At the border between the Star Luo Sea Region and the Sun-Moon Sea Region.
Deep beneath the ocean, a Deep Sea Demonic Whale was fleeing frantically, as if some great catastrophe was pursuing it from behind.
"Mother—where are you?"
Unique sound waves rippled continuously, echoing through the deep sea.
Suddenly, a pair of massive eyes snapped open!
In the darkness, the Demon Empress's even more colossal form was revealed.
"Lan Fozi."
A murmur that seemed calm, yet the divine chains formed of seawater trembled violently. The Demon Empress intended to break free from the Sea God's bindings—this clearly demonstrated her fury and concern.
Lan Fozi, her daughter, and her only family.
However, how could the Sea God's divine power be something a non-divine being could easily break free from? According to Tang San's estimation, he planned to imprison her for two or three years, then have her hunted by the Sea God Clan. Only afterward would she become his daughter's ninth soul ring.
Seemingly realizing her own strength was insufficient and difficult to break free.
The Demon Empress's movements gradually calmed, but this didn't mean she intended to simply watch her daughter being hunted.
A purple-black mark suddenly appeared on the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Empress's forehead. Looking at the mark's appearance, it resembled a demon.
The instant the mark appeared, a voice also rang out in the Demon Empress's mind, "Demon Empress, it seems... wait! This power is from the Divine Realm's gods? You've provoked them!?"
Initially, this voice had seemed somewhat arrogant.
But when the owner of this voice perceived the source of the power trapping the Demon Empress, that arrogant tone instantly shattered, turning serious, even apprehensive—the kind of forced composure.
"What? Afraid?" The Demon Empress responded with a cold laugh. Obviously, she wasn't afraid of this voice's owner.
However, the voice's owner refused to engage with this topic.
But this was normal. If He wasn't afraid of the Divine Realm, would there be any need to act so cautiously, scheming in the shadows like this?
Just charge straight in!
"What do you want from me?" The voice's owner didn't care about the Demon Empress's tone. "It can't be to have me break the seal."
"Correct, my daughter is being hunted!"
The murderous words left the voice's owner silent.
His stance up to now had always been stability above all.
If the Divine Realm were to notice, then...
"Hah! What are you hesitating for!?" Seemingly seeing through the voice owner's cautious thoughts, the Demon Empress spoke, "Looking before and after, indecisive—with this attitude, you still want to accomplish great things?"
"Come see me later. You owe me!"
As if struck where it hurt, the voice's owner unilaterally cut off the connection, but He did provide assistance for the Demon Empress's seal. Purple-black mist overflowed from the mark, rapidly enveloping the Demon Empress's massive form, merging into her body.
In the next moment, demonic patterns flashed across the Demon Empress's body, and a power far exceeding what she had before began surging continuously from within her, continuing to break free from the bindings Tang San had left behind.
Meanwhile, at Lan Fozi's location.
Having received no response for so long, Lan Fozi was already anxious. Just as she was wondering if something had happened to her mother, the seawater suddenly churned, causing her heart to instantly become alert!
With a sweep of her whale tail, she dodged to the side.
And at this very moment, an attack brushed past her.
"Not good! They've caught up!"
"Demonic whale remnant! Where do you think you're going!"
Behind her, a figure was in hot pursuit. Nine soul rings shone—clearly a Sea Soul Master at the Titled Douluo level.
Fist clenched, ocean ripples gathered upon it.
Then, another punch was thrown!
Seeing it was difficult to dodge, Lan Fozi could only brace herself, gathering energy in her whale tail to strike down like a tsunami.
In the collision, a golden light broke through the water!
As if slicing through the waves, it shot straight toward Lan Fozi.
In that moment, Lan Fozi's soul nearly fled in terror. At this moment, she felt the threat of death and hurriedly turned her massive body to the side, dodging the golden light that was aimed at her head.
But even so, a large burst of blood suddenly exploded.
"Wu—" In a painful cry of grief, Lan Fozi's right whale fin was directly severed in half by the golden light. Such an injury was no less severe than a human Soul Master having their right forearm amputated.
As the attack's aftereffects dissipated, the figure before Lan Fozi changed from one to two. And this newly appeared figure, judging by their aura, was even stronger than the previous one by a level.
If not for this, even though Lan Fozi had only recently advanced to become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, how could she have suffered such a great loss so quickly.
"Remnant, surrender yourself."
The two Titled Douluo-level Sea Soul Masters stood side by side in the deep sea. Even without speaking, their cold voices echoed continuously.
"Boohoo... on what basis do you call me a remnant!?"
Enduring the pain of her severed fin, Lan Fozi issued a challenge! She had been peacefully playing in the ocean, yet was suddenly ambushed by two Titled Douluo-level Sea Soul Masters, who kept calling her "remnant."
In her fury, Lan Fozi was also somewhat panicked.
Because these two Sea Soul Masters reminded her of unpleasant memories. Her father's death back then was inseparable from a Sea Soul Master force called Sea God Island. According to her mother, the Soul Masters of this force were even accomplices in killing her father!
Initially, she had been very nervous.
But after nearly ten thousand years, she had relaxed considerably. But now these two calling her "remnant"... brought the memories back.
However, she still needed to clarify everything!
"Remnant, we can't be bothered with you. You're not worthy of hearing."
"So just die!"
These two sentences, one after another, along with the continuously rising aura that sealed off the surroundings, plunged Lan Fozi's heart into the abyss.
This time, she might really have to leave her life here.
Mother, where are you?
Just as Lan Fozi was mourning internally, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from behind her, crushing and destroying the two Titled Douluos' aura seal like rotten wood.
"Sea God Clan! You're courting death!"
Boom—
The ocean instantly parted to both sides, terrifying power violently surging out, striking down toward the two Titled Douluos' heads.
Caught off guard by this sudden terrifying attack, the two could only hurriedly redirect their attacks originally aimed at Lan Fozi toward above themselves to form a defense.
But how could the offensive of the enraged Demon Empress be something two hastily responding Sea Soul Masters who weren't even Super Douluos could handle?
In less than a breath, their attacks collapsed.
After one breath, the two vomited blood.
After two breaths, the offensive landed on them unchanged.
Instantly, their bodies were torn into mutilated corpses and severed limbs.
Without even time for last words, the two who had appeared so overbearing were killed by the Demon Empress, not even leaving whole corpses.
Then, a terrifying suction force came. A gaping abyss of a mouth opened, swallowing the two Titled Douluos' corpses completely.
Lan Fozi was instantly overjoyed, swimming toward the Demon Empress.
"Mother!"
Hearing her daughter's call, the Demon Empress also revealed her form, quickly approaching. Looking at Lan Fozi's severed whale fin, her heart ached, and she hurriedly stopped the bleeding for her.
After doing all this, the Demon Empress then spoke.
"Lan Fozi, are you alright!?"
"I'm fine. But Mother, they..."
But before Lan Fozi could finish, the Demon Empress had already interrupted her. Those massive eyes were already revealing towering killing intent. At the same time, the rage in her heart could no longer be suppressed.
"Sea God Clan! I will make you pay the price!"
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