I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

As the Sea God whispered.

The ancient gate emitted a dull rumble, as if a sleeping mountain was being forcibly pushed open.

From within the doorway, which was hundreds of meters wide, the eerie green light poured out like a flood bursting its banks.

Light was originally an absolute taboo in the 50,000-meter-deep sea eye.

despair.

A combat boot stepped out of the door.

Those weren't webbed claws like those of sea creatures, but rather the foot clad in heavy armor.

Terra clung tightly to the dry seabed, its scales rubbing against the rough rocks.

He held his breath and cautiously peered upwards using the faint light from his peripheral vision.

Ironically, this was the first time he, as the Grand Prince of the Abyss Sea Clan, had ever seen the true face of this "Sea Emperor."

Then, the figure that had been asleep for a thousand years walked out of the ancient gate completely intact.

It is about 15 meters tall and maintains a human-shaped posture.

It lacked the distinctive dragon tail of the abyssal sea creatures, and it also lacked the deep blue scales covering its entire body.

His body was covered with a layer of bone armor as deep and thick as obsidian.

The surface of the bone armor is covered with crisscrossing dark red magic patterns, like magma surging and breathing in the veins.

Four sharp horns curved backward on his head, one of which appeared to have been broken off by some terrifying force.

There was no white in his eyes, only two vortexes burning with black karmic fire slowly rotating.

This appearance is completely different from all the other abyssal sea creatures.

Rather, they are more like a race from the abyss of an endless world!

Terra was filled with turmoil.

He never imagined that the Sea Emperor, who ruled over billions of sea creatures and was revered as a supreme deity, was the one he was talking about.

It doesn't even look like a deep-sea creature!

In the history of the Abyss Sea Clan, there are no records of the Sea Emperor's origins.

They had always believed that the sea creatures were ancient beings born from the deep sea of ​​the blue planet.

Poseidon took in Terra's surprised gaze.

In fact, he was indeed the ancestor of the Abyss Sea Clan.

but.

The word "Abyss" comes from the Abyss Clan of the Endless World!

All the abyssal sea creatures were merely the offspring of a few drops of his blood that overflowed when he was seriously injured and on the verge of death, falling into the Doom Trench. These bloodstains were then consumed by several deep-sea behemoths, resulting in genetic mutations that led to their reproduction.

After thousands of years of evolution, the violent bloodline that originally belonged to the Abyss Clan of the Endless World has been diluted millions of times and has long lost the original form of the Abyss Demon God.

They consider themselves the noble Abyss Sea Clan, yet they are completely unaware that they are merely vassals born from the dilution of their bloodline.

Poseidon stood in the center of the vacuum realm, slowly raising his arm covered in black scales, gazing at the deep, bone-revealing cracks on the back of his hand that had yet to fully heal.

His chest heaved, echoing with a deep, rumbling thunderous sound from the seabed.

After centuries of slumber, the body, which was on the verge of collapse, finally stopped deteriorating.

A distant scene flashed through my mind.

Back then, as a warrior in the endless world's abyss plane, he possessed terrifying power at the late stage of the tenth rank.

In order to establish an outpost on the barren, lower plane of Earth, he forcibly penetrated the extremely unstable world rift.

As a result, the frantic rejection from the Blue Star plane's will, coupled with the relentless tearing of the void storm, instantly shattered his tenth-order Dharma form.

The moment he arrived on Earth, he was nearly obliterated by the rules of this world.

To survive, he used his last bit of strength to escape into the Doom Trench.

Using the extreme water pressure at a depth of 50,000 meters, he forcibly sealed off his life force and fell into a state of suspended animation.

"finally……"

The Sea Emperor clenched his fist tightly, and his knuckles exploded with a sound like a mountain collapsing.

boom!

The vacuum zone within a 30-kilometer radius trembled violently.

Millions of tons of seawater at the edge were forcibly pushed outward another ten kilometers by an invisible, violent force.

Feeling the renewed power within his body, a cold, sharp glint flashed in the Sea Emperor's black eyes.

Peak of the ninth rank.

This is merely the surface power he displays under the suppression of the rules of Earth.

Otherwise, if he were on par with Terra, he wouldn't have shown such fear.

Due to the suppression of the Blue Star plane rules and the burden of his injuries, his current normal combat strength can only be maintained at the limit of the peak of the ninth rank.

By igniting the King's Blood and defying the rules of Blue Star, he can instantly break through the threshold of the tenth rank and unleash destructive power comparable to the mid-tenth rank.

In this lower plane where even the very origin of heaven and earth has been depleted, the tenth rank is the truth that can erase everything.

"Humans..."

Poseidon slowly turned his head, his eyes, burning with black karmic fire, locking onto Terra, who was prostrate on the ground.

Terra trembled under that scrutinizing gaze.

"You're saying that a being transcending all boundaries has emerged among humanity?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"According to the Flame Demon Ancestor who fled for help, the human named Shen Tian possesses unfathomable combat power. Both the Frost Ancestor and the Blood Demon Ancestor were annihilated by him in a very short time."

A flicker appeared in the Sea Emperor's burning pupils.

millennia ago.

Blue Star is merely a low-level plane that has just been connected to the endless world.

He had personally witnessed those creatures called "humans".

So weak that even a wisp of his demonic energy could turn tens of thousands of humans into blood.

Faced with those newly mutated beasts that are only a few meters in size, humans can only become food for the beasts.

Humans, a species so small they're not even good enough to fill a tooth gap, don't even qualify as slaves at outposts.

But now.

Terra actually said that this race, which was once like an ant, has produced a powerful expert who can instantly kill a peak ninth-tier expert?

The black flames in the Sea Emperor's eye sockets churned violently.

The karmic fire burned, evaporating the seawater in the surrounding vacuum into nothingness.

In a lowly world where even the very origin of the world has been completely depleted, what can support a life form to break free from the shackles of life and step towards the supreme tenth-order threshold?

Unless, Blue Star is hiding a secret that he didn't realize back then.

"Bring that Balrog here."

"Your Majesty, the Flame Demon is being held back outside the City of Bones, and dares not set foot in the deep sea."

Terra responded with difficulty.

"Then let's go see him."

The Sea Emperor took his first steps.

Those combat boots, encased in bone armor, stepped out of the edge of the vacuum realm.

boom--

Tens of millions of tons of seawater rushed down instantly, carrying terrifying water pressure capable of crushing mountains, and slammed hard onto the Sea Emperor's body.

But he did not make any defensive moves.

The seawater was forcibly cut apart by an invisible force field the moment it touched the dark red magic patterns on his body, turning into two water dragons that flowed to the sides.

He didn't even fly; he simply walked step by step on the undulating seabed, ascending upwards.

With each step, a distance of tens of thousands of meters is traversed.

Shrinking the earth to an inch, ignoring water pressure resistance.

Terra's thick dragon tail thrashed wildly, transforming into a streak of purplish-black lightning that relentlessly followed the Sea Emperor.