Chapter 616: Tang San's Righteousness

A battle between beings beyond the level of God King—the Douluo Plane could never withstand it. Even if it happened in outer space beyond the Douluo Plane, the continent would still suffer from the aftershocks.

Xia Yi had no choice but to bring the battlefield into the God Ring Realm.

"Kill!"

Behind Xia Yi, golden thunder and the two broken halves of the Sea God Trident surged with killing intent.

"Xia Yi, although you now possess power beyond a God King, you've lost your memories from your previous life and can't use your former divine techniques. You're definitely going to die," Zeus said coldly, murder radiating from him.

Whoosh!

He struck instantly, reaching out a giant hand through a spatial rift. Between his fingers, golden thunder surged like a vast ocean.

Holding thunder like a divine hand from the heavens, he flipped his palm to seize Xia Yi, intending to suppress and refine him alive.

The terrifying power made the God Ring Realm tremble violently, as if it would shatter.

Xia Yi frowned—bringing the battlefield here was indeed the right choice.

He tossed the injured Xia Hong, who had been hurt while trapping Poseidon and Zeus, to Ya Li, then decisively turned around. His fingers turned into blades, and he struck hard, splitting the thunder apart. The thunder ocean in Zeus's giant hand exploded into dust, and even the thunder energy was torn in half.

"If you want to kill me, show some real skill." Xia Yi sneered, glanced around the God Ring Realm, and turned into a streak of light, instantly appearing in outer space beyond the realm.

Even a divine star couldn't endure a battle between beings above the God King level.

Not to mention that Gu Yue, Leng Yaozhu, and the others were still inside the realm, and Xia Yi couldn't let the other deities inside suffer collateral damage either.

As long as the battle took place in space outside the God Ring Realm, the divine star's level would prevent the aftershocks from affecting it.

Seeing Xia Yi leave the God Ring Realm, Zeus and Poseidon, who had just emerged from the spatial passage, tensed. They glanced at Gu Yue—who was on the verge of breaking through beyond God King—then immediately abandoned Tang San and Chang Gongwei's bodies and rushed after Xia Yi.

Poseidon and Zeus knew Xia Yi was the priority. Now that he hadn't recovered his memories, this was their best chance. If he did regain them, killing him would become nearly impossible.

But they couldn't ignore Gu Yue either. If she broke through and joined Xia Yi, they'd be in serious trouble.

So they chose immediately to leave Tang San and Chang Gongwei behind to stop Gu Yue.

Having left their hosts' bodies, they were now only two wills, carrying golden thunder and the Sea God Trident into the cosmos in pursuit of Xia Yi.

"Kill!"

Poseidon's will condensed into a translucent humanoid figure as he roared, hair flying, each strand gleaming. His eyes were as deep as the ocean. Holding the broken halves of the Sea God Trident high, he attacked.

As one of the three Olympian giants, Poseidon's full-force attack turned the entire starry sky into a vast blue sea, like a stellar ocean.

The sun, moon, and stars all floated and sank within it as it struck toward Xia Yi.

"So this is what it means to be above a God King—run!" Death God A'Dai, who had been hiding nearby to sneak an advantage, almost cursed aloud.

Even after fleeing into deep space, he was still getting caught up in the aftermath.

He didn't have time to think—he grabbed Xuan Yue and fled even farther away.

"Hmph!" Xia Yi snorted. Behind him, eight fox tails appeared. He plucked a strand of hair, and it rapidly transformed into a long staff.

"Stabilizing Sea Staff!" he shouted. The staff burst into dazzling golden light, like a pillar piercing through the universe, smashing downward.

It split the starry sea created by Poseidon in two.

Though he hadn't recovered his past life's memories, Xia Yi had learned the Stabilizing Sea Staff technique from the Demon Emperor and Lan Fozu.

It was perfect for fighting Poseidon.

"Hmph! My Sea God Trident may be broken, but it still exists. You don't have the actual Stabilizing Sea Needle. Just having the technique won't be enough to stop me." Poseidon sneered. He swung the two halves of the trident, and the starry ocean that had been split reformed, condensing into a giant Sea God avatar.

That colossal divine figure was unparalleled—surrounded by stars, standing in the cosmos, as if holding up the heavens.

Xia Yi roared and soared into the air, revealing his own massive avatar—his soul skill True Martial Spirit Form. Instead of a fox form, his body enlarged dramatically, as he had used before in the Elven Race's Blood Mist against the Tyrannosaurus.

Now, having absorbed some power from the Nine-Turn Golden Pill within him and broken through to a level above the God King, this power was even more monstrous.

His gigantic body towered to the heavens, breaking free from space's limitations, clashing with Poseidon's avatar like two war gods from ancient times—a breathtaking sight.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Golden thunder filled the starry sky, engulfing Xia Yi's enormous avatar.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Xia Yi formed fist seals with both hands, punching forward. Each blow rang out with deep, suppressed booms. With each punch, a phantom of a black cauldron appeared beside him—nine in total, ancient and majestic, eternal and immovable.

No matter how the golden thunder raged, it couldn't break through the defense of the nine cauldrons.

"The phantom of the Nine Provinces Cauldron! You've regained your memories." Poseidon and Zeus's faces darkened.

"Guess again," Xia Yi sneered, forming more fist seals. The cauldron phantoms trembled and suppressed forward with unmatched power.

"Hmph! So what if you've remembered? They're still only phantoms. We have actual divine weapons." Zeus struck with thunder again, golden lightning illuminating the universe like a dawn sun.

Poseidon rejoined the broken halves of the trident with great power, temporarily reforging them to slash at Xia Yi.

"Pfft!"

Xia Yi's shoulder burst with blood, pierced through by a hidden thunderbolt from Zeus. It had been concealed among billions of strands of lightning, aimed at his heart but instead pierced his shoulder—a nearly fatal blow.

Swish!

A sword light slashed across. Poseidon stumbled back, his Sea God Trident breaking once more, and even his body was cut in half at the neck, his skull severed.

Xia Yi now held a golden divine sword, just used to unleash that overwhelming sword qi and behead Poseidon!

The Stabilizing Sea Staff came from Lan Fozu and the Demon Emperor, but this sword strike came from Leng Yaozhu, drawn from the "Dao of Immortals" section of the Huangdi Neijing, which she had mastered most deeply.

Poseidon was only a will now. He immediately reattached his skull, using divine power to quickly recover.

"You must die!" Poseidon roared again. Though only a will, he had suffered greatly at Xia Yi's hands.

"Kill!" Zeus's golden lightning grew brighter. He could sense that Xia Yi was awakening. If they didn't finish this quickly, they would fail.

Losing two wills wasn't a big deal—but if they failed to kill Xia Yi now, they wouldn't get another chance.

"You still dream of killing me?" Xia Yi roared. One hand formed fist seals to control the Nine Cauldrons, while the other switched to the Stabilizing Sea Staff. One versus two, he fought more fiercely the longer it went on.

As the three beings beyond the God King level battled in the cosmos, the God Ring Realm was far from peaceful.

After Poseidon and Zeus left Chang Gongwei and Tang San's bodies, Lan Fozu and the Demon Emperor didn't hesitate.

"Tang San, prepare to die! Stabilizing Sea Staff!" Driven by vengeance, the mother-daughter pair swung their staffs simultaneously.

"Asura Blood Sword!" Tang San, overwhelmed by the staff's suppressive force on his Sea God power, could only summon his Asura Sword to meet them.

Boom! Boom!

Tang San was blown away by the two strikes, vomiting blood continuously, bones breaking all over his body.

Although he had gained much from Poseidon, his strength couldn't match two top-tier God Kings.

"Damn it, how are they so terrifying…" Tang San gasped, but as soon as he did, two more staff strikes descended.

"Sea God!" Just as Tang San was about to be killed, four figures rushed to his aid—the God of Goodness Lie Yan, the God of Evil Ji Dong, Rong Nianbing, and the God of Destruction Zhou Weiqing—all risking everything to defend him, unleashing various divine skills.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Even combined, they were still blasted away by the two attackers.

"Asura Blood Sword!" Tang San erupted again, slashing twice with his sword.

"Sea God, you—" Everyone assumed he was attacking Lan Fozu and the Demon Emperor, but the two sword strikes pierced right through the God of Goodness and God of Evil.

The two turned in disbelief toward Tang San.

They had forgiven his past actions as being the result of possession.

That's why they risked their lives to save him.

But the possessing will had already left his body—

Why was Tang San still…

"You died for these two divine beasts. I'll avenge you." Tang San's expression twisted in grief. He plunged both hands into the brains of the Good and Evil Gods, instantly pulling out a black and a white crystal, like gems.

"Sea God, what are you doing?!" Rong Nianbing and Zhou Weiqing finally reacted, utterly shocked.

"Divine beasts are rebelling. For the future of the Divine Realm, their sacrifice is necessary. The gods of the realm will remember their names." Tang San, face solemn with righteousness, did not hesitate. He fused the two crystals into his body, then took out a green and a purple one, and absorbed them too.

In an instant, a terrifying aura surged from Tang San's body.