Chapter 659 - 652: The Invincible Figure
One strike to sink continents, shaking mountains and seas!!
The surface of the ocean caved in over a radius of hundreds of kilometers—an unimaginably spectacular sight. The entire Pacific Ocean seemed to roil, sending colossal, tsunami-like waves surging toward the surrounding continents.
If Zhou Yuanjue hadn’t deliberately chosen the heart of the ocean for their battlefield, a collision of such terrifying magnitude would have instantly triggered catastrophic earthquakes on land.
A top-tier Ancestral Level existence was a terrifying being, capable of obliterating all surface civilization through personal martial might alone!
And Saa, possessing the True Realm Furnace, ranked among the very strongest of the Primordial Ancestors in both martial might and destructive power.
However, under a force so ferocious it could sink continents, Zhou Yuanjue’s body was held aloft in the void by some unknown, immense power. He did not plummet with the collapsing sea but was instead locked in a brief mid-air stalemate against Saa’s massive, descending form.
After the brief standoff, the two figures separated slightly.
Then, Saa, Lord of Chaos, displayed a terrifying speed that defied his size. Empowered by his formidable strength, countless enormous fist-shadows rained down on Zhou Yuanjue.
Zhou Yuanjue refused to yield an inch. He unleashed a flurry of his own punches, and terrifying power poured forth, meeting the Lord of Chaos’s fists in a series of violent collisions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!
Each collision seemed to carry the devastating force of a nuclear bomb. The ocean’s surface had yet to calm, and this rapid exchange of blows churned the sea into an even more terrifying maelstrom.
This world-ending scene was transmitted through Li Qingxuan’s Celestial Eye to countless human eyes, leaving them all utterly dumbfounded.
They couldn’t begin to imagine the horrific destruction this battle would have caused if it had taken place on land.
Perhaps the very continents would have crumbled and sunk!
This was power that far surpassed the limits of Earth’s biosphere!!
Amidst their terrifying exchange, the Sacred Lotus Roots enveloping Zhou Yuanjue spread out and coiled around Saa. This time, however, he couldn’t invade Saa’s body as easily as he had with Sai.
Supported by the True Realm Furnace, Saa’s body was naturally shrouded in a membrane from the True Realm, which resisted the roots’ intrusion.
However, that resistance was bound to be broken.
As their clash continued, the Sacred Lotus Roots around Zhou Yuanjue slowly pierced through Saa’s protective layer. They finally began to affect Saa’s abilities, causing a slight lag in the release of his power.
BOOM!!
Seizing that exact moment, Zhou Yuanjue’s flurry of punches accelerated. As one side weakened, the other grew stronger!
One fist cut straight through the center, aimed directly at the core True Realm Furnace inside Saa!
Saa seemed to realize something was wrong. He yanked his fists back in defense, taking Zhou Yuanjue’s punch head-on.
His massive body instantly broke the sound barrier as he was sent flying backward. He tore through three-tiered waves hundreds of meters tall, blasting a spectacular, gaping hole in the wall of water.
RUMBLE!!
Just as Saa was knocked back, a colossal thunderclap erupted from the roiling black clouds overhead. The shockwave atomized the surrounding water droplets into mist.
Zhou Yuanjue’s eyes narrowed. He could feel a certain natural power from the surrounding hundreds of kilometers continuously gathering in the clouds. He had been so focused on his clash with Sai and Saa that he hadn’t noticed.
The next moment, KRRRAAAACK!
The dreadful cloud cover, which spanned hundreds of kilometers, was torn asunder. A gargantuan beast, hundreds of kilometers in size and condensed from innumerable bolts of terrifying gold-purple lightning, burst forth from the clouds.
It had a pair of bat-like wings, an elephantine body, and three horrifying heads resembling a lion, a bird, and a sea creature. It was like some terrifying Divine Beast of legend.
The Three-Headed Celestial Net!!
This was a creature from the ancient legends of the Celestial Demon Holy Star. It was said to be the sovereign of all things in the sea, land, and air since the dawn of time—the very incarnation of natural forces.
And this Three-Headed Celestial Net was the soul manifestation cultivated by Ji, Lord of Calamities. This was how he wielded the mighty power to control natural disasters!
Although this power did not contain the Power of the True Realm, the sheer magnitude of energy from the material world that Ji had gathered with his innate ability was already comparable, to some extent, to the strength of the Power of the True Realm.
In terms of pure destructive force, the intensity of this attack had likely already surpassed Saa’s earlier outburst, though it seemed to require a significant charge-up time.
’So, not all the Primordial Ancestors are useless after all.’
A faint smile touched the corners of Zhou Yuanjue’s lips.
’However, if an attack of this intensity were to hit the ocean’s surface... things could get ugly.’
’In that case...’
For the first time since the battle began, Zhou Yuanjue, who had been standing ramrod straight, bowed his body slightly. He took a wide step, assuming a fighting stance upon the churning surface of the deep ocean.
His essential life structure began to whir frantically. The Sacred Lotus Roots sank deep between the two realms, and immense power poured endlessly into his body.
BANG!!
Under the massive infusion of energy, his body instantly swelled and shot upward.
CLAP!!
He brought his hands together before him, his palms naturally forming a Hand Seal.
Like a Divine Bird soaring through the highest heavens!
WHOOSH!!!
For the first time, the Sacred Lotus seal around him became perfectly distinct. A pure white lotus more than five meters tall materialized, its vast root system anchored in the void.
But the next moment, as he completed the Hand Seal, this perfectly clear Sacred Lotus seal violently shattered.
The Sacred Lotus was merely an outward manifestation, an imitation.
Its true purpose was to borrow the Sacred Lotus’s power to push one’s own Martial Dao and techniques to their absolute limit.
As the Sacred Lotus shattered, two pairs of enormous wings unfurled from within. That familiar, gigantic Divine Bird emerged, bursting forth from the Sacred Lotus’s shell into the sky.
At several tens of kilometers in size, it seemed dwarfed by the Three-Headed Celestial Net, which was over a hundred kilometers long. But that was not the case.
Zhou Yuanjue’s legs suddenly exploded with power.
BAM!!
The entire surface of the ocean abruptly collapsed.
Time seemed to freeze. Enveloped by the massive Divine Bird spanning tens of kilometers, his figure shot toward the behemoth in the sky.
COLLISION!!!
BOOM!!
The instant they made contact, a colossal explosion erupted. A blinding flash of light seared everyone’s eyes.
Innumerable gold-purple bolts of lightning shot out in all directions.
At that very moment, if one were observing from outer space, they would have seen it clearly.
In the center of the Pacific Ocean, the swirling vortex of black clouds was violently torn asunder by an immense force. A pure white, gigantic bird, like a primordial Divine Beast, soared into the heavens, blasting all the way into space.
On the other side,
SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!!
Amidst the roiling waves, Zhou Yuanjue, having unleashed his soaring strike, fell back and landed steadily upon the surface of the sea.
He looked up. He had punched a massive hole clean through the apocalyptic clouds. The midday sun streamed through the opening, illuminating the oppressive, gloomy, dark surface of the ocean.
Everyone watching through the Celestial Eye screens saw this scene unfold, their minds reeling with unparalleled shock.
A rift had been torn in the dark sky. Zhou Yuanjue stood in the center of it, gazing upward as golden sunlight cascaded down upon him, like a halo crowning a Divine Spirit.
In that moment, to all who watched, Zhou Yuanjue was a God. In this world, he was invincible.