Chapter 207: The Demonic Empress Who Broke Through a Million Years
A azure stream of light tore through the darkness of the deep sea, rushing like a comet against the current, speeding at supersonic speeds.
The Sea Princess's beautiful face was taut, her cerulean eyes reflecting the increasingly dense chaos and turbulence in the sea ahead.
Her perception, like the most precise compass, was locked onto the rapidly expanding source of evil that made her soul tremble.
The closer she got, the more terrifying the pressure became.
The seawater was no longer just abnormally warm and turbulent; it seemed to possess life, trembling in fear. Countless tiny energy currents, like sharp blades, cut at her protective Soul Power, emitting a harsh 'hissing' sound.
As far as the eye could see, the once vibrant deep-sea scenery was gone, replaced only by churning mud and sand, fleeing shadows, and an nauseating aura of ferocity and destruction permeating every drop of seawater.
"Faster... a little faster!" the Sea Princess cried out anxiously in her heart.
She could clearly feel that the Demonic Empress's aura was breaking through a critical point at an astonishing speed. This was no longer a simple recovery or improvement, but a fundamental transformation of life, a terrifying process of leaping from 'mortal beast' to 'divine beast'. If she completed it, the consequences would be unimaginable!
A distance of several hundred miles was covered in mere moments under the Sea Princess's full sprint.
When the outline of the deep, dark submarine rift valley, seemingly capable of swallowing all light, appeared at the edge of her perception, the Sea Princess's heart sank abruptly.
Above the rift valley, the seawater was forcibly pushed away by an invisible force, forming a gigantic, almost vacuum-like spherical area. In the center of that area, a massive light cocoon, over a thousand meters in diameter, interwoven with dark red and abyssal blue energy, was pulsating violently like a heart!
On the surface of the light cocoon, countless twisted, sinister runes moved and flickered like living things, emitting terrifying fluctuations that even warped space. Through the translucent cocoon wall, one could vaguely see an unimaginably vast, dark blue figure twisting and expanding wildly within, each peristalsis causing the surrounding sea's laws to groan under the unbearable strain.
"Roar—!!!"
A deep roar, filled with endless savagery and ferocity, no longer a sound but a direct impact on the soul level, spread from the light cocoon. The azure Soul Power around the Sea Princess violently rippled, and she grunted, her charging speed involuntarily slowing down slightly.
This is it! The core area where the Demonic Empress is undergoing her final breakthrough!
The Sea Princess did not hesitate. Time was everything. Even if it was rushed, even if she was unprepared, she absolutely could not sit by and watch the Demonic Empress complete her transformation!
"She must not succeed!"
She abruptly stopped, hovering in the seawater several thousand meters from the rift valley. Her jade hands rapidly formed seals, and the vast Soul Power around her surged wildly, condensing and compressing before her.
The profound power of the ocean and the pure radiance of the Merfolk Clan's bloodline intertwined, instantly transforming into an azure spiral water spear, condensed to the extreme, only as thick as an arm, yet containing power that seemed capable of piercing through anything!
Inside this water spear, countless miniature waves seemed to roar and spin, and the space at its tip slightly collapsed, emitting an aura of unparalleled sharpness.
"Spear of the Vast Sea, go!"
The Sea Princess let out a clear cry, pointing her jade finger forward.
"Whoosh—!!!"
The azure spiral water spear instantly vanished, reappearing moments later, having crossed several thousand meters. Carrying the Sea Princess's resolute will and boundless Soul Power, it tore through all chaotic energy currents and water pressure in its path, accurately striking the core of the pulsating giant energy light cocoon—the location of the Demonic Empress's head!
With this strike, the Sea Princess held nothing back. It was the strongest long-range attack she could unleash in haste, aiming to interrupt the Demonic Empress's critical breakthrough process!
However—
Just as the Spear of the Vast Sea, capable of severely injuring ordinary fierce beasts, was about to touch the surface of the light cocoon, an unexpected change occurred!
Around the light cocoon, the dark red and abyssal blue energy that had previously been merely chaotic and overflowing, seemed to instantly gain life and will. Like sentient tentacles, it wildly converged and intertwined, forming an incredibly dense, rapidly spinning energy vortex shield on the surface of the light cocoon!
"Sizzle—Boom boom boom!!!"
The Spear of the Vast Sea fiercely plunged into the energy vortex.
The anticipated penetration and explosion did not occur. The spiral water spear, containing terrifying penetrating power, seemed to have fallen into the stickiest swamp, or collided with an endlessly rotating millstone.
The ocean Soul Power within the spear body fiercely clashed and annihilated with the abyssal evil energy in the vortex, emitting ear-splitting friction sounds and muffled energy explosions.
After less than a breath of stalemate, the rotation speed of the Spear of the Vast Sea visibly slowed. Its sharp tip began to disintegrate and dissipate. Finally, the entire spear was completely shredded and swallowed by the rapidly rotating, endlessly regenerating energy vortex, turning into scattered blue light particles, failing to cause any substantial damage to the light cocoon itself!
"What?!" The Sea Princess's pupils constricted, and an expression of disbelief appeared on her beautiful face for the first time.
She knew the power of her strike. Even if the Demonic Empress was at her peak, she would never dare to so arrogantly intercept it with mere overflowing energy. The strength and resilience of this energy vortex far exceeded her expectations!
This clearly indicated that the Demonic Empress's breakthrough process had reached its final stage, her surrounding energy was highly active, autonomously protecting its master, and her energy level had undergone a qualitative change!
"Hahahaha... hahahahahahaha!!!"
Just as the Sea Princess was shocked, a maniacal, triumphant laugh, filled with endless malice and ambition, suddenly erupted from the energy light cocoon, piercing through layers of seawater and shaking the entire rift valley!
Before the laughter faded, the violently pulsating giant light cocoon suddenly contracted inwards!
A silence, as if the universe had just begun, lasted for a millionth of a second, and then—
"Boom—!!!"
An indescribably terrifying energy impact, centered on the light cocoon, exploded outwards like a supernova. A mixed torrent of dark red and abyssal blue energy, carrying the purest will of destruction, instantly expanded the vacuum area above the rift valley by more than tenfold. Even several thousand meters away, the Sea Princess was forced to retreat repeatedly by this shockwave, the divine light around her violently flickering.
The light and energy currents gradually subsided.
Above the rift valley, a suffocatingly vast shadow slowly appeared.
It was the Demonic Empress.
But she was no longer the scarred figure in the Sea Princess's memory.
Her body was nearly twice as large as before, her dark blue carapace covered with purplish-black demonic patterns that writhed like living things. Each scale gleamed with a cold, metallic luster, its edges sharp as blades.
Her already hideous head was now even more terrifying, her crimson giant eyes like two blood moons, filled with coldness, brutality, and an indifference that transcended all living beings.
Most chilling was the aura she emitted.
Profound, deep, and vast as an abyss, it had completely surpassed the realm of mortal Soul Beasts, carrying an absolute majesty derived from a life-level suppression!
Simply by hovering there, the surrounding seawater actively receded, and space subtly twisted, as if unable to bear her presence.
A million years!
The genuine aura of a million-year Soul Beast!
She succeeded!
The Demonic Empress slowly turned her mountain-like head, her crimson giant eyes locking onto the Sea Princess, who was several thousand meters away and on high alert. Her gaze was filled with cat-and-mouse amusement and a sense of exhilaration from finally being able to unleash all her pent-up anger and frustration.
"Sea Princess... my little mermaid." The Demonic Empress's voice, like ten thousand years of ice grinding, resonated directly on the soul level, carrying a soul-freezing malice. "You've truly come at the perfect time... just right, to witness my ascent to the peak with your own eyes, and then, to be my first sacrifice after achieving my supreme God Position!"
She unrestrainedly released her pressure, the terrifying aura of a million-year fierce beast, like a tangible tide, impacting the Sea Princess's mind wave after wave.
However, the Demonic Empress's maniacal laughter and declaration did not last long.
Because, at the moment she successfully broke through and her aura surged skyward without reservation—
"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!"
It didn't come from the seabed, but from the incredibly distant, high-up... sky, separated by vast oceans!
A terrifying will, even more ancient, vaster, and more unyielding than the pressure the Demonic Empress had just released during her breakthrough, suddenly descended!
The Sea Princess suddenly looked up. Despite being tens of thousands of meters deep in the seawater, her divine sense seemed to pierce through all obstacles,'seeing' the scene above the sea surface.
The sky above the sea, which had been chaotic due to the Demonic Empress's breakthrough, now underwent an even stranger and more terrifying change.
The sky for tens of thousands of miles in every direction was, at some unknown point, completely covered by boundless, extremely thick, lead-gray tribulation clouds. These tribulation clouds were not static; they were wildly spinning and converging, forming a bottomless vortex at the center, as if leading to the end of the universe!
Within the vortex, it was not utter darkness, but countless electric snakes of various colors, thick as dragons, wildly darting and brewing.
The tribulation clouds slowly spun and pressed down, bringing not just visual oppression.
It was a repulsion and judgment originating from the depths of the soul, from the very laws of heaven and earth! As if this world would not tolerate such a heaven-defying life form, and was about to unleash the most severe punishment to completely erase it!
Under this heavenly might, the seawater fell into a deathly calm, not even daring to ripple.
In the deep sea, countless creatures, strong or weak, all curled up, trembling, their most basic urge to flee drowned by boundless fear.
The Demonic Empress's maniacal laughter, full of triumph from her recent breakthrough, abruptly ceased.
Her crimson giant eyes'stared' fixedly upwards. Although she couldn't see the tribulation clouds through the thick seawater, the suffocating threat of death, originating from primal instinct, was like the coldest shackles, firmly binding her soul!
Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation!
This legendary heavenly tribulation had arrived as scheduled the moment she stepped into this realm, firmly locking onto her!
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