Fang Heng had coldly glanced at Sawyer, looking at him with an expression as if he were an idiot.

Threatening him?

At this point, did they still think he would spare them?

He let out a faint laugh.

Fang Heng strengthened his focus and increased the absorption of divine statue power.

With a loud bang, after half a minute, the divine statue completely shattered in his hand.

Along with it scattered numerous god authority fragments.

Fang Heng quickly reached out and collected the scattered fragments into his backpack, then turned to look behind him.

Sawyer’s gaze met Fang Heng’s in midair, and an uncontrollable sense of panic surged in his heart.

"Fang Heng! What are you doing!"

Whoosh!

Fang Heng lightly tapped the ground and his body instantly broke through space and vanished. He reappeared hovering in front of Sawyer, grabbed him by the hand, lifted him into the air, and looked at him coldly, "Where is my divine statue?"

"What divine statue? What are you talking about, Fang Heng!"

"The divine statue you brought out from Sea God Island. Don’t you remember? Is your memory that bad that I need to remind you?"

Sawyer gritted his teeth and said, "I don’t know what you’re talking about! Fang Heng! You will feel the wrath of the Sea God!"

"Hmph."

Fang Heng gave a cold snort.

"Boom!!"

In the next moment, hellfire instantly burned over Sawyer’s body.

"Ahhh!"

Sawyer let out a painful scream as he suffered under the hellfire.

Fang Heng casually threw him away.

With a boom, Sawyer slammed heavily into the mast, and the surrounding Lickers immediately pounced on him.

[Hint: You killed Sawyer, the High Priest of Sea God Island, and your friendship with Sea God Island had reached a state of absolute enmity.]

[Hint: Your actions have enraged Sea God Island. There is a very high chance that Sea God Island will dispatch forces to hunt you down.]

Fang Heng paid no attention and closed his eyes to sense his surroundings.

"There."

The ship’s hold.

Fang Heng looked in the direction of the hold and instantly moved toward it.

Along the way, Sea God Island guards saw him as if they had seen a disaster and did not dare to block him, quickly making way, fearing they would be engulfed in hellfire.

Fang Heng entered the hold and followed his perception.

He found it.

At the bottom of the hold, he saw several boxes in the corner.

He opened them, revealing divine statues inside.

Although the boxes had aura suppression effects, his perception was too sharp, and they could not hide from him.

Fang Heng tried touching the divine statue.

[Hint: The player has discovered a transcendent god-Corresponding god (Unknown).]

[Hint: The player’s fleet can bind to this deity.]

[Hint: After installation, the player’s fleet will receive this deity’s blessings.]

Good.

All transcendent-tier divine statues.

Then they would all be converted into god authority fragments.

Fang Heng raised his hand and waved it forward. A row of wooden crates stacked against the corner exploded one after another, revealing the divine statues stored inside.

Whoosh!!

At the base of each divine statue, rapidly spinning magic arrays appeared one after another.

Under the effect of the magic arrays, the divine statues bloomed with lights of various colors, trembling nonstop as cracks gradually spread across their surfaces.

"Bang! Bang bang bang!!!"

In less than a minute, the divine statues began exploding one after another.

Fang Heng quickly collected the divine authority fragments produced from the converted divine statues into his backpack.

Done!

Fang Heng gave his backpack a rough glance.

A Transcendent-tier divine statue could provide about eighty divine authority fragments.

With just a few more fragments, they could be converted into one portion of low-level divine authority.

Not bad.

Including what he had gained earlier on Sea God Island, this trip had yielded more than nine hundred divine authority fragments in total.

After combining them, he could obtain two portions of mid-tier divine authority.

Fang Heng returned to the cabin once more, and his gaze quickly settled on Darcy at the edge of the deck.

"No! Don’t come over!"

Darcy had personally witnessed High Priest Sawyer’s death and was now completely panicked.

He wanted to run.

But where could he run?

The sea below the ship was filled with Licker monsters. Jumping overboard would only make him die faster.

"The deity isn’t on me!"

As Darcy saw Fang Heng approaching, he shouted in panic and pointed toward Tina, who was in her sea beast form.

"The divine authority! The divine authority isn’t on me either—it’s on her!"

At the final moment, a trace of hope rose in Darcy’s heart.

If he could lure Fang Heng over to deal with Tina—

Perhaps Tina could kill Fang Heng instead?

She was a god servant!

At that moment, Tina was already under the influence of the Sea God’s Blood within her body, and her mind had begun to lose control. She madly swung the Sea God’s Trident, smashing apart the Lickers surging toward her from all directions.

"Hmph!"

Fang Heng could naturally sense that the divine authority was on Tina. He gave a cold snort and rushed toward her at high speed. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Tina had entered her sea monster state, and her perception had also risen explosively. Sensing someone approaching from her right, she immediately swung the Sea God’s Trident toward that side!

"Bang!!"

The long trident collided with the God-given Scepter Fang Heng had raised, producing a loud explosion. Then Tina lost control of it, and the trident was knocked from her grasp, flying into the distance and falling into the sea.

What?

A trace of clarity returned to Tina’s eyes for a moment. A wave of numbness spread through her wrist, and it trembled uncontrollably.

The next instant, Fang Heng appeared before her. He reached out one hand and clamped it tightly over her forehead.

The moment Tina was pinned by Fang Heng, her eyes instantly turned hollow.

"Chi chi chi chi..."

A magic array rapidly condensed beneath Tina’s feet, spinning at high speed and blooming with scarlet light.

What the hell?

A terrifying shockwave spread outward from the center of the magic array, blasting the surrounding guards off their feet.

Under the effect of the magic array, Tina’s sea monster-transformed body trembled violently, and dark golden cracks visible to the naked eye began appearing all over her.

Foul-smelling slime continuously dripped from her sea monster’s body.

"Roar!!!!"

Tina threw her head back and let out a painful howl. Then her body exploded on the spot, sending chunks of corrupted flesh splattering everywhere!

[Hint: You killed a god servant of Sea God Island. Your hostility with Sea God Island has increased once again.]

[Hint: Sea God Island will begin hunting you down.]

Seeing this, even Fang Heng was somewhat puzzled. He raised his hand and caught several scattered divine authority fragments from the air, frowning inwardly.

Strange.

At first, he had only intended to kill Tina.

But he had not expected that Tina could also be directly refined into divine authority?

Why?

Could it be that the god servants of Sea God Island were themselves products of divinely bestowed power?

Forget it. No point thinking about it.

Fang Heng muttered to himself as he stepped forward and picked up the divine authority Tina had left behind after her death.

[Hint: The player obtained divine authority*1.]

Done.

All the divine statues on the ship had already been completely absorbed.

They no longer had any value left.

Fang Heng cast one final glance at the warship on the verge of collapse, lightly tapped off with his foot, and flew toward the distant sea.

In the distance, aboard the Oz Empire warship—

The soldiers on the ship watched as the Sea God Island vessel in the distance was gradually overwhelmed under the monsters’ siege until it was completely sunk beneath the sea. For a moment, they all fell silent.

Was this still the invincible Sea God Island?

The natural thunder pressure triggered earlier by Tina’s sea monster transformation had already filled them with dread, making them feel from the bottom of their hearts that it was an existence impossible to resist.

Who could have imagined that even after all that, Fang Heng had still defeated her?

Perhaps it was not that Sea God Island was too weak.

Perhaps it was simply that the man before them was too strong.

As everyone watched Fang Heng return to the ship, the awe in their eyes deepened even further.