The Demon King and the Demon Empress

"Oh no, it's going to self-destruct! Stop it quickly!" Tian Meng reacted instantly, while Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the Sea Princess prepared to strike.

Qian Xunyi reached out to stop them, saying, "No rush. Let it perform."

If a soul beast does not want its soul ring to fall into the hands of an enemy, a simple method is to die before the opponent can kill it.

The judgment mechanism of this world dictates that only the person who personally kills a soul beast can absorb its soul ring.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King self-destructed. Its thousand-meter body and the soul power condensed from 990,000 years of cultivation erupted in that instant, causing the surrounding ocean to overturn. The power even reached the level of Qian Xunyi's previous punch.

The cost was its physical body turning into scattered bits of flesh, while its complete consciousness fragments flew in all directions.

Qian Xunyi used his soul power to form a barrier, blocking the world-ending storm.

"Now is the time!" Qian Xunyi unleashed the Zhe Character Secret!

This secret technique of his could even be cast upon others.

Chains of Order enveloped the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's shredded flesh and consciousness fragments, pulling the broken body and soul together to reunite them.

A Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, appearing completely intact, stood before them in a daze.

"I..." The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King looked as if it were questioning its existence.

"It's alive. The soul beast that self-destructed is actually alive." The worm-like body of Tian Meng Ice Silkworm trembled wildly.

Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the Sea Princess also wore expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

"If you want to die, you must follow the basic procedures first." A purple-gold spear appeared in Qian Xunyi's hand. He held it high, aiming at the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. This time, he didn't give it time to self-destruct, directly piercing it through with the Angel Overlord Spear.

A nearly golden soul ring emerged from the corpse of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. Qian Xunyi sat cross-legged above the ocean, summoned the clones of his Overlord Angel Twin Bodies, and said to Snow Empress and the others, "Guard me."

Then, he began to absorb the soul ring of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

For Qian Xunyi, the process of absorbing a 990,000-year soul ring took only a little over an hour.

The absorption of the fifth soul ring unlocked the Black Tortoise Divine Form and the Nine Secrets: Jie for Qian Xunyi.

The Nine Secrets: Jie was also a domain-type skill. It possessed the ability to suppress all other domains and laws. Within the domain, every action he took had a chance to trigger the Nine Secrets: Jie; once triggered, the effect was multiplied by ten.

For example, the effect of the Overlord Angel Twin Bodies was to create a clone that possessed eighty percent of his own abilities and could use the first six soul skills of the Overlord Angel Martial Soul. If the effect of the Nine Secrets: Jie was triggered, it would create ten such clones. If combined with the Zhe Character Secret, it would be ten times the effect of the Zhe Character Secret; if combined with the Nine Secrets: Xing, it would be ten times the effect of the Nine Secrets: Xing...

"Although I am already invincible, possessing the Nine Secrets: Jie makes me even more invincible."

The massive soul power provided by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring pushed Qian Xunyi's level up to that of a 97th-level Super Douluo.

This step forward brought an exponential surge in power, giving him the confidence to even clash with the Asura God!

However, Qian Xunyi quickly suppressed this thought.

Better to play it safe for now. Since I can handle the Asura God like clay when I am at level 99, why should I clash with him at level 97?

Tian Meng scurried back from the corpse of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, handed a soul bone to Qian Xunyi, and said fawningly, "My lord... er, Brother Yi, look, this is the 990,000-year soul bone that dropped from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. I brought it back for you."

"Hmm, well done." Qian Xunyi took back the soul bone. It was a 990,000-year Spinal Bone. Tang San's opportunity—snap—gone.

Looking at the corpse of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Qian Xunyi said, "The whale rubber inside shouldn't be wasted either."

Qian Xunyi handed his Soul Tool to Tian Meng, letting this lackey continue to help him collect the whale rubber from the corpse.

Tian Meng finished, and the Soul Tool was full, yet the collected whale rubber was not even one-thousandth of the total.

Consequently, Qian Xunyi unleashed the eighth soul skill of the Overlord Angel, opening a wormhole to drag the corpse of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King inside for storage.

It was done.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was resurrected by Qian Xunyi above this ocean.

Having regained his life for the second time, he quickly accepted the reality, transformed into a simple-minded burly man on the spot, and knelt before Qian Xunyi.

"Master, since you have such methods, you should have said so earlier. I would have just sacrificed myself to you directly." The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King thought about how he had first taken a punch, then self-destructed only to be resurrected, and finally pierced through, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"I told you to offer me your soul ring and soul bone, and I would lead you to godhood," Qian Xunyi said. "You didn't believe me."

You make it very easy for people to misunderstand, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King thought to himself.

"I remember you should have a wife, also a soul beast of the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan. How many years of cultivation does she have?" Qian Xunyi inquired.

"Reporting to Master," the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King said, "my wife currently has 450,000 years of cultivation."

"450,000 years? Although it's not much, it will suffice. Lead the way," Qian Xunyi said.

"Hehehe, my lord, please this way."

With the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King leading the way, Qian Xunyi soon found the trail of another demon whale in the ocean.

The Deep Sea Demon Empress.

Under the persuasion of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, she sacrificed herself to Qian Xunyi and became his sixth soul ring.

The sixth soul skill was the Great Bell Divine Form and the Nine Secrets: Shu.

The effect of the Nine Secrets: Shu far exceeded that of Qian Xunyi's eighth soul skill, the Overlord Angel Twin Bodies. It was simple and brutal: it directly created three clones. These three clones possessed all of his own abilities and could bear his karma (for example, if a soul beast mastered the Nine Secrets: Shu, when facing a lightning tribulation, it could let a clone bear the karma of the tribulation).

The Demon Empress's soul power was not enough to push him from level 97 to level 98, but it did bring him to the bottleneck of level 98.

After absorbing the Demon Empress's soul ring, the configuration of Qian Xunyi's second Martial Soul was now: Bright Gold, Bright Gold, Bright Gold, Bright Gold, Bright Gold, Bright Gold!

Among them, there were the two 990,000-year soul rings from Tian Meng and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

After obtaining his sixth Soul Ring, the Overlord Body Martial Soul unlocked its second ability: Overlord Body Treasure Blood.

It could condense Overlord Blood and bestow it upon humans. This Overlord Blood was comparable to the world's greatest treasures; it could infect a Martial Soul, elevate its quality, and form a unique Overlord Martial Soul, which possessed a one-of-a-kind ability: the Overlord Domain.

Any human Martial Soul tainted by the Overlord Blood would surrender body and soul to the host.

With matters in the sea concluded, Qian Xunyi resurrected the Deep Sea Demon Whale Queen and handed her over to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, giving the Deep Sea Demon Whale Queen a task.

"You will remain in the sea and gather the Evil Orca King and all other Sea Soul Beasts that oppose the faith of the Sea God, so that they may be of use to me in the future," Qian Xunyi said.

"Yes, as you command, Master," the Demon King and the Demon Empress replied in unison.

"With matters in the sea concluded, the next step is the seventh Soul Ring," Qian Xunyi said, looking toward another direction in the ocean.

His target was the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.