Above the sea, the gloomy sky and dark red waters made the atmosphere unbearably oppressive.
As a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, the Evil Orca King was cunning, cruel, and greedy by nature, with an exceptionally keen awareness of his surroundings.
Without such sharp senses, he would have been eaten by his own kind or his enemies long before becoming a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
Of all the Evil Spirit Orcas, he was the first to sense a trace of strange power in the ocean currents.
Thin strands of red seawater had already surrounded all the Evil Spirit Orcas from every direction.
Without betraying any alarm, the Evil Orca King ordered the Evil Spirit Orcas to circle tightly around him.
That way, even if this abnormal seawater was an enemy's trap, the other Evil Spirit Orcas would shield him, giving him time to react.
The Evil Orca King sensed that the strange power in the red seawater was of astonishingly high quality. Having devoured his way to the hundred-thousand-year realm, he grew greedy once again, hoping to use this power to reach an even higher realm.
In the distance, Dugu Yan did not act rashly. She felt that the rot power she had accumulated so far might still fall a little short of what she needed to kill the Evil Orca King outright.
But Scarlet Rot's lethality had never lain in head-on combat.
It seeped into every opening.
Although the flowing seawater would constantly dilute this power, it would also carry it farther away.
And the dispersed rot power would corrupt other living beings, allowing it to flourish even more.
So Dugu Yan was in no hurry.
She was waiting for the perfect moment.
As her understanding of this rot power deepened, Dugu Yan had developed her own way of interpreting it.
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