Romance of the Heavenly Gate
Chapter 198

Giant Wave

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Seawater, along with various kinds of seabed sediment, poured down from the sky. The Hu Mang looked around and realized that he wasn't the only one who was unlucky.

Other Golden Core also faced the same dangerous wave.

Hu Mang realized he had underestimated Dragon Blood Tide.

Initially, fishing was conducted on the outskirts.

Then came the night, when the waves were relatively calm.

But in fact, the most dangerous thing about the Dragon Blood Tide is not anything else, but the Dragon Blood Tide itself.

Almost as soon as the first wave dissipated, two even higher walls of waves rose up from the direction of the sea eye, one on the left and one on the right, like two gates closing, attacking the Hu Mang from both sides.

The wave on the left carried a large amount of silvery-white Spiritual Qi crystals, which gleamed coldly in the moonlight, like a giant wall embedded with broken ice; the wave on the right was a turbid rust color, with a large amount of seabed mud and broken coral remnants mixed in, with a heavy, mudslide-like texture.

Hu Mang took a deep breath; the Spiritual Qi was still incredibly abundant and familiar.

The next moment, the black iron spear in Hu Mang's hand disappeared, replaced by a fiery red lightning Thunder Net.

Qian Yang Subdues Devils + Heavenly Thunder Spear Net

The fiery red pure yang energy and the silvery-white lightning intertwined and merged under his will, transforming into two scorching Thunder Net that enveloped the two waves on the left and right respectively.

The two Thunder Net struck the two waves respectively. The one on the left was somewhat better, except that the demon-subduing yang energy blasted out a huge mist of water.

As the wave on the right exploded, billowing Yin Qi surged out from the split wave. It was the accumulated Yin energy stirred up from the depths of the sea by the Dragon Blood Tide, carrying the aura of Corpse Sha and vengeful spirits. However, before it could reach the Hu Mang, it was caught by the Thunder Net and turned into billowing smoke.

After successfully blocking three waves, even Hu Mang turned pale, and at least half of his Law Power was depleted.

He drew Demonic Qi from the Cauldron-Boiling Devil Meridian and continuously transformed it into Profound Yin True Qi.

But he wasn't the worst off, because he witnessed a Golden Core demon not far away, possibly even the lord of one of the Thirty-Six Islands of the Eastern Sea, being blasted out of its true form by the combined attack of two waves. A red carp as thick as a water vat was crushed into a pulp by the immense force of the waves and slammed into the seabed.

They died a horrible death!

Good luck and koi fish are definitely not something to be superstitious about.

As far as the Hu Mang could see, it even saw a giant wave at the Nascent Soul level crashing onto an ocean-going cargo ship. The wave and the formation were locked in a stalemate for a moment, ending with the formation being broken, the ship taking on water, and the deck being plowed over as if by cannonballs.

Then Hu Mang's expression changed drastically, because after this Nascent Soul wave submerged the ocean freighter, it did not dissipate but instead re-condensed, surging towards him with its overwhelming momentum.

The light seemed to have vanished.

Because the wave was so enormous, it completely blocked the moonlight and starlight behind it; the wave was estimated to be more than fifteen zhang high, like a fifteen-story-high water wall, stretching across the Hu Mang's field of vision, with no end in sight from left to right, as if the entire sea had stood up at this moment, turning into an endless blood-red giant wall.

Without saying a word, and without even bothering to hide it, Hu Mang activated his full Heavenly Devil Field and shot backward like lightning.

Also rushing forward were three or four Golden Core nearby. One of them, a large ship, was too big to turn around and became the first target of this giant wave.

As they passed by the large ship, Hu Mang could even clearly see the pale faces and despairing eyes of the cultivators on board.

Ten years have passed, and many people and demons have almost forgotten about it.

The Dragon Blood Tide is also a human blood tide.

After half an incense stick

The Hu Mang fled for over a hundred miles in one breath, and only when the roaring sound behind it gradually faded away did the oppressive feeling of the Nascent Soul wave finally lessen.

He glanced back. The dark red wall still stretched across the horizon, but its height had dropped to less than ten zhang. Fine wrinkles and cracks began to appear on the surface of the wave. Clearly, after advancing over a hundred li, its spiritual power had begun to wane. Even so, its remaining power was still enough to smash a medium-sized cargo ship into pieces.

Moreover, the wave itself still contains the power of "Unity of Heaven and Man," making it impossible to avoid.

"If we keep running, we might get driven out of the Dragon Blood Tide's range."

With this thought in mind, Hu Mang took a deep breath, stopped in his tracks, and activated the full power of the Heavenly Devil Field!

Centered on him, the Heavenly Devil Field rapidly expanded to a radius of three zhang, bringing the surrounding sea, air, and Spiritual Qi under its control.

His Divine Sense was like an invisible net, capturing every energy flow and every structural weakness of that giant wave, and then he charged back into it against the tide.

The next moment, the Hu Mang's figure plunged into the waves and disappeared.

However, soon, fine cracks began to appear on the wave where he had disappeared. The cracks then rapidly expanded, spreading from the front of the wave to the middle, and from the middle to the tail. Under the high-frequency vibrations of the Heavenly Devil Field, the structure of the entire wave began to decompose, disintegrate, and then explode with a bang!

The waves crashed down like a dense rain, splashing onto the sea surface with a crackling sound.

Hu Mang stood in the torrential rain, his clothes already soaked through. His face changed color several times between red and white before finally spitting out a mouthful of black, stagnant blood with a "whoosh."

That's really awesome!

Blood and remnants remained between the Hu Mang's teeth; its internal organs seemed to have shifted from their original positions after the impact, with fragments of flesh and blood still clinging to its teeth.

However, the next moment, two beams of Golden Core light shot down directly from the dark clouds, heading straight for the location of the Hu Mang.

"Boy, put down your loot from the Dragon Blood Tide, and I'll spare your life!"

One of the streaks of light, clearly imbued with Yao Qi energy, rushed forward the fastest, revealing its true form—a black tiger demon.

Indeed, the East Sea is vast and contains everything; you might even encounter a mountain spirit or monster.

The tiger spirit opened its mouth and shot out a stream of black mist. Within the mist were countless ghouls, men and women, young and old, some dressed in ancient clothing, others in modern attire. Each one had a deathly pale face, vacant eyes, and emitted low, whimpering sounds.

The sheer number of these demons clearly indicates they were created from marine debris.

The Hu Mang swayed, seemingly still recovering from the severe impact of the waves.

However, just as the horde of demons was about to pounce on the Hu Mang's face, the Hu Mang's swaying body suddenly steadied, its Yin Eye opened wide, and a cold, eerie light swept across the army of demons.

The Hu Mang vanished from its spot, weaving and flashing through the gaps between the ghouls. Each step it took precisely landed in the blind spots of the ghouls' attack range, and each turn it just barely avoided the ghostly claws that pounced from the side. The ghouls didn't even have time to react; they only saw a blur before the Hu Mang's figure had already passed through the entire army of ghouls and appeared behind them.

Before the black tiger spirit could react, a sentence rang in its ears.

"There are only three zhang (approximately 10 meters) between us now."

The next moment, space seemed to freeze.

It was as if hundreds of transparent chains were directly binding the black tiger spirit's half-human body.

It was as if an invisible hand had grabbed the Black Tiger Demon's left arm and then twisted and pulled it violently.

Click!

The black tiger demon's left arm was torn off completely, skin and bone intact, and blood gushed out from the cut like a fountain, gleaming a dark red under the moonlight.

At the same time, another force from the Heavenly Devil Field, like an invisible chain, bound the Black Tiger Spirit's right leg and then yanked it violently; there was another crisp sound of bones breaking, and the Black Tiger Spirit's right leg was torn off at the knee.

The black tiger spirit let out a shrill scream, its voice carrying the power of a tiger's roar, causing the surrounding seawater to erupt in concentric waves.

At this moment, the demonic blood in his body went completely berserk. A violent, blood-red tiger shadow suddenly appeared behind him. The tiger shadow roared to the sky and unleashed a soaring demonic Yao Qi, breaking through the restraints of the Heavenly Devil Field in one fell swoop.

Then, without saying a word, the black tiger spirit's Golden Core companion grabbed it and rushed into the dark clouds in mid-air, running even faster than when it came.

The cultivators of the East Sea are, at the very least, professionals at running away.

The Hu Mang hovered in mid-air expressionlessly for a full incense stick's time before swaying and spitting out another mouthful of blood.

"Damn it, I actually ran into a murder-for-treasure scam."

If it were the Heavenly Devil Field at its peak, it wouldn't be able to tear apart the Black Tiger Demon's Golden Core body in one fell swoop, but it would be confident of leaving its limbs intact.

Unlike now, leaving one hand and one foot behind is already a full display of power.

The Hu Mang exhaled a breath of bloody air, then took out a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone. The spiritual liquid inside the Spirit Stone, like a gentle spring rain, entered the Hu Mang's body. At the same time, the massive essence within the "Unraveled Rope Devil Meridian" began to cover the entire body, repairing the various internal organs and injuries.

At the point where the two meet, the bud of the Flower of Essence slowly blooms, its Golden Nature Perfection and immaculate, sweeping out all the hidden injuries, blood stasis, and acupoint deviations that are difficult to detect within the body.

In less than an hour, half of his injuries had healed.

Outside the body, the Mysterious Yin Black Robe began to emerge and swell, as if a human figure was hidden within the robe.

"As heaven and earth wane, the primordial yin reigns supreme. With the body as the cauldron and the soul as the talisman, sever the karmic ties of the past, break the shackles of reincarnation, draw forth the source of the netherworld, cleanse the decaying mortal bones, dissipate the old body, and allow the Yin Spirit to reshape the form, reborn against the natural order, never to wither through countless eons!"

Accompanied by the incantation uttered by the Hu Mang.

With a "rip," the black robe tore open, as if a living person's flesh had been ripped apart.

The Hu Mang's body emerged from the shadows, its face rosy, as if its previous injuries had never occurred.

He looked the black robe up and down, especially at the dense black bloodstains and moisture on it, and clicked his tongue in amazement.

"The Mysterious Yin Rebirth Technique, combined with the tenfold increase in physical essence from 'Unlocked Devil Meridian,' can actually simulate fifty percent of the 'Life-Preserving Cat Tail' effect."

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