Just as Tang Mo and the Azure Sea Killer Whale were forging their contract, the Evil Orca King quietly slipped away from his clan and arrived in the waters where the Azure Sea Killer Whale had previously been active.
For some reason, although the Azure Sea Killer Whale bore little resemblance to the Evil Spirit Orcas, and even her aura was different, the Evil Orca King doted particularly on this daughter living outside the clan.
As the king of the Evil Spirit Orca Clan, he had to remain with his clan at all times, leading them in ceaseless slaughter.
Yet whenever he stopped, he would think of the Azure Sea Killer Whale and want to see how she was living.
Thus, every so often, he would find time to leave the clan, take a distant look at the Azure Sea Killer Whale, then return.
Mutant individuals within soul beast clans were rarities to Soul Masters, but to the clans themselves, they were misfits who had to be driven out and left to fend for themselves.
Even a clove of garlic stuffed into an orange still did not look like part of the orange. The Azure Sea Killer Whale's presence would expose the Evil Spirit Orcas' whereabouts, and her dislike of fighting would only make the other clan members feel she was reaping rewards without lifting a finger.
After the Azure Sea Killer Whale's expulsion, allowing the Evil Orca King to see her occasionally was already the greatest concession the Evil Spirit Orca Clan would make.
So the Evil Orca King had originally intended to take one look and leave without lingering, but when he reached the waters where the Azure Sea Killer Whale lived, he actually found no trace of her.
At that instant, an inexplicable panic seized his heart, and he kept feeling that something was slipping away from him.
On the surface, this seemed like nothing more than an old man's special sense for a blond punk, but in truth, the Evil Orca King's royal instincts were warning him that the Evil Spirit Orca Clan's fortune was draining away.
As the saying went, lone yin could not give birth, and lone yang could not grow. Bloodthirsty by nature, the Evil Spirit Orca Clan naturally needed a measure of gentleness to soothe them, and the Azure Sea Killer Whale was precisely that gentleness.
The Evil Spirit Orca Clan was unusual: every individual over ten thousand years old followed the Evil Orca King, rampaging across the seas.
In other words, none of the Evil Spirit Orcas under ten thousand years old had powerful clan members protecting them.
As long as the Evil Orca King and the clan members he led were still active at sea, naturally, few soul beasts dared enter the Evil Spirit Orcas' territory, so there was no need to assign additional fighting strength to protect the young.
That meant that, in the normal course of events, after Tang San wiped out the clan members led by the Evil Orca King, nearly all the Evil Spirit Orcas under ten thousand years old were hunted down by other soul beasts.
The soul beasts of the sea had suffered at the Evil Spirit Orcas' hands for far too long. How could they allow these Evil Spirit Orcas under ten thousand years old to grow into new scourges? Naturally, they had to cut out the weeds by the roots.
At that point, if the Azure Sea Killer Whale were still alive, she would very likely be able to shelter some of the Evil Spirit Orcas under ten thousand years old, and perhaps the Evil Spirit Orcas would have a chance to rise again.
This was one manifestation of fortune, and thus, from the moment the Azure Sea Killer Whale was born, a large portion of the Evil Spirit Orca Clan's fortune had flowed into her body.
This fortune could ensure the Evil Spirit Orca Clan's flourishing development, and could also, to a certain extent, ensure that even if all the Evil Spirit Orcas over ten thousand years old were slaughtered, the clan could rise from the ashes.
Once the Azure Sea Killer Whale died, the Evil Spirit Orca Clan would instantly lose more than half its fortune. Unless a clan that had lost the protection of most of its fortune could strengthen that fortune, it would only march gradually toward extinction.
But the Evil Spirit Orca Clan had always known nothing but slaughter. How could they possibly possess a method of strengthening their fortune?
In short, the Evil Orca King's royal instincts were warning him that something crucial to his clan was slipping away from him. He had to recover it as quickly as possible, or a calamity as vast as the heavens would descend.
"Follow me!" The Evil Orca King did not hesitate. He turned and returned to his clan, and after conveying just those words into every Evil Spirit Orca's mind through sound waves, he turned again and set off in pursuit, following the aura the Azure Sea Killer Whale had left behind.
The Evil Spirit Orcas instinctively followed their king's departing figure, swiftly catching up with the Evil Orca King and heading toward Vast Sea City together.
They did not know what had happened. They only knew that their king was furious, so they had to follow him and tear apart whatever had enraged him.
As the Evil Spirit Orcas made their move in force, the Demon Soul Great White Sharks who had been gathering information outside under orders from Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, relayed the Evil Spirit Orca Clan's movements to her.
After receiving the news, Xiao Bai fell into hesitation. Her duty was to guard Sea God Island, and now virtually all the fighting strength of the Evil Spirit Orca Clan, Sea God Island's greatest threat, had left their territory.
In other words, she could easily follow them to watch the spectacle, but could she truly leave?
While she hesitated, Bo Saixi, the high priestess of Sea God Island, who usually secluded herself in Sea God Hall and rarely ventured out, suddenly appeared by the sea.
"By the guidance of the honored Sea God, Demon Soul Great White Shark King, swiftly lead your clan to stop the Evil Spirit Orcas from running rampant." Bo Saixi thrust the scepter in her hand into the water, and her soul power carried her voice along the scepter into Xiao Bai's mind.
With Bo Saixi's guidance, Xiao Bai hesitated no longer. She decisively summoned her clan members and headed toward Vast Sea City with them.
Having done all this, Bo Saixi raised her head toward Sea God Hall atop Sea God Mountain, a trace of uncertainty in her eyes.
Not long before, she had been performing her daily prayers inside Sea God Hall, never expecting the Sea God's divine sense attached to the Sea God Trident to suddenly convey instructions to her.
The Evil Spirit Orca Clan was one of the trials Sea God Poseidon had deliberately left for his successor. Otherwise, back when he roamed the seas gathering faith, he would have disposed of the Evil Spirit Orcas along the way.
Likewise, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's existence was also one of the trials he had left for his successor.
Thus, upon detecting a deviation in the trial he had left behind, Poseidon's divine sense immediately reacted.
Tang Mo, who was forging a contract with the Azure Sea Killer Whale outside Vast Sea City, still had no idea that a single experiment of his had actually set two of the Three Great Overlords of the Deep Sea on their way to Vast Sea City.
At that moment, he was still sensing the rather wondrous power produced after his aura merged with the Azure Sea Killer Whale's.
This power was neither soul power nor the qi he had cultivated in his previous life, but a kind of power utterly unfamiliar to him.
In nature, this power somewhat resembled the restriction technique he had briefly studied, yet it was also different. He guessed that it originated from the contract the two of them were forging.
This power was like a bridge spanning the space between him and the Azure Sea Killer Whale, allowing him to draw on her power to condense soul rings, or even draw directly on her soul power.
Having just become a ten-thousand-year soul beast, the Azure Sea Killer Whale was theoretically on the same level as a Five-Ring Soul King. Yet because of her unusual bloodline, she could use her ten thousand years of cultivation to withstand a soul beast with over thirty thousand years of cultivation head-on, so she could fully rival a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
In other words, once the contract was complete, as long as Tang Mo's body could withstand the backlash, he could use the contract to borrow all the Azure Sea Killer Whale's soul power, briefly granting himself soul power no weaker than a Soul Emperor's.
He made a rough estimate of his physical strength and surmised that his constitution could easily withstand Soul King-level soul power, while he could use Soul Emperor-level soul power for half an hour at most.
Once he exceeded half an hour, he might suffer some minor injuries.
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