Turbulent Waters
Blue energy from the ground entered Ocean Archfiend, connecting his qi up with the island, eventually reducing the domain’s energy.
“Mu Yu, you have control over Fiend-Sealing Pagoda now, correct?” Ocean Archfiend turned to ask.
“Yes.”
Ocean Archfiend aimed his Thousand Inch Ocean Ruler doused in blue energy at Gui Yuzi. “Remove the island’s shackles, or my power will destroy the artefact.”
Didn’t expect him to not hate on it, thought Mu Yu, easily undoing the restriction Fiend-Sealing Pagoda imposed due to its weakened state.
“Now, it’s time to settle the score between us, Gui Yuzi,” declared Ocean Archfiend, creating rifts in the ground as he sent tremors through it.
Ocean water burst through from the crevices in the ground, blasting eighty-one rocks out of the ground and into sky, procedurally positioned metres away from each other.
“Are you a professional at being stupid? You think a couple of rocks can confine me?” Gui Yuzi dashed to the water threads linking the stones, expecting to plough through, but it bounced him back. “What is this?!”
“Ever heard of the saying, ‘Everything has its vanquisher?’ You have no place running amok in my domain!”
As Ocean Archfiend enlarged his Thousand Inch Ocean Ruler he hurled into the sky, waves in the ocean rose hundreds of metres high to morph into dragons, Thousand Inch Ocean Ruler at their centre.
“Soul Skeleton Summoning!” called Gui Yuzi, resorting to his final ace in hopes of saving his plan.
The skeleton comprised of sharp bones from a variety of fiend beasts emerged from the red mist, revealing its towering one hundred metre-plus stature and polluting the firmament with its ghost qi.
“Ocean Archfiend, your body is mine!”
The soul skeleton launched its fist, blood souls weaving in and out of its bones’ gaps generating black rifts as the giant hammer came down on the island.
Ocean Archfiend produced a blue energy shield over the island to protect it from their next-tier fight.
“My Lord, Undulate!”
Everyone suddenly lost the ability to control where their body went as a result of Ocean Archfiend’s domain ability.
Gui Yuzi’s soul skeleton’s punch turned to picks, pumping Ocean Archfiend’s domain full of them – or so he hoped; the picks didn’t even faze the Apotheosis Realm fiend king’s domain. In contrast, the splashes resulting from the picks driving into the domain would latch onto the skeleton and neutralise its output. Meanwhile, the picks just sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Ocean Archfiend’s waves expanded and rose, consequently tuning the entire area into its terrain, in turn forcing the soul skeleton down when Gui Yuzi attempted to flee. The water columns came crashing down into the ocean as if an earthquake struck, splitting the island floor despite the shield erected.
“It feels as though he just took the entire ocean out and dumped it back in,” commented Mu Yu.
Gui Yuzi survived the ordeal; however, his body was split, and the body he possessed was blown to smithereens, leaving just the damaged skull.
“Don’t you ever dare even think about laying your hands on my kingdom!” brayed Ocean Archfiend.
Ocean Archfiend summoned water tentacles from the ocean and plunged them through the crack in Gui Yuzi’s forehead even though the latter tried to barricade himself behind ghost qi. The water burst out of Gui Yuzi’s facial orifices until the force of the currents blew his skull apart, forcing out the souls he kidnapped from the island.
“Don’t waste my time unless you can rival Xuan Jizi,” remarked the fiend king, returning the water to the ocean as well as the rocks to the island. Ocean Archfiend clapped his hands together, smashing either side of the island with two big waves to force the split island together again.
“Long live Your Majesty!” the fiend souls, fiends and Qiao Xue cheered, while the human souls silently watched on.
“We’re free now,” voiced Mu Mengfei, drifting over to Mu Yu.
“The cost of freedom is death,” cautioned Xiaoshuai.
“Indeed, hahaha,” responded Mu Mengfei.
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