Flight Midway, Attacked

Sea God Island floated amid the azure sea.

Under the sunlight, the beach's fine white sand shimmered like countless tiny crystals, gleaming silver. The first thing one felt upon arriving was serenity: sea and sky merged into one, while gulls soared and wheeled.

The sky was a deep, vivid blue—lofty, pure, and clear as glass.

Sea God High Priestess Bo Saixi left the Sea God Temple and hovered a hundred meters above the ground, holding the scepter that symbolized her status as High Priestess.

The scepter was a genuine demigod artifact, forged by the First Generation Sea God, Poseidon, and bestowed upon the first Sea God High Priestess before he ascended to the Divine Realm.

With the scepter in hand, each successive Sea God High Priestess could greatly enhance her combat strength under the radiance of Sea God's Light on Sea God Island.

Bo Saixi watched the figure drawing ever closer in the distance. She swiftly raised a hand and summoned the power of the sea. Blue light blazed around her, and the colossal phantom of the Sea God rose from the ocean. The Trident carried towering waves with it, and its pressure instantly engulfed all of Sea God Island.

When the island's residents saw the High Priestess summon the Sea God Martial Soul, they fell to their knees and prayed.

To witness the colossal phantom of the Sea God Martial Soul was worth a lifetime.

The Sacred Pillar Douluo and Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiaobai did not possess spiritual power as formidable as Bo Saixi's.

Nor did they possess the Sea God Martial Soul, so they couldn't sense that Qian Xunji was flying through the sky in the distance, drawing ever closer to Sea God Island.

They were puzzled. Why had the High Priestess suddenly summoned the Sea God Martial Soul, as if facing a formidable enemy?

"Eighth Soul Skill, Sea God Radiance!"

Sea God Radiance was an auxiliary Soul Skill. It halved the cost of Bo Saixi's first seven Soul Skills, increased their power and speed by 300%, and tripled her spiritual power.

Facing a Limit Douluo, Bo Saixi naturally didn't dare let her guard down.

The Sea God Domain unfolded around her.

She transformed the power of the sea into attacking force, using the Sea God Domain to unleash the might of the entire ocean in a barrage of long-range strikes.

Five kilometers from Sea God Island, a thousand meters above the sea, Qian Xunji faced a sudden barrage of water cannons fired from below. He evaded them with a Cobra maneuver.

He looked toward Bo Saixi in the distance, scepter in hand, continuously manipulating the ocean's power to attack him.

"Why did this Sea God High Priestess suddenly attack me?" he wondered.

But with water cannons coming at him one after another, Qian Xunji didn't dwell on it. He flew in a serpentine pattern, focusing on dodging the attacks.

Against an enemy like Bo Saixi, who could draw upon the Sea God Domain to harness the ocean's power and replenish her Soul Power,

he had to end the fight quickly.

In a prolonged battle of attrition, even with a Soul Core and a rate of Soul Power recovery far exceeding that of an ordinary Limit Douluo, he couldn't outlast her.

But Bo Saixi remained on Sea God Island, protected by Sea God's Light. That made things difficult.

He was too far away to use the Bloodline Deprivation Card.

Qian Xunji found Bo Saixi troublesome to deal with.

And Bo Saixi likewise found Qian Xunji troublesome: he flew incredibly fast, darting unpredictably from side to side through the air.

"Slippery as an eel." She pursed her lips and muttered.

Bo Saixi unleashed her Sixth Soul Skill.

It could create a black-hole waterspout that sucked an opponent into a sealed space.

A lofty spatial skill.

But Bo Saixi was astonished to discover that her Soul Skill couldn't hit Qian Xunji at all.

The Limit Douluo before her looked as though he wore a suit of heavy armor, yet he was extraordinarily agile.

And as he dodged her barrage, he kept climbing higher.

After only two rounds of attacks, he had risen from an altitude of one thousand meters to three thousand, and he was still climbing.

The higher he flew, the more Soul Skills Bo Saixi had to use against him, and the more spiritual power she had to expend.

Moreover, her Soul Skills drew Sea God's Power from the ocean and formed water cannons that shot upward.

That meant the higher Qian Xunji flew, the longer it took for her attacks to reach him—and the more their power weakened along the way.

This gave him more time to react and evade.

The thought infuriated Bo Saixi.

She looked down on people who didn't dare fight her out at sea.

Qian Xunji had no idea what Bo Saixi was thinking. Even if he had, he wouldn't have cared about the opinions of someone who had nothing to do with him.

"Once I reach eight thousand meters, Bo Saixi's attacks won't be able to reach me," Qian Xunji remarked.

That altitude was nearly the limit of how high he could fly.

Any higher, and he'd reach ten thousand meters.

During Douluo I, only the three gods in the Battle of Jialing Pass had reached such heights.

From above, Qian Xunji looked down on Sea God Island. His eyes narrowed as he fixed his gaze on Bo Saixi, who clutched her scepter, gritted her teeth, and glared furiously.

Qian Daoliu, who possessed the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, was known as invincible in the sky among the three great Limit Douluo of Douluo I.

Out at sea, Bo Saixi was indeed the strongest of the three great Limit Douluo.

But only at sea.

With Sea God Island's terrain in her favor, even Qian Renxue, a god who had reached level one hundred, couldn't be absolutely certain she could defeat the Sea God Island Bo Saixi defended.

"Looks like I'll have to plan this out if I want to kill Bo Saixi," Qian Xunji thought.

"Ninth Soul Skill, Sea God Imprisonment!" Faced with Qian Xunji flying high beyond the reach of ordinary attacks, Bo Saixi unleashed her ultimate move in fury.

Sea God Imprisonment was an immensely powerful binding skill that could seal an opponent's Soul Power, leaving them unable to use it for the rest of their life.

When cast, it summoned countless beams of light from the sky, forming Sea Chains that attacked the target.

This was a tracking Soul Skill. There was no evading it.

A cruel smile spread across Bo Saixi's face.

She hadn't wanted to use this move against an enemy.

But Qian Xunji could fly beyond the reach of her attacks, and he was so fast and unpredictable in the air.

As for Qian Xunji being struck by Sea God Imprisonment, having his Soul Power sealed, and falling to his death from the sky—

So what?

If he wasn't a follower of the Sea God, then dead was dead.

All she had to do was reclaim the Heart of the Sea God after he died.

But what Bo Saixi never expected was that her ultimate move would pass right through Qian Xunji's body.

The attack had no effect, leaving her utterly stunned.

"That's impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Aside from the terrifying Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, no one could ignore the Sea God's imprisonment.

Even the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King would suffer greatly if struck by her Sea God Imprisonment.

Yet Qian Xunji had dispelled her Sea God Imprisonment with such ease.

Angel Wings worked much like Xiao Wu's Void skill, granting complete immunity to physical attacks.

The Sea Chains summoned by Bo Saixi's Sea God Imprisonment were, at their core, still physical attacks.

Qian Xunji had dared to use this Soul Skill to dispel Sea God Imprisonment thanks to the System Appraisal function, which had analyzed the skill's special properties and how to counter it.

Otherwise, getting hit would have been troublesome.

Having his Soul Power sealed and falling from eight thousand meters wouldn't be enough to kill him, but it certainly wouldn't feel good.

Breaking the seal, however, would be quite troublesome.

Qian Xunji raised the Golden Treasure Sword in his hand. A golden pentagram magic array appeared beneath his feet, and a vast amount of Soul Power within him converged and compressed into a golden orb of light.