After looking over his three forms, Ye Wen found that his Semi-human Form and Beast Form were just as he'd expected.
His attention was fixed on his Humanoid Form, and he was pleasantly surprised. "Soul Power Level 10—that means Innate Full Soul Power. I expected as much. Even Xiao Wu, a hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit, had Innate Full Soul Power when she transformed. A Deep Sea Demonic Whale King like me, who's nearly a million years old, had to have it too!"
"But I never expected to get my Beast Form's Soul Bone when I transformed! A million-year Deep Sea Torso Bone—that's the King of Ten Thousand Bones! And the effects of these two Soul Bone Skills are ridiculously powerful!"
"Great. Now I should absorb a Soul Ring. I wonder how old the First Soul Ring for my Humanoid Form will be."
Ye Wen sat cross-legged on the surface of the sea, full of anticipation.
After a Soul Beast transformed into a human, its cultivation was somewhat different from a human's.
When humans reached a bottleneck, they had to hunt a Soul Beast to obtain a Soul Ring. But when a human-form Soul Beast reached a bottleneck, it could condense a Soul Ring directly from within itself.
There was no need for all that trouble. The condensed Soul Ring would be of the highest age it could withstand, and it would also be the best possible match for it—much like a God-bestowed Soul Ring.
Before long, tremendous Soul Power began to gather around Ye Wen, then flowed into his body. At last, a Soul Ring formed and circled him.
It was a white Ten Year Soul Ring!
But the ring continued absorbing energy, its color gradually deepening. Before long, it turned yellow: a Hundred Year Soul Ring!
The color kept changing, finally settling on purple—the Thousand Year level!
With a rumble, waves of energy spread outward. Ye Wen opened his eyes, delighted. "Unbelievable! My First Soul Ring is actually four thousand years old!"
"My Soul Power also jumped straight from Level 10 to Level 14."
He hurriedly checked the First Soul Skill of his Humanoid Form. "Oh? Demon Whale Armor, a Self-Enhancement Amplification Skill. It doubles my strength, speed, and physical toughness, increases the damage of all Soul Skills by thirty percent, and gives me thirty percent Soul Skill Damage Reduction. Not bad! That's a great effect!"
Ye Wen was very satisfied. If his First Soul Skill had been an attack type, its sheer power would let him defeat opponents across major levels.
But a skill that strengthened him could also greatly boost his Combat Power. If he chose a few attack-type skills for his next Soul Rings, he'd be unstoppable.
"Not bad, not bad. Now, let's go see that Evil Orca King."
Ye Wen grinned, immediately switched back to his Deep Sea Demonic Whale King Main Body Appearance, and left his territory in the Demon Whale Sea Domain.
He was astonishingly fast, shooting across the sea like a rocket.
"W-What is that?!"
"Is that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King?!"
"Quick! Run!!!"
Every group of Sea Soul Beasts that encountered Ye Wen was scared out of its wits and scattered in all directions.
Ye Wen merely glanced at them and paid them no mind.
A sixty-thousand-year-old Eight-Clawed Demon Fish passed right by him. Every one of its tentacles trembled uncontrollably, and it was still shaken to the core as it thought in terror, Wasn't the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King supposed to be lazy by nature and never leave the Demon Whale Sea Domain? Why had it come out today?
Before long, word that Ye Wen had left the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory spread across the sea.
It didn't take long for Ye Wen to reach the Orca Sea Domain, where the Evil Orca King lived.
As soon as he entered, he happened upon several newly matured Evil Spirit Orcas.
Mature Evil Spirit Orcas could grow to between twenty and twenty-five meters long, already an enormous size. But beside the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose body stretched two hundred meters, they looked tiny.
Evil Spirit Orcas were exceptionally bloodthirsty and vicious Sea Soul Beasts. They rampaged through the ocean without restraint, looking down on every other Sea Soul Beast.
But now, these few Evil Spirit Orcas stared at him in utter terror.
What the hell kind of Sea Soul Beast was this?!
It was enormous! Bigger than even their king!!
There wasn't a single Sea Soul Beast in the ocean that hadn't heard of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but few had ever seen what it actually looked like.
These Evil Spirit Orcas didn't recognize Ye Wen. They could only sense that he was incredibly powerful.
"Hey, you lot. Go get your boss. I need to talk to it."
The Evil Spirit Orcas were wary, but they bared their teeth viciously all the same. No powerful Sea Soul Beast was allowed to invade their Orca Sea Domain. Ye Wen's intrusion was a challenge to their entire Evil Spirit Orca Clan.
They assumed he had come looking for trouble.
"Impudent! You can't see our king just because you want to! Get out of our sea at once, or you'll face the wrath of the Evil Spirit Orca Clan!!"
"Heh. And what are you going to do about it?"
When Ye Wen advanced instead of retreating, the Evil Spirit Orcas surged with murderous intent, baring their vicious teeth as they charged.
"Kill him!!!"
"You're asking for it!"
Ye Wen had come to recruit underlings, not make friends. He wasn't about to go easy on the underlings of his future underlings.
He swung his whale's tail. The terrifying force drove the seawater into a huge wave, slamming the Evil Spirit Orcas a hundred meters away.
Then he opened his enormous jaws and lunged at an orca in front of him, biting it in one gulp.
"That's terrifying!"
"Aaaaah!"
"Run!!!!"
The Evil Spirit Orcas he had sent flying were terrified by Ye Wen's power and imposing Aura. Their earlier ferocity vanished, and they turned to flee.
The orca caught in Ye Wen's jaws struggled desperately and begged loudly, "Don't eat me! Please, don't eat me!"
"Heh. I thought you Evil Spirit Orcas were so arrogant. Where'd all your backbone go?"
Clearly, this Evil Spirit Orca was afraid of dying. Still, it was the underling of one of his future underlings, and Ye Wen hadn't planned on killing it. His stomach did feel a little empty, but he was still human at heart, and having only just become a whale, he had no desire to eat anything raw.
So he opened his mouth and let it go.
Having escaped with its life, the orca let out a long sigh of relief. But faced with Ye Wen's presence, it was now too scared to move.
"Don't just stand there. Take me to your king."
The orca obeyed Ye Wen without question and immediately led him to the Evil Orca King.
Meanwhile, the orcas that had fled had already found the Orca King and told him that Ye Wen had invaded his territory. Furious, the Evil Orca King roared, "What idiot is looking to die?! He dares enter my territory and hurt my people!"
"Take me to him! I'm going to eat him!!!"
The murderous Evil Orca King led a group of his clan members toward Ye Wen, shouting as they swam, "Show yourself! I'll eat whoever hurt my people!!"
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