# 566
**Chapter 567: The Sea of Divine War**
“What is that…”
Back inside the shattered city, Lin Qiye and the others sensed the sudden surge of evil aura, their expressions changing in unison.
He turned his head toward the dark-shrouded mountains in the distance, brows tightly knit.
“A god?” An Qingyu said uncertainly.
“Why is there *another* god?” Baili Pangpang exclaimed in disbelief. “Didn’t we already take out the Wind God and the Desert God? How is another one popping out of the mountains now?”
He groaned in frustration. “Sword Saint senior and Qiye’s mom aren’t here—what do we do now?”
Everyone froze at that line, then turned to Lin Qiye with odd looks.
Lin Qiye: “Why are you all staring at me?”
“Qiye, it’s all on you now,” Baili Pangpang said solemnly. “Your mom’s so overpowered, your dad’s gotta be a god too, right? If not him, then some aunt or uncle will do! Hurry up and summon them to steamroll everything.”
Lin Qiye: “…”
“What do you take me for, a second-generation god?” Lin Qiye couldn’t help retorting. “I’m just an ordinary guy from an ordinary family. That ‘mom’ just now was adopted—where would I get a bunch of divine aunts and uncles?”
Scan the entire Asylum of the Gods—Merlin’s the next likely discharge, but his treatment progress is still far from complete; he won’t be out any time soon.
And even if he did appear, fighting other gods in soul form would be a losing trade: hurt the enemy ten thousand, cripple yourself thirty thousand…
“So what do we do now?” Cao Yuan asked, frowning.
Lin Qiye gazed at the darkness-wrapped mountains for a moment, then turned toward another direction.
By now the broken city had drifted out over a stretch of ocean; faint surf echoed at its edges. Through the hazy fog they could see raging waves beneath their feet.
Lin Qiye shut his eyes, recalling the pre-Fog world map he had memorized and the route they had taken. Orienting by the sun, he estimated their position…
They were above the East China Sea.
“We’re not far from Great Xia,” he said. “There’s no way we can fight that god ourselves. We’ll have to count on the Human Apexes and the Night Watch… Let’s hope Commander Ye has people ready to back us up.”
…
Great Xia, southern-sea frontier.
Boom—boom—boom—!!!
Across a boundless, gloomy sea, endless waves and gale winds howled beneath leaden skies. The seawater seemed to boil, hundred-meter surges rising and falling amid whirlpools and hidden currents.
The entire sea had become a world-destroying human purgatory.
At the edge of the land, dozens of Night Watch agents in dark-red cloaks stood above the sea itself, charging toward the titanic breakers that threatened to slam ashore.
Each wave towered more than a hundred meters, and they were terrifyingly numerous, lining the coast and covering a vast area.
Should these walls of water crash inland, several coastal cities would be submerged.
Boom—!
All sorts of Forbidden Ruins erupted over the water, shredding the towering waves into spray that rained down on the land and cities behind.
In the briny downpour, a soaked Night Watch agent raised his blade and looked toward the source of the waves, fear flickering in his eyes.
“What kind of battle could cause this…?”
“A divine war,” the agent beside him answered. “About seven hundred nautical miles out, four Human Apexes are fighting four foreign gods. This is probably the largest human-versus-god battle in history—even the invasion twelve years ago doesn’t compare.”
Twelve years ago, only Gaia, the Earth Mother, and Loki, the Trickster God, had invaded Great Xia. Two years ago, though more gods had come, the battlefields were scattered, mostly probes and shows of force—nothing like this chaotic melee…
Only by witnessing it firsthand could one truly grasp the terror of gods.
And the actual battlefield lay more than seven hundred nautical miles away.
Had that clash been on Great Xia’s land instead of the sea, half a province would already be ruins.
“Four gods… Can the Apexes really win?” he asked worriedly.
His partner glanced at him, shattered another huge wave with a burst of energy, and let the cascading seawater soak them again.
“That level isn’t for us to worry about. We follow Commander Ye’s orders—keep these natural disasters away from the cities.”
“…Right.”
He sighed and tightened his grip on his hilt.
Still, a moment later he couldn’t help looking again toward the waves, anxiety in his eyes.
…
The Sea of Divine War.
In the gloomy sky, vicious lightning danced; figures collided, punching massive holes through thick storm clouds.
Sunlight and rain fell together over the sea. Waves rolled, lifting nearly a thousand meters like water pillars holding up the sky. From the depths, huge stones flew into the air, hanging like floating islands beneath sunbeams and thunderclouds…
Amid the chaos and ruin, a dream-like beauty shimmered, as though upon a vast, fantastical oil painting.
Bang-bang-bang—!!!
Explosions echoed like thunder. A colossal figure wrapped in golden Sanskrit, glaring like a vajra guardian, shot through the suspended boulders clutching a Straight Blade!
Each stone was punched with a gaping hundred-meter hole, dense blade cracks spider-webbing outward.
Chunks of rock whirled through the air but did not fall; they hung suspended.
Atop the largest central stone hovered a figure in dull-yellow linen, eyes blazing with divine light. He stretched out a hand and clawed at the air toward the onrushing golden form.
Geb, Egyptian god of earth, one of the Nine Pillars of Heliopolis.
Every floating boulder and shard rushed together, forming a continent-sized hand of rock that closed on Ye Fan.
Ye Fan’s dark-red cloak was in tatters, yet his skin still glowed with pale-gold Buddhist light. Gripping his blade, he roared, his body swelling several times over.
Moments later, a golden Buddha towered above the waves, hands pressed together, glaring up at the figure overhead.
The instant this golden Buddha appeared, ripples swept the churning sea, a terrifying, mighty aura spreading across heaven and earth.