The left half of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's body had rotted away. His skin was riddled with festering sores and holes, and grayish-white mushrooms covered the stark white bones visible beneath.
Barnacle-like hardened growths crawled over his body, clamping tightly onto his skin and draining his vitality. They brought him endless agony, but also served as weapons for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
Ever since discovering the power of rot drifting through the Sea with the currents, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had begun gathering it voraciously, devouring group after group of sea soul beasts infected with scarlet rot.
Bo Saixi was undertaking a special divine trial with an absurdly long name, constantly hunting marked evil sea soul beasts and earning rewards to help her break free of the constraints of a divine guardian and become a divine successor.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had an opportunity of his own-he was picking up the spoils!
In this Parallel World, after spending tens of thousands of years standing still, he had finally encountered a heaven-sent opportunity to take another step forward!
The power of scarlet rot Dugu Yan had left in the ocean!
Ordinary sea soul beasts infected with scarlet rot soon died, dissolving into sludge that merged with the ocean and caused further, larger outbreaks.
But powerful sea soul beasts with abundant vitality could rely on their enormous health bars to withstand the first eruption of scarlet rot's invasion and put this all-corrupting power to use before they died.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had gone a step further than those sea soul beasts.
His cultivation had already reached nine hundred and ninety thousand years. He was only half a step away-as long as he survived the final heavenly tribulation, he could ascend to