Chapter 314
"Almost... almost..."
Lin Hui closed his eyes and waved a hand. Another batch of precious medicines shot toward him, hovering at his side as he pressed on with his grand project of consuming them all.
Under that frantic intake, the newly evolved Heavenly Father Seal had already crossed the halfway mark, with just over four thousand years remaining. His medicine stash was mostly exhausted, but it didn't trouble him. Per his standing orders, once the remaining neighboring Mist God factions were fully assimilated, a continuous stream of new medicines would flow in.
While he continued consuming them to accelerate the process, a massive force of Divine Descendants and Mist Gods had already assembled across the vast sea region surrounding the Zhenlong Divine Palace—and was now moving to invade the outer waters, driving straight for Star Extinction Island.
Green ocean waves crested with white foam surged upward into towering pillars of water. Atop these pillars, a sparse vanguard of the Divine Palace's Divine Descendants advanced in formation toward a large, oval-shaped white island in the distance.
"Yue Qinghua—what is the meaning of this? Star Extinction Island and your Zhenlong Divine Palace have kept our distance for years. You arrive with a force this size and call it something other than provocation?"
Around the island's perimeter, towering figures in purple armor materialized from thin air one by one, each radiating the halo enhancement inherent to Divine Descendants and Mist Gods.
Their leader had three heads and six arms. He wielded an ornate spear and bore a pair of pure white wings that beat in slow, measured arcs on his back.
Yue Qinghua was the Mist God assigned to oversee this territory on the Divine Palace's behalf. In the past, friction between Star Extinction Island and the Palace had produced skirmishes that usually ended in stalemate. With the Mistborn threat looming over both sides, neither had ever fully torn away the veneer of peace.