Chapter 2958: Come on, let's fight!

In the pond's words lay a sentence that made the demon emperor catch his breath:

"My father king's death—indeed it has something to do with you!"

"You could become the emperor of Bekka, and you should thank the Holy Venerable." Seeing the gods in position and the formation completed, Hulu Tian laughed, "Enough talk. Just go in peace—the Holy Venerable has already arranged your aftermath."

Governing the state and commanding the army—these two matters are not simply a question of whose divine power is strongest or whose magic power is deepest.

For six hundred years, the dragon clan has been the orthodox lineage of the Bekka royal family; for the heavenly gods to think they could bypass the demon emperor and rule Bekka directly is simply impossible.

The reason the dragon god bloodline has always been able to lead Bekka is precisely because it holds immense value to the heavenly gods, an irreplaceable role.

But this does not mean that the demon emperor himself is irreplaceable.

When this demon emperor dies, the Holy Venerable of Lingxu will naturally raise up another demon emperor.

It was so before, it is so now, and it will remain so in the future.

Well, now it's time to send this demon emperor off to the west.

Surrounded by the ten thousand demons under the leadership of the three supreme gods, and within the sealed Yun Tai, the demon emperor has no way to escape heaven or earth. Today, in this battle, it cannot fly even if it grew wings.

The lord of Bekka, head of the northern demon nation and commander of myriad heroes, facing such an unparalleled mighty foe, is actually utterly alone, not a single person by his side!

What despair must this be?

The demon emperor drew a deep breath, swallowing clouds and exhaling mist. Unlike before, the clouds and mist it exhaled were masses of dark clouds, within which thunder and lightning lurked. After just a few breaths, the vast sea of clouds became the thunderclouds and electric waves preceding a storm, instead surrounding the gods.

The azure flood dragon's form appeared and disappeared within the clouds.

Yanshen Tian unfurled his divine form, taking a stern stance: "It has grown larger—beware the cornered beast's counterattack!"

Not an illusion—though the flood dragon is half-hidden in the clouds, its body is indeed rapidly expanding, every dragon scale glowing brightly, like the finest jade.

The dragon eyes widened, sharp red light like a searchlight, even piercing through the gloomy cloud masses.

The green horns on the demon emperor's head quickly branched, indeed transforming from twigs into small trees, their tips sharp and solid.

Most striking of all is the blazing light radiating from its body, red to the point of purple.

Primal force!

Hulu Tian started in surprise: "Inside the Yun Tai, how is its primal force not weakened?"

Although this is Lingxu City, the heartland of Bekka, the Yun Tai is Hulu Tian's own small world; any primal force brought in by enemies should, logically, be diminished.

Yet the primal force on the demon emperor's body keeps rising, far exceeding the heavenly gods' expectations.

Then, from the vast clouds, it extended a forepaw, amidst crackling electric light, the fifth toe beginning to form.

At the same time, the thunderclouds and electric seas began to churn, rapidly forming a great whirlpool.

"Five claws!" Yanshen Tian's eyes narrowed. Flood dragons have only four claws; only true dragons have five!

Not good, very not good!

"Interrupt it, quickly!" Yanshen Tian urged, "It is undergoing the dragon ascent!"

The carp leaping over the dragon gate becomes a dragon.

The chilong flood dragon surviving the tribulation becomes a dragon ascent.

The demon emperor had long chosen a site for its dragon ascent, but since human calculation cannot match heavenly calculation, it simply opened it here—opened within the enemy's trap! What it must face is not only its own dragon ascent tribulation, but also the immediate threat to its life.

What's so difficult about that? Isn't it just difficulty upon difficulty?

Regard the attack of the three supreme gods and the multitude of heavenly gods as part of its own great dragon ascent tribulation. Once it passes, henceforth the sea will be broad and the sky high, the flying dragon soaring in heaven!

The azure flood dragon clan, suppressed under the heavenly gods' shadow for six hundred years, the two generations of demon emperors' hatred of death, Bekka's history of serving as demons—it will settle all accounts today and wash clean in one fell swoop!

They are, after all, the legitimate descendants of the dragon gods!

With a loud dragon cry, the demon emperor unleashed a thunderbolt three zhang thick from the heavens, first striking the three great heavenly gods.

In that instant, the thunderlight illuminated the entire sea of clouds.

Come on, let's fight!

You carefully laid out this killing formation, Holy Venerable of Lingxu—you must be quite pleased, eh?

But Chi does not know that the demon emperor has long prepared for today's battle!

At dawn, the northern part of Lingxu City suddenly trembled.

The city walls had been built ten years prior; the guards on the city wall, looking north, saw in the gradually brightening dawn light a massive object descending—"What is that!"

That head was huge, huge, pressing down the two mountain ranges in the north.

Countless guards saw it gradually sink into the earth, like a bear burying itself in sea sand, raising dust that blotted out the sky. What is this thing? How could the grand Bekka capital, Lingxu City's outskirts, dare to have such a great demon approach?

Immediately after, multiple explosions erupted on Tianxin Island.

The several major events before and after were quickly lumped together by the Bekka people.

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The Earth Mother finally resumed her journey.

However, she did not return directly to Cangyan, but went to a place where blue water meets the sky and winds rise with the tides:

Bai Sha Bay.

This natural fine harbor lies at the southernmost end of Shen State. Years ago, He Lingchuan used the Great Square Pot to scheme against Naluo Tian's avatar, then set sail from here with his subordinates, heading far beyond to the Yangshan Archipelago.

This place also counts as a waystation in his life.

But he mustered his forces and came specially to Bai Sha Bay, not to reminisce about his past, but to fulfill a promise.

At this time, Bai Sha Bay is not bustling, unlike Ju Lu Port ten thousand li away, but its advantage is few people; outside the harbor, the beach has only sea wind and waves. As the name suggests, Bai Sha Bay's sand is naturally fine and white, the beach unusually level after each tide. Yet now there are two rows of footprints on the sand, tracing the long coastline.

Sun Fuling had long taken off her shoes, now standing barefoot in the clear, see-through seawater, unable to help but sigh contentedly to the heavens: "The wind and sand here are completely different from the wasteland."

The sea, she had dreamed of countless times in life, never expecting to approach it only after two hundred years.

The wind of the wasteland is very dry and hard, the sand very coarse and gritty.

However, the sea wind is moist and salty, the sea sand fine, white, and soft.

Things that appear the same, in different environments, can have such great differences.

She only wore that expression when she was especially pleased, and He Lingchuan laughed at her flushed face.

The western sunlight cast their shadows onto the sand, merging into one long stretch.

Sun Fuling glanced at him sideways: "You're laughing at me for being a country bumpkin who's never gone to sea in this life?"

How could he dare? He quickly pointed to the reefs dozens of zhang away: "The tide is rising—there are the most shrimp and crabs in those rock crevices; if we don't catch them now, we'll miss our chance." Sun Fuling didn't believe him.

Though both clearly capable of striding a hundred zhang in a single step, they insisted on holding hands and walking slowly.

When they reached the edge of the reef, the seawater had indeed risen by over half a chi, and the base of the reef was already submerged.

"How could the seawater rise this fast?" Sun Fuling was somewhat surprised.

"It's not written in the books, right?"