Chapter 2349: Can I Hear It Again?

Tap tap tap tap tap! Raindrops smashed onto the surface of the sea, creating an intense sound. But unlike the profound silence of death that had earlier enveloped the vast sea, this rain carried a sense of renewal. It wasn't the thunderous roar produced by magical collisions. These raindrops were crystal clear, exceptionally pure. It was a sudden shift, a rare emotion, as if the sky itself was weeping. From sky to sea, a long journey, each drop walked through its life. Each raindrop contained abundant vital energy. Each drop that fell created new vitality for this ocean. With just a few already mature methods, consolidating the feedback from the absolute peak's collapse, this place would become a new peaceful sea domain, providing a dwelling place for the Sea Race.

A True Monarch's death greatly benefits heaven. Yu Que dying here could even be considered compensation from the Human Race to the Sea Race. But it was still far from enough! The vast sea was on the verge of death, the Sea Race almost abandoned their homes and fled. How many dwelling places were destroyed, how many operations were buried in this battle? The Human Race only lost one True Monarch, where was that enough to compensate? Ao Shu Yi died. The Ao Shu Yi who had been cursed by the Sea Race for hundreds of thousands of years... departed in such a resolute manner. He was alive and suppressed to death! The fate of the Sea Race was actually saved by a "River Dog"!

The East Sea Dragon King suddenly raised his head, his voice filled with sorrow. He had shrunk many times, but his dragon body was still several thousand zhang long, flying in such rain. He let the rain strike his mirror scales and his wounds. The slightly cool rainwater didn't bring him comfort; the pain instead made him sober. The vast sea's decline and then rise, the unbearable turbulence. In order to protect the vast sea, Ao Jie didn't fully unleash his power. But even with his own combat strength, he was rarely matched in this world. Ling Chen Dao Jun was located in the mysterious realm, not far from him. He accurately captured that mysterious and even more mysterious trajectory. Having endured the bombardment of billions of dust thunder after killing and maintaining the vast sea, he confirmed that he could still fight.

But within his blood-colored dragon pupils, this time, thunder light was reflected. The violently bright thunder light actually covered the Dragon King's entire vision, still wanting to invade his dragon pupils! Ao Jie's pupils shifted suddenly, swallowing all the thunder light that rushed into them. Only then could he see clearly what existed behind the thunder light — it was a constantly rotating green thunder ball, and on the surface of the thunder ball was the last shadow of True Monarch Yu Que. Yu Que's power was within it! He had always thought that Ji Zao was taking this power back and sending it back after Yu Que crossed the maze realm. Yu Que's "hundred years cut lifespan, Li substitute peach stiff," his various actions before death, also clearly indicated this. But now, Ji Zao's flicking finger thunder was obviously not so.

Ao Jie could only see clearly at this moment that the green thunder's surface was Yu Que's shadow, but inside surged the power of the End Tribulation. In the previous battle, he and Ji Zao competed to destroy the vast sea, vying for dominance over the vast sea's decline and death to plunder more of the End Tribulation's share. And after Ao Shu Yi struck and collapsed the ancient heaven road, he immediately returned the already plundered End Tribulation power, instead healing the vast sea's wounds and filling the damage it had received. Ji Zao, however, didn't pity the vast sea and kept the End Tribulation power. And at this moment, using this End Tribulation power as a carrier, he bore Yu Que's absolute peak power as thunder, creating this green sky annihilating world tribulation thunder!

The electric light was blindingly white! Between heaven and sea, everyone saw it, there were no other colors. Destruction is always easier than construction. The vast sea, already full of wounds and not yet stable, had to endure this kind of bombardment? Even if it wasn't killed again, its origin would be greatly damaged! Just as this thunder light exploded open, illuminating the sky and sea to the extreme, a deep, quiet vortex appeared again in the depths of Ao Jie's blood-colored dragon pupils. Heaven Saint pupil, extreme intent gate, swallowing the universe, bottomless and endless — the vast sky's thunder light was gathered into one point. This green thunder light point was just embedded in the vortex of the blood-colored dragon pupil, then sank into the vortex and disappeared without a trace. The green sky annihilating world tribulation thunder was taken into his body by Ao Jie!

And a crowd of Sea Race strong ones saw a lotus-borne immortal island carrying the world, like a divine boat crossing the disaster at the end of days, appearing from that void. It was the Dao Gate holy ground, the source of the Dao pulse, Penglai immortal island! It had originally only manifested a virtual shadow to send Ji Zao up the ancient heaven road. Now that the ancient heaven road was cut off, it came with its true body. Penglai island, one of the three pulses of the Dao Gate, had always been suspended overseas. In ancient times, it even received quite a few deep-sea water demons. To say it had "governed the sea" indeed held rich experience. The so-called broken bridge means rowing a boat, and at this moment, Penglai pressed down on the vast sea!

Bang!!! At the same moment, a terrifying giant sound exploded within the East Sea Dragon King's body. It was as if Ao Jie's bones were being dismantled, his skin covered, beaten like a drum! The exploding thunderous sound constantly echoed, constantly roared. Ao Jie's powerful dragon body also constantly twisted and flipped in the air, flesh and blood flying horizontally, roaring nonstop. All who saw and heard were moved!

"Dragon Monarch!""Your Majesty!"

The Sea Race strong ones at the scene flocked forward, extremely concerned. Of course, there were also those like the Evil Immortal Emperor Lord Si Liang, stirring up ten thousand zhang, manifesting green face and fangs, heading for Penglai immortal island. He was an extremely rare case among the Sea Race who cultivated the corpse to become Dao. He was the corpse of a Sea Race strong one that had been preserved in a special sea domain for ten thousand ancient years and, by chance coincidence, gave birth to spiritual intelligence. Only then did he slowly cultivate to this point. This Dao was almost extinct in the present world. Because corpse cultivators were mostly fierce, stubborn, and untamed, and this Dao blasphemed the dead, it was jointly purged on a large scale by the Buddhist and Daoist pulses, basically cutting off its inheritance. Before becoming Dao, Si Liang feared thunder methods the most. But precisely because of this, on his path to becoming Dao, he accumulated the richest experience in coping with thunder methods. So he was also one of the Sea Race Emperor Lords who reacted fastest under the endless dust thunder that bombarded heaven and sea.

But he was still a step late. Penglai immortal island once manifested with the momentum of wanting to strongly bombard the vast sea, but before the Sea Race strong ones could surround and attack, it had already flashed and disappeared without a trace. It was as if it had just come over to make a point. But Ling Chen True Monarch Ji Zao, who was almost ignored in the endless thunder light, also disappeared without being seen. To be "ignored" in the midst of a group of strong ones surrounding and watching, he himself possessed heaven-reaching methods. However, it was also a specialty of Penglai island's Dao law system. At the original location, only a Dao robe floated in the air, as well as the dust thunder still roaring between heaven and sea. That Dao robe represented the contemporary Seal Print Great Elder of Penglai island, also known as Ji Zao's Dao pulse authority. Starting from the corner of the robe, it gradually turned into tribulation ash and floated away.

The ancient heaven road's manifestation meant "bridge," spanning time and space, across which a thousand armies and ten thousand horses could cross. Penglai island's manifestation meant "boat." Within the bitter world of the vast sea's End Tribulation, this divine boat for crossing disaster could only carry Ji Zao, who remained alone in his inner clothes. The Dao Gate holy ground, Penglai island, welcomed back its head teacher!

Rumble rumble! The thunder sound still rolled within Ao Jie's body. He had swallowed such terrifying tribulation thunder and actually didn't die immediately! He was truly terrifyingly strong.

"Your Majesty?!" As soon as the thunder sound temporarily stopped, Xuan Shen Emperor Lord flew to Ao Jie's side. He raised his staff, wanting to gather the power of faith to heal the East Sea Dragon King's wounds. The East Sea Dragon King, however, lifted a claw and blocked the staff. He opened his mouth, letting the blood within his mouth pour onto the sea, and said:

"Do not waste power. The vast sea has more places that need you."

At this moment, Ao Jie's dragon body was "thin" by three full circles, appearing bone-prominent and narrow-bodied, very rugged. Bones hung with meat, meat hung with skin, appearing quite fragmented. His left eye had already disappeared, leaving only a black, quiet hole. But he wasn't in a hurry to use power to recover himself. As he said to Xuan Shen Emperor Lord, the vast sea now had more places that needed power. Quickly stabilizing the vast sea's situation and rebuilding homes was more important than repairing the vast sea Dragon King's body.

He only twisted his head to look in the direction of the maze realm entrance — the forcibly opened entrance had already disappeared. All told, out of a hundred thousand Dou E great army, approximately fifty thousand escaped. At that time, this branch of the army was like an earthworm drilling a hole; the front half had already gone in, and the remaining part was cut off along with Yu Que. The Dou E warriors who were forcibly left behind had, of course, already been killed clean at this moment. Their corpses would all be preserved as food rations for sea beasts. Unless they were strong ones of certain value, the Sea Race usually didn't keep captives, because food in the vast sea itself was precious, giving it to captives wasn't worth it, and starving them would have an impact. Except for a few extra bloodthirsty ones, the Sea Race usually didn't eat people. But for sea beasts, these Human Race corpses were already top-grade food rations.

Ji Zao did indeed attract the attention of the absolute majority of the Sea Race strong ones, but the Emperor Lords also didn't forget to let the Sea Race kings, whose combat power matched, lead the army to chase into the maze realm and pursue and kill the escaping Dou E great army. If these fifty thousand Dou E army could all escape back to Jing Country, then with this as a skeleton, this branch of the army could soon form combat power again. If they were all exterminated here... Jing Country's territory, of course, still had reserve armies, and for armies of the Dou E level, there were definitely sufficient backup soldiers, always ready to supplement. But the name of the world's first army would then no longer need to be mentioned.

Yu Que this person... first displayed brave force, a lone army suppressing ten thousand armies, making the Sea Race think he wanted to fight to the death; then deliberately called out Ji Zao, making the Sea Race think his purpose was to cover the rear guard of the army and cover Ji Zao's seizure of the Eternal Heaven Stele; then in this back and forth, he created an opportunity, bombarded open the maze realm channel, making the Sea Race strong ones think he was using Ji Zao to attract attention, and he himself would escape with the Dou E great army; but in fact, he truly left himself behind, completing that green sky annihilating world tribulation thunder, helping the Penglai head teacher escape. He was truly a top-level tactical deception master. Doing a Dao field within this lion shell, repeatedly feigning bluffs.

As the commander of Dou E, Yu Que sent away his army. As a True Monarch of Jing Country, Yu Que sent away the Penglai head teacher. It can be said that he did not neglect any of his identities, not shaming the name of a general! And in the Human Race, how many Yu Que were there? It makes one worry about the monarch! Yu Que's death greatly benefited the vast sea. The Eternal Heaven Stele's existence greatly benefited the vast sea. But Ao Jie couldn't feel happy. In his youth, he also once believed that he would finally complete the great undertaking his ancestors had not reached, firmly believing that he would become the Human Race's "tribulation." When he defeated all competitors and became the vast sea Dragon Monarch, he was also full of ambition, intending to build a divine land of merit...

By now, he only thought about how to save the Sea Race's "tribulation." The more powerful he became, the more despair he felt. The more he knew the "Dao," the more he knew that "the Dao is also unreachable."

"Yu Que's powers, I originally thought they were for Ji Zao to bring back to the divine land, I didn't expect..." Zhong Xi was the Emperor Lord who personally organized the pursuit and killing in the maze realm. Thinking of Yu Que dying like this, his heart also felt quite emotional. Si Liang put away his green face and fangs Dharma body, flew down, and said in a seemingly relaxed manner:

"Perhaps Ji Zao originally wanted to bring it back. But Yu Que had too many private sons, he didn't know which one to give it to, and it was impossible to receive it, so he simply threw it here."

This was not a funny joke, but the various Emperor Lords also more or less squeezed the corners of their mouths, cooperating... The atmosphere was really too heavy. Even the most radical and arrogant Sea Race recognized the fact after this battle today, seeing the gap between the two races. Sometimes, no matter how disparate the paper data, without facing each other, it is very difficult to feel the profoundness. Back then, they almost counter-invaded the divine land!

Ao Jie didn't laugh. He only dragged his heavily injured remnant body, wrapped an Eternal Heaven Stele with his dragon tail, and flew towards the distance, his blood flowing all the way, dripping into the vast waves. The fresh blood of the vast sea Dragon Monarch was also a good supplement for the vast sea. The Eternal Heaven Stele, under the control of the people of Jing Country, had the opportunity to become a shackle restricting the Sea Race. The Eternal Heaven Stele, under the control of the Sea Race, could create a peaceful sea domain, allowing more Sea Race beings to dwell. Ao Jie then went to find a place to build a home.

Under the gaze of a crowd of Sea Race high-level officials, the vast sea Dragon Monarch did not turn back, heading eastward all the way. At the original location, only one sentence was left, summarizing this battle, which was fought without any power to fight back —

"Long River Dragon Monarch has already passed away. After that, if we cannot live on, we can only blame ourselves, not anyone else."

Was the ancient Human-Dragon war lost because of Ao Shu Yi? If the Human Race's advantage wasn't already great to a certain extent, with Lie Shan Human Emperor comprehensively suppressing Xi Hun Dragon Emperor, would Ao Shu Yi's rebellion have been able to rally so many water races under his banner? The Human World's "River Dog," how can one hear of him again!

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The Human Race's northernmost inhabited islands near the sea should be already approaching the glacier's "Ice Phoenix Island." Li Feng Yao, the direct eldest daughter of the Stone Gate Li Clan, has been stationed here for a long time leading the army, operating and cultivating at this point. The East Sea is vast and boundless, even without counting the maze realm separating the vast sea, it is enough for people to explore a lifetime. Heading north from the various islands near the sea, one can see the glacier. After the glacier, there is still a sea domain, and after the sea domain, there is another glacier, never knowing the end. Of course, the further north one goes, the more desolate it becomes.

At this time, even on the glacier above, there were two figures walking side by side. The biting wind and frost made it difficult to trek, causing their black robes to swell. They wore the same style of masks, only the blood characters on their foreheads were different. One said "Coroner Official," the other said "Metropolitan." They were both very careful about their footsteps, even if there was a pit in front, they had to pause for a moment, wait for their brother to also lift his step, and then jump forward. Neither of them was willing to walk in front of their brother out of etiquette.

They walked like this for a while, finally following the organization's unique secret mark, finding an inconspicuous ice cave deep within the glacier.

"Big brother, please first." Metropolitan King bowed his body very politely.

"Oh, there's no need to be polite now!" Coroner Official King was still using a female body, saying delicately: "Good little brother, you go in first!"

"Roll in together!"

From the depths of the ice cave, King Qin Guang's voice was transmitted, clearly in a bad mood.

"Old big!" Coroner Official King's tone immediately changed, calling out with concern and charm, swaying her posture as she entered the ice cave, her mouth nonstop saying: "I heard you were injured, I was so worried I could have died, even my task was unable to continue, I rushed over overnight to support you, and I even brought you good wound medicine! Old big, old big! How are you like this, who was so bold as to injure you, we'll summon the brothers together..."

She walked into the ice cave and saw an ice-carved altar standing in the center of the ice cave. She hadn't seen King Qin Guang for a long time, she lightly raised her head, just standing in the middle of the transparent altar. His posture was straight, his waist quite narrow, and he tied his mask around his waist. The empty eye sockets on the mask seemed to be gazing over. What made Coroner Official King feel pressure was that at this time, King Qin Guang's eyes were both green, his long hair hung to his feet, having entered an evil state! Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly raised her head in shock, her line of sight already passing through the top of the ice cave, looking up at that endless high sky — there was a magnificent and splendid ancient heaven road, spanning the near sea and the vast sea, ancient and present world.

She had come this way, only daring to gaze from afar, not daring to investigate closely. She knew its grandeur, while she herself was humble, not daring to approach. But at this moment, that golden great road, that broad path reaching to heaven, actually collapsed on the spot, collapsing like sand! She lifted her hand to press her trembling chest, stopping her body's intense heartbeat, looking at King Qin Guang in shock —

"You... you cursed it to collapse?"