Chapter 652: Divine Vessel Secured, the Deal Is About to Be Completed

Among the many World BOSSes Jiang Chen has slain, the Deep Sea Giant should be the most bitterly killed.

Because it has a substitute‑death trait, it cannot be killed instantly.

It was brutally dismembered sword by sword, with no ability to resist at all.

Using the Concentrate Energy skill, in just a few dozen seconds he harvested a wave of experience.

"Killed Deep Sea Giant, Experience +1900000000"

"Obtained Deep Sea Long Sword"

"Obtained Deep Sea Ring"

"Obtained Water Crystal"

"Obtained Water Divine Stone"

"Deep Sea Long Sword: Quasi‑Mythic Weapon, All Attributes +90000, Knight‑class skill amplification +160%. Attached Skill: Water Entangling."

"Water Entangling: Slows target's movement speed, Duration 30 seconds, Cooldown 5 minutes."

"Deep Sea Ring: Quasi‑Mythic Accessory, All Attributes +20000, Water Element skill amplification 50%, Water Element damage reduction 20%, Water Element immunity increase 30%."

"Water Crystal: Mythic‑level Material, a crystal saturated with Water Element, usable to forge Mythic‑level equipment."

"Water Divine Stone: Permanently raises Water Element immunity to 80%, with a chance to acquire a Water Element skill."

Looking at the loot, Jiang Chen's eyes showed a hint of surprise.

He hasn't obtained an item that boosts elemental immunity in a long time.

Now he is completely immune to Poison, Light, and Electric elements.

Among the common elements, only Water, Fire, and Wind lag behind, with only 50% immunity.

Increasing elemental immunity is not an easy task.

This time the Water Element immunity finally rose to 80%, which is the conventional immunity cap.

Without a special opportunity, the immunity would stop here, making further increase difficult.

Jiang Chen deactivates the Concentrate Energy skill, returns to the seabed, and approaches the Divine Vessel.

The Divine Vessel is only fist‑sized, wrapped in Laws.

The Laws are aggressive; a high‑tier deity's Divine Vessel is not something anyone can touch.

Jiang Chen doesn't want to confront the Laws, pulls out the Holy Sound Bell and whispers, "Seal the Laws, I'll take you back to Heaven Mountain."

The Holy Sound Bell buzzed, and the Divine Vessel of the Holy Sound Deity also hummed.

Then the Laws vanished.

"It seems the Holy Sound Deity still has a lingering soul fragment left."

From the Holy Sound Bell and Divine Vessel's reactions, Jiang Chen deduced that although the Holy Sound Deity has fallen, it hasn't completely perished.

Perhaps it used some method to retain a sliver of its soul.

Otherwise it couldn't understand his words.

He picks up the Divine Vessel, places it together with the Holy Sound Bell, and then stores them away.

The transaction with the Heaven Mountain Great Deity is now mostly complete; now he just waits to return.

Jiang Chen slowly ascends, preparing to leave.

Suddenly he stops again.

"The current... has changed!"

Jiang Chen keenly senses that the seabed current has shifted.

Soul perception is far sharper than the naked eye, clearly detecting these subtle changes.

The corpse of the Deep Sea Giant fell to the trench bottom, spewing a massive amount of ink‑like sweat.

Large swaths of the seabed were dyed black, so thick it wouldn't dissolve.

A faint green glow still permeated it, and one could feel it harbored potent poison.

The ink does not mix with water, and initially it clumped together, forming an irregular patch.

According to the previous current, it should have been buried within the trench.

But now the current sweeps them upward.

The current only changed slightly, so why now, after being stable for ages, does it shift?

From the Divine Vessel's landing spot, Jiang Chen judges that the current hasn't changed for hundreds to thousands of years.

Now it has changed, which must be abnormal.

The current leaves the trench's path, heading toward the Wild Continent.

Below the Wild Continent lies a several‑hundred‑meter‑thick ice sheet separating the Azure Dragon Sea from the Wild Continent.

Now the current is surging toward the ice sheet.

Following the current, Jiang Chen sees a hole broken beneath the ice sheet.

A massive amount of seawater is pouring in.

Backflow of seawater?

Jiang Chen glances a few times and finds that this is not the case.

It seems a force is drawing the seawater inward.

Jiang Chen ponders briefly and decides to go inside to see.

Meanwhile, just in case, he still holds Antares' Dragon Scale in his hand.

The Undead Legion has withdrawn; this place is not far from the surface, less than a kilometer deep, so the pressure is insufficient to harm Jiang Chen.

Riding the backflowing seawater, Jiang Chen speeds through the ice.

Soon, Jiang Chen senses a divine aura.

"It's the Water God!"

Jiang Chen had obtained the Water God's Flute and the Water God's Key from a Water Element Instance long ago.

Through soul sensing, he could feel that these two items bore a divine spirit aura.

It was exactly the same aura he sensed now.

Jiang Chen was thinking, when suddenly his view cleared.

He followed the water flow into a massive frozen space, hundreds of meters high and over a thousand meters deep.

In the center of the space stood a pale‑blue palace.

The palace was made entirely of ice blocks, exuding an astonishing chill.

All water that entered here was instantly vaporized and vanished.

It was not vaporization caused by high temperature, but a decomposition into pure Water Element, which then flew toward the Ice Palace.

"Water God's Palace!" Jiang Chen quickly guessed the origin of this palace.

Inside the palace, the divine spirit aura grew ever denser.

However, through careful sensing, Jiang Chen discovered that these divine auras lacked vitality, not seeming to be controlled by anyone.

"The Water God hasn't awakened yet,"

Jiang Chen made a swift judgment.

He had already dealt with several divine spirits and could fully distinguish their various states.

Just from the aura emitted by a divine spirit, one can tell whether it is dead, awakened, or slumbering.

Divine spirits are only in these three states.

Jiang Chen walked to the palace entrance and took out the Water God's Key.

The Water God's Key was not shaped like a key; it was a fist‑sized chunk of ice, with a few droplets of fluid flowing in its center.

The moment it was drawn, the key flew of its own accord toward the palace and merged into the great door.

Then the palace doors opened automatically, and a blast of cold surged out, striking him head‑on.

Bone Armor naturally activated, blocking the cold.

The palace had not been opened for an unknown number of years, and the accumulated Water Element inside was astonishingly abundant.

These chills were the materialization of Water Element.

Water comes in countless forms—heavy or light, icy or hot.

From the information gathered so far, the Water God excels at commanding low‑temperature Water Element.

With the palace doors open, Jiang Chen stepped inside.

Regarding the Water God, Jiang Chen was neither afraid nor worried.

He did not sense any law aura; even if the Water God were dead, it would still be a mid‑tier divine spirit of level 95.

Against such a spirit, Jiang Chen could, with all his effort, possibly slay it.

The Water God's Palace was entirely made of ice, with fountains everywhere continuously spouting Water Element and divine spirit aura.

Hundreds of massive ice sculptures stood within the palace, each exquisitely crafted.

When Jiang Chen was in the Water God's Courtyard before, he also saw various fine carvings, which remain vivid in his memory.

The Water God's appreciation of beauty had reached a considerable height.

Water Element permeated the air, divine spirit aura enveloped it, and Jiang Chen admired the statues one by one.

The statues varied in form: Warrior wielding a sword, giant holding an axe, divine spirit grasping Flame; each was incredibly exquisite and lifelike.

Each statue represented a divine spirit.

"There really are many divine spirits!"

Jiang Chen looked at the statues and let out a light sigh.

He knew that many divine spirits once existed in the world, but never expected there to be so many.

These statues alone represented hundreds of divine spirits.

A sweep of soul power passed over, exactly 681 statues, each representing a divine spirit.

Perhaps there are also divine spirits that have not yet been carved.

Divine spirits correspond to the Human Race's Divine-level Professional, the Abyss's Demon King, and the Dragon Race's Dragon King.

Among the Human Race, there are only a few Divine-level Professionals; at most a few dozen.

Even at their peak, no more than a hundred.

There are a few more Demon Kings and Dragon Kings; Demon Kings are said to number around three hundred, while Dragon Kings top just over a hundred.

Combined, the Three Races have fewer than the divine spirits.

But for some unknown reason, the divine spirits have all fallen.

Those divine spirits still alive now have gone into hiding, rarely appearing in the world.

The only truly living divine spirit Jiang Chen has ever seen was a single one, and he himself killed it.

"If a divine spirit survived to now, then the Three Races would be nothing,"

Passing through the statues, he arrived at the palace's second courtyard.

Here too stood many statues, but they were no longer divine spirits; they depicted a single massive monster.

A gigantic monster statue was placed at the very center, and Jiang Chen looked and was taken aback.

"King of the Wild Beasts!"

"No, not the King of the Wild Beasts!"

Jiang Chen immediately rejected his own words.

He had seen the King of the Wild Beasts with his own eyes; the statue resembled it about seventy‑or‑eighty percent, but was not exactly the same.

His gaze searched among the statues and spotted another statue not far away.

That is the King of the Wild Beasts; compared with the one in the center, it is much smaller in both aura and size.

Jiang Chen instantly concluded that the statue in the center was a presence even more powerful than the King of the Wild Beasts.