"Join forces?"
Hearing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's words, Tang San clenched his fists, his face darkening.
I am the successorof the Sea God, on the verge of ascending to godhood!
And now I actually have to join forces with a Spirit Beast just to face Li Zhexian?
At this moment,
his earlier certainty—that "Li Zhexian is at most my equal"—seemed absurdly laughable.
Past grudges, present helplessness, and the jealousy he refused to acknowledge made his body tremble uncontrollably.
However—
all the negativity in his heart
was forcibly suppressed by a surge of icy rationality the instant he raised his eyes and saw the scene in the distance…
There he saw—
Li Zhexian's body bathed in flawless, treasure-like radiance, gentle brilliance cascading onto the sea.
The ocean that had been rendered filthy and turbid by the Demon Whale King's tainted blood was, in the instant the light shone upon it, restored to crystal clarity.
All filth was wiped away, revealing once more endless azure waves.
Tang San: "..."
So who exactly is the Sea God's successor?!
The gap in strength was so vast that
before absolute power, resentment and unwillingness were nothing but paths to death.
From between clenched teeth, Tang San forced out a single word:
"Fine!"
Boom!!!
As his voice fell,
his gaze sharpened abruptly.
The Golden Trident in his hand erupted with blue-gold divine light that pierced heaven and earth.
"Golden Thirteen Tridents, First Form—Unfixed Storm!"
He shouted in a deep voice.
Swinging the trident,
he traced a perfect arc.
In an instant,
a blue-gold halo infused with the laws of the ocean and sealing power manifested out of thin air.
Divine runes flowed along the halo's edge.
Wherever it passed,
the boiling sea surface froze like a mirror.
Splashing waves halted in midair.
Even sound and light seemed to be locked in place.
The blue-gold halo moved with near-spatial speed, reaching Li Zhexian in a blink.
Seeing that Li Zhexian neither dodged nor evaded—and was even drinking wine with apparent interest—
A look of wild joy appeared on Tang San's face.
This Unfixed Storm was hailed as the strongest control-type divine technique.
Once it hit, the forced eight-second immobilization effect was enough to determine the outcome of any battle.
In the distant sea,
seeing Li Zhexian seemingly caught,
Yu Tianheng, Feng Buyu, and the others showed not the slightest concern.
They understood Li Zhexian well.
If he could remain so casual
even in the midst of battle,
then it meant—
he never regarded his opponent as a real threat at all.
Qian Daoliu's eyes shone with brilliance as he stared at the white-robed youth enveloped by blue-gold divine light.
He tried to see through it,
but this attack, already having stepped into the domain of the gods,
was beyond his ability to perceive.
....
Divine Realm Plaza.
The moment Unfixed Storm enveloped Li Zhexian,
the Sea God's lips finally curved upward.
The next instant,
the smile faded again.
"Power of time and space…"
He narrowed his eyes and said slowly,
"To wield such control over spacetime—could this child be seeking to become a God of Time and Space?"
Ji Dong did not answer, only smiling as he said:
"The forced immobilization of Unfixed Storm is about to be broken."
The Sea God could naturally hear the mocking tone in those words, and his expression darkened further. "Tang San is far too unskilled with the Golden Thirteen Forms."
"Opening with a control-type divine technique only gave his opponent a chance to respond."
"If it were me…"
"A single unavoidable strike would be enough."
"To utterly defeat him."
Ji Dong merely smiled, saying nothing.
The Asura God said calmly:
"Sea God, you are underestimating Li Zhexian."
...
"Li Zhexian!"
"Your arrogance will bring about your destruction!"
Tang San suddenly turned his head and roared angrily at the Demon Whale King:
"He's been restrained by me—join forces with me now and kill him!"
Boom!
Boom!
Brilliant blue Spirit Power, interwoven with strands of blue-gold divine energy, surged like rivers returning to the sea and converged into the trident.
Tang San swung it once more.
"Golden Thirteen Tridents, Tenth Form—Ocean's Sun!"
The trident stabbed furiously toward the heavens.
The waters of the entire Demon Whale Sea Region seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand.
Beneath Li Zhexian, a massive ocean vortex more than ten thousand meters wide formed, its center abyss-deep and radiating terrifying suction.
The next instant—
seawater burst upward from the heart of the vortex,
condensing high in the sky into a colossal azure water dragon.
The water dragon threw back its head and roared, carrying the ocean's fury and immeasurable weight as it crushed down toward Li Zhexian, who was bound by the blue-gold halo.
"Did you restrain him?"
"Well done, Sea God's successor!"
The Deep-Sea Demon Whale King's single eye erupted with savage light born of desperation and excitement.
Across its plate-like colossal body, deep-blue scales flared, their glow staining the surrounding sea.
Boom boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom boom!
A whale cry that seemed to overturn the ocean rang out.
Its nearly million-year accumulation of power was released in full.
Within moments, the sky darkened.
Boundless deep-blue thunderclouds gathered, blanketing the heavens.
Within those clouds—
it was not mere lightning and thunder,
but countless bolts of destruction lightning, condensed to the extreme and spinning violently.
These bolts intertwined and compressed,
until at the heart of the cloud mass a lightning black hole over a hundred miles wide formed.
"Thunderfall Devour!"
The Demon Whale King slammed its massive tail downward.
Rumble—!
The sea erupted into boundless waves.
The lightning black hole suddenly overturned,
transforming into a cataract of lightning plasma—like the Milky Way collapsing from the Ninth Heaven—plunging straight down upon Li Zhexian.
Such a sight—
Truly robbed heaven and earth of all color, annihilating all things.
Above—
A devastating thunderfall crushed downward.
Ahead—
A water dragon formed from the vast might of the ocean charged to kill.
Around Li Zhexian—
The blue-gold halo radiated an aura of forced immobilization.
Three supreme killing techniques
sealed off every avenue of retreat,
determined to erase him completely.
Even someone as powerful as Qian Daoliu could not help but change expression at this sight.
He asked himself—
if it were him, there would be no chance of survival.
...
Gazing at the sea region drowned in berserk energy,
Tang San and the Demon Whale King both panted violently from exhaustion, their bodies forced back ten thousand meters by the backlash of power.
"An attack of this level…"
"As long as one is not a true god, survival is impossible!"
Tang San gripped the Golden Trident, his voice trembling slightly from exhaustion, yet filled with unquestionable certainty.
However—
the moment his words fell,
before the energy obscuring the battlefield had fully dissipated—
the outline of a tall, upright figure clearly emerged at the very core of the destruction.
Energy turbulence capable of annihilating a Limiit Douluo
flowed gently around him,
unable to stir even the corner of his robe or a single strand of hair.
What plunged Tang San into even deeper despair was this—
around that figure, layers upon layers of spacetime ripples spread outward.
It was as though he did not exist here at all,
but had been peeled away from this spacetime.
No longer confined to the present.
His very existence had leapt into an unfathomable past, future, or some parallel spacetime dimension.
If he was no longer in the "now" of this place,
then—
the so-called forced immobilization of Unfixed Storm
was naturally meaningless.
"Th-this… this is impossible!"
Tang San's pupils shrank to pinpoints. His face turned deathly pale, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth as he staggered backward in shock.
The Demon Whale King's furious, fear-stricken roar exploded like rolling thunder.
"This is what you call restraining him?!"
"Is this generation's Sea God successor a complete piece of trash?!"
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