Chapter 1040: 762: Making a Move!
Boom!!
The terrifying city-breaking power rampaged through the cave, instantly causing the underwater pressure to surge, and the surrounding hard rock mountains to collapse inch by inch.
Black and blue water-element thunderbolts intertwined and exploded, each bolt containing incredibly powerful force, annihilating seawater and shattering rocks.
Yimuer deeply understood that the opponent’s combat power far surpassed his own, so he held nothing back and instantly detonated his essence!
“Merfolk God Forbidden Technique—Ten Thousand Waters Subduing Mountains!!”
Brilliant aqua-blue water light shot up from his body, forcibly drawing endless deep sea water, condensing it into layers upon layers of water barriers, standing firm in front of the giant egg.
The water light was vast, Dao Rhyme stirring, forcibly taking on Haisa’s furious attack.
Bam!!
Water thunder exploded, airwaves rolled!
The entire underwater cave collapsed in half with a thunderous sound, the outer endless seawater instantly vanishing, transforming into a vacuum zone!
The surrounding underwater peaks simultaneously shattered and collapsed, debris swept in all directions by the chaotic currents.
Yimuer’s mouth overflowed with crimson blood, his body retreating several hundred meters repeatedly.
He knew very well that in a frontal confrontation, he absolutely couldn’t hold on for long.
The only chance of survival now was to buy time and escort the Prince out!
“Everyone stand firm in the cave!”
Yimuer shouted sternly, simultaneously reaching backward to grab a long-dust-covered spatial scroll and injected his essence blood into it with force!
Tear—!!
A blue spatial rift suddenly tore through the void, forming a stable spatial passage leading directly to the deep-sea blind spot outside.
He turned his head and furiously roared at several of his most loyal core subordinates behind him:
“Take the Prince and leave immediately! Continue the Empire! Go quickly!!”
Several merfolk death warriors, with resolute expressions, leaped towards the giant egg.
But just at this critical moment of life and death!
Whiz—!!
A strange green divine light suddenly pierced through the chaotic sea water, moving at extreme speed, instantly enveloping those few loyal death warriors.
The bodies of the loyal merfolk instantly stiffened, their skin rapidly covered with pale stone patterns, transforming into cold, dead stone statues in an instant, plummeting straight into the chaotic underwater currents!
The sneak attack was ruthless, precise, and completely without warning!
Yimuer’s entire body went rigid, swiftly turning his head to look, his eyes filled with disbelief and overwhelming anger, his voice hoarse and trembling:
“Taro!! It was you!!”
Taro, wearing the neat Imperial City Guard Armor, had a handsome face, yet his eyes were cold and indifferent.
He was the son of the last Imperial City Guard Army Commander, the most core direct lineage of the Empire, and a trusted confidant cultivated by the Imperial Family from a young age!
In the past, when the Emperor was alive, he promoted Taro exceptionally, bestowing him with utmost favor, treating him like his own son.
No one could have imagined that at the moment of the race’s desperation, this most trusted direct line of the Imperial Family would choose to betray!
Facing Yimuer’s questioning, Taro’s face remained calm, without any guilt:
“The Empire is decaying, its collapse is inevitable, and I just want to live, is that wrong?”
Haisa, seeing this, laughed maniacally upward:
“Of course, it’s not wrong!! A wise man adapts to circumstances!”
“Astute!”
…
In the center of the cave, within the blood-colored giant egg.
Chen Sheng quietly overlooked the entire farce, shaking his head subtly:
“In chaotic times, the norm of the world is to uproot completely; where are there so many of Zhao’s Orphans for desperate comebacks.”
If it weren’t for my reincarnation here, this sixth-level bloodline seed, exchanged for with the entire tribe’s efforts, would surely have met a grim fate today!
…
Yimuer, looking at the traitorous clansmen and the arrogant enemy before him, felt a surge of helplessness engulf him.
The next moment.
He felt sorrow and indignation, his eyes filled with hatred. The enemy was hateful, but the traitor even more so!
His eyes turned crimson, with a heart set on dying, locking onto Taro:
“Traitor, you deserve to die!!”
His figure burst forth, aqua-blue blood light soaring, attacking desperately, only seeking to kill this despicable traitor to the tribe!
Taro’s face changed dramatically upon seeing this, terrified by Yimuer’s desperate stance, he turned to Haisa and exclaimed urgently:
“General, save me!!”
But Haisa, standing by the side, remained completely motionless, a mocking and indifferent cold smile on his crocodile face, with no intention of helping.
He was seasoned in battle, cunning, and cherished life.
Now, with the situation already a done deal, the merfolk were at the end of their rope, and he was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.
“A struggle of trapped beasts, nothing more.”
“I’ll let you slaughter each other from the same race while I reap the benefits!”
Taro’s heart surged with endless hatred, and he could only grit his teeth and confront it head-on.
The battle among the same race was extremely brutal.
After several rounds, Taro was severely injured by Yimuer’s desperate fighting style, his scales shattered, his blood qi severely depleted, and he was retreating, on the verge of collapse.
Just at the moment when Taro was about to be defeated and die!
Haisa’s eyes turned cold and he finally moved.
He seized the flaw in Yimuer’s exhaustion and gathered the annihilation power of the entire deep sea to strike out a lethal black blade light that pierced through heaven and earth!
This strike was unbelievably fast, unavoidably domineering!
The shadow of death loomed over his heart instantly.
In the instant of life and death, images of his father’s sacrificial back, the resolve of his clansmen to die, and the Imperial Consort’s final wishes flashed through Yimuer’s mind…
Countless scenes intertwined, leaving only full guilt and unwillingness in his heart.
His eyes dimmed, and his heart muttered guiltily:
“Father… your son is incompetent, unable to protect the clan, unable to safeguard hope… I’m sorry!”
The deadly strike arrived in an instant!
But at that moment——!!
Buzz——!!!
The entire deep sea world suddenly turned white!
Endless dazzling white light instantly filled the world, overshadowing all water light, evil qi, and darkness, swallowing all colors and sounds.
“What, what is this?!”
Haisa’s face twisted with fear, his sneer frozen on his face, as an unprecedented deadly crisis sprouted in his heart.
Taro was even more rigid, his pupils shrinking sharply, unable to move.
Then, the most piercing screams flashed by in the white light.
In a brief moment.
The vast white light slowly receded and dissipated.
Within the cave, Haisa, Taro, and all the pursuing soldiers were all gone.
The place was empty, leaving only piles of fine black ash, drifting with the wind and water, completely annihilated.
Yimuer stood frozen in place, staring blankly at the scene before him, his mind blank, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“Who?! Who stepped in to save us?”
“Could the empire still have powerful survivors?”
Just as he was in doubt and uncertainty, a distant voice echoed, originating from the blood-colored giant egg suspended in the void.
“Yimuer.”
“This place is not safe, retreat immediately.”
Rumble!
The giant egg quivered slightly, the surface blood-colored patterns completely faded, and with a light crack, the eggshell shattered open.
A petite Merfolk figure with translucent skin and cold eyes emerged from the shell, standing in the void gracefully.
He appeared young, without any surging primordial qi fluctuations around him, yet exuding a powerful oppressive aura.
Yimuer’s eyes bulged, his breath abruptly halted, his heart spirit trembled violently, and he exclaimed in a trembling voice:
“Prince?!’”
“Was it the prince who intervened just now??”
He was completely stunned.
This newborn from the egg, yet to even open his eyes to the world, could annihilate Haisa and the strong foes in an instant with a mere thought?!
Sixth Level Bloodline?
That strong??
But Chen Sheng did not explain; with a casual wave, a barely detectable thread of primordial qi invoked the heaven and earth laws.
Buzz——!!
An extremely sturdy spatial channel instantly formed.
It was countless times more stable than the cracks Yimuer had previously opened.
“Leave.”
Chen Sheng uttered a word softly.
Yimuer, worthy of being the empire’s elite, came to his senses in an instant, suppressing his shock, and solemnly ordered the remaining clan members.
The remaining Merfolk clan members raised their heads one by one, looking at that petite figure, their eyes filled with fiery and passionate light.
They saw the dawn of the empire’s revival!!
Then, everyone orderly stepped into the spatial channel, completely retreating from the deep sea.