Monsters Die When Killed

The next instant, the mountain crashed down.

Air and water alike were crushed by the Giant Whale’s weight of tens, even hundreds of millions of tons. The rushing tide, hundreds of meters deep, disintegrated, and the very atmosphere seemed to cry out in mourning. Boundless Spiritual Power swept over everything before gathering under the Water God’s control, coalescing into a single, crushing, downward force.

BOOM— It slammed Su Zhou’s triangular Gale Armor into the earth, its entire body crashing into the ground with a thunderous roar.

For a moment, the entire Three Lakes Land seemed to freeze.

Then came the deafening roar!

—RUUUUUUUMBLE!!!!!

Endless shockwaves radiated outward. The ground heaved up from the force of the Water God’s all-or-nothing blow, forming a crater-like Ring Mountain. The surrounding earth instantly sank several feet, then rippled up and down like water. At the point of impact, the tide was blasted away, temporarily exposing the damp ground beneath.

Even the storm and raging thunder in the sky were swept aside by the aftershock, momentarily falling silent.

But the Water God, who had delivered the blow, showed no victorious expression. On the contrary, its soul pulsed with utter astonishment.

’This feeling... That human, he’s not dead?!’

"I... blocked it!"

To the question the Water God had asked with its attack, Su Zhou’s answer was a resounding yes—he could block it!

Faced with the Water God’s attack—an attack terrifying even for the Commander Tier—Su Zhou’s layered defenses hadn’t held up completely. Most of his Whole Body Mist Armor had crumbled, with only the main triangular frame left intact. All over his body, Dragon Scales and bones had shattered from the strain of resisting and redirecting the immense force.

In fact, to guarantee his survival, Su Zhou had consumed all his remaining Holy Water and Jade Marrow. It was the only way to ensure he wouldn’t be knocked unconscious by the catastrophic injuries, only to be killed by the aftershocks.

He was wounded beyond belief... and yet, he had blocked the enemy’s certain-kill blow! Being small had its advantages; the enemy’s attack couldn’t fully concentrate on him. It made Su Zhou like a stubborn little pebble that, despite being struck again and again, simply refused to be crushed.

Now, his body’s regenerative reserves were completely gone. All the fat on his body had been consumed, the material reserves for regenerating vital areas totally depleted. To continue regenerating, he would have to cannibalize his own muscles to preserve his Spiritual Power Organs, or he could devour the four Evil Souls of the Water God’s followers he had in reserve.

But this was no time to worry about his injuries.

The perfect opportunity to counterattack had arrived!

In the single instant the Water God was immobilized after its all-out attack, Su Zhou finally found his chance for a close-quarters strike. Without hesitation, he drew the Dragon Horn Long Spear from his back. A translucent, cyan-white Wood Qi flowed from his soul and into the weapon.

The Dragon Horn Long Spear was only made from an Extraordinary Tier Demon Emperor’s Dragon Horn; it was nowhere near as durable as the Blade of Annihilation. Unless Su Zhou gathered his power and threw it, the spear would struggle to even pierce the Water God’s flesh.

But this time, Su Zhou did not empower it with Thunderbolt or Gale Power.

He used the Wisdom Tree Essence Soul!

The reason Su Zhou hadn’t used the Wisdom Tree Essence Soul when he was previously inside the Water God was that he knew the body’s rejection of a foreign object is a pure instinct. Like vomiting, it requires no conscious control. The God’s body could have simply expelled him during the induced epiphany, making the momentary confusion pointless while putting his enemy on high alert. Only now was the perfect time!

At the same time, the Giant Whale felt an unprecedented sense of danger from beneath it. It instantly realized this was a counterattack from the still-living Su Zhou. The lingering fear from when the human had invaded its body and nearly detonated its heart resurfaced. But now, unable to mobilize more power to crush him, it could only gather what little Spiritual Power it had left, forming a shield below its body to prevent Su Zhou from breaking inside again.

But Su Zhou’s strike was never meant to cause physical ’harm’.

SQUELCH— The Dragon Horn Long Spear slid gently into the Water God’s body. An invisible power surged forth, rushing with unstoppable momentum toward the Giant Whale’s Divine Soul.

And then, the mind of the enormous Giant Beast was flooded with sudden, perfect clarity.

’This... this feeling...’

In an instant, the Water God felt a profound enlightenment. Countless pieces of information it already knew, countless details it had ignored, countless inspirations and ideas it had never conceived of—all surged through its consciousness at once. It suddenly understood what Reincarnation was, the truth behind the turning of Eras between the Elements, the Source of all apocalypses, the hidden secrets of its own Era’s End, and... the distant future fate of this world and its people.

"Slow down, slow down! Let me see it more clearly!"

Everything flashed past like a fleeting dream. The Water God cried out in its mind, desperate to see more clearly, more definitively. It truly wanted to escape this apocalyptic cycle of Reincarnation and let its people live happily forever in the endless seas. But these were all just fleeting glimpses; it could see them faintly but could never truly grasp them.

WHOOSH— The sounds of Flame, Thunderbolt, and Gale began to surge!

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