"Mm, from here on, this is my battlefield alone."
Su Yu's gaze passed over the rolling waves toward that suffocating, ink-black abyss:
"I'm going ahead."
The instant his words fell, Su Yu leaped into the air, and a brilliant blue light suddenly flared from his right leg.
Using the flight Soul Skill of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, Su Yu flew straight into the Demon Whale Sea Area.
As he ventured farther in, Su Yu discovered that this place truly was permeated with an eerie deathly silence, just as Xiao Bai had said.
Over dozens of nautical miles, he did not encounter so much as a single Sea Soul Beast.
Even with Mind's Eye of the Kagura activated, the waters within a hundred-mile radius remained utterly empty. He could not sense even the faintest trace of life.
The deeper he went, the thicker the seawater below became, until it turned as black as ink that would not dissolve.
Above the Demon Whale Sea Area, vast banks of dark clouds gathered, and sky and sea seemed to become one.
Boom-
Amid that unbearably oppressive silence, an enormous blue pillar of light, a full five meters in diameter, burst from the sea without warning!
Carrying a terrifying pressure that could destroy heaven and earth, the pillar crossed five hundred meters in a single breath and bore straight toward Su Yu's face.
Su Yu's eyes instantly turned scarlet, the patterns of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan spinning wildly within them.
As he channeled his Soul Power, a Susanoo skeleton enclosed his entire body, protecting him securely.
Then an arm extended from the side of the Susanoo skeleton, its hand gripping a blood-red longsword.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yu had Susanoo's arm swing the longsword down at the blue pillar!
"Clang-!"
Sword