novelsite Chapter 324 One-finger instant kill of the Spirit King, cooking hot pot in front of the whole world.
Chapter 324 One-finger instant kill of the Spirit King, cooking hot pot in front of the whole world.
Sunlight shone directly on the sea, and the colossal iceberg, three thousand meters high, was held firmly in the palm of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor. The refracted seven-colored halo covered an area of a hundred miles, and even a trace of the ancient powerhouse's aura slumbering within the ice caused the surrounding seawater to stop churning.
Lu Sheng stood on the left shoulder of the Emperor's Dharma Image, his black robe fluttering in the sea breeze. He glanced down at the disciples of Ascension Island below, who were scattered like a school of startled fish, his expression unchanged.
"Find an open space to put it down."
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the entire venue.
With all six arms raised, the Emperor's Dharma Image slammed the iceberg, which carried the legacy of the Immortal Qin Dynasty, heavily onto a seabed foundation on the east side of Ascension Island.
The deafening roar and the hundred-meter-high waves it generated were instantly suppressed by Lu Sheng's casual gesture. The sea area within a ten-mile radius was as if forcibly held down by an invisible giant mirror, and the storm subsided in an instant.
This control over force caused Dao Yi's eye to twitch slightly. He hadn't yet recovered from the shock of the "Starry Sky Grand Ceremony".
"Young Island Master, those remains..."
Just as Dao Yi was about to speak, he was interrupted by a dense array of black dots on the distant horizon.
That was a fleet of warships.
Dozens of steel behemoths, each over 500 meters long, were cutting through the waves. The flags hanging on their masts were a jumbled mess, some depicting the "Oracle" with six-winged angels, others the "Pantheon" with ancient Roman shields.
"They're really fast."
Lu Sheng stroked his chin, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes.
These Western powers have been entrenched in the open ocean since the True Sea was restored, and now that they have sensed the presence of the Immortal Qin Heroes' Tomb, they are clearly restless.
In less than fifteen minutes, the joint investigation team's warships had sealed off the perimeter of Dengxian Island.
On the lead platinum warship stood a burly man clad in platinum heavy armor. The energy core on his chest emitted a deep blue light, and his aura was stable at the level 46 Spirit King realm.
"The Oracle, Judge Gabriel."
The burly man spoke in a strange tone amplified by spiritual power, "Lu Sheng, on behalf of the Global United Parliament, we condemn your illegal excavation of ancient and dangerous relics."
Lu Sheng ignored him. He took out a huge black cauldron from his storage space.
The tripod, ten meters in diameter, was a prototype of an imperial artifact that he had taken from the Kunlun Treasury. He casually tossed it into the center of the deck.
"Old man, add more firewood."
Li Xiaoyao was stunned, not yet reacting. Lu Sheng had already pulled out a heart the size of a millstone, still steaming hot, from his pocket.
That was the heart of that level 45 giant octopus king.
"Gabriel, is that right?"
As Lu Sheng tossed the heart into the cauldron, he poured divine essence into it. "What do you want to say? Speak louder, I'm busy preparing breakfast."
Gabriel's face flushed crimson instantly. He had roamed the Western Seas with impunity; he had never witnessed such an humiliating way of talking while cooking hot pot.
"These heroes' remains belong to all of humanity!"
Gabriel rose into the air, his metal mech wings unfurling behind him, intricate construct runes flowing within them. "Immortal Qin technology is the key to resolving the Abyss crisis. According to the convention, you must hand over at least half of the iceberg resources for the joint investigation team to take back for research."
"Yes! This is for the greater good!"
A red-robed female mage from the Western European "Pantheon" also flew out, her eyes greedily fixed on the iceberg. "Lu Sheng, you can't swallow so much karma all by yourself. Sharing is your only way to survive."
Lu Sheng finally raised his head. He patted the cauldron, and dark golden desolate flames instantly ignited at the bottom of the cauldron.
An indescribable aroma of meat wafted out, accompanied by a powerful spiritual pressure.
"The Way of One".
Lu Sheng called out.
Dao Yi quickly stepped forward: "Yes."
"Tell them how much the admission fee will be."
Lu Sheng scooped up a spoonful of boiling hot broth, blew on it, and looked serious.
Dao Yi gave a bitter laugh, then turned to face the Western experts, his tone returning to its coldness: "The young island lord has ordered that the waters around Ascension Island have entered a period of silence. To see the iceberg is one top-grade spirit crystal. To get within a hundred meters is ten. As for the distribution..."
He paused, his eyes turning slightly cold, and said, "You can try to see if you can get out of this sea alive."
"Arrogant!"
Gabriel roared. The core power reactors of the warship fleet behind him began to operate at overload.
A series of azure beams converged on the surface of the ship, and the energy fluctuations vaguely resembled those of the Immortal Qin mecha.
Lu Sheng's eyes flickered slightly.
He discovered that the core node of the mecha wings behind Gabriel was also a fusion of pink flesh and machinery.
"It seems that the heart had a backup plan in more than one place."
Lu Sheng inwardly grumbled, but said aloud, "If you can't produce top-grade spirit crystals, you can pay with your life."
"court death!"
Gabriel lost his patience. As a high-ranking member of the "Oracle," he knew the value of that iceberg. If he could seize it, he would have a chance to reach the Spirit Emperor realm.
"The Hand of God—Purification!"
Gabriel made a grasping motion with one hand, and the mecha wings on his back instantly disintegrated, transforming into countless tiny floating cannons that reassembled in the air into a giant metal hand, slamming down on Lu Sheng with overwhelming force.
This blow was enough to flatten a small city.
Lu Sheng sat by the cauldron, too lazy to even get up.
He simply extended a finger and flicked it lightly at the enormous metal hand.
"roll."
A ripple of dark gold spread out from his fingertips.
There was no violent collision. The seemingly invincible metal hand, upon contact with the ripples, vanished inch by inch, like a sand sculpture dried for a thousand years, starting from its fingertips.
The power of desolation.
This kind of direct annihilation at the molecular level made Gabriel's attack a joke.
"This...this is impossible!"
Gabriel tried to retract his power in terror, but the ripples, connected by energy, instantly backfired on his body.
Click.
Gabriel's platinum armor shattered. His proud Spirit King body was as fragile as a piece of paper in the face of that finger force.
He was like a cannonball, launched thousands of meters away, and crashed heavily onto the mast of the platinum warship.
"That is..."
The mages of the Pantheon fell completely silent.
One finger.
They destroyed a level 46 peak Spirit King.
Lu Sheng lowered his head, took a sip of soup, and smacked his lips, seemingly complaining that there wasn't enough salt.
He turned his head and glanced at the group of warships that were still hesitating.
"I've said it before, this place will belong to the Lu family from now on."
Lu Sheng slowly stood up. With each inch he rose, the thousand-meter-tall Desolate Heavenly Emperor became one step more solidified.
Until those six enormous Dharma arms covered the entire sky.
"Those who cross the red line shall be killed."
"Those who provoke verbally shall be killed."
"Those who harbor greed..."
Lu Sheng grinned, a chilling glint of ferocity flashing in his double-crossed pupils. "Put them all in the pot."
boom!
He waved his hand casually.
A gray-white blade of air stretched across tens of thousands of meters of sea surface.
The platinum warship belonging to the "Oracle" along with its proud holy light shield was neatly sliced in two by this blade.
The warship's core power reactor shut down instantly without exploding, because the energy rules were forcibly erased, leaving it without even the chance to explode.
The massive ship, weighing tens of thousands of tons, silently capsized to both sides and sank into the sea.
The sea was deathly silent.
The once aggressive joint investigation team now resembled chickens with their necks choked, not daring to utter a single plea for mercy.
This absolute suppression of power was beyond their comprehension.
"Spirit stones...we'll pay!"
An elder from the Pantheon trembled as he pulled out two top-grade spirit crystals from his robes and sent them to Dao Yi from afar.
Lu Sheng sat back down by the cauldron and used the Dragon Devouring Spear to pick up a piece of cooked sea beast meat.
"Dao Yi, keep the accounts."
"From now on, I will be in charge of the rules for this sea. Whoever contributes the most spirit crystals will be granted the right to care for the remains of an ancient powerhouse."
He never intended to keep them for himself. These remains would slowly release an energy that purifies the abyss under the sunlight; placing them on Ascension Island would be both a blessing and a curse.
Using these remains, he could turn all the holy sites in the world into his "agents" for Lu Sheng.
Just as everyone on Dengxian Island was immersed in the ecstasy of their young island master sweeping across the globe.
Lu Sheng paused slightly as he picked up some food.
He looked towards the horizon in the distance.
There, a thin layer of gray mist appeared at some point.
In the fog, a ghost ship, entirely black with no masts or sails, was approaching at an extremely eerie speed.
On the dark bow of the ship hung a tattered flag.
At the center of the flag is a huge, bleeding, single eye.
The Emperor Mark within Lu Sheng's body emitted an unprecedented burning sensation the moment that eye appeared.
"The real culprit has come knocking?"
He lowered his spear, watching the approaching black ship, his eyes flashing with a maddening gray light.
From deep within the ship's cabin came an aura that made him feel extremely hungry.
That was... the smell of another ancient emperor's remains.