Ao Tian had just stabilized the sea area around him when he heard that the Demon Emperor was preparing a finishing move and had already taken action.
Watching the dark purple meteor soaring into the sky, carrying the power to destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth, Ao Tian confirmed that the other party's intent to kill was absolute. With no path of retreat left, a flash of madness crossed his eyes, and he shouted sharply.
"Old woman, then let's see who dies and who lives in the end!"
The deep yellow Soul Power on Ao Tian's body began to rise continuously, and his momentum climbed steadily. Seeing his aura nearing its peak, yet still a distance away from the intensity of the Demon Emperor's energy, Ao Tian sighed inwardly as he recalled the suggestion Yun Ming had made earlier.
After making his final decision, Ao Tian hardened his heart. Blood-red colors began to surge within his deep yellow Soul Power, quickly staining the original yellow entirely crimson as it began to condense toward his right claw.
Seeing that Ao Tian was prepared to risk his life, the Demon Emperor's expression shifted slightly, and she roared angrily.
"Burning your Life Fire?!"
"Good, good, good! Then I shall trample this final resistance of yours into dust!"
As Ao Tian's Life Fire burned ever more fiercely, a Blood Weeping Sky was forcibly torn open within the original ink-black sky.
Seeing the Demon Emperor closing in, Ao Tian slammed his right claw out, a beam of blood-red light meeting her head-on. Ao Tian shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Old woman, feel the fury of this King!"
"Mountain Dragon King's Fury!!"
As the blood-red light flew into the sky, it transformed into a vivid, thousand-meter-long blood-colored Giant Dragon. It let out a vigorous dragon roar toward the Demon Emperor and extended its Dragon Claws, intending to tear the little whale before it to shreds.
The Demon Emperor's expression turned cold as the Soul Power around her surged even more frantically.
In the blink of an eye, the dark purple meteor and the blood-colored Giant Dragon collided. The dark purple and blood-red lights flared brilliantly, splitting the entire Dragon Nest Sea Area in half.
"Crack—"
The expected terrifying explosion did not occur; instead, there were only sounds similar to glass or tiles shattering. Of course, it was not these physical objects breaking; if anyone could see through the light and shadow to the situation inside, they would discover that it was the space itself that was fracturing.
"Pounce—"
"Woo—"
Faintly, a series of other sounds drifted from the sky, resembling the long cries of a Demon Whale and the wild roars of a mountain dragon, like war cries exchanged during a slaughter. Accompanying this was the mutual erosion of the two-colored energies in the air.
The Demon Emperor felt the suppression stemming from the bloodline within Ao Tian's Mountain Dragon King's Fury. She wanted to stir her Soul Power once more to tear through the attack, but it was too late. The balance of Soul Power had only been temporary, and now it was tipping toward collapse.
The Demon Emperor increased her Soul Power output again, roaring.
"Break for me!"
But it was useless; it was already too late. Her renewed effort only added gunpowder to the final fireworks, making their ultimate moment even more resplendent. The dark purple and blood-red energies converged continuously, finally erupting into a heaven-shaking explosion.
"Boom—"
"Bang—"
About seventy or eighty miles west of the explosion, a dark green sea vessel slammed heavily onto the surface of the sea from the crest of a wave, emitting a loud crash.
The people on the ship let out a burst of enthusiastic cheers upon seeing that they had successfully escaped death.
"We conquered the waves!"
"We survived, we survived!"
"Not having to die, that is truly wonderful."
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Various remarks echoed incessantly, and some were so moved they were moved to tears. In the end, however, it all culminated in one phrase.
"Long live Young Master Yun! Long live the Saintess! Long live Martial Soul Hall!"
This group that had escaped the jaws of death was naturally Yun Ming, Ya Li, and their party.
Ya Li looked at Yun Ming's slightly pale complexion, stepped forward to take his hand, and asked with concern.
"Brother Ming, are you alright?"
Yun Ming turned his head to look at Ya Li, whose face was filled with concern, and comforted her softly.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that my Soul Power consumption was a bit high."
With a giant wave of that magnitude, if it were only Yun Ming trying to escape, it would have been simple. With the trickiness of his space abilities, running away would have been a breeze. However, bringing a ship along increased the difficulty exponentially.
To lead everyone to safety, Yun Ming pushed his space abilities to the limit. First, he used his precise control over the Annihilation Power—an absolute destructive force—to form a protective shield and chisel through the waves. Afterward, while the waves continued to surge forward, he utilized the power of the water-attribute Soul Masters on the ship to control the currents, then assisted with his own space power to mount the giant wave, riding it to quickly distance themselves from the battlefield.
Using his abilities on a ship of that size for the entire duration was a massive drain, even for Yun Ming.
The two subordinates on Yun Ming's other side, seeing that he mentioned his high consumption, began to use their own abilities quite sensibly.
Oscar quickly activated his First Soul Skill to conjure several Recovery Big Sausages and handed them to Yun Ming, fawning over him.
"Boss, here."
Ning Rongrong also summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul to provide Yun Ming with a Soul Power boost.
Yun Ming smiled as he took the sausage and consumed it. With the addition of Ning Rongrong's boost, his complexion recovered somewhat.
Afterward, Yun Ming spoke to Hai Lan.
"Sea Hall Master, it may not necessarily be safe here yet. Let everyone stand their final watch and run a bit further before stopping."
"Right, tell the water-attribute Soul Masters to hurry and recover their Soul Power, just in case."
Hai Lan heard Yun Ming speak, immediately acknowledged the order, and stepped back to make arrangements.
Perhaps seeing that everyone was no longer in mortal danger, Ya Li found it amusing to tease him after seeing how obedient Hai Lan had been.
"It seems you can bypass me when giving him orders in the future."
To this, Yun Ming responded with a smile.
"That wouldn't be the case; isn't the Saintess here? Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to command him at all."
Ya Li said with satisfaction.
"Sky Support, you certainly know how to talk."
Shortly after, the two didn't chat for long before their attention was drawn to the increasingly intense fluctuations of Soul Power colliding in the Eastern Region.
Feeling Ao Tian's Soul Power being steadily suppressed by another formidable force, Yun Ming could roughly determine the outcome of this battle. Now, he only hoped that Ao Tian wouldn't lose his head, would quickly find an opportunity to run, and wouldn't die.
But the situation that followed spiraled completely out of control, and the commotion from the two beasts' clash grew larger and larger.
Until the very end, when Yun Ming felt Ao Tian's rapidly soaring aura and plummeting Life, watching that purple-red mushroom cloud rise and hearing the deafening roar as if the sky were collapsing and the earth sinking, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.
He was sighing for the passing of an old friend in this era, and also lamenting the fact that within the Atlas Divine Spear, his old friend would need to continue slumbering.
However, he had no time to lament the next moment, because the tsunami triggered by the final clash between Ao Tian and the Demon Emperor was too massive, even greater than before, and they definitely couldn't escape at this distance.
Just as Yun Ming was thinking about quickly gathering the people on the ship to help restore his Soul Power and replicate his earlier maneuver, a streak of black light shot toward Yun Ming from within the mushroom cloud--
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