Chapter 1294: Entering the City

The moment the vow was uttered, Chen Ling felt the green worm inside him melt. It seemed to transform into a life form Chen Ling couldn't comprehend, burrowing deep into his soul and vanishing without a trace.

Simultaneously, crimson eyes angrily opened from the void behind Chen Ling. Chouzai, lurking deep within Chen Ling's soul, seemed to sense an offense. The Vow Gu cultivated by Chu Changqing actually contained power originally belonging to Chouzai! Chu Changqing had forcefully cultivated the Chouzai power he had absorbed into his own weapon, which he then used against Chouzai itself! It was like giving Chen Ling a vaccine shot. This was why Chu Changqing was confident the Vow Gu would be effective against Chouzai: he knew Chouzai was a creature prone to severe internal conflict, so theoretically, the most certain way to harm Chouzai was with Chouzai's own power.

Boom—!! Surging, world-destroying aura uncontrollably erupted from Chen Ling, forming a towering crimson pillar that shot towards the sky! As the two Chouzai powers collided, Chen Ling's body visibly spiraled out of control. The hem of his large red opera robe extended infinitely like red paper, and his body occasionally fragmented into fine red paper, then barely reformed into a human shape.

"What have you done??" Teacher Ye turned to question Chu Changqing upon seeing this. Chu Changqing seemed unsurprised by Chen Ling's current state. He calmly replied, "There are always some rejection reactions after receiving a 'vaccine'... It will be fine in a moment."

Chen Ling, in his semi-Calamity state, his chest heaving violently, continuously manipulated his corporealization ability, attempting to suppress the abnormal activity, but it seemed difficult to do so quickly. Chen Ling himself certainly had time, but he knew the Assimilation Faction did not. While suppressing his uncontrolled body, he roared in a low voice, "Get them!!!"

Chu Changqing knew what Chen Ling was referring to. His teal eyes looked towards the void nearby. The next moment, the lake surface, which had been covered in frost, became active again. Hundreds of fish fry simultaneously appeared from beneath the water, as if they had finally received a summons, scrambling to leap up and down on the surface, a vibrant vitality spreading across the lake! Only then did Chen Ling realize that when Lord Nanhai was entangled with Jizai earlier, he hadn't been using his full power at all. Most of his combat strength had been hidden around the lakeside pavilion. This wasn't because Chu Changqing wanted to conceal his abilities or be lazy; rather, in his eyes, the Chouzai before them was more dangerous than the Jizai beneath the sea. Now that the threat of Chouzai had vanished, he could finally unleash his full power to confront Jizai! As Chu Changqing waved his hand, these fish fry simultaneously sank to the bottom of the lake, vanishing without a trace.

Thump—! Thump—!! From the bottom of the deep sea, sky-obscuring tentacles repeatedly slammed against the back of the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle. Even though the surging characters tried their best to sever them, they still couldn't keep up with the tentacles' extension speed.

An old man's sigh echoed from the void. Immediately after, the surging characters rapidly converged on the turtle's back, gradually outlining the figure of an old man in black robes. The old man's gaze swept over the surging sea below. The next moment, the hundreds of millions of characters swirling in the air trembled violently. Characters with similar meanings began to merge and overlap, evolving towards their most primordial forms, regardless of how they were expressed in different eras, like a centuries-long reunion of characters with their ancient roots. Within a mere ten seconds, these hundreds of millions of historical characters merged into just a few thousand distinct forms. Each character was the size of a basketball, spread out like a wall behind the old man, emanating a profound sense of ancientness. As the old man raised a hand and pointed, one ancient character, imbued with an extremely profound aura, shot skyward! —Heaven.

The ancient character for "Heaven" gradually merged into the void, as if becoming one with the rules of this world. But as the same character began to form in the sky, the firmament for hundreds of kilometers around began to shake violently! The next moment, this section of the sky was forcibly pulled down. A vast, dark curtain rapidly expanded in everyone's eyes, like an apocalyptic sight. Boom—!! Under the old man's guidance, the sky covering hundreds of kilometers crashed onto the sea surface, like a merciless, colossal millstone, directly crushing and exploding the wildly flailing Jizai tentacles. The Forbidden Sea Calamities that had not yet managed to burrow into the seabed were also directly smashed. A single character crushed the tentacles extending from the seabed, instantly annihilating hundreds of Forbidden Sea Calamities along with them! After using this character, the old man's face turned pale, and he violently spat out a mouthful of blood. The wall of characters behind him began to dissipate, and his body became visibly transparent, as if this single attack had consumed an immense amount of his mental energy. However, the effect was undeniably remarkable. After this strike, all resistance that had entangled the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle was eliminated, and the Nanhai Domain began to move at an extremely high speed, fully approaching the nearby coast.

As the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle tilted its head back and exhaled, hundreds of massive miraculous creatures gushed forth from it. A third of them immediately dove into the seabed, intercepting the continuous stream of Calamities rising back to the surface. Another third dedicated their full strength to breaking through the ice for the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle. And the final third, like a sharp arrow, shot directly towards a certain direction on the sea surface!

"Those monsters are coming for us!" Linglong exclaimed. The moment these words were uttered, everyone's heart leaped into their throats. The few high-level Assimilators who still had combat power immediately stood in front of the children, seemingly ready for a desperate fight.

Just then, Teacher Ye, standing behind them, suddenly opened his eyes wide! "Don't resist!!" he shouted. Everyone paused, but the next second, they unhesitatingly retracted their Calamity-transformed bodies, standing on the path and watching as the terrifying-looking miraculous creatures approached. They were indeed uneasy and afraid, but at that moment, they trusted Teacher Ye's judgment more.

As it turned out, Teacher Ye was right. The miraculous creatures did not attack the members of the Assimilation Faction. Instead, they first dove into the seabed beneath the path, then rose up, their massive bodies directly carrying the exhausted Assimilation Faction members, and then rushed at full speed towards the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle, which was nearing the shore! The children of the Assimilation Faction initially gasped in surprise, then, realizing they hadn't fallen into the sea but were being carried by these creatures, they shouted with joy: "They're here to take us to the Nanhai Domain!!" "We're saved!!"

Dozens of miraculous creatures, carrying all the Assimilation Faction members, rode the waves through the Forbidden Sea, eventually reaching the edge of the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's shell. The turtle's shell, which had been completely sealed, now revealed a gap. The entrance to the Nanhai Domain was fully open to all of them.