Chapter 329: Section 116: Huh?!
The gap between the Silver Level and Legendary was just too vast.
The combat skill of the cold snap birds was only of a probing nature. Hundreds of fighting energy cold birds were weakened by the Divine Domain and then almost all were instantly taken down by the High Priest’s Holy Domain.
But this combat skill was very cunning; it managed to reignite from death.
Only one cold bird dove at the Fishman youth.
The youth hadn’t even truly come into contact with the fighting energy cold bird before he was nearly killed.
In a critical moment, the High Priest threw herself forward, standing in front of the youth!
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She too was at the end of her tether, but used her own body as a shield, blocking the deadly fighting energy cold bird.
The fighting energy surged into her body, immediately freezing her internal organs to death, her blood congealing.
“High Priest!” the Fishman youth exclaimed.
The High Priest had suffered a fatal blow and collapsed directly.
The Fishman youth hurriedly supported her.
“Quick, take our Lord away from here…” The High Priest’s eyes were lifeless, her tone extremely weak. Her eyes flashed a cold light, then quickly solidified into ice. Almost in the next moment, her eye sockets were filled with solid ice, her eyeballs directly destroyed by the freeze.
The Fishman youth gritted his teeth. At this moment, his mind was tumultuous, his emotions extremely complex!
He knew that he and this Mei Lan High Priest were enemies.
But a series of events had unfolded through a bizarre twist of fate.
The youth remembered his identity, deeply dreaded the High Priest, and remained on guard at all times.
But when the High Priest preferred to sacrifice herself to protect him, the Fishman youth’s heart became somewhat disarrayed.
“High Priest…” The Fishman youth slowly laid the High Priest down on the ground.
He had to withdraw his hands to avoid touching the High Priest’s body.
Because the surface of the High Priest’s body also began to show a layer of white frost.
The frost spread rapidly before one’s eyes, accumulating and solidifying into ice, enveloping her arms, the tips of her hair, her snake tail.
Soon after, the ice encased her in the floor tiles.
Boom, boom, boom…
A series of explosions rang out, and the god incarnation came to aid at a critical moment, momentarily repelling Man Zhuang and was now doing his utmost to intercept Zhao Ya.
Thanks to the suppression of the Divine Domain, although they were fighting with all their might, the residual effects had been suppressed to the extreme.
“Ah ah ah ah!”
Man Zhuang roared, charging forward again.
“It’s over.” Zhao Ya laughed heartily, unleashing a combat skill he had been cultivating for a long time, forming chains that bound him and the god incarnation together.
The god incarnation became incredibly anxious but was restrained, only able to watch as Man Zhuang rushed towards Mei Lan’s true form.
Mei Lan’s brows almost knitted into a knot. The exquisite mermaid seemed to be trapped in a nightmare, with a haggard expression that was immensely pitiable.
“Cough.”
She suddenly let out a light cough.
Instantly, a powerful surge of Divine Power spread out violently.
The divine wave swept over the Fishman youth and the High Priest, seemingly intangible. But when it hit Man Zhuang, it was solid to the core.
Man Zhuang was like an ordinary person who had been struck head-on by a charging elephant.
He vomited blood, his body uncontrollably flung backward.
Enraged, he bellowed furiously and struck out in retreat, ruthlessly hurling the Truth Divine Pupil.
The Truth Divine Pupil, like a shooting star, drew a brilliant trail of light through the waves, easily breaking through the Divine Power surge, and struck directly at Mei Lan’s true form.
Mei Lan was illuminated by the Light of Truth on her face, her dense eyelashes trembling slightly, showing signs of waking up!
The Fishman youth glared, his heart’s alarm bells ringing violently at this moment.
Once Mei Lan is awakened, She would likely immediately discern the youth’s reality.
“No—!” Although the High Priest was blind, she still retained her keen perception of the outside world.
At this moment, she let out a scream of despair.
Because she was very clear that once Mei Lan is awakened, no matter how many times She could act before death, Her ending would be a fall.
“We won!” Zhao Ya couldn’t help but clench his fists, elated.
The other spectators couldn’t help but focus their attention on the small Truth Divine Pupil.
Without a doubt, this was fatal to Mei Lan!
Watching the Truth Divine Pupil shooting toward her, the Fishman youth’s pupils constricted, nearly falling into despair as well.
“Damn it, is everything going to end here?”
He was unwilling to accept this.
He had too many things left undone!
He needed to lead everyone together, to atone and be redeemed.
He also had to wake up Zi Di.
He further had to search for his own origins, to find his missing memories.
The distance between the Truth Divine Pupil and Mei Lan’s true form closed rapidly.
The Truth Divine Light shined on Mei Lan’s form, causing the Goddess’s complexion to grow even paler, her brow furrowed in a show of pain.
Perhaps in the next moment, She would wake up!
Subconsciously, the Fishman youth stood in front of the shell throne, using his body to shield Mei Lan from the Truth Divine Light.
The Divine Light shone on him, and the youth immediately felt the Pearl Bubble in his mouth rapidly depleting.
He had never seen the Pearl Bubble get consumed so intensely!
After a few breaths, only three Pearl Bubbles remained.
The Truth Divine Pupil finally shot towards the Shell Throne.
“No—!” Mei Lan, the High Priest, sensing this, tried to leap up and use her body as a shield to protect her faith.
But she was nearly entirely frozen to the floor tiles.
The force of her attempts to break free caused tiny cracks to form on the ice covering her body.
She remained fixed to the ground, unsuccessful.
Only the Fishman youth was left.
He could not let Mei Lan awaken!
Once awakened, the Pearl Bubbles could no longer deceive Mei Lan’s true form.
In fact, deceiving the divine embodiment of a deity was very difficult. After all, Mermaid’s Fairy Tale was originally Mei Lan’s Divine Artifact.
The reason the Fishman youth had managed to come this far was partly because Mei Lan’s divine embodiment was merely a fake product of the Divine Domain combined with Divine Power, not a true divine embodiment.
On the other hand, the immense external pressure brought by the Barbarian powerhouses caused Mei Lan, the High Priests, and others to focus their primary attention on dealing with the Barbarians, sparing no time or energy to scrutinize and examine the Fishman youth.
What would happen if Mei Lan awoke and realized the Fishman youth was a fraud, full of rage?
And after Mei Lan awoke, if her injuries were too severe to recover from, she would perish. Even if the Fishman youth miraculously survived, with Mei Lan dead, her Divine Power would vanish at the source. What would happen to Mermaid’s Fairy Tale then?
Thus, the Fishman youth had to block the Truth Divine Pupil!
Lacking strength, lacking means, he still had to brace himself and block it!
And so, with the Divine Pupil shooting towards him, the youth extended his palm.
Snap.
A soft noise.
He successfully caught the Divine Pupil and gripped it tightly in his hand.
The light of the Divine Pupil then extinguished.
The Fishman youth… just like that, got hold of the Truth Divine Pupil.
For a moment, everyone’s movement stiffened like stone, their expressions blank.
“No—uh!” Mei Lan, the High Priest’s scream came to an abrupt halt.
The whole chaotic and noisy battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone’s gaze was dumbfoundedly fixed on the Fishman youth, looking at the Truth Divine Pupil in his hand.
“Huh?!” On the Mother Tree pirate ship, Hua Ya let out a cry of shock, tearing through the silence on the battlefield.
Boom!
An uproar spread among the crowd of onlookers.
“How could this be!?”
The Sea Giant leader couldn’t help but vigorously rub his eyes, doubting what he had seen.
“Beautifully done!” Feng Yao loudly praised, his heart almost leaping out of his throat a moment ago.
“Could this still be an illusion, and we are all being deceived by the Mei Lan deity?” Hua Ya was at a loss.
A huge crisis seemed to be resolved just like that.
The reality and the discrepancy from expectations left everyone struggling to accept it.
“What the hell just happened?” Filled with such amazement and doubt, more and more gazes turned to Man Zhuang.
Thud.
Man Zhuang’s eyes closed as he collapsed to the ground.
The Divine Power of the Barbarian God rapidly dissipated, and his body, which had swelled to more than double its size, gradually returned to normal.
He had passed out completely.
Everyone: …
“I shouldn’t have expected anything from this idiot!” Zhao Ya cursed inwardly and hurried over to snatch Man Zhuang away.
Man Zhuang was severely injured, with some wounds bleeding uncontrollably and others deep enough to show bone. Without the support of Divine Power, his condition was very grim, as his Life Breath sharply plummeted.
With such an outcome, Zhao Ya couldn’t really blame Man Zhuang. He boarded the Barbarian warship and handed Man Zhuang over to the warriors aboard: “Take good care of him.”
“Lord Man Zhuang…” A Barbarian Witch Doctor immediately took over Man Zhuang.
People began to understand.
“Man Zhuang had already reached his limit earlier, but he kept forcing himself because of the Berserk state.”
“So, the throwing of the Truth Divine Pupil he did earlier, although it seemed mighty, actually had very little strength, like the last arrow.”
“No, I think that the last throw of the Truth Divine Pupil was actually very powerful, but during its flight, it was strongly countered by Mei Lan’s Divine Domain, suffering a great reduction in strength.”
While the crowd was abuzz with discussion, the Fishman youth was also examining the Truth Divine Pupil in his hand.
This was an eye of the God of Truth, filled with Divinity and laws. It was of the same quality as the greedy phalanges, both being Demi-divine Artifacts.
Because of the Divine Authority and Divinity, it was incredibly powerful, highly effective against Mei Lan who specialized in deception and disguise.
But Mermaid’s Fairy Tale was a Divine Artifact, surpassing the Truth Divine Pupil by half a rank. Therefore, after the Fishman youth used the Pearl Bubble against the divine embodiment, the effect was immediate and significant, greatly weakening the gaze of the Divine Pupil.
“But how did I end up with the Truth Divine Pupil?”
The Fishman youth was filled with shock, joy, and many weird emotions.
He had not harbored any hope, but he had succeeded, smoothly holding his ground.
This ease and smoothness were far beyond expectation.
It was as though it had been deliberately passed to him.
“No, at that moment just now, did I seem to hear a… beastly roar?”
The youth quickly discarded this stray thought and concentrated all his attention, staring intently at the Barbarian side. He knew that even though he had unexpectedly obtained the Truth Divine Pupil, it was just a narrow escape; the situation was still under the Barbarians’ control.