Dismantling the Sawtooth Shark!

Night fell!

A terrifying phantom of a blue Giant Whale blotted out the sky. Its scarlet eyes stared fixedly at the Sawtooth Shark beneath the sea, making it feel a bloodline-based pressure!

"Strange. Why wasn't Lord Haiming's Soul Skill directed at me? Why do I still feel fear rising from my soul?"

Behind Haiming, Little White voiced her doubts with some lingering dread. She could feel the circulation speed of her Soul Power slowing by a full ten percent. One had to know that in the sea, her combat strength was comparable to that of a Super Douluo!

Haiming was only a Soul Ancestor!

"Face of Terror: reduces all of the opponent's attributes by ten percent. If the target is a whale- or shark-type Sea Soul Beast, Martial Soul, or Soul Beast, it reduces them by fifty percent!"

Haiming softly explained his fourth Soul Skill to Little White and Sea Dragon, while also letting the Sawtooth Shark understand why its body felt so heavy!

Violent bubbles rose to the surface, and the Sawtooth Shark's heart was filled with despair!

Targeted by a hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark, with a human on her back whose aura was clearly no weaker than the Demon Soul Great White Shark's, and that human with weak Soul Power even possessed an ability that weakened her... It seemed there was no way she could escape today!

Splash!

Waves surged across the sea. The clouds overhead remained calm, yet the sea above the Sawtooth Shark's head was like a gale passing through, with waves rolling skyward!

"A natural ability? This is much stronger than Eight-headed Belcher's natural ability."

Haiming raised an eyebrow. As a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast, Belcher had made less of a spectacle than a severely wounded and weakened sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast. Belcher had deserved to be beaten to death by his grandfather.

If Belcher's spirit had remained in heaven, it would surely have cursed Haiming furiously.

In that situation, who could have caused such a huge commotion?

One punch would have been fatal!

The waves rose dozens of meters high. Having lived on Sea God Island all his life and never seen a tsunami, Haiming found the sight rather spectacular.

Sea Dragon and Little White had already moved away from the battlefield. They could both see that the Sawtooth Shark was making a final desperate struggle. Severely wounded and weakened by fifty percent, it could no longer pose a fatal threat to Haiming.

What a pity. I haven't learned Tsunami or Surf yet. Otherwise, I could have contested control of the waves with you.

As Haiming pondered inwardly, he condensed a blue sphere of light in his hand and hurled it at the Sawtooth Shark beneath the surface. Then he leaped into the tsunami.

The Aura Sphere condensed from Soul Power easily passed through the sea surface. Even though the Sawtooth Shark swayed its tail fin to evade, it was struck by the tracking Aura Sphere, worsening its injuries!

Haiming rushed into the waves. The deadly impact mixed with intense suffocation nearly dispersed his Martial Soul Possession outright. Gritting his teeth, he followed the seawater down beneath the surface.

There wasn't a Sea Soul Master who couldn't swim!

"Fourth Soul Skill: Awakening Power!"

After entering the water, Haiming narrowed his eyes and adjusted to the dim surroundings. When his vision cleared, the Sawtooth Shark in the distance was already spinning its teeth as it charged toward him!

This was the Sawtooth Shark's natural skill, and also its most effective means of attacking enemies!

Its rapidly rotating sharp teeth even split apart the surrounding seawater. A shallow sunken gorge appeared on the surface, and Sea Dragon, standing nearby, rubbed his chin with a dangerous look in his eyes.

Beneath the sea, Haiming extended his right hand. A golden sphere of light instantly formed, and as it did, scattered currents spread through the seawater. Even Little White in the distance felt a trace of numbness in the water.

"Is Lord Haiming all right? He's using that skill underwater?"

Little White had taken Awakening Power head-on before. She knew that it used Soul Power to condense the surrounding electricity, achieving the effect of striking an enemy.

But they were underwater now. One mistake could hurt himself!

Buzz!

Buzz!

Buzz!

After a brief silence, a massive bubble rose from the sea. Along with it, a tremendous explosion resounded throughout the waters!

Boom!

Haiming burst out from beneath the surface. He stood on the water, gasping for breath as waves washed over his feet. The clothing on his upper body had been mostly shredded, and shallow wounds had appeared across his chest, blood gradually seeping from them.

"Even after sensing its innate fear of electricity, it still forced itself to give me a hit. I underestimated the ferocity of Soul Beasts."

Haiming drew a deep breath. Before him, the Sawtooth Shark floated to the surface.

Its entire body was charred black. The wound on its abdomen had been completely cauterized, and it occasionally gave off a nauseating stench of blood and burnt flesh.

Underwater just now, Haiming had used Awakening Power. It was not because he wanted to torture himself. He had tested it before: while Sacred Barrier was active, his other skills could not harm him at all.

But what he had not expected was that, despite fearing electricity's power, the Sawtooth Shark still charged in and struck Haiming's chest with its rotating teeth. The strike even broke through Sacred Barrier's defense and directly wounded Haiming's chest!

A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast backed into a corner was still a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

Even a starving camel was still bigger than a horse!

The Sawtooth Shark opened its mouth and let out a silent screech. A trace of despair showed in its fierce eyes. It was already close to exhausting its last reserves!

First, it had been ambushed by a human Soul Master while fighting an enemy. Then, while recovering from its wounds, someone had set their sights on it. It had finally prepared to hunt, only to encounter this unreasonable human. In the end, it was still going to die at human hands!

Deep Sea Demonic Whale King!

When would you become the Sea God?!

What a pity I won't live to see the day you become a god and lead us Sea Soul Beasts in a counterattack against the continent!

The light faded from the Sawtooth Shark's eyes. Atop its head, Haiming silently withdrew his hand. Pale-blue ripples dispersed, leaving a bleeding hole in the Sawtooth Shark's head!

The penetrating power of a condensed, rotating Water Pulse was not something ordinary Soul Skills could compare to.

A black Soul Ring rose from the Sawtooth Shark's body. Haiming glanced at it but did not concern himself with it. He had not reached level fifty yet and could not absorb a Soul Ring.

Of course, even if he could absorb it, he would not take a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring when his first four Soul Rings were all hundred-thousand-year ones!

"Kyogre, if I find a Soul Bone, can I use Awakening Power again to cultivate it into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone?"

As he dissected the Sawtooth Shark's body with a dagger, Haiming questioned Kyogre in his mind.

[No. This Soul Beast's Soul Bone is located in its tail fin. Its energy level is above sixty thousand but below seventy thousand years. Even if you use Awakening Power to stimulate it, you can at most obtain a Soul Bone below eighty thousand years. There is no need.]

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I made some slight adjustments to the outline. It looks like I'll have to use some plans I had originally intended to discard.

When necessary, I can impose a few minor restrictions on the protagonist, but writing it that way would feel rather poisonous...