Soul Cannon Saturation Strike! Douluo Was Stunned: What Did a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Mean?
"Reporting to Your Highness, ten nautical miles dead ahead!"
The adjutant immediately tapped the control console several times, and an enormous soul guidance light screen unfolded in midair.
On the screen, a colossal beast over a hundred meters long led over a thousand ferocious giant whales, roaring and snapping as they tore through the waves.
It was none other than one of the overlords of the waters surrounding the Douluo Continent, the hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King!
"Hahahaha!
Someone delivers a pillow just when I want to sleep!"
Lu Wudao's eyes shone, and he could not help clapping his hands and laughing:
"I've been stuck at the Level 80 bottleneck for three whole months. Father originally planned to capture a hundred-thousand-year soul beast on the Douluo Continent after the realm convergence and make it my eighth soul ring.
Who would have thought this grand gift would deliver itself straight into my cannon sights!"
Although the Xuanwu Continent had quite a few hundred-thousand-year soul beasts,
that did not mean anyone could simply capture one and hunt it for its soul ring!
The Xuanwu Empire and the major soul beast factions all had explicit regulations.
Those regulations stipulated how many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts each major soul beast faction had to provide within a given period.
Although Lu Wudao was exceptionally talented, there was truly nothing he could do if the quota was insufficient.
He had therefore thought of going to the Douluo Continent to find another way.
But he had never expected this hundred-thousand-year soul beast to deliver itself to his doorstep now!
The captain beside him respectfully reminded him:
"Your Highness, hundred-thousand-year sea soul beasts are extraordinarily fierce in the ocean.
Evil Spirit Orcas in particular are bloodthirsty and brutal by nature. An ordinary Soul Douluo who encountered one would be devoured in an instant, leaving not even bones behind. Caution would be best."
The corners of Lu Wudao's mouth lifted, his eyes filled with disdain:
"An ordinary Soul Douluo?
Am I an ordinary Soul Douluo?"
Before his words had faded, soul power erupted thunderously around Lu Wudao, and soul rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.
Yellow!
Purple!
Purple!
Black!
Black!
Black!
Black!
Seven soul rings in all. Apart from the first, which was a hundred-year ring, his second had already crossed into the thousand-year class.
His fifth, sixth, and seventh rings were pitch-black as ink, radiating the crushing pressure of ten-thousand-year rings!
More terrifying still, a Xuanwu apparition clad in heavy armor and bearing a divine peak on its back silently appeared behind Lu Wudao. The oppressive presence of a god-level martial soul instantly filled the entire bridge.
"Since childhood, I've tempered my body alongside Father in the core spirit vein within the Ancestor's back shell. At seven, I swallowed ten-thousand-year whale glue. At ten, I refined Dragon Ganoderma Blood Ginseng. My body has long been strong enough to withstand a close-range strike from a Rank Nine Soul Engineer head-on!
Now, at twenty-five, I've already cultivated to Level 80!
If I obtain this hundred-thousand-year soul ring, I'll definitely defeat my older brother and sister!"
Lu Wudao clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking like thunder as he declared boldly:
"A mere hundred-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca-its soul ring is mine!"
Meanwhile, the enormous Sky Screen spanning the heavens above Douluo Star lit up again.
The Sky Screen Livestream sensed signs of an imminent, intense clash of soul power, and the Xuanwu Continent section instantly switched to the waters ahead of the Third Fleet.
The sight of the hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King facing off against the enormous soul guidance fleet was projected clearly before the eyes of every soul master on the Douluo Continent.
The bullet comments instantly boiled over.
[Douluo section · Liu Erlong]:
"Heavens!
What kind of monster is that?
What an enormous black whale!
I can feel that overwhelming reek of blood even through the Sky Screen!"
[Douluo section · Yu Xiaogang]:
"Absurd!
That isn't an ordinary whale. It's the deep-sea overlord, the 'Evil Spirit Orca'!
Judging by its size and those dark red blood markings, this is clearly a hundred-thousand-year soul beast!
Sea soul beasts' combat strength in the deep sea far surpasses that of land soul beasts.
Even three Titled Douluos working together might not be able to subdue such a vicious creature in the ocean!"
[Douluo section · Bibi Dong]:
"A hundred-thousand-year sea soul beast... The Xuanwu Continent's army actually happened upon a hundred-thousand-year soul beast?!"
Bibi Dong was deeply envious.
Had she known there were so many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the ocean, she should have gone sooner.
It was all the Rakshasa God Trial's fault for restricting her strength!
[Douluo section · Tang Hao]:
"Hmph. A hundred-thousand-year soul beast is no less intelligent than a human, and in the ocean, it enjoys every advantage of the terrain.
The Xuanwu Empire's warships may be large, but faced with a deep-sea beast's ramming attack, they'll probably capsize in an instant."
[Douluo section · Bo Saixi]:
"The Evil Orca King... It is the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan's mortal enemy, exceedingly brutal and bloodthirsty. In the deep sea, its strength rivals that of a Level 96 Titled Douluo.
If the Xuanwu Empire's fleet refuses to retreat, a savage, bloody battle is inevitable."
While the renowned figures of the Douluo Continent posted one worried comment after another, the mood of the Xuanwu Continent's bullet comments changed completely. The screen was filled with easy nonchalance.
[Xuanwu section · Imperial Capital Heaven Dou Imperial Academy passerby A]:
"Pfft, am I seeing things?
What are those natives over on the Douluo Continent worried about?
That the fleet will get rammed over?"
[Xuanwu section · Heavy Industry Soul Guidance Research Institute craftsman]:
"Move along, move along. I thought something big was happening, but it's just catching a hundred-thousand-year eighth ring.
That's Prince Wudao's flagship, the Sea-Breaker, isn't it?"
[Xuanwu section · Lu Ye (Xuanwu Great Emperor)]:
"Wudao, hurry up. Don't delay the fleet's progress in opening a sea route for the Ancestor.
Once you've caught your soul ring, get your backside back to the command tent and report."
[Xuanwu section · Lu Wudao]:
"Your son obeys!
Rest assured, Father. Within three quarters of an hour, I'll return with its whale head!"
The stark contrast between the exchanges on either side of the Sky Screen left Bibi Dong in Spirit City's Papal Hall, Ning Fengzhi in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and the others staring in dumbfounded shock.
Catch a hundred-thousand-year soul beast for an eighth ring?
And they were even complaining that it would delay opening a sea route?
Did these people from the Xuanwu Continent have any idea what a hundred-thousand-year soul beast meant?!
"Relay my orders!"
On the Sea-Breaker's bridge, Lu Wudao swept his hand outward and solemnly drew the Command Spirit Blade at his waist:
"Target: the Evil Spirit Orca pod ahead!
Preheat every ship's main and secondary cannons. No need to conserve high-energy soul guidance charging crystals!"
"First volley: Rank Seven fixed-shell armor-piercing soul cannons. Fire every round!"
"Second volley: Rank Eight Super-Condensed-Energy Shock Cannons. Lock onto the Evil Orca King's central nervous system and deliver a saturation bombardment!"
"Let these deep-sea natives see what the empire's firepower means!"
"Yes, sir!"
The adjutant slammed down the firing lever.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom-!
In an instant, the decks of the Sea-Breaker and the four surrounding heavy escort ships snapped open.
Over a hundred enormous cannon barrels, gleaming with dazzling, eerie blue light, extended simultaneously.
Accompanied by deafening roars, over a hundred eerie blue beams as thick as buckets tore across the sky.
Like a rain of death, they blasted viciously toward the furiously charging Evil Spirit Orca pod at the terrifying speed of several times the speed of sound!
The Evil Orca King, roaring furiously in the seawater, suddenly sensed a lethal threat.
A flicker of horror flashed through its enormous blood-red eyes, and it hastily raised its head and let out a long howl.
Towering seawater transformed into a gigantic wall of waves hundreds of meters high, attempting to block those strange iron tubes whistling toward it.
Yet this was no clash of ordinary soul skills, but pure saturation destruction wrought by high-rank soul guidance technology.
Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft-!
The defensive wave, strong enough to withstand a Soul Saint's full-force strike, was instantly torn apart like thin paper before the Rank Seven fixed-shell armor-piercing soul cannons!