Chapter 1247

But clearly, this barrier had foiled Meng Ying and the others' plans.

"Crack!"

That barrier finally shattered.

The weapon sustaining that barrier—the scepter forged entirely from divine substance—also completely broke apart!

On the Continent of Gods, overusing such weapons itself invites backlash from the Continent's laws!

This Law Lord was quite willing to sacrifice much to retaliate against Lin Yan.

Yet as that barrier shattered, the Law Lord's battle avatar let out a loud laugh.

"Half a day to destroy more than half your Flame Empire is enough."

From the Law Lord's battle avatar, a terrifying aura erupted.

It was the aura of a Fifth Rank Saint Domain.

A Saint Domain that ascends to godhood at Fifth Rank becomes a Third Tier Gao Jie deity, and even has a chance to leap directly to the peak of the Third Tier.

Even without becoming a god, in pure offensive power, a Fifth Rank Saint Domain already rivals a First Tier Chu Jie deity!

A First Tier Chu Jie deity, unbound by the Continent of Gods' laws, could indeed destroy more than half the Flame Empire in half a day!

But before the Law Lord's battle avatar's laugh had faded, his expression changed.

For in his perception, another aura, equal to his own, slowly rose!

It too was the aura of a Fifth Rank Saint Domain!

And this aura did not come from a divine avatar!

It came from a Saint Domain on the Continent of Gods!

This was the true, genuine Fifth Rank Saint Domain!

A divine avatar merely possesses the power of a Fifth Rank Saint Domain, but that power lasts only half a day—completely different from a true Fifth Rank Saint Domain!

"There's a Fifth Rank Saint Domain in the Flame Lord's realm?!"

The Law Lord's battle avatar's expression turned utterly bewildered.

Fifth Rank Saint Domains are exceedingly rare in the history of the Continent of Gods, even seldom heard of.

But this Law Lord had existed for an extraordinarily long time, and he knew a few things.

On the Continent of Gods, the farther one advances in the Saint Domain stage before becoming a god, the greater one's divine potential.

After becoming a god, everyone's actions are roughly the same.

But after becoming a god, one needs more than just faith power.

Faith power is the core, but understanding of rules and laws is equally Top Priority—indeed, that is the key to a god's rapid power growth.

A god's potential is not judged after ascension.

It is judged before ascension.

Whoever reaches Saint Domain fastest, and advances furthest within it, reveals the greater potential of their divine vessel.

Otherwise, why was the new god Ailen taken as the Tianlan Zunzhu's final disciple?

Achieving Saint Domain in just a hundred years—this feat is already exceedingly rare on the Continent of Gods!

A Fifth Rank Saint Domain, unless catastrophically unlucky, faces almost no difficulty becoming a Fourth Tier.

The difficulty lies only in sabotage from other Divine Lords.

In fact, a Fifth Rank Saint Domain can be called a prospective Law Lord.

The difficulty of grasping Law energy is also far smaller than for other Fourth Tier Zunzhu!

Thus, upon seeing Tina was a Fifth Rank Saint Domain, the Law Lord's battle avatar's heart sank instantly to the lowest depths!

"What kind of being is the Flame Lord really?!"

The Law Lord screamed inwardly!

He had used forbidden techniques to elevate his battle avatar to Fifth Rank Saint Domain—and yet, the enemy's realm also had a Fifth Rank Saint Domain!

This is bullshit!

If he knew Tina had been boosted to Fifth Rank Saint Domain by Lin Yan on the battlefield, he'd be terrified!

And below, the moment Tina became a Fifth Rank Saint Domain, she launched a ruthless attack.

This battle had lost all suspense.

After a little more than half a day, the battle finally ended.

The Fifth Rank Saint Domain battle avatar was ultimately slain by Tina after his power plummeted.

Immediately after, the Flame Empire launched a full-scale counterattack.

With their rear cut off, the Star Realm's army, spurred on by the Law Lord's desperate promises that fallen warriors would enter heaven, fought to the death, refusing to surrender!

Thus, this battle became one in which the Flame Empire took not a single prisoner.

No prisoners was fine.

The Star Realm differed from previous empires like the Purple Cloud Empire.

In battles with the Purple Cloud Empire, though fierce, neither side had become mortal enemies.

But the Star Realm had come from the start with the goal of destroying the Flame Empire.

After the Star Realm's destruction, these warriors' hearts burned with hatred for the Flame Empire.

Since they were willing to die gloriously,

then let them die gloriously!

Yet this death held no meaning whatsoever.

The Law Lord could not possibly summon so many warriors' souls to his divine realm.

The Law Lord's promise was merely to spur these warriors into desperate resistance, inflicting greater losses on the Flame Empire.

Unfortunately, the Flame Empire's losses were not significant.

Immediately afterward, the warriors of the Flame Empire began clearing the battlefield.

This massive war ended with extraordinary speed.

Of course, the total time was still considerable—it lasted a full day and night.

The Star Realm was utterly destroyed!

In the sky, that star continued to burn fiercely, but it would take some time to burn completely to ash.

Meng Ying was not worried it would fall—it hung at a special critical point above the Continent of Gods.

In past ages, evil gods had summoned stars to bring about the end of the world.

Thus, when the Supreme Gods reinforced the laws of the Continent of Gods, they had already accounted for this: at one hundred thousand meters above the Continent of Gods, they established a critical point to prevent any massive star from falling.

This burning star became a great spectacle above the Flame Empire over the following months.

Although the crisis of the Star Realm had been resolved, a new crisis had arrived to the north of the Flame Empire, beyond the Dark Forest!

There, the sea had been raised thousands of meters high, then surged toward the Dark Forest at a frenzied speed.

Within those thousands-of-meters-high waters lay countless sea monsters of immense size!

If viewed from high above, one could see these sea monsters stretching a battle line spanning countless kilometers.

Behind them, vast numbers of other oceanic lifeforms followed!

These oceanic lifeforms, acting in unison, had dragged an entire stretch of ocean forward!

If no one stopped them, this ocean would flood the Flame Empire from north to south!

It might even completely submerge the entire northern section of the Continent of Gods!

The first to detect the sea's anomaly were not the elves.

They were the Bay Nymphs living in the vast bay north of the Sacred Flame Forest!

These Bay Nymphs were not the same as pure oceanic lifeforms.

They were not creatures of the sea, but preferred to live on land, preying on oceanic life.

When they observed the ocean's disturbance from afar, all the Bay Nymphs were alarmed!

Then, these Bay Nymphs soared into the sky, flying to altitudes of over ten thousand meters.

From such a height, they could see the sea—a wall of water thousands of meters high—rushing toward them at astonishing speed.

In at most half an hour, that ocean would reach the great bay, then surge through the Dark Forest at terrifying speed toward the Flame Empire.

"! %%@#!"

At that moment, one Bay Nymph with an especially distinctive appearance spoke a long string of words to another Bay Nymph.

That Bay Nymph swiftly flew away from there.

"Queen! Queen! It's terrible—the Bay Nymph Queen has sent word: the sea has risen thousands of meters, filled with countless sea monsters, and they're rushing toward us!"