Chapter 209: The Sea Princess's Crushing Defeat, The Boiling Power Of Faith
The deep sea returned to deathly silence.
The tribulation clouds dispersed, the heavenly might receded, leaving only the uncalmed energy turbulence in the seawater, and the dark blue figure suspended above the rift valley, exuding a suffocatingly immense aura.
The Demon Empress slowly moved her newly formed body, covered in purplish-black demonic patterns. With every opening and closing of her scales, it caused violent tremors in the surrounding seawater, emitting a dull roar like thunder. In her scarlet giant eyes, ecstasy and brutality intertwined, eventually transforming into an indifferent disdain for everything.
It was a success. The million-year barrier, that desperate chasm that had obstructed countless Soul Beasts, was broken through in one fell swoop after she devoured that 'heaven-bestowed' opportunity. The life essence of a god-level flowed within her, an unprecedented sense of power, as if with a mere flick of her hand, she could stir the power of the ocean and tear space apart.
However, she could also clearly perceive that the vast and boundless Soul Power within her, though it had begun a certain qualitative change due to the leap in life level, still required a period of precipitation and refinement before it could be completely transformed into higher-tier, readily usable divine power.
"Three days..." The Demon Empress muttered to herself, this was her judgment based on her current state.
In just three days, she would be able to completely refine and transform her million years of accumulated Soul Power into pure divine power. By then, her strength would be solidified at the level of a Second-Tier God, truly becoming the overlord of this boundless ocean!
Thinking of this, she turned her gaze to the distant azure figure that was still stubbornly suspended, but whose aura fluctuated violently due to the heavenly might and her breakthrough—the Sea Princess.
This fellow, who had entangled her for a year and repeatedly ruined her plans, was now no different from an ant in her eyes. No, she found her even more detestable than an ant.
"Sea Princess..." The Demon Empress's voice was like ten thousand years of cold ice scraping against seabed reefs, directly reverberating at the soul level, carrying undisguised cruelty and mockery, "This Empress should thank you. If not for your 'escort' all the way, this Empress might not have found such a perfect breakthrough opportunity. Now, you can die!"
Before her words even finished, she didn't even make any obvious movements; with just a thought, the power around her, which hadn't fully transformed into divine power, erupted. The evil domain, interwoven with dark red and dark blue, instantly expanded, like an invisible mire, completely imprisoning and polluting the seawater for tens of miles around. A heavy pressure, like a mountain, crushed down towards the Sea Princess!
The Sea Princess's beautiful face was already as pale as paper, but a resolute flame burned in her sapphire eyes.
"Wishful thinking!" The Sea Princess gritted her silver teeth, suppressing the instinctive tremor in the depths of her soul caused by the opponent's god-level pressure. She knew that the Demon Empress was currently in a 'weak period' of transition between old and new powers, not yet fully stable. This was her only and last chance!
"By the name of the sea, by the covenant of blood! Vast Sea Overturning Heaven!"
She no longer held back, even burning a portion of her primordial essence blood. The azure divine light around her instantly transformed into a dazzling golden-blue, and she herself seemed to become the embodiment of the ocean.
She cupped her hands, and the endless seawater obeyed her command, frantically converging and compressing before her. It was not a simple giant wave or water spear, but a deep blue vortex that connected heaven and earth, as if it could swallow everything. At the center of the vortex, a point of ultimate golden light shone—that was the power of destruction formed by her burning origin!
This was her ultimate forbidden technique, its power far exceeding the previous Spear of the Vast Sea, but the cost was also extremely heavy. After using it, regardless of success or failure, she would inevitably fall into a prolonged weakness, even suffering a drop in cultivation.
"Go!"
The Sea Princess spat out a mouthful of light golden blood, which merged into the vortex. The deep blue vortex let out an earth-shattering roar, carrying her lifelong cultivation, her suicidal will, and her belief in protecting the Merfolk Clan and the myriad creatures of the ocean, crashing fiercely towards the Demon Empress. Wherever it passed, even the Demon Empress's evil domain was forcibly torn apart and pushed back!
Facing this attack that almost burned her life, a subtle hint of surprise flashed in the Demon Empress's scarlet giant eyes for the first time, but it was only a hint. Immediately, that surprise was replaced by intense disdain and mockery.
"An ant trying to shake a tree."
She didn't even use any complex skills; she simply raised her giant claw, which had just completed its transformation and was covered in dark golden demonic patterns, and gently pressed it against the terrifying deep blue vortex.
There was no earth-shattering collision.
Only an absolute, hierarchical suppression.
That massive dark golden demonic claw seemed to ignore spatial distance, pressing directly onto the core of the vortex—that point of golden light burning with primordial essence.
"Pop..."
A faint, almost negligible crisp sound.
The golden-blue vortex, which had condensed the Sea Princess's desperate will and burned her primordial essence, was like a magnificent bubble being popped. It instantly froze, then began to disintegrate and shatter from its core. The terrifying energy it contained didn't even have time to erupt before it was brutally suppressed and annihilated by the higher-level power of the demonic claw!
The backlash was like a bursting dam, crashing back into the Sea Princess's body along an unseen connection.
"Puff—!"
The Sea Princess was struck by lightning, her delicate body trembled violently, and she spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with internal organ fragments. The golden-blue divine light around her instantly dimmed and extinguished.
Her beautiful sapphire eyes quickly lost their luster, filled with disbelief, despair, and desolation.
An attack bought by burning her primordial essence was so easily shattered by a casual press from the opponent... Is this the power of a million-year Soul Beast?
She couldn't even let out a scream. Her entire being was sent flying like a kite with a broken string by the residual terrifying force, leaving a long bloody trail in the deep sea. She finally crashed into the rock wall of an undersea mountain range, embedding herself deeply within it, her life force extremely weak, already fallen into a deep coma.
The Demon Empress retracted her giant claw, as if she had only done a trivial matter. She did not even look at the Sea Princess, who was embedded in the rock wall and whose life or death was unknown. Her scarlet giant eyes gazed into the distance again, seemingly already planning the blueprint for completely transforming into divine power and ruling the sea three days later.
However, at the very moment the Sea Princess was severely wounded and sent flying, her life's flame flickering like a candle in the wind—
Across the entire Douluo Plane, in all oceanic regions, whether in coastal or deep waters, wherever marine life existed, no matter what they were doing, a clear and vivid image, as if they were personally present, simultaneously 'reflected' in the consciousness of all living beings without warning:
In the image, there was the deep, dark rift valley, and the million-year Demon Empress who had just passed her heavenly tribulation, exuding monstrous ferocity.
There was the tragic figure of the Sea Princess, burning her primordial essence and resolutely unleashing her forbidden technique.
There was the helplessness and despair of the golden-blue vortex, powerful enough to change the expression of any demigod, being casually crushed by the Demon Empress's single claw.
Finally, there was the tragic sight of the Sea Princess spitting blood, being struck down like a broken doll, embedded in the rock wall, and barely clinging to life...
There was no sound, only images. But the information conveyed in those images was more soul-stirring than any sound:
The guardian of the ocean, the princess of the Merfolk Clan, the figure who had always fought against evil... was defeated, defeated so completely, so tragically.
And the Demon Empress, who brought endless disaster, not only did not die but became even more powerful, about to complete her final transformation.
This image, like the coldest deep-sea current, instantly swept through the consciousness of every marine creature.
Fish schools stopped swimming, huddling together, trembling;
Powerful Sea Soul Beasts let out terrified and indignant roars;
The Merfolk Clan's citizens, whether in their coral castles or on patrol, were all struck as if by lightning. The color drained from their beautiful faces, and they let out heart-wrenching wails of grief;
Chen Yunshen, who was closely monitoring the battlefield from his island cave dwelling, suddenly clutched his chest, his old face pale, and spat out a mouthful of congested blood. His eyes were filled with endless grief and anger, and a hint of... deep powerlessness.
Despair.
An unprecedented, bone-chilling despair, like a plague, frantically spread and grew in the hearts of all marine creatures who witnessed this scene. The Demon Empress's ferocity and the Sea Princess's tragic defeat, like two heavy mountains, crushed their last hope.
And the instigator of all this, in the Plane Origin Sea, atop the Golden Ancient Tree, Lei Chen calmly withdrew his gaze from the ocean, as if he had merely done something utterly commonplace. His eyes were profound, reflecting the colorful plane's flowing light, and no one could discern the emotions within.
He merely 'watched' quietly as the Power Of Faith, which had begun to intensely boil and converge due to despair, frantically surged in a certain direction.
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