An unknown amount of ti passed.
BOOM!!!
Xian i'er's eyes which had been closed for an undetermined amount of hours or even days opened abruptly as the thunderous sound of an explosion shook the walls of the cave she was resting in.
The first thing the new Queen of the Eastern Sea did was to look around her surroundings, but when she didn't find Xiao Xiao anywhere a bad premonition slowly flooded her heart.
Rumble...!
"Damn it!" She couldn't help but curse as she felt the walls, ceiling, and floor of the cave shake fiercely after being hit by sothing or soone.
'I'm still not even 70% recovered...' A flash of pain and hatred flashed in Xian i'er's eyes as she gritted her teeth and forced herself to get up. A grimace of pain imdiately covered her beautiful face but this did not stop her, 'Have no choice.'
The battle against all the kingdoms that were part of the East Sea in the Chinese hinterland was over. Thanks to the efforts and sacrifices that the East Sea Kingdom made, all these kingdoms were now within Xian i'er's jurisdiction and the royalty of more than five kingdoms got decimated almost to the roots.
There were two reasons why Xian i'er did not dare to order her soldiers to advance and instead ordered everyone to hide and rest in this place.
The first reason was that she was seriously injured. Being the most powerful soul evolver in the allied army and the only one truly capable of facing other Kings, Xian i'er could only stop until her body allowed her to move without inconvenience; at the very least she needed to be able to cast magic without feeling difficulty.
As for the second reason...
'We are now at the edge of the Pacific Ocean; only a couple of kiloters away from getting there.' Xian i'er muttered as she hurriedly dashed towards the exit of the cave. A thin but long trail of dark blue blood with extrely few flashes of gold covered so of the water wherever she passed but she ignored it to continue her advance: 'If I'm not mistaken and according to the information from the last defeated kingdom, the kingdom that must be attacking this ti is the Coral Kingdom... This is going to be a tough fight."
Unlike the kingdoms that Xian i'er had defeated in the past three months, the Coral Kingdom was tens or even hundreds of tis more powerful in comparison. According to what Xian i'er knew about it, the Coral Kingdom was not only not weaker than her East Sea Kingdom but might even be a little stronger than them.
Xian i'er gritted her teeth ignoring the pain as she sped towards the exit, 'I hope the Coral Kingdom doesn't have soul evolvers beyond level 200 and into the Fourth Order. Else I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive past today.'
...
The cave was simply too big. Despite being severely injured, the speed at which Xian i'er cut through the waters and advanced was still trendously fast but she still needed several minutes to reach the exit.
Although the sound of explosions and roars of war beca heavier and louder for every ten ters she advanced, Xian i'er felt as if she was walking into a different world as she exited the cave.
The color of the water had turned almost completely blue over an area of at least two or three kiloters. In addition, broken limbs and incomplete body parts floated everywhere along with tal fragnts of what were once magical weapons.
At a distance of 600 to 700 ters from the cave, two armies were engaged in an extrely cruel war. Although they all belonged to the sa species, they were clearly not part of the sa team; swordfish killed each other in the sa way that sharks used their mutant teeth and claws to tear apart those of the enemy army without any rcy whatsoever.
Moreover, it was evident that the army trying to defend what was behind them was at a total disadvantage as the attacking army did not stop pressing them back even for a second. It was no exaggeration to say that for every sea warrior of the attacking army that died four or five of the defending army t their creator after being overwheld by their numbers.
Xian i'er felt a stab of pain upon seeing this. This pain was not forged from seeing the East Sea army being pushed back and on the brink of destruction but was born due to the war between her own kind and blood. Nevertheless, Xian i'er's heart soon began to undergo a slight but noticeable change as she rembered sothing Bai Zemin said to her a long ti ago.
'For sothing new to be born it is necessary for the old occupying that space to disappear.' It was only then that Xian i'er realized that while death and destruction were cruel, they were also dicine.
The royalty of all the kingdoms had different thoughts and only cared about themselves. None of them cared about the future of the sea race.
Just when Xian i'er felt much more at ease with her actions and her ideals were reaffird, a luminous explosion over 2000 ters away sent gusts of subway waves everywhere sending the sea warriors of both armies roaring in pain.
"That's...!" Xian i'er's pupils contracted as she saw Xiao Xiao's body in her spirit dolphin form being sent flying backward along with two triton warriors who kept coughing up blood before hitting the seabed hard.
Floating in the water thousands of ters deep, a beautiful silver-haired rmaid with a silver crown covered in multicolored jewels held a spear as white as milk as she gazed with indifferent eyes at the three enemies who had just been knocked down by her alone.
"Shui iying!" Xian i'er gritted her teeth as she recognized the enemy rmaid.
She was precisely the First Princess of the Coral Kingdom; soone who had been present during Xian i'er's coronation when she officially beca Queen of the Eastern Sea!
Xian i'er could not believe her eyes... This was because the aura exuding from the body of the Coral Kingdom's First Princess was precisely the aura she least wanted to feel; the aura of soone who had broken into the Fourth Order!
"Eh?" As if sensing a pair of eyes different from the others focusing on her from afar, Shui iying looked slightly higher. Her eyes seed to pierce through the blood-covered water and distance with ease to et Xian i'er's deep blue eyes. A faint smile imdiately peeked from the corner of her mouth, "Well, I thought you weren't coming out."
Xian i'er said nothing. She took a mont to look at Xiao Xiao and the rest of her army, but upon seeing the little pink dolphin's body covered in bloody wounds her expression turned slightly fierce.
Ignoring her wound, as well as the poison that beca more ferocious each ti she forced the mana in her body to flow, Xian i'er tightly gripped her magic sword and dashed forward at the speed of a rocket. She slashed forward at the sa ti as the blade of her sword flashed, and at the sa ti as a large stream of blood spurted out from the wound on her abdon she cried, "Flood Dragon!"
Shui iying calmly watched as the waters in front of her swirled fiercely, and in less than two seconds a huge flood dragon over 1000 ters long rushed towards her.
Just when Shui iying thought that was all the new Eastern Sea Queen had to offer despite having uttered extrely arrogant words three months ago, Xian i'er's voice thundered underwater again.
"Ancient Lightning Armor!"
"Power Booster!"
Shui iying's expression changed slightly as she felt the power of the water beast now wrapped in so sort of golden lightning armor. However, she remained calm as she advanced instead of backing away.
"Royal Sentence!" Shui iying's voice was as beautiful as Xian i'er's but the power behind her stab as she thrust her spear forward was simply overwhelming even compared to the giant flood dragon.
BOOOOOM!!!!
The cave where Xian i'er had been hiding while recovering from her injuries finally could not take it anymore and collapsed completely after being hit by a tidal wave caused by the collision of two trendous attacks. In addition, more than 40.000 sea creatures mainly from the Coral Kingdom were slaughtered without a cetery.
The flood dragon could only withstand the pressure of Shui iying and her attack for a few seconds before letting out a miserable roar just before exploding. Everything within 1500 ters turned into a sea of golden lightning as the armor covering the beast collapsed in the face of such attack power.
Xian i'er felt as if her body had been hit by a giant squid as she was sent flying backward with no control of herself. Her mouth involuntarily opened letting out a large gush of blood at the sa ti as the wound on her abdon worsened again, thus discarding all the rest she had so far.
"Big sister!"
Xiao Xiao's anxious voice was transmitted directly into Xian i'er's mind, and amidst the anxious cries of her two triton bodyguards, as well as the furious roars of her troops, she finally felt as if the bones in her back were about to shatter into pieces after hitting a large rock of over 200 tons.
'Damn it...' Xian i'er could feel the world around her spinning. The exhaustion and pain as well as the tornt of the poison in her body were dragging her deeper and deeper into the darkness but she knew she couldn't afford to faint at this mont.
"If you had been at your best maybe you could have fought a little more. I concede that you are very powerful, and it's a pity that you and I have to be enemies but that's what you want after all." Shui iying's voice spread far and wide, reaching Xian i'er easily, "Yet, enemies are enemies. The winner is the king and the loser is the villain. Regardless of whether you were injured beforehand, I will show no rcy."
Although her vision had blurred to the point where it was difficult to discern what was what, Xian i'er could still see a flash of silver light in the distance growing larger and larger. The feeling of danger hit her harder than ever as the waters seed to turn against her and pressed her harder and harder against the giant rock.
Xiao Xiao's screams and cries were sohow silenced as her consciousness began to fade. Even so, Xian i'er couldn't help but sigh in her heart: 'What a sha... Sorry.'
She might not care too much about her life, but Xian i'er couldn't help but feel like she failed. Not only could her goal not be achieved, but many more of those who had already died would die because of her weakness; including soone who to her was like a little sister rather than a subordinate.
Just a split second before everything around her turned dark, Xian i'er would swear she saw a flash of white light cutting through the waters from a distance. Unfortunately she didn't have the energy to think let alone stay awake any longer.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
"Eh?" Shui iying's eyes widened as she saw her spear, which she had thrown a second before, suddenly blocked by what seed to be a magic arrow.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The arrow was finally shattered into pieces, but the white spear could not advance any further and was instead sent flying backwards into the turbulent waters.
Shui iying stretched out her right hand adorned with all kinds of jewels, taking back her spear without moving from her position. Her eyes, however, looked into the darkness in the distance as she could sense soone approaching.
"Human?" Shui iying muttered to herself. Her beautiful eyes shone with surprise as she saw the handso human male holding a bow, "What is a human doing here?"
Xiao Xiao who felt as if her heart was about to break couldn't help but relax a little at the sight of this person's arrival. Although this person was not her big brother whom she loved so much, Xiao Xiao had seen him several tis in the past and knew that he was a great figure in the Transcendent faction.
Chen He looked at the bloody ss and couldn't help but wince when he saw Xian i'er and Xiao Xiao's condition, 'A hair later and it would have been over for .'
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I'm sorry it took half a month to get back, but it really was hard for . Leaving aside the fact that I was sick for over a week I was also going through a lot of personal stuff that I'm still dealing with. I wish I could have given you advance notice but, unfortunately, like you, I can't see into the future and know when things will be difficult for . Thank you for understanding, thank you for your support, thank you for your kind words, and expect daily chapters from now on.
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