"Wrath of the Sea God!"
This was the signature divine ability of the Sea God Emperor, who lorded over the oceans and called himself the Sea God. With his vast magical power, he stirred the water elements between heaven and earth into a devastating attack imbued with the might of the world itself.
"Hm?"
Sensing the Sea God Emperor's world-shaking attack, Jian Shang knitted his thick brows and looked up at the blue waves pouring down from the heavens like a cascading river of stars.
The Huan Kingdom had expected Emperor Realm beings to act only during the middle or latter stages of the Huan King's "kingdom ascension ceremony," at a critical juncture. That would have befitted their status!
At that point, the Huan Kingdom could activate the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation and the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation, stake everything on a desperate struggle, and hold out at any cost until the kingdom ascension ceremony concluded!
Who could have known that the Sea God Emperor would shamelessly strike first the moment the Huan King set foot on the Heaven-Sacrificing Altar's first step? This completely upset their arrangements. Even Grand Commandant Han Xin, who directed the fighting during the ceremony, was caught somewhat off guard and left with quite a headache.
Rumble...
Thunder exploded, and wind and clouds surged. The space overhead abruptly froze, and an enormous hand that blotted out the sky reached out of the void. Its palm resembled a deep starry sky, wreathed in nebulae. It viciously seized at the towering blue waves, shaking space as though it meant to grasp all of heaven and earth in its palm, with enough power to crush everything:
"Mastery of the Stars!"
"The one emperor unrivaled through the ages... Qin Shi Huang?!"
"Qin Shi Huang actually made a move?!"
"Madness! They've all