"Sea Star! Sea Spear! Hurry!!" Sea Ghost Douluo, the first to rush into the center of the battlefield, endured the sluggishness of his soul power and the stabbing pain in his soul as he screamed hoarsely at his two comrades, who had just torn through the turbulent energy and appeared. He pointed at the pure-white figure floating at the edge of the Annihilation Vortex Core, her body covered in ominous dark-purple and ashen patterns, her aura so faint it was almost extinguished. "Xiao Bai! She...!!"
Sea Star Douluo, the elderly man holding the phantom of a golden trident, swept his gaze over the battlefield—devastation everywhere, shark corpses floating, violent energy still raging, and the air thick with poison and destruction that made even a healing-type Titled Douluo like him shudder. When his gaze fell on Xiao Bai, however, and he sensed the bizarre force within her frantically corroding and withering the Sea God's origin, every trace of color drained from his aged face.
"What... what kind of evil power is this?!" Without a moment's hesitation, Sea Star Douluo became a streak of blue light and appeared beside Xiao Bai. The phantom trident in his hand blazed, and gentle, vast Sea God's power enveloped her enormous body like a warm tide, attempting to enter her and dispel the lethal poison. Yet the moment his Sea God's power touched it, it vanished like a clay ox sinking into the sea. There were even faint signs of it being contaminated and assimilated!
"No! This poison has become entangled with Her Majesty's origin. It's overwhelmingly aggressive! I can only stabilize her life force for now and slow the corrosion! We must return to the sacred island immediately and ask the High Priest to intervene!" Sea Star Douluo's expression grew even grimmer as he cried