Not far behind it, a terrifying giant whale so enormous it blotted out the sky was surging through the waves in pursuit.
The giant whale had only one eye, and its entire body radiated a suffocating, evil aura. Deep-purple lightning leaped wildly around it.
With a casual flick of its tail, it could whip up a tsunami hundreds of meters high.
This was the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King!
In the image, Xiao Bai was being chased until there was nowhere to flee, neither in the heavens nor on earth. More than a dozen wounds, deep enough to expose bone, already marred her body.
Every time the Demon Whale King spat out a high-pressure jet of water, it tore a huge chunk of flesh from Xiao Bai's body.
Blood dyed a vast stretch of sea red. Xiao Bai could only flee for her life, with no chance to fight back.
At the sight of this, several lines of glaring text immediately drifted across the edge of the Sky Screen.
"Is this what they call assisting in a kill?"
"She's just being chased and bitten one-sidedly! I could do that too!"
"She's basically just bait. Does this Sky Screen have some huge misunderstanding about what an assistant is?"
Inside the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Ferocious Beasts watched Xiao Bai, who had only a hundred thousand years of cultivation in the image, all of them gaping in astonishment.
King of Ten Thousand Demons swished his branches, his face full of disbelief.
"The time in this image isn't all that far from the present. What kind of fortuitous encounter did this Great White Shark have to go from a hundred thousand years to four hundred and ninety thousand years in such a short time?"
"This rate of cultivation defies all reason. Even if she ate heavenly treasures every single day, it couldn't happen this fast!"
Xiong Jun watched Xiao Bai fleeing in a sorry state, the disdain on his face growing even heavier.
He slapped his chest hard and shouted at his subordinates.
"Look! What did I tell you?"
"She's nothing but a stray dog that knows how to run! They're chasing her like she's their grandson!"
"This is outrageous! How could such a good-for-nothing rank above this king? The Sky Screen must have made a mistake!"
The image continued.
Just as Xiao Bai was exhausted and about to be swallowed whole by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King—
A sudden change occurred!
At the far end of the horizon, a dazzling rainbow-colored light suddenly tore through the thick clouds.
Without warning, the light dropped from the sky and struck the utterly arrogant Deep Sea Demonic Whale King head-on.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
There was no flashy clash of energy.
It was nothing more than a beam of light.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, radiating the terrifying pressure of a million-year soul beast, was as if pinned beneath an immovable divine mountain.
Its enormous body was instantly suppressed against the surface of the sea, unable to move even a single fin.
The arrogance vanished from its single eye, replaced by fear. Even the lightning around it was forcibly pressed back into its body by the rainbow light.
The comments at the edge of the Sky Screen exploded in an instant.
"What is that rainbow-colored light?!"
"Suppressing a million-year Soul Beast? It didn't even have a chance to fight back!"
"Just what kind of existence made that move? This is absurd! Could a god have descended?"
In the image, the suppressed Deep Sea Demonic Whale King opened its gaping maw and let out a desperate cry for help.
"Lord Sea God! Save me! Please, save me!"
"I gathered so much power of faith for you in the depths of the sea! You can't just stand by and watch me die!"
Its voice, carried by powerful Soul Power, echoed across the entire sea.
At these words, countless beings watching the Sky Screen were shocked once again.
Comments flashed by at dizzying speed.
"The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King is actually calling for the Sea God's help?"
"That beast is a notorious evil Soul Beast. It's devoured countless innocent lives, and it actually has ties to the Sea God?"
"No wonder it lived for a million years. The Sea God was backing it, having it do the dirty work!"
"But now that Lord Sea God's name has been invoked, this is as good as settled. The Sea God will definitely step in and punish that mysterious person who fired the rainbow light!"
The Sea Soul Masters and coastal folk who regarded the Sea God as their supreme faith all craned their necks and clasped their hands, hoping for the arrival of the great deity in their hearts.
However, the time in the image passed second by second.
Apart from the raging wind and rain, not a trace of divine presence appeared over that sea.
The Sea God never showed up!
Even when the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had screamed itself hoarse, the Sea God still gave no response at all, as if he had vanished.
The comments fell into an eerie silence.
Then a flurry of even more frantic discussion erupted.
"What's going on? Why isn't the Sea God coming out?"
"Could he be afraid? Has Lord Sea God chickened out?"
"Impossible! How could a god be afraid? It must be that Lord Sea God thinks this evil Soul Beast got what it deserved and doesn't want to dirty his hands by intervening!"
That was what people said, but many had already begun to waver deeply inside.
Those who devoutly believed in the gods watched the isolated Demon Whale King, abandoned like a pawn, and felt something solid within them beginning to crumble.
The feeling of their faith shattering left them ashen-faced. Some even collapsed to the ground.
At the very end of the image—
The rainbow-colored light suddenly contracted, transforming into a colossal, iridescent sword that reached the heavens.
The giant sword fell without the slightest resistance.
A muffled thud rang out.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's mountainous body was cleaved neatly in two.
Scarlet blood instantly dyed the sea red for a hundred miles, while a towering fountain of blood stained half the Sky Screen crimson.
A peerless Ferocious Beast of the million-year level had been killed just like that, cleanly and decisively.
The image abruptly ended there, slowly fading away in midair.
The comments were left filled with nothing but question marks and exclamations of amazement.
"Who was it that made that move?"
"One strike to kill a million-year Soul Beast, and even the Sea God didn't dare show his face. It has to be a god even more powerful than him!"
"My god, there's actually an existence on the Douluo Continent that even the Sea God doesn't dare provoke!"
"No wonder Xiao Bai made it into ninth place. Turns out she latched onto such a powerful backer!"
The Star Dou Great Forest.
The gathering grounds of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear clan.
A Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with several tens of thousands of years of cultivation sidled up to Xiong Jun, grinning as it showered him with flattery.
"Please calm down, my king. No matter what backing that fish has, it can't possibly be stronger than you!"
"Now that you've fused with the Behemoth Left Arm Bone, you possess the power of a divine beast. If it came to a fight, you could tear that fish and the thing behind it to pieces!"
Xiong Jun was staring blankly at the Sky Screen. At those words, he whipped around.
He swung his unmutated right paw and slapped his subordinate squarely across the face.
With a sharp smack, the several-tens-of-thousands-year-old giant bear went flying, crashing through several towering trees before finally coming to a stop.
Xiong Jun swallowed hard. A fine layer of cold sweat had already beaded across his forehead.
His heart was in turmoil, and even his voice had lost the arrogance it had carried moments ago.
"Damn it, you stupid fool! Are you trying to get this king killed?!"
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