Demon Lord: @Lin Yu, young friend Lin Yu, I am willing to trade all the treasures in my treasury for your Dragon Core, including over three tons of Deep Sea Silver, a piece of three-hundred-thousand-year Sea Heart Marrow, a twenty-hundred-thousand-year Nine-Colored Jade Coral, three hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast soul bones, and more!
Deep Sea Silver, Sea Heart Marrow, Nine-Colored Jade Coral... What were those things?
When Lin Yu saw the message sent by this person called Demon Lord, he was slightly stunned.
Still, they sounded incredibly valuable...
Qian Daoliu: @Demon Lord, give it a rest! Who are you? Deep Sea Silver is a top-grade metal found in the depths of the sea, tempered thousands of times by the pressure of deep seawater. It is supreme material for forging weapons and extraordinarily difficult to mine.
Sea Heart Marrow and jade coral are even more precious treasures of the ocean. They have always been guarded by countless powerful Sea Soul Beasts and are incredibly difficult to obtain. And three hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast soul bones? Can you make your boasting any more ridiculous?
In Spirit City, after the transaction had failed.
When Qian Daoliu saw this fellow called Demon Lord prattling on about using top-tier ocean treasures that even Spirit Hall did not possess to trade Lin Yu for the Dragon Core, he immediately sneered and exposed the lie.
If he could not get the Dragon Core, naturally he would not let anyone else have it either.
Besides, the lie was far too obvious!
Demon Lord: I am not boasting. These are the treasures I have collected in my treasury over many years.
In response to Qian Daoliu's doubts, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King merely replied indifferently.
Dai Tianfeng: Let me add something. Deep Sea Silver is a metal deposit located in the deep sea. Ordinary people cannot even dive that far down, and even Sea Soul Masters cannot enter the depths without sufficient strength. How did you mine three tons of Deep Sea Silver?
Seeing that this person called Demon Lord claimed to possess three tons of Deep Sea Silver, Dai Tianfeng could not help but sneer as he pointed out the flaw.
Mining three tons of Deep Sea Silver from the deep sea—was that something a human could do?
Even boasting had its limits!
Seeing Qian Daoliu and Dai Tianfeng's doubts, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King frowned inwardly.
Originally, it had not wanted to reveal its identity as a Sea Soul Beast.
After all, humans and Soul Beasts were fundamentally different.
It was perfectly normal for humans to trade with other humans, but trading with a Soul Beast was another matter entirely.
So, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had planned to conceal its identity while trading with Lin Yu.
But after being questioned like this by Qian Daoliu and Dai Tianfeng, it seemed it could no longer hide its identity.
Demon Lord: When did I ever say I was human?
Qian Daoliu: You are not human?!
When they saw Demon Lord say that he was not human, not only Qian Daoliu and Dai Tianfeng, but even Ning Fengzhi and the others watching the spectacle were deeply shocked.
They knew that Soul Beasts with cultivation levels above one hundred thousand years had also been pulled into the Live Stream Room.
But aside from someone named Tian Meng, who had appeared a few times claiming to be a million-year Soul Beast, no other Soul Beasts had spoken in the Live Stream Room at all...
Wait! Tian Meng... a million-year Soul Beast...
Could this Sky Dream Ice Silkworm be that Tian Meng?!
For a moment, recalling the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that had previously spoken and claimed to be a million-year Soul Beast, many people were utterly shaken and immediately regretted it so much their guts turned green.
That was because the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been far too humble when it spoke before.
Legendary million-year Soul Beasts possessed strength that could rival...
So almost no one had taken the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's words seriously.
They had never expected it to be true.
Demon Lord (calmly): My true form is a Deep Sea Demonic Whale. I recall that you humans once gave me a name, calling me—the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. If you doubt me, you may come to the Demonic Whale Sea Area and see my treasury for yourselves!
After revealing that it was not human, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King continued to calmly reveal its identity.
What? This Demon Lord was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King?!
Upon learning that Demon Lord was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, countless top figures from various factions, including Qian Daoliu, could not help but have their pupils constrict in horror.
Although the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was a Sea Soul Beast of the ocean, even on the continent, many major factions had heard of it.
After all, it was a ferocious beast that had once contended with the legendary Sea God. It was infamous throughout the Endless Sea and had single-handedly created an oceanic forbidden zone!
Qian Daoliu (breaking out in cold sweat): Hehe, I never expected it to be Lord Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. Then I misunderstood earlier. Your Excellency indeed has the qualifications to amass such a treasury, but as for having me come take a look, there is no need for that!
Although he was a rank ninety-nine Titled Douluo, and in terms of strength Qian Daoliu was not much weaker than the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
If a land Soul Master like him went into the ocean to fight a Sea Soul Beast that might be even stronger than himself, would that not be courting death?
And that was in the past. Now, because he had answered incorrectly, he had lost two levels of Soul Power and dropped to rank ninety-seven.
Even with the foundation of rank ninety-nine, it would still take him several years to return.
After Qian Daoliu, Dai Tianfeng also said that he had been presumptuous.
Demon Lord: @Lin Yu, human, are you willing to trade with me?
After revealing enough to silence Qian Daoliu, Dai Tianfeng, and the others, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King once again turned its attention to Lin Yu and asked.
But before Lin Yu could respond to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's question, a message tagging him suddenly appeared.
Bo Saixi (urgently): @Lin Yu, don't!!! Absolutely do not trade the Dragon Core to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King! It is the most evil Soul Beast in the ocean. Its cultivation has already reached nine hundred and ninety thousand years, and it is on the verge of transforming into a dragon. If it obtains your Dragon Core, it may successfully transform into a dragon and become a million-year Soul Beast. That would be an utter disaster for the entire Endless Sea and Douluo Continent. You would become a sinner to the whole world!
When Lin Yu saw Bo Saixi's words, he could not help frowning, feeling somewhat displeased.
Absolutely not?
Why were you yelling so loudly? Did what I did have anything to do with you?
Lin Yu also had no favorable impression of the Sea God.
The first reason was naturally that the Sea God had passed down his divine position to Tang San.
And Tang San had turned Douluo Continent into the Tang Family Continent. His actions were simply revolting!
The second reason was that Lin Yu did not believe the gods of the God Realm were good people either!
First of all, the reason Soul Masters on Douluo Continent now had to hunt Soul Beasts and absorb soul rings to advance was because the gods of the God Realm had altered the rules of Douluo Continent, making humans and Soul Beasts slaughter one another.
That alone showed that the gods of the God Realm were far from as detached and laissez-faire toward Douluo Continent as the novels made them seem.
They had always been influencing Douluo Continent.
And Tang San had originally died while fighting Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
Yet the gods of the God Realm claimed that they would not interfere with the continent, only to still have the Nine Colored Goddess and the Food God choose Ning Rongrong and Oscar to inherit their divine positions, allowing the two to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to revive Tang San.
This showed that the gods of the God Realm were also completely hypocritical, merely putting on an act. They were just not as disgusting as Tang San later became.
Putting aside the other gods, Lin Yu felt that the Sea God was deeply problematic anyway.
In the original work, Bo Saixi constantly claimed that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was an evil beast that ravaged the ocean, and that only the Sea God's suppression had brought peace to the Endless Sea.
But in the novel, the Sea God had already ascended.
As for Bo Saixi, if the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King did not take the initiative to attack Sea God Island, she could do nothing to it at all.
By all rights, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King should have been able to continue ravaging the ocean.
Yet aside from attacking Sea God Island, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had always remained in the Demonic Whale Sea Area cultivating in seclusion. It had never shown any aggression. The impression it gave was merely that it lived a long time and was lazy.
On the contrary, Tang San had actively attacked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in order to complete the Sea God Nine Trials, claiming that he was acting on behalf of heaven.
But aside from Bo Saixi's verbal claims that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was evil, had Tang San ever truly investigated what had happened back then?
Compared to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Tang San was more like a butcher, willing to stop at nothing for a divine position and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring and soul bones!
And Lin Yu remembered that in Dragon King Legend, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was even described as a mad butcher whose ambition was to devour every living thing in the ocean.
That was simply absurd!
Eat every living creature in the Endless Sea, then starve itself to death?
Was that the kind of slander a human could come up with? It was plainly a case of finding fault where there was none!
And more importantly, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and his wife had raised a kind daughter like Lan Fozi.
If they truly were both incomparably evil Soul Beasts, could Lan Fozi really remain unstained by the mud?
Lin Yu did not believe so, anyway.
In Lin Yu's view, rather than saying that the Sea God had once risked everything to suppress the evil Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for the future of the Endless Sea.
It seemed more like the Sea God had done it for the faith of the Sea Soul Masters and Sea Soul Beasts in the Endless Sea, in order to become a god.
He had forcibly portrayed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King—simply because it ate a lot, possessed high cultivation, and had grown huge—as an evil ferocious beast and a butcher that wanted to devour everything.
Then, by striking down the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, this evil ferocious beast, he elevated himself. In the end, through all sorts of methods, he made himself the savior of the Endless Sea.
Thus, he absorbed the faith of countless Sea Soul Masters and Sea Soul Beasts, ultimately becoming a god!
As for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, people kept saying how savage it was, but there was not a single concrete black mark against it—only the Sea God's words.
Not to mention anything else, in the original work, even the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Little White, said that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had always stayed in the Demonic Whale Sea Area and caused no trouble. The Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Little White, had certainly lived longer than the Sea God, so how did the moment the Sea God wanted to become a god, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King turn into a ferocious beast, a butcher, and the enemy of the ocean?
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