Chapter 1019: Chapter 436: Canghua Divine Wood Sword Breakthrough (Part 2)

The endless water spirit energy, like subjects worshiping their sovereign, surged joyfully into his majestic dragon body, providing him with seemingly inexhaustible strength.

Even when facing the combined force of the Star Palace Saints alone, he showed no signs of losing ground. His dragon roared through the heavens, commanding the waters of the sea to transform into countless massive water dragons, crashing madly into and annihilating the starlight and moonlight.

"Ao Guang, though the rules of the open sea favor you, today you are destined to be defeated!"

The voice of the Star King came through the roar of the laws, carrying a cold murderous intent.

"Arrogant!"

Ao Guang let out an earth-shattering dragon roar, his voice waves turning into a tangible shockwave that shattered several meteor silhouettes striking toward him.

The battle instantly intensified into a fever pitch.

Boom!

An indescribable deafening sound exploded, the light was so blinding that it caused a momentary blindness on the battlefield below.

An energy storm swept out, clearing the sky of clouds and the sea below into a vast vacuum area.

In the midst of this extreme light and chaos, a cold gleam flashed in the Star King’s eyes. His divine thoughts instantly converged with the Moon God beside him, reaching a consensus.

He suddenly patted his brow’s ancestral aperture, and a seemingly simple and unadorned talisman silently shot out—it was the Deception Talisman.

The talisman self-ignited in mid-air, without flames, without smoke.

Only an invisible and intangible yet extremely mysterious power spread out instantly.

This power was not violent but carried a kind of overbearing "deceptive" implication.

It distorted perceptions and isolated sensory connections, as if forcefully covering the real world with a false curtain.

Most importantly, Ao Guang and the water spirit energy suddenly became blurred and distant.

It was as if the world suddenly "forgot" the existence of this water sovereign.

"Deception Talisman?"

In Ao Guang’s dragon roar, which was like a giant bell, for the first time, there was a hint of evident seriousness.

He obviously recognized this artifact and was well aware of its potency.

Once this talisman was fully effective, he would temporarily lose the blessing of the open sea’s laws, and his strength would surely dwindle.

However, as a fifth-rank dragon king who had lived for countless millennia, Ao Guang who dominated this world would naturally have preparations against such methods.

Ao Guang suddenly opened his abyss-like dragon mouth, and instead of breathing a dragon breath capable of burning mountains and boiling seas, he spat out a fist-sized treasure bead—the Reality Piercing Dragon Pearl.

This pearl was not a weapon of slaughter but one of the sacred artifacts of the Dragon Race, designed to break all illusions, barriers, and deceptions in the celestial machinations, targeting the origin and returning to reality.

"Break!"

Ao Guang roared again and propelled the dragon pearl.

Instantly, the Reality Piercing Dragon Pearl emitted a light as clear as autumn water and as gentle as moonlight.

The twisted, false curtain created by the Deception Talisman, in the illumination of this "real" light, sounded a strange hiss like thin ice exposed under the blazing sun, swiftly melting and disintegrating.

The warped space was forcibly smoothed out by an invisible power, and the blurry perceptions became incomparably clear again.

The vast water spirit law hovering in the heavens once more surrounded and blessed Ao Guang’s majestic dragon body like obedient subjects.

"Puff....."

The Star King’s figure wavered almost imperceptibly, his face showing a fleeting hint of pallor.

The Deception Talisman was forcibly nullified by the dragon pearl infused with origin faith, causing a slight backlash on his divine spirit attached to the talisman.

...

Several days later, on Blood Bone Island.

Inside Blood Bone Hall.

Xu Ping, listening to Yan Feng’s narration, whose aura was noticeably weakened, finally showed a trace of undisguised astonishment on his face.

"What?"

"The Demon Race was defeated? Even the fifth-rank dragon king, Ao Guang, was injured and retreated?"

This result, though Xu Ping had earlier predicted the possibility of the Star Palace gaining the upper hand, the defeat was so swift and so complete, nearly a rout, which truly exceeded his expectations.

After all, he was a fifth-rank dragon king with the advantage of the open sea locale, favored by the laws of the universe.

Yan Feng’s face bore a bitter and fearful expression as he explained in a hoarse voice, "Fellow Daoist Xu might not know that the Star Palace Saints are ruthless and prepared to the extreme.

They consecutively used two Deception Talismans!"

"Two Deception Talismans?" Xu Ping’s eyes sharpened.

He had heard of this item, a premium of fifth-rank talismans, capable of obscuring celestial machinations and isolating perceptions, a treasure of immense value even for Divinity Transformation Cultivators.

Could the Star Palace really afford to use two at once?

Yan Feng continued, "Moreover, the Star King and Moon God did not hesitate to deplete their primordial qi and joined forces to perform several extremely powerful Great Divine Powers, seizing the chance to strike when Ao Guang was weakened forcibly injuring him."

If it weren’t for Ao Guang deploying some life-saving divine technique of the Dragon Race at the last critical moment to flee, the injury might have been even more severe."

"Indeed it is so..."

Xu Ping’s expression turned extremely grave.

This move by the Star Palace Saints clearly involved revealing their bottom cards, with a great determination, even at the cost of their primordial qi, to severely wound Ao Guang.

It can be foreseen that the subsequent actions of the Star Palace will only grow larger and crazier.

"What has been the move of the Star Palace after defeating the coalition?" Xu Ping asked further.

Yan Feng responded, "They didn’t pursue victory in the open sea. Instead, they halted their offensive, concentrating their efforts on the borders of their occupied sea territory, extensively constructing the ’Spirit-Locking Sea-Stabilizing Formation’ to disperse the pervasive demon qi."

This formation functions to stabilize the sea area and subtly alters the local realm’s laws, causing them to favor the Demon Beasts less.

This open strategy, progressing step by step, is aimed at eroding the Demon Race’s territory and squeezing their living space.

Although the effect is slow, it is stable and has a high success rate.

Upon hearing this, Xu Ping furrowed his brows.