Sea Beasts Blocking the Way? Another Divine Slaughter in a Sea of Blood! A Live Star-Destroying Blast Sweeps the Skies!

Just as the powers across the ocean believed everything was under control, each harboring their own schemes and sharpening their blades...

On the Longcang Continent advancing at full speed, within the Worship Hall atop the Hanging Sacred Mountain...

The atmosphere was leisurely and composed!

Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Ginseng Divine Tea bubbled away on the Purple Sand Stove, its delicate fragrance drifting through the sea of clouds.

Ye Canghai reclined in a lounge chair, watching with interest as the raging deep-sea tide seethed in the Sky Screen's water mirror.

"Your Majesty."

The Great Sage brushed the Black Jade Compass in his hand, turning it slightly, and chuckled!

"Those little fish and shrimp that just drank their fill of the Heavenly Dao's sweet water have gathered their vanguard and formed ranks. They mean to avenge their ancestors from ten thousand years ago!"

"Avenge them?"

Standing below the veranda steps, the Crocodile King's fleshy face twitched. "These uncivilized fools! The Heavenly Dao gave them a little spiritual energy, and now they think they amount to something?

"To me, they look more like fertilizer prepared especially for our Longcang!"

"Those three innate creation divine pools... giving them to those stupid fish was a criminal waste of heaven's treasures. We can take them and let our empire's Military Affairs Battalion soak and temper the Divine Armor in them!"

Beside him, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King stood with his hands behind his back, a flicker of utter derision crossing his eyes.

"When Your Majesty pacified the four seas, you considered the Heavenly Dao's cycle and deliberately spared a few remnants of their bloodlines."

"Who would have thought that after another ten thousand years of life and two or three sweet dates, they would grow the mongrel courage to gather and howl at heaven?"

The Demon Whale King bowed slightly, his voice as calm as if he were discussing crushing blades of grass.

"This old servant requests permission to make a trip into the deep sea! Let them learn once more what it means to live in terror beneath the dominion of us demonic whales!"

"Within half an incense stick, I will sweep that ocean clean again for Your Majesty and bring those three divine pools back to the Hanging Sacred Mountain on the way."

For a moment, none of the peerless elders throughout the Worship Hall showed even a trace of tension before the impending battle!

Instead, a ravenous appetite stirred within them, eager to be indulged.

Before an unbridgeable gulf of power, numbers had never been anything to rely on.

The wild sea beasts' supposed "unity against a common enemy," in the eyes of these ten-thousand-year-old monsters...

Was nothing more than a herd of livestock washing their own necks clean and lining up to squeeze into the slaughter pen.

Just as everyone chatted and laughed-

A cold, icy mechanical female voice echoed through the central corridors.

"Alert: deep-sea energy readings 2,800 kilometers directly ahead are increasing exponentially."

"Large-scale organized sea beast formations detected intercepting the shipping route.

"Targets locked: Deep-Sea Dragon Sharks, Bloodthirsty Swordfish, Evil Spirit Orcas..."

On the screen, countless enormous beasts gleaming with bloody light churned the waters of the once-black, roiling deep sea!

Tap, tap, tap.

Steady bootsteps sounded outside the hall.

The level ninety-nine Dragon God Douluo, Mu Tianji, entered with a hand resting on the Divine Sword and robes white as snow. Beside him walked Mystic Godson, grease smeared around his mouth and half a roasted bone still clutched in his hand.

Composed, Mu Tianji bowed deeply toward the imperial couch.

"Reporting to Your Majesty: several thousand deep-sea ferocious beasts have gathered in the waters ahead. They are forming ranks in a futile attempt to block our military advance."

Beside him, Mystic Godson wiped his greasy mouth, rolled his eyes, and grumbled.

"Your Majesty, those blind wild fish and rotten shrimp must have had their brains soaked to mush by the heavenly dao divine rain.

"This old servant will send those beasts' fins straight to the imperial kitchens to make soup for Your Majesty!"

Upon the imperial couch...

Ye Canghai withdrew his gaze from the water mirror. The entire clamorous hall instantly fell into absolute silence, everyone holding their breath and bowing their heads.

"Traveling all that way to gather beneath our route as living targets... their filial devotion in seeking vengeance certainly took some effort."

Ye Canghai lifted his eyelids slightly. Within those dragon eyes, as profound as a universe of primordial chaos...

There was not the slightest murderous intent, only the lofty indifference of one looking down upon specks of dust.

"The winds high above are crisp and clean. Why go down ourselves and come back covered in a fishy stench that will never wash away?"

Mystic Godson ventured, "Then we aren't going to trouble them?"

Ye Canghai looked toward the dense, blood-red clouds blotting out the sun on the far side of the ocean, a playful smile touching his lips.

"No! Why would we refuse such a generous gift delivered to our door?"

"Since they have brought it to us, Longcang will gladly accept the creation divine pools and mysterious gold ancient vein bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

"Place the three divine pools in the national treasury. Award the ancient vein to the Worship Hall to reforge its divine weapons."

"As for those so eager for vengeance... since they think the slaughter in the deep sea all those years ago failed to leave a deep enough impression..."

His divine might fathomless as an abyss, Ye Canghai pronounced indifferently, "Send orders to the Fire Control Battalion. The fleet need not slow down."

"Bring out the newly installed class-thirteen Constant-Energy Star-Destroying Main Cannon and fire a round. Use these living targets... to calibrate its trajectory."

"We slaughtered them once back then. Today..."

"Today, upon this ocean, we will scour the ground clean of these deep-sea races that know nothing of life or death... once again!"

Rumble-!

The instant the imperial decree fell, Mu Tianji and Mystic Godson turned solemn and clasped their fists with resounding force. "We obey Your Majesty's decree!"

The two elders turned sharply and strode back to the raised platform of the command center.

His expression icy, Mu Tianji rested one hand on his sword and swept his long sleeve through the wind.

"Transmit His Majesty's decree."

"Disengage the Godslayer's main cannon's first-stage safety."

"Coordinates in the Black Absolute Dead Sea ahead of our route-complete obstruction clearance."

Below the command platform, the elderly class-nine Soul Engineer responsible for the overall fire-control array flashed a piercing gaze, his ten fingers flying across the holographic rune formation.

"Command confirmed!"

"Disengage overload and energy-charging programs. Lock firing mode-[Zero-Point Inertial Pulse]."

"Power output limit: zero point five parts per thousand."

"Impact elevation correction complete. Spatial gravity well stable... fire!"

Hum-!

At that instant, the laws between heaven and earth seemed to be forcibly severed for a moment.

Before the nearly ten-thousand-meter-long dark-gold bow of the Godslayer, the pitch-black firing shaft, a hundred meters in diameter, emitted neither the flash nor the explosive roar of ordinary artillery.

As the eight overlapping rings of black-gold imperial patterns around the shaft's opening spun furiously in reverse, sunlight, leaden clouds, and fierce winds within several miles were dragged into its core by violent gravity in a tenth of a second!

Light collapsed, and heaven and earth abruptly lost their color.

Then-

Whoosh!

There was no deafening roar, only an ultimate resonant shriek sharp enough to tear the soul apart!

A wrist-thick glimmer of particles, interwoven with dark gold and void-black patterns, shot horizontally from the black-gold muzzle, trailing spiraling ripples that twisted space and time.

The instant it swept across the sky, the atmosphere along its path was ionized and stripped away, wrenching open a pitch-black vacuum rift thousands of miles long across the blue heavens. Billowing black smoke and the acrid smell of ozone churned wildly among the clouds, refusing to dissipate for a long time!

And the instant that slender golden thread plunged into the ocean-

The Black Absolute Dead Sea, three thousand li away, abruptly fell into deathly silence.

There was no sound of waves, no thunderous roar.

The instant the golden thread entered the water, the sea for dozens of li around its impact point sank in a grotesque depression, forming a hemispherical vacuum crater a thousand zhang deep!

The next moment-

Rumble-!!!

Energy compressed to its utmost limit erupted savagely within the earth vein ten thousand meters beneath the sea!

A pure-white sphere of supersonic shock waves expanded madly underwater. Savage shock waves, accompanied by temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees, swept through the entire ocean trench like a force smashing rotten wood.

The more than three thousand deep-sea ferocious beasts caught first in the blast could not even force a single wail from their throats.

At the center, hundreds of ten-thousand-year-old Demon-Armored Dragon Sharks met the shock front. Their black crystal heavy scales, harder than iron, and their enormous bodies instantly charred, vaporized, and decomposed into elementary particles, leaving not even a trace of bloody water!

The three eighty-thousand-year-old beast kings and more than a thousand ferocious beasts struggling to flee at the perimeter suffered an even more horrific slaughter at the microscopic level.

The ultra-high-pressure water convulsed like countless invisible hammers of the great dao, smashing straight into their organs.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A succession of muffled bodily explosions erupted underwater!

More than three thousand savage colossal beasts, enough to tear apart a defensive line of Titled Douluos, had their organs and brains instantly shaken into bloody sludge. Vast swaths of enormous carcasses turned their pallid bellies upward and floated densely to the surface like fallen leaves.

Before their blood could even fully spread, the earth veins and waterways of the vast ocean were hurled ten thousand meters into the sky by that utterly brutal kinetic force!

Boom-!!

A million zhang!

It was a crimson wall of water that truly blotted out the sun and stabbed straight into the thunderclouds of the highest heavens!

Hundreds of millions of tons of seawater boiled into rolling white steam and towering waterfalls of blood. Bloody water mixed with shattered bones crashed down like a torrential rain, painting the entire world as though primordial chaos had returned.

More terrifying still was the destructive aftermath sweeping across the four seas.

A white shock-wave ring, formed by the resonance of atmospheric overpressure and the tsunami, tore outward along the sea's surface at dozens of times the speed of sound!

Around the Black Absolute Dead Sea lay dozens of island groups belonging to the Basalt Reef Archipelago, each spanning a hundred li and standing for untold tens of thousands of years.

Ordinarily, even a Super Douluo's full-powered strike could only split a few cracks in their rocky walls.

But before the aftermath of this casually fired pulse, which had not even charged up-

Crack! Crack! Bang-!

Those ancient rocks shattered like fragile porcelain, fissures spreading madly through the crust.

The next instant, dozens of island groups across a thousand-li radius were forcibly blasted into flying rubble and fine powder by the savage shock wave!

Entire islands were erased completely from the nautical charts!

Mountains crumbled to powder and reefs shattered into fine sand. Swept up in the violent vacuum vortices, they vanished like melting ice and snow into the pitch-black abyss ten thousand meters below!

Black smoke curled, and steam billowed.

A thousand li of ocean had been blasted into a vast, sunken whirlpool, and the surrounding cold currents poured inward with an almost mournful frenzy.

Yet high above the heavens, the entire battleship fleet had not slowed its advance by even half a beat.

The Godslayer's towering dark-gold bow smashed straight through the skyful of bloody mist and rolling steam. Its ghostly blue exhaust tore across the heavens as, with absolute, lofty indifference, it crushed onward over the deathly silent trench scoured barren below, continuing its roaring advance into the heart of the ocean!