Boom!!
As if the great sea roared and the sky collapsed, a vast and boundless storm of impact traversed across the heavens. Endless shockwaves transformed into blazing white storms, instantly submerging everything.
The moment the seawater was evaporated in an instant, domineering shockwaves plunged straight into the great sea, plowing out a massive groove—as if the great sea had been split apart, and the clouds in the heavens were also cleaved in two.
Yet the Sea Princess still rode upon the seawater, standing firm and unmoving.
The Demon Empress, seeing this, felt a rare surge of frustration in her heart.
She herself was a sea soul beast, and the great sea was similarly her home ground, similarly able to become the source of her greatest power.
However, facing the Sea Princess—a character beloved by the great sea as if she were its favored child—she simply couldn't use the great sea to battle. Her formidable strength could be said to have been directly reduced by over thirty percent.
"Abyssal Sea Vastness!"
Right at this moment, the Sea Princess's counterattack came.
The great sea below, originally dyed red with blood, seemed to transform into azure at this moment, carrying endless energy as it surged to the heavens!
Like the Sea God's fist, it smashed toward the Demon Empress.
Yet she saw her defend against it while six purple-gold light spheres appeared around her body, forming a hexagram in the air. Then, accompanied by the might of the war halberd in her hand, she ruthlessly smashed toward the Sea Princess.
The Sea Princess raised both hands in support, and the great sea surged.
The boundless great sea seemed to come alive, lifting up like a pillar to support that hexagram-combined, pillar-like war halberd.
Then came a backhand strike—the war halberd hidden beneath the heaven-supporting seawater swept out horizontally, similarly targeting the Demon Empress's waist area.
Simultaneously, an invisible spiritual power also emanated from the Sea Princess, merging into the heaven-reaching towering waves.
Under this dual concealment, no matter how vigilant the Demon Empress was, she was caught off guard and struck squarely by the war halberd.
Instantly, a fierce cry rang from her mouth!
The moment she was struck, the Demon Empress's body seemed to become completely soft. Not only was a long gash pulled open at her waist, but a large amount of blood also gushed out.
At this moment—strike while she's down!
The Sea Princess stood with halberd withdrawn, seemingly not rushing for close combat.
But in reality, a melodious song rose from her mouth. Taking her body as the center, circles of blue halos spread outward, permeating every opening as they drifted toward the Demon Empress.
Almost subconsciously, the Demon Empress wanted to seal her hearing.
But in less than half a second, the Demon Empress reacted—the Sea Princess actually wasn't fighting with martial virtue!
And she was launching a sneak attack!
Before she could curse anything, a strong sense of dizziness swept over her. Because with the Sea Princess's powerful spiritual power and mastery in spiritual power, the Demon Empress also found it difficult to match her.
Realizing something was wrong, the Demon Empress immediately activated the demon mark at her brow, breaking free from the spiritual control at the fastest speed.
In the next moment, she raised both hands to the heavens.
The purple-gold around her body was violently compressed, almost in an instant seeming to transform into a cocoon of light, rotating fiercely like a spinning top as it rose straight up. Immediately after, this vortex-like energy, under the Demon Empress's control, descended from heaven to earth, transforming into a purple-gold shooting star that ruthlessly crashed toward the Sea Princess.
Vortex Annihilation!
With such momentum, it seemed the Sea Princess would also have difficulty resisting.
However...
"It's over!"
These three words still poured from the Sea Princess's mouth. And in her tone, there was also a sense of relief.
Immediately after, large amounts of soul power were mobilized by her, and the other emotions in her gaze dissipated at this moment, transforming into resolve.
As a pair of eyes suddenly turned golden, her enormous fish tail swayed, and a golden light and shadow slowly appeared behind her.
And this was the Sea Princess's own appearance.
The light and shadow behind her raised both hands upward, and a blue hexagonal crystal appeared along with it, floating in mid-air.
The Demon Empress's Vortex Annihilation had just descended when it was blocked by this crystal, and in less than a second, it subsequently collapsed and dissipated.
Seeing this object, the Demon Empress's eyes instantly widened!
"Heart of the Ocean?!"
The Heart of the Ocean—a powerful ability that only the Sea Princess clan's golden bloodline could master, a legendary super soul skill.
It had two effects: First, immunity!
Immune to all energy attacks once.
Second, amplification!
Feed back the energy contained in this immune attack to the one who deployed the Heart of the Ocean, causing their power to suddenly increase while simultaneously launching their next strike combined with their own power.
The Sea Princess held the Heart of the Ocean in her hands. After directly immune to the Demon Empress's attack, her entire body had already completely transformed into brilliant gold. Terrifying spiritual aura skyrocketed, and the great sea within tens of thousands of meters instantly surged with towering waves.
The Sea Princess raised the Heart of the Ocean high, and a blue light pillar instantly rose to the heavens, shooting directly toward the Demon Empress's direction.
This strike was called "Curse of the Heart of the Ocean"!
It was the Sea Princess's true strongest strike in every sense.
When this blue light bloomed forth, the entire sky above the Ice Sea suddenly darkened, countless lightning flashing in the air—that was completely a feeling of heaven collapsing and earth sinking.
Numerous evil soul masters' faces turned pale, their gazes dull, while Zhongli Wu at this moment found it even more difficult to suppress the astonishment on his face.
He immediately decided, "Retreat!"
His ninth soul ring lit up as one person desperately blocked Tyrant.
And the Bone Dragon King instantly erupted, attacks falling layer upon layer.
In the next second, Boom— the terrifying attack's mere aftershocks shattered the soul guide warship, and heaven and earth also seemed to clear along with it.
When the attack dissipated and the Sea Princess saw everything before her eyes, she and Zhiyong simultaneously thought in their hearts, "What a pity."
The Demon Empress, as a Limit Douluo level combat force, naturally had means to escape the Sea Princess's attack. And Zhongli Wu, when facing Tyrant's blockade, also directly employed his secret techniques. The other surviving Titled Douluo level evil soul masters also fled one after another.
As for those below Titled Douluo...
The sea soul beast army and mermaid army's gazes instantly locked onto them. In the next moment, these fellows were completely buried in the great sea.
Instantly, cheers mixed with sorrow resounded through the sea region.
Facing the tears falling like pearls, the Sea Princess instead looked toward the bone dragon that had just aided her.
If not for Tyrant appearing and saving her, with his appearance quite similar to evil soul master methods, she would have thought he was another enemy.
"Than..."
However, before the Sea Princess could open her mouth to express thanks, a gate emitting spatial fluctuations swallowed the bone dragon, causing him to vanish from above the sea region, then never to be seen again.
Seeing this, the Sea Princess couldn't help but shake her head helplessly.
But just at this moment, she cast her gaze toward the distance, where five figures were currently speeding toward their direction.
The auras they emitted—none were weaker than Level 95.
And they were precisely the Sea God Family's worshippers!
"Sea Princess, we've come."
Clearly, after gathering powerful combat forces, the Sea God Family had rushed to aid the Sea Princess's clan. But the current situation all indicated one thing—they had come late, and by just one step.
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T/N: The Sea God Family refers to the believers of the Sea God and their descendants such as Bo Saixi and later on Chen Xinjie. Potentially also the elders/worshippers like Sea Dragon, Sea Horse etc. from Douluo 1.
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