Chapter 113 Sea of Meditation

The surface of the Sea of Meditation.

The once tranquil sea suddenly began to spin, churning up enormous whirlpools.

There were seven whirlpools in total. Six of them were roughly the same size, but even the smallest had a diameter exceeding ten thousand meters. The super-giant whirlpool at the center of the Sea of Meditation was capable of swallowing an entire island, its central vortex causing the water to tilt at an almost ninety-degree angle.

Upon noticing this, the pirate fleet cried out in alarm. Everyone activated their engines and manipulated the water currents to scatter and escape, avoiding being dragged into the sea by the whirlpools.

The instant the whirlpools formed, countless blue-green mists rose from the ocean due to the sudden change in the heavens. Within minutes, the entire Sea of Meditation was covered in dark clouds, with gales and mists raging amidst flashes of lightning.

Then, the six smaller whirlpools gradually converged into the larger one at the center amidst the storm.

Immediately, circular, invisible shockwaves spread in all directions from the deep sea. A pillar of deep-blue light erupted from the deepest depths of the seabed, piercing the sky, penetrating the clouds, and creating a circular vacuum area.

Dark clouds and lightning flickered as a sacred aura spread. The pillar of light stood tall and straight in the sky.

"It's a success!"

"The captain and the others succeeded!"

Having reached a safe zone, the pirates were filled with excitement, elation, and a hint of fear deep in their hearts.

They knew that all this was proof of the plan's success—their captain had made contact with the Soul of Origin Water and was undergoing his final apotheosis! In the future, they would no longer be pirates drifting in the sea, but 'Holy Servants of the Sea' traversing the Seven Seas, proudly proclaiming themselves knights and priests!

For pirates who had been drifting at sea, repeating the cycle of slaughter and plunder, this was truly something to celebrate!

However, given their captain's personality, what would happen if he became a god...

"Heavenly phenomena…very good."

Far away, on an invisible small ship, the Ant-Man Lich watched everything.

At the bow, Ansonte's soul fire, flickering with excitement, gradually calmed down. He lowered his hand, which had been maintaining an observation spell, and laughed heartily, "Very smooth!"

"Six Overlords, six experimental materials. This time, the god ascension mission will be completed, granting me two A-level development permissions. It's a pity Yalber died, but it's not a big problem."

The Lich held a book in his hand, his magical device. Ansonte opened the magic book and rapidly recorded a large amount of firsthand god ascension data being transmitted. He was incredibly excited, "This proves my thinking is correct—breaking through the Overlord realm this way is entirely feasible. With these six water gods as reference, my path to becoming an Overlord will be even more perfect!"

"Hmm, myth template embedding can also be used as a standard configuration for my summoned creatures in the future. Even if they can't reach the strength of these Sea Kings and Sea Emperors, they'll still be good combatants!"

As a social recluse, Ansonte could only rely on summons to compete with other exploration teams. Now, the myth template embedding technique had proven its reliability through practice. Although it required divine objects and naturally excellent hosts as a foundation, the fact that even Overlords could be created was enough to prove that this was a path to the heavens!

Ansonte, who had been secretly supporting the Kings of the Seven Seas, providing them with rituals, plans, and crucial materials, was naturally not a charity case. He didn't want to become a water god, but his ambitions were greater.

As a former Grand Elemental Magister, Ansonte's elemental circulation inevitably became tainted with undead energy after he was blasted into a Lich by the sacred tree, Buyi. While this didn't affect his strength, it affected his future development.

To avoid being unable to reach the peak of immortality in the future, the Ant-Man Lich decided to use the 'Soul of the Elements' from his hometown to undergo elemental spirit transformation, eliminating the side effects of becoming a Lich.

However, a pure water soul wasn't all the elements, nor was it the path he sought.

Ansonte's ultimate goal was to seize the foundation of the current era, the 'Heart of the Four Elements', when the water gods shattered the elemental cycle and reopened the Deep Sea Era reincarnation at the end of this era!

At that time, as an Overlord who had advanced using the Heart of the Four Elements and the 'Dao of Law', his strength could undergo a leap, suppressing all the gods and other existences in his mother world!

Only in this way could he obtain exclusive permissions for his mother world, the world of Tartartadis!

At this moment, the heavenly phenomena began to intensify.

Boom! The Sea of Meditation, which had been undisturbed for hundreds of years, was stirred by the deep-blue pillar of light, creating monstrous waves—tens of meters high. The surging waves crashed against each other, shattering and scattering into a sky full of water droplets. The torrential gale, accompanied by thunder and rain, spread towards other regions of the ocean.

A single hair can move the whole body among the Seven Seas.

Immediately, the Sea of Troubles and the Sea of Bewilderment, closest to the Sea of Meditation, also began to experience abnormal weather—whether it was polar blizzards or giant waves swallowing islands, that was merely the basics. What was truly terrifying was how the interference of endless water elements disrupted the balance, making it impossible to use any magic other than water.

This series of chain reactions was the prototype of the Overlord-level elemental grand formation, 'Imbalance Apocalypse', which Ansonte had been secretly designing.

By inducing the energy cycle of a world to become unbalanced through various means, leading to its self-destruction... Ansonte also successfully collected data for this world-destroying trump card during this plan.

In this way, he wouldn't fear any large forces when he went to other worlds in the future. As long as he set up this formation, he would have the confidence to negotiate, even if he faced an entire civilization!

Thinking of this, the Ant-Man Lich's smile became even more unrestrained, "Lord of Fire, Lord of Wind, Lord of Judgment, and these newborn water gods… I really have to thank you for providing me with experimental materials!"

"A great harvest, a great harvest!"

——To advance is to explore. To explore is to turn the unknown into the known.

But most explorers will not consider, nor will they care about, the destruction of the world, or the harm to ordinary people...

After all, so what?

What does it have to do with me?

This is the explorer under the vanguard.

As long as they can move forward, they will never care about what is behind them or beneath their feet.

However, in this multiverse, there are always people who care.

At this time, the eastern coast of the Holy Flame Continent.

Twilight City.

This once-prosperous Far Eastern seaport city had fallen into a state of severe food shortage.

The abnormal weather around 307 years ago had caused all the cities in the central region of the eastern coast to lose their original sources of self-cultivated grain. However, this in itself didn't have much impact, because Twilight City could import grain through fishing and trade. It would just be more expensive, but it wouldn't affect their lives.

But recently, the increasingly turbulent waves had made it more and more difficult for fishing boats to go out to sea, and the storms that seemed ready to fall at any moment had made some merchant ships afraid to set sail casually.

As a result, having lost fishing as their biggest source of food, and having also lost merchant ship trade, coupled with the recent severe drought that had caused crop failures throughout the Holy Flame Continent, Twilight City had lost all its sources of food for a time.

In less than three days, the small amount of stored grain and dried fish was already running out, and the speed of land transportation was too slow. The vast city of Twilight was about to fall into the most terrible state of food shortage.

To solve this problem, even the former chief priest of Twilight City, Glo, who had been arrested for colluding with pirates, was released. This old priest, for the sake of the city he and his teacher had worked hard for for decades, and to atone for his sins, went out to sea with all his might, relying on his superhuman abilities to fish without fear of the waves.

Amidst the churning waves, a fishing boat was sailing in the dim rainstorm, its lights flickering. The white-haired priest was worried, but his eyes were sharp, listening to the faint vibrations coming from the ocean.

He was listening to the voice of the whales—the voice of the sea demon whales.

The sea demon whale is the most powerful and common large extraordinary creature in the Seven Seas. It is generally more than thirty meters long, and its pure strength is unmatched even by some of the Chosen Ones. The Sea Demon Whale King has terrifying brute force that only the God-Blessed and Sea Emperors can suppress.

The sea demon whale likes to appear in the wind and waves, drawing on the strong wind and water elements in the world. Its voice is like the call of a demon to fishermen, a harbinger of death, hence the name Sea Demon.

However, although extremely dangerous, if they could hunt a large sea demon whale... then the food crisis in Twilight City could at least be partially resolved, and they wouldn't have to worry for a day.

"It's right there!"

The old man, who had watched the sea for many years, quickly heard the faint whale song in the distance. Although Glo was still a convict, most of the people of Twilight City were still willing to trust him. Upon hearing the order, the sailors immediately raised their sails, activated their spells, and accelerated in the direction Glo pointed.

Soon, in the violent waves, they saw a huge beast, larger than their entire fishing boat, spouting towering columns of water in the rainstorm and letting out a long, leisurely call.

The sea demon whale hadn't noticed the fishing boat not far away, because the water elements in the world had suddenly become rich. It was extremely excited, and kept singing.

"Get ready to attack! When the time comes, you guys restrain it, and I'll deliver the fatal blow!"

Wielding a harpoon, Glo, who had already taken off his upper body clothes, revealing his still-strong figure, looked solemn. As the chief priest of a coastal city, he often went out to sea, and whaling wasn't his first time. But never had any whaling been more stressful for him than this time... After all, it concerned the food supply of the entire city, and that responsibility was far more important than so-called glory.

However, just as Chief Priest Glo was about to take action, they heard a voice.

[Whale meat doesn't taste good either, and besides, they have a bit of intelligence.]

[Thank you all for your hard work, but let the people of Twilight City eat some ordinary fish.]

A sacred and majestic voice came from the sky.

"This, this is?!"

Noticing the source of the voice, Glo widened his eyes and looked up, completely unaware of a giant wave that crashed down, making him look extremely wretched.

Then, he saw a crack open in the dark clouds above. Then, within a radius of several kilometers, the wind dissipated, and tranquility returned.

A force descended from the sky.

Immediately, in the churning waves, a mountain peak composed of seawater rose—Glo could see countless fish swimming in the giant water mountain hundreds of meters high. They were swimming in the seawater, which had already left the surface of the sea and turned into a water ball suspended in mid-air, completely unaware of their future fate.

Even the gray-black giant sea demon whale was grabbed by that force in confusion and suspended in mid-air, constantly swinging its tail and struggling... but with a mumble of 'This guy seems to have accompanied me to block Yalber, can't eat it,' it was released and returned to the sea.

But for some reason, this released sea demon whale wasn't afraid at all. After returning to the sea, it even kept rising to the surface, singing happily.

The huge water ball only appeared for a few seconds. As a spatial rift appeared, the huge amount of seawater and the fish in it were absorbed into it.

Glo, still on the fishing boat, stared blankly at the sky. He could only see a purple-blue figure flashing by—then, in the distance, water balls and fish schools rose up again and were absorbed into the spatial rift.

Only a faint voice remained.

[Go back, there are more important things waiting for you.]

"...Yes, Lord."

And when Glo and the others returned to Twilight City, what they smelled was the rich aroma of fish soup.

Above the central square of Twilight City, an extremely astonishing spectacle appeared—a rectangular water cube, one hundred and twenty meters long, seventy meters wide, and fifty meters high, was suspended in mid-air. Inside were a large number of fish meat and fish bones that had been removed of their internal organs and filth, as well as all kinds of miscellaneous seafood floating in it.

And on all sides of the water cube were clusters of fire elements, like small stars, constantly heating it. The water inside the water cube was surging, constantly circulating the internal water flow to ensure that it could be heated by the fire elements at all times for stewing.

Steam rose. Tons of spices and salt were thrown into it and evenly distributed. The rich aroma spread out, causing tens of thousands, or even more, people waiting in the square to swallow their saliva and look forward to it.

"My Lord, now is the time to increase the fire and stew the fish bone soup until it turns white, then add diced ham and mushrooms, as well as salt and seasonings. Finally, put in the fish meat and seafood, so that the taste is authentic enough..."

"No, no, no, My Lord, at this time, you should first put in seaweed and shrimp..."

"Bullshit, what seaweed do you put in fish soup? Adding sauerkraut is the right way!"

"It's chili peppers! I added chili peppers!"

It could be seen that more than a dozen veteran owners of well-known local fish soup restaurants were eagerly offering suggestions to the black-haired youth in the center of the square, who was patiently listening to their opinions. Although they couldn't see the other party's face clearly, they seemed to feel boundless majesty and sacredness from this figure.

No, they could be more confident and remove the word 'seem'... Because the other party was indeed the divine manifestation of the Lord of Judgment!

"Hmm, good suggestions, we can have them all."

Su Zhou casually kneaded the forty-two hundred thousand-ton water ball, as if moving his fingers—in fact, this really wasn't anything. Back when he was a commander, he could unleash a million-ton punch. Now that he was an Overlord, even a water ball a hundred times heavier could be easily lifted, like lifting a glass of water.

Just like when he had just caught fish in the sea, he could easily lift tens of millions of tons of seawater out of the sea and put them in his personal space to choose fish.

At this time, Su Zhou's heart moved, and immediately, different sections were separated from the water cube that had turned into white soup. With the enthusiastic suggestions of many fish soup restaurant owners, he simultaneously stewed a dozen different fish soups.

This was really a piece of cake. If it wasn't for the fact that everyone in Twilight City couldn't finish all this fish soup, he could easily increase the output a hundredfold... An Overlord is an Overlord. Even when he is a chef, he is still the Overlord God among chefs!

Whether they were clergymen or ordinary people, they all looked up in awe at the huge soup cube filled with fragrance... A miracle, isn't this a miracle? Is it only considered a miracle when artifacts glow and five fish and two loaves appear? Doesn't a fish soup calculated in tens of thousands of tons count?

All the fish soup stewed in Twilight City since its creation was probably not as much as this one now!

At this moment, the owner of the 'Shark Whirlwind' shop realized that the 'Lord of Judgment' in front of him was none other than the adult who had gone to their shop to drink soup more than ten days ago... The memories from that time should have been vague, but at this moment, the image in his heart emerged, making him too excited for words.

"My Lord once came here to drink fish soup!"

At this moment, in addition to excitement, the owner also had all kinds of marketing slogans in his heart: "How should I promote it?"

"My Lord travels to the South of the Yangtze River... When My Lord descends upon the world, he often goes to the Shark Whirlwind Fish Soup Restaurant in Twilight City. This fish soup may seem like a random stew, but it is actually very mysterious. It is made by taking the three treasures of the sea and stewing them with fish bones to make a high-quality soup, accompanied by fresh mushrooms and ham. After serving the soup, add a little refined salt and spices, the taste is fresh and delicious, tender, smooth and nourishing. A spoonful into the mouth, the lips and teeth are fragrant. The Lord of Judgment tasted it, immediately clapped his hands and praised it, and named it... This is the origin of the traditional famous soup of Twilight City, the Judgment Fish Soup!"

Okay, that's how I'll promote it! The owner immediately made up his mind.

And Su Zhou, who could hear his thoughts, couldn't help but twitch his brows: "It seems that the restaurant owners in the entire multiverse are all the same... This copywriting is too familiar."

[Teacher, I'm a little confused... Why do you carry so many seasonings with you?]

And in private, unknown to the public, Elias, who had been pulled over by Su Zhou and was using the power of fire elements to heat the fish soup, asked Su Zhou somewhat blankly: [This is too much...]

When Su Zhou originally wanted to solve the food problem for Twilight City, Elias was still thinking that there weren't enough seasonings and the fish soup would definitely taste bad, only barely filling the stomach... But the young god never thought that Su Zhou would casually rummage through his personal space and come up with tons of spices.

"You might not believe it, but this is the method I originally used to make holy water... Actually, that pot of fish soup is holy water, and it's good for the body."

Su Zhou said with a serious face, his tone not even a little bit false.

——Fish soup is holy water!

This concept undoubtedly impacted Elias's spirit. He widened his eyes and stared at the milky white soup ball.

The young man couldn't help but mutter: [Indeed... This is indeed holy water, I feel the sacred aura...]

[I see, I understand!]

Although he didn't know what Elias understood, with the joint efforts of the two gods, the mere fish soup was naturally quickly settled.

The residents of Twilight City, who were in the midst of famine, watched the fish soup fall from the sky and couldn't help but exclaim the divine names of the two venerable gods.

This was just a small episode of Su Zhou and others leading the team to expedition to the Sea of Meditation to wipe out the pirates of the Seven Seas.

"My Lord, are you...going to destroy those pirates?"

At the port of Twilight City, Glo and his party, who had just returned to the pier, encountered Su Zhou and Elias preparing to go to sea. In the distance, large ships that were not afraid of the waves were breaking through the waves. They were the giant exploration ships belonging to the believers of the Wind God.

"Please let me follow so that I can atone for my sins!"

The white-haired old man wanted to kneel on the ground. He already knew about Yalber's death by judgment. In this father's heart, more than sadness, there was self-blame and regret, as well as a trace of indescribable complex emotions... He didn't mind his identity as the chief priest being revoked, nor did he mind being still arrested and judged afterwards.

Now, he just wanted to follow the god and make a final break with those pirates who had entangled him for decades.

Or rather, he wanted to die in the sea.

In this way, he would complete his guilt to Yalber, as well as all atonement.

[Get up.]

However, Su Zhou didn't let him kneel down.

Standing in front of him, the young man said calmly: [Your sin is the sin of God. When people do evil, it is the evil of God.]

[For the sake of the peace of Twilight City, you single-handedly created your own pirate team. Yalber's fate was born because of you. This is your fault, but how can your fate not be born because of me, because of Elias? Isn't this our fault?]

[So, don't beg me... If you want to keep up, then keep up.]

[This is not atonement, it is just correcting mistakes.]

"But..."

Hearing this, the former chief priest's whole body trembled, and then he looked up. Glo's lips were trembling. He stared at the tall young life in front of him, and then turned his head to look at the young god on the other side. The old man couldn't help but mutter: "But, I am indeed guilty... This is the Covenant, this is the Law..."

[The Covenant?]

Hearing this, Su Zhou and Elias looked at each other. They laughed, but with a bit of a sigh: [Indeed, that is the Old Covenant from more than three hundred years ago.]

Then, the two of them turned their heads together.

The two gods announced calmly to the more than ten thousand elite clergymen following behind them, the tens of thousands of people following behind the team, and the nearly one million residents of the entire Twilight City:

[My people, in the past, the Three Gods made a covenant and regulations with all the people, vowing to continue happiness and peace forever and ever.]

[But now, I tell you, the old covenant should be exhausted, because it has mistakes, it has sins, so it should be reformed, it should be corrected.]

[After the mistakes are corrected, We will make a new covenant with you.]

The voice of God resounded throughout the world. Neither the wind, the rain, nor the thunder could cover it. Everyone could clearly hear that calm announcement, as if it were ringing in their ears.

[I will lead you to a new era.]

After saying this, Su Zhou took the lead and turned around, walking towards the sea.

At this time, countless sea beasts had been quietly waiting at the harbor. All the giant whales, giant sharks, winding sea snakes, giant octopuses, and more densely packed schools of fish formed a flat sea area that was almost like land.

They stared at their king, their god, coming to the sea, and then issued continuous cheers.

In the distance, the exploration giant ships had arrived. Elias led the knights to fly to the bow of the ship. In the roar of the element engine, the propellers turned, and the battleships began to drive towards the northwest, breaking through the waves.

"Is this what those pirates have been preparing all along?"

Striding in the sea, countless sea beasts followed behind him, and one after another giant offshore ships followed behind. Walking at the very front of the expedition team, Su Zhou raised his head. He could see a deep blue pillar of light piercing into the sky at the distant end of the horizon.

A sacred aura was spreading between heaven and earth.

"We can't lose momentum."

Squinting his eyes and smiling like this, Su Zhou raised his hand, and the vast spiritual power gathered in his palm.

Then, he gently raised his hand and lifted it up.

Immediately, a purple-blue spiritual light column lit up at the very front of the expedition team.

It pierced straight into the sky, penetrating the long sky, and the light stream tore apart the flowing clouds. The aftershocks shook the clouds in half of the sky into layers of ripples, and set off continuous concentric circles.

Immediately, at the two ends of the world, the Sea of Jubilation and the Sea of Meditation, two pillars of light that penetrated the sky and the earth each occupied one end...

Then, they began to approach each other constantly!

"What is that?! Divine power?"

At this moment, at the edge of the Sea of Meditation, the seven whirlpools had completely merged into one, and the Ant-Man Lich Ansonte was excitedly recording the information transmitted from the formation—but the sudden and tyrannical energy fluctuations in the distance interfered with his work.

The invisible spiritual power stirred the energy vibrations of half the world, triggering the vibrations of the water divine power on the other side.

As a pioneer space explorer who had experienced hundreds of battles, Ansonte would not be frightened by this sudden situation, but under the remote echo of the Soul of Origin Water and the divine power from the distance, the magic power he used to record the information suddenly collapsed, turning a page of the magic book into a mess.

In addition to surprise and heartache, Ansonte quickly stabilized his magic power and reorganized the magic book.

Then, he looked at the eastern coast of the Holy Flame Continent in the northwest direction of the Sea of Meditation. The Lich cautiously felt the tyrannical aura coming from the distance and quickly identified who the visitor was.

"The Lord of Judgment and the Lord of Fire... They have descended and taken action!"

After all, Ansonte was an explorer who grew up in the Reincarnation World. After sensing these two auras, he subconsciously cowered—but soon, he broke free from this instinct from the soul.

Staring at the light, the explorer murmured: "But I am not the me of the past... I have already been outside the world, witnessed the vastness and breadth of the endless world, and I have witnessed the existence of beings that are too powerful to imagine taking action, reversing the cause and effect of the world, and fulfilling wishes..."

"What's more."

Speaking to himself, Ansonte's soul light became sharp again. He confidently took back the magic book and looked at the huge whirlpool that had begun to gradually calm down behind him.

It could be seen that under the turbulent sea of the Sea of Meditation, six huge shadows were slowly emerging.

Each shadow contained an incomparably powerful aura, no less than that of a god... The completely unbalanced power of water elements roared, stirring up dense, overlapping lightning in the sky. For a time, tens of thousands of lightning bolts occupied every corner of the Sea of Meditation's sky, illuminating the entire firmament.

Boom! In the deep sea, incomparably powerful power erupted. Immediately, six towering mountains of seawater rose above the Sea of Meditation. Then, the rising water mountains exploded, and six figures that could block the sky stood between the heavens and the earth!

Among them, there was a giant whale with a blue and gold pattern all over its body and huge pectoral fins on both sides like wings, flying in the air; there was a black giant lizard standing upright, as strong as a mountain; there was a giant sea snake with nine heads, stirring up the sea; there was a terrifying giant octopus with a face full of tentacles and bat-like wings; and there was a water element giant god, half-human and half-horse, standing tall and upright.

After that, five extremely excited auras echoed in the world:

[Hahahaha, is this the power of God?!]

[I feel like I can do anything!]

[Strong, so strong!]

[That's right, I must go back and drown that damn chief priest and his whole family in ice water!]

[Great, I gradually understand everything...]

And after these five auras, there was another aura standing quietly in place, as thick as the incarnation of the sea.

That was a giant dragon with six wings that could cover the sky after spreading out. The incomparably sturdy black-gold scales were almost like fine gold, indestructible.

He didn't laugh wildly like his five accomplices.

[Freedom... is that it?]

This most powerful aura whispered in the sea, its thoughts were unknown whether it was calm or sighing.

"My Lord! My Lord!"

"Celebrate! The birth of the Sea God!"

"Praise the Water God!"

At the same time, the pirates cheered, cheering for the birth of their captain, their 'God' and 'Lord'.

"That's it!"

Staring at this scene, the Ant-Man Lich hiding behind the scenes showed a fanatical smile: "My plan has been realized!"

"Six gods have already ascended to the throne... Not to mention that there are only the Fire God and the Judgment Lord, even if the Wind God wakes up, it is absolutely impossible to reverse the situation!"

"The trend is in my favor!"

Far away.

[Teacher, I sense it...]

"Yes, I know."

Su Zhou, who was already standing in the clouds, responded to Elias, looking into the distance.

Su Zhou sensed six sudden, powerful and vast auras. Standing in the high sky, he could see through the long clouds and fog, overlooking the figures of those six overlord-level creatures.

Even the necromancer who thought he was hidden and hiding in the waves did not escape his eyes.

Staring at all this, there was no fear or anxiety in the young man's eyes.

In the soul space, the brand new magical power that was close to completion, the new form of the true body, was blooming with blazing light, waiting for the return of God to enable it.

Six water gods... Compared to the past, the number has only increased six times, it does not affect the form.

——Whether it is innovation or correctness, or even admitting one's mistakes, it is the privilege of the strong.

And the basis of the so-called strong is the power to allow reality and the general trend to fulfill one's will.

"I am innovation."

"I am the trend."

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