The Fanatical Gatekeepers! Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi's Expectations!

The Sea God rubbed his hands together, his divine sense transforming into invisible tendrils that, like an octopus slipping into the deep sea, cautiously probed toward the magnificent city below—the Angel God Temple.

Just as his divine sense was about to touch the city's outline.

"Hm?"

The Sea God's divine sense seemed to strike an invisible wall.

That wall was smooth and resilient, without the slightest energy fluctuation, yet utterly indestructible.

"A barrier?"

The Sea God frowned slightly.

"Why is there a barrier here?"

Rather than becoming wary, the Sea God grew interested.

He increased the output of his divine sense!

"Open for this god!"

His vast divine sense condensed into an invisible heavy hammer and smashed viciously toward the barrier!

He could already foresee the scene in which this turtle shell shattered in the next second.

However.

The expected sound of breaking never came.

Instead...

"Bzz—!"

The seemingly ordinary barrier abruptly lit up with a faint glow, so weak it was almost negligible, the instant it was struck.

Then.

A backlash more than ten times more terrifying than the force he had unleashed surged back along his divine sense—violent and overbearing!

"Not good!"

Pfft—!

Inside the divine palace, the Sea God suddenly opened his eyes, his body trembling violently.

A mouthful of blue-gold blood sprayed from his mouth, splattering across the ground before him.

His eyes were filled with endless shock and disbelief.

He was injured?

He, the mighty first-class Deity Sea God, had merely used his divine sense to inspect his own "leek garden," yet he had... been blasted into serious injury?!

How was that possible?!

"Th-That... what kind of power was that..."

The Sea God clutched his chest, which felt as though it were splitting apart, his voice trembling.

He recalled that trace of terrifying aura contained