Chapter 205: Assisting the Demon Empress Again
Lei Chen's gaze shifted toward a dark corner in the depths of the ocean. There, the Demon Empress was lurking at the edge of a Deep Sea Rift, using the complex terrain and her own residual power to mask her presence. She licked her old wounds while scanning the passing schools of fish with a greedy and venomous gaze, searching for the next opportunity to devour and recover.
After nearly a year of fleeing and sporadic devouring, her injuries had healed somewhat, but she was still far from her peak. Her cultivation remained stagnant at the threshold of nine hundred and ninety thousand years; that million-year chasm stood before her like an impenetrable iron wall.
"I might as well give her a hand," Lei Chen thought, his mind as calm as if he were deciding on a trivial matter.
Firstly, if the Demon Empress could break through to a million-year cultivation, the celestial phenomenon and the terrifying sense of threat she would bring would act like the most potent catalyst, greatly stimulating all the creatures of the ocean.
Fear and despair would breed the strongest prayers, and the expectation and reliance on the Sea Princess would reach its zenith. At that time, the power of faith that had been gently converging would likely erupt like a tsunami, instantly reaching the quantity and intensity required for a qualitative change, sufficient to push the Sea Princess onto her god position.
Secondly, the power of the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation triggered when a million-year Soul Beast breaks through is no small matter. He could take the opportunity to devour another wave of energy from it.
Most importantly, with the Demon Empress's current foundation of nine hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation, the energy required to help her break through that thin membrane was utterly negligible to Lei Chen.
"Why not?" The curve of Lei Chen's lips deepened slightly. This was a deal with immense returns for minimal cost—using the smallest price to leverage the greatest gain, while simultaneously providing the final assist for the Sea Princess and increasing the plane's overall capacity.
With that thought, Lei Chen immediately took action.
He stood motionless atop the Golden Ancient Tree. With a mere thought, he drew upon the vast, star-like energy reserves within the tree. The iridescent light of the Plane Origin Sea rippled slightly as a strand of divine sense, like a most dexterous finger, reached into the dark red mass of abyss matter energy that was being slowly digested, precisely stripping, compressing, and refining it.
In an instant, an energy orb about the size of a fist, dull in color but with countless swirling vortices within and emitting violent primordial fluctuations, condensed above his palm.
The energy level contained in this orb was perfectly suited for a Great Beast like the Demon Empress, who was nearing a million years, to absorb as the final potent dose for her breakthrough.
Without hesitation, Lei Chen gave a light flick of his finger.
The dull energy orb did not follow a normal physical trajectory but plunged directly into the void before him. Under Lei Chen's will, the laws of space were like submissive silk, skillfully folded and connected.
The next moment, tens of thousands of miles away from the Plane Origin Sea, in the waters above the Deep Sea Rift where the Demon Empress was hiding, space distorted slightly. An identical dull orb emerged silently and slowly sank toward the seabed, its unique and enticing energy fluctuations acting like the most conspicuous lighthouse in the darkness.
At the edge of the Deep Sea Rift, the Demon Empress's massive, scar-covered dark blue body suddenly stiffened. Her crimson eyes, filled with violence and exhaustion, abruptly lit up as she stared intently at the "uninvited guest" slowly sinking through the water above.
This energy fluctuation... it was too familiar!
Although it felt even more powerful than the last time, the Demon Empress could never mistake that essential aura of corruption and destruction originating from the Abyss Plane.
It was exactly the same kind of treasure that had miraculously appeared by her side before, helping her significantly increase her cultivation.
"Is this... another one?" The Demon Empress was stunned at first, her massive head unable to fully process it. Could such a heaven-defying opportunity really be encountered one after another? But immediately, unparalleled ecstasy drowned out all her reason!
Who cared where it came from! This was clearly another opportunity for her rise, bestowed by the heavens! Feeling the majestic energy within the orb, enough to fully heal her wounds and even take her a step further, the frustration and fear she had felt from her long-term flight and forced hiding were instantly replaced by overwhelming greed and ambition.
"Hahaha... the heavens will not forsake me! They truly will not forsake me!" the Demon Empress roared frantically in her mind, her soul trembling. "With this, not only can I fully recover, but I might... I might even be able to charge at that legendary million-year barrier! Once I succeed, who in this vast ocean will be able to stop me?!"
Amidst her ecstasy, endless ferocity and venom also surged up. She remembered the Sea Princess who had been relentlessly pursuing her and ruining her plans countless times, and she remembered that loathsome human, Chen Yunshen, who had not hesitated to self-detonate a divine tool to severely wound her.
"Just you wait... all of you, just wait!" A cruel light flashed in the Demon Empress's crimson eyes. "Once I break through to a million years and achieve a supreme god position, I will hunt you down one by one, extract your souls and refine your spirits, and let you taste the ultimate suffering of the world to vent the hatred in my heart! This ocean, and even the entire continent, shall tremble under my shadow!"
Driven by such extreme emotions, the Demon Empress no longer had the slightest hesitation. She didn't even stop to consider whether the appearance of this energy orb was too coincidental or if there was a trap behind it—extreme greed and the thirst for power had long since blinded her already less-than-wise mind.
She suddenly opened her massive maw filled with sharp teeth, and a powerful suction erupted like a black hole, swallowing the dull energy orb into her belly in one gulp!
"Gulp..."
The moment the orb entered her stomach, the Demon Empress's massive body shook violently. Immediately after, an indescribable, scorching, and violent torrent exploded within her. An abyss energy far more massive than she had imagined, like a bursting river of stars, frantically washed through her meridians, flesh, bones, and even her soul origin!
"Roar—!!!"
The Demon Empress couldn't help but let out a low roar that was a mixture of pain and extreme pleasure. Her old wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, her dull scales regained their dark and profound luster, and her terrifying aura began to climb uncontrollably. Under the violent impact of this external force, the nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year cultivation barrier shook violently, and clear cracks appeared in that indestructible membrane!
A malevolent power that caused the surrounding seawater to solidify and the souls of sensitive Sea Soul Beasts in the distance to tremble began to spread slowly from the Deep Sea Rift, like an awakening ancient beast. In the dark depths of the sea, a terrifying storm capable of overturning the ocean's landscape was brewing.
And the instigator of all this, the Plane Master, Lei Chen, simply withdrew his gaze from the ocean, his eyes filled with a tranquil calm.
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