Douluo: Peerless Hegemony
Chapter 40

Demon Whale Sea Domain, the Forbidden Zone of the Sea

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With Yi Yi's Space Shuttle skill, Yun Ze reached the vicinity of the Demon Whale Sea Domain in just two days.

The Demon Whale Sea Domain was more than sixty thousand kilometers from land. It was truly far away.

Jing Chen did not venture directly into the Demon Whale Sea Domain, keeping a distance of several dozen kilometers even from its edge.

After arriving, he used his Ice Attribute ability to create a slab of ice measuring more than ten square meters.

This slab of ice served as his foothold, and he would be staying on it for quite some time.

Jing Chen stood on the ice and gazed into the distance. Yi Yi lay atop his head, also looking ahead.

"What an oppressive feeling..." Jing Chen murmured, his expression slightly grave.

The distant area he was looking at was the Demon Whale Sea Domain, known as humanity's number one forbidden zone at sea.

The Demon Whale Sea Domain was no simple place. Even from afar, it made him feel uncomfortable, as though an invisible pressure weighed down on him.

"Yi Yi, let's go over and see just how powerful this Deep Sea Demon Whale is." Jing Chen withdrew his gaze and spoke to Yi Yi atop his head.

"Yiyi." Yi Yi nodded excitedly, activating its spatial skill and teleporting Jing Chen over.

After entering the Demon Whale Sea Domain, Jing Chen used the same old method, relying on soul beast blood to lure over Deep Sea Demon Whales.

Blood was even more alluring to Deep Sea Demon Whales than it was to Giant Tooth Sharks.

Less than ten minutes after Jing Chen released the blood of a soul beast that was more than fifty thousand years old, a Deep Sea Demon Whale swam toward them.

Deep Sea Demon Whales could be considered the largest creatures in the ocean. Once they surpassed fifty thousand years, their bodies were generally over fifty meters long.

Upon reaching a Hundred Thousand Years, their bodies usually exceeded one hundred meters. After that, every additional hundred thousand years of growth increased their length by more than ten meters.

The first Deep Sea Demon Whale Jing Chen encountered was roughly seventy thousand years old, and it was even larger than the Giant Tooth Shark that had been more than two hundred thousand years old.

Jing Chen loved these massive creatures because Yi Yi would have an easy time dealing with them.

Just as Jing Chen had expected, Yi Yi's shameless fighting style left the Deep Sea Demon Whale completely helpless.

Its enormous size was usually an advantage, allowing its species to become overlords of the sea.

But advantages were relative. Against Yi Yi, it became an absolute disadvantage.

No matter how it struggled, it could not shake Yi Yi off. In the end, Yi Yi drained it to death.

Jing Chen was quite lucky. The seventy-thousand-year-old Deep Sea Demon Whale dropped a soul bone as soon as he arrived.

At more than seventy thousand years old and with a complete shape, this soul bone could be considered an exceptionally fine one.

After killing the Deep Sea Demon Whale, Jing Chen had Yi Yi cut open its brain and retrieve the Whale Rubber inside.

All whale-type soul beasts could produce Whale Rubber, but the Whale Rubber produced by Deep Sea Demon Whales was of better quality.

Jing Chen had reached this conclusion after comparing it with the Whale Rubber he had obtained before.

More importantly, Deep Sea Demon Whales produced a greater quantity of Whale Rubber, several times more than other whale soul beasts.

This was likely related to the Deep Sea Demon Whale's massive size. It was only natural for it to produce more Whale Rubber.

"I should be able to achieve Whale Rubber freedom now." Jing Chen could not help but laugh.

Whale Rubber, which others found difficult to even taste, would probably become his daily food for some time to come.

Even disciples of great sects could not enjoy such treatment. They could only envy him.

Whale Rubber truly was a rare treasure. Eating it was very effective at strengthening his body.

Its taste was not exactly pleasant, and each time he ate it felt somewhat torturous. Still, for the sake of its benefits, he endured it.

Aside from hunting Deep Sea Demon Whales, they also hunted other soul beasts. Otherwise, Jing Chen would have nothing to eat.

After trying them, they found that the meat of shark- and whale-type soul beasts truly tasted terrible and carried a strange odor.

Yi Yi could accept it, so its food usually consisted of the sharks and whales they hunted.

Jing Chen, on the other hand, usually ate soul beasts such as octopuses and crabs. Sometimes, he also ate ordinary seafood.

With the Time and Space Divine Tower, Jing Chen's life at sea was not too difficult.

He spent most of his time inside the Time and Space Divine Tower, conducting research and working on his manufacturing equipment.

At such times, the Time and Space Divine Tower was inside Yi Yi's stomach, while Yi Yi hunted soul beasts outside.

When it encountered a single soul beast, it killed it. If it encountered several, it immediately fled toward the surface and contacted Jing Chen, who took it into the spatial space.

The man and beast had worked together many times, and they had become very practiced with this routine. Nothing had gone wrong yet.

Every day, Jing Chen spent seven hours cultivating. Due to the environment, his cultivation usually did not go smoothly.

He was frequently attacked by soul beasts, encountering one on average every three hours or so.

Jing Chen was helpless about such a situation and somewhat missed the uninterrupted cultivation time he had enjoyed on the island.

His cultivation process was not smooth, but there was nothing he could do about it. He could not possibly stop cultivating because of that.

He still persisted in cultivating. As time passed, he gradually adapted to having his cultivation interrupted.

Because he ate soul beast meat every day and followed the proper cultivation method, Jing Chen's cultivation improved rather quickly.

It had been nearly eleven months since he advanced to level thirty-one.

During this period, his Soul Power successfully increased by three levels, reaching level thirty-four.

Nearly one level every four months was not particularly fast, but it was not too slow either.

Jing Chen's cultivation speed had slowed not because he had grown lazy, but because the drawback of the Extreme Martial Soul had begun to emerge.

Extreme Martial Souls were universally acknowledged as powerful, but they also had a rather serious flaw: after reaching level thirty, cultivation speed would slow down.

Jing Chen was currently experiencing this period of slowed cultivation, which would continue until he reached level seventy.

During this period of slow cultivation, managing three levels in eleven months was already quite good.

Of course, Jing Chen himself was still dissatisfied with such a cultivation speed. He hoped his Soul Power could improve faster.

Once he returned to land, he would have to consider attaching a soul ring to the Time and Space Divine Tower.

Cultivating two martial souls together should increase his cultivation speed considerably. He would strive to reach level seventy as soon as possible and end this period of slow cultivation.

There was good reason for the Demon Whale Sea Domain to be called a human forbidden zone. Extremely powerful soul beasts lived within it.

After staying in this region for several months, Jing Chen gradually came to understand the sea domain somewhat through Yi Yi.

More than ten Hundred Thousand Year Deep Sea Demon Whales lived in the Demon Whale Sea Domain. The strongest among them seemed to be more than five hundred thousand years old.

Yi Yi learned all of this by communicating with soul beasts while hunting them.

After learning that there was a Deep Sea Demon Whale more than five hundred thousand years old here, Jing Chen felt both excited and worried.

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