Chapter 212: Sea God Returns to Her Position, Demon Empress in Shock
Deep within the vast and boundless ocean of the Douluo Plane.
Time passed quietly for three days amidst the pressure of absolute power and a desperate silence.
For the countless creatures in the expansive ocean, these three days felt as long as three centuries.
The terrifying scene of the Demon Empress completing her million-year breakthrough and severely wounding the Sea Princess in one blow was etched into the depths of every marine life's soul like the deepest nightmare.
Although the image that had directly reflected into their consciousness had long since dissipated, the Demon Empress's increasingly solid and expanding evil divine might was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, reminding them of the approaching doomsday at every moment.
With that shattered battlefield as the center, the sea area for tens of thousands of miles around had already turned into a death zone where life was extinct; ordinary sea beasts had long since fled, and even Sea Soul Beasts with some intelligence kept a respectful distance, not daring to approach even a fraction.
Only the dense, inseparable dark red and deep blue evil energy, like living tentacles, slowly crawled and spread in the seawater, constantly eroding and polluting the pure water, completely transforming this sea area into a domain suitable for the Demon Empress's existence.
At the core of the domain, above that Deep Sea Rift.
The Demon Empress's mountain-like dark blue body was currently suspended quietly.
Compared to three days ago when she had just broken through, her aura had undergone an earth-shaking change.
The slightly flighty and violent fluctuations brought about by her life-leap had completely disappeared, replaced by a condensed, heavy, and flawlessly mellow depth.
Energy turbulence no longer leaked from around her body; all the dark red and deep blue energy had been internalized, perfectly merging beneath every scale covered in purple-black demonic patterns, faintly flowing with a cold, hard metallic luster. As her giant scarlet eyes slightly opened and closed, divine light was contained within, carrying an absolute majesty that disregarded all things and held the power of life and death.
The vast Soul Power accumulated over a million years, after three days and nights of tireless, frantic transformation, had all evolved into a higher level of power that was more suited to her current life form—divine power! Pure and powerful divine power!
A Second-Tier God!
A genuine Second-Tier God level!
The Demon Empress slowly stretched her newly born body filled with destructive power, feeling the majestic divine power within her that surged like a galaxy yet was as easy to use as her own limbs. An unprecedented sense of power, transcending all living beings, filled her soul. With every movement, she seemed able to trigger the anger and roar of the entire ocean; the space around her body slightly distorted, letting out an overburdened wail.
"Heh... Hahahaha!" A low and raspy laugh rippled out once more in this deathly silent deep sea. A terrifying glint erupted in the Demon Empress's giant scarlet eyes, filled with smug satisfaction and endless ambition. "It's done! Completely done! This is the power of a god-level! Beautiful, simply beautiful!"
She turned her head slightly, her gaze like a physical ice pick, piercing toward that shattered rock wall area several thousand meters away.
There, where the Sea Princess had been struck and embedded three days ago, was still covered by a huge, thick cocoon of faith light that flowed with azure and golden halos.
The cocoon of light suspended quietly, emitting soft and holy fluctuations that were out of place in the surrounding domain of filthy evil energy, like a stubbornly glowing crystal in a dark abyss.
However, in the perception of the Demon Empress, who had already stabilized her Second-Tier God cultivation, although this cocoon of light had a pure and majestic aura and nurtured life, the energy level contained within it... did not seem to reach a level that made her feel threatened.
"A laughable trick of a deathbed struggle." A cruel arc curled at the corner of the Demon Empress's mouth, her voice filled with undisguised contempt and mockery. "Can gathering a few thoughts from those ants change your fate against the heavens? Sea Princess, this Empress wants to see what kind of thing can hatch from your turtle shell!"
In her view, the Sea Princess was previously just a fellow who relied on the ocean's favor and racial talent; even with the Power Of Faith added, how much could she improve in such a short time? Could she really reach the heavens in one step, cross the divide between god and mortal, and contend with a real Second-Tier God like her? It was simply a fool's dream!
"Fine, this Empress has newly ascended to the god-level and needs a grand blood sacrifice to announce it to the world. Using the divine soul and flesh of you, the so-called 'Guardian of the Ocean,' as this Empress's first sacrificial offering upon descending to the sea is most appropriate!"
The Demon Empress's killing intent was set, and she waited no longer. She wanted to tear apart and devour this eyesore of a cocoon along with the disgusting figure inside, using the most brutal method to completely crush the last light of hope in the hearts of the ocean's creatures!
"Roar—!"
She let out a terrifying roar that shook the deep sea. The terrifying pressure of a Second-Tier God was no longer reserved and erupted fully. Dark red and deep blue divine power gushed out of her body like boiling lava, instantly turning the ten-thousand-yard sea area around her into a viscous, glue-like absolute domain filled with the scent of death and corrosion!
Within the absolute domain, the seawater was no longer a sanctuary but had turned into the heaviest shackles and the most malicious venom, frantically squeezing and eroding that cocoon of faith light.
The Demon Empress raised that giant claw covered in dark gold demonic patterns, capable of crushing mountains. The tips of her claws were entwined with highly condensed destructive divine power, and she was about to strike down fiercely upon the cocoon of faith light!
She wanted to smash this cocoon along with the Sea Princess inside into powder with one palm, just as she had crushed that vast sea vortex three days ago!
However—
Just as her giant claw, containing the full strike of a Second-Tier God, was about to touch the surface of the cocoon, and the violent wind had completely emptied the surrounding seawater to form a vacuum—
A change occurred without any warning!
It did not come from outside the cocoon, but originated from the deepest part of the cocoon's interior!
"Thump!"
A low, heavy heartbeat that seemed to come from ancient times, yet also seemed to resound at the end of the future... suddenly transmitted from the core of that cocoon where azure and gold intertwined!
This heartbeat did not propagate through the seawater but exploded directly in the depths of the souls of all creatures that perceived the existence of this sea area. Whether it was the Demon Empress close at hand, the terrified marine life tens of thousands of miles away, or even some top-tier existences on land with sharp perception, everyone's heartstrings trembled violently at this moment!
"What?!" The Demon Empress's striking giant claw actually experienced a billionth of a second of stagnation due to this sudden heartbeat that struck the soul. For the first time, a trace of shock and suspicion flashed through her giant scarlet eyes.
Before she could think further—
"Thump, thump! Thump, thump, thump!!"
The heartbeat suddenly became rapid and powerful! Like the beating of war drums, each sound louder than the last, each time stronger than the one before! Every beat triggered the cocoon itself, and triggered the seawater for hundreds, thousands, and even further miles around to produce a rhythmic, vast resonance and vibration!
At this moment, the entire ocean seemed to possess a common heart, beating forcefully for the awakening of a certain great existence!
"Boom—!!!"
When the heartbeat became dense and strong to a certain extreme peak—
The cocoon of faith light exploded!
It was not shattered by an external force, but burst open from the inside on its own!
There were no fragments flying in all directions. All the massive, pure Power Of Faith that made up the cocoon, at the moment of the explosion, was pulled inward by an invisible hand and then turned into something whose brilliance, magnitude, and holiness could not be described in words—
A pillar of light that reached the heavens!
The pillar of light presented a deep, vast, and all-encompassing azure color, but its core flowed with noble and brilliant dark gold divine patterns. It rose into the sky from the bottom of the deep sea, from where the cocoon of faith light had originally been, ignoring the pressure of tens of thousands of meters of seawater, ignoring the blockade and pollution of the Demon Empress's Evil God Absolute Domain, and with an unstoppable and majestic posture, it boldly tore through the dark deep sea, pierced through the thick surface of the sea, and shot straight into the highest heavens!
"Crash—!!!"
Wherever the pillar of light passed, the seawater polluted by the Demon Empress's evil energy was like meeting its nemesis; it rapidly shed its filth, restored its purity, and spontaneously rotated and worshipped around the light pillar, letting out joyful tidal roars.
Around the light pillar, phantoms of countless marine creatures faintly appeared: giant whales singing, schools of fish playing, corals blooming, merfolk dancing... they were not real, but the manifestation of the ocean's own laws and billions of thoughts, together surrounding and guarding this light pillar that represented the original will of the ocean!
The appearance of the heaven-reaching light pillar instantly attracted the attention of all the powerhouses on the entire Douluo Plane.
In various parts of the continent, countless people looked up at the sky. Even from tens of thousands of miles away, they could see the azure divine light connecting the sky and the sea in the direction of the ocean, feeling the majestic vitality and supreme majesty contained within it.
At the top of the Golden Ancient Tree in the Plane Origin Sea, Lei Chen watched this scene calmly, a barely perceptible arc appearing at the corner of his mouth.
And the Demon Empress, who bore the brunt of it, felt it most directly and most shockingly at this moment!
Under the impact of the majestic divine power from the light pillar's explosion, her striking giant claw was actually forced to a stop and shaken away. The destructive divine power on her claw tips made a sharp "hissing" sound of erosion upon slight contact with the azure divine light at the edge of the pillar. That was not a simple confrontation of energy, but a natural purification and suppression by a higher-level, more primordial power against her evil divine power!
"This... this is... the aura of divine power?! And... so pure... so vast... how is it possible?! How could she..." The Demon Empress's giant scarlet eyes stared fixedly at that heaven-reaching light pillar and the figure slowly emerging from the infinite light at the bottom of the pillar. Her voice was filled with unprecedented shock, disbelief, and a trace of... fear that even she herself was unwilling to admit!
At the bottom of the light pillar, the infinite divine light gradually withdrew and internalized.
A figure clearly appeared.
It was still that stunning face and long hair as blue as the deep sea, yet the aura and majesty she emitted were completely different from three days ago, having completed the most fundamental and extreme leap in life level!
The Sea Princess—no, perhaps at this moment, she should be called—
The Sea God!
She suspended there quietly, unclothed, yet infinite soft azure divine light naturally condensed, turning into a magnificent and noble blue divine dress flowing with patterns of water ripples and stars, gently wrapping around her flawless divine body.
Her skin was as translucent as jade, as if carved from the purest seawater and moonlight, with blue divine radiance faintly flowing beneath her skin.
What was most impossible to look directly at was the three-dimensional mark slowly rotating at the center of her brow, emitting supreme majesty and a vast aura—it was a complete and flawless mark composed of azure waves—
The Sea God position imprint!
With just a slight thought, she emitted the aura of supreme authority that suppressed all seas!
She slowly raised her eyes. Those eyes, originally as blue as gemstones, had now turned into two bottomless ocean vortexes. In the center of the vortexes, the birth and death of all seas, the rise and fall of tides, and the prayers of countless marine creatures seemed to be reflected.
Calm, yet containing an unquestionable majesty.
Her gaze crossed the gradually subsiding energy aftermath and fell upon the mountain-like, shocked Demon Empress not far away.
No words, no angry shouts.
Just a calm gaze.
However, the moment this gaze touched her body, the Demon Empress's massive frame actually... trembled violently, uncontrollably!
A clear perception originating from the level of life, the origin of power, and the depths of her divine soul was like ice water poured over her head, making her instantly cold all over:
The divine power fluctuations of the former 'Sea Princess' before her, who had just completed her transformation, might not have reached their peak because she had only just ascended to the God Position, but her life essence and authority level...
Were clearly superior to hers!
That was the majesty of a First-rank Deity!
Holding the authority over the ocean, commanding the endless green waves, and symbolizing life and vastness—
The Sea God has officially returned to her position today!
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