Time, within the swirling currents of the Soul-Devouring Undercurrent, was sliced into countless shattered instants.
Jingtian's "pathetic" descent appeared as clearly as slow motion in Xiao Bai's eyes, which burned with pale golden fury. She saw him forcibly "swallow" the aftershock of her attack, his enormous body tumbling as several hideous wounds split open, spraying dark purple poisonous blood thick with the aura of deathly silence. She could even "smell" his Origin unraveling within it.
Then she saw him lunge at Baiji's sinking corpse. That pitch-black tentacle she loathed stabbed viciously into her kin's body like a starving worm and began sucking wildly, greedily. Baiji's enormous body shriveled and withered at a visible speed, while Jingtian's aura churned violently and erratically like a storm-tossed sea. At times it surged, carrying a strange fluctuation mingled with Baiji's lingering Sea God aura that made her frown; at others it plummeted, accompanied by unnatural spasms of his body and uncontrolled leaks of energy.
He's forcibly devouring Baiji... he's badly wounded. He can't control the power of Devouring anymore... A cold judgment surfaced in Xiao Bai's consciousness. She saw Jingtian barely steady himself after devouring the corpse, hovering at the edge of the Annihilation Vortex Core's all-consuming halo. The ring patterns on his skin flickered erratically, and his deep, dark eyes stared fixedly at her. The intent he transmitted was filled with madness and weakness beneath a hollow show of strength.
"Xiao Bai... your subordinate tasted... good! How much longer... can your Sea God's Power protect you?!"
Weakness. Chaos. A fierce exterior hiding a craven heart.
Immediately afterward, she "heard" Jingtian's "panicked," "contradictory" soul commands. She saw his fearless dark gold demon whale subordinate, Tieshan, charge recklessly toward her, only to tumble away vomiting blood with a casual shudder from her. She saw the