The next instant, densely packed High-Energy Beams and Armor-Piercing Shells plunged precisely into the seawater, boring into the enormous pod of whales.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The entire stretch of sea instantly became a boiling inferno of thunder and fire!
The enormous blast waves hurled the seawater for miles around thousands of meters into the sky, turning it into a downpour of blood.
The Evil Spirit Orcas' incredibly tough skin was scorched and carbonized across vast areas beneath the ultrahigh-temperature Soul Guidance Rays.
Amid countless shrill, despairing cries, over a thousand Evil Spirit Orcas that ordinarily ran rampant through the ocean were torn into a skyful of shredded flesh by just a single volley!
Great swaths of scarlet blood instantly dyed the ocean red.
Countless Hundred Year, Thousand Year, and even Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings floated up on the surface, their dazzling radiance enough to make hearts tremble.
"Roar-!!!"
At the very heart of the explosions, a wretched bestial roar rang out.
The blood raining from the sky fell away, revealing the Evil Orca King's enormous yet devastated body.
The Evil Orca King was, after all, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, with thick skin and tough flesh.
But although he had barely managed to survive, he was now in an utterly miserable state.
The scales on his back had been blasted apart, exposing stark white bones.
His originally hundred-meter-long body had been riddled with holes by the shock waves of Level Seven and Level Eight Soul Cannons, and foul-smelling, dark red blood gushed out like spring water.
[Douluo section · Yu Xiaogang]:
"This... how is this possible?!
That's a hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast!
In the ocean, it couldn't even withstand a single round of their attacks?!
What exactly are those glowing iron tubes?!"
[Douluo section · Tang San]:
"Those weapons... can cause such terrifying destruction with ranged attacks alone, without Soul Masters needing to fight at close quarters?
This completely violates the fundamental rules of Soul Master combat!"
[Douluo section · Bibi Dong]:
"Wiping out over a thousand ferocious sea beasts in one strike, and severely wounding a hundred-thousand-year overlord...
This is the Xuanwu Empire's Ninth-Level Soul Guidance Legion?!"
The Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent posting comments on the sky screen were utterly silenced, chills running down all their spines.
Meanwhile, the wounded, maddened Evil Orca King had completely lost his reason.
"Despicable humans!
You dare destroy my pod!
I'll bite you and your ship into dust!"
The Evil Orca King spoke in human language, letting out shrill, frenzied roars.
Ignoring his grievous wounds, he slammed his enormous tail fin against the sea, his gigantic body rising into the air on surging waves.
He became a massive, dark red streak of blood, carrying the towering deathly fiendish aura of the entire sea as he hurtled savagely toward the Sea-Breaker's bow!
He intended to take them down with him!
"Wretched beast, you dare run wild in my presence?"
A cool, calm voice abruptly rang out above the Sea-Breaker.
Before Lu Wudao could act, a white-robed man had already floated down from the top of the command tower onto the foredeck.
The man had refined features, yet the Soul Power emanating from his body was incomparably violent!
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red!
Nine great Soul Rings slowly pulsed beneath his feet.
The ninth in particular, a blood-scarlet Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, exuded a suffocating, sacred pressure!
Scree-!
With a clear phoenix cry that pierced the clouds, the enormous phantom of a Divine Bird, its entire body burning with fierce platinum flames, soared into the sky behind the middle-aged man.
Its sacred presence of light instantly dispersed the dense bloody malice and gloom over the sea!
An elder of the Xuanwu Empire's Worship Hall and Lu Wudao's guardian:
Level 95 Power Attack System Phoenix Douluo, Ye Shaozhe!
Martial Soul: Bright Phoenix!
The Ye Family had come from the Sun Moon Empire ten thousand years ago, when the Xuanwu Continent and the Sun Moon Continent had joined.
Relying on their two inherited super Martial Souls, the Death God Demon Puppet and the Bright Phoenix.
They had not only established a firm foothold on the Xuanwu Continent, but also grown into one of its five greatest powers.
The Ye Family had quite a few Titled Douluo.
The strongest among them was Ye Shaozhe's older sister, "Death God Douluo" Ye Xishui!
Ye Xishui was one of the Xuanwu Continent's Ten Great Limit Douluo.
With the Twin Martial Souls of the Death God Demon Puppet and Bright Phoenix, and level 99 Soul Power, her name resounded far and wide!
"Uncle Ye, go easy on him. Don't knock him clean apart!"
Lu Wudao grinned from behind him:
"That's my reserved eighth Soul Ring. If his soul and spirit are both destroyed, where am I supposed to go cry?"
Ye Shaozhe smiled faintly. Without even activating his Martial Soul Avatar, he merely pressed two fingers of his right hand together like a sword and lightly pushed down through the air:
"Rest assured, Your Highness. I understand."
"Eighth Soul Skill, Sacred Radiance Skylight Lock!"
Hum!
Ye Shaozhe's eighth ring blazed with light, and a platinum pillar of light abruptly tore open the heavens.
Hundreds of searing chains condensed from pure divine lightfire shot through the air. As though possessed of minds of their own, they wove a net of fire that blotted out the sky and sun!
Boom-!
The Evil Orca King's enormous body struck the fiery net. Not only did he fail to shake it in the slightest, but the platinum chains wound around him and bound him fast with the crushing ease of smashing rotten wood!
"Aaaaah-!
The power of light!
What kind of fire is this?!"
The Evil Orca King let out agonized, despairing screams.
The Bright Phoenix's innate true flame was a thing of utmost strength and utmost yang, possessing an absolute, innate advantage over the bloodthirsty, slaughter-loving Evil Spirit Orcas that lived in the darkness of the deep sea.
Wherever the divine fire burned, his flesh charred and melted at a visible rate, while the Soul Power and vitality within him were frantically purified and broken down!
Ye Shaozhe guided a hand seal with his right hand. The platinum chains abruptly tightened, slamming the hundred-meter-long beast down from the air onto the sea and raising waves a thousand zhang high!
"Seal!"
Ye Shaozhe flicked a finger, and a spot of pure white light instantly shot between the Evil Orca King's brows.
It forcibly sealed his meridians and Soul Power, utterly crushing his attempt to self-destruct.
The hundred-thousand-year overlord of the deep sea, so insufferably arrogant just moments before, now lay limp upon the waves like a dead loach drained of all strength.
He foamed at the mouth, his breathing faint as a thread, his vital signs already fallen to the very brink of death.
The entire exchange had taken only a few breaths!
Ye Shaozhe withdrew his Soul Rings, turned, and bowed to Lu Wudao:
"Your Highness, I have thoroughly wounded this wretched beast. His meridians are severed, and he cannot move in the slightest. This is the ideal moment to absorb him."
"Thank you, Uncle Ye!"
Lu Wudao was very excited. His figure flickered, and he landed steadily atop the head of the restrained Evil Orca King.
Beneath his feet, the Evil Orca King used his last shred of strength to open his blood-red eyes and curse venomously:
"Damned humans...
You...
You'll die wretched deaths...
The Sea God...
The Sea God will never spare you..."
"The Sea God?"
Lu Wudao sneered, his eyes filled with overbearing pride:
"Sorry, but in the depths of the ocean, the Sea God doesn't have the final say.
Xuanwu, the ancestor of my Lu clan, is this planet's only legend!"
"I'll take every last bit of your resentment!"
Lu Wudao brought his hands together, and the enormous Divine Beast Xuanwu Martial Soul behind him unleashed a thunderous roar that shook the heavens!