The Sea God Phantom Descended, and the Douluo Continent Rejoiced
Above Sea God Island.
Cannons thundered, and fire lit the sea.
Ao Che stood at the ship's bow, spear in hand, quietly listening to explosion after explosion. The corners of his mouth rose involuntarily.
Pleasure.
Pleasure unlike anything he had ever known.
In fifty thousand years, no one had ever dared offend the Lord or the Holy Spirit Continent like this.
Now, he watched as the lair of these fanatics led by Bo Saixi was flattened, one shell at a time.
He listened to the Sacred Pillars they took such pride in shatter amid the explosions. The satisfaction was beyond words.
But once that satisfaction passed, he grew a little bored.
After all, this battle had far too little suspense.
Forget it!
Connect to the Heavenly Screen and wait for this legendary Sea God!
He glanced at Yu Xiaogang's comment, casually connected to the Heavenly Screen, and tossed out a message.
[Ao Che: Angering a lion? Him? More like a golden retriever, hahahaha!]
[Yu Xiaogang: You!!!]
[Bibi Dong: Xiaogang, don't get angry! Don't try to reason with these people. Once Lord Sea God arrives, we'll see who stands above whom!]
[Ao Che: You shameless couple. When our fleet reaches your Douluo Continent, we'll flatten wherever you live first!]
[Bibi Dong: Really? I'll be waiting for you to kill me, then, shameless woman that I am!]
The next instant, an enraged comment practically smashed its way out of the Heavenly Screen.
[Liu Erlong: Wait! Yu Xiaogang and I are the shameless couple... no... I'm not... Bibi Dong, go die!!]
[Ao Che: Three fucking idiots!]
Ao Che stopped looking at the Heavenly Screen.
Such fucking idiots.
He kept feeling that something was wrong with the people of the Douluo Continent.
As the old saying went, don't talk to people with defective brains.
It was contagious.
He pulled his attention back and looked down at Sea God Island.
By then, the bombardment had ended.
And the entire Sea God Island had been transformed beyond recognition.
The thousand-year-old temple had collapsed.
The century-old altar had shattered.
The entire island had split apart, cracks crisscrossing it like a spiderweb.
Thick smoke billowed, seas of fire stretched unbroken, and half the island had already sunk into the sea.
The Seven Sacred Pillars had all died gruesome deaths.
Not a single corpse remained intact.
Against this Nuclear Peace package, never mind the Seven Sacred Pillars.
Even a deity would have been screwed!
Yet he suddenly caught sight of something.
Deep in the ruins, Bo Saixi lay in a pool of blood, and her finger twitched faintly.
Ao Che froze.
"She's not dead? How is that possible?"
He turned toward Lingxiao, his words taking on a teasing tone.
"Are those Level Fifteen soul-guided missiles of yours fake?"
"She survived even that?"
Lingxiao shot him a look and retorted irritably.
"You're the fake."
"Can't you sense it yourself? Someone's helping her."
Beside them, Jun Mowen stood with his sword on his back and calmly twisted the knife.
"Yes. Your reactions have grown sluggish."
Ao Che curled his lip.
Fine!
He had been watching the spectacle the whole time, after all, without taking it seriously.
He immediately reined in all his restlessness. His divine sense spread like an abyssal sea as he carefully examined Bo Saixi's body again.
This time, he saw it clearly.
Deep within that spent husk, whose lamp had all but run out of oil, there truly was a heart-stoppingly immense divine power. Like a fine stream drawn out thread by thread, it stubbornly sustained her final breath!
The aura of that divine power.
Vast, briny, and born from the same source as the entire sea!
Ao Che's gaze sharpened, and he slowly withdrew his divine sense.
"It seems."
"He's here."
As his words fell, everyone present raised their heads.
On the Heavenly Screen, billions of viewers across both continents also turned their eyes toward that stretch of sea plowed flat by cannon fire.
He had arrived.
Rumble!!
The boundless waters surrounding Sea God Island suddenly boiled!
The endless ocean began to surge backward, spiral, and rise. Thick pillars of water shot skyward from the seabed.
Above the ruins, they converged wildly, intertwined, and took shape.
One breath, a hundred zhang.
Three breaths, a thousand zhang.
An immense figure that seemed to hold up the heavens slowly rose from the ocean!
Shimmering scales spread in layers across his body of seawater. Foam piled together to form the outline of white hair, and majesty began to emerge between his brows.
A vast aura, sharing the origin and breath of the entire sea, swept out with crushing force!
The Sea God!
Yet that towering figure was faintly translucent throughout, like a divine crystal statue carved from glass!
After all, it was merely a divine phantom formed by a wisp of his consciousness descending to the mortal world.
But even as a mere phantom, that divine pressure, looking down upon all living beings, still made every creature throughout the surrounding sea prostrate itself and tremble!
At that moment, billions of beings on the Douluo Continent felt hot tears fill their eyes.
He had come!
Their god had truly come!!
The Sea God slowly raised his hand.
Hum!!
Deep in the ruins, a golden streak shot into the sky, tearing through the thick smoke and cleaving the sea of fire!
The Sea God Trident!
That supreme divine artifact, which had accompanied the Sea God through ages of battle, crossed the wreckage of the entire island in a long golden arc and landed securely in his illusory palm!
Golden light and watery radiance shone together.
Trident in hand, the divine phantom hovered above the ocean, coldly looking down at the tiny Ironclad.
Like a god surveying an ant.
At that moment, the Douluo Continent erupted completely.
[Yu Xiaogang: The Sea God is here!!!]
[Yu Yuanzhen: This is... the Sea God?!]
[Ning Fengzhi: It's settled! Sea God Island is certain to win this time. No, the Douluo Continent is certain to win!!]
[Bibi Dong: Is this the power of a deity... even through the screen, I can feel that overwhelming might!]
In the depths of despair, a miracle descended.
The despair of the entire continent turned into wild joy in that instant.
Amid the ruins, lying in a pool of blood with only one breath left, Bo Saixi used the last of her strength to lift her head. Tears rolled down as she gazed at that heaven-spanning divine phantom.
"Lord Sea God..."
"You've finally come!"
The Sea God lowered his head to glance at her, his gaze gentle.
"It's all right."
"Leave the rest to me."
As his words fell, he turned his gaze toward the three figures in midair. All gentleness vanished, and his majesty bore down like a tsunami!
"I am the Sea God, a First-Level God of the Divine Realm!"
"You wounded my people, slaughtered my Seven Sacred Pillars, and nearly killed my High Priest."
"You deserve death!"
"Today, in the name of the Sea God, I shall kill you!"
Lingxiao gave a cold laugh at his words, showing not the slightest sign of being intimidated by his divine title.
"They provoked and insulted us first. They relied on a god backing them, dogs borrowing a god's might. That's why we struck."
Ao Che did not even bother raising his spear tip. He scoffed.
"Besides, these days, whoever has the bigger fist calls the shots!"
"So, the bigger fist calls the shots!"
Golden light flared in the Sea God's eyes as he pointed his trident at the three of them from afar.
"It seems you've already prepared yourselves to die!"
"You?"
Ao Che finally raised his eyes. His spear tilted upward, pointing straight at the thousand-zhang divine phantom, and he made no effort to conceal the contempt in his voice.
"You're just an avatar. You think you're worthy?"
"You don't even dare descend in your true body. Nothing but a rat."
The Sea God did not grow angry. Instead, he laughed coldly.
"The reason I sent only an avatar"
"is that I never believed you truly possessed the strength of First-Level Gods!"
Ao Che's gaze turned fierce.
The next instant, the tip of the Abyss-Suppressing Dragon Spear pointed straight between the Sea God's brows!
"Try me!"