Heaven-Piercing Sea-Cleave!

"Meteor Spear Technique!"

Bei Miao watched the great white sharks dive beneath the surface. Without hesitation, he dove in after them.

[Douluo Continent · Yu Xiaogang: Absurd! Arrogant! Demon Soul Great White Sharks are genuine Sea Soul Beasts. They know underwater combat inside out.

You're a land-based Soul Master wearing heavy armor. What strength could you possibly bring to bear underwater? It would be a wonder if they didn't eat you!]

[Douluo Continent · Tang San: Exactly! What, can you walk underwater as easily as you walk on land? If so, which of you is the Sea Soul Beast?

That's how people from the Northern Underworld Continent are. The moment they gain a little strength, they grow smug. They haven't the slightest idea how to hide their edge.

[Douluo Continent · Liu Erlong: Why don't we hold off on conclusions? I get the feeling he's very confident.

If he really can move underwater as easily as he does on land, wouldn't defeating those Soul Beasts be only a matter of time?]

[Douluo Continent · Yu Xiaogang: Erlong, whose side are you on? Why build up their courage while crushing ours?

Even if he's good at underwater combat, how long can his stamina last against so many Soul Beasts?]

In his room, Yu Xiaogang gave a cold snort. "Such a woman's outlook! Good thing I had the foresight not to get together with her, or she would have held me back!"

"No. I have to leave the academy as soon as possible. I can't put it off any longer!"

[Douluo Continent · Liu Erlong: But...]

[Douluo Continent · Dai Mubai: Aunt Erlong, stop borrowing trouble. I think he dove down because he wants to die. Once he's dead, we'll have quite a show to watch.]

[Douluo Continent · Ning Rongrong: Could you stop running your mouths and look at the stream?]

At Ning Rongrong's words, everyone turned back to the livestream. Bei Miao had already gone on a rampage.

"Too slow!"

Just as Liu Erlong had guessed, Bei Miao moved underwater as freely as he did on land. He dodged every attack, then struck back with a slap that put another great white shark to sleep.

Before long, only a few great white sharks remained around him. The rest floated on the sea, bellies up.

"Still won't give up?"

With the spear on his back, Bei Miao calmly regarded the remaining sharks. "You understand by now, don't you? You can't win. Surrender."

But the Demon Soul Great White Sharks surged into action again. Clearly, they had no intention of giving up.

"What a pain!"

Bei Miao had run out of patience. These Soul Beasts offered no challenge at all, and he could hardly wait to meet Bo Saixi and the others.

The next moment, Bei Miao leaped out of the water and stood on its surface once more.

"This strike will finish you!"

At last, he turned the dial on his left. A black card shot out, and a huge finishing-move card bearing the character "Thrust" appeared before him.

He tapped the card with the Meteor Spear. It dissolved into flowing water that poured entirely into the spear.

[Meteor Spear's Raging Waterfall Thrust card: Shatter demons, subdue violence, destroy in the raging falls, leave waters still as a mirror.]

The twin wings on the spear spread. Bei Miao spun it between both hands, gathering immense energy at its tip.

"Raging! Waterfall! Thrust!"

Dark clouds blanketed the sky. Thunder boomed, and lightning crashed down. As Bei Miao spun his spearhead, a colossal whirlpool erupted.

The enormous whirlpool swept forward. Wherever it passed, the sea split and towering waves shattered. The force of that single strike even cleared the water from a stretch of sea for a moment, exposing reefs and sand on the seabed.

Under that strike, none of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks still putting up a desperate fight—or the Sea Soul Beasts in its path—escaped. All were wiped out.

The might of a single strike pierced heaven and earth. It hardly seemed like power a human could possess.

And the strike had not even been aimed at the Sea Soul Beasts. Bei Miao had aimed for Sea God Island, cleaving a path through the sea for the Northern Underworld Empire's fleet.

After that strike, surely no Sea Soul Beast foolish enough to court death would dare come near them again.

Silence. The silence of the grave!

Not a single Bullet Comment appeared in the Douluo Continent section of the Sky Screen. Everyone had been struck speechless by what they had seen.

After a long while, Tang Hao raised a trembling hand and slapped himself hard.

Smack!

With a sharp crack, the side of Tang Hao's face swelled at once. The pain made him realize it was all real.

Seeing his father's swollen cheek, Tang San hurried forward. "Father, why did you do that?"

"So it was all real..."

As a Titled Douluo, Tang Hao understood the true weight of that strike far better than Tang San did.

Even if ten of him attacked with all their strength, they could not match a tenth of its power. In other words, his opponent could thrash him without even using both hands.

On the Sky Screen, Dugu Bo was the first to speak.

[Douluo Continent · Dugu Bo: Good heavens, did you see that? That guy punched a huge hole in the ocean with one thrust of his spear!

That's terrifying! You Titled Douluo here—can any of you do that?]

[Douluo Continent · Bibi Dong: ...]

[Douluo Continent · Chen Xin: ...]

[Douluo Continent · Qian Daoliu: ...]

At Dugu Bo's words, every Titled Douluo fell silent. Even Qian Daoliu, a Limit Douluo, could not say for certain that he could defeat Bei Miao.

[Douluo Continent · Gu Rong: Terrifying. Truly terrifying. Even I have to admit that I couldn't withstand that blow, not even if I put everything into my defense.]

Gu Rong could be called the pinnacle of defense on the Douluo Continent. If even he said that, there was no need to ask the others.

[Douluo Continent · Bibi Dong: He killed three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with one strike, and that was only the shockwave.

I noticed just now that Black Rhinoceros only wanted to open a route between the fleet and Sea God Island.

Those Sea Soul Beasts were merely caught in the way.]

Merely caught in the way?

The conclusion Bibi Dong had drawn was even harder for everyone to accept. Could an attack that powerful have been nothing more than a casual strike?

[Northern Underworld Empire · Bei Minghan: You really are frogs at the bottom of a well. Do you know who he is?

He's one of the five strongest Soul Masters since the founding of the Northern Underworld Empire: Water Element of the Five Elders of the Empire. His defense is invincible!

To this day, no one has managed to break through his defense!]

Bei Minghan was one of the two guards from the temple earlier: Bei Mingxue's younger brother, a Level 98 Titled Douluo whose Martial Soul was the Roc. His speed was unmatched, and the depths of his strength were unfathomable.

As the guardian of the Roc Hall, he had always trained there. With his grandmaster Yu Hui's protection, he could break through to Level 99 within another hundred years and see his strength soar.

[Douluo Continent · Ning Rongrong: Wait! You mean there are four more people as strong as him?]