At the end of the day, the ocean was the domain of Sea Soul Beasts. Even Sea Soul Masters with Sea Soul Beast-type Martial Souls could not easily defeat Sea Soul Beasts in the sea.
On land, a Soul King above rank fifty could rely on combat experience and their Martial Soul to fight a Soul Beast that had just reached ten thousand years to a draw, or even kill it.
But in the sea, a Soul King could only flee before a ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast. Unless it surfaced to fight them, a Sea Soul Master would struggle to gain an advantage over a Sea Soul Beast of roughly the same level.
Realizing that staying aboard might offer a sliver of hope, while entering the sea meant certain death, Snake Eyes felt his heart turn half cold.
Watching the massive whip lash toward Qian Renxue and Tang Mo, he immediately activated Martial Soul Possession. Though a burly man, he now displayed a boneless suppleness, coiling around the massive whip like a giant python and stealthily approaching the pair along its length.
He was not trying to walk into a trap, but to find a sliver of hope for survival. He could tell that Tang Mo and Qian Renxue were like powerful figures who treated other people's lives as teaching material for a Soul Master's first lesson in killing.
It could be said that if he caught them off guard and took them hostage, there was a very good chance he could use them as protective charms for his escape.
To him, this was his only way out-provided, of course, that he actually succeeded.
Noticing Snake Eyes's little maneuver, Tang Mo looked intrigued. Just as he was about to act, astonishment appeared on both his and Qian Renxue's faces, and