312: Chapter 312 The Ancient Divine Body Displays Its Power, Publicly Dismembering the Spirit King Sea Beast!

The ninety-nine floating islands of Kunlun shrank into blurry dots in the distance. The five-colored warship was like a streak of light piercing through the sky, cutting through layers of clouds as it whistled toward the east.

On the Deck, Lu Sheng leaned back in a grandmaster's chair, his fingertips holding the cool fragment of the map. The energy of the heart of the true sea still flowed slowly through his veins; with every passing breath, his reconstructed Ancient Desolate Divine Body became even more refined.

"Master, that aura has grown stronger." Luo Tianfei stood behind Lu Sheng, the gray-purple flame on her forehead flickering uneasily. She had just stabilized her Rank 35 Realm, but facing the sea ahead, stained crimson by blood-light, she instinctively sensed a bone-chilling malice.

Lu Sheng put away the map fragment, a hint of crimson reflected in his cross-shaped pupils.

"It's quite lively." He licked his teeth, his tone flat. "It seems these fish and shrimp from the East Sea have eaten their fill and want to change their flavor."

As the warship surged forward at full speed, the originally azure East Sea had completely changed its appearance. A layer of viscous black foam floated on the surface, a product of Abyssal Qi mixed with seawater. Countless bizarre deep-sea behemoths were frantically slamming into an island at the edge of his vision.

That was Dengxian Island.

The island-protecting Formation, once brimming with Spiritual Qi, was now extremely dim. Its surface was covered in dense cracks, each filled with sea beasts frantically devouring energy.

Within the Formation, the sound of battle cries shook the heavens.

"Xing Tian, I can't hold on much longer!"

Li Xiaoyao stood on the stone steps in front of the mountain gate, his wine gourd already shattered in two. His signature green robe was in tatters, and three bone-deep gashes marked his chest, with dark green toxins spreading through his Meridians.

Before him was a dense army of the Sea Race.

A burly man with eight eyes and suckers all over his body was currently suspended in mid-air, waving a bone fork ground from the spine of a giant beast.

He was a Sea Race commander, the Giant Octopus King.

Rank 45 Spirit King Realm.

This monster, which had lurked in the deep sea for a hundred years, had absorbed a wisp of blood qi scattered after the fall of the Abyssal Mother Worm. In just a few days, it had completed its mutation and forcibly entered the mid-stage Spirit King Realm.

"Li Xiaoyao, stop struggling." The Giant Octopus King's eight eyes flickered with bloodthirsty red light, his voice low like a muffled drum. "Hand over the Spiritual Vein core, and this king can give you a quick death. Otherwise, once the Formation breaks, everyone on this island will become food for my children!"

"Bah!" Elder Xing Tian leaned on his chipped greatsword and spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm. "You want to step onto the island? You'll have to walk over my corpse first!"

"Courting death."

The Giant Octopus King sneered, and the Void Realm behind him suddenly exploded.

A five-hundred-meter-tall deep-sea Dharma Idol rose from the ground. It was an incredibly massive black octopus, every tentacle covered in hideous barbs. Carrying the power to destroy heaven and earth, it slammed down fiercely toward the island-protecting Formation.

"It's over..."

Countless Dengxian Island Disciples closed their eyes. This strike was enough to completely shatter their hope.

"Boom—!!!"

The expected sound of shattering did not come.

Instead, there was a dull thud of a heavy object hitting the ground, followed by a terrifying shockwave that instantly vaporized the seawater within ten miles.

The Giant Octopus King's sky-blotting black tentacle stopped just three inches away from the Formation.

It hadn't stopped on its own.

Rather, its tip was held firmly by a hand gleaming with dark gold luster.

"Making such a big ruckus, you've disturbed my sleep."

A lazy voice suddenly rang out in the deathly silent battlefield.

Everyone looked up abruptly.

At the top of the Formation, a young man in black robes stood there at some unknown time. He had one hand in his pocket while the other pressed down on the massive tentacle capable of crushing mountains. The Void Realm beneath his feet appeared to be in a state of eerie collapse.

"That's... the Young Island Master?!"

"Lu Sheng! Lu Sheng is back!!"

A burst of hysterical cheering erupted among the desperate Dengxian Island Disciples. Many even collapsed on the spot due to the emotional roller coaster.

Lu Sheng looked down at the group of bedraggled servants and Elders, his brow furrowing slightly.

"Old man Li, your way of treating guests isn't quite right. How did you let a few big squids bully you like this?"

Li Xiaoyao was stunned at first, then smiled in a way that looked worse than crying. "You brat, if you had come back half a moment later, you'd have to fish my bones out of a sea beast's belly!"

In mid-air, the Giant Octopus King's eight eyeballs contracted simultaneously.

He frantically tried to pull back his tentacle, only to find that the seemingly weak human palm was as heavy as an ancient Mount Tai. No matter how he activated his Spirit King level Laws, the tentacle could not be moved an inch.

"You are the Lu Sheng who caused trouble in Kunlun?" The Giant Octopus King roared in a muffled voice, but an inexplicable chill rose in his heart. "Let go! This king was personally appointed by the Sea God..."

"Sea God?"

Lu Sheng looked up, a hint of mockery flashing in his cross-shaped pupils.

"Before that, you should first ask if my pot... can fit you."

Lu Sheng's wrist suddenly flipped.

"Ancient Desolate Divine Body, open!"

There was no prelude.

Beneath Lu Sheng's skin, dark gold light instantly exploded. Every muscle in his body vibrated at an incredibly high frequency, and a pure, ultimate brute force poured directly into the massive tentacle through his arm.

"Come... here!!"

Lu Sheng yanked back with one hand.

Under the horrified gazes of tens of thousands of Sea Race warriors, the five-hundred-meter-tall giant octopus Dharma Idol was actually dragged out from the clouds by this tiny human like he was hauling a sack!

"Rumble!!"

The Giant Octopus King's true body, along with his Dharma Idol, slammed hard into a deserted mountain. The entire mountaintop collapsed instantly, rocks flew, and dust rose a hundred meters into the air.

Lu Sheng did not stop.

His figure flickered, appearing instantly above the ruins of the mountain.

"I heard you say earlier that you wanted to have my people for dinner?"

Lu Sheng looked down from above at the Giant Octopus King struggling frantically at the bottom of the pit.

"Coincidentally, I've eaten a lot of greasy food lately and want some refreshing cold-dressed seafood."

"Roar!! Lu Sheng, you've gone too far!!"

The Giant Octopus King went completely mad. He felt the humiliation of being treated like livestock. He spat out a mouthful of Origin blood essence, and the Dharma Idol's tentacles instantly doubled in size, turning into countless bolts of black lightning that blocked all of Lu Sheng's paths of retreat.

"Abyss—Dark Strangling!!"

Black mist filled the air, and space was forcibly torn apart by those barbed tentacles.

Standing amidst the surrounding tentacles, Lu Sheng didn't dodge; instead, he closed his eyes.

He took a deep breath of the fishy-smelling air.

"Too old." Lu Sheng shook his head, his tone somewhat disdainful. "The Bloodline is impure, and the Abyssal Qi is too heavy. An octopus of this quality would taste dry even if made into takoyaki."

"However..."

Lu Sheng snapped his eyes open, the death-gray color in his eyes surging out like a tide.

"It'll do as fodder for my Dharma Idol."

"Archaic Heaven Emperor Venerable—Manifest!"

Hum—!!

The Void Realm trembled.

A thousand-meter-tall gray-white imperial shadow, carrying a terrifying status that suppressed the heavens, slowly emerged behind Lu Sheng.

Three heads, six arms.

Each arm was wrapped in Desolation Fire capable of melting Laws.

The moment the Emperor Venerable Dharma Idol appeared, the sea within a hundred miles fell deathly silent. Those frantic sea beasts were as if they had seen the ancestor of their Bloodline; they were all so terrified they went limp on the water, losing even the strength to paddle.

Lu Sheng slowly raised a hand.

The giant hand pressed down on the Giant Octopus King below.

"Crack!!"

The Giant Octopus King's proud Dharma Idol defense was as fragile as a thin piece of paper before this absolute physical pressure.

His tentacles were crushed one by one, and the toxins containing abyssal power were completely devoured by the power of Desolation the moment they touched the Emperor Venerable's palm.

"Wh... what power is this?!" the Giant Octopus King screamed in terror. "You are clearly only Rank 34! How is it possible... ah!!"

The screams were drowned out by the sound of bones breaking.

Lu Sheng manipulated the Dharma Idol, and the remaining five hands reached out simultaneously.

One hand grabbed the octopus's head.

The other four hands respectively grabbed its four fattest main tentacles.

"Tear."

Lu Sheng spat out a single word expressionlessly.

"Rip——————!!!"

A downpour of dark green blood rained from the sky.

The Rank 45 Spirit King behemoth was actually forcibly dismembered in Lu Sheng's hands like ingredients being prepared.

The Giant Octopus King's Primordial Spirit tried to flee from its mangled body in panic.

"Since you've been served on the table, you still want to run?"

Lu Sheng snorted coldly, and the Five Elements Life-Extinction Wheel behind his head spun wildly in reverse.

A massive suction void appeared in the Void Realm.

"ancient desolate heaven swallowing furnace, Refine!"

"Sizzle, sizzle..."

Before he could even finish his scream, the Giant Octopus King's Primordial Spirit and his massive flesh-and-blood essence were swallowed clean by that huge black vortex.

【Ding! Devoured Rank 45 mutated Sea Race! Obtained pure life energy: 300,000 points!】

【Current Rank: Rank 34 (12%)...】

Lu Sheng let out a burp and casually patted his chest to smooth his breath.

He turned his head and looked at the tens of thousands of Sea Race soldiers below who had already turned to stone.

Those once-ferocious sea beasts now looked at Lu Sheng as if they were looking at a gluttonous Taotie that had crawled out of Hell.

"Com... Commander was eaten?"

"Run! This is a man-eating devil!!"

The originally grand beast tide completely collapsed after Lu Sheng killed the Giant Octopus King in one move. Countless sea beasts scrambled to dive into the deep sea, wishing they had a few more fins.

Standing at a high point, Lu Sheng watched those scattering "ingredients," a dangerous light flashing in his eyes.

"Run?"

He looked back at Li Xiaoyao, a somewhat wicked smile appearing on his lips.

"Old man, pass down the order. The entire island will have an extra meal tonight."

"Anyone above Rank 30, catch them all for me. We're going to have a... Full Fish Feast."

Li Xiaoyao was dazed at first, then slapped his thigh hard, his old face glowing red.

"Understood! By the order of the Young Island Master, boys, grab your gear!"

"Don't let these 'takoyaki' get away!!"

The originally lifeless Dengxian Island instantly erupted with unprecedented Battle Intent. Elder Xing Tian carried his greatsword and was the first to charge into the retreating crowd, his laughter heroic.

As for Lu Sheng, he did not join this "hunt."

He looked at the map fragment again.

With the fall of the Giant Octopus King, a massive vortex was slowly forming in the deep red sea in the distance.

In the center of the vortex, a corner of a magnificent crystal palace was faintly visible.

A tremor originating from deep within his spine came again.

Lu Sheng stopped smiling, the outline of the deep sea reflected in his cross-shaped pupils.

"It seems these appetizers were just the beginning."

He slowly raised his hand, and the dragon devouring spear manifested again, its tip flickering with dark gold light.

"It seems the real main guest has already smelled the blood."

Just then.

Within the deep-sea vortex, a terrifying aura that surpassed the Spirit King and faintly touched the threshold of the Imperial Realm was locking onto Lu Sheng's position with incredible speed.

The seawater boiled.

A thick, ancient voice filled with endless majesty pierced through the waves and exploded in Lu Sheng's ear.

"Human, the heart of the true sea... is not something you can take."

Hearing this, Lu Sheng's expression did not become grave; instead, he showed a hint of extremely excited greed.

"Your Rank is quite high; I imagine you'll taste... even more delicious, right?"

He leaped up, his body like a dark gold cannonball, actually diving toward that vortex on his own initiative.

And at the edge of his vision.

A golden Dragon Claw, so massive it covered half of the seabed, was breaking through the water with the power to overturn the seas!

Cliffhanger at the end of this chapter:

To whom does that golden Dragon Claw, which has crossed countless years and is capable of tearing through Laws, belong? Is it the Awakening of the true Sea God, or a terrifying guardian left behind by the Deep Sea Dragon Palace? Facing this near-Imperial Realm killing blow, will the Dragon God Bloodline in Lu Sheng's body undergo a second ultimate Awakening?