Chapter 1378

Black light twisted and swelled in midair, manifesting as a dragon that roared, shattering the water, and the sky suddenly cleared.

The elongated vacuum bubble trembled and contracted, the backflowing water pulling back the scattered translucent fragments swirling across the sky, like crushed gelatinous skin jelly in a basin.

The setting sun pierced through the ten-meter-wide hollow of the canopy, casting a golden flare onto Dragon Court Plaza.

Compared to ordinary demon beasts, a ten-meter wound was obviously enormous, easily capable of cleaving the body in two, causing it to collapse and die, deciding victory or defeat.

However, for the Blue-Capped King with a canopy over six hundred meters in diameter, the wound area was merely a fraction of a percent—negligible. Yet this tiny wound shattered the Blue-Capped King's centuries of pride and accumulation into dust, into mud, and the moat carefully built around its own defenses evaporated in a single day!

"Crack!"

A clear cracking sound came from underwater, the surging flood spreading across a hundred li radius. Fine sand and mud flew out through the cracks, clinging to the tiles,

steps, cascading down like waterfalls.

Transparent patterns imprisoned the shattered fragments.

The Blue-Capped King forcibly broke through the invisible prison, the canopy undulating and retreating backward. At the same time, the scattered bodily fragments drifting across the sky turned into swimming fish, flying back to refill the wounded opening.

In the blink of an eye, the hollow was whole and unbroken.

"Blue-Capped King! Where is your translocation?" the Blue-Capped King demanded.

"I—I don't know! It just—it just suppressed my divine ability."

"You're bluffing me."

The Blue-Capped King's first reaction was disbelief.

"I don't know!"

The Blue-Capped King nearly screamed.

Scouring every direction for leaks and patches, probing everywhere, constantly selecting masters capable of adhesion and parasitism, worth attaching to.

Whether by forceful occupation or elixir exchange, over three hundred years of selection and accumulation, the layered reinforcement of "spear" and "shield," especially the final supplements, no one knows how much cost or energy was expended.

The Blue-Capped King believed that aside from realm suppression using a furnace, no person or beast could imprison its translocation movement, its greatest weakness long eradicated, and with the vastness of the world, it could go anywhere at will.

Useless!

Useless!

The collapse of the Dao-heart requires no great setback, no arduous ordeal—often it happens in that instant, in that single move.

"Roar!"

Black light flashed again.

"Here it comes again! Blue-Capped King!" the Blue-Capped King urged anxiously, tapping with its tentacles; the black light shrank by half, yet still pierced through its sky-covering canopy.

The Blue-Capped King's mind went blank.

Bai Yuan plucked the status fruit, refined it, carried the momentum to dominate the world, assumed a posture, suppressing the defiant hearts—river fish all know it and the Blue-Capped King are not as this monkey wishes; rather, it insists on suppressing at the peak of its momentum, even higher, with magnificent power, to seize the throne.

The plan now completely disrupted, the dream of suppressing Bai Yuan like a descending god, shocking the demon kings of the world, shattered in these few rounds.

The tiny flaw on the canopy resembled a pinhole in a dam, constantly jetting water, plunging the two kings into immense passivity.

"Pfft!"

Fragments sprayed again, the golden light spots on the plaza growing ever more numerous.

Bai Yuan stepped forward with bow stance, again and again, pressing the attack, launching fierce assaults, fierce throws, fierce hurlings, one black dragon after another twisting forth, revealing dragon heads, roaring ferociously.

Millions of tentacle points stirred, swimming fish shuttling, there was always a black dragon too slow to "dehydrate" and weaken, the canopy's pinhole-like small openings constantly appearing, occasionally even bursting into a large hole.

Without the Blue-Capped King's support, its enormous size made it a huge, living target; millions of tentacles tried to dodge, yet the transparent prison kept appearing, obstructing that instant.

Normally hard to land, the Nether Sea Prison at this moment became a constant state for the Blue-Capped King.

The old toad glanced left and right, taking advantage of all demon kings' inattention, extended its webbed claws, secretly gathering the shattered "skin jelly," and fled back in panic.

The demon kings were somewhat confused, wondering why the Blue-Capped King's translocation advantage showed no effect, continually blasted open by the Bai Yuan

Where is your translocation? Where are your techniques? Where is your strength?

But the fact of injury lay plainly before them.

Initial probing, the Blue-Capped King and Blue-Capped King foundered in the sand, as if these two top hegemons plus one fragment, their strength was not as transcendent as imagined?

"Blue-Capped King, struck stupid? Don't just stand there dazed!" the Blue-Capped King railed, hateful of iron not becoming steel, "Try again—if truly impossible, then change strategy, for now you haven't lost, where is your authority?

You can't translocate—what about your other divine abilities? Did the monkey chop them all? Even without translocation, the two of us combined might not be weaker than this Bai Yuan!"

The Blue-Capped King was startled awake by the Blue-Capped King, arrow on the bowstring, gritted teeth, silently praying the earlier incident was a fluke, tried translocation again—no effect, still mired in the mud.

Not an accident!

How was it done? Exactly how was it done?

This supplement it must obtain, this shield's supplement it must obtain—this is surely the final puzzle, the final————

"Pfft! Pfft-pfft-pfft!"

Dull thuds followed in succession.

At this moment, the Blue-Capped King leaked light like a bamboo sieve, cursing: "Blue-Capped King! Are you stupid from the beating? Exactly how hard can you hit?"

The Blue-Capped King forced itself to rally, no longer focusing on its failed translocation, instead giving full support to the Blue-Capped King.

The floating fragments in the sky shifted again, transforming into swimming sea-wolf fish, rapidly converging into the body.

The "sieve" riddled with thousands of holes swiftly sealed, the light spots on the ground continuously dissolving, re-forming into a whole.

The Blue-Capped King's enormous size is its weakness, easily struck by techniques, but combined with the Blue-Capped King, it is also its strength—due to its size, hard to kill in one blow, utilizing the Eight-Armed King's life-creating divine ability, perfect recovery is possible!

The Harbor Master clenched heartfelt waves.

This Blue-Capped King and Blue-Capped King united, likewise possessing the undying, indestructible technique, when used, actually surpasses the Eight-Armed King itself in proficiency, ease, and ferocity—the prior favorable situation turned to nothing.

Solidity, recovery enhancement, speed boost, environmental assimilation————

Rippling light flashed continuously, one divine ability after another layered onto the Blue-Capped King's body. Its canopy diameter expanded straight to two li, over a thousand meters, blotting out sky and sun, aura doubling and surging.

At the same time.

With gain comes loss, one divine ability after another emitted from the Blue-Capped King's tentacles, hurled at the Bai Yuan.

Hongguo descended, reality overlapped, space expanded, and the vortex water at every corner turned into countless pushing hands, driving the white ape to dodge left and right; its mind's eye let it perceive the position of all things, always finding gaps and timing to evade, always threading the needle perfectly to counterattack.

It can perceive any position, act in any direction.

Since achieving the form of the Yao Dragon, it has been a long time since it faced an opponent as evenly matched as the Two Kings, forcing it to use nearly all its means.

A moment.

The Blue-Capped King gained many buffs, yet not a single debuff landed on it.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

The Pot King was nearly driven mad.

Why can this monkey imprison its traversal? Without traversal, it, the Pot King, is just a target, unable to move.

Why can this monkey completely dodge its and the Blue-Capped King's divine abilities? With so many means, it seems every thought is seen through by it the moment it arises.

Its proud divine abilities gained no expected overwhelming advantage, only pure attrition—but they are two against one! If only it were alone today, a single ban would already render it useless.

It must be obtained, its divine ability must be obtained.

Parasitize onto it!

Among the myriad divine abilities in the world, I happen to lack this one!

Opposite, the Pot King covets the white ape, and the white ape is no less eager for the Pot King.

The Seven Hegemons of the Eastern Sea, three position fruits, three authorities—none possess the Pot King's species talent that is so stunning.

"If we could dominate this fellow, combined with Hongguo's dominating beast—"

Liang Qu possesses an ability, but has never used it.

The Ze Kingdom's divine ability slot can produce spirit fish by combining heavenly earth long qi with essence—an additional opening!

Only, in the past, training water beasts was difficult, so the number of divine abilities was few, and they did not conflict; a few divine abilities of water beasts were plug-and-play sufficient, just like the "cannot move" buff, which is continuous and can easily be added below to become the mistification of fat fish.

Compared to the cost of long qi, he does not have a strong need for multiple coexisting abilities, but if he could dominate the Pot King—

Not only would the quantity surge, buff divine abilities would explode, and the intensity of the demon king's divine abilities would be entirely different from that of great demons!

Ordinary cultivators can reach the rank of master, but none wish to be mere green leaves supporting others; all want to develop comprehensively. To be able to strike and resist, having one buff divine ability is not bad. The Pot King is different—it does not need to pursue comprehensiveness due to limited numbers, for it is comprehensiveness itself; even a dozen or so buff divine abilities are comparable to the combined buffs of a dozen demon kings.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Unknown how many divine ability buffs have landed on the Blue-Capped King; beneath the myriad trees, every tendril undergoes sharp transformation, all writhing and growing into dark purple dragons, interlocking fangs, encircling and intercepting.

Terrifying toxins condense at the dragon's mouth tip, making even Liang Qu feel chilled. The Blue-Capped King and the Pot King's realms are not high—just two mid-tier—but when they meet, they produce a unique chemical reaction.

The immortal island shattered; his Tiger Dragon Golden Body cannot be used, defense relies solely on flesh, and he lacks the great killer like Slaying Flood Dragon, so he has no effective absolute output, only able to survive by relying on his mind's eye and authority in the cracks. Fortunately, these two fellows' authority damage is far less than that of the Sea Lice King.

On one side, the Whale King, Canglong King, and Ice Bear King witnessed the standoff, already utterly dumbfounded.

They thought the Sea Lice King was already heaven-defying—touch it and you're injured, bump it and you die, a tap to the head and you ascend to heaven on the spot.

Unexpectedly, there are two even more outrageous than it, immortal and indestructible! Divine abilities unmatched, but even more outrageous is the white ape—facing the Sea Lice King, it contends with authority, this wave entirely relying on foundation!

"Should we go help?" the Whale King pondered, "Wait, the monkey hasn't shouted yet—"

The Canglong King and Ice Bear King also exchanged glances, their thoughts stirring.

This monkey is too fierce, invincible in single combat on the Jianghuai; if we can't handle it, what use is temporarily holding the Water Lord's position? Relying on ganging up to get it—can we keep ganging up? Only the Pot King, this parasitic type, can go years without falling, able to team up with hegemons; now the sides are stalemated, if our side has one hegemon, as long as it's two versus two, we can tip the balance to victory.

Even the Three Kings thought: if only the monkey would utter a sentence like "help me" later, without specifying the target, they would immediately rush forward and take the lead.

"Brother." The Whale King gave a big tug on the fat fish.

The fat fish turned its head.

The Whale King rubbed the fish's fins.

"The moon is bright in the hometown, the fish is kin in the homeland; I pull you, my brother, into the clan register—can you pull me into the Long Gong, to serve together?

"

The black dragon twisted and coiled continuously, the purple dragon encircled its head and bit.

Above the Long Gong, a vast vacuum was blasted.

"What to do?" the Pot King grew more desperate as it fought, "Your authority cannot shrink its long spear, nor can I turn much in other directions, and my divine abilities are insufficiently suppressive."

"Hold on!" the Blue-Capped King gradually stabilized its mindset, "You have the Eight-Armed King's divine ability; combined with me, we are immortal and indestructible—occasionally letting a few unshrunken moves slip through is no problem, we can naturally recover.

But that monkey cannot, I don't believe this monkey can keep resisting; its energy consumption is absolutely greater than ours! Attrition battle, it cannot outlast us! Unless it calls for help!"

The Pot King's spirit lifted.

Indeed.

The white ape relies on the Jianghuai, also possessing immortality and indestructibility, but the opponent's level of immortality and indestructibility is clearly lower than theirs! Not being that immortal and indestructible, the opponent's fault tolerance is naturally lower than theirs; seeming stalemate, actually the monkey's mental energy consumption is greater! When it runs out of strength, that will be their time of victory.

Liang Qu also noticed this point.

Since engaging the Sea Lice King, it has understood the marvelous use of the "Hong Sha" 50-50 split, and thus no longer fears the Blue-Capped King and Pot King's position fruit authority.

The Blue-Capped King's water-shrinking is indeed formidable, but when charging forward against the water dragon bearing "Hong Sha," it can only shrink half; combined with the River Lord's favor increasing damage, it can still cause considerable harm.

As for the Pot King, needless to say. It has not fully refined its position fruit, relying instead on innate talent and creation, forcefully manipulating it—it can barely manifest the vortex, with poor precision and weak twisting force; under the Blue-Capped King's cover, relying on its small body size to preserve itself is already not bad.

However—

The Jianghuai's favor replaced the boundless endlessness of the Vast Sea, but on output efficiency, it has not been heightened; his Vast Sea is already half-abandoned, and his strongest output divine ability is also gone.

After reviewing, the 【Water Dragon Piercing Clouds】 that transformed into divine ability, combined with the Slaying Flood Dragon's qi rhythm and the Jianghuai's true qi, is already its current output ceiling; yet against the Eight-Armed King's similar recovery ability, it cannot cause substantial damage—just as one wave is sent out, the previous one has already recovered.

"The mind's eye cannot remain open forever—it consumes too much energy—"

In the white ape's peripheral vision, a glance swept toward the Long Gong; the Hai Fangzhu emerged half a body length, and the Whale King, Canglong King, and Ice Bear King were even more eager to try.

At this moment, they all realized the white ape's predicament is not actually a predicament.

As hegemons, their output is fine.

It's not about being stronger than the white ape, but in the current stalemate, as long as another full output is added, the Blue-Capped King and Pot King will be unable to recover!

Yet the white ape, having cast its gaze, withdrew it again, communicating with the Ze Ding.

It is far from reaching the point of no recourse.

【Water Marsh Essence: 38,678,000】

【Water Dragon Piercing Clouds: Thousand-Mile Soul Lock, Water Transforms into Dragon Form; Heavenly River Overturns, Piercing Kill Without Mercy; Heavenly Punishment Descends, Hundred Rivers Become Execution.】

The upper limit of Water Dragon Piercing Clouds is far more than this little bit right now!

Back in the Water Dragon Spear days, one could consume Water Marsh Essence to add spirituality to the Water Dragon Spear, starting at fifty points; used it against the Eight-Clawed King, extraordinary effect, completely different. Pity that later the essence was never enough; after finishing off the Flood Dragon, by the time that fat wave at the Whale Emperor came, only then did it become abundant.

The power of Water Dragon Piercing Clouds can rise again!

Consume Water Marsh Essence, one versus two, solo challenge succeeds, White Ape's momentum soars, unrivaled in the River and Huai, awing the petty villains, seizing rule over Huaijiang.

Ask Pang Yu for help, two versus two, still losing none of the new monarch's hegemonic majesty, yet far inferior to the former; may not be able to suppress all the kings under heaven.

"Huu—"

Black light gathers again in hand.

Poison Dragon attacks.

Virulent fangs graze past the shoulder, in an instant dissolving flesh, withering flesh; White Ape backhands like a blade, one palm slices away a large chunk of flesh, preventing toxin spread, letting water flow brush over, aiding regrowth and recovery.

White Ape recovers as normal, but Blue Canopy King is overjoyed: "Put more effort in, this guy's error frequency has clearly gone up! It can't hold on anymore!"

Crack.

Once more the Nether Sea Prison Cage shatters; Blue Canopy King waves Poison Dragon tentacles, but unexpectedly his heart gives a violent start — a streak of black light descends on his head, faster and fiercer than before.

Poison Dragon goes to ram it, yet the black light strangely twists, dodging away, heading straight for Canopy Pot King; Pot King breaks into cold sweat.

Fortunately Blue Canopy King is fully focused, layers of Poison Dragon nets intercept; the first misses, the rear Poison Dragons follow up to support, by the sixth it successfully makes contact, shrinking the black light by half. The overjoyed Pot Master frantically manipulates authority, deflecting the black light's direction, it brushes past.

Pa!

No longer a muffled pu sound, but a crisp pa sound.

Heavenly light shines on the Dragon Court Plaza; a hole thirty meters in diameter appears, rippling with wave-light.

Blue Canopy King watches the hole heal and recover, greatly shocked and pale.

What's going on, it clearly applied Shrink to the black light, how come the power is about the same as when it wasn't shrunk?

Pot King stares at the hole right before his eyes and shouts: "What's going on? Nearly hit me! Blue Canopy King, if you hit me, both of us are done for!"

"I know! Stop shouting!" Blue Canopy King's heart pounds, he ponders a moment, "It must be the monkey can't hold on, preparing a death-struggle! Triggering a secret art, it's too proud and greedy, doesn't want Pang Yu's help at all!"

Pot King shocked and doubtful: "For real?"

【Water Marsh Essence: 38,628,000】

"This is the power of fifty thousand?"

Liang Qu witnesses the canopy hole healing, has a clear idea in his heart.

A thought moves.

【Water Marsh Essence: 33,628,000】

One last glance at Blue Canopy King.

White Ape closes both eyes, shuts its golden pupils.

Rumble—

Heaven and earth, black wind suddenly rises howling, lightning pierces the sky, winding into dragons, plasma splashing in all directions, thunder rolling.

An indescribable low pressure envelops all the Demon Kings.

"This— — —"

Azure Long Wang, Ice Bear King, hearts terrified, quickly step back and retreat into the Long Gong.

"Blue Canopy King? What the fuck is this situation?" Pot King looks around in horror, "This is what you called the final counterattack? Why do I feel something's wrong?"

Blue Canopy King freezes in place, glances at the lead-gray clouds above, dead-stares at the eye-closed White Ape.

This time, White Ape does not throw, does not take an archer's stance, does not make grand sweeping movements, only sits like a radiant golden Buddha on a meditation cushion— — —

But!

Thunderclouds gather at the sky's edge, forming a vortex; within the vortex, the tide sound surges!

As if in the high sky there is a giant black hole, in the black hole something is gestating, twisting, waiting; in the boundless darkness, a pair of huge golden eyes, brilliantly light up— — —

"Stop stop stop, fuck it, I concede, I concede!"