"Then speed it up! Right now we can only go all out. The others might not have noticed, but Ascendant Dragon Master Longfei definitely has spotted the flaw!" The Ghost Elder shouted, clearly wound up to the max.
Ryan Ling knew perfectly well—he had to risk it all. He could already sense a terrifying power closing in, and if that force locked onto him, his breakthrough would be dead in the water.
Just as things hit critical, a distant warship suddenly blared its alarms—someone shouted at the top of their lungs.
"Enemy attack! Someone's breached our security zone!"
For a second, all the soldiers were stunned. But they snapped back fast—these guys lived on warships year-round and were trained to the bone. Within seconds, everyone was at their assigned post.
"Who is it? Who?! Fuck!" Admiral Kane gritted his teeth and burst out of the cabin, machine gunners all locked and loaded around him.
"There's someone underwater—definitely Huaxia scouts!" A few recon soldiers shouted immediately.
"They actually dare to test my limits? Kill them!" Admiral Kane roared, his voice booming.
Instantly, a hail of massive bullets tore into the water, followed by a swarm of small torpedoes. The U.S. military's methods were way ahead of any other nation—every bullet packed extra punch, and their defense net was off the charts. From afar, the warships looked scattered, but once battle started, they linked into a network—air and sea, every high-tech weapon firing at once. Even if ten thousand people charged a single ship, they'd be wiped out in seconds—no survivors!
And in that instant, over a hundred Huaxia elites were killed on the spot!
"Shit, we've all been locked onto by torpedoes—move, now!" In the water, Harvey 'Million' Jin, Jason Lin and the others saw the enemy going all out. Instantly, every God Realm expert rushed to the front—they had to push forward, or the whole strike team would be wiped out.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The whole seabed erupted like a volcano—massive blasts shook the entire Bohai Gulf.
"Blast them to hell! I knew those Huaxia bastards wouldn't quit. If they're dumb enough to show up, I'll make them pay!" Admiral Kane snarled, unleashing a second wave of torpedoes. These high-grade torpedoes were the best America had—each explosion packed a hundred times the punch of a standard one. When they hit, the whole world flipped upside down.
Under such brutal bombardment, even Harvey 'Million' Jin and the others couldn't hold out—it felt like the whole ocean floor was burning.
"We can't hold! Pull back now—if we don't, we'll be fried or crushed!" Harvey yelled into the comm system.
"Fall back, now!" Jason Lin and Warren Yuan didn't hesitate—at this point, staying underwater was a death sentence.
But just as they started to pull out, a cold voice rang out: "Trying to run? None of you are leaving today—fire the underwater missiles!"
Admiral Kane bared his teeth and screamed. Instantly, the whole ocean floor exploded, giant fireballs shot up from the water, and it looked like the Bohai Gulf seabed had been flattened.
"Pull back, everyone—full retreat!" At that moment, Guihai One-Blade burst onto the scene, using his full God Realm power to block the underwater missiles and open a lifeline for everyone.
"Damn, Huaxia actually has experts left?" Admiral Kane yelled when he saw this, and immediately ordered the nukes prepped.
"Experts? Just a low-level God Realm." Up above, Ascendant Dragon Master Longfei was already focused on the underwater battle. The moment Guihai One-Blade made his move, Longfei noticed. Harvey 'Million' Jin and the others hadn't even registered to him before, but the sudden appearance of a ninth-tier God Realm did spark his interest.
"Master Longfei! Would you like to—" Admiral Kane immediately made a polite gesture, inviting him to act.
Kane may have been the Seventh Fleet's overall commander and East Asia's top U.S. officer, with prestige through the roof at home and abroad, but even he was deferential to Master Longfei. Longfei was one of North America's Kunlun League bosses, able to reach straight to the White House. His power was unfathomable, and both the Century Witch—already deep in Huaxia—and the Living Yama, training in the Siberian wastelands, answered to him. Longfei's status in the KL League was sky-high.
The Seventh Fleet's stranglehold on Huaxia was largely thanks to Longfei's guidance—and Huaxia's terror was due to his influence.
Now that Longfei had spoken, Kane couldn't have been happier to oblige.
"I'll make him wish for death and deny him life!" Master Longfei declared. A golden beam shot into the sea, detonating the ocean floor in an instant. The force was even greater than a missile strike—every foreign soldier on the ships was stunned. But the worst was yet to come: the entire seabed erupted in flames, and hundreds of miles became a hellish sea of fire.
"Oh my God—this is God's work!" The surrounding soldiers couldn't contain themselves, all dropping to the deck as if Longfei were a living incarnation of the divine.
Meanwhile, Guihai One-Blade on the ocean floor felt like ten thousand blades were stabbing his heart—he screamed in agony. Harvey 'Million' Jin and the others coughed blood, howling madly as if they'd all been cast into hell.
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"Well done, Master Longfei—what a move!" Admiral Kane was stunned, deeply impressed. He'd never seen anything like this. At that moment, Master Longfei seemed like the Sea God of Bohai Gulf—one angry glare, and all life perished.
"Commander Kane, you can broadcast all this live to Huaxia's leaders. Let them see the price of a sneak attack—and let the whole world know America's true strength. No one can shake our position!" Master Longfei smiled lightly, as if all this meant nothing to him, just another game.
"Excellent idea, Master Longfei! We'll go live right now—let everyone see Huaxia is finished, no fight left. The only thing they can do is kneel and beg. Kill them all!" Kane barked. The brutal scene was instantly broadcast by military satellite.
Huaxia's homeland had already become a global focus due to its fierce civil strife, and now the Seventh Fleet's open occupation of Bohai Gulf drew the attention of satellite surveillance teams worldwide. Many countries' screens now showed this savage scene.
"My God, how could this happen? Even Huaxia is in such dire straits—where's Ryan Ling, their god? Where's Ryan?"
"Looks like Ryan Ling was captured too. Seems America really is invincible—anyone who goes against them is doomed!"
"Don't jump to conclusions—let's see how things play out. Huaxia's vast, there's no way it's finished just like that. Even if their military is wiped out, there must be other hidden masters waiting to emerge. Let's wait and see!"
Right now, forces from all over the world were focused on Bohai Gulf. Admiral Kane and Master Longfei were laughing wildly, as if everything was under their control. With Huaxia's elite wiped out underwater, all that was left was surrender.
But just then, on a nearly forgotten Cassia warship, a deafening boom erupted. Suddenly, a halberd wreathed in red flame and boundless saint-qi—the God-Slaughter Halberd—shot straight at Master Longfei…