hundred Titled Douluos lay sprawled across the ground, unconscious. Only a handful of powerful experts remained awake.
Qiangu Dieyan gasped for breath as he helped his younger son, Qiangu Dongfeng, to his feet. But the moment Qiangu Dongfeng stood up, a great mouthful of blood burst uncontrollably from his mouth, draining even more color from his face.
N-no... I never thought Leng Wuduan was telling the truth. A barrage of Soul Cannon shells really did attack!
"Hall Master Chen, can you give my Spirit Pagoda an explanation?"
At that moment, Tang Sect vice sect master Zang Xin also stepped forward, displeasure written across his face. The light of his Four-Word Battle Armor flickered around him as he walked to the Shrek Academy guest seating and helped the unconscious Ya Li and Cai Yue'er to their feet. In a rare turn of events, he stood alongside the Qiangu Family and challenged Chen Xinjie.
"Exactly, Hall Master Chen. On behalf of the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, I, Zang Xin, also want an explanation!"
Chen Xinjie, whose eyes were already bloodshot with rage, carried Long Yeyue—who had escaped with no serious injuries—to one side. He surveyed the surroundings: a scene of utter devastation, utterly silent!
If things were this bad here, then his entire Sea God Family must have become a living hell...
Chen Xinjie's heart bled. Helplessness flooded his body, and he trembled all over. The Sea God Family's foundations, built over tens of thousands of years, had been destroyed in an instant!
His overwhelming grief swept away the joy of the wedding ceremony. His weathered eyes brimmed with dejection and disbelief.
But when he turned back and saw Long Yeyue, her wedding dress still pure white, and his unconscious son, Chen Zeyu, a flicker of hope after surviving disaster rose within him.
As long as their little family remained, so would the greater one!
Just then, an electronic voice crackled to life, plagued by severe interference. Though it came in fits and starts, every word was startlingly clear, instantly drawing the attention of everyone still conscious.
It was Su Jiu's battered Needle Bee Void Sentry!
"E-everyone... I'm Leng Wuduan!"
"The Holy Spirit Cult is... behind this attack! One Emperor, two Emperors, and four Heavenly Kings... they came with their entire force!"
"Dark Hummingbird, Dark Bell, Dark Phoenix... the three Heavenly Kings have already made for the Sea God Fleet!"
"The Sea God Fleet... leave that to me and Her Excellency Sky Phoenix!"
"And now... the rest is up to you! The four remaining Limit Douluos of the Holy Spirit Cult... we're stretched thin on our side and can't offer any support!"
"I-I've already notified Heaven-Propping Douluo Yun Ming... once he arrives... then..."
Su Jiu's words only made an already dire situation worse. The Demon Empress, Underworld Emperor, Ghost Emperor, and Dark Blood Demon had all arrived!
Could they protect the nearly hundred unconscious Titled Douluos here while holding off four Limit Douluos at the peak of their power? No one knew.
And could Sky Phoenix Douluo and Groundless Douluo stop the three Heavenly Kings from seizing the Sea God Fleet? That, too, was uncertain!
No one knew the Sea God Fleet's cannon firepower and ammunition better than Chen Xinjie. If the Holy Spirit Cult succeeded, it was no exaggeration to say that every person here would go to hell together today. There would be no survivors!
The Limit Douluos present could all read between the lines, more or less. Their lives were now in the hands of two Super Douluos.
To be honest, none of them was willing to put their life in someone else's hands. They trusted only themselves.
Qiangu Dongfeng wanted to take his father, Qiangu Dieyan, and leave at once. The Qiangu Family had no reason to share their hardships or take on this mess with them.
But at that moment, Chen Xinjie stepped forward. He rubbed the Soul Guidance storage ring on his thumb. One look was enough to tell it was no ordinary treasure.
And indeed, it was no ordinary ring. Inside lay one of the three Godslayer-class Soul Cannon shells: Eternal Heaven!
The real Eternal Heaven had always been carried on Chen Xinjie's person. It had never been stored in the eighteenth level of hell in the War God Temple. The shell kept there was nothing more than a carefully forged fake.
A look of grim resolve flashed through his eyes. If he fell today, Long Yeyue would surely die as well. That was the last thing he wanted to see!
Rather than die a gruesome death at the hands of Evil Soul Masters, he would rather detonate Eternal Heaven at the moment he was about to fall and send those damned Evil Soul Masters to hell with him.
So...
"Pagoda Master Qiangu, with the Evil Soul Masters before us, we must unite every available force and stand against them together. As the current master of the Spirit Pagoda, you should carry on the founding master Dai Yuhao's resolve to root out evil and uphold the Spirit Pagoda's vow to safeguard peace across the continent. So don't do anything that harms our unity, and don't say anything that harms our unity..."
Chen Xinjie's words left Qiangu Dongfeng no way out. But before Qiangu Dongfeng could even wrestle with the decision, the Holy Spirit Cult's Limit Douluos arrived!
Chen Xinjie immediately took out the Sea God Helmet and placed it on his head.
Streams of warm, boundless Sea God Divine Power flowed through the helmet and into his body. His injuries healed at a visible speed, and his once-waning aura surged, rising all the way back to its peak.
"Scum of the Holy Spirit Cult! Today, I, Chen, will make you pay with your lives for the blood of my kinsmen who died horribly!"
"Leave him to me. Kill everyone else without mercy!"
High above, the Demon Empress looked down upon all living beings and tossed out a cold, indifferent remark. In an instant, boundless oceanic power gathered in her right arm, mingling with the resentment of countless living beings, and she launched a devastating blow at Chen Xinjie.
Chen Xinjie's Four-Word Battle Armor covered his entire body amid the flames. He forcibly withstood the attack, but the terrifying force sent him hurtling toward the sea like a cannonball.
The Demon Empress followed close behind. The moment she touched the ocean, she transformed back into her thousand-meter-long true form, the Deep Sea Demon Whale Emperor.
Chen Xinjie reached the ocean, returning to his home ground—and the ocean was the Demon Empress's home ground, too.
Vast Ocean versus Deep Sea Demon Whale Emperor.
Boundless Vast Ocean!
Under Chen Xinjie's control, wielded through his God Origin Realm spiritual power, boundless blue waves became enormous water dragons and waterspouts. Thousand-meter waves surged skyward, every killing move aimed at the Demon Empress's true form.
Deep Sea Demon Whale World-Destroying Tide!
In an instant, the tens of thousands of meters of sea split into yin and yang. More precisely, the vast majority of the sea occupied by the Demon Empress turned black. Countless thunderclaps burst through the air as purple-black lightning, wrapped in thousand-meter tsunamis, surged toward Chen Xinjie.
The next moment, the colossal waves and thunderous tsunamis crashed into each other. Countless black-and-white sprays flew dozens of miles, and the overwhelming shockwave blasted both combatants thousands of meters away. For a time, the battle reached a deadlock!
A thread of blood trickled from the corner of Chen Xinjie's mouth, and a terrifying gash split open in his palm. That blow had clearly taken its toll. The Demon Empress, meanwhile, felt the pain and revealed a savage, frenzied look. She slapped at the sea with ever more reckless abandon...
Seventh Soul Skill: Vast Ocean True Body!
Chen Xinjie transformed into the Vast Ocean and merged with the sea. At that moment, he was the master of these waters.
But the Demon Empress's enormous mouth curled into a cruel smile. Her Whale Pearl appeared, and a purple-black lightning net stretching tens of thousands of meters covered almost the entire sea.
The Demon Empress's aim was to use the water's conductivity to force Chen Xinjie out. Surely even someone as powerful as Chen Xinjie couldn't withstand being electrocuted for long...
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