While Poseidon in Divine Realm gritted his teeth in anger, he knew there nothing he could do. He already lost his legs, which couldn't be healed even by, so only way was to cut it and use a leg artifact to walk. His powers also became low to the level of 2nd class God. He watched the scene below with anger and frustration.
Poseidon's voice thundered across the Great Star Dou Forest, trembling even the leaves as it echoed like crashing waves from the heavens."You dare betray me, Bo Saixi!"
Bo Saixi staggered mid-air, her expression contorting in pain and disbelief as she felt her soul begin to unravel. Her cultivation plummeted rapidly. The Sea God Spirit—a divine inheritance passed down through generations of High Priestesses—was forcibly ripped from her being. She could feel it being torn away, thread by thread.
The power she once wielded—the authority over the oceans, the very ability to call upon Poseidon's descent—was now gone.
But with it also vanished the shackle she never knew had bound her.
The Sea God Spirit had been a leash all along.
Bo Saixi crumpled in despair, her knees hitting the soft moss below. But then, Zhongli raised a hand, and a soft blue glow enveloped her like the embrace of an ancient tide.
Her body surged with energy.
Her cultivation returned—no, it evolved. She could feel it stabilizing at the Limit Douluo realm, but her spirit was no longer what it once was.
A new presence awakened.
Behind her, a colossal phantom beast materialized. It was unlike any spirit she'd ever seen: a titanic whale-like creature, deep blue and majestic, with two big pectoral fins, each with four white square-shaped nails. It has a deep blue body and a white chin area with two small spikes protruding under it. Above each eye are two white, oval-shaped spots. Kyogre has red stripes around its chin, eyes, dorsal fins, and torso.It had glowing crimson lines pulsing across its massive body. Its tattered tail with four trailing parts, with the inner ones being smaller than the outer. Its eyes are small, yellow, and shadowed with black. It shimmered with energy as it roared into the sky.
Kyogre. The Primordial Lord of the Ocean. A being more ancient than Poseidon's divine mantle.
Bo Saixi's breath caught in her throat. She could feel it: this was not a borrowed power. This was a bond. A union.
Zhongli's voice was calm and resonant.
"This is Kyogre—the personification of the sea itself. Unlike Poseidon's spirit, it will never chain you. It is yours, and your descendants'. I will not command you to die for my trials. I only ask your loyalty—and in return, your people will be protected."
Bo Saixi's lips trembled. A life without forced sacrifice, a god who did not demand total obedience...
"I accept," she whispered. Then, with more strength, "But… please… help my people."
Zhongli nodded once. That was all the assurance she needed.
In the Divine Realm, Poseidon's rage exploded."TRAITOR! I will make you regret this, Bo Saixi!"
As he cursed her, a divine backlash struck him—Zhongli's divine will casually brushed his rage aside like an insect.
"Just shut up," Zhongli muttered in the mortal realm, and Poseidon reeled from the impact.
Snarling, Poseidon bellowed:"If I cannot reclaim her… I will erase Sea God Island!"
Without hesitation, Zhongli placed a hand on Bo Saixi's shoulder, and they vanished in a shimmer of golden light.
Above Sea God Island, the sky darkened as a monstrous tsunami surged toward the land, an oceanic wall hundreds of meters tall. The Seven Guardians of the Holy Pillars looked up in stunned horror.
Bo Saixi and Zhongli floated above them.
The inhabitants of Sea God island scrambled:"That's Lord Poseidon's divine wrath!"
"Why would he…"
"He's going to destroy us all!"
Bo Saixi's heart clenched.
Zhongli turned to her and said gently, yet firmly:"Use your new martial spirit. Wrestle control of the ocean back. This is your sea now."
She hesitated. Could she defy a god? Could she command the tide against its former master?
Zhongli's voice was steady."Trust me."
Bo Saixi closed her eyes.
Her hands raised. The phantom of Kyogre roared, and the sky turned deep blue. A pulse rippled across the ocean as the monstrous tsunami froze mid-air, trembling…
The Guardians stared in awe.
"She… countered Poseidon?" whispered Hai Long, the Sea Dragon Douluo.
"And her martial spirit… it's more powerful than the Sea God Spirit," added Sea Woman Douluo, eyes wide. "I can feel bloodline suppression even from here."
"That man beside her… he's no ordinary being." murmured Sea Horse Douluo.
"But why would Poseidon go this far?" demanded Sea Spear Douluo.
Sea illusion Douluo frowned. "Bo Saixi must have learned something… something that defied him."
Sea Ghost Douluo clenched his fists. "Then let's hear what she has to say."
Despite the fear etched across the faces of Sea God Island's people, none of them sided with Poseidon.
The truth was simple: Poseidon's reign had long bred quiet resentment.
Over the millennia, he had made cruel, calculated decisions—refusing to let any genius rise too high, shackling Bo Saixi and the Pillar Guardians beneath a divine ceiling. Even the most talented souls were cut off from godhood under his rule. A past High Priestess had once suspected this truth—but any rebellion against Poseidon would have brought annihilation.
Now, for the first time, they witnessed someone defy him—and survive.
Bo Saixi, their revered High Priestess, stood firm against a god.
They no longer feared her rebellion.
They hoped she would win.
In the Divine Realm, Poseidon burned with rage.
Poseidon's eyes burned with divine fury.
He felt it—Bo Saixi's will tearing at the sea itself, defying his command over the oceans.
Blasphemous. Unthinkable.
She was his descendant, his chosen High Priestess, and now she dared to seize dominion over his element?
No. Not while he still reigned.
Poseidon's divine form pulsed with gold-blue light as his authority surged.
A First-Class God.
No mortal, no inheritor, could wrest control from him so easily. Not even with Zhongli's interference.
His divine consciousness lashed out and gripped the ocean's soul, yanking it back. Bo Saixi gasped, faltering mid-air. The phantom of Kyogre behind her roared in defiance, but even that massive sea beast trembled beneath Poseidon's direct will. After all Bo Saixi has not mastered her new martial spirit and Poseidon is still a divine being.
"You dare challenge a god in his domain?" Poseidon snarled.
The tsunami surged forward again, pushing through the ocean, towering higher than before—miles high now. A rolling, impossible wall of divine water, roiling with wrath and punishment. It was no longer just a wave—it was the will of Poseidon incarnate, crashing down to erase Sea God Island entirely.
Back in the mortal realm, Zhongli extended a glowing hand toward Bo Saixi, cloaking her in a veil of divine blue light. His voice was calm, but powerful:"Use your fifth spirit ring skill. I'll give you the boost you need."
Bo Saixi nodded and raised her hand. She used her skill Ice Age.
The sea froze.
A massive sheet of solid ice spread outward from her palm, encasing the incoming tidal wave in crystalline death. For miles, the ocean turned to ice—thick and unbreakable. The tsunami halted mid-crash, its force smothered by cold dominion.
Bo Saixi stared at her own hands, stunned. She had done it.
The colossal tsunami that moments ago had roared with divine fury was now frozen mid-crash, sculpted into a jagged wall of glacial stillness. The air shimmered with leftover divine pressure, and yet—it had been stopped.
Her breath trembled.
She looked to the side.
Zhongli remained composed, eyes half-lidded, as if he had known this outcome all along. That calm presence—the same man who had given her the Kyogre Martial Soul—radiated a quiet power far beyond anything the gods had shown her before.
Is this the power of one who defies gods…?
Then, the sky tore.
Golden light lanced down from the heavens, splitting the air. A phantom descended—tall, resplendent, and furious. The image of Poseidon towered in the sky above the island, divine rings spinning behind him like heavenly wheels. The aura he emitted pressed down on the entire Sea God Island like an ocean of lead.
Gasps echoed from below. Even the Guardians fell to one knee, their expressions pale and shaken.
"Bo Saixi, you unfilial descendant," Poseidon roared. "How dare you betray me!"
Bo Saixi hesitated. He was still her ancestor… but—
Zhongli stepped forward, voice sharp and clear:"You are more shameless than I imagined."
"You gave her an impossible task—knowing it would fail—just to use her as a tool to kill me. When she resisted, you ripped away her spirit, drained her power… and when that wasn't enough, you tried to drown your own people because your ego couldn't handle disobedience."
Poseidon's phantom trembled with fury, but Zhongli went on:"You're responsible for the state of Sea God Island. For the stagnation. You suppressed their growth, shackled your guardians and even your own bloodline to this island. Not to protect them—but to control them."
The Pillar Guardians looked down, their expressions darkening. A heavy silence spread among them.
Zhongli's eyes then turned to a lone figure in the crowd:
A woman with pale bluish skin, dark hair streaked white, wearing regal sea-blue attire with golden, fin-like ornaments—Xiaobai, Poseidon's loyal mount.
Zhongli's gaze pierced her."Even your mount was not spared. You had her brother killed, while you remained unmoved."
Xiao Bai stopped.
Zhongli added." Also, you claimed Deep Sea Demonic Whale King is destroying order of the sea. But from what I sea the Demonic Orcas were more of threat than Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, your didn't see them as a threat and Sea God Island didn't seem to care about it either. Sea God and Sea God Island speak about maintaining order in ocean, but you are shackled to the island unable to do anything and Sea God doesn't care."
Some of Gurdians of Sea God Island suddenly had an idea about this. She had
Zhongli smirked and said."The claim that Deep Sea Demonic Whale King is evil and thus had to be eliminated is excuse you made up to get the faith of the Ocean Spirits to ascend, you would have destroyed Demonic Orcas if this was true, but you didn't give orders nor did you tale action, the truth is you needed them. Without the threat of the Demon Spirit Orcas, how could the Demon Spirit Great White Shark Clan be shackled to protecting Sea God Island. How could you show your nobility and greatness of Sea God Island."
Xiaobai suddenly had past memories that slowly started making sense.
Zhongli hummed and said." It was actually smart to enslave the Demon Spirit White Sharks to protect, you used the Demon Spirit Orcas there enemies, so they have no other choice but stay loyal to you."
Zhongli seeing Xiaobai's face darkening, she once prayed to Poseidon about this, the result was Demon Spirit Orcas were part of the sea.
Zhongli saw she is getting the message added."How could a hundred-thousand-year-old spirit beast dare to strike down Poseidon's mount, unless you secretly protected him?....."
This caused Xiao Bai to have shock, Poseidon flinched—subtly, but everyone saw it.
The Guardians. Bo Saixi. Even the some strong individuals below.
The truth was undeniable.
"Enough with your slandering!" Poseidon bellowed, divine aura bursting forth.
Blue-gold divine rings flared behind him, and another tsunami—far larger than before—rose from the horizon.
Zhongli's eyes narrowed. He calmly raised a palm.
From it, a lotus bloomed—a breathtaking flower made of translucent, prismatic petals, swirling with shades of red, green, and blue. At its heart pulsed a core of blazing flame, so dense it distorted the very air around it.
The Fire Lotus.
It shimmered with demonic beauty. A weapon forged not just of fire, but of divine annihilation.
The Fire Lotus left Zhongli's hand like a slow‑turning comet, petals of molten color folding inward around a core of blinding white.
The instant it kissed the advancing wall of water, the world split.
First came a silence so absolute it swallowed the roar of the sea.
Then—
WHUM.
The heavens sheared open along hairline seams; a newborn sun blossomed where ocean had been.
A sphere of flame—hundreds of feet across—swelled in a single, lung‑searing heartbeat. Its radiance bled the color from the sky, and the air itself warped into shimmering mirages; black fissures spider‑webbed through space, like glass scorched past endurance.
Beneath that cataclysm, the tsunami did not break. It ceased to exist—flash‑vaporized into a roiling collar of steam that raced outward, flattening clouds and whipping the waves into fleeing mares‑tails.
For a heartbeat the sea lay stunned, its surface cratered and hissing. Even the sun above dimmed, its brilliance outshone by the lotus‑born star.