Why Do You Not Kneel Before the God-King?

The Immortal Herbs instantly descended into chaos.

Some frantically drew in their branches and leaves, trying to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible.

Though they possessed no combat strength, they had gained sentience and possessed an instinct for survival.

Some Immortal Herbs were still unwilling to give up.

One of them said tremblingly:

"We were left behind by Lord Sea God. C-can you not pick us?"

"Lord Sea God said that no one else was allowed to set their sights on us..."

Upon hearing this, Ling Xiao released his cultivation once more, a cold glint flashing through his eyes.

"If you tell me everything honestly, I can consider leaving your roots behind."

"Without your roots, your cultivation will merely regress. You can still cling to life."

"But if you dare lie... I'll dig up your roots directly."

"Choose for yourselves!"

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well fell silent once more, and none of the Immortal Herbs dared make a sound.

They sensed genuine killing intent, not some empty threat meant to scare them.

If they refused to cooperate, this young man truly would uproot them completely.

Thus, Jiao Jiao chose to submit.

She let out a deep sigh, her flaming petals drooping slightly.

"Fine... I'll tell you."

"I am the Infernal Delicate Apricot, a supreme treasure of ultimate fire. After consuming me..."

Led by Jiao Jiao, the other Immortal Herbs began introducing themselves as well.

One after another.

Each Immortal Herb revealed its name, effects, and uses.

Ling Xiao and the other two listened carefully, committing every detail firmly to memory.

Aside from those introduced in the original work, there were many other useful Immortal Herbs here.

Meanwhile.

Above the God Realm.

Ever since sending his daughter to the lower realm, Tang San had often used her as an excuse to spy on the lower realm.

Today, as usual, Tang God-King prowled around the Douluo Continent like a hyena.

His daughter's other incarnation, Wang Dong, was already sleeping in the same bed as Huo Yuhao, the Child of Fortune.

Because he had placed a restriction on his daughter, he was not worried that anything improper would happen.

However, when he arrived above Sunset Forest, he noticed something was wrong.

After investigating carefully, Tang God-King discovered that someone had actually trespassed into his private garden!

He immediately flew into a rage:

"Who is it?! Who could it be?!"

"You dare trespass into my Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? You have brought death upon yourself!"

With that, Tang San passed straight through the poisonous miasma, his divine sense descending directly upon the Douluo Continent.

Just as Jiao Jiao was about to submit.

A strange rift suddenly appeared above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

It was a planar rift.

A force from a higher dimension had torn open a gap in the Douluo Plane.

Golden light poured from the rift, enveloping the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

A figure slowly emerged from the rift—a man who appeared to be around thirty years old.

The man had a stern face and held the Sea God's Trident, his long deep-blue hair streaming behind him.

A powerful aura swept across the entire area.

That was not mortal power at all, but power from the higher God Realm.

Sea God and Asura God, Tang San.

A wisp of Tang San's divine sense broke through the planar barrier and slowly manifested above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He looked down upon the three below.

"I am Tang San, Sea God and Asura God. Why do you not kneel upon seeing the God-King?!"

Tang San's voice rolled like heavenly thunder, echoing over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a long time.

After saying that.

He instantly released a surge of divine power.

An utterly terrifying pressure descended from the sky, pressing directly down upon Ling Xiao and the other two.

It was the pressure of a God-King.

Though it was only a wisp of divine sense, it belonged to a God-King. The energy it contained had already far surpassed mortal power.

The instant Tang San's divine sense appeared, cheers erupted from the Immortal Herbs.

However...

Ling Xiao and the other two instantly unleashed their full strength and forcibly withstood the divine sense's pressure.

Snow Empress released her cultivation completely, and the Ice Origin formed an unbreakable domain of ice around the three of them.

Ice Empress also erupted with all her strength, and the domains of the two ice emperors overlapped, forming a double-layered ice shield.

As for Ling Xiao—

The lightning mark between his brows suddenly lit up, and thunder carrying the aura of the Heavenly Dao erupted at once.

The three of them endured it head-on.

Moreover, Ling Xiao sensed something else.

Though the God-King-level divine sense was powerful, it was fundamentally only a remnant wisp of power.

The divine sense possessed limited energy. Every bit Tang San used meant one bit less remained.

That meant that, as long as they managed their expenditure properly, this wisp of divine sense could be worn away.

Tang San was somewhat surprised, a trace of amusement entering his voice.

"Oh? Interesting."

Three insignificant soul beasts could actually withstand the pressure of his divine sense?

That was not something he had anticipated.

Tang San had intended to exert more force, but Ling Xiao suddenly summoned the Thunder Domain.

"Rumble, rumble~"

The purple Thunder Domain instantly spread out, enveloping everything within a hundred meters.

Countless arcs of lightning roamed through the Thunder Domain, crackling from time to time.

Tang San's divine sense was enveloped within it as well.

After Ling Xiao summoned the Thunder Domain, the Ice and Snow Empresses immediately felt much less pressure.

Lightning possessed a natural suppressive effect on divine sense, weakening the pressure Tang San had released.

Tang San did not take Ling Xiao seriously at all. With a mere raise of his hand, he could wipe out a fierce beast.

The other party was no more than an ant.

Yet, perhaps it was an illusion, Tang San actually sensed a trace of danger.

That trace of danger was exceedingly faint, yet it truly existed.

Tang San's brows furrowed slightly.

Divine sense was a projection on the level of the soul, while lightning carried the vast righteous energy of heaven and earth, making it the nemesis of soul power.

Ordinary lightning might not pose much threat to Tang San's divine sense, but Ling Xiao's lightning was different.

Ling Xiao's origins were mysterious, perhaps even traceable back to the beginning of creation.

The Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit—he was law before laws, order before order.

Although Ling Xiao's lightning was still far from its peak state, the power of its origin was enough to make Tang San uneasy.

Therefore, Tang San did not dare be careless in the slightest.

The three began confronting the divine sense.

Within the Thunder Domain, countless flashes of lightning surged like tides.

Ling Xiao stood at the center of the Thunder Domain, his silver-white hair dancing amid the lightning.

Ling Xiao stared fixedly at Tang San in the sky.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress stood beside Ling Xiao, the Ice Origin fully unleashed at that moment.

Tang San hovered above the Thunder Domain, and even the golden radiance around him had dimmed somewhat within it.

Neither side made the first move.

The killing intent filling the air had grown so dense that it was suffocating.

After a prolonged standoff, Tang San suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.

With every second his divine sense remained within the Thunder Domain, it weakened by another fraction.

If this continued, this wisp of divine sense would sooner or later be completely worn away.

Thus, Tang San decided to retreat for the time being.

As long as he returned to the God Realm and replenished the power of his divine sense, he could come again whenever he wished.

However, Tang San did not expect that Ling Xiao seemed to have long anticipated his desire to retreat.

Just as Tang San prepared to leave.

Ling Xiao, who had remained still all this time, suddenly took out a strange metallic object.

"God-Sealing Platform, seal!"

Ling Xiao activated the God-Sealing Platform with lightning, and a sealing power erupted from within it.

It instantly transformed into an invisible net, enveloping Tang San's wisp of divine sense.

The divine sense was bound by the God-Sealing Platform's seal, and Tang San was instantly drawn into the God-Sealing Platform.

"What?!"