Chapter 1219: The Siren

The ocean of the Heavenly Realm lies at its easternmost extreme.

It belongs to none of the Heavenly Realm's divine domains.

To some extent, the ocean deities and the heavenly deities are completely distinct, forming entirely separate divine systems—their differences are too great.

They merely belong to the same camp of Order and Light.

Their interactions are also extremely rare.

Moreover, there is another distinction between ocean deities and heavenly deities.

The current heavenly deities are scattered!

The organization of heavenly deities—their divine systems—even the largest, counting all their reserve pantheons, amounts to no more than a hundred deities at most.

Most deities have not joined any divine system; they live independently.

But the ocean deities have a tightly organized structure.

Though their total number is fewer than that of the heavenly deities, they are far more cohesive.

The last battle between Lin Yan and the Four-Star Ancient God Dulong Dazun caused considerable damage to the Heavenly Realm's ocean.

The massive void burned into the ocean by Lin Yan has still not been fully refilled with seawater months later.

One can imagine how vast that void was.

After all, Dulong Dazun back then was equivalent to a colossal shattered star.

And Lin Yan, chasing and burning Dulong Dazun, created this void in the Heavenly Realm's ocean with his temperature—converted into an easily understandable unit…

It was likely larger than the galaxy Lin Yan lived in before his transmigration!

For such a vast area, seawater refilling will take at least several more months.

Even today, holy spirits occasionally arrive here, serving as eyes and ears for their divine masters, so those masters may descend and witness the battlefield of that past battle.

On this day, the female holy spirit Timoshi and the sprite Gaxia each led a group of female holy spirits and sprites to this place.

After the Goddess of Eternal Night's divine realm merged into Lin Yan's divine realm, the female holy spirits naturally joined Lin Yan's divine realm, acknowledging Lin Yan as Tianlan Zunzhu.

Timoshi is a highly capable female holy spirit; on the Continent of Gods, she was one of the most devout followers of the Goddess of Eternal Night, possessing the purest body and soul.

"Gaxia, we'll part here—you go to the Sea Dragon Zunzhu, I'll go to the Silver Horn Zunzhu."

Timoshi said to the sprite Gaxia.

The sprite Gaxia nodded and said, "Alright, contact me immediately if anything happens."

"Mm!"

They parted ways.

This time, Lin Yan's 20th-level divine body upgrade requires only one final item.

That is, Hai Xin Cao.

Hai Xin Cao exists only at the ocean floor of the Heavenly Realm's ocean, and its quantity is exceedingly rare.

Each plant of Hai Xin Cao requires immense time to grow, and demands perfect celestial, terrestrial, and human conditions.

Lin Yan needs Hai Xin Cao older than one hundred thousand years.

According to the information Lin Yan gathered, in the Heavenly Realm's ocean, only two deities possess such hundred-thousand-year-old Hai Xin Cao.

They are the Sea Dragon Zunzhu and the Silver Horn Zunzhu.

These two Zunzhu each govern a portion of the Heavenly Realm's ocean; both are powerful Masters of Law!

Unlike heavenly deities, though they too are called Zunzhu, they command far too many deities.

All deities dwelling within the ocean they govern fall under their authority.

Their jurisdiction is somewhat akin to the Dragon Kings of Lin Yan's pre-transmigration myths, though there are many specific differences.

Moreover, unlike heavenly deities, ocean deities must build their divine realms within the ocean, drawing energy from the Heavenly Realm's ocean.

Their divine realms cannot be seen on star maps.

Of course, their divine realms are certainly semi-hidden.

Like heavenly deities, divine realms not hidden remain those of fourth-tier powerful deities.

These realms are usually located in strange places on the ocean floor, built with exquisite beauty, evoking the feeling of a "Dragon Palace," though their styles are entirely different.

Soon after Gaxia flew off, she heard a melodious song.

The song was so beautiful that Gaxia involuntarily stopped to listen, even forgetting to seek its source.

On the other side, Timoshi, who had not yet flown far, also stopped to listen.

"Lady Gaxia, this song is so exquisite—ocean deities truly differ from heavenly deities; they understand how to enjoy life."

One sprite said.

"I wonder where it's coming from."

Another sprite asked.

Gaxia soon found the source of the song.

The song came from a girl sitting atop a protruding rock in the Heavenly Realm's ocean.

After finishing her song, the girl glanced toward the Heavenly Realm, then leapt lightly into the ocean.

As she dove into the Heavenly Realm's ocean, the sprites clearly saw her legs transform into a beautiful fish tail.

"Wow, it's a mermaid! She must be a goddess."

One sprite exclaimed in surprise.

On the Continent of Gods, mermaids are rarer than sprites.

This is mainly because mermaids live in the ocean, a region humans cannot penetrate.

The mermaid goddess soon vanished from sight.

"Lady Gaxia, what did her song mean? I sensed a deep sense of longing in it."

A little sprite asked.

The sprite Gasya thought carefully for a moment and said, "This is the Song of the Mermaid; it expresses one-sided love and longing for a beloved, which is why it sounds so exquisite, enchanting and mesmerizing."