The massive White Elephant Sea Beast exploded, but contrary to expectation, no flesh and blood splattered.

Instead, it burst into countless white fragments, uniformly structured like armor plates when examined closely.

These White Elephant Sea Beasts, having undergone unique cultivation and the effects of secret arts, had long experienced a fundamental change in their physical forms.

Although they appeared to be living creatures, they were no longer truly sea beasts but rather another form of “military armament.”

Now, as they suddenly detonated, the white bone plates, like swallows returning to the forest, flew in all directions, eventually embedding themselves into the shadows of the Legion Souls.

The Legion Soul shadows, formed by the five sea tribe army formations, seemed to be clad in armor in an instant.

Given the harsh environment of the Canghai Sea, the sea tribes naturally could not compete with the human race in terms of weaponry. The sea tribes’ weapons were mostly sourced locally, let alone anything else.

But this did not mean that the sea tribe army was at an absolute disadvantage when facing the human race army.

Like the human race, the sea tribe never lacked warriors, nor did they lack wise individuals.

What Canghai gave them, they utilized.

They tempered stronger physiques in the harsh environment and honed the fighting spirit of the strong in terrifying predicaments.

The sea beasts native to Canghai were utilized to the fullest extent, playing various roles.

As for this war, the White Elephant King was caught in a dilemma. With his army besieging the island and Ding Jingshan showing no signs of yielding, he couldn’t possibly retreat in disgrace.

Although he did not wish to deplete too much of his strength, and did not want to destroy the island in one battle. He raised his entire army to ask for someone, in order to verify Shui Yingrong’s claim of being a peerless genius, so that the Blood King could not fault him.

He hoped that Ding Jingshan would yield, thereby breaking the spine of the human race in the Dingwei region.

But Ding Jingshan was strong, and he would only be stronger.

Ding Jingshan brought out his trump card in terms of military armament, and without a word, he sacrificed a full fifteen White Elephant Sea Beasts. One could say he was going all out.

“Brothers!” Ding Jingshan stared intently at the White Elephant King, shouting angrily, “Today, we live and die with Floating Island!”

The Floating Island cultivators shouted in unison, “Live and die together!”

On the entire Dingwei Floating Island, there were nearly three hundred Outer Building cultivators. Inner Mansion and Soaring Dragon cultivators numbered in the thousands. Of course, cultivators below the Outer Building level participated in the Maze Realm in the form of armies, essentially as garrison forces, and hardly ever acted alone.

These cultivators came from various islands near the sea, from all parts of Qi State, from various countries in the Eastern Region, and even from more distant lands.

There were always some cultivators who fought for the human race without any vested interests. Borderlands, Maze Realms… various dangerous places were their battlefields.

What would it be like to have nearly three hundred Outer Building Realm cultivators responding to the Starlight Sacred Tower in the distant starry sky?

One could see points of starlight in the sky above Floating Island, as if… a starry sky had appeared in the Maze Realm!

The Maze Realm originally had no distinction between heaven and earth, but now it had a sky.

Tracing back to legends, only after heaven and earth were separated did the human race walk among them.

But in the Maze Realm, where the human race stood was the earth, and what was above the human race was the sky!

Ding Jingshan was ready to die, and the White Elephant King also pointed his halberd in response: “Since you are so stubborn, I will let you perish with Floating Island!”

In the five sea tribe army formations, intense fluctuations were constantly generated, power that even the Legion Soul shadows could not conceal.

It was the Sea Lord Avatar!

Sea tribes above the commander level could fully control the Sea Lord Avatar, preventing themselves from falling into madness. Sea tribes at the soldier and general level, however, had not yet fully adapted to the power of the Sea Lord Avatar and often only used it as a desperate measure.

This was also a manifestation of the Sea Lord Avatar not being perfect enough. The moment when even the soldier-level sea tribes could easily manifest the Sea Lord Avatar without confusing their minds, might be the moment it reached perfection.

In the Dingwei region, the number of commander-level sea tribes was only more, not less, than the number of human Outer Building Realm cultivators, at least three times as many.

With so many commander-level sea tribes manifesting the Sea Lord Avatar, the shadow of an angry sea appeared beneath Floating Island, forming a continuous expanse!

The raging hurricanes and roaring waves raged and crashed in the pitch-black darkness.

The sentence that Jiang Wang had heard before entering the Maze Realm—”The sky is night, the sea is without light, no northwest is seen, no southeast is distinguished.”

Became a reality at this moment.

It turned out that it described the scene of the great war between the human race and the sea tribe.

As it was at this moment, the southeast and northwest were still confused, but the sky and sea were seen.

The sky was above the human race, and the sea was under the feet of the sea tribe.

Heaven and sea faced each other, and the two races faced each other as well. Either the Star Tower would fall, or the sea shadow would dry up.

While his mind was shaken by it, Jiang Wang heard Fu Yanqing’s voice: “Now is the time.”

He grabbed Jiang Wang with one hand and Chu Mi with the other, directly taking them into the shadows together!

Sinking into one’s own shadow was an extremely strange feeling.

Jiang Wang had seen the power of light, and he knew how to approach and touch it. But shadows, which seemed to have more form and were more tame, were actually more elusive.

Shadows were just the absence of light. People often said “as inseparable as body and shadow,” but actually, when you walked forward, it wasn’t the shadow that followed you, you were just blocking another patch of light.

Shadows were cast by yourself.

You could see shadows every day, but they were actually very unfamiliar.

Until now, he entered the world of shadows.

This was an environment without light.

The vision of extraordinary cultivators would not be reduced too much by the night. Opening one’s eyes was light, and even the smallest amount of light could be captured by extraordinary vision.

But in this world, there was no light at all, including one’s own eyes. In other words, nothing could be seen.

“Don’t make any extra movements, otherwise you may interrupt the shadow travel at any time,” Fu Yanqing’s voice said.

Jiang Wang felt himself being pulled along, moving forward in an unknown direction, walking in the world of shadows.

How did Fu Yanqing determine the direction? He wondered.

Amidst the continuous bombardment, the protective light barrier of Dingwei Floating Island had gradually become less stable, almost visibly rippling.

Everyone could see that, at this rate, it could only last for half an hour at most.

There was half an hour left until the final battle.

This was a judgment that both sides of the war could easily make.

But at this moment, Ding Jingshan suddenly rose up.

“White Elephant, face your death!”

The protective light barrier that had been painstakingly maintained suddenly disappeared, unexpectedly withdrawn by the human race side!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

One scorching light arrow, as thick as a human arm, roared out of the island.

The Star Shattering Crossbow fired in rapid succession at the sea tribe army.

Streaks of light filled the sky, dazzling and brilliant.

Even more powerful cultivators controlled Sun Scorching Flying Boats, closely following the arrow rain of the Star Shattering Crossbow, crashing towards the sea tribe army.

And Ding Jingshan crossed the disappeared protective light barrier, and struck the White Elephant King with a punch.

In this critical moment of an army besieging the island, Dingwei Floating Island actually launched a counterattack!

“What audacity!”

Although the White Elephant King was surprised, he was not flustered. He returned the attack with a backhand punch.

Of course, he didn’t need to be flustered. With the five armies besieging the island, he was not careless despite having an absolute advantage. He always left room for maneuver, and was not afraid of such a sudden attack.

On the contrary, the human race cultivators leaving Floating Island to attack, giving up their advantage, thinking they could gain the upper hand, was foolish in his opinion!

His extraordinarily large palm clenched into a hard fist.

A punch back, causing the air to explode one after another, bringing up heat.

This was extreme power, extreme oppression.

And Ding Jingshan punched out, not as heavy. But there were countless phantoms of cultivators charging, being born and dying, one after another.

This was his fist, this was his Dao.