Chapter 1 The Clash

Dozens of seconds before, the reversing radiance of the elemental array illuminated the dark night between heaven and earth for an instant, striking a god from the sky.

Seconds later, a cyan-purple streamer, far weaker than the previous beam of light that pierced the sky and earth, leaped up from the lingering waves of that radiance. With an indomitable momentum, it crashed into the giant whale that had already fallen into the water, triggering a massive explosion and rumble.

"——Woo!!!"

Before it could react from the barrage brought by the elemental array, the giant Water God suffered another heavy blow.

Amidst the churning waves, blue divine blood gushed out wildly, scattering like a volcanic eruption. At the point of impact, the blood, ejected by the immense pressure, surged through the torrential rain, rising from its body surface to form a visible cloud of blood, causing all the citizens of Nesser City who were still watching this scene to widen their eyes in stunned silence.

The Water God's followers, who had destroyed Mikelson Fort, had arrived, creating a rainstorm and flood that covered this land. Although Lord Su's actions seemed to have delayed the invasion of the disaster, the appearance of the giant divine whale instantly reversed the improving situation, even making it more critical. The aftermath of the enormous waves it stirred up almost destroyed Nesser City.

But, in the short span of dozens of seconds before they could even despair, the seemingly heaven-defying divine whale was struck hard by the light beam from the elemental array, wailing as it fell into the lake.

And now, because of Su Zhou's attack, a massive burst of blood erupted.

The whale song, filled with pain and anger, still echoed through the sky, proving that it was not dead and still had power, but everyone could hear that it was much weaker than at the beginning.

"Is this the essence of the apocalypse?"

On the city wall, a city guard, slumped against the battlements, watched the divine whale churning in the distance and murmured, "Monsters from the labyrinth rushing out of the surface, destroying our world?"

He was treating the Water God as a monster from the labyrinth… but this subtle way of putting it could not be said to be wrong.

Because for the current world, the Water God was indeed a monster from the labyrinth, from the previous era.

At this moment.

Su Zhou, who had transformed into a rocket and crashed into the Water God at full speed, felt like he had hit a huge rock.

The body of a god, countless times harder than the ground, made him feel like his body was about to fall apart upon impact. Like a bullet hitting a human body, Su Zhou was destroying the Water God's physical structure, while his own body was also injured and deformed by the high-speed impact.

However, before transforming into a rocket and launching the attack, Su Zhou had taken a mouthful of thick No. 1 Holy Water and light cyan jade marrow. The powerful healing and spiritual power replenishment prevented him from fainting from the immense pain caused by the impact. Instead, he could brace himself and begin to act without delay.

*Whoosh!*

Visible through the solid light-blue flesh, Su Zhou tensed all his muscles, gathering strength. He did not hesitate. After a short accumulation of power, he began to dig forward into the depths of the Water God's body, using the divine sword and the Storm Armor (lan jia) as cutting tools, as if swimming.

The Water God's flesh was as hard as ten-thousand-year-old ice. Every piece of flesh seemed to be shimmering with the light of runes. It was smooth and resilient, far stronger than metal. But Su Zhou, using the divine sword as a tool, supplemented by the Storm Armor, could unleash a destructive power greater than the sum of its parts.

With a slash of the sword, Su Zhou used all his strength to cut open the divine body blocking his path, while the rapidly rotating gale winds around the blade tore apart and carried away chunks of flesh like a chainsaw.

Long ago, Su Zhou had used the Storm Armor's powerful cutting and destructive power to attack the Demon Emperor who attempted to fight him in close combat. Now, Su Zhou pushed the Storm Armor's characteristics to the extreme, turning it into a terrifying close-quarters meat grinder.

The divine sword, entwined with cyan-purple gales, possessed indestructible power, and the Storm Armor, transformed into illusory sawteeth, cut through the Water God's flesh, causing bursts of blood mist within its body.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

Amidst the sound of flesh being torn apart, Su Zhou, like a woodworm in a tree, chewed out a long tunnel in the body of the Water God, who had been severely injured in quick succession and had no time to react.

At this time, Su Zhou could feel that the flesh of this island-sized whale contained incredibly powerful spiritual energy.

-- Legend has it that bathing in dragon blood can make the bather's body invulnerable to swords and spears, and even grant long life.

This is not a lie, but a definite fact. The blood of powerful spirit beasts contains extremely vast spiritual energy. Bathing in it is essentially allowing the body to undergo an extremely high-standard magic potion immersion and secret method tempering, which naturally grants additional power.

The Water God is essentially a divine whale, more powerful than ordinary dragons, and at this time, Su Zhou was not just bathing in divine blood? He was soaked in the Water God's flesh! Feeling the icy spiritual energy contained in the surrounding light blue blood, Su Zhou felt the pure water-type spiritual energy and the chill that could freeze ordinary humans to death, spreading and permeating from the surface of his skin, then directly entering his flesh and marrow.

Not wasting this power, Su Zhou continued to silently wield the Blade of Annihilation, while continuing to dig through the flesh and blood, he also used the power of the divine sword to kill the soul of this part of the Water God's flesh. While circulating his cultivation technique, he absorbed the spiritual energy contained in the Water God's flesh.

Visible, the gray-white dragon scales on Su Zhou's body that were in contact with the divine blood were becoming more resilient and solid under the reinforcement of the constantly surging spiritual energy, and even their essence was faintly undergoing a trace of transformation.

"Still too slow!"

However, no matter how frantically Su Zhou destroyed, he could only act in the muscle layer of the giant whale. In a short time, he could not harm the opponent's internal organs, let alone take the opportunity to take the Water God's life -- and if the Water God later recovered from the severe injuries and realized that the pain in its body was not only caused by the elemental array, then he would soon be driven out of its flesh by the opponent's counterattack!

Before being expelled from the body, he must create even greater destruction!

Thus, Su Zhou opened his mouth without hesitation, revealing his snow-white teeth, and then tore at the surrounding flesh of the Water God!

*Gak*, the sound of teeth colliding with flesh was extremely harsh, like gnawing on metal. Su Zhou chewed and swallowed the flesh and blood of the god, and then refined essence into qi -- the Imperial Five Extremes Divine Thunder True Method circulated, and the majestic spiritual energy burst forth from the Thunderous Marsh Heart, turning into dancing electric arcs, which converged with the Storm Seed gale in his mouth.

*Boom!*

A blazing cyan thunder light swept across, and the violent thunder breath was spat out by Su Zhou, instantly turning a large area of flesh and blood in front of him into charred ashes, and opening a path to the depths of the giant whale's body!

"——Woo!!!"

And the Water God, feeling the severe pain coming from within its body once again, could not help but let out another painful cry. It woke up from the daze and dizziness of receiving heavy blows in succession, and then felt a crisis called death!

At the same time, Su Zhou had arrived at the depths of the Water God's body.

Here was a vast cavity of flesh and blood, eighty meters in length and width, with huge spiritual power flowing within it like a materialized substance, making a roaring sound like a tide.

The Water God's light-blue divine blood was being transmitted through countless pipelines to every part of its body, allowing this behemoth to penetrate its vast energy throughout its body, thereby launching agile movements and attacks.

At the center of this fleshy cavity was a huge, deep-blue vortex of blood. Su Zhou could see at a glance that this was the giant whale's spiritualized heart!

This strangely shaped vortex heart was the core energy source of the Water God. It contained incredibly vast energy, with a continuous stream of spiritual power erupting from its depths, but constrained by the rotating spiritual blood.

Visible, the vortex's light was deep, and the radiance shining at its core was as dazzling as the sun. Su Zhou even felt a trace of 'radiation' from this deep blue blood vortex!

"Nuclear reaction?! At its peak, could this beast have used nuclear reactions to obtain energy?"

Thinking about it carefully, it was not surprising. After all, there were too many nuclear raw materials in the sea water, and the Water God at its peak had the power of a overlord tier. Its heart organ, as the behemoth's power source, was a natural spiritual energy nuclear reactor, which was a very normal thing.

Of course, all of this observation and thought was just a momentary thing in Su Zhou's mind.

At this time, his expression did not even reveal a hint of surprise. The moment he arrived in this cavity, Su Zhou decisively raised the divine sword in his hand, and the golden-red firelight mixed with the purple-cyan spiritual power, with the Blade of Annihilation as the core, condensed into a ten-meter-long semi-transparent light flame blade.

"I see it!"

The wisdom fruit (zhihui guo) brought mental enhancement, making Su Zhou's mind clear and enlightened. The moment he saw the divine whale's heart in front of him, the size, shape, structure, energy circulation method, and the essence of its source appeared in his brain -- he had already seen through all the weaknesses of the Water God's heart at the moment before he swung the knife!

Therefore, he slashed out with the sword!

*Boom!* Su Zhou's right hand, which wielded the sword, even stirred up surging blood flow in the cavity, and the spirit flame blade condensed on the Blade of Annihilation flew out directly, separating from the sword body -- this strike formed an energy slash, even pulling out a semicircular arc of light, flying towards the heart with an incomparably sharp aura and destructive force.

"Woo!!!"

But, after all, this was inside the giant whale's body. The Water God could not do nothing.

The huge energy stress response caused the god, feeling the threat of death, to erupt with unprecedentedly powerful energy.

At the moment when Su Zhou's arc blade condensed, vast spiritual power, like a tide, gushed out from the giant whale's core.

This terrifying energy directly offset Su Zhou's attack in an instant. Then, like a whale spraying water, the Water God's violent magic power, mixed with blood, turned into a huge driving force, and a power that could not be resisted directly sprayed Su Zhou and the broken, difficult-to-heal pieces of flesh within his body.

For a time, another towering light blue cloud of blood emerged between heaven and earth, making the surrounding spiritual energy more and more intense.

And Su Zhou, who was sprayed out of the body by the opponent, rolled several times in the air, and then stood in the air with the power of the Storm Armor. The blood-covered youth did not feel lost because of his failed raid. He still looked down at the giant whale, which was still churning in the sea and roaring, expressionlessly.

Soon, the Water God raised its head and looked at the human who had been scurrying around in its body before, even almost shattering its magic core.

Even if it was severely injured, the divine whale still had the power to change the weather and freeze the sea, and this power raged and overflowed around it, making the torrential rain in this world more and more intense.

*Boom!* Amidst the raging wind and flashing thunder, Su Zhou, standing in the sky, and the god floating in the water faced each other. At this time, the positions of the two sides had been reversed compared to the beginning.

"Woo!!!"

The Water God's pupils were round, and huge waves surged inside its deep-blue eyes, and the emotion contained in them was pure anger and surprise.

-- The human in front of him was not even near god (jin shen), but his power was so great that it could pose a threat to its life!

"It's a pity, I failed to succeed by trickery."

Su Zhou's pupils were vertical, and cyan-purple light flowed in his long, straight pupils. The scales on his body were also all erected, soaked with a faint blue light -- the muscles all over the young man's body were wriggling and active, accumulating strength, and the increasingly hot and vigorous spiritual light even distorted and agitated the surrounding air. Streams of cyan-blue electricity surrounded his body and ejected and diffused, making a crackling explosion.

However, it was the Water God who launched the attack first.

*Boom!* The huge whale god swung its body in the Three Lakes water that had completely submerged the earth, and the island-like body arched and swept countless water waves. It flapped its big tail, turning the water waves into tsunami water vapor, and the soaring water vapor was even lifted to a height of several thousand meters. Then, it was condensed by the power of the Water God into incomparably sharp water blades, surpassing the speed of sound, and bombarded towards Su Zhou like a blanket!

This rain of water blades, as dense and surging as a school of sardines, completely enveloped Su Zhou and all areas within a few thousand meters around him, making it impossible for him to dodge -- the air was torn apart by these supersonic blades, tearing out large areas of vacuum cracks.

But Su Zhou had no intention of dodging at all -- he spread his arms, the Storm Armor operated around him, and the suddenly surging semi-transparent wind armor directly blocked all the falling rain of blades, bouncing them away -- the swirling wind shield even crushed these ice blades, which were stronger and sharper than steel, turning them into a sky full of ice dust.

While resisting this rain of knives, as a counterattack, Su Zhou, located in the high sky, took a deep breath. The air was cold. He coldly overlooked the giant whale below that seemed to be testing him, and then raised the dragon horn spear in his hand high. Wind and thunder light entwined on this spear, and then, he threw it violently towards the giant whale!

*Boom!* The storm scattered, the thunder roared, and the spear thrown by Su Zhou disappeared in an instant, surpassing the speed of sound, and pulled out a long vacuum corridor in the rain. A visible shock wave spread in all directions. Finally, it bombarded the giant whale's body, blasting out a dozen-meter-long wound.

However, for a giant whale more than a thousand meters long, this little injury on the surface of its body was not painful at all.

The probing of both sides ended. Su Zhou solemnly controlled the gale and the charge on the dragon horn spear, and retracted it into his hand. The Water God also raised its head and roared.

The sky was filled with loud cries, and amidst the roaring thunder, the entire dim world filled with rain would tremble and fear in the face of the anger of a god, but the human who fought with it was fearless.

Around the small shelter called Nesser City, since the advent of the apocalypse and the extinction of the magic tide, the most peak battle in the world of Taltadis has begun.