Divine Wrath

While Ren Tao was devouring the Human-Faced Sea Anemone, a violent tornado swept across the surface of the sea, far out in more distant waters.

If this had been a modern weather report, it would have sounded like this:

"This super typhoon has reached force 17, with wind speeds of 250 kilometers per hour. It will make landfall in two hours... all residents, please..."

Boom!

An enormous sea snake was swept out of the water, tossed about like a rag on a clothesline, then torn into fluttering shreds.

Elsewhere, Ren Tao was taking stock of his gains.

This time, his devouring had used the Human-Faced Sea Anemone as a medium to invade the Sea Witch's world of consciousness, completing both acts of devouring at once. Devouring the Sea Witch took higher priority, and the autonomous evolution system had given Ren Tao no chance to intervene before going off to analyze and decode everything on its own.

But his gains from the Human-Faced Sea Anemone were considerable too, starting with its skills:

1. Soul Seizure. This was its most formidable means of attack, killing the Spider Crabs' souls and granting them some of its own behavioral capabilities.

2. Mental Illusion. Similar to Mind Maze, its effects were something Ren Tao had experienced firsthand. It worked through the target's innermost emotions to conjure an enthralling illusion. Of course, the technique required a medium to cast, which was its weakness. But combined with Ren Tao's Dragon Blood Killing Array, this skill would still be highly useful as long as his opponent fell within the Blood Sea Pagoda domain.

3. Corpse Manipulation. For a control-type soul beast like the Human-Faced Sea Anemone, whose own defenses were relatively weak, casting techniques through puppets was safer. Pulling the strings from behind the scenes also gave it more mystique and made its tricks more deceptive. But Ren Tao had more powerful ways to kill, so this skill was not particularly practical for him.

4. Spatial Shift Technique. This was the Human-Faced Demon Sunflower's ultimate trump card, and it deserved a good review. Though it moved slowly and usually relied on crabs to get around, the Human-Faced Sea Anemone had used this skill at a critical moment to abduct the Sea Witch, Jenny, and Yeonnie-a genuinely unexpected move.

This skill resembled Teleportation, with a similar range, but its strength lay in its ability to bundle up people or objects within a certain area and transport them through space.

Really impressive! If I could take the Evil Spirit Orcas along with me, their group would have an extra measure of safety in the future. Ren Tao could not help letting his imagination run wild...

5. Mirror Illusion. There was little to say about this one: it deserved a bad review. After all that effort, it produced nothing more than an enormous projection screen. Anyone with a little intelligence would never fall for it, unless they were in an extreme environment like a mirror space. But a mirror space already had mirror images-what would it need you for?

With his inventory complete, Ren Tao decided to fuse the relevant skills and see what happened.

By then, the Sea Witch had returned to the outside world. Together with Jenny, Yeonnie, and Hu Dong, she waited for the other Evil Spirit Orcas to receive the ripple signals and gather.

Yet her mood was strange: a little bewildered, a little melancholy, and faintly dejected.

Even she could not explain why.

"Xin Luo, you saved me and Yeonnie! From now on, you're a friend of the Evil Spirit Orca Group!"

Jenny and Yeonnie were thanking the Sea Witch.

At the critical moment, the Sea Witch really had held off the Human-Faced Sea Anemone. Though it had been targeting her in the first place, she had helped Jenny and Yeonnie rather than kicking them while they were down, despite being on the opposing side. Her character was beyond reproach.

"Oh."

The Sea Witch gave an absentminded reply. Right now, she did not want to talk. She only wanted some quiet time alone to settle her emotions.

The miserable plight of the merfolk she had just witnessed left her deeply unsettled, while Ren Tao's appearance had delivered an entirely different shock. Then, after discovering that the supposed devouring had been nothing more than a misunderstanding, she could hardly put her feelings into words.

But what was the name of that song Ren Tao hummed? I have to ask him when I have time. It was surprisingly good!

As time passed, wisps of hazy mist rose from Ren Tao's body. It was as though some inner gates had opened, and waves of crackling sounds came from within him.

A faint, unusual fragrance drifted out as well, drawing a large crowd of soul beasts to watch.

Even their fear as they fled seemed briefly dispelled. Instinctive curiosity left them wanting only to see what was happening here.

Dense mist billowed through the water, gradually taking on distinct forms. An immense flying whale beat its supple wings as it roamed through the sea. Above it, a giant flower bud slowly unfurled, its golden stamens and red petals displaying indescribably vivid colors and delicate contours. Fragrance spread in every direction. Before the gathered soul beasts, the flower slowly rose into the sky, then burst into full bloom.

Brilliant, rosy light spread across a hundred li in every direction. A massive beam shot from the flower's heart and soared into the heavens, illuminating the dark night sky and becoming the most conspicuous sight in these pitch-black waters.

Ren Tao's figure emerged within the light. Looking down upon the sea, he took in everything within a hundred li and beyond.

At that moment, all he wanted was to point one hand at the sky and the other at the sea, and cry out: "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone reign supreme!"

This extraordinary phenomenon also drew a response from heaven and earth.

An enormous bank of clouds abruptly appeared overhead, spreading majestically across untold thousands of li. Thunder flashed within it, and a swath of lightning bolts suddenly descended.

Ren Tao jumped in fright, swiftly recovering his senses from his swelling self-importance. His first thought was: Is this a heavenly tribulation?

In the lightning's glow, he seemed to glimpse a hurricane on the distant horizon. Farther still lay vast stretches of red light, burning like flames, and an enormous figure that flickered in and out of sight.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning fell. Ren Tao instantly dropped back to the sea and hid in the sea of inheritance at once.

If this is a heavenly tribulation, can I escape it by hiding in the sea of inheritance?

If that doesn't work, I'll have to flee far away. The Evil Spirit Orca Group is still here, along with so many hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts with weak cultivation. If a thunderstorm like this truly descends, probably none of them will escape.

Humm...

A strange vibration spread between heaven and earth, instantly deafening every person and beast. But Ren Tao noticed that the pillar of lightning descending from the sky had abruptly vanished.

Before it could touch the sea, it disappeared into thin air before everyone's eyes, as though it had never existed.

A furious emotion surged between sea and sky. The wind roared like thunder, and the rain sounded with wrath. Though everyone was deaf at that moment, they could all sense it clearly.

It seemed to be the fury of the sea itself.

Humm...

Another humming sound rang out. Most of the soul beasts had just been preparing to flee, only to lower their bodies again beneath the violent vibrations.

They trembled all over, bewildered and at a loss.

An immense voice reverberated through the seawater:

"Tang San, what exactly are you doing?!"

Tang San, what exactly are you doing?!

Ren Tao, the Sea Witch, the Evil Spirit Orcas, and the gathered soul beasts were still suffering from ringing ears and did not hear that furious roar. But a hundred li away, in the Hundred-Ring Mountain Trench, Tang San sprang to his feet inside the Vast Sea Protective Shroud as though thunder had exploded in his ears.

"Third Brother!"

"Little San!"

The Shrek Seven Devils were equally shaken. They stood up together and looked nervously at Tang San.

Outside, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, while wind and rain darkened the world. The hearts of the Shrek Seven Devils were just as turbulent.

Even Xiao Bai's voice trembled. "That voice is... the Sea God?"

The Sea God was openly rebuking Tang San. What on earth had happened?

"Go!"

Tang San clenched his teeth, a ruthless resolve surfacing on his face. "It must be the Evil Orca King, Ren Tao. That phenomenon just now must have been his doing. It enraged the Sea God. No matter what happens today, we have to settle this once and for all!"

The white light of the Vast Sea Protective Shroud faded. Carrying Tang San, Xiao Bai sped toward the Inner Sea like the wind and lightning, while the other great white sharks carried the Shrek Five Monsters.

A snow-white radiance illuminated the space for dozens of meters around them.

It was Tang San's Divine Slaughter's Domain, driving away the surrounding soul beasts to ensure they reached the Inner Sea as quickly as possible and arrived at the battlefield the Sea God had ordered him to rush to.

"Ren Tao, Ren Tao! What exactly have you done?!"

Tang San's expression was grim, his fists clenched tight. For the first time since coming to the Douluo World, he felt a trace of bewilderment and helplessness.

But that only made him angrier. His fury ignited his killing intent, and Divine Slaughter's Domain erupted with an unprecedentedly fierce, icy radiance.

"Whatever means I have to use today, I will erase you from this world completely!"

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