The Hundred Thousand Year Southern Vermilion Bird Right Arm Bone! Sea Dragon? More Like a Sea Bug! True Body Shattered, Sea Dragon Douluo Unconscious

Xu Zhao shook his head, disappointment and mockery filling his tone:

"After seeing you charge in so aggressively and attack my prince mansion's fleet, I thought you had some real ability, or some earth-shattering trick up your sleeve.

Turns out, you're nothing but a pretty shell with no substance."

As he spoke, Xu Zhao paused and glanced at the dim dragon-shaped phantom behind Sea Dragon Douluo. A mocking smile curled his lips:

"Your Martial Soul is a Sea Dragon?

If you ask me, you'd be better off calling it a sea bug!

In the face of the sun's true radiance, your so-called 'dragon' isn't even as good as a loach."

"You... What did you say?!"

Sea Dragon Douluo had been struggling to get back to his feet. Hearing those deeply humiliating words, he shook with rage, and fresh blood surged up his throat.

Who was he?

He was the foremost of the Seven Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island!

The greatest person beneath Sea God Bo Saixi!

The guardian of these seas, revered by countless people!

In all his life, when had he ever suffered such a disgrace?

Being seriously injured by a single move was one thing, but now he was being called a "sea bug"?!

"You insolent brat... You've gone too far!!!"

Sea Dragon Douluo's eyes turned bloodshot, and the corners of them even split and began to bleed from sheer fury.

The intense humiliation overwhelmed his reason, making him momentarily forget the excruciating pain wracking his body.

"I'll kill you!

I'll make sure you die without a burial place!!!"

With a hysterical roar, Sea Dragon Douluo held nothing back. The Soul Power remaining in his body began to burn like mad.

"Seventh Soul Skill—Sea Dragon True Body!!!"

BOOM—!

A massive pillar of blue light shot into the sky.

Sea Dragon Douluo's body rapidly expanded within the blue glow.

In the blink of an eye, his human form vanished completely, replaced by a gigantic sea dragon a hundred meters long!

This was no phantom like before—it was his actual Martial Soul Avatar!

Its scales bristled, its horns jutted sharply, and the terrifying aura of a top-tier Beast Martial Soul swept across the entire area.

But that wasn't enough!

The transformed Sea Dragon Douluo threw back his head and roared. The mighty dragon's cry seemed to summon something, and the waters for dozens of miles around answered at once.

"O great sea, heed my command!"

"Ninth Soul Skill—Sea Dragon Demon Fang Break!!!"

This was Sea Dragon Douluo's most powerful single-target Soul Skill, the ultimate technique he'd kept in reserve!

The already churning sea erupted in an instant. Countless pillars of water surged skyward, then swiftly gathered and compressed in the air.

At last, all the seawater and Soul Power converged inside the Sea Dragon's gaping maw, forming an energy sphere radiating a deep blue-black glow.

The space around the sphere began to collapse under its terrifying energy density, emitting a grating sound of shattering.

"Now—perish!!!"

Sea Dragon Douluo roared.

The blue-black sphere, imbued with all his Soul Power and the might of the sea, became a streak of destructive light.

It hurtled toward Xu Zhao in midair with unstoppable force!

That strike gathered the sea's fury, determined to knock the lofty sun from the sky for good!

Watching the blue-black sphere that seemed capable of swallowing heaven and earth, Zi Zhenzhu felt as if a hand had clenched around her heart.

That was a Titled Douluo's Ninth Soul Skill, unleashed with all his might!

At sea, the strike was powerful enough to destroy an island!

"Your Highness!"

Zi Zhenzhu cried out in alarm. Her nails dug deep into the railing, her face as pale as paper, her eyes full of despair and worry.

Yet Xu Zhao, at the heart of the storm, remained as calm as ever.

Faced with a devastating strike that would have left an ordinary Titled Douluo in despair, Xu Zhao didn't dodge. Instead, he gave a slight nod.

The mocking smile on his lips grew wider.

"That's more like it."

Xu Zhao's voice wasn't loud, yet it pierced through the roaring waves and reached Sea Dragon Douluo's ears with perfect clarity.

"If you'd shown this much skill from the start, I might have thought more highly of you.

Since you're trying so hard, I suppose I'll take this a little—more seriously."

Before the words had even faded, Xu Zhao slowly raised his right arm.

In that instant, an ancient, primeval aura stirred within his arm.

A touch of intense crimson suddenly appeared amid the sun's golden radiance.

Through his sleeve, it was clear that Xu Zhao's entire right arm glowed with a crystalline red light, as if magma flowed beneath the surface.

Even the surrounding space warped slightly under the scorching power.

This was the source of the Ninth Soul Ring of Xu Zhao's Sun Martial Soul, provided by a hundred-thousand-year Southern Vermilion Bird:

The Hundred Thousand Year Southern Vermilion Bird Right Arm Bone!

The Vermilion Bird was an ancient divine beast that wielded Southern Bright Separation Fire, the supreme flame.

The Southern Vermilion Bird Xu Zhao had slain might not have possessed a completely pure bloodline, but it was still exceedingly powerful.

With a hundred thousand years of cultivation, it could contend with an ordinary Ferocious Beast with a cultivation of three hundred thousand years.

This Spirit Bone and Xu Zhao's Sun Martial Soul were a perfect match.

Both belonged to the domain of Ultimate Fire, complementing each other.

It not only gave him an extraordinarily powerful boost to his physical attributes, but also granted him two hundred-thousand-year Soul Skills that were practically divine techniques.

"Screee—!!!"

A clear, rousing cry rang through the heavens, overpowering even the Sea Dragon's roar.

The red light around Xu Zhao's right arm flared brilliantly.

Behind him, a gigantic Vermilion Bird seemed to emerge within the golden phantom of the sun, reborn in flames. It spread its wings, blotting out the sky!

"First Soul Skill of the Hundred Thousand Year Vermilion Bird Right Arm Bone—Vermilion Bird Heaven-Burning Strike!"

As Xu Zhao uttered the words, he swung down his right arm, wrapped in crystalline red light.

The motion seemed to draw upon the momentum of heaven and earth.

The gigantic Vermilion Bird phantom circling behind him gave a cry that could rend metal and shatter stone. It beat its wings and turned into a streak of red light.

Wrapped in the world-destroying Southern Bright Separation Fire, it shot straight toward the oncoming blue-black sphere.

Red against blue, fire against water.

Two utterly opposite ultimate powers collided in midair with a thunderous crash!

Yet the earth-shattering explosion everyone expected never came.

As everyone watched in horror,

Sea Dragon Douluo's "Sea Dragon Demon Fang Break," infused with all his Soul Power and powerful enough to shatter an island, touched the Vermilion Bird phantom—

And melted as if snow had met scorching magma.

"Ssssss—!!!"

A grating sizzling sound rang through the sky.

The deep, terrifying energy of the blue-black seawater couldn't even last a second against the burning Southern Bright Separation Fire.

It withered, vaporized, and vanished at a visible rate!

Southern Bright Separation Fire burned anything in its path, and was the bane of evil and cold forces!

The sea's power, which Sea Dragon Douluo had always prided himself on, was as fragile as a bubble before the legendary divine beast's flames.

"No!

That's impossible!

My Ninth Soul Skill..."

Sea Dragon Douluo, transformed into a giant sea dragon, could only watch as his strongest attack was pierced through by the Vermilion Bird phantom.

Deep fear finally appeared in his enormous dragon eyes.

But after devouring the sphere, the Vermilion Bird phantom didn't slow down at all.

Trailing long plumes of flame, it slammed into the Sea Dragon's enormous body!

"BOOM—!!!"

This time, a true explosion erupted.

Flames scattered through the sky like dazzling fireworks.

"Aaargh—!!!"

A miserable dragon's cry rang through the heavens, filled with pain and despair.

The Sea Dragon's impossibly hard scales cracked one after another beneath the Vermilion Bird's impact, and charred flesh flew in every direction.

The enormous Sea Dragon True Body was smashed out of the sky and driven deep into the sea!

The tremendous impact raised waves hundreds of meters high. Had the Great Sun Prince Mansion's ships not been protected by their formations, the shockwaves would have capsized them.

A short while later, the waves gradually settled.

The once-imposing, hundred-meter sea dragon was gone. In its place was a charred figure floating on the surface, unconscious—or perhaps dead.

Xu Zhao's single strike had forcibly dispelled Sea Dragon Douluo's Martial Soul Avatar!

Xu Zhao slowly lowered his right arm. The red light faded, and the Vermilion Bird phantom behind him disappeared.

He looked down at the figure floating on the sea like a dead dog.

He lightly brushed a speck of dust that wasn't there from his sleeve. The mocking smile on his lips hadn't diminished in the slightest:

"So that's the strength of the foremost of the Seven Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island?"

Xu Zhao shook his head. His voice was calm, but every word cut deep:

"You couldn't even withstand one Soul Bone Skill of mine. It seems this so-called 'Sea God' is nothing but a fraud."

With that, Xu Zhao turned to Zi Zhenzhu, who stood frozen in shock on the deck, and said coolly:

"Go pull him out of the water.

Just make sure he's still breathing. I have some questions for this 'sea bug.'"