Fusion Sacrifice

Time passed bit by bit.

As Lan Fozu continued talking with Su Ming, she gradually stopped being as shy and reserved as she had been at first.

As they chatted, the two naturally became more familiar with each other.

From time to time, Su Ming would tell jokes found only in the human world, explaining them in ways Lan Fozu could understand.

In such a relaxed atmosphere, Lan Fozu naturally loosened up as well.

"So the human world has such interesting sides too. I just wonder whether I could get used to human food."

Lan Fozu covered her mouth as she chuckled, her eyes carrying a certain longing for the human world.

Although there were many evil places in the human world, it was undeniable that some places were also truly unique.

Just then, the Demon Empress returned to the underwater cavern carrying a transparent, deathly pale jellyfish shaped like a mirror.

Looks like I won't have to worry about my daughter missing me too much if she lives with Su Ming. Seeing this, the Demon Empress felt slightly relieved.

After sacrificing herself to Su Ming, the person she worried about most was her daughter.

Now that she saw Su Ming keeping her daughter company and making her much happier, with everything developing as expected, the Demon Empress was quite pleased.

This way, her daughter would not be trapped in unbearable grief because of her departure.

This was also one of the important reasons why the Demon Empress wanted Su Ming to look after her daughter.

"Mom." Seeing her mother return, Lan Fozu hurriedly rose from the ground.

Su Ming also greeted her. "Your Majesty the Demon Empress."

"I couldn't find a two-thousand-year Mirror-Shadow Jellyfish. Take a look and see whether you can absorb this one. It should be around three thousand years old."

As she spoke, the Demon Empress tossed the stunned Mirror-Shadow Jellyfish onto the ground so Su Ming could inspect it.

Mirror-Shadow Jellyfish were already extremely rare, and it was difficult to encounter one in the vast ocean.

This one was the very same jellyfish that had once appeared in the Demon Empress's memories.

However, when the Demon Empress finally found it, she had not expected that it had apparently encountered some great opportunity and skipped a full thousand years of cultivation in one leap.

"If you can only absorb a two-thousand-year one, then the sacrifice can only be postponed. Mirror-Shadow Jellyfish aren't easy to find, after all."

The Demon Empress's meaning was simple: she wanted to know what Su Ming thought.

Everything would be done according to Su Ming's requirements. She did not mind the trouble.

After briefly examining the Mirror-Shadow Jellyfish, Su Ming said with satisfaction,

"No problem, Your Majesty the Demon Empress. A three-thousand-year limit is acceptable to me as well."

"Alright." The Demon Empress nodded.

She did not think Su Ming was merely putting on a brave face.

How could the heir of three gods be judged by ordinary standards?

"Since that is the case, let us begin the sacrifice." The Demon Empress immediately turned to the matter at hand.

Su Ming nodded solemnly at her words. "Alright."

Mom... Lan Fozu said nothing from the side, but the way she unconsciously tightened her grip on her skirt revealed her true feelings.

My daughter, you must be strong. The Demon Empress naturally noticed everything, but at this moment, she could only pretend not to see it.

They had reached such a critical moment. How could she still indulge in a woman's softheartedness?!

"Your Majesty the Demon Empress, I am ready."

After adjusting himself to his peak condition, Su Ming sat cross-legged and spoke with utmost solemnity.

"Good!" The Demon Empress moved.

In that instant, the sea breeze blowing into the underground cavern from outside stopped.

The entire sea centered around the underground hollow fell into an eerie silence.

Even the sound of waves crashing against the shore seemed to have been completely swallowed by some force.

The clouds in the sky no longer churned. Instead, they seemed frozen in place, pressing heavily against the horizon.

Under the moonlight, they glimmered with a cold, leaden gray.

The Sea Soul Beasts living in those waters seemed shaken by that invisible power and fled toward the edge of the sea as fast as they could in their lives.

The actions of these Sea Soul Beasts looked exactly like the reactions of the creatures in those waters on the day Lan Fozu underwent her heavenly tribulation.

Yet the source of the power they sensed was completely different.

At that moment, the Demon Empress's long hair rose without wind, drifting strangely upward.

A vast consciousness awakened from within her body, echoing the surging aura erupting from her.

"To make the sacrifice more perfect and allow you to receive more of my power, the process will be rather long and incomparably painful."

"Especially since you are still young. Your body has not fully developed, and your bones have not yet fully grown."

"Although I will use the ocean's power to numb your pain, you can only endure the rest yourself."

The Demon Empress's voice suddenly rang through the underground cavern.

Her meaning was straightforward: Su Ming needed to prepare for a prolonged battle.

"Mm." Su Ming had long been mentally prepared for this.

He knew about the several sacrifices that had appeared in the original work.

Naturally, he also understood that this sacrifice was no trivial matter.

Su Ming had made thorough preparations during this time.

That included leaving letters in his parents' room that day, fabricating reasons for why he would be away from home for a while.

The purpose was to ensure that he could accept the Demon Empress's sacrifice without distractions or interference from anything else.

"Here it comes!"

With the Demon Empress's warning, red flames erupted wildly from her body.

These were not ordinary flames, but an exceptionally special kind of blood flame known as the Flame of Life.

What burned within them was the Demon Empress's cultivation, life, and even her soul.

However, unlike an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast sacrifice, another force originating from the Demon Empress's source was rapidly pouring into Su Ming's body.

From Su Ming's perspective, it felt as though an incomparably terrifying demon whale had surged into his body.

Hiss... Su Ming involuntarily sucked in a breath.

This extraordinary sacrifice truly was anything but ordinary.

Although the Demon Empress had already used her power to offset much of his pain, it was still unbelievably intense.

More importantly, Su Ming could only endure it by force. He did not have the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm assisting him like Huo Yuhao did.

That was right. This was what made the Demon Empress's sacrifice different from that of an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

If one had to find a similar form of sacrifice, it would be the sacrifice Ice Empress completed for Huo Yuhao in the original work with Tian Meng's assistance.

It was not as simple as offering up her soul ring. Through her own power, she was also giving the greatest possible enhancement and transformation to the recipient.

If one had to use a term to describe such a sacrifice, it would be a Fusion Sacrifice.

It was precisely because of this that the sacrifice process was incomparably painful.