Chen Xinjie had already gone completely mad with slaughter. The Baxia giant turtle had vanished without a trace the moment it entered the sea. He swung the Trident in his hand at will, hacking through endless Seaborn and letting blue flesh and blood splatter all around him. Reflected upon his blue-gold battle armor, it added a touch of divinity to his appearance.
Standing within the Sea God's domain, he stomped to pieces a sea lily that suddenly launched a sneak attack from beneath his feet. When a sea snake abruptly bit toward his shoulders, he ripped it off with one hand. Several giant Seaborn had even appeared, but he conjured the tides and crushed them all.
Only then did Skadi halt her offensive. Raising both hands, she looked at the man before her from afar. He was already ignoring the crushing pressure of the ocean within the domain. Moreover, he could now contest with her for control over the ocean; his marine martial soul was usable again.
Skadi gazed from afar at the man before her, whose life fire was still ignited. At this moment, his previously short black hair had turned entirely white, a long beard hung from his face, and his deep brown eyes had turned sky-blue. His battered armor actually resembled Greek mythology even more. Clutching the golden Trident tightly in his hand, he floated gently above the sea level.
"Like this, you look even more like the previous generation's Sea God. You are truly just one step away from becoming a god..."
Chen Xinjie, on the other hand, was optimistic. He merely smiled as he stroked the white beard that could already cover most of his body, lifting the Trident in his hand to point straight at Skadi.
"An image like this doesn't look like the Sea God Tang San at all! It looks more like a dying old fisherman."
Skadi also adopted a combat stance, but her crimson eyes flickered slightly, as if she had thought of something amusing.
"It is the original Sea God--Poseidon! Tang San is nothing but a stray dog by the roadside. Besides, right now you are only short of gathering the power of faith to ascend to godhood..."
The originally placid Chen Xinjie instantly lost his composure. As the Sea God Priest, he naturally knew who Poseidon was... Poseidon, who was invincible across the entire ocean, who had gathered the power of faith of all Sea Soul Beasts to weave a Divine Seat and ascend to the Divine Realm.
But it was only for an instant before he calmed down again. Feeling his current state and the information coming from the Sea God Helmet, he let out a long sigh.
He swung the Trident placidly in a thrusting motion. Wrapped in seawater, the Trident formed a water lance, causing the ocean to splash with wave-like ripples in its wake.
Ocean Combat Technique----Surging Thrust.
At this moment, Chen Xinjie had already surpassed all previous Sea God Priests. Abandoning the soul skills granted by soul rings, he began to develop divine skills exclusive to himself...
Skadi, drawing from the continent's unique style, also picked up her Trident and began to wield it.
'It doesn't swing as smoothly as a greatsword...'
Skadi thrust her Trident into the waters. A massive amount of deep-blue thorns bored out from the sea. With a swing of Skadi's Trident, the area before them turned into an ocean of thorns, thrusting toward Chen Xinjie in an enveloping formation.
Raging Seas and Furious Waves.
Sublimated from Chen Xinjie's ninth soul skill, Vast Ocean Furious Waves, it was originally meant to whip up monstrous waves. He could stack his various soul skills and fuse them into this move, which had always been Chen Xinjie's ultimate technique. At this very moment, he merely conjured a scale far exceeding anything from before. A tsunami stretching tens of thousands of miles swept over, leaving everything to the ocean itself.
Undercurrents, whirlpools, and even cold snaps spontaneously bred within the ocean.
Skadi was in no hurry either. She flew slowly toward the sky and merely raised the Trident high in her hand, as if piercing into the sky. With the swinging of her Trident, the cloud layers rolled violently! It directly triggered a maritime thunderstorm, and dense lightning fell from the sky.
This was a clash between Sea Gods. Like deities, they could command heaven and earth!! It was already a realm beyond the reach of ordinary people.
However, Yun Ming still thought about stepping in to help. Even if the current battle situation was unclear, helping his good friend hold them off was still a good method.
But suddenly, a giant ship anchor was hurled from the sea level, striking heavily against the Sky-Reaching Divine Spear. It was about to knock him out of the domain. He wanted to dodge sideways, but his composure was disrupted by a lance-halberd appearing from the other side.
"Apologies! Your part in this play has already ended. The final contest is a matter between the old and new Sea Gods." Ulpianus leaped deeply and soared to the same height as Yun Ming. Pulling the chain in his hand, he flipped in midair and smashed down at Yun Ming once more.
Yun Ming did not mind it either. Holding the Sky-Reaching Spear, he dealt with the two of them with room to spare, even finding the leisure to speak.
"Finally, someone who can talk. Might I inquire about the situation?"
As soon as his voice fell, Ulpianus's anchor struck like an elbow. Yun Ming's spear intent blocked it once again, but he was forced back several steps.
The silent clash felt like it answered something instead, leaving Yun Ming speechless for a moment. In the end, one spear strike knocked Ulpianus flying, while another braced against the anchor!
"I will leave the domain immediately! Can you answer my question? Sea God attendants!"
'This person is using "momentum"! Each strike is stronger than the last. I can't let him gather "momentum" anymore.'
After Yun Ming finished speaking, he immediately flew backward, soaring directly out of the domain to no longer affect the battlefield.
Before he could stand firmly, a rotating saw blade lunged toward Yun Ming. The bizarre weapon left Yun Ming unsure of whether to attack or defend.
"Apologies! We are not Sea God attendants! We are blood relatives!"
A voice that gave Yun Ming a headache just by hearing it! It was another fierce older sister.
Another great beauty dashed out from the sea! Laurentina, also known as Specter, had successfully made landfall as well.
Yun Ming was surrounded by the three of them in a triangular formation. Yun Ming did not panic at all, looking at them from afar and sizing them up.
'Blood relatives? Then again, these few people look almost identical. All have white hair and red eyes, and every single one is exceptionally beautiful.'
Yun Ming unconsciously commented on their appearances first, then sensed their status based on their auras.
The muscular man with the high hat in front of him--Yun Ming felt that his masculinity was practically overflowing. His leadership aura was peerless. Any attack he made was steady, precise, and ruthless, striking directly at vital points. While being incredibly powerful, he also possessed the calmness of a scholar; he was truly formidable. He was at the Limit Douluo level, and by the looks of it, he belonged to the physical body sect.
The person on the flank called "Swordfish" gave off the feeling of gently flowing seawater. That ridiculously long lance indeed resembled the bill of a swordfish. She should be a big-sister type of figure with extremely high combat literacy. Just now, she had been interfering with his movements the entire time, pressing right in front of him before he even moved... For a Super Douluo level to achieve this step was truly impressive.
As for this last-appearing person holding a chainsaw, Yun Ming really had a bit of trouble dealing with her--a fierce older sister... Moreover, she resembled that Sea God the most... She was the weakest, but she was probably also the one against whom he could least bring himself to use heavy hands...
"Representative of Shrek, I can only tell you that the Sea God Tang San has never left this world. Everything that happens on the Douluo Plane is within his control..." Ulpianus was quite blunt, directly putting away his weapon as the massive shipyard apparatus was retracted behind his back.
"Everything? Does that include the invasion of the Abyssal Plane?" Yun Ming's eyes began to narrow as he proactively asked about the most important matter--the Abyssal Plane! This major problem had plagued them for nearly ten thousand years. In fact, if the continental federation hadn't formed the Blood God Legion five thousand years ago and established a suicide squad to plug the plane's rift at all costs, nearly seventy percent of their high-end combat power would have been wiped out in that battle... Even to this day, countless people still died in the planar war every year.
"Why?" Yun Ming did not ask how this information was obtained. The strong all had their own cognitive systems, and at this moment, Yun Ming believed that all of this was true.
"Planar ascension! Or rather, world ascension!" Ulpianus gestured with his hand, signaling the other two to put away their weapons. He turned to stand beside Yun Ming, watching the battle between the two "Sea Gods."
"How will it devour it? Who will do it? Is everything done this way just to allow the people of the continent to ascend to God-level?" Abyssal energy had always been impossible to utilize, which was the reason humans had been passively taking beatings. Even Limit Douluos had no way to absorb and utilize that energy; it would simply re-condense into new abyssal creatures to attack the Douluo Plane again...
"The Lord of the Plane and the Core of Life of the Douluo Plane have also been replaced by Tang Hao and Ah Yin." Just a single short sentence instantly pierced through Yun Ming's brain. A Divine Origin Realm spiritual power was no joke, and various conjectures quickly surfaced in his mind.
Yun Ming's eyes widened in extreme shock. There was the shock brought by his senses--this astonishing answer, an unfamiliar voice color, and a Divine Origin Realm cultivation that indicated there were only four people here, yet his eyes saw another person beside him. This person, or rather, this martial soul.
Sui Yuan, dressed in bright red brocade robes, appeared beside Yun Ming at some unknown point.
Like Chen Xinjie before him, Yun Ming let out a long sigh, as if resigning to fate, and deduced the subsequent situation based on his own knowledge.
"That cluster of seven-colored planar power is Tang Hao making trouble! Chen Xinjie is no match for that Sea God; the Sea God will probably still intervene."
"The Core of Life... which is the Ancient Golden Tree. If it is Ah Yin, then right now the Ancient Golden Tree should be wantonly venting the energy it accumulated over many years to convert it into the Sea God's Light. Very soon, Tang San's Sea God power will come rushing over, right..."
For a moment, Yun Ming's eyes grew dim, and his aura dropped by a large margin. He was unable to accept reality for a time.
But then he thought of the countless predecessors who had sacrificed themselves just to protect Shrek, only for it to turn out that they were acting as nutrients for someone else... Anger!
"Then... what do you intend to do?" Yun Ming stared at the people before him, specifically locking his gaze on the mysterious Sui Yuan.
"Hehe! Naturally, it is to shatter the Law restrictions of the Lord of the Plane, giving the continent infinite possibilities! To dominate one's own destiny..."
Sui Yuan waved his hands helplessly, putting on a very convincing act, looking exactly as if he had just thought of something.
"As for what will happen to this plane once it loses its Lord of the Plane and Core of Life, this Sui person would not know."
"After all, according to the results of my divination, when humanity is in dire straits and on the verge of extinction, a god will manifest to save the world, save his own people, destroy the outliers, and incidentally resurrect a few individuals. From then on, the Douluo Planet will truly become the back garden of a certain Grand God King Tang."
"And as for this future, I do not agree to it! Therefore, I have flipped the chessboard! I want to transform into the master of destiny, to dominate my own destiny."
The final sentence was spoken as Sui Yuan lifted his mask, revealing a crisp female voice...