Chapter 164: What Are You Expecting?

The eyes of the sea god's familiar flickered as it carefully analyzed how Su Mu killed the sea monsters and leviathans. The scenes flashed through its mind like a slideshow.

Suddenly, it noticed something unusual. Every time Su Mu obliterated a sea monster, he physically touched the black fleshy tentacles on its body.

'Something is wrong! Something is very wrong!'

'Why must he touch the black tentacles to erase the sea monsters? How could divine power be so inconvenient? If he could truly wield divine power without limits, he could just control that azure light to instantly clear out all the sea monsters and leviathans around him. Why go to such great lengths to make physical contact?'

'And why must it be the black tentacles? If the condition for using his divine power is physical contact, wouldn't touching them anywhere else work?'

As a sea god's familiar, it naturally knew what the black tentacles were. They were special organs existing somewhere between soul and flesh, capable of reaching directly into an opponent's soul and extracting it.

'The soul... the soul!? I understand now!'

A sharp glint flashed through the eyes of the sea god's familiar. It had finally figured out the condition for releasing Su Mu's divine power: soul contact!

'It seems the authority controlled by the deity behind Su Mu is related to the soul. That's why he's so fixated on the black tentacles. In that case, as long as I don't give him a chance to touch them and instead use overwhelming power to kill him directly, wouldn't that mean...'

"Friend, what are you expecting?"

A gentle voice suddenly rang out from right behind the sea god's familiar.

"What!?" The sea god's familiar was violently shaken. It looked back in disbelief, only to see Su Mu standing behind it with a smile, dressed in black. His dark clothes blended perfectly into the depths of the sea. If one didn't look closely, it merely looked like a pale human face floating at the bottom of the ocean!

'This is impossible!'

The sea god's familiar panicked. It had clearly seen Su Mu swimming away into the distance. How could he suddenly appear right behind it?

However, it didn't even have time to think, because Su Mu had already reached out a hand toward it.

The sea god's familiar tried to dodge, but caught off guard by the ambush, it ultimately lost the initiative to Su Mu.

A pale, slender hand grabbed one of the black fleshy tentacles on the sea god's familiar's back with unerring precision.

The eyes of the sea god's familiar shot wide. At this moment, it finally understood how those undead sirens had felt. The moment the black tentacle fell into Su Mu's grasp, it connected directly to his soul.

Then, a boundless, radiant azure light suddenly flared up, surging down the black tentacle to engulf the sea god's familiar's body.

In that instant, the immortal creature felt death!

Just as its body was about to be obliterated by the azure light, its survival instincts took over. The shrill, agonizing roars of countless souls suddenly erupted from within it as those souls were continuously shattered.

In their place, a power as vast, mysterious, and irresistible as the ocean itself surged forth.

This power seemed to descend from the highest dimension, completely exceeding the limits of human imagination.

Swish!

A dense blue light surfaced over the sea god's familiar's body, meeting the azure light of the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity head-on.

The blue and azure lights surged upward, reflecting off each other and dyeing the entire ocean in two colors. The two forces locked together in a fierce stalemate.

However, this stalemate only lasted for a moment before the azure light began to push back the blue light, creeping steadily over the sea god's familiar.

The sea god's familiar was terrified. It wasn't that the Sea God's power was failing to hold on, but rather that the souls it had accumulated over the years were rapidly depleting, causing the Sea God's divine power it could wield to weaken drastically.

Struck by a chilling fear, it took advantage of the brief deadlock between the two divine powers, violently thrusting out its green-scaled hand to ruthlessly chop down on the black tentacle on its back!

"Ah!!"

The agony of severing its own soul made the sea god's familiar scream miserably, but it successfully escaped from Su Mu's demonic clutches.

Naturally, Su Mu had no intention of letting it go. He immediately chased after the sea god's familiar. Unfortunately, deep in the ocean, it was impossible for him to catch up to a sea god's familiar that was dead set on escaping.

In just a few breaths, the sea god's familiar disappeared into the deep sea, leaving no trace behind.

Su Mu's eyes narrowed slightly as he stopped in his tracks. Watching its miserable retreating figure, a profound, enigmatic smile curled his lips.

"You can't escape," he murmured, his faint words drifting away into the seawater.

He examined his own soul and found that the azure light, which was originally set to cover his entire body in two days, had actually receded a bit. Although it hadn't receded by much, it had successfully extended his life by another day.

For that reason alone, the sea god's familiar had to die!

Afterward, Su Mu swam upward and found Mu Qing and the others. Their battle with the sea monsters had long since reached a fever pitch.

Mu Qing and Lu Dongliang were worthy of being Silver powerhouses. Even though their Sequence ranks weren't high, it was impossible for the sea monsters to defeat them in a short amount of time.

Mu Qing manipulated the seaweed in the ocean, frequently strangling a large swath of sea monsters to death with just a wave of her hand. She didn't flinch when facing the incoming giant leviathans, either. Pulling a pale green potion from her clothes, she tossed it directly into a leviathan's bloody maw. Then, her slender hands swayed silently.

Countless thick trees, vines, and blooming flowers burst forth from the leviathan's massive body, tearing and impaling it from the inside out.

Unfortunately, no matter how much they dominated the battle, it was completely useless. With a dull splash, these dead sea monsters and leviathans would dissolve into seawater, only to resurrect from the ocean a short time later.

Compared to the visual spectacle of Mu Qing's combat, Lu Dongliang's fighting style was simple and brutal. Glowing entirely crimson, he looked like a human meat grinder. He plunged headfirst into a leviathan's body, his hands frantically tearing apart its flesh and bones to completely dismantle it in a matter of moments.

As for Yang Dongqing? Better left unsaid.

At that moment, he was hiding listlessly inside the mouth of a giant man-eating flower. It was obvious that he had been attacked by the black tentacles and was now being protected by Mu Qing.

As time went on, the pair's battle grew increasingly difficult. Facing unkillable enemies, they had expended far too much energy.

At this moment, Su Mu finally made his move.

Like a ghost, he drifted past the towering leviathans. Because of their massive size, their movements were extremely clumsy, making it effortless for Su Mu to exploit their weak points.

With a flash of azure light, a shocking scene unfolded.

Wherever Su Mu passed, the colossal leviathans in the sea vanished into thin air, obliterated without leaving a single trace behind.

Seeing this, the others almost forgot to keep fighting, staring dumbfounded at the unbelievable sight before them.

Anyone would be shocked by this scene. The monsters they had fought so desperately to kill were erased with just a wave of Mr. Su's hand. This level of shock could no longer be described with mere words.

Mu Qing and Lu Dongliang even started to suspect that Su Mu had been lying to them earlier!

'Mr. Su, and you still claim you aren't a Gold powerhouse?'

With several of the leviathans taken care of, the group finally got a chance to catch their breath and quickly gathered around Su Mu.

"Mr. Su, did you find the sea god's familiar?" Mu Qing asked, panting heavily. Her chest heaved continuously, and thanks to the clinging seawater, the curves of her body were exceptionally pronounced.