Chapter 1311: Power of the Sea

Right at this moment, Shui Changtian reappeared in front of Han Li, and he rested the tip of his spear against Han Li's glabella as he said, "Seawater has already entered your internal organs, so surrender now, or I'll squeeze your heart to a pulp, then punch your liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys full of holes. Trust me, that's something that you don't want to experience."

"Go ahead and try," Han Li challenged as he looked back at Shui Changtian with not even the slightest hint of fear in his eyes.

Shui Changtian's brows furrowed slightly upon hearing this, and he raised a hand before clenching it into a fist, but that did nothing.

"What's going on?" he exclaimed with a surprised expression.

"How much more seawater can you draw upon?" Han Li asked as he casually shook off the blue vortexes that were clinging onto him.

"It's that river!" Shui Changtian exclaimed as a look of realization appeared on his face.

The time law powers from Han Li's river of time had already seeped into the surrounding seawater, so it was naturally no longer under Shui Changtian's control.

Shui Changtian let loose a loud roar as a burst of blue light surged out of his body before flowing into his spear, and a ball of blinding, blue light shot out of the tip of the spear before exploding right in front of Han Li's head.

However, Han Li was prepared for this, having already channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts, all one thousand eight hundred of his profound acupoints had lit up, while a layer of hexagonal scales had appeared over his skin.

A thunderous explosion rang out as all of the seawater within a radius of thousands of kilometers was instantly vaporized, while devastating shockwaves erupted through the air in all directions, sweeping up waves as tall as mountains while also scattering even the clouds in the sky.

Shi Chuankong looked up to discover that the spirit domain looming over the area had been withdrawn at some point, and he hurriedly grabbed onto Violet Spirit before teleporting both of them tens of thousands of kilometers away in the blink of an eye using a spatial secret technique.

The Heavenly Court cultivators were not so fortunate, and they were struck by the enormous waves before tumbling into the sea, with some of the weaker ones among them knocked unconscious on the spot.

On this day, the entire Black Wind Sea was thrown into a state of disarray. Even Dark Veil Island, which was almost on the other side of the Black Wind Sea, had been forced to deal with unprecedented tsunamis, and an immeasurable amount of damage would've been incurred had it not been for the timely activation of the island's protective array.

In the wake of the explosion, the seawater had evaporated to reveal the parched seabed down below, and there was a powerful wall of energy keeping the seawater from gushing back into the affected site.

Han Li was standing on the ridge of a broken mountain on the seabed, and the scales on his body were gradually receding. His forehead has been reduced to a mass of bloody and mangled flesh, making it appear as if he had suffered very severe injuries, but in reality, it was only a minor concern.

A projection of the Twin Births Tree appeared over his glabella, and the flesh on his forehead quickly began to heal.

Thousands of kilometers away, the mountain range formed by Han Li's spirit domain was still standing, and vines were sprouting out of the forest formed by the Eastern Vicissitudes Divine Tree in a frenzy before wrapping themselves around Shui Changtian's ankles.

Veins were bulging on Shui Changtian's forehead as he struggled with all his might to free himself, but his movements had become extremely slow and sluggish.

As it turned out, the golden moon had descended to hover in the air behind him, and it was giving off countless rays of golden light.

Han Li flew over to Shui Changtian, then swung his sword down upon the latter's head without any hesitation.

"No! You can't kill me!" Shui Changtian yelled as a fearful look flashed through his eyes.

However, Han Li paid him no heed as he swung his sword down in a swift and forceful motion, and the blade of the sword sliced into Shui Changtian's body with ease.

However, in the instant that the sword made contact with Shui Changtian, his body suddenly liquefied before enveloping the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword.

Han Li harrumphed coldly upon seeing this, and a burst of formidable sword qi and golden lightning erupted out of the sword at his behest, instantly pulverizing Shui Changtian's liquefied body.

He then cast his gaze into the distance as he mused to himself, "As expected, late-Great Encompassment cultivators are not so easy to kill."

Thousands of kilometers away, a humanoid form began to take shape from the water vapor in the air, and in the blink of an eye, Shui Changtian was back.

"You've successfully enraged me, Han Li. I gave you the option to surrender, but that option is no longer open to you now," Shui Changtian declared with a furious expression.

"You're not very quick to catch on, are you?" Han Li scoffed.

Shui Changtian faltered slightly upon hearing this, then inspected his own internal condition to discover that there was nothing amiss aside from the fact that he had suffered some cultivation base regression.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Quit trying to bluff me! I..."

All of a sudden, his voice abruptly cut off as an incredulous look appeared on his face.

"How could this be? How has my cultivation base regressed by this much? There shouldn't have been this much regression even if my body was destroyed by you once!" he exclaimed in an alarmed voice.

Han Li offered no explanation as he looked back at Shui Changtian with a cold sneer.

Having spent so much time in Han Li's Five Elemental Illusory World, his cultivation base was naturally going to suffer a severe regression.

"Regardless of what you've done, as long as we're still at sea, I can never be defeated!" Shui Changtian declared as he forcibly composed himself, then rose up into the air before making a strange hand seal.

A ring of blue light began to take shape around him, and a series of swirling vortexes began to converge toward him from behind.

At the same time, a wave was rapidly approaching from the distant horizon, and the giant black whale was racing along at the peak of the wave.

An almighty splash rang out as an enormous vortex of water appeared beneath Shui Changtian before rising up into the sky to surge into his body.

His body instantly turned a bright blue color, and a suit of blue water armor also appeared around him. At the same time, his aura was rapidly elevating, and he quickly regained all of the cultivation base that had been stripped from him by the Five Elemental Illusory World.

All of the seawater within a radius of close to a hundred thousand kilometers was sucked dry, leaving behind a vast expanse of parched earth that was littered with the dried and withered remains of marine demon beasts, including those of the black whale.

Absorbing power directly from the sea like this was clearly very strenuous on Shui Changtian, and he swelled to over a hundred thousand feet tall, but blue cracks had also begun to appear over his body.

His aura had already reached the pinnacle of the Great Encompassment Stage, yet he still wasn't satisfied, continuing to draw upon more and more of the power of the sea, and Han Li's expression darkened slightly upon seeing this.

All of a sudden, bursts of golden ripples surged out of his body, instantly spreading over a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

A blazing fireball that was over a hundred thousand feet in size came plummeting out of the sky, and it was giving off such intense heat that the air temperature in the entire area was instantly raised by several thousandfold.

The seawater that was converging toward Shui Changtian was evaporated by the scorching heat before it was able to reach him, and the entire seabed was quickly reduced to a parched desert.

All of a sudden, Shui Changtian found himself unable to draw upon any more power from the sea, and his water-attribute law powers also began to rapidly dissipate in the unbearable heat.

"This has to be an illusion!" he exclaimed in an incredulous manner.

"An illusion? Sure, you can think of it as that if you want," Han Li said with a faint smile.

"No, that's not right. No illusion, no matter how powerful, would be able to affect my law powers! Aren't you cultivating the laws of time? How are you capable of something like this? " Shui Changtian exclaimed as a hint of panic began to creep into his voice.

Han Li offered no explanation as the gargantuan fireball continued to plummet toward Shui Changtian from above.

"So be it. It's not like you stand any chance against me at my current cultivation base anyway," Shui Changtian sighed, then brought his hands apart as if he were simulating the act of drawing a bow.

An enormous, blue bow instantly appeared in his grasp, with an equally enormous arrow nocked on its string. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that the arrow was actually the blue spear that he had been wielding earlier.

As he drew back the bowstring, bursts of immense law powers instantly began to surge into the arrow, and a vortex of blue light emerged from its tip.

The arrow was then let loose with a piercing whistling sound, leaving clusters of black spatial rifts in its wake.

The blazing fireball up above was torn apart and exploded into countless far smaller fireballs, while the arrow continued to race toward Han Li at an extraordinary speed.

Han Li made no effort to evade the arrow as he channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts, and all his one thousand eight hundred profound acupoints lit up as he swung his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword through the air.

Countless arcs of golden lightning erupted out of the sword, forming a gargantuan, golden sword projection that clashed against the blue arrow.

An deafening boom rang out as both the arrow and the sword projection exploded upon impact, and a colossal spatial rift was left behind in the wake of the explosion, resembling the cavernous mouth of some unspeakable leviathan.

Right at this moment, Han Li flew through the air below the spatial rift with his sword aimed directly at the heart of Shui Changtian's giant body.