Chapter 8: Breaking Through Together

“You, a cultivator at the Divine Handsome stage with weak attack power, relying only on your swift movement to challenge me, the Dragon Crocodile? Do you really think you’re invincible?”
The Dragon Crocodile repelled Qing Wu Gui with a wave of spells, roaring in fury as it charged forward.
Qing Wu Gui merely smiled faintly without responding. With a flash, he appeared once again in front of the Dragon Crocodile, his Condensing Water Sword radiating icy cold as he once more thrust it at the dragon’s eye, his killing intent fierce.
The Dragon Crocodile was furious. Qing Wu Gui’s attack power was clearly weak, yet he persistently attacked it—how annoying!
“Heaven and sea, nowhere to hide.”
The Dragon Crocodile roared, and in an instant, the entire ocean was filled with surging waves and cold currents, converging into rivers that covered the sky, enveloping Qing Wu Gui entirely.
This was the Dragon Crocodile’s true ultimate move—using the vibrations of the elemental spirits within its body to trigger vibrations in the primordial energies of metal, wood, water, and earth, creating an overwhelming ocean that sealed off all directions.
“Perfect,” Qing Wu Gui said, not afraid but rather pleased.
This spell, which used the vibrations of internal elemental spirits to stir the primordial energies of the world, forced the Dragon Crocodile to unleash all its understood laws of earth. For Qing Wu Gui, who practiced the art of killing, this was the ideal training ground.
“Laws of metal, wood, and water—break them! Laws of earth—gather around me!” Qing Wu Gui silently recited these words while activating his killing art and sensing his surroundings with his divine consciousness.
As expected, the primordial energies of metal, wood, water, and earth that sealed the space dissipated the moment they approached Qing Wu Gui, leaving only an endless stream of earth energy flowing toward him.
Pop, pop, pop…
The earth energy hitting Qing Wu Gui contained only one law—it couldn’t break through his body at the Divine Handsome stage. Apart from the sound, there was nothing else to see.
The Dragon Crocodile stared in shock, feeling powerless in the face of Qing Wu Gui’s ability to nullify the laws of metal, wood, and water. Its speed couldn’t surpass Qing Wu Gui’s, and its attack power had been reduced by three levels. What other options did it have?
For a long time, the Dragon Crocodile had been a powerful sea beast in this outer sea’s core area, believing it could dominate the entire region. But after witnessing Qing Wu Gui’s strength today, it realized it had been overly arrogant.

The ocean of primordial energy that blocked the sky quickly dissipated. The Dragon Crocodile had no mood to continue fighting with Qing Wu Gui.
“You dare to run!” Seeing the Dragon Crocodile show weakness, Qing Wu Gui snapped coldly. He was already in front of the Dragon Crocodile, his Water Condensation Sword emitting a chill as it pierced toward the Dragon Crocodile’s dragon eye.
The Dragon Crocodile flew into a rage. Did it really have to fight when it didn’t want to? This was too unfair.
“Heaven, sea, land, and ocean—there’s no place to hide,” the Dragon Crocodile roared again, filling the sky with another wave of primordial energy.
Qing Wu Gui retreated swiftly, then immersed himself once more in the magic of that energy flow. He expanded his consciousness to sense the various laws of Earthly Movement, a smile appearing on his face as he realized he had slain yet another such law.
In the path of slaying, Qing Wu Gui felt he was almost done.
“I ask, what do you want before you’ll let me go?” The Dragon Crocodile, noticing Qing Wu Gui’s serene and joyful expression, grew deeply puzzled and called out.
Through Qing Wu Gui’s several attacks, the Dragon Crocodile had sensed his murderous intent, but it had an intuition that Qing Wu Gui didn’t intend to kill it, so it was somewhat relieved.
Could he want me to be his sparring partner?
The Dragon Crocodile felt a hint of bitterness and looked at Qing Wu Gui helplessly.
“Dragon Crocodile, you must use all your strength. If you slack off even slightly, I will kill you,” Qing Wu Gui said coldly, sensing a perfunctory attitude in the Dragon Crocodile’s magic.
This made the Dragon Crocodile feel fear. It dared not relax at all and immediately activated its spiritual body, continuing to sustain the torrent of primordial energy in the sky as it rushed toward Qing Wu Gui.
Qing Wu Gui’s smile grew even wider.
Just then, in the sky over the distant ocean, Wu Yuan appeared, fleeing in terror.
“Qing Wu Gui, come save me! This Star Sea Mother Fish is too monstrous!” As he fled, Wu Yuan saw Qing Wu Gui and cried out excitedly.
Behind Wu Yuan, a giant fish resembling a turtle shell drifted on the sea. Its dorsal shell, visible above the surface, was twenty thousand meters long. The white waves it created as it moved reached heights of a thousand meters—utterly terrifying.
The Star Sea Mother Fish was one of the most powerful sea beasts in the outer sea’s core area. No one expected Wu Yuan to encounter it.
Seeing Wu Yuan approaching, Qing Wu Gui flew over immediately and stopped in the air with him, looking down at the Star Sea Mother Fish whose dorsal shell seemed to sparkle with countless stars.
Seeing Qing Wu Gui leave, the Dragon Crocodile heaved a huge sigh of relief. Without hesitation, it dived underwater and fled.

The Star Sea Mother Fish did not lift its entire body out of the sea. Seeing Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui standing still at one place, it let out a groan underwater, and instantly tens of thousands of water columns rose from the sea surface, like tens of thousands of water guns shooting into the air, blocking the entire ocean sky.
“Impressive,” Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui exclaimed in admiration.
At the same time, they also took action. One of them unleashed the Path of Slaying, directly affecting the laws of metal, wood, water, and fire in the surrounding area, rendering all the water columns ineffective.
Wu Yuan, who was beside Qing Wu Gui, easily dispersed the incoming water columns with his Nine Heavens Staff.
“Qing Wu, it’s so easy being with you,” Wu Yuan laughed heartily, no longer showing any signs of fear from before.
Qing Wu Gui merely smiled faintly before turning his serious gaze toward the sea surface.
The Star Sea Mother Fish was clearly enraged. It hadn’t expected its invincible ultimate attack to fail like this. Unwilling to accept defeat, it prepared to unleash another powerful spell to kill the two of them.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Suddenly, the Star Sea Mother Fish began to vibrate violently, creating massive waves with a wavelength of a kilometer that spread outward. From beneath its body, countless silver-colored fish-like creatures flew out. These creatures, resembling silver guns and about one meter long each, gathered together to form a river of light that soared into the air, sweeping toward Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui.
“Qing Wu, this is the Star Sea Mother Fish’s most powerful ability. They are all the silver fish living inside it. Each one possesses the cultivation level of Divine General, and their integrated spiritual entities are not uniform—there are all five types. Once they attack, it’s impossible to defend against,” Wu Yuan shouted urgently, clearly already injured by the attack of these silver fish.
Hearing Wu Yuan’s words, Qing Wu Gui’s face lit up with ecstasy, as if he had been waiting for this moment.
Countless silver fish filled the air, surrounding Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui, then frantically unleashed spells. Various spiritual entities took on countless shapes, flying at them.
Indeed, their power was immense. Even a Divine King would likely have to dodge rather than confront this attack head-on.
The Path of Slaying was fully activated.
Qing Wu Gui’s expression turned solemn. With each swing of his Condensing Water Sword, he exerted all his strength, spreading the Path of Slaying. Any spells formed from those spiritual entities that involved the laws of metal, wood, water, or fire quickly dissipated.

Naturally, the spells that approached Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui turned into spells at the Divine Being level, while those formed from the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and spirit simply dissipated. Qing Wu Gui employed the art of slaughter, and Wu Yuan also couldn’t stay idle—he wildly swung his Nine Heavens Staff, with each swing equivalent to a hundred strikes, creating numerous illusions to defend against waves of spell attacks. Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui managed to withstand them with ease.

Suddenly, the Star Sea Mother Fish leaped out of the sea, reaching a length of 100,000 meters. Its head, the size of a kilometer, had dark black scales, and its back resembled a turtle shell. It had a hundred tails, presenting a truly terrifying and eerie sight. The moment it emerged, it opened its mouth, unleashing a suction force that could devour stars, sucking Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui into its body.

“Daring to challenge me? Then death is inevitable. By devouring you two, two more silver fish will be born within me,” said the Star Sea Mother Fish coldly before diving back into the sea and disappearing.

Inside its body, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui immediately sensed that their surroundings were filled with fish eggs, and they themselves had become objects within one of those eggs, as if their entire bodies were about to melt. Yet, both of them burst into loud laughter.

“Star Sea Mother Fish, these fish eggs in your body first control the souls of the cultivators you devour before merging their bodies to eventually give birth to a silver fish. But you didn’t expect that my soul is quite special.”

After saying this, they still felt uneasy—the fish eggs were filled with viscous primordial energy of the five elements, which was eroding their flesh simultaneously.

“Strike with the staff!”
“Kill!”

Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui shouted from within their respective eggs. One swung his staff while the other drew his sword, fighting back against the relentless primordial energy of the five elements.

At a certain moment:
“Soul Yellow Pearl, awaken!”
“Five elements of heaven and earth—Earth element law, strike!”

Amidst the battle within the eggs, Wu Yuan awakened the last Soul Pearl in his soul space, while Qing Wu Gui destroyed the last law. With these two cries, clouds of brilliance gathered above the core area of the outer sea, accompanied by dazzling light and totemic lightning that covered the entire sky. This was the celestial sign of a Divine King’s birth!

Suddenly, the mighty Star Sea Mother Fish exploded, creating two enormous, deep craters in the ocean that reached the seabed. Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui flew up from the seabed, looking at each other and laughing heartily.