Just as Tang Wulin and Gu Yue thought victory was assured and the storm in the Far North was about to subside, a pressure countless times more terrifying than the Abyssal Sage King and Demon Empress combined thundered down from the highest heavens without warning.
"Useless. You couldn't even handle such a trivial matter."
An icy, arrogant female voice, laden with boundless contempt, seemed to cross the barriers between Planes and explode directly in the depths of everyone's souls. The anger within it made the very space of the Far North groan beneath an unbearable burden.
"Very well. You are my son, after all."
As that sigh, filled with helplessness and indulgence, faded, an enormous dark-red fissure suddenly opened in the sky. Immediately afterward, countless streams of intensely concentrated crimson energy poured down like a celestial river bursting its banks. Carrying a nauseating stench of blood and decay, they flooded madly into the two clouds of blood mist belonging to the Demon Empress and Abyssal Sage King, which had been on the verge of dispersing.
"ROAR!!!"
Two roars utterly unlike human voices abruptly rang out. Under the relentless infusion of crimson energy, the two clouds of blood mist rapidly coalesced and expanded, then lurched upright from the rubble like two corpses forcibly hauled up by puppet strings.
The cloud of blood mist that had belonged to the Demon Empress underwent an earth-shaking transformation as the Crimson Currents reshaped her. Her graceful human body swelled wildly like an inflating balloon. Her dark-purple gown instantly shattered, replaced by deep-blue armored scales as massive and thick as mountains.
"That's... the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King?!" Gu Yue's pupils contracted sharply, and she cried out involuntarily.
Indeed, what hovered in midair was the Demon Empress's long-sealed true form—the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King! Unlike