High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

The food was served very quickly.

Braised beef, braised sea fish, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and a steaming bowl of hot and sour soup.

The owner even brought out a jar of homemade yellow wine from the kitchen, saying it was an old recipe from the North, and that drinking a bowl of it in the freezing cold could warm you up all day.

Zhou Wangyue poured a bowl for Song Chen and then poured one for himself.

The liquor shimmered with an amber luster in the bowl, carrying a strong aroma of grains.

Song Chen picked up her bowl, clinked it against his, and drank both bowls of wine in one gulp.

The braised beef was stewed until very tender, melting in your mouth.

The braised sea fish was bought from the fishing boats that just set sail today; it was so fresh it made you want to swallow your tongue.

The hot and sour soup has plenty of pepper in it, and drinking it warms you up from head to toe.

After finishing the last piece of braised beef, Zhou Wangyue put down his chopsticks and said, "I have an idea about the ocean issue."

Song Chen looked up at him and said, "Please speak, teacher."

Zhou Wangyue drew a circle on the table with his finger: "It's not mature yet, it's just an idea."

"What the Beast Kings fear most right now isn't nuclear bombs, it's you."

"If you can convince them that if they don't fight together, they will be chased and killed one by one, they will gather together on their own."

Song Chen thought for a moment: "Theoretically, it's feasible, but we need a sufficiently large bait."

"Ordinary beast kings aren't important enough; other beast kings might not come to their rescue. It has to be a target they have no choice but to save."

The two paused for a moment, then said in unison, "The Whale King or the Sea Dragon King."

at the same time.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, in the waters of giant whales.

This area of ​​the sea is a forbidden zone that humans have never set foot in. It is 10,000 meters deep and the sunlight never reaches here, but the glow of psionic energy makes the entire trench appear as a deep blue.

The royal court of the whale tribe is built on the cliff at the deepest part of the trench. It is a magnificent cave that the ancestors of the whale tribe used their spiritual energy to forcefully shake out of the basalt.

The cave is thousands of meters high and can accommodate the giant whale king, which is over three thousand meters long.

The cave walls are inlaid with thousands of glowing crystal cores, each one being the life essence left behind by a dead fifth-tier beast king.

The eerie blue light illuminated the entire royal court, making it resemble a ghostly palace in the deep sea.

Today, this palace is teeming with strange beasts.

No, to be precise, it was filled with the mental projections of alien beasts.

In the cave hall beneath the throne of the giant whale, hundreds of illusory figures formed from spiritual energy were densely packed together.

Sea Dragon Clan, remnants of the Abyssal Python Clan, Giant Claw Crab Clan, Venomous Jellyfish Clan, Ironbone Whale Clan, Sword-Kiss Shark Clan...

Representatives from the two major royal families, the eight royal families, and dozens of small and medium-sized marine beast races all attended the meeting via mental projection.

Some projections were so clear that the patterns on the scales were visible, while others were so blurry that only an outline remained. But each projection represented the true form of a sixth-tier beast king, hidden in some corner of the deep ocean.

The whale king sat on his throne, his true form inside the cave, and his body was over 2,800 meters long.

His skin was dark gray, covered with scars from centuries of fighting, and his eyes were tens of meters wide, with suppressed rage churning in his pupils.

"Hundreds of beast kings are attending! But only a few are actually present?"

The whale king's voice shook the crystal cores on the cave walls, and the sound waves formed visible ring-shaped shockwaves in the water, causing the mental projections to sway slightly.

His enormous eyes swept across the hall, counting each item one by one.

"Sea Dragon Clan, your true forms have arrived! Abyssal Python Clan, your true forms have arrived! Giant Claw Crab Clan, where is your king? You sent a fifth-tier cub?"

"The Venomous Jellyfish Clan, is this also a projection? The Ironbone Whale Clan, has your chieftain forgotten that you are also royalty?"

The racial representatives whose names were called all lowered their heads.

A sixth-tier elder of the Giant Claw Crab clan—also a projection—waved its illusory giant claws, its voice carrying a defiant and unyielding tone:

"Your Majesty, it's not that we don't want to come, but that scourge is currently in the Heavenly Sea. Who would dare to come out in their true form for a meeting? What if he suddenly decides to sweep across the sea and our true forms are exposed?"

"Bullshit." The whale king glared at it fiercely.

The projection of the giant claw crab elder shrank.

"Ever since the failed encirclement and attack at Cangyuan, you've been hiding. You ran away to North America, you ran away to South America, you ran away to Africa, you ran away to Australia. What are you running for? Do you think running away will solve the problem?"

The roar of the giant whale king caused the nearest rows of projections to vibrate violently.

"It can't solve the problem, but it can save lives." A sixth-tier giant crab spoke up; he was one of the very few royals present in their true form.

"Survive? Humans will eventually enter the ocean; they can't hide at the bottom of the sea forever, can they?" the projection of the Sea Dragon King spoke.

He remained seated in a deep tank to the right of the whale throne, his dark blue scales almost blending into the seawater under the palace's deep blue light.

He is the king of the Sea Dragon Clan, and the only one present who can rival the Giant Whale King in size.

"I've confirmed the intelligence my spies brought back: Song Chen's next target is Haiyang. Time is running out."

The Dragon King continued.

"The worst-case scenario is that he starts from the East China Sea and kills his way down one by one."

"We are scattered across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. If he searches for us one by one and chases us one by one, with his current 400,000 units of Qi and blood and his spatial jump ability, it won't be long before there are no more living sixth-tier beings in the Pacific Ocean."

The Whale King suppressed his anger and said in a lower voice, "So we held this meeting. All the beast kings of the sea are here, whether they are in their true forms or projections. We need to decide on one thing: how to kill Song Chen."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a sharp voice rang out from the left corner of the hall.

It was a sixth-tier elder of the Stinger Jellyfish Clan. Its projection was a translucent pale purple, with hundreds of tentacles slowly drifting in the water. The stingers at the ends of the tentacles gleamed dangerously in the eerie blue light.

"Your Majesty the Whale King, I remember you said half a year ago that you wanted to kill Song Chen."

"When you sent Jingyi to Tianhai, you said, 'I guarantee he won't be able to come back.'"

"And the result? A dignified sixth-tier cultivator failed to leave behind even a third-tier offspring."

"Now that human blood energy is 400,000, it's dozens of times more than it was six months ago. What happened to your plan back then? What happened to your confidence?"