Chapter 821: Maritime Reinforcements

Missing its mark, the Rugged Man did not stop his actions.

He retracted the net bag and unhooked a grayish-white conch covered in strange spiral patterns from his waist.

He brought the conch to his lips and blew hard.

"Woo——!!!"

A low, desolate horn sound reverberated across the entire Dead Sea.

This sound was not a physical sound wave, but a high-dimensional interference that directly acted upon the Soul and the Origin of mana!

Zhou Huai only felt his mind sink abruptly, as if an invisible giant hammer had heavily smashed into his Sea of Consciousness.

At the same time, the circulation of mana inside his body, which was usually as compliant as his own arm, unexpectedly experienced a brief sluggishness.

Within the split second that he was disturbed!

The Rugged Man moved.

Holding that pitch-black harpoon, stepping on the waves, his entire body transformed into a black bolt of lightning, instantly closing in.

The tip of the harpoon flickered with a heart-palpitating Death Qi, aiming straight for Zhou Huai's throat!

"Want to break my defense? You are still far from it!"

Zhou Huai forcibly suppressed the mental discomfort, and instead of retreating, puffed out his chest to meet the harpoon.

Xiang Yu's [Undying Demon God] power surged frantically within his body, and the dark golden dragon scales on the abyssal blood battle armor erupted with dazzling brilliance.

"Clang——!!!"

Sparks flew in all directions, emitting a teeth-aching metallic explosion!

The pitch-black harpoon viciously stabbed into Zhou Huai's neck-guard dragon scales, bursting forth with a visible annular shockwave.

Xiang Yu's [Myriad Laws Reverse Scale] passive triggered instantly.

The powerful fivefold recoil force poured backward frantically along the harpoon!

"Crack!"

The Rugged Man's tiger's mouth burst open on the spot, and fresh blood instantly stained the grip of the harpoon red.

His entire body was sent flying backward by this terrifying rebound force, plowing more than a dozen deep pits continuously on the surface of the sea before barely supporting his body with the harpoon.

As for Zhou Huai, he was merely pushed back half a step in mid-air by that force.

"Good defense."

The Rugged Man lowered his head to glance at his bleeding palm, his tone still without any ripples.

He seemed completely unable to feel pain, and his eyes held only a pure, mechanical fighting will.

"But you still can't catch me."

As he spoke, his figure once again began to bizarrely turn illusory, as if he were about to melt back into this grey and gloomy world.

"That may not be the case."

Zhou Huai formed a seal with one hand, and Gandalf's source of mana outputted frantically.

[Forbidden Spell: Thousand Mile Ice Seal]!

The freezing power of Law instantly spread radially with Zhou Huai as the center.

The black sea of corpses below, at a speed visible to the naked eye, froze inch by inch into hard, piercing azure glaciers.

The Rugged Man, attempting to conceal himself underwater, was forced to show himself.

Just as his feet touched the ice surface, the absolute freezing effect of the heart of aurora crazily climbed up along his calves.

"This time, let's see where you can run."

Zhou Huai swung the dragon spear, preparing to deliver a fatal blow.

Yet the Rugged Man was unhurried.

With his lower body frozen, he reached behind his back and pulled out a strange orb exuding a warm red light from his waist.

Without the slightest hesitation, he fiercely smashed the orb onto the ice surface beneath his feet.

"Crack!"

The orb shattered.

That [Thousand Mile Ice Seal] capable of freezing the Soul, under the impact of this heatwave, actually melted completely clean in an instant, like spring snow encountering the scorching sun!

Not only that, this bizarre heatwave even rolled back upwards, transforming into tongues of fire all over the sky, attempting to directly roast the abyssal blood battle armor on Zhou Huai's body.

"Another prop?"

Zhou Huai's gaze narrowed, his figure elevating, easily dodging the invasion of the heatwave.

"You really have quite a few props."

Zhou Huai hovered in mid-air, overlooking the Rugged Man surrounded by flames below, shifting his gaze away.

This fellow's pockets had an endless stream of bizarre props.

Regarding sheer strength, the opponent could not reach the level of the current world's Peak SSS-rank, let alone contend with a Transcendent.

However, his slippery fighting style, combined with props carrying the bizarre Laws of The Seventh World, made it difficult for Zhou Huai to completely lock onto and kill him in a short period of time.

Moreover, Zhou Huai discovered an anomaly.

This Rugged Man's moves were fierce, but there was no genuine intent to kill.

Most of the time, he was at a disadvantage, yet he still entangled, preferring to be injured rather than fleeing this sea area.

This completely did not fit the survival logic of an old-era powerhouse.

He was deliberately stalling for time.

Thoughts flashed through Zhou Huai's mind.

What was he waiting for? Or rather, what else here had not surfaced?

Could there be reinforcements?

Just as Zhou Huai was thinking this, the calm sea surface began to churn.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Beneath the deep sea, several dazzling rays of light erupted without warning.

Following that, five or six weapons of various shapes, exuding brilliant colors, like flood dragons breaking out of the sea, carrying the terrifying kinetic energy of tearing space, shot straight towards Zhou Huai in mid-air!

These weapons included long sabers, short swords, and even a pair of exaggeratedly shaped giant hammers.

In Zhou Huai's [Void Omniscience] field of vision, the Law lights circulating on these weapons were rich, and the aura they exuded was several tiers stronger than those trump-card legendary weapons of the Great Xia Military Department.

"Well timed!"

Facing this sudden attack, Zhou Huai did not move his feet.

He raised his left hand, mana surging within his body, Great Sage Li Er's Word of Law and Gandalf's ice-type Laws perfectly fusing together.

"Freeze."

Accompanied by Zhou Huai's voice, a thick, giant ice wall exuding extremely cold white Qi condensed in front of him.

"Clang clang clang clang——!"

Continuous, earth-shaking loud noises echoed in mid-air.

Those weapons of astonishing quality fiercely collided with the ice wall, bursting out with ice chips and sparks all over the sky, but were ultimately unable to pierce through this defensive barrier fused with extremely high Laws, and one after another flew back down to the sea surface.

Zhou Huai withdrew his left hand, his gaze casting coldly toward the sea surface below.

Accompanied by the churning seawater, five figures rose from the black water, hovering by the Rugged Man's side.

Four men and one woman, old and young.

At the lead was a stooped old woman leaning on a bone cane, her face covered in deep wrinkles;

on the left was a Cold Youth with a withered, wood-like figure and eyes shimmering with a ghostly green light;

on the right stood a pair of identically looking Twin Brutes, bare-chested, with ancient marine totems tattooed on their chests;

at the very back was a Seductive Woman wearing a gorgeous deep-sea pearl long dress, but her eyes lacked pupils, showing only two patches of pale white.

As soon as these five people appeared, the temperature in the air dropped by a few degrees.

They all raised their heads to stare at Zhou Huai, their gazes icy, viewing him as an irreconcilable enemy.

"Indeed, there are reinforcements."

Zhou Huai thought to himself.

But he did not have any panic, instead looking over these few people with keen interest.