Damaged Divine Artifact: Sea God's Scepter

"Mad! She's gone mad!"

"This woman has really gone mad!"

Gulu Gulu and the others scrambled desperately to flee Fishman Island.

If time could be rewound,

they would never have set foot on this island.

They had thought victory was in the bag,

but they had never expected to encounter such a tough opponent as Catherine.

"Hahaha, die! Let's all die together!"

Catherine laughed madly without end.

"I won't let any of you leave here alive!"

Her voice grew louder and louder, as if it were about to shatter the entire world.

These traitors had dared attack the Fishmen. They had to pay the price!

Fishmen still existed in other seas.

Given time, the Fishmen still had a chance to rise again.

Even if she, Catherine, died here,

it did not matter.

"Remember this in your next life!"

"Never provoke a woman!"

At that moment, Chen Changhe's army had just approached Fishman Island.

They happened to witness that horrifying, irresistible scene.

"Wh-what is this?"

"Is this the end of the world?"

"With an attack like this, even a true deity could be killed, right?"

Cold sweat poured down Chen Changhe's body.

"Good thing, good thing..."

"Just one step away..."

"One more step and I'd have been done for!"

Chen Changhe had entered this plane in his true body.

If he died in the plane, he would truly die.

"After this, I really need to pray and fulfill a vow."

"No, wait. I'm a god."

"So... do I pray to myself?"

The lingering fear shook Chen Changhe.

He had not expected the Fishmen to possess such a final trump card.

"Looks like I should send an avatar to handle this sort of thing next time."

Once he returned, he would use a saint as the foundation to create an avatar.

He had been too reckless.

That was not good.

At Chen Changhe's command, every submarine sped at full speed toward where Fishman Island had originally stood.

He wanted to see whether he could recover anything.

Naturally, he himself chose to return.

Who knew whether the Fishmen had any other trump cards?

If you lost your life, you died. Even deities were no exception.

After eight uninterrupted hours of salvage work, Chen Changhe ultimately obtained the following—

Five demigod corpses.

The most intact among them belonged to Catherine.

As the caster, she had suffered relatively less damage.

Her body was largely intact.

The Lobster People demigod Gulu Gulu was the second most intact.

Aside from his smashed head,

the rest was not bad.

"You called me brother, so I'll collect your body."

"Rest in peace, Brother Gulu Gulu!"

"Don't worry. I'll put the body you left behind to good use."

Chen Changhe wiped away a crocodile tear.

Demigod corpses were important resources.

They could be used to refine divinity.

They could also be used to forge all kinds of divine artifacts.

The other corpses were even more gruesome.

They had already been reduced completely to mush.

They probably could not even be sold.

One Damaged Sea God Scepter.

Catherine had kept it tightly clutched in her hand.

Though damaged, it could still increase the power of water-element divine spells.

It could also be used as a holy relic.

Once loaded, the followers bred within the Divine Domain would gain increased resistance to water-element power.

"Good stuff, but it doesn't suit me."

Chen Changhe set the scepter aside.

He did not know that the earth-shattering strike that had destroyed Mermaid Island earlier had come from this very Sea God's Scepter.

Otherwise, he definitely would not have remained so calm.

The final item was a "Sea God's Emblem."

An emblem was a deity's identifying object and represented that deity's power.

To a certain extent, it could be used as a divine statue. All emblems were condensed from divine power.

A deity's believers could use an emblem to borrow power from that deity.

The image depicted on this emblem was a towering wave like a mountain.

Because its original owner, the Sea God, had died, it had lost its divine power enhancement.

Yet for some reason, it had become a holy relic.

[Level 1 Holy Relic: Sea God's Emblem. Load into the Divine Domain Core. The followers bred within have a small chance of acquiring Fishman form.]

After the Divine Domain Core reached Level 10, Chen Changhe happened to have one remaining holy relic loading slot.

He directly loaded the Sea God's Emblem into it.

He discovered that there was roughly a one-in-a-thousand chance for Orks to produce individuals with Fishman traits during reproduction.

Compared to other Orks, they possessed two respiratory organs: noses and gills.

They could live freely on both land and in the ocean.

Chen Changhe called this type of Ork Ocean Orks.

Together with the Gretchin Submarines army, which had now reached a considerable scale,

"the entire ocean has become mine for the taking!"

Chen Changhe decided to stop wasting time.

He would directly begin his journey to dominate this plane.

More than half the assessment period had already passed.

In three months of plane time, he would have to leave this plane.

He had to hurry and extract its resources.

Besides that, he would harvest every demigod active within this plane.

As a Blue Star deity, he did not have so much sentimental softness.

Nor did he know what mercy or restraint meant.

The entire world of deities was a mythological version of the Black Forest Law.

The strong possessed everything; the weak vanished into ashes.

Chen Changhe wanted to live well.

Then, like a Hungry Snake, he could only swallow everything he could obtain.

Until he became an unparalleled behemoth.

Only then would he feel at ease.

"Right now, I'm just an ant."

"I have no right to pity anyone else."

"That's right. Exactly!"

Three days later, Chen Changhe appeared at that small building.

Zheng Dongfeng had long been waiting there.

Although he had been mentally prepared, he had not expected Chen Changhe's ability to plunder resources to be even more terrifying than he imagined.

Chen Changhe had deployed more than a million followers in total.

He had simultaneously carried out a full-scale purge of both the main continent and the ocean.

The plane's natives were either killed or obediently surrendered, becoming slaves who gathered resources for Chen Changhe.

In three months, Chen Changhe had plundered resource reserves equivalent to several decades' worth for the entire plane.

"Powerful, ruthless, and utterly fearless!"

Zheng Dongfeng greatly admired Chen Changhe.

Even if he had done it himself, he likely could not have done better than Chen Changhe.

It seemed Chen Changhe was not merely powerful.

He also had an exceptional grasp of the deity courses taught in class.

Chen Changhe's image perfectly overlapped with that of the Goblin Overlord of old.

He even surpassed him in some respects.

The Goblin Overlord had truly begun to stand out

only after entering university.

During high school, he had not shone as dazzlingly as Chen Changhe did.

"Congratulations, Student Chen Changhe!"

Other than congratulations, Zheng Dongfeng truly did not know what else to say.

At the same time, he handed Chen Changhe the two points of divinity awarded as his reward.

He also gave Chen Changhe the glowing Stone that Li Guizhen had produced.

Creator Divinity was extremely important.

Knowledge of it was not covered in the vast majority of materials.

To obtain Creator Divinity, one had to begin laying the groundwork during the Divine Being stage.

He did not want Chen Changhe to miss out on this resource.

"This is a gift from Teacher Li Guizhen of East China War Academy. It contains some knowledge related to Creator Divinity."

"I hope you study it carefully."

Zheng Dongfeng said this to Chen Changhe.

There was no way Chen Changhe would join East China War Academy.

But Zheng Dongfeng still wanted to win as much goodwill as possible for East China War Academy.

Who knew? Maybe Chen Changhe would go blind one day?