Bai Jin raised a hand and pressed it to his left arm.
The Fourth Soul Ring lit up, and Reverse Cursed Technique flowed rapidly along the charred wound. The torn tissue knit back together, while blue-black energy was squeezed from beneath his skin bit by bit. It hissed like acid when it fell into the sea.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King gave him no time to catch his breath.
Its massive jaws snapped shut, and the seawater behind Qian Renxue suddenly constricted. She had barely moved aside with Silverwing Skystep when a sphere of compressed water over ten meters wide appeared where she had been. It exploded with a roar, sending her tumbling away.
Bai Jin flashed over and caught her around the waist.
"Can you still fight?"
"Wipe the blood off first, then ask me."
Qian Renxue steadied herself against his arm, and her Seventh Soul Ring lit up. Her Six-Winged Angel True Body spread between sea and sky, its golden light illuminating the giant whale's lone eye—and the old wound on its belly left by the Sea God.
"Good." Bai Jin let go. "Then light things up a little for me."
He charged straight at the whale's head with Shrinking Earth.
The seawater around the Demon Whale King became hundreds of sharp spikes, each wrapped in Soul Power approaching the level of a Titled Douluo. Bai Jin twisted and turned through the dense barrage, silver afterimages spreading across the whale's back. Attacks he could not dodge slowed before his Limitless, and he smashed them apart with his fists.
His first punch struck the whale's head.
Azure's Gravity first pulled the whale's hide inward, and the force of his punch drove all its power into a single point. A crater several meters deep caved into the giant whale's