hsntnovel Chapter 312 The Ancient Divine Body Displays Its Power, Dismembering the Spirit King Sea Beast in Pu
Chapter 312 The Ancient Divine Body Displays Its Power, Dismembering the Spirit King Sea Beast in Pu
The ninety-nine floating islands of Kunlun shrank into blurry dots in the field of vision. The five-colored warship, like a streak of light piercing through the sky, cleaved through the layers of clouds and roared eastward.
On the deck, Lu Sheng leaned back in his armchair, the slightly cool, fragmented map between his fingers. The energy of the Heart of the True Sea was still flowing slowly through his veins, and with each breath, his reconstructed ancient divine body became more refined.
"Master, that aura has grown stronger." Luo Tianfei stood behind Lu Sheng, the gray-purple flame between her brows flickering uneasily. She had just stabilized her level 35 cultivation, but facing the sea stained red with blood, she instinctively sensed a bone-chilling malice.
Lu Sheng put away the fragmented map, and a scarlet background was reflected in his cross-shaped double pupils.
"It's quite lively." He licked his teeth, his tone flat. "It seems these fish and shrimp from the East China Sea have eaten too much and want a change of pace."
As the warship sped forward, the once azure East China Sea had been completely transformed. A layer of viscous black foam floated on the surface, a product of the abyssal aura mixing with the seawater. Countless bizarre deep-sea monsters were frantically crashing into an island on the horizon.
That's Ascension Island.
The once vibrant protective array around the island now shone with an extremely dim light. Its surface was covered with countless cracks, each crack teeming with sea beasts that were frantically devouring energy.
Within the formation, shouts of battle shook the heavens.
"Xingtian, I can't hold on much longer!"
Li Xiaoyao stood on the stone steps in front of the mountain gate, the wine gourd in his hand broken in two. His signature blue robe was tattered, and three deep, bone-revealing cuts were visible on his chest, with dark green poison spreading along his meridians.
Before him stood a vast, densely packed army of sea creatures.
A burly man with eight eyes and his body covered in suction cups was hovering in mid-air, wielding a bone fork made from the spine of a giant beast.
It is the ruler of the sea creatures, the Giant Octopus King.
Level 45, Spirit King realm.
This monster, which had been lurking in the deep sea for a hundred years, underwent a transformation within just a few days after absorbing a wisp of blood energy scattered after the fall of the Abyss Mother Worm, forcibly stepping into the middle stage of the Spirit King realm.
"Li Xiaoyao, stop pretending." The Giant Octopus King's eight eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty red light, his voice low and menacing like the beating of a drum. "Hand over the core of the spiritual vein, and I may grant you a quick death. Otherwise, once the great formation breaks, everyone on this island will become my men's meal!"
"Pah!" Elder Xingtian, leaning on his chipped greatsword, coughed up a mouthful of bloody saliva. "Want to get to the island? You'll have to step over my dead body first!"
"act recklessly."
The Giant King sneered, and the void behind him suddenly exploded.
A massive, 500-meter-tall deep-sea dharma image rose from the ground. It was an enormous, jet-black octopus, each tentacle covered with ferocious barbs, slamming down with earth-shattering power towards the island's protective formation.
"It's over..."
Countless disciples of Ascension Island closed their eyes. This single blow was enough to utterly shatter their hopes.
"Thump—!!!"
The expected cracking sound did not come.
Instead, there was a muffled thud like a heavy object falling to the ground, and a terrifying shockwave that instantly vaporized the seawater within a ten-mile radius.
The giant octopus king's massive, black tentacles, which blotted out the sky, stopped just three inches away from the great formation.
It didn't stop on its own.
Instead, a hand with a dark golden sheen pressed down firmly on the tip.
"You're making such a racket, it's disturbing my sleep."
A lazy voice suddenly rang out on the deathly silent battlefield.
Everyone looked up abruptly.
At the top of the great formation stood a young man in black robes. He had one hand in his pocket and the other on the enormous tentacle that could shatter mountains. The void beneath his feet was collapsing in a strange way.
"That's... the young island master?!"
"Lu Sheng! Lu Sheng is back!!"
A hysterical cheer erupted from the desperate disciples of Dengxian Island, and many even collapsed on the spot due to the extreme emotional ups and downs.
Lu Sheng frowned slightly as he looked down at the group of disheveled servants and elders.
"Old Li, your hospitality is terrible! How could you let a few giant squid bully you like this?"
Li Xiaoyao was taken aback at first, then his smile became more like a grimace: "You brat, if you had come back even half a moment later, you would have been retrieving my bones from the belly of a sea monster!"
In mid-air, all eight of the Giant Octopus King's eyeballs contracted simultaneously.
It frantically tried to pull the tentacle back, only to find that the seemingly weak human hand was as heavy as an ancient mountain pressing down on it. No matter how much it activated the rules at the Spirit King level, the tentacle could not move an inch.
"So you're the Lu Sheng who caused trouble in Kunlun?" King Juzhang roared in a deep voice, a strange chill creeping into his heart. "Let go! I am appointed by the Sea God..."
"Poseidon?"
Lu Sheng raised his head, a hint of mockery flashing in his double cross-shaped pupils.
"Before that, you have to ask me if my pot... can hold you."
Lu Sheng suddenly flipped his wrist.
"Ancient Divine Body, activate!"
There was no prelude.
Beneath Lu Sheng's skin, the dark golden light exploded instantly. His muscles trembled at an astonishing frequency, and a pure, brute force flowed directly into the enormous tentacle through his arm.
"Come here...!"
Lu Sheng pulled back with one hand.
Under the horrified gazes of tens of thousands of sea warriors, the colossal Dharma image, towering five hundred meters high, was actually dragged out of the clouds by this tiny human, as if it were a sack of potatoes!
"Boom!!"
The Giant King's true form, along with its Dharma form, slammed into a deserted, desolate mountain. The entire mountain collapsed instantly, sending rocks flying and dust billowing hundreds of meters into the air.
Lu Sheng did not stop.
He moved swiftly and instantly appeared on the desolate mountain ruins.
"You just said you wanted to make my people your dinner?"
Lu Sheng looked down at the giant octopus king struggling frantically at the bottom of the pit.
"Perfect timing, I've been eating a lot of greasy food lately, so I'm craving some refreshing cold seafood salad."
"Roar!! Lu Sheng, you've gone too far!!"
The Giant Octopus King went completely mad. It felt the humiliation of being treated like livestock. It suddenly spat out a mouthful of its primordial blood essence, and the tentacles of its Dharma form instantly doubled in size, transforming into countless black lightning bolts that blocked all of Lu Sheng's escape routes.
"Abyss - Dark Annihilation!!"
Black mist filled the air, and space was forcibly torn apart by those barbed tentacles.
Lu Sheng stood surrounded by tentacles, but instead of dodging, he closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath of the fishy-smelling air.
"Too old." Lu Sheng shook his head, his tone somewhat disdainful. "The bloodline is mixed, and the aura of the abyss is too strong. Even if an octopus of this quality were made into takoyaki, the texture would be dry."
"but……"
Lu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and a deathly gray light surged from the depths of his eyes like a tidal wave.
"It's not too bad as fodder for Buddhist statues."
"The Desolate Heavenly Emperor—Has Appeared in the World!"
Om-! !
The void trembled.
A gray-white imperial figure, a thousand meters tall, with a terrifying aura that could suppress all heavens, slowly emerged behind Lu Sheng.
Three heads and six arms.
Each arm was wreathed in desolate fire powerful enough to melt away the rules.
The moment the Emperor's Dharma Image appeared, the sea area within a hundred miles instantly became deathly silent. The frenzied sea beasts seemed to have seen their ancestor, the source of their bloodline, and they were so frightened that they collapsed on the surface of the water, losing even the strength to swim.
Lu Sheng (Emperor) slowly raised one hand.
The giant hand pressed down on the giant octopus king below.
"Snap!!"
The Giant King's prized Dharma Form defense proved as fragile as a sheet of paper in the face of this absolute physical pressure.
Its tentacles were crushed one by one, and the toxins containing the power of the abyss were completely devoured by the power of desolation the moment they came into contact with the Emperor's palm.
"What...what kind of power is this?!" the Giant Octopus King screamed in terror. "You're only level 34! How could this be...ah!!"
The screams were drowned out by the sound of bones cracking.
Lu Sheng manipulated the Dharma Form, and the remaining five hands reached out simultaneously.
A hand grabbed the octopus's head.
The other four hands each grabbed its four largest main tentacles.
"pull."
Lu Sheng uttered a single word without any expression.
"Rip!!!"
A torrential downpour of dark green blood rained down from the sky.
That level 45 Spirit King behemoth was actually dismembered by Lu Sheng as if he were processing food.
The giant octopus king's primordial spirit panicked and tried to escape from his mangled body.
"Now that you're on the table, you think you can just run away?"
Lu Sheng snorted coldly, and the Five Elements Cycle behind his head spun wildly in the opposite direction.
A huge suction hole appeared in the void.
"Ancient Devouring Furnace, Refine!"
"Sizzle sizzle..."
Before it could even let out a full scream, the Giant Octopus King's primordial spirit and its enormous flesh and blood essence were completely swallowed up by that huge black vortex.
[Ding! Devoured a level 45 mutated sea creature! Gained 300000 points of pure life energy!]
Current level: 34 (12%)...
Lu Sheng let out a burp and patted his chest to clear his throat.
He turned his head and looked down at the tens of thousands of sea creatures who had already turned to stone.
Those originally ferocious sea beasts now looked at Lu Sheng as if he were a gluttonous beast crawling out of hell.
"Lord... the Commander has been eaten?"
"Run! This is a man-eating monster!!"
The once mighty beast tide completely collapsed after Lu Sheng annihilated the Giant Octopus King in a single move. Countless sea beasts rushed into the deep sea, wishing they could grow two more fins.
Standing on high ground, Lu Sheng watched the "ingredients" scatter and flee, a dangerous glint flashing in his eyes.
"run?"
He turned to look at Li Xiaoyao, a somewhat wicked smile playing on his lips.
"Old man, give the order: extra food for the whole island tonight."
"Catch all the fish above level 30. We're going to have a... all-fish feast."
Li Xiaoyao was stunned at first, then suddenly slapped his thigh, his old face turning bright red.
"Alright! The young island master has given the order, men, grab your weapons!"
"Don't let these 'takoyaki' bastards get away!!"
The once lifeless Dengxian Island suddenly erupted with unprecedented fighting spirit. Elder Xingtian, wielding his giant sword, charged ahead into the retreating enemy ranks, his laughter echoing heroically.
Lu Sheng, however, did not join this "hunt".
He looked at the tattered map again.
As the Giant Octopus King fell, a massive whirlpool was slowly forming in the deep red sea in the distance.
At the center of the vortex, a corner of a magnificent crystal palace can be vaguely seen.
A tremor originating deep in the spine came again.
Lu Sheng's smile vanished, his cross-shaped pupils reflecting the outline of the deep sea.
"It seems these appetizers are just the beginning."
He slowly raised his hand, and the Dragon Devouring Spear reappeared, its tip emitting a dark golden light.
"It seems the real culprit has already smelled blood."
Just then.
Within the deep-sea vortex, a terrifying aura, surpassing even the Spirit King realm and faintly touching the threshold of the Emperor realm, was rapidly locking onto Lu Sheng's location.
The seawater is boiling.
A deep, ancient voice, carrying boundless majesty, pierced through the waves and resounded in Lu Sheng's ears.
"Human, the Heart of the True Sea... is not something you can take."
Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng not only did not become serious, but instead revealed an extremely excited greed.
"The grade is quite high, so the taste must be... even more delicious, right?"
He leaped into the air, his body resembling a dark golden cannonball, and actually swooped down towards the vortex.
And at the end of his line of sight.
A massive golden dragon claw, so large it covered half the seabed, burst forth from the water with the force to overturn the sea!
The suspense at the end of this chapter:
To whom does that golden dragon claw, which has traversed countless ages and is powerful enough to tear apart the laws of nature, belong? Is it the true awakening of the Sea God, or a terrifying guardian left behind by the Deep Sea Dragon Palace? Faced with this near-imperial level killing blow, will the Dragon God bloodline within Lu Sheng undergo its second ultimate awakening?