The seawater on the seabed churned, sweeping up clouds of murky silt.
Da Ming's massive body lay limp at the edge of the trench.
The azure scales he had once taken such pride in were now shattered in many places, glaring blood seeping out from beneath them.
The emerald-green Poison Jiao looked down at him from above.
Its eyes gleamed with cruelty and greed.
This was no ordinary demon beast.
In the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, a demon beast that reached Level Eight was equivalent to a great human cultivator at the early Nascent Soul stage.
This Poison Jiao was a genuine Level Eight demon cultivator.
With a mere stomp, it could stir up a bloody storm in the Outer Star Sea.
Although Da Ming was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, before this absolute power that transcended the levels of worlds, the physical defense he had been so proud of was no sturdier than paper.
The poison had already spread from his wounds into his organs.
His vision began to blur, and he no longer even had the strength to lift his head.
"To become nourishment for this lord's advancement is your honor."
The Poison Jiao exhaled a string of emerald-green bubbles, its voice echoing through the seawater.
It slowly raised its right claw.
A ghostly green chill glimmered at its claw tips as it prepared to dig out Da Ming's energy core directly.
Outside the light screen, by the lake in the Star Dou Forest.
Xiao Wu covered her face, tears streaming endlessly down her cheeks.
"Da Ming..." She sobbed uncontrollably, her legs giving out as she fell to her knees.
Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, let out a grief-stricken roar and smashed a nearby boulder with one punch.
At Shrek Academy, Tang