The leader was a merman, the Merman King, the true king!

[Followed by another true king, a water giant!]

[The Water Giant is similar to the Water Spirit race, but much larger, and the water that composes it is not as pure.]

The Water Giant stands over 4,700 feet tall, comparable to a medium-sized Battle Body; as for its strength… it naturally far surpasses that of a Battle Body!

The Merfolk King stood atop the Water Giant's head, clearly establishing their master-servant relationship, while the Water Giant strode forward.

The vibrations of water around it are the sound of surging ocean tides.

[Simply by running and traveling, lakes can be created with each step taken.]

You have been locked down.

To be precise, you have two other great kings.

Two major sea kings are approaching.

"Dig it out and kill it." You pat Jiang Yi and point to a spot.

Jiang Yi rushed forward, digging through tens of thousands of miles of earth and mudstone. A fourth-realm sea crab was terrified; it couldn't understand why it had been discovered despite hiding so deeply.

[It burrowed underground back in the time of the Demon King, using a magical conch shell it carried to warn the sea creatures to act at the opportune moment. Since then, for safety's sake, it has remained completely silent and shouldn't have been discovered by the humans.]

The sea crabs were mashed into crab paste.

[You look away, and fifty seconds later, the same crab bursts out of the ground, rushing towards the two sea kings to boast of its success while mocking its own foolishness as humans who hadn't discovered it.]

"Now that I've found you, why aren't you making any noise?" you ask, staring at a puddle of crab mud on the ground.

"But in the end, it was just a venting of anger, the middle finger raised against gravity by the one who fell off the cliff, the last spit of blood from the enemy by the one who was killed in one blow."

Falling from heaven to hell takes only a moment, a single thought from the sea creatures.

[You originally planned to give the human race two years to recuperate, so you could first boost one of your human kings to 200% essence, and then launch an expedition, using the 60-second return to true form to sweep away the sea race, who might be hiding their power, without any cost.]

If all else fails, seven more days would be nice... but they came too fast!

[The next few minutes.]

The human supreme beings dispersed at the command of the two human kings.

[They are but ants before a True King. How can a human race that doesn't even possess the power of a Celestial Sovereign possibly contend with a True King who has transcended a great realm!?]

Rather than risk your life, it's better to retreat for the sake of the future.

You are also one of the fugitives; you must escape at all costs.

[Xu Shuanghua only managed to stop the Water Giant for a moment before her fortune collapsed, her cultivation level crumbled, and she was slammed to the ground with a single punch. The Human King fell, and all living beings within a billion miles felt a void in their hearts at that moment.]

[She couldn't self-destruct as she did in the fictional future when she was dying... because that wasn't her power; in real time and space, it would severely damage the fate of humanity!]

[She only managed to prolong the life of the water giant by a few minutes until her death.]

Jiang Yi was trying to stop the Merman True King, but the opponent was too strong, even surpassing the previous Black Dragon True King.

[His strength was greatly depleted in the previous battle. Even if his luck allows him to hold on for a little longer, his strength is insufficient!]

[It's like diving and fighting a shark; you have enough oxygen, but your strength and stamina are insufficient.]

The battlefield between Jiang Yi and the Merman King has been constantly shifting according to the other's lead, relentlessly pursuing you as you flee.

[While fighting and retreating, dealing with Jiang Yi, the Merman King continued to draw ever closer to you.]

The distance between you has shrunk to 100,000 miles!

[The Merfolk King has begun to frequently attack you. Whether you are a human True King or a supreme prodigy, he will not allow you to survive!]

[You dodge with the utmost precision, you see into the future, but faced with a numerical advantage that is a thousand or even ten thousand times greater, you are still doomed after fifty-seven seconds.]

[Starting now, your end will be in fifty-seven seconds.]

[Actually, by the 34-second mark, you could no longer dodge the Merman King's claw attack.]

But suddenly a figure appeared, forcefully pulling you away from the attack!

It's... the Thorn Demon King!

Not only did it not attack you, it even helped you escape your life-or-death situation!

"Old Demon King, go for the big score!"

[Even earlier, sixty seconds ago, when you saw it make its move, you probably mentally gave it countless points!]

[The Demon...Soldier Clan deserves a group that can break free of their shackles!]

But now that it has saved you, all you feel is helplessness.

[Because at the forty-second mark, after the Thorn Demon King forcibly blocked another attack for you, he was struck by that attack and sent flying backward, coughing up blood. He was blasted hundreds of thousands of miles away, and more than a third of his body was broken off!]

The Demon King made his move, and the Demon King was sent flying.

"...No wonder he's the weakest True King in the entire Azure Domain."

"As expected, its strongest ability is stealth, but its numerical value is ridiculously low!"

[At the forty-ninth second, you tried your best to dodge, but you were still blasted to pieces by the Merman King's tracking elemental power, your body destroyed.]

You vaguely sense that your head has also shattered, leaving only the soul that has been sublimated within your brain.

However, without the support of a physical body, and without prior protection and containment through various means, it's only a matter of time before your soul is reduced to ashes.

It's only a matter of seconds!

You can't even unleash a desperate roar like the Barbarian King!

Everything is melting away, everything is fading away.

"I'm probably really going to die."

You want to laugh; memories from nearly three hundred years ago float and flow through your mind.

"Does even the Supreme Being have a revolving lantern display?"

You think of the humans who fight for you, you think of the demons who launch a full-scale attack, you think of the sea creatures who cower in the back and reap the benefits.

[Actually, when the Merman King finally strikes you, you have one more chance for a fundamental punishment, which you can use to reduce its maximum value by one percent.]

"But if I did that, they'd probably kill me with their anger. That 1% is equivalent to 40% for everyone else, and I don't even know when I'll be able to make up for it."

You let go: "It doesn't matter anymore..."

But before utter destruction, you let out one last low growl—

"My return in the next life..."

"We must make this entire Azure Domain tremble."

Yun Shou continued slowly.

You are dead.

[Died at the hands of the True King, body shattered, soul scattered!]

Please select the following reward inheritance options.

1. Detailed memories of 278 years.

2. Cultivation level and related memories of cultivation.

3. Increased the essence by 278%.

Yun Shou: "..."

...

(I'd completely forgotten what the rewards screen looked like; I had to scroll back a hundred chapters to find it. There's another chapter tonight? (ˉ?ˉ?))