I was born a god, the son of the Demon Lord.

Wu Qiyue formed a hand seal, her fingertips conjuring a strange mist thicker than ink, which she then brought to her lips and blew gently.

The mist transformed into a silky ribbon, silently coiling around the eyes of the Sea God like a snake, layer upon layer.

All six eyes are blind.

The little stone slapped the ground with both hands, and twelve stone pillars rose from the seabed mud, surrounding the sea monster from all directions, trapping it like a turtle in a jar.

It stumbled forward, breaking three stone pillars, but due to inertia, it moved right towards Xu Nanyi's direction...

Right in the middle.

Xu Nanyi dragged her spear and moved swiftly. The Burning Tide Spear was now completely crimson, its patterns dazzlingly bright. Thirty meters away from Hai Tai Sui, she suddenly leaped up, raising the spear high above her head. Three thousand Emperor God Flames poured out from her dantian, instantly evaporating the surrounding seawater into a vacuum the moment they entered the spear.

A fiery dragon shot out from the tip of the spear, piercing into the grayish-white waxy surface. At the same time, Xu Nanyi flipped her wrist, and her move changed abruptly—Sweeping Across a Thousand Mountains!

The burning tide plowed through the center of Hai Tai Sui's body, cutting a wound half a person's depth, with flesh and blood churning out. But when the spear tip reached the center, it hit something, causing her tiger's mouth to split open.

It's so hard, even harder than black iron.

"Eeeah—!"

The baby's cries shattered all the remaining stone pillars around it.

"Effective! Pursue!" the Xuanjia cultivator shouted.

Xu Nanyi stared at the crack, her pupils shrinking sharply. Inside the wound, countless eyes were opening, large and small, vertical and horizontal, all turning towards her.

The next instant, Hai Tai Sui charged forward despite everyone's attacks. Dozens of gray-white tentacles shot out from the crack, each one thicker than her waist, covered in mucus and with suckers, wrapping around her at an unreasonable speed.

Xu Nanyi raised his spear arm to parry... but the Three Thousand Emperor God Flames had just been exhausted, leaving his demonic power depleted.

The first tentacle wrapped around the gun barrel, the second around the right arm, the third, the fourth...

Xu Nanyi was wrapped up like a cocoon, and Hai Taisui, dragging his half-broken body, carried her and rushed madly toward the deep sea.

A piercing scream came from behind: "Sister—!!"

Xu Nanyi was almost unable to breathe due to the constriction of the tentacles, and through her blurred vision, she could only see countless eyes staring at her in the darkness.

The tentacles' suckers clung to her skin, the mucus seeping into her nail creaking against her ribs. Her vision was filled with grayish-white flesh, with only a sliver of light seeping in through the gaps.

There was an uproar outside.

"Fire arrows—" "Fire mages, unleash your full power—" "Attack the eyes! Attack the eyes!"

The overwhelming magic struck Hai Tai Sui, exploding into a shower of light.

Fireballs, ice spikes, lightning, sword energy—it was all being bombarded in the face like a free buffet.

The sea monster ignored her completely, wrapped Xu Nanyi up in the core of its tentacles, like a spring roll, and then ran away.

The spells only left shallow scorch marks on its back, like a tickle.

"Sister—!"

Shen Xizhou's voice came from afar, trembling with sobs and filled with a despair that Xu Nanyi had never heard before.

The next second, a dragon's roar tore through the water curtain.

Through the gaps in the tentacles, Xu Nanyi vaguely saw a black figure rise up from the ground. The jet-black dragon scales reflected a cold light in the dark seabed, and its pupils were narrowed to slits. With a reckless madness, it charged towards the Sea Tai Sui.

The black dragon moved so fast it left a vacuum trail in the seawater; its claws outstretched, almost seizing the tail of the sea monster.

"Give my sister back!"

Snapped.

One tentacle swept across casually, like flicking a mosquito.

The black dragon's body was flung away and crashed heavily into the seabed cliff a hundred meters away. The rock strata shattered, and half of the cliff collapsed, burying her inside. She could no longer even struggle.

Xu Nanyi's heart felt like it had been squeezed. "Xiaozhou!"

An uncontrollable rage that burned up from the very marrow of my bones.

The dark red patterns on the Burning Tide Spear began to glow uncontrollably.

A layer of golden-red interwoven patterns of light appeared on the skin, like magma flowing along blood vessels.

The three thousand divine flames of the Emperor surged out of her dantian against her will, burning on their own on the surface of her skin, causing the tentacles that were wrapped around her to emit a sizzling, acrid smell.

A burning sensation between my brows.

The mark of divine blessing silently appeared, and golden light spread outward from the center of the pattern.

The hair began to fade from the roots, the black color receding inch by inch, replaced by a pure, dazzling gold.

When I opened my eyes again—my pupils were no longer the dark red they had been before.

It has the color of a blood gemstone, clear and intense, with a golden ray like a vertical pupil running through the middle.

The tentacles were still tightening, but they could no longer hold them back.

The sea monster dragged her along for hundreds of miles, the water cutting through her like knives, and she felt the thing she was wrapped in getting hotter and hotter.

At first it was warm, then it burned, and finally—boom!

A pillar of fire shot into the sky and pierced the sea, bursting open from the cluster of tentacles on its abdomen.

The grayish-white tentacles were blasted into countless fragments, which tumbled and floated in the seawater like a blizzard of minced meat.

In the very center of the flying bits of flesh, a pair of vertical pupils, like rubies, shone in the firelight.

Her golden hair was loose, a gun was held horizontally at her side, and her whole body was enveloped in crimson flames, like a god emerging from a furnace.

Hai Tai Sui locked onto her with all six eyes at the same time, staring at her for a full three seconds.

It read only one word in those eyes: kill.

Xu Nanyi flipped over, and three thousand divine flames poured out from her body. The flames condensed, stretched, and bent in the void, forging a longbow of flames taller than a person.

She stepped onto the bow arm, the Burning Tide Spear was cocked into the string position, her hands gripped the butt of the spear, and pulled back.

Full moon.

The string was stretched to its limit and emitted a buzzing sound that pierced through the seawater and traveled for miles. The phoenix phantom that appeared in the void behind him was no longer the semi-transparent one before, but a solidified golden-red giant bird with its wings spread out, covering half of the sea.

The surrounding seawater evaporated rapidly, and the bubbles rose into a white curtain, visible from ten miles away, as if someone had lit a sun in the deep sea.

Xu Nanyi's lips moved, and the flames on the gun surged three times.

"The crimson sun crowns the nine heavens, a single spear pierces the sun and moon."

"The Song of the Evening Phoenix"

Let go.

The Burning Tide transformed into a streak of crimson-gold light, bursting forth with overlapping sonic boom shockwaves, and pierced straight into Hai Tai Sui's chest.

It didn't dodge... or rather—it couldn't dodge.

The moment the spear touched the body, the grayish-white waxy skin began to disintegrate and melt outwards from the point of contact, like paper meeting fire, curling up and turning black from the edges, inch by inch into ashes.

For every inch it advanced, its body dissipated by an inch.

But for some reason, Hai Tai Sui dragged his dissolving body and walked step by step toward Xu Nanyi.

The light in each of the six vertical pupils gradually faded...

Five, four, three...

Finally, only one of them remained lit, stretching out its last remaining tentacle towards her.

It wasn't an aggressive stance, it was more like... wanting to touch it.