The heavenly origin force surged like waves, undulating endlessly. Although Chen Haisheng's ambush had successfully blocked the Demon Empress on land, the Demon Empress's power, capable of overturning rivers and seas, still displayed immense might when unleashed on land.
Chen Haisheng glanced downward. The sea, which had always felt exceptionally familiar to him, now carried a faint sense of unfamiliarity.
It was as if he had lost the ocean's favor, and like an ordinary person, he developed a fear and awe toward the seawater.
Soon, Chen Haisheng suddenly came back to his senses. He had not lost the ocean's favor; it was only because the Demon Empress before him could also wield the power of the ocean, just like him, that he felt the ocean had suddenly become unfamiliar.
Compared to the last time he had rescued the Sea Princess, the Demon Empress's strength seemed to have increased once again, to the point where she could even compete with him for control over the ocean's power.
Just what was the Demon Empress's current cultivation level? For a moment, Chen Haisheng could not judge.
In the records of Sea God Island, there had been no mention that the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had ever had a wife.
But he knew the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's strength all too well, and for a soul beast to become its wife, her strength must surely not be much inferior.
Moreover, ever since she had appeared, she had already attacked the territories of other soul beasts several times. In such a short period of time, her strength had increased yet again.
Chen Haisheng also raised his head and glanced far into the distance at Lin Xiao. At this moment, only Lin Xiao, who had previously displayed powerful strength, brought him some sense of reassurance.
With no time to think further, he reached out with a wave of his hand. Seawater surged upward, and the power of the ocean collided fiercely with the already frenzied Demon Empress.
Once cultivation reached the level of a Limit Douluo, battles were no longer like the competitions on the fighting stage. It was not merely a contest of soul skills, but more so a clash of insights gained throughout a soul master's path of cultivation, as well as control and utilization of power.
And at this moment, the contest between Chen Haisheng and the Demon Empress was precisely a competition between the guardian protecting the Sea God's inheritance and the sea-born, sea-raised sea soul beast, to see who had superior control over the ocean.
Chen Haisheng's expression grew increasingly grave. The Demon Empress, before him had already fallen into madness due to hatred, and it was precisely because of this that she unleashed her power without any restraint, almost completely ignoring Lin Xiao on the other side and pouring all her strength and fury toward Chen Haisheng, who was connected to the Sea God.
Despite possessing the cultivation of a Limit Douluo, Chen Haisheng only felt his body growing heavier and heavier. Under the oppression of the Demon Empress's power, he could barely lift his head.
Fortunately, he was not the only one who had appeared here.
Just as the two forces collided, another completely different power descended toward the Demon Empress.
Lin Xiao flew into the air, carrying the might of heaven and earth as he descended from above. The power of death was inescapable and unavoidable. With a single strike, the Demon Empress's aura instantly dropped sharply.
Her mind filled with rage and almost having lost the ability to think, the Demon Empress's attention had been completely drawn to Chen Haisheng, leaving her almost completely undefended against Lin Xiao's attack.
And when the power of death descended, even a powerhouse like the Demon Empress saw her aura wilt considerably in an instant.
Seeing this, Chen Haisheng's eyes instantly lit up. He understood that this was an excellent opportunity. His body seemed to merge with the vast sea as he swept forward to attack.
But before his attack could land, in the next instant, he saw a pair of dark purple eyes. The chaos and madness within them had actually dissipated considerably under Lin Xiao's attack.
Or rather, it was not that Lin Xiao's attack had dispelled her madness, but that under the threat of death, her survival instinct had awakened the little bit of reason she still possessed.
Towering waves rolled back violently. Chen Haisheng was only momentarily distracted before he was buried within the seawater. Before he fell into the water, he only saw more uncontrolled waves surging onto the snow plains. Then, his mouth and nose were filled with ice-cold seawater.
For a moment, feelings of coldness, silence, and heaviness assailed him all at once. The pressure of the deep sea seemed as if it wanted to squeeze out all the air from within his body.
As someone born on Sea God Island and naturally favored by the ocean, this was the first time he had experienced the feeling of an ordinary person entering the sea.
On the other side, when Lin Xiao saw the Demon Empress turn her head, he knew that this soul beast before him probably could not be dealt with easily.
Chen Haisheng, as a sea soul master, could only fully unleash his power in the sea. Therefore, after sensing the situation near the Eternal Tower, Lin Xiao had left Chen Haisheng here to be responsible for blocking the Demon Empress.
Although at that time he had not been entirely certain of the Demon Empress's identity, he had already made some guesses. Leaving her on land would naturally greatly reduce her combat strength.
However, at this moment, the Demon Empress used her strength to tell Lin Xiao that even if she was blocked on land, not everyone could contend with her.
A rumbling sound came from afar. It was the surging seawater rushing toward the Demon Empress like a wild beast. The extreme northern cold caused the surface seawater to freeze into ice crystals, but in the next instant, that icy chill was scattered by even more violent seawater, dissolving back into it.
It seemed as if something had tightly wrapped around Lin Xiao's entire body. The heavy pressure on his chest made every breath extremely difficult. He took large gulps of air, yet felt as if no air at all was entering his chest.
His limbs gradually grew powerless without him noticing. His vision darkened. With great effort, he tried to move his limbs, but it was like a person who could not swim falling into the deep sea, only feeble and useless struggling.
A feeling of suffocation?
A thought rose in Lin Xiao's mind.
It had been a very long time since he had experienced this feeling. Ever since he had obtained the external throat bone from the merfolk clan at the Great Elder's place, he had gained the ability to breathe underwater.
Even when not underwater, he could breathe freely in thin air in places where ordinary people could not survive.
The feeling of suffocation was indeed something he had not experienced for a long time.
But precisely because of this, even though the sensation of drowning around him felt so real, he knew that this was absolutely impossible.
There was only one explanation: he had unknowingly been attacked by the Demon Empress. Or perhaps it was not an attack at all, but that he had unknowingly fallen into the Demon Empress's domain.
As a sea soul beast, she controlled the power of the ocean to a degree that could even compare with Chen Haisheng, the guardian of Sea God Island. When her domain appeared, all opponents within it would feel as if they were drowning.
And with the Demon Empress's cultivation, the domain she unleashed would only be even more powerful.
Lin Xiao was not encountering a domain-type ability for the first time. Previously, when facing the Great Elder who had survived the heavenly tribulation, he had been trapped within her domain.
At that time, he still needed to borrow the power of Electrolux to summon undead and forcibly break through the opponent's domain. Now, he had better means.
The figure of the Demon Empress seemed to have already disappeared from sight, but Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to search for her. To him, being able to sense the heaven and earth itself that existed everywhere was already enough.
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