At Jellyfish Palace in the Boundless Sea, the Heavenly Water River divided inside from outside and surged against the stars, holding back every attack that threatened to destroy the place.
At the sight, the Purple Mansion demon kings of Jellyfish Palace grew more spirited. After all this time, their opponent seemed to have no more tricks up his sleeve.
"Has the Star-Plucking Daoist really run out of tricks? That shouldn't be possible."
The Secret-Keeping Demon King looked up at the glittering stars. For some reason, unease stirred in his heart. He felt he had overlooked something.
Meanwhile, deep within the ancestral grounds, Jiang Chen controlled the Wave-Turning Demon King's body with the Heart Ape upon him. With violent force of mind, he parted the sea and its waves, shaking the foundations of the Heavenly Water Boundary-Splitting Formation. The azure image trembled without cease.
Just as Jiang Chen was about to press his advantage, destroy the azure sea, and sever the link between the Grotto-Heaven fragment and the Heavenly Water Boundary-Splitting Formation, a dormant will awoke in the sea's deepest reaches.
"How dare you, brat!"
A bright moon rose from the sea, rolling up a thousand layers of waves. A towering Dao body appeared with it. Humanoid in form, with a turtle shell on its back and twelve luminous pearls circling it, it was none other than the Canghai True Lord.
With a hum, the Canghai True Lord lowered his gaze and locked on to the Wave-Turning Demon King.
"Whoever trespasses upon the Mystic Palace's ancestral grounds shall die!"
His eyes cold with indifference, the Canghai True Lord reached out a hand.
At that moment, the power of the entire Boundless Sea seemed to gather around him. As his palm descended, heaven and earth themselves seemed to collapse.
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