After Shen Yi devoured his own clansmen, the soul-gathered power still remained. So while absorbing his clansmen and undergoing bodily transformation, he secretly split a portion of his body underground, escaping to a distant location through the subterranean passages.
On the surface, he appeared to be a complete fusion of all his clansmen, but in truth, other body fragments had long since fled to safety.
As long as those fragments existed, even if his massive body were reduced to pulp, he could reconstitute himself.
However, if all of his bodies were destroyed simultaneously, he would have no way to resurrect.
What he did not know was that his movements had long since been discovered by Chu Feng, who had already seen through the reason he could resurrect.
That was precisely why Chu Feng had remained calm from the very beginning, and why he had deployed this particular method.
"Three-fold Divine Sealing — Lightning Punishment, Descend!!!"
In an instant, countless bolts of lightning rained down from the heavens. Their destructive power was so terrifying that the vast plaza was blasted to rubble.
Never mind the underground world — even the surface of the Pingyuan Upper Realm experienced violent reactions.
The earth tore apart, cracks spreading across the entire world.
Fortunately, the inhabitants of the Pingyuan Upper Realm, having already been mentally prepared by the earlier sacrificial array, were braced for what was coming.
Though the sight before them looked absolutely horrifying, it posed no actual harm to them.
Still, knowing nothing of the truth, they connected this collapsing ground with the golden light from before — both seemed like terrifying omens.
Those with the strength to do so took to the skies immediately, fleeing the world entirely. Those without such power used teleportation arrays to escape to other worlds.
Every single person in the Pingyuan Upper Realm was fleeing.
In truth, within the span of a mere blink, the majority had already escaped, and the rest would soon be transferred as well.
The reason for such speed was twofold: the world was prosperous and already possessed numerous teleportation arrays. But most importantly, no one dared to delay when facing death. Treasures no longer mattered — survival was all that counted.
Everyone was running for their lives, because if they didn't flee, they would die.
What people did not know, however, that the tearing earth and the terrifying tremors on the surface were merely aftershocks.
Because at this very moment, the scene in the underground world was far more devastating. What had once been a beautiful, exquisite realm had been reduced entirely to ruins.
Mountains and rivers had been flattened, plains had been blasted into abysses, and oceans had been evaporated into nothing.
The Ouyang Heavenly Clan's Three-fold Divine Sealing truly lived up to its reputation — its power was nothing short of staggering.
Even the statue of the God Ancestor had been shattered.
Had the Pingyuan world not been so massive and so sturdy, any slightly smaller world would have been completely obliterated, utterly destroyed.
This was the power of Chu Feng's full-strength blow.
At this moment, the only intact location in the underground world where the God Clan resided was the area where Little Fish and his clansmen stood.
Little Fish gazed at Chu Feng in the distance.
Suddenly, an aged voice sounded from behind him: "Incredible. This is not power that a First-stage Heavenly God should possess."
Turning to look, it was Little Fish's grandfather.
Not only his grandfather — his parents, his elder brother Xianhai Shaoyu, and every member of the Xianhai Fish Clan had gathered behind Little Fish.
They had broken free of their chains, freed from every restraint Shen Yi had placed on them.
"The suppression is gone?" Little Fish asked.
"It's gone. It seems Shen Yi's fortune has truly run out this time," said the Xianhai Fish Clan's patriarch.
Hearing this, the weight in Little Fish's heart lifted considerably.
His parents and his grandfather all actually possessed cultivation levels above Shen Yi's.
That was precisely why the Xianhai Fish Clan had dared to form an alliance with the God Clan.
But who could have predicted that the God Clan possessed such a strange power capable of suppressing cultivation? His parents and grandfather clearly had superior cultivation, yet they had been no match for Shen Yi.
Under normal circumstances, those chains of the God Clan — even if they could restrain the other members of the Xianhai Fish Clan — should never have been able to hold these three.
After all, their strength was simply too great.
The reason they had been restrained was that Shen Yi's overwhelming power had been constantly suppressing them, preventing them from wielding even a fraction of the strength their cultivation should have afforded.
Now that Shen Yi's suppressive force had vanished, it meant that Shen Yi was truly at the end of his rope.
"Retreat back into the blue flames."
Suddenly, Chu Feng's voice echoed across the battlefield.
It was both a reminder and a warning!!
Hearing this, Little Fish's parents hurriedly gathered Little Fish and all their clansmen, retreating back into that blue radiance.
Chu Feng hovered in midair, gazing down into a deep, massive crater where a figure lay — Shen Yi.
Shen Yi had now reverted to his original form, but his body was withered and gaunt, like a dried corpse.
By all rights, he should have been dead. But the reason he still lived was a layer of golden light that shielded him.
And Chu Feng had noticed that the golden light did not belong to Shen Yi's aura.
"Divine Mother, save me!!!!"
Suddenly, Shen Yi let out a weak, desperate cry.
The moment those words left his lips, a golden light erupted from deep within the earth, instantly enveloping everyone.
No — not merely this place.
The golden light did not merely burst out of the underground world. It surged beyond the entire Pingyuan Upper Realm.
A dazzling golden light shot forth from the world, illuminating vast stretches of the starry sky and covering an entire star region.
This spectacle was captured by forces across the land, and every last person's expression changed drastically.
The colossal pillar of golden light shot straight out from the Pingyuan world and into the starry sky.
Then the golden light began to shift and morph, transforming into the silhouette of a towering giant standing amidst the stars.
Just how enormous was she?
She stood before the Pingyuan Upper Realm itself, and the realm served as the perfect comparison.
Within the entire God Body Heavenly River, the Pingyuan Upper Realm — ranked among the top ten in terms of territorial area — was not even one-third the size of that colossal golden apparition.
Then, a bizarre scene unfolded.
Perhaps it was intentional on the part of the golden apparition, but Chu Feng and the others found their vision had become transparent, unobstructed by the underground world, allowing them to see beyond the starry sky.
And so they were able to witness a humanoid figure even larger than the Pingyuan world itself.