Chapter 1958: Eternal Severance of the Vast Waves (Part 2)

Cang Shuhe froze, and so did everyone else.

“Emperor, what… what are you saying?” a Sea God exclaimed, his address for Cang Shitian still the habitual 'Emperor'.

The Ocean God Pearl’s glow became exceptionally violent, like a beast suddenly awakened from slumber.

His twisted fingers gripped the Ocean God Pearl tightly, bringing it closer and closer to his chest. Cang Shitian’s face grew increasingly sinister at this moment:

“Unleashing power beyond limits by leveraging divine sources isn't something only Yun Che can do.”

These words stunned everyone.

Cang Shuhe’s watery eyes slowly lost focus, trembling…

It was just as she had feared… just as she had known…

She had a vague premonition as soon as he suddenly demanded the Ocean God Pearl back.

Because she knew her 'only' dearest kin too well.

Behind her, the Sea Gods’ expressions abruptly changed after their initial shock.

They all simultaneously recalled what was written in the Ocean God Canon…

That most forbidden page!

But such a forbidden scene was utterly impossible, especially from Cang Shitian.

Yet…

Just as the Sea Gods’ apprehension began to show, Cang Shitian, high in the sky, suddenly performed an action that horrified everyone.

He violently thrust his left hand forward… slamming it forcefully into his own chest.

Bang!!

His entire left fist sank deep into his chest.

The fist then violently pulled out, bringing forth a gushing fountain of blood.

Through the shattered flesh and bone, his profound veins were directly exposed.

Despite such a brutal act, Cang Shitian’s face showed no pain, but rather a sinister, fiendish grin.

The next instant, his right hand, still gripping the Ocean God Pearl, slammed down again, forcefully smashing the pearl into his broken chest, directly impacting his profound veins.

This sight instantly drained all color from the faces of the Sea Gods, who had only been startled before. Their pupils trembled as if thousands of stars were colliding and collapsing.

It was a terror a thousand times more intense than facing Mo Beichen’s divine might.

“Em… Emperor…”

“Stop! Stop!!”

“Ahhhhh!”

The Four Sea Gods, like ferocious beasts suddenly impaled by a thousand blades, all madly lunged towards Cang Shitian, roaring out the most terrified and desperate cries of their lives.

Only Cang Shuhe remained motionless, not even uttering a word of dissuasion.

She knew the immense pride hidden beneath her brother’s exterior, which was feared and scorned by the world.

She also knew that no one, absolutely no one, could stop a decision he had made.

A glistening tear slowly traced a path down from the corner of her eye.

Brother…

Everything… I’m counting on you…

“Get out of my sight!”

What met the Four Sea Gods was Cang Shitian’s low, furious roar.

And the Ocean God divine light that suddenly erupted from his body.

Boom—

Agonized screams tore from the Four Sea Gods’ mouths. They were sent flying sideways like four bundles of straw, tumbling and falling.

No matter how powerful the Sea Gods were, they ultimately couldn't withstand the former Ocean God Emperor, Cang Shitian.

However, even with all four Sea Gods attacking simultaneously, they shouldn't have been blasted away by Cang Shitian in an instant.

The sudden anomaly drew all eyes. At that moment, their pupils, and with them their souls, violently trembled.

The Ocean God Pearl was deeply embedded in Cang Shitian’s chest, pressed tightly against his profound veins, drenched in the continuously gushing Ocean blood.

From Cang Shitian’s body, a deep blue radiance suddenly blazed forth, spreading for thousands of miles.

Deep blue streaks of light, originating from his chest, spread across his body, piercing through his skin, flesh, meridians, blood, and bones… extending to his internal organs, fingertips, pupils, and even the tips of his hair.

In an instant, Cang Shitian’s body was covered in blue markings, his eyes like the deep sea.

What truly terrified everyone was the aura of power explosively unleashed from his body.

As the former Ocean God Emperor and current leader of the Maintainers, Cang Shitian’s strength had never been questioned.

But the power surging within him now clearly far exceeded his limits!

It was even gradually breaking through the limits of a Divine Master, tearing apart the boundaries of this world!

And as the deep blue profound light spread and vibrated, it continued to expand.

“What… what… what is that!?”

Amidst the roar of the half-god battle, cries of disbelief erupted.

For others, it was extreme shock, but for the Four Sea Gods, who knew the Ocean God Canon, it was profound despair.

“Stop… stop!” one Sea God shrieked in agony, practically scrambling on the ground, desperate to stop him.

But facing Cang Shitian’s terrifying aura at that moment, he couldn’t even get close.

In any world, any realm, forcefully gaining something beyond one’s limits often came at a terrible price.

What was manifesting on Cang Shitian now was power beyond his limits.

And the price was his life, and…

The future of the Ocean God lineage!

“Cang Shitian, have you gone mad?!” A Sea God, eyes bloodshot, roared his name. “Do you want to become the eternal sinner of the Ocean God lineage?! What… what face will you have to meet the former Emperors and your ancestors?!”

“Emperor, stop… stop! It’s not too late!”

The oldest and longest-living Sea God was already weeping, pleading, “Emperor, why are you doing this…? Yun Che is already destined for ruin, and you’ve already chosen to submit to the Abyss… You’ve saved yourself, you’ve saved the Ocean God lineage… What exactly are you doing?!”

Cang Shitian’s hair had turned entirely blue, and the aura he exuded surged like a roaring ocean.

He slowly turned his head, his face covered in blue marks, revealing a disdainful, sinister grin:

“Me, submit to the Abyss? What kind of joke is that?!”

“Heheheh…” he cackled, his Ocean Emperor’s voice piercing their souls with every word: “The God Realm has existed for millions of years… the Ocean God lineage for seven hundred thousand years… only then did it achieve its current glory.”

“Yun Che ascended step by step, treading across the Four Regions at a young age… and became the Savior of the World!”

“Though he originated from the lower realms, he ultimately belongs to this world! He is a miracle of this world!”

“I am willing to be his dog, wholeheartedly and convinced!”

“But…” His voice turned endlessly fierce: “What is this Mo Beichen?!”

“A hyena that crawled out of some unknown black pit, demanding our God Realm to meekly surrender everything, demanding *me* to be his dog?!”

“Hahahahaha! What a joke… what a joke!!”

His howling, his wild laughter, made the ears of countless profound practitioners bleed from the shock.

But the shock to their souls was a thousand times greater.

Yun Che was a man of this world. With his own power, he subdued the Northern Region, trod upon three regions, and ascended step by step to the highest position. He had saved the world from peril and had even borne the burden of all realms.

As Cang Shitian said, Yun Che was an emperor born of this world, a miracle born into this world.

Making him willing to be a loyal hound.

Mo Beichen, however, was ultimately from another world. The Abyss was a world beyond this one.

The true, purest invader.

The Ocean God Pearl trembled. Cang Shitian’s entire body… including all his blood, had turned completely deep blue.

The excessively abnormal aura made both Yun Che and Mo Beichen suddenly turn their heads.

The Four Sea Gods’ eyes were wide, nearly bursting, unable to utter a sound for a long time.

“Surrender the Ocean God lineage… to the Abyss…”

“I would rather… have it in my own hands…”

“Perish forever from this world!”

“Ughhhhhhh—Ah!”

Bang—

In Cang Shitian’s chest, the Ocean God Pearl abruptly shattered, its divine light dispersing completely.

All the divine source within it, using Cang Shitian’s profound veins, body, and life as a vessel, released a sorrowful deep blue radiance.

It was a formidable half-god divine might, almost on par with Mo Beichen’s.

The Four Sea Gods closed their eyes in pain… The shattered Ocean God Pearl, the shattered divine source vessel, mirrored their own broken hearts and souls.

The sky of the God Realm of Absolute Beginning grew even more restless, the winds and sand more violent.

Because in this world, which was originally without a god, another power from the half-god realm had appeared.

But the cost…

At this very moment, the Ocean God lineage, which had dominated the Southern Divine Region for hundreds of thousands of years, giving rise to generations of Sea Gods and countless legends…

Was extinguished forever.

“Mo Beichen—!” Cang Shitian’s hoarse, arrogant roar echoed through the crumbling heavens and earth: “Die, damn you!”

Like a surging ocean overturning the sky, Cang Shitian, cloaked in deep blue divine light that blotted out the heavens, lunged at Mo Beichen.

Boom!

Sword and shield clashed, tearing a ten-thousand-mile rift across the sky. On either side of the rift, Yun Che and Mo Beichen flew backward like falling meteors.

Another golden star dimmed. Only the last six points of starlight remained in Mo Beichen’s vision of Yun Che.

He violently spat out a mouthful of blood. Just as he was about to reform his Adamantine Formation, the strangely appearing half-god power from behind suddenly closed in.

The roar made his ears ring.

Blasted back by Yun Che’s sword and temporarily losing his balance, Mo Beichen had no time to recover his stance before Cang Shitian, from behind, instantly closed in.

More accurately, he violently collided with Cang Shitian.

Splashing from Cang Shitian was deep blue blood… or rather, fragments of Ocean God divine power.

His body was utterly destroyed.

At this moment, Cang Shitian was merely an energy vessel, still housing his final consciousness.

The bodies that had violently collided did not separate. Instead, the moment Cang Shitian’s deep blue arms touched Mo Beichen, they instantly shot out, locking tightly around his neck from behind.

His legs also crossed forward, firmly binding Mo Beichen’s lower limbs.

“You’re asking for death!”

Mo Beichen didn’t turn his head, and a withered light burst from his body.

Boom—

Under the muffled explosion of air, Cang Shitian’s left arm was violently flung open, bending and breaking… But in just an instant, a blue glow pulled the broken arm back, relocking it around Mo Beichen’s neck.

At the same time, the Ocean God divine light poured forth, transforming into thousands of deep blue streams of light, all coiling around Mo Beichen’s body, firmly sealing his movements.

And like mercury spilled on the ground, it silently corroded his Adamantine Formation.

Bang!!

Another burst of power erupted from Mo Beichen, slamming into Cang Shitian’s body.

Blue fragments scattered from Cang Shitian’s body, and dozens of cracks appeared on the limbs binding Mo Beichen, yet they didn’t loosen even slightly. Instead, they tightened further, as if intent on digging deep into his flesh and bone marrow.

“Cang Shitian… you!!”

Mo Beichen stared, furious and shocked, but no matter how he struggled, the limbs and blue light entwined around him clung like parasites, completely sealing his ability to move.

“Yun Che!!”

In his ears, Cang Shitian’s hysterical roar exploded.

At that moment, a black star from beyond the heavens, adorned with six golden points of starlight, descended rapidly… In Mo Beichen’s widened pupils, the tip of the Heaven Smiting Sword plunged directly towards his chest.

Clang—!

The Adamantine Formation flashed, then fractured into hundreds of fine cracks in an instant.

This was the most severe damage it had sustained since its manifestation in this world.

What Cang Shitian had sealed was not just Mo Beichen’s mobility, but also a considerable portion of his power… while also invisibly corroding his protective force.

Yun Che’s body tumbled from the recoil, but he immediately twisted himself, forcing the Divine Extinction power to erupt, and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor Sword violently thrust towards Mo Beichen’s chest once more.

What echoed was a sharp shriek.

This time, the Heaven Smiting Sword’s tip was not repelled. Instead, it pierced into the Adamantine Formation.

The Adamantine Formation, whose cracks couldn’t even heal, fractured further.

This sight made Mo Beichen’s pupils constrict.

Yun Che’s dim eyes blazed with intense light again. His body, already on the verge of collapse, suddenly erupted with a thousand feet of devil flames at that moment, as inexhaustible power surged madly towards the sword tip.

Chichichichichi!!!

Under the miraculously erupting colossal force, the Heaven Smiting Sword’s tip pressed against the Adamantine Formation, violently pushing Mo Beichen and Cang Shitian, who were tightly bound together, downward.

The blazing Eternal Calamity Devil Flames corroded the Adamantine power layer by layer, dissolving it again and again, causing hundreds, then thousands, of cracks to burst open.

“Heh… heh heh!”

Cang Shitian, plummeting under Yun Che’s sword, actually laughed. He stared at Yun Che, his voice completely unlike his own: “Yun Che… do you know… why I… brought your daughter here.”

…Yun Che remained silent. All his power, all his will, was concentrated on the Heaven Smiting Sword, watching its tip slowly pierce the Adamantine Formation, slowly nearing Mo Beichen’s chest.

“Of course, it was to force you out!”

He roared: “You are… the one I acknowledge… You can only die in battle…”

“But how could you… be a cowardly, cowering turtle?!!”

Beneath his furious roar, blue light suddenly burst from his eyes.

From the body tightly binding Mo Beichen, a vast, unknown power surged forth. With a violent explosion, it fiercely propelled both himself and Mo Beichen crashing towards Yun Che.