Chapter 1027

The Canghai Daoist stood on the lofty firmament, his feet on a hazy aurora, gazing down at nearly a thousand Thunder God ships racing below.

"What a treasure, what a treasure." The Canghai Daoist wore a gentle, pleased smile, continually nodding lightly: "This treasure is fated with me, uh, fated with me… Send it to Great Iron, let him take it apart to imitate and learn a bit or two; it's simply as good as it can get."

These Thunder God vessels are majestic and immensely powerful; to the Canghai Sea Person viewing them with his divine eye, each vessel rivals an innate spiritual treasure, far surpassing the Wu State's standard 150‑zhang warships by at least a hundredfold.

Moreover, the thunder light is extremely swift, so these Thunder God vessels travel several times faster than the Wu State warships.

After all, thunder is among the swiftest phenomena in heaven and earth.

The tens of thousands of standard warships that Xiahou Wuming left behind in the rear cannot defeat or escape the Thunder God vessels; they can only muster all their strength to barely impede the vessels' pursuit.

Fortunately, the Demon‑Suppressing Office soldiers piloting these Thunder God vessels are unfamiliar with their performance and somewhat clumsy in operation, so they could not unleash the vessels' full power.

In the ensuing chase and battle, yet another group of Wu State's warships was blown apart from above.

The Canghai Sea Person drew a deep breath, and the 108 Canghai Divine Pearls sprang forth, whirling and dancing around him to form a rather mysterious divine formation.

Vast water‑attribute elemental energy surged from the Canghai Divine Pearls, continually flowing into the Canghai Sea Person's body.

The Canghai Sea Person silently cultivated the Pangu Scripture, assuming Pangu's true form, while each Canghai Divine Pearl rapidly expanded to a diameter of a thousand zhang.

The Pangu true form assumed by the Canghai Sea Person differs from Wu Tie's own. He stands tens of thousands of zhang tall, surrounded by rolling green waves and towering white surf, standing on two black dragons that spew heavenly water vapors; within tens of thousands of li around him, everything becomes a sheet of water light.

Drawing a deep breath, the Canghai Sea Person slammed both hands downward.

The Canghai Divine Pearls plummeted straight down with a deafening tearing‑through‑the‑air sound, slamming heavily into the 108 Thunder God vessels.

With a tremendous boom, the lightning encircling the hulls of the 108 Thunder God vessels was shattered by a terrifying force into countless bolts as thick as water jars, which flew wildly in all directions.

Under Ji Ting's command, nearly a thousand Thunder God vessels were kept quite close together, spaced only about a hundred zhang apart.

The gale and huge waves raised by the Canghai Divine Pearls directly enveloped all the Thunder God vessels; the lightning spraying from the 108 vessels continually bombarded the surrounding huge ships, blasting countless clusters of plasma.

The 108 Canghai Divine Pearls are like 108 small worlds plummeting from above.

More than half of the Demon‑Suppressing Office's armored troops closely followed the Thunder God vessels in flight, forming ranks to pursue and kill.

As the Canghai Divine Pearls fell, the gale they raised threw the Demon‑Suppressing Office's troops into utter chaos; then a flood of heavenly water light poured down, and torrents like raging dragons swept in all directions, grinding those soldiers into fragments and exploding them into countless scattering sparks of electricity.

The lightning encircling the hulls of nearly a thousand Thunder God vessels was completely erased by the impact of the water light, and Ji Ting and others were forcibly washed off their ships by the all‑pervasive water force.

Before Ji Ting could devise a counter‑strategy, the Canghai Sea Person already held a longsword condensed from water light in each hand, howling as he dove down from the sky.

The Canghai Sea Person's sword art is interconnected and shared with Wu Tie's; Wu Tie's achievements in swordsmanship are also his.

Although he lacks the black and yellow holy swords that Wu Tie possesses, these two water‑light‑condensed blades still wield terrifying killing power in his hands.

Heavenly water light rolled about, and countless blades of cold light howled and sliced through it.

Ji Ting, Ji Qian, Ji Ming and others had not even gotten a clear look at the enemy's appearance before they were pulverized by the onslaught of sword light from all directions.

In just a quarter of an hour, although they had the advantage of a sneak attack and their methods were somewhat shameless, the Demon‑Suppressing Office's army of over a hundred million was shattered into pieces by a few blows from the Canghai Sea Person, showing just how formidable his current combat power is.

The retreating Xiahou Wuming and others, far off, saw the fierce heavenly water light and clusters of lively azure treasure light flashing and smashing in the sky, accompanied by a mighty roar of surging sea tides; many veteran officials familiar with Wu Tie exclaimed, "His Majesty personally aids us—prepare to counterattack!"

The army that had been retreating swiftly changed its formation, shifting from the long‑snake array suited for long marches and rapid raids to the cone formation designed for assaulting fortified positions.

In the distant high sky, dozens of spatial gates opened, both near and far.

Wu State's standard warships streamed out in single file, with over a hundred streams of sovereign‑level aura shooting up to the heavens; following Wu Tie's orders, Wu State's senior officials continually led their detachments to rush to the front.

Xiahou Wuming quickly organized his troops, summoned the distant reinforcements, and merged them with his own forces; the low beat of war drums rolled out, morale surged, and the Wu State army loudly cheered, shouting various battle cries and singing war songs as they charged toward the Demon‑Suppressing Office's floating clouds.

Among the fleet left behind as rear guard, a large host of giant divine soldiers rose into the air, entered the reinforcing vessels in perfect order without confusion, entered the ship cabins with utmost efficiency to replenish their chest‑cavity‑mounted chaos‑fire ballistae, and meanwhile stuffed their bellies with a large quantity of refined high‑density essence crystals.

The newly reinforced giant divine soldiers had fierce fire flashing in their eyes, emitted a resonant roar from their chests, quickly formed an aerial formation, and a massive dark mass followed closely behind Xiahou Wuming's flagship.

Among them were several thousand exceptionally tall giant divine soldiers; their eyes flashed with scarlet light, and they had already received the order from Old Tie—Old Tie is bringing the Myriad Spirits Void‑Slaying Divine Vessel, now rushing at full speed…

Faced with this sudden, inscrutably strange heavenly court enemy, Wu Tie ordered the Wu State army to give its all in resistance, allowing no slack.

The monster hordes of the Nanli and Xidui continents have been completely slaughtered by the Summoned Soul Ghost Sovereign; in the Dongzhen continent, Wu State and the heavenly court are currently probing each other in combat, leaving only the monster horde of the Beigan continent, so Wu Tie ordered Pig Ganglie, Old Gegu and other monster sovereigns to rush full speed to the Beigan continent.

The monster race knows no heavenly principle, no morality, no royal law; they subjugate people by force.

Now all the monster sovereigns of the Heaven‑Covering Monster Alliance have been trapped by Wu Tie's sword formation; Pig Ganglie and the other monster sovereigns rushing to the Beigan continent can fully use their status as monster sovereigns to violently suppress those monster hordes and force them to cease harming the citizens of the Liuli Buddha State.

The main force of Wu State is currently gathering toward the Dongzhen continent.

By utilizing the Liuli Buddha State's spatial‑gate system, which is far superior to that of the Sui Chao, at most six hours, Wu State's elite main force will be able to fully assemble in the Dongzhen continent.

The Canghai Sea Person swept his wide sleeve, gathering nearly all the Thunder God vessels into it, leaving only three lightning‑wreathed Thunder God vessels for Xiahou Wuming, saying, "Old brother Xiahou, send a squad of giant divine soldiers to test these vessels' performance."

After leaving those words, the Canghai Sea Person gathered all the Canghai Divine Pearls, transformed into a strand of azure divine light that leapt into the sky, and vanished after a few flickers.

Not long after, the Canghai Sea Person arrived at the edge of the Demon‑Suppressing Office's continuous expanse of floating clouds.

He placed his hands behind his back and stepped directly onto the floating clouds.

A rumble of thunder sounded, and on the floating clouds, numerous divine formations activated; countless archways, gateways, thunder pools, and thunder peaks rose slowly from the clouds, while innumerable bolts of lightning‑dragons coiled in the air, then a downpour‑like barrage struck the Canghai Sea Person.

Spiritual light flickered atop the Canghai Sea Person's head, and the 108 Canghai Divine Pearls leapt into the air, whirling rapidly above his head.

Heavenly water light condensed into a vast azure ocean, containing countless undercurrents; on its surface, massive whirlpools tangled and collided, emitting deep, muffled booms. Heavenly thunder light fell, striking every part of this ocean spanning tens of thousands of li, raising towering waves, yet it could not harm the Canghai Sea Person in the slightest.

The 108 Canghai Divine Pearls, linked in one breath, laid out a grand formation whose defense is inexhaustible.

To strike the Canghai Sea Person's true body, one must simultaneously breach all 108 Canghai worlds; only then can one make contact with him.

The divine formations set up on the floating clouds used by the Demon‑Suppressing Office are indeed formidable; even against a sovereign‑level expert they can inflict considerable damage, but they lack the power to damage even a single world, let alone shatter all 108 worlds at once.

The Canghai Sea Person strode across the floating clouds; wherever he passed, the lightning almost solidified, and frenzied roaring bolts of electricity swept in from all directions. The thunderous force was so dense that advancing felt like encountering immense resistance, each step requiring considerable strength.

The power of thunder and lightning is so violent, so frenzied.

Innumerable thunder‑pattern markings the size of fists flickered within the lightning, pouring down like a waterfall onto the Canghai Sea Person.

The Canghai Sea Person's eyes turned deep azure, like two unfathomable vortices; as he gazed around, the grand dao patterns within the lightning flashed into his pupils and were swiftly imprinted upon his cluster of innate spiritual light.

Sitting cross‑legged above the pure land of Liuli, Wu Tie, who was entangled with a group of monster sovereigns in the sword formation, suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Creation!"

"Hahaha, the heavenly court's thunder division really does have some skill; they actually mastered the thunder great way to such a depth? It's turned out to be a boon for me."

The Canghai Sea Person also laughed loudly at the same time; twelve Canghai Divine Pearls shot up into the sky, aiming precisely at each archway, gate, thunder pool, and thunder peak on the floating clouds and sucking them in violently. The tide‑like thunder light was forcibly pulled, and inevitably swallowed by the Canghai Divine Pearls.

At the same time, a layer of violent, uneasy electricity appeared on Wu Tie's body above the Liuli Pure Land.

Wu Tie's head-top Thunder Great Dao seal shimmered all over with electric gleam like flowing water, and finer, more exquisite, more complex thunder patterns continuously wound and appeared on it.

Wu Tie's Thunder Dao seal, mastery of the Thunder Great Dao surged forward, thirty percent…… forty percent…… fifty percent……

Inside Wu Tie's body, a huge black hole seemed to appear; through the miraculous connection between him and the Canghai Daoist, the thunder and lightning snatched from the Thunder Department's floating clouds were rapidly devoured by his body, quickly turning into nourishment for his Dao seal.

"This is not ordinary lightning, but the source of lightning!" Wu Tie murmured: "The lightning source that leads straight to the Heavenly Dao…… This Heavenly Court, this Thunder Department, is somewhat interesting……"

"However, according to the legends and myths given by Lao Tie, besides the Thunder Department, the Heavenly Court also has the Fire Department and the Water Department…… hehe, the Fire Department, huh, the Water Department, huh!"

"This Heavenly Court…… exists?"

Shaking his head, lightly laughing, Wu Tie waved his right hand, and a path of chaotic thunder light, a hundred times greater in might than before, fell down, instantly blasting a demon sovereign into a bloody mess, his flesh and blood almost completely separated from his internal bones.

Wu Tie's Thunder Dao seal actually, in this short time, reached the level of the Seventh Heaven of the Venerable Rank, his mastery of the Thunder Great Dao already reached seventy percent!

The Canghai Daoist also had faint thunder light coiling around him; the water droplets beside him rubbed against each other and splashed, thereby arousing two kinds of divine thunder, innate Ren water, acquired Gui water; under the entanglement of these two divine thunders, the hindrance of the surrounding thunder and lightning force on him suddenly dropped by more than ninety percent.

The Canghai Daoist's movement speed grew ever faster; he passed through layer after layer of floating clouds, then his vision suddenly brightened, and he saw a gigantic palace, entirely silver-blue, entwined with countless layers of thunder light, standing in the middle of a expanse of floating clouds hundreds of li in length and width.

This palace's length and width are about a hundred li, and all around is a vast, continuous expanse of plasma like a sea.

The plasma here is so condensed and refined that an ordinary person, upon slight contact, would be blasted into nothingness by immeasurable thunder and lightning.

The Canghai Daoist possessed the Canghai Divine Pearl protecting his body, and he himself had also condensed a Thunder Dao seal; although this plasma behaved like a sentient living thing, extremely resistant to his entry, the Canghai Daoist violently forced his way in, and the plasma's harm to him was negligible.

Forcibly passing through the hundred-li-wide plasma, the Canghai Daoist violently broke into this hall.

The hall was empty and spacious; the space inside was obviously compressed by someone using great magical power, appearing only a hundred li in length and width from outside, yet inside it spanned ten thousand li square.

In the vast hall, only an octagonal pond several thousand li in diameter stood at the center; above it, at the center of the algae well on the hall's ceiling, a thousand-li-sized dragon head hung upside down, a stream of bright crystal plasma mixed with extremely rich heaven-and-earth primordial energy continuously poured into the pond with a rumbling sound.

In the pond, several li deep, only a thin layer of water less than three inches deep remained.

Ji Ting, Ji Chan, Ji Ming and a group of generals from the Demon-Suppressing Office stood in the pond, each opening their mouths wide to gulp down the plasma and primordial energy spewing from the dragon head above.

Ji Ting gulped a few mouthfuls, then cursed loudly a few times, cursed loudly a few times, then opened his mouth to gulp a few more mouthfuls.

Ji Chan, Ji Ming and the other generals had twisted expressions, extremely unpleasant standing beside him, meekly obeying and daring not to make a sound.

In the pond beneath their feet, neat rows of vague human-shaped light-shadows lay; these light-shadows were continuously swallowing the ever-shallower pond water, and one could see blood vessels, meridians, and bones forming within them.

The Canghai Daoist opened his mouth wide.

So it turned out that after Ji Ting and the others were killed, they would actually return to this pool, using the plasma and primordial energy here transformed into pool water to reassemble their bodies? No wonder they could not be killed no matter how many times, no wonder they could repeatedly return to the battlefield.

But obviously, this pool water is limited.

After they had been reborn several times consecutively, the pool water had already been mostly consumed; looking at their subordinates, this time they would not recover so quickly.

The Canghai Daoist did not conceal his whereabouts, and just openly walked to the edge of the pond.

"Hey, what's this pond called?" the Canghai Daoist loudly asked.

"Which idiot? This isn't the Pool of Immortal Transformation, what is it?" Ji Ting shouted back without turning his head.

"It is the Pool of Immortal Transformation…… oh, thanks!" the Canghai Daoist nodded satisfactorily: "Then, can I say this treasure is fated with me?"