Scarlet Sea, five hundred meters beneath the surface.
Mu Baobao clung to the back of Ziqiu's martial soul as the two quietly dove toward their destination below.
They were somewhat nervous. The purple mist released around them not only rendered them invisible, but also completely concealed their auras.
Nothing leaked out. Even so, she remained extremely cautious. Though the Demon Soul White Sharks and Evil Spirit Orcas had weakened perception in the Scarlet Sea, they still did not dare let down their guard in the slightest.
"Don't worry about me. My physical constitution is very strong!" Mu Baobao said. A glance at a snake's long, slender body was enough to tell how well it could disperse force.
Mu Baobao was simply strong. After all, who would dare wrestle a dragon? That would be courting death.
At a depth of a thousand meters, Mu Baobao had already felt the pressure of the sea. Ziqiu's mist was truly peculiar; he did not need to worry about air at all. After asking, he learned that the Illusion Snake.
Could naturally travel through space. It had descended from some kind of void serpent through countless generations of breeding.
It even possessed a small internal space. Besides, current soul-guidance technology had long since developed diving equipment, so breathing was not much of a concern.
"We're here." Ziqiu spoke irritably and tossed Mu Baobao down. She tilted her head slightly upward, indicating that their target was in the seawater above them.
By now, Ziqiu had brought Mu Baobao at least five hundred meters beneath the surface. The tremendous water pressure made even their bodies emit faint creaking sounds.
"But they're fighting on the surface. How are we supposed to investigate from down here?" Mu Baobao asked.
Ziqiu ignored him. Closing her eyes and focusing her mind, she quietly released gentle spiritual fluctuations. Mu Baobao was shocked to discover that the spiritual energy she released fused with the surrounding seawater the moment it left her body, despite its overall small scale.
Its concealment was terrifying. He could no longer sense anything from the seawater at all. Those spiritual fluctuations truly seemed to have become part of the ocean.
The seawater above their heads remained as calm as ever. He could easily shatter those spiritual fluctuations, but locating them was not easy.
However, she frowned slightly. "Carrying someone down this far is still too much. Let's rise and take a look!"
"Uh!" She was still looking down on him. He could only helplessly move behind her. Just as he was about to get angry and ask what she was trying to do, Mu Baobao placed his hand on her back.
A vast amount of gentle yet pure spiritual power suddenly flowed quietly into her. Ziqiu only felt her spiritual world abruptly clear, and countless crisp images appeared in her mind. Like an ultra-high-definition detection radar, they formed a three-dimensional display.
It easily covered a thousand meters and reached the sea surface. Though it was not concealed as well as hers, it would still be difficult to detect in the already distorted Scarlet Sea.
"Th-this is... Spiritual Detection Sharing?"
Ziqiu exclaimed in shock. No wonder Nanuk had said she would not regret bringing Mu Baobao. She had thought merely that he was not weak in battle, but his spiritual power was this terrifying as well.
Through the spiritual detection, she could sense everything around her, and its concealment effect was excellent.
Its weakness was that the total range was not very impressive. Carrying Mu Baobao was part of the reason, but not a major one. Yet the information Mu Baobao transmitted to her was even clearer than her own detection, and the Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks in the sea above.
Did not seem to have noticed. Ziqiu naturally understood that reaching such a level of detection, even sharing that visual perception with another person through physical contact, meant Mu Baobao's spiritual power was unimaginably vast.
Mu Baobao knew what Ziqiu was thinking. A trace of smugness appeared at the corner of his lips. You looked down on me before. Now you know how impressive I am, right? Yet the girl did not buy it. "You're somewhat useful, at least."
In this era without the Soul Spirit System, his spiritual power likely surpassed even that of some Title Douluo. Even once Huo Yuhao grew up and possessed seven Soul Spirits... he could still contend with him. After all, all three of his martial souls possessed ultimate attributes.
With enough Soul Rings and Soul Bones piled on, he could force his way up as well. Only then did Mu Baobao finally see the situation on the sea surface.
Within the Scarlet Sea, the seawater was red, the sky was black, and countless bolts of lightning flashed... It was practically hell itself—gloomy, terrifying, and maddening.
Agile white figures surfaced one after another, their triangular dorsal fins emerging above the waves. There were fully two hundred Demon Soul White Sharks, arranged in orderly ranks in a spectacular sight. Every Great White Shark exceeded fifteen meters in length and radiated powerful energy fluctuations. Concealed by the seawater, they resembled a disciplined army.
Opposite them stood creatures generally nearly twice as large as the Demon Soul Great White Sharks. They lacked the sleek beauty of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, but their entire bodies exuded power. They were grayish-black from head to tail.
Their heads were exceptionally huge. When they opened their mouths, they revealed enormous, horrifying teeth like blades and swords. Their dark-red eyes brimmed with ferocity and bloodlust.
They were twenty to twenty-five meters long. The Evil Orca at the very front exceeded thirty meters, its gray-black hide glimmering with a faint metallic sheen.
The Evil Spirit Orcas were generally nearly twice as large as the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, though their numbers were only around one hundred. Yet their aura was far more vicious.
There was no need to ask. The leaders were naturally the Evil Orca King and the Demon Soul Great White Shark. Ten thousand years later, an Evil Orca King of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had actually appeared again, and it was no weaker than Tang Buddha Ancestor's.
When Tang Wulin hunted that one, it had already possessed more than two hundred thousand years of cultivation. But that Demon Soul Great White Shark.
He felt it did not resemble Xiao Bai. That was not difficult to understand, since its cultivation was lower than the Evil Orca King's. After Tang Buddha Ancestor ascended to godhood.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King naturally settled the score for his husband's death with that Sea God's lackeys first. Ten thousand years later, he had even exterminated the entire clan. Therefore, Bai Xiuxiu's mother should not have been Xiao Bai.
And this one probably was not either. The strongest Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks were likely the leaders of this holy war. The true bosses would not casually take the field.
"Heh, how ironic. The Sea God's former lackeys are now being hunted by humans again!" The Evil Orca stared at the Demon Soul Great White Shark and spoke in a low voice. "And now, even sea soul beasts regard you as a disgrace."
The Evil Orca King's deep-red eyes were filled with terrifying menace. He abruptly opened his mouth and let out a low roar. Immediately, several water blades carrying dark-red auras descended with piercing shrieks.
Many Demon Soul White Sharks were engulfed. Their massive bodies, over twenty meters long, were instantly sliced into several pieces. This was his famed ultimate technique.
Evil Orca Shattering Tooth Slash!
The Orca Domain, filled with violent and frenzied energy, could affect and disrupt the mind and soul.
It spread at the same time. The Evil Spirit Orca clan seemed to have been draped in berserk bloodlust, their eyes turning red. No one would doubt that they would even attack their own kind in their madness.
The Demon Soul White Shark clan also felt their emotions growing restless. The Demon Soul Great White Shark inwardly cried that things were bad.
Rain of Ice Blades! Frigid cold froze the sea surface, forming countless ice blades that collided with the Shattering Tooth Slashes.
To be honest, the Demon Soul Great White Shark also considered this a disgrace within the soul beast world. They had bowed and scraped before humans, becoming mounts. At first, they had indeed gained benefits.
No one in the entire sea region had dared provoke them. But after they lost the inheritance ground and their protection... both humans and soul beasts wanted to kill them. Ten thousand years of tyrannical glory and obsequious submission, followed by ten thousand years of disaster.
Their former king had been the first to suffer the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's revenge after the second Sea God ascended to godhood.
Its friends and relatives had all suffered criticism. Mu Baobao helplessly shrugged. "Looks like both humans and soul beasts have this sort of drama."
Soul beasts bowing and scraping before humans was something even he, as a human, could not accept. It showed absolutely no backbone. Xiao Bai's surrender had allowed the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to live freely for ten thousand years, but after Tang Buddha Ancestor ascended to godhood.
The inheritance ground naturally could not remain. They were hunted by humans and soul beasts for ten thousand years, then another ten thousand years later their entire clan was wiped out. It was like making the descendants of Huaxia curry favor with the Little Japanese... That would be no different from dragging out their ancestors for eighteen generations and whipping their corpses.
"Stop talking nonsense. If you want to fight, then fight!" the Demon Soul Great White Shark shouted. Even without the Sea God's protection, they were not a race that just anyone could provoke.
The key was that there was truly no arguing against it. Yet after losing that protection, their glory had become a stain.
Once a choice was made, one could not merely enjoy the rewards of guarding it. One also had to bear the consequences that came with its drawbacks.
The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Abyss had originally only been Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, yet after clinging to Tang Buddha Ancestor's thigh, they became gods. They even began openly showing no respect to the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian or the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena.
But that naturally upset the soul beasts of their own lineage. In Ultimate Douluo, each had occupied a planet to reproduce and thrive, but they could not withstand the influence of the protagonist's plot armor.
The Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena became Tang Buddha Ancestor's daughter-in-law, while the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian became Tang Buddha Ancestor's grandson. Lan Xuanyu's Soul Spirit... All he could say was that it shattered one's worldview. He had just called this a disgrace!
The soul beasts' vengeance was abandoned, and soul beasts had no hope of rising again. They had followed that shameless sixth child of a leader.
ROAR! Furious roars erupted from the mouths of the Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks.
The rolling sound waves made the sea within several thousand square meters tremble. Mu Baobao and Ziqiu, far beneath the ocean, heard them with perfect clarity.
As overlords of the sea, they feared no enemy that appeared before them. Even if the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King appeared, they would dare to fight him.
The Demon Soul Great White Sharks unleashed their full speed, charging straight at the Evil Spirit Orca pack like two hundred white water arrows. The ocean was thoroughly thrown into turmoil at that moment.
The two sides collided. The Evil Orca King led his kin forward to meet them with fierce momentum. Though their speed was inferior to the Demon Soul White Sharks', their strength and defense were not weak in the slightest.
Boom! The two great overlord clans of the ocean smashed violently into one another. As the saying went, enemies were especially enraged upon meeting. They completely unleashed one hundred and twenty percent of their combat strength. The already crimson sea became even more bewitchingly red the instant they clashed.
A war between races had always been a battle to the death, and this was not limited to the Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks.
Many clans seemed to be lurking in the shadows and waiting for opportunities, hoping to eliminate these sea soul beasts that threatened their own status as overlords.
For a time, the fierce energy fluctuations turned the seawater within a thousand meters as viscous as gelatin. Fortunately, Mu Baobao and Ziqiu were beneath the sea.
Had they been above the surface, it would have been dangerous. Even human Title Douluo did not dare casually provoke Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts... after all, they not only possessed equivalent Soul Power; their entire bodies were weapons.
Severed limbs drifted everywhere. An Evil Spirit Orca could fight two Demon Soul White Sharks, so despite being outnumbered by several dozen, victory was tilting toward them.
With their speed, the Demon Soul White Sharks could swiftly bite chunks of flesh off the Evil Spirit Orcas. Yet the latter could directly crush them to pieces. Both sides retreated after brief contact... but there were still unlucky ones that were swallowed like snacks.
Ice Tide Art!
Seeing that the advantage was not on their side, the Demon Soul Great White Shark immediately used its ice-controlling ability.
A tsunami swept over everything. Yet just as it was about to touch the Evil Orca King, it froze into thick ice that sealed away multiple Evil Spirit Orcas. The Evil Orca King revealed deep disdain and roared in a low voice.
"Evil Orca... Mirror Extinction!"
If the ice layer had been like glass before, it now directly condensed everything around it into mirrors, which then shattered into fragments inch by inch.
They fell upon the sea surface. This was an offensive and defensive innate skill of the Evil Spirit Orca clan. It could alter the structure of objects into mirrors for defense or shatter them apart.
Evil Orca Demonic Fury!
Holding the upper hand, the Evil Orca King pressed his advantage. The berserk aura around his entire body gathered.
Like ignited explosives, it erupted in the next instant into an iron-gray pillar of light. It was a pure energy attack skill. No one knew how many Demon Soul White Sharks were engulfed and instantly blasted into chunks of flesh.
Only a few minutes had passed since the battle began, yet the scent of blood was already extraordinarily pungent. An estimated hundreds of thousands of Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks had died. It was utterly brutal.
At that moment, the two kings who had finished exchanging two techniques silently watched each other, gathering strength for their ultimate moves.
An eye appeared behind each of them.
Evil Orca Demonic Seize!
The eye behind the Evil Orca was red and filled with frenzy. This was his proactive control technique, forcibly stunning the target for three seconds and ignoring physical defense.
Deep Blue Gaze! The eye behind the Demon Soul Great White Shark was blue, its aura cold and calm.
A control skill naturally had to be met with another control skill. At the very least, neither side would suffer a disadvantage.
One red and one blue—two techniques that should have ignored defense and forcibly stunned their targets—collided directly in midair, erupting in a massive energy explosion.
No one dared interfere in the battle between kings within a thousand-meter radius. The Demon Soul Great White Shark was panting slightly.
They were both newly born kings. With equal cultivation, it naturally could not match the Evil Orca King in a frontal clash. Yet techniques at this level affected an extremely wide area.
Speed could not be brought into play, so it had become a direct contest of strength. Being at a disadvantage was perfectly normal.
"You're too weak!" the Evil Orca King said.
He was likewise too lazy to waste words on the Demon Soul Great White Shark. He was a full size larger, and his tail was like a battle axe!
He swung it down with unstoppable fury. The Demon Soul Great White Shark's tail was slightly smaller, but it thrust forward with the sharpness of a spear. It did not choose to grit its teeth and meet the strike head-on.
Orca Demonic Axe!
White Shark Demon Soul Spear?
One spear and one axe unleashed frenzied attacks across the sea surface, while Mu Baobao was deep in thought.
"Take your filthy hands off me!"
Ziqiu glared at him with her blue eyes. Her black mask and cap concealed her appearance.
Shrek Academy had plenty of beautiful senior and junior students. Mu Baobao could tell that she was definitely a great beauty. In his panic earlier.
He had held her tightly. Seeing this, he awkwardly released her. "I was afraid something would happen to you. The two of us are quite fated, you know. Feng Chun and Ziqiu go so well together!"
"As the saying goes, a spring-and-autumn dream lasts but a moment..." Even at a time like this, he still did not forget to ramble.
"Who the hell is fated with you? I didn't expect the Evil Spirit Orcas and Demon Soul White Sharks to start fighting already. I need to go back and tell Uncle Nanuk so they can hurry over and pick up the spoils. Otherwise, they'll run off later."
The two clans naturally could not fight until one side was completely annihilated. Once a victor was decided, the flesh and blood would be devoured by the other side, and then they would leave.
Therefore, someone had to investigate the situation each time, forcibly hold them back while they were exhausted, and then begin hunting them. Mu Baobao understood this as well and said.
"Fine, go report back. I'll hold them here!" Ziqiu was stunned. "Are you insane? How are you going to hold back two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts? Even after they have expended so much, can you still win?"
Mu Baobao smiled and unhurriedly took out a Black Soul Coin and Kyurem's Three-Word Battle Armor.
"Then we'll let them keep fighting!"
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