Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

Kong Tianxu suddenly took her hand.

His hands were warm, warmer than hers, his fingers long and strong, holding her hand completely in his palm. Ye Lingling felt her heart skip a beat for a moment, then begin to pound wildly again, at a speed she couldn't control.

"I'm going to catch a big fish and I might not be back for a long time. So give me a good laugh, Lingling, you look beautiful when you smile."

Ye Lingling felt something being placed into her palm. She looked down at her hand, where a black tiger-shaped piece of paper lay quietly. On it was drawn a majestic black tiger, its mouth wide open, revealing a mouthful of fangs, as if it were roaring. But upon closer inspection, the tiger's eyes were drawn round and bright, with an indescribable憨态 (simple and honest appearance).

She looked at the piece of paper, and her face slowly flushed red.

So he knew all along.

And so the crabapple blossoms suddenly became bright and beautiful.

"Well then, goodbye, not the very last time."

Dragon wings suddenly unfurled behind Kong Tianxu. They were enormous dragon wings covered in purple-gold scales, with a wingspan of several zhang (approximately 3.3 meters).

The moment the dragon's wings flapped, the air in the entire room was stirred up, the curtains suddenly billowed up, and the teacups on the table trembled slightly, making a soft clinking sound.

The next instant, the white figure transformed into a streak of light and vanished through the window.

Ye Lingling took a step forward, stretched out her hand, and silently recited in her heart:

Goodbye.

……

The Sea of ​​the Demon Whale.

This sea area has become unusually turbulent in recent days. Within a radius of a hundred miles, all the sea spirit beasts avoid it like the plague.

A strange mist shrouds the sea all day long, like the breath exhaled from the lungs of some giant beast.

Experienced sailors knew that it was a sign of the Whale King's wrath.

No one knew why this sea overlord was enraged. Faced with such fury, all the creatures that depended on the sea could only flee or crawl. Those who couldn't escape in time were either dragged into the deep sea by a terrifying suction force or torn to pieces by a towering column of water.

But at that moment, a sound wave exploded from the horizon.

The sound pierced straight down from the extremely high sky, crashing onto the sea and tearing a huge crater in the water within a radius of hundreds of meters.

White waves burst open in all directions, revealing the deep blue sea below. The sound of the waves left a visible white trail in the air, stretching from the clouds all the way to the sea surface.

"Deep Sea Demon Whale King, come out and face your death!"

The roar was immense, its penetrating sound piercing the heavens and sinking into the deep sea. Amidst this roar, a colossal purple-gold dragon descended from the sky.

A large number of sea spirit beasts around the Demon Whale Sea surfaced, watching the divine dragon soaring through the sky with its giant wings spread. The clever sea spirit beasts retreated further away, while the bolder ones cautiously approached the Demon Whale Sea, eager to witness this duel destined to be recorded in the annals of sea spirit beast history.

As if in response to this sound, a roar like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami rising from the depths of the sea, like an echo from ancient times.

The once clear sea has gradually changed.

The once azure sea turned deep, and the waves in the Demon Whale Sea suddenly calmed down, forming a stark contrast with the undulating waves of the surrounding sea. This calm did not spread outward, nor could any waves affect it. The thick atmosphere made the air seem to be slightly distorted.

Just as the dragon came to a stop in mid-air, the sea below turned as black as ink.

The immense pressure seemed to freeze the air. Even more terrifying, large swaths of dark clouds gathered above the entire Demon Whale Sea.

Above and below, sky and sea, all turned pitch black at the same time.

boom--!

The sea exploded. A column of water shot into the sky, reaching a height of hundreds of feet.

At the end of the water column, an enormous body rose to the surface of the sea. Its blue crystal-like body looked terrifying even without sunlight. A single eye coldly stared at the giant dragon in the sky, surrounded by horrific wounds.

The Demon Whale King's only remaining right eye narrowed slightly.

"It's you. You survived my attack."

The deep, hoarse voice was like two massive rocks rubbing against each other in the waves, making the entire sea hum. There was a hint of surprise in it, but more than that, there was an irrepressible excitement.

The sacred dragon held its head high, its pair of purple-gold eyes looking down at it. There was no fear or apprehension in its gaze, only a calm that made it extremely uncomfortable.

"Good, excellent. The stronger you are, the better! Divine Dragon Bloodline—by consuming you, I will complete the final stage of my dragon transformation!"

The voice of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King suddenly rose in pitch!

The realm of the sea unfolds.

Centered on the Demon Whale King, the entire ocean boiled at the same moment. The seawater was no longer a flowing liquid, but transformed into some strange substance that was between a solid and a liquid state, like mercury compressed to its extreme.

Wherever the field passed, the sky was dyed a deep, inky blue, and the sunlight was filtered through layers, leaving only a cold and pale glimmer.

Chapter 356 Ascending to Heaven in One Day

It was as if a tsunami was coming to engulf the world, and the sea was rising, rising!

The last time Kong Tianxu's terrifying explosive power left the Deep Sea Demon Whale King with extremely painful memories, so this time the Deep Sea Demon Whale King did not hold back at all. He did not even have the idea of ​​using his physical advantages to fight Kong Tianxu. He relied solely on the terrifying soul power he had accumulated over nearly a million years, combined with the support of the absolute home field of the sea, to crush Kong Tianxu to death.

As you can see, a layer of blue-purple light rapidly spread across the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's body, and an overwhelming blue-purple vortex spewed out from its huge blowhole, frantically squeezing and compressing its own energy as it spun violently.

The body of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King is no longer visible.

Soul core.

The vertical pupils of the divine dragon that Kong Tianxu had transformed into twitched slightly.

Releasing one's soul core at any cost is a desperate tactic employed by titled Douluo and 100,000-year-old soul beasts. Once the soul core is damaged, not only will their lives be endangered, but their cultivation level will also drop significantly, or they may even lose their cultivation altogether.

However, such high risks also bring huge rewards, as the power directly driven by the Soul Core is incomparable to that of normal times.

Kong Tianxu could clearly feel that the moment the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's soul core was released, the surrounding air became extremely viscous. This was not because of the sea's moisture, but because of soul power, an incredibly terrifying soul power.

The sea was filled with a completely liquid alien soul power. If an ordinary person without soul power were in this water, breathing alone would be enough to cause them to explode and die.

This is the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, the soul beast with the highest cultivation level in the world.

Moreover, as the soul core spun, vortex-like cracks seemed to appear in the surrounding azure domain, as if a large circle was drawing out smaller circles, exuding a sense of weight and vastness.

After converting more than one-tenth of one's total soul power into black hole soul power, the soul core will exhibit such a spectacle.

Is this a more powerful path than the complementary relationship between Yin and Yang?

"I'm really looking forward to it." A glint flashed in Kong Tianxu's eyes.

Faced with such an attack, the divine dragon that Kong Tianxu had transformed into unleashed a series of soul skills. Crimson-gold flames, deep blue frost, and dark purple cataclysmic lightning…

The force that was powerful enough to raze a small city to the ground bombarded the light membrane of the blue-purple seawater, but it only caused it to dent slightly before bouncing back.

The sea was rising steadily, gradually closing in on the low-hanging thunder and dark clouds. Although the power of the sacred dragon clearly slowed down this process, it could not stop its eventual encirclement.

It seemed that Kong Tianxu was about to be swallowed up by the boundless roar of the sea and sky.

Just as the sea realm was about to completely close, the sacred dragon suddenly revealed a human-like smile.

With a flash of silver light, the surrounding seawater, stripped of its elemental properties, seemed to fade, losing all its original blue hue. The dragon calmly opened its claws.

Within the dragon's claw, a blue three-dimensional triangle quietly floated, surrounded by a bluish-green light.

The brilliant purple-gold divine seal suddenly lit up.

The light was not dazzling, but it carried a majesty that made even the Demon Whale King's soul tremble—the majesty of a god.

The Destruction Divinity, like an invisible sword, shot out from between Kong Tianxu's eyebrows and precisely pierced the core of the Vast Ocean Universe Cover.

The Vast Ocean Universe Cover seemed to be awakened by the heat, and suddenly lit up.

A sea-blue light burst forth from the triangular crystal, instantly magnifying in the air and re-dyeing the dark blue sky into a clear azure. In the blink of an eye, a gigantic phantom, hundreds of meters tall, materialized within that azure light and shadow.

The phantom was blurry, and it could only be vaguely discerned as a human figure. Looking at the sky through the blue phantom, the originally dark sky became clear, and the light of every star could be seen.

The distorted sea domain in the air had already disappeared silently when the huge blue phantom appeared, turning into wisps of blue light that merged into the phantom, making it appear more substantial.

"After all these years, we finally found two good seedlings, but they turned out to be someone else's cabbages. Sigh."

An aged and deep sigh echoed between the sea and the sky, carrying an indescribable sense of regret.

But then, the phantom's gaze turned to the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, who was frantically activating its soul core.

"You beast!"

"Waaah—"

The deep-sea demon whale emitted a low hum. Upon seeing the enormous phantom appear, its massive body involuntarily retreated slowly, its aura visibly diminishing.

If this 990,000-year-old soul beast previously possessed power beyond the limit, then now, its power has been forcibly reduced by a large portion by that blue light.

More than 600,000 years. It was directly suppressed to the level of more than 600,000 years.

More importantly, it lost all the protection of the sea. The sea, which it had previously stirred up, had become completely calm. Calm as a mirror, without a single ripple.

Although the air appeared clear, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King felt immense pressure. This pressure didn't come from the air, but from the sea itself; the water, which it had previously controlled, had suddenly transformed into a terrifying cage, tightly binding its body.

The bond that had existed between the sea and the ocean for hundreds of thousands of years was severed by the power of the sea god. For a sea spirit beast, such suppression was undeniably ruthless.

Kong Tianxu naturally wouldn't let such an opportunity slip by.

He landed precisely on the still sea surface that was about to meet the sky, and his majestic dragon body shrank and then stretched out at that moment.

The dragon, which was originally extremely majestic and noble, has changed. At this moment, it even vaguely resembles a human. Its body is almost upright, its right claw points diagonally downward, and its dragon wings are folded behind it, supporting its body together with its hind claws. It seems to have infinite power waiting to be unleashed. The rich, deep purple light is rapidly changing along with the red light blooming on its first soul ring, frantically condensing.

The dragon's body stretched out, and stretched out again, each scale opening at a tiny angle at this moment, as if it were taking some kind of deep breath.

He actually applied some of the changes from his original martial soul to the Divine Dragon martial soul!

At this moment, he is a beast, a human, power, and the absolute beauty of destruction!

The Heaven-Supporting Divine Spear was placed in his left hand, and a deep purple aura of annihilation flowed from the tip of the spear, as if it were melting the most durable and rarest metal in the world into a fluid.

The sea is the land, the sky is still the sky, the dragon holds a long spear, and murderous intent rises everywhere!

For the first time, true fear surfaced in the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's only remaining right eye.

It recklessly activated its massive soul core, releasing the power accumulated within its body for hundreds of thousands of years without reservation. The solidified blue-purple energy was compressed again and again, revealing a purple-gold luster similar to that of a sacred dragon, only it was chaotic and dim.

The sea, which had been completely suppressed by the power of the sea god, actually loosened under its desperate struggle. On the solid sea surface, just like the blue phantom, fine cracks appeared.

"Poseidon! So you too are just clinging to life!"

The Demon Whale King roared, and the solid ocean and the shattering phantom of the sea god began to churn at that moment!

The deep purple lightning left a straight trail in the air.

The will of the sea god finally exhausted its last bit of power and slowly dissipated with a sigh.