148: Chapter 148 Do you want revenge?

Passing through layer upon layer of formations.

The two stepped into the main hall of the Dragon Palace.

The main hall was extremely spacious.

The ceiling was inlaid with tens of thousands of night-luminescent pearls.

Illuminating the entire hall as bright as day.

The floor was paved with top-grade Cold Jade Stone.

Rich deep-sea spiritual energy flowed through the air.

The hall was filled with long white jade tables.

Hundreds of overlords from various forces across the endless ocean sat among them.

Clinking glasses and exchanging toasts, the atmosphere was exceptionally lively.

Lin Fan followed behind the Dragon Turtle Dharma Aspect Lord and found a seat in a corner toward the back.

His gaze scanned the entire scene.

Beneath the white jade pillars on both sides of the hall stood eight figures with terrifying auras.

Thunder Eel Heavenly Monarch.

Poison Flood Dragon Heavenly Monarch.

Giant Whale Heavenly Monarch.

Blood Shark Heavenly Monarch.

...

A total of eight Heavenly Monarch-level Protectors!

They were fully armed, their eyes like torches, monitoring every move in the hall.

This foundation was indeed substantial.

Lin Fan withdrew his gaze and looked toward the supreme throne at the very front of the hall.

The throne was carved from a single piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Marrow Crystal.

A burly middle-aged man sat upon it.

A pair of golden dragon horns grew from the top of his head.

He was clad in a Nine Dragons Snatching Pearls Robe.

His entire body radiated a suffocating and terrifying pressure.

Peak Heavenly Monarch!

He was only a hair's breadth away from being a half-step Saint.

This was the overlord who ruled the endless ocean.

The Sea Dragon King.

“Thank you all, sea region overlords, for gracing us with your presence.”

The Sea Dragon King raised a cup of fine wine brewed from Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Marrow.

His voice was sonorous, making the crystal wine cups in the hall buzz and vibrate.

“Today is not only this King's ten-thousand-year birthday banquet.”

The Sea Dragon King's gaze was cruel.

“It is also the victory banquet for my Sea Dragon Clan's complete unification of the endless ocean!”

Silence fell over the hall.

All the guests put down their wine cups and listened respectfully.

The Sea Dragon King stood up.

He spread his arms, his demeanor arrogant.

“That group of self-proclaimed noble Merfolk has been completely wiped out!”

The Sea Dragon King laughed loudly.

“From now on, in this sea region, there shall only be one voice—that of my Sea Dragon Clan!”

“The Dragon King's divine might!”

“Long live the Sea Dragon Clan!”

The guests below stood up one after another, loudly echoing his words.

The sounds of flattery and sycophancy were endless.

Lin Fan sat in the corner, peeled a deep-sea spiritual shrimp, and stuffed it into his mouth.

“This old loach is quite the actor.”

Lin Fan criticized him in his heart while chewing the shrimp meat.

The Sea Dragon King thoroughly enjoyed this feeling of thousands of people submitting to him.

Carried away by his success, he decided to further flaunt his military power and authority.

“Men!”

The Sea Dragon King waved his large hand.

“Bring up our ‘honored guest’ to entertain the overlords!”

The side door of the hall was roughly pushed open.

The sound of heavy chains dragging echoed through the hall.

“Clang... Clang...”

Eight Sea Dragon warriors of the Domain King Realm pulled on thick Profound Iron Chains.

With a forceful tug,

A delicate figure was forcibly dragged into the center of the hall.

The gaze of everyone present focused on that figure.

It was an exquisitely beautiful young girl.

She had long, sea-blue hair.

Her lower body was a fish tail covered in scars.

She was the only surviving royal bloodline of the Merfolk Clan.

The Mermaid Princess.

At this moment, she was in a miserable state.

Two thick restrictive chains directly pierced through her Shoulder Blades.

Blood stained her tattered clothes red.

Her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with despair.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”

The guests in the hall let out greedy exclamations of wonder.

“Is this the legendary Mermaid Princess who possesses the Sea God's bloodline?”

“She truly looks like a peerless beauty.”

“What a pity she’s become a prisoner.”

Various foul and filthy words reached the Mermaid Princess's ears.

She bit her lip and said nothing.

The Sea Dragon King walked to the edge of the throne.

He looked down condescendingly at the Mermaid Princess, who was collapsed on the floor.

“Sing.”

The Sea Dragon King's tone turned cold.

“Use the most beautiful voice of your Merfolk Clan to perform a song for this King's birthday banquet.”

The Mermaid Princess looked up.

An unyielding fire of anger burned in her eyes.

“In your dreams.”

The Mermaid Princess's tone was resolute.

“You slaughtered my people and destroyed my home.”

“Even if I die, I will never sing a single note for a tyrant like you!”

“Slap!”

The Sea Dragon King struck the Mermaid Princess across the face from a distance.

The Mermaid Princess was sent flying.

She crashed heavily against a white jade pillar.

She spat out a large mouthful of blood, and several teeth fell to the floor mixed with the gore.

“Refusing the easy way only to take the hard way.”

The Sea Dragon King was moved to killing intent.

“Do you think you still have the right to refuse?”

The Sea Dragon King sneered.

“If you don't sing, this King will immediately order that those clansmen of yours still lingering in the water dungeon be chopped into pieces to feed the sea beasts!”

The Mermaid Princess trembled all over.

The strength in her eyes crumbled.

Tears burst from her eyes.

She could disregard her own life and death.

But she couldn't watch the last few hundred of her clansmen die a tragic death.

The Mermaid Princess closed her eyes in despair.

She endured the sharp pain of the chains piercing her Shoulder Blades.

Slowly, she opened her lips.

Preparing to sing in humiliation.

At this critical moment,

Lin Fan, in the corner, put down the wine cup in his hand.

He pulled off the cumbersome shark disguise from his head.

Revealing his original, clean-cut face.

“This old loach's performance is too terrible.”

Lin Fan stood up.

He patted his clothes.

“It's my turn to take the stage.”

When the Dragon Turtle Dharma Aspect Lord saw Lin Fan reveal his true form, he was so frightened that he immediately retracted into his shell.

“It's over! It's all over!”

Lin Fan's eyes narrowed slightly.

The Yuan Power within his body began to circulate.

“Instant Shadow Space Step!”

Swish!

Space folded.

Lin Fan's figure vanished from the corner.

The eight Heavenly Monarch Protectors in the hall didn't even have time to react.

Lin Fan appeared in the very center of the hall without any warning.

He stood steadily in front of the Mermaid Princess.

The entire hall was struck with astonishment.

All the guests were stunned.

The sneer on the Sea Dragon King's face also froze.

“A human?!”

The Sea Dragon King turned pale with fright.

“In the important Dragon Palace, how could a human have sneaked in?!”

“Protect me! Seize him!”

The Sea Dragon King roared out.

The eight Domain King Realm Sea Dragon warriors holding the chains immediately drew their weapons.

With ferocious expressions, they lunged toward Lin Fan to kill him.

The eight Heavenly Monarch Protectors also simultaneously erupted with terrifying auras, preparing to strike.

Lin Fan's expression was calm.

He didn't even look at the Sea Dragon warriors rushing toward him.

He slowly raised his right hand.

Golden light flickered at his fingertips.

“Disorder Gold Mallet.”

Lin Fan lightly spat out those three words.

Buzz!

A supreme law of time and space

swept through the entire Dragon Palace hall with Lin Fan as the center.

Time

was forcibly stripped of its right to flow at this moment.

Space was completely frozen.

Those eight Sea Dragon warriors lunging in mid-air were frozen in their blade-swinging postures, stiffened in the air.

The Yuan Power light erupting from the eight Heavenly Monarch Protectors solidified on the surface of their bodies.

The expression of shock and anger on the Sea Dragon King's face was completely fixed.

The wine splashing in the hall was suspended in mid-air.

The entire world fell into absolute stillness.

All things were silent.

Only Lin Fan alone was unaffected.

Lin Fan crouched down.

He looked at the Mermaid Princess, who was collapsed on the ground with a face full of shock.

Although the Mermaid Princess's body was frozen, her consciousness remained clear.

She looked at this human youth who had suddenly appeared.

Her eyes were filled with disbelief.

Lin Fan reached out his hand and gently wiped away the bloodstains on the Mermaid Princess's face.

“You have suffered.”

Lin Fan's voice was gentle, carrying an assuring power.

“Do you want revenge?”

Lin Fan looked into her eyes and asked seriously.

The Mermaid Princess could not speak.

But in her eyes, an unprecedentedly strong hatred and longing erupted.

She blinked her eyes desperately.

This was an affirmative reply.

“Good.”

Lin Fan stood up.

He grasped the two profound iron restrictive chains that pierced through the Mermaid Princess's Shoulder Blades with both hands.

These chains were forged from deep-sea ten-thousand-year cold iron and were indestructible.

The muscles on Lin Fan's arms bulged slightly.

The power of the Immortal True Dragon Body gathered in his palms.

“Shatter for me.”

Lin Fan exerted force with both hands.

Crack!

A crisp sound of shattering echoed in the silent hall.

Those two restrictive chains, which were said to be impossible for even a Heavenly Monarch to break free from,

were crushed into iron dust by Lin Fan's bare hands.