Chapter 213: Fierce Battle in the Deep Sea
That vast, inclusive, and deep First-rank Deity aura, resembling a starry ocean, washed over the Demon Empress's mind like invisible tides. It caused even her newly stabilized Second-Tier God realm to feel a flicker of instinctive dread.
This was a natural suppression of life hierarchy and authority status, much like a sub-dragon meeting a true dragon; even if their sizes were similar, the reverence in their bloodlines was impossible to erase.
"A First-level God... She actually..." The Demon Empress's giant crimson eyes stared fixedly at the figure surrounded by divine light, waves of shock surging in her heart.
Gathering faith, forging a God Position, and ascending to heaven in a single step? How could this be?! Fear, like cold vines, began to quietly entwine her heart.
However, the Demon Empress was, after all, a million-year-old soul beast who had survived countless battles and crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Her willpower was far tougher than ordinary beings. After the brief shock, her survival instinct and the ferocity rooted deep in her soul quickly overwhelmed that nascent fear.
"No!" She suddenly focused her mind, pushing her Second-Tier God divine sense to its limit. Like the most precise probe, and disregarding the risk of triggering a counterattack, she forcibly pierced through the layers of sacred halos to meticulously sense the fundamental strength of the Sea Princess—this newly ascended Sea God.
The majesty of a First-level God could not be faked; that sense of oppression originating from the source of laws was crystal clear. But besides that...
"Eh?" The Demon Empress's crimson pupils suddenly contracted. Then, a burst of uncontrollable ecstasy and ferocity exploded in her eyes like a volcanic eruption!
She felt it!
Beneath that awe-inspiring First-level God status, the actual divine power fluctuations circulating around the Sea Princess, while pure and vast, were clearly lacking in the degree of 'quantity' and 'quality' condensation needed to break through a certain critical bottleneck!
She wasn't a Second-Tier God, and far from a First-level God.
Her true energy level was actually stuck within the realm of a Third-Rank Deity!
"Haha... Hahaha! So that's how it is! So that's how it is!" The heavy stone in the Demon Empress's heart suddenly dropped, replaced by the ecstasy of a narrow escape and an even more burning killing intent. She understood completely now.
The desperate faith of the sea's myriad living beings had indeed acted like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, helping the Sea Princess break the barrier of mortal godhood and condense a complete first-rank sea god divine position, establishing a foundation of supreme authority.
But this God Position was more like a key or a lighthouse; it pointed out the path to the peak, but it did not directly grant her the matching, boundless accumulation of divine power.
From the peak of mortality to the peak of a First-rank Deity, how much divine power was required? How deep must the comprehension of laws be? This was certainly not something that could be bridged overnight or by a single gathering of faith.
At this moment, the Sea Princess had merely used this key to open the door to godhood and step inside. Standing at the starting point, she possessed the 'name' and 'status' of the Sea God, but the corresponding 'power' still required long years to fill and refine.
"Bluffing! All style and no substance!" All of the Demon Empress's doubt and fear vanished instantly. A hideous smile returned to her terrifying face, and her voice sounded like metal scraping against a rusted iron plate, filled with malice and delight.
"I was almost fooled by your empty shell! So what if you have a First-level God? Without matching divine power, it's nothing but a castle in the air! Today, this Empress shall shatter your God Position, devour your origin, and see who is the true ruler of this ocean!"
Before her voice had even faded, the Demon Empress cast aside all hesitation, and her terrifying Second-Tier God divine power erupted!
"Nether Blood Sea, Devouring Heaven and Earth!"
She opened her giant mouth, but it wasn't a breath attack. Instead, it was as if she had spat out the entire refined evil domain from within her body.
In an instant, with her as the center, the seawater for thousands of miles completely changed color, turning into a thick, crimson blood sea that emitted endless resentment and a corrosive aura!
Blood waves surged, and within them, countless hideous demonic shadows rose and fell, roaring. They emitted a terrifying power that devoured life and defiled divinity, surging toward the Sea Princess from all directions as if to swallow and digest her along with the yet-to-dissipate divine light!
Facing this evil domain, which was more than ten times stronger than it had been three days ago, the Sea Princess's expression remained calm. Her eyes, which had returned to being like deep oceanic vortices, reflected the churning blood sea and demonic shadows, devoid of joy or sorrow.
She was naturally aware of her own state. With the divine power of a Third-Rank Deity facing the Second-Tier God Demon Empress, she was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of pure power level. However, a God Position could bridge such a gap.
"Sea, listen to my will."
She spoke softly, her voice ethereal and majestic, as if conversing with the entire ocean. There were no hand signs, no incantations—just the transmission of a single thought.
The next moment, a miracle occurred.
The surging, thick blood sea suddenly stalled as it entered a hundred-meter radius around the Sea Princess. It wasn't blocked by a powerful force; instead, it was as if it had lost certain essential characteristics of'seawater,' becoming sluggish and stagnant.
Simultaneously, beyond the blood sea, the even vaster and endless ocean seemed to be awakened from its slumber, emitting a low resonance containing ancient power.
"Buzz—!"
The azure ocean divine power did not come entirely from the Sea Princess herself. Instead, it spontaneously separated from the pure seawater in all directions, like loyal guards answering a supreme summons. It gathered into bands of blue light that entwined around the Sea Princess, easily blocking and purifying the blood waves and demonic shadows that drew near.
The Sea Princess simply raised her slender hand and pressed it gently toward the surging blood sea ahead.
"Still."
Her word became law! The laws of the vast ocean responded accordingly.
That section of the roaring blood sea seemed to have its pause button pressed. The churning crests froze in mid-air, and the demonic shadows within let out silent shrieks, unable to move.
Although the range and intensity of this'stoppage' were limited by the Sea Princess's own divine power—unable to cover the entire blood sea domain or be maintained for long—the absolute control established within that area was already astonishing!
"The authority of the ocean... Dammit!" The Demon Empress was both shocked and enraged. She could feel her control over that section of the blood sea being forcibly weakened and repelled.
The opponent wasn't using brute force to resist but was employing more fundamental rules to 'command' the seawater in this area—including the seawater tainted by her evil power—to obey the Sea God's will!
This was the terrifying aspect of a God Position, especially the control and enhancement a First-level God granted over the laws within its own domain of authority!
Even though the Sea Princess only had the divine power of a Third-Rank Deity at this moment, what she mobilized was a portion of the ocean's origin power. This was suppression at the level of laws, which was enough to forcibly elevate her actual combat strength to a staggering level, bridging the gap with the Demon Empress!
"Roar! Break for me!" the Demon Empress roared, driving even more massive divine power into the blood sea. Simultaneously, her massive true form moved abruptly, tearing through the temporarily frozen seawater. Her giant claws, covered in dark-gold demonic patterns, tore through space. Carrying the boundless force of a Second-Tier God and annihilating divine light, she lunged directly for the Sea Princess's body!
She intended to use her absolute advantage in strength to break the law with force, forcibly interrupting the Sea Princess's delicate manipulation of the laws!
"Vast Ocean Barrier." The Sea Princess's figure swayed, appearing slow but moving fast. Azure divine light gathered in her hands, transforming into a transparent water shield that looked thin but circulated with countless wave patterns. Upon the shield, the phantom of a giant whale could be vaguely seen swimming, emitting a low whale song.
"Boom!!!"
The Demon Empress's giant claw slammed violently against the water shield, exploding with force enough to crush mountain ranges. The water shield dented severely, the wave patterns on its surface flashing and flickering wildly. The giant whale phantom let out a mournful cry and suddenly shattered. The Sea Princess's figure drifted back several hundred meters, the divine light around her wavering; taking this hit was clearly not easy.
However, the shield did not break, and she was not injured.
With the divine power of a Third-Rank Deity, and relying on the incredible enhancement of defensive divine skills provided by her God Position, she had actually withstood a wrathful strike from the Second-Tier God Demon Empress!
"Sea's Wrath · Rising Tide!" Having stabilized her form, the Sea Princess's eyes glowed with intense blue light, no longer merely defending.
She guided with her hands, and the tidal force of the surrounding ten thousand miles of sea seemed to be instantly mobilized by her. The endless seawater was no longer a gentle surround but had transformed into a violent weapon.
Countless highly compressed, rotating deep-blue water tornadoes formed out of thin air. From above, below, left, and right, they carried a terrifying momentum to tear through everything and grind all things as they strangled toward the Demon Empress's massive body!
Every water tornado contained the power of laws granted by the Sea God's authority.
The Demon Empress shrieked, the dark-red and ghostly blue divine power around her boiling as it transformed into layers of fel-energy shields. Simultaneously, her giant tail swept out and her sharp claws tore, forcibly shattering and dispersing the water tornadoes one by one.
The turbulent energy from the explosions rampaged wildly in the deep sea, completely turning the original terrain upside down.
The battle instantly reached a fever pitch.
The Demon Empress had the advantage of boundless divine power and fierce attacks. Every strike carried the destructive power of a Second-Tier God, forcing the Sea Princess to concentrate on responding, skillfully neutralizing or defending.
She was like a violent thunderstorm, her offensive continuous, attempting to crush her opponent with an absolute torrent of power.
The Sea Princess, on the other hand, had the advantage of her God Position, and her control over the ocean laws was superb. She rarely clashed head-on with the Demon Empress's divine power. Instead, she constantly mobilized the power of the ocean itself—sometimes condensing water into a prison to bind, sometimes triggering undercurrents to strike, and sometimes turning the sea into a mirror to reflect attacks. She utilized her Third-Rank Deity divine power to its absolute limit, repeatedly evading fatal attacks at the last second and causing trouble for the Demon Empress with ingenious law-based counterattacks.
She was like the deep, unfathomable ocean itself: inclusive, persistent, and infinitely changeable.
For a time, in this deep-sea battlefield, the dark-red blood sea and the azure divine light intertwined and annihilated each other frantically. The roars of the giant beast and the booming of the tides shook the surroundings.
The Second-Tier God Demon Empress was actually unable to quickly take down the Third-Rank Deity Sea Princess. The two sides traded blows, exhausting their divine abilities in a deadlocked struggle. The terrifying aftershocks of the battle continued to spread, causing creatures in distant waters to feel bouts of palpitations.
The more the Demon Empress fought, the more shocked and angry she became.
She clearly felt that her power was stronger and her speed faster, but her opponent's fighting style was too slippery. The use of the environment and control over laws gave her a stifling sense of having strength but nowhere to apply it. Meanwhile, the Sea Princess remained absolutely calm throughout, rapidly adapting to her new power and deepening her understanding of the Sea God's authority in this life-and-death struggle.
In this divine battle woven from status and power, the scales of victory swayed slightly amidst the intense collisions, not yet leaning toward either side. But it was foreseeable that the final outcome would surely be exceptionally tragic.
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