"More than a dozen times is enough; any more and my physical body won't be able to withstand it," Xu Hei thought to himself.

Then, Xu Hei aimed the cannon at the position of the stone pillar.

At that moment, Xu Hei felt a sense of being watched, as if someone was observing him. Suddenly, a sense of crisis surged.

"Stop!"

A distant shout echoed from below.

Xu Hei's pupils contracted. Without hesitation, he fired the cannon.

"Fire!"

At that moment, a deep, dark light burst from the cannon's mouth, a jet-black, highly compressed true essence poured out.

"Crack!!" Space twisted and shattered, creating a deep space tunnel leading to the other side. Even sound disappeared, leaving only a world-destroying black beam shooting into the ground!

The puppet cannon simultaneously shattered, the barrel unable to withstand the force, exploding into fragments. The black beam plunged into the ground, entering the space where the stone pillar was located.

At the same time, Xu Hei unlocked the spatial restriction, disappearing instantly, teleporting fifteen times in a row, covering a distance of 150,000 miles in one go.

However, something strange happened.

During the teleportation, the path ahead kept extending, while the distance behind him shortened, dragging his body backward despite his attempt to escape.

It was as if the space in front of him was being infinitely pulled back by someone, trapping him in a loop.

"A loop? Damn it!"

Xu Hei immediately realized it was the work of the Death God.

He glanced back, seeing the deep black beam reaching the stone pillar cluster, then exploding with a roar.

"Rumble!!!"

The world-destroying explosion resounded, the center point of the blast shattering space like paper, turning it into a void. The entire world trembled.

The heavens collapsed, the earth shook, and this strongest cannon shot, compressed with countless true essence, created an apocalyptic scene.

But such a scene didn't last long.

Soon after, Xu Hei saw a black demonic hand emerge from the shattered space, gripping the center of the black explosion, squeezing and forcibly suppressing it. During this process, the demonic hand slowly crumbled.

"Ah!!"

Various shrill screams echoed among the stone pillars, the cries of the dead.

Xu Hei could clearly see the figures of the souls, some half-human, half-fish monsters, some humans, some sea beasts, all kinds of souls.

At this moment, these souls were being drawn out, entering the stone pillars, ultimately converging on the demonic hand.

Xu Hei was shocked. How could such a powerful cannon shot be suppressed? How did this demonic hand exist?

"Let's see how you suppress this!"

Xu Hei, dragged back, decided not to run. His eyes turned red as he unleashed his devouring power against the souls.

"Devour them for me!"

Xu Hei threw out the Demon God Cauldron, initiating the devouring. Countless souls were sucked from the stone pillars into the cauldron, rapidly refined into nothingness.

Xu Hei didn't absorb them, merely destroyed them to thwart the opponent.

"You dare, beast!"

A furious roar came from the demonic hand, "I order you, stop immediately!"

"You won't let me leave, so I won't leave!"

Xu Hei decided to go all out, biting his tongue and burning his primordial spirit, pouring all his power into the Demon God Cauldron to accelerate the devouring and plundering.

He watched as a large number of phantom souls detached from the stone pillars, sucked into the Demon God Cauldron.

Simultaneously, Xu Hei took out the half-destroyed puppet cannon, infused it with true essence, and added a Supreme Spirit Stone, aiming at the stone pillar, firing shot after shot.

"Boom boom boom..."

The stone pillars shattered, the souls vanished. As time passed, the demonic hand lost its power source, accelerating its fragmentation, unable to suppress any longer.

"Beast, I'll remember you!"

Finally, with an unwilling roar, the demonic hand completely shattered.

"Rumble!!"

The black beam, no longer suppressed, finally exploded, causing a large area of stone pillars to collapse, space to shatter, void to spread, the entire underground collapsing!

"Teleport!"

Xu Hei unfolded the Night Demon Wings, burning his primordial spirit, desperately teleporting to escape the area.

Everything behind him turned to nothingness, stone pillars fell one by one, the souls on them rapidly dissipating, vanishing into smoke. When Xu Hei teleported to the sea surface, he saw the sculpture of the Ouroboros snake explode into nothingness with a loud bang.

At that moment, a certain restriction in this space seemed to loosen.

Xu Hei could feel the formations above and below dissipating.

"Success!"

Xu Hei exhaled deeply.

He saw countless cracks appearing around the pyramid. With a thunderous roar, the pyramid collapsed inward, sinking into the ground, leaving only a massive abyssal pit.

A web-like formation structure diagram quickly retracted from afar, the formation patterns clearly visible, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Xu Hei only took a quick glance before rapidly fleeing the scene.

He knew that once this incident spread, it would cause a huge uproar on the Sea Star, and he, the person involved, might end up with no place to be buried.

"Unfortunately, although I successfully dealt with the Death God, the puppet cannon is damaged, and my primordial spirit burned by thirty percent. I need to find a place to recuperate for a while," Xu Hei thought to himself.

Burning the primordial spirit is a desperate technique used by Divine Transformation cultivators, allowing them to unleash extremely powerful combat strength in a short time, exponentially increasing their power.

This is also why Divine Transformation cultivators are difficult to kill within the same realm.

Unless your strength surpasses the opponent by several times, or you also burn your primordial spirit, you have a chance to take them down.

When Xu Hei arrived, Yu Shiyu appeared in time, joyfully saying, "We did it, we can leave now!"

"Let's go."

Xu Hei uttered just one word, then unfolded the Night Demon Wings, flying towards the distance.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Yu Shiyu hurriedly followed behind.

After flying a distance, Xu Hei realized Yu Shiyu couldn't keep up with his speed. Helplessly, he grabbed her, dragging her behind him, quickly distancing themselves.

…………

In the Sea of the Reaper, the formation was destroyed, and the looping space was unlocked.

Even the deity of the Death God shattered in that catastrophe, leaving the entire underground stone pillar area in ruins, only a void world remaining.

What Xu Hei didn't know was that when all this happened, at the headquarters of the Merman Clan, in the Hall of Gods.

The Hall of Gods is where the Merman Clan worships the seven deities, housing statues of the seven gods. The deities can descend their divine power through the statues, granting strength, allowing descendants to break through.

This is also the only place for the Sea Star Demon Clan to break through the Divine Transformation Stage.

And on this day.

Among the seven statues, the one belonging to the Death God shattered.