While everyone in the Qingchuan Mountain Range sank into despair...
The situation near Sea God Island had grown increasingly tense.
Not only had a vast number of Sea Soul Masters from elsewhere arrived in the waters near Black Tortoise...
Many Soul Masters from Sea God Island had come as well.
The Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo and the Shrek group shared an enormous ship and had already entered attack range.
The Sea Soul Beasts belonging to the various factions formed a fan-shaped formation, encircling Black Tortoise completely.
However, none of them ventured too close. If Black Tortoise charged in one direction, no one could stop him!
Even the largest ship among them was smaller than the serpent on Black Tortoise's back.
But unlike the anxious Soul Masters in the Qingchuan Mountain Range...
The Sea Soul Masters surrounding Black Tortoise had yet to attack!
They were all waiting.
Waiting for the Heavenly Screen to reveal Black Tortoise's weaknesses.
White Tiger had already been skipped, so the rundown of Black Tortoise's weaknesses would surely begin any moment!
Attacking after his weaknesses were revealed would be the most efficient approach.
Right now, everyone was trying to secure a better position.
Generally speaking, a behemoth like Black Tortoise moved slowly, making it difficult for him to dodge when attacked by a crowd.
Thus, everyone hoped Black Tortoise's weaknesses would be announced soon.
Tang San and the others also wore expectant expressions. They had only come to join the excitement and had little interest in hunting Black Tortoise.
Mostly, they knew their own limits and understood full well that they could not compete with these Sea Soul Masters out at sea.
After another short wait, the images on the Heavenly Screen finally began moving again.
The images of White Tiger and Bibi Dong vanished, replaced by Black Tortoise floating on the sea.
And the mass of ships and Sea Soul Masters surrounding him.
[Ranking the weaknesses of the Douluo Continent's ten greatest Soul Beasts, third place!] [Holy Beast Black Tortoise, age: two hundred thousand years.] [Current state: immature.] [Weakness one: Holy Beast Black Tortoise's enormous size prevents him from freely dodging Soul Skills in the sea, but his formidable defenses mean he has no need to dodge.] [Weakness two: Holy Beast Black Tortoise is called Black Tortoise because he combines a serpent and a tortoise. Finding a way to sever the serpent's body and separate serpent from tortoise will greatly reduce Black Tortoise's strength.] [Weakness three: Holy Beast Black Tortoise's defenses are stronger than any armor. Only attacks against his flesh will work.] [Weakness four: the sea's surface remains within the Sea God's domain. All of the Sea God's attacks will have a suppressive effect on Black Tortoise.] [Countermeasure: avoid attacking Black Tortoise's shell. Focus on the less well-defended serpent's body or Black Tortoise's eyes.] [Additionally, Black Tortoise's self-healing ability is relatively poor, allowing concentrated strikes on a single point.]
After Black Tortoise's weaknesses were announced, none of the surrounding Sea Soul Masters looked excited.
Instead, they all began complaining!
"How the fuck is that any different from saying nothing?"
"Who doesn't know to attack his flesh? One look at that shell tells you you can't break it!"
"That's like saying you have to kill a Soul Beast before you can absorb its Soul Ring! Nothing but bullshit!"
"This Heavenly Screen is such a rip-off!"
"And to think we waited all this time!"
Still, angry as they were, that did not stop them from attacking Black Tortoise.
Since the Heavenly Screen had provided little information, they could only take him head-on!
Soul Rings lit up across the ships.
The Sea Soul Masters transformed into all manner of bizarre Sea Soul Beast forms.
With countless splashes, they jumped straight into the sea and charged at Black Tortoise.
Using ships was far too cumbersome, and Black Tortoise could easily overturn them with a single slap.
Entering the sea themselves was much more convenient.
Sea Soul Masters had various ways of breathing underwater, so they had nothing to worry about in the short term.
Most importantly, they could move more nimbly in the sea.
As time passed, one Sea Soul Master after another entered the water and charged at Black Tortoise.
Before long, the hundreds of ships surrounding Black Tortoise had emptied, with only a few Soul Masters remaining to control them.
Tang San and the others stayed aboard the ship from Sea God Island.
With their current strength, they did not dare enter the sea like that.
Soon, the Sea Soul Masters' encirclement attack on Black Tortoise began.
All kinds of Soul Skills shot toward Black Tortoise from within the sea.
Lights of all kinds of Soul Power flashed across Black Tortoise's enormous body.
But most of the attacks were aimed at the serpent's body.
Unlike Azure Dragon's scales, the nearly black scales covering the serpent's body were practically armor!
All kinds of attacks struck them without leaving so much as a mark.
The serpent's head hovered in the air, watching the Soul Masters in the sea and screening them.
Sure enough, there aren't any suitable candidates, Ye Yao thought.
Among these Soul Masters, few interested him.
After looking them over, he found they were not even as good as Tang San and the others.
Bo Saixi actually didn't come. Is she not interested in becoming a god at all?
Ye Yao knew very well that, because of her divine trials, Bo Saixi could only reach rank 99 as a Douluo.
Because she was not qualified to take the Sea God's Ninth Trial, she was also destined to be unable to become a god.
Yet the Four Holy Beasts' Soul Rings offered a chance to become a god, and even that had failed to draw her here.
In truth, it would have been impossible for Bo Saixi not to be tempted.
But White Tiger's Soul Ring had already been absorbed by Bibi Dong.
Even if Bo Saixi acted, she could only obtain Black Tortoise's Soul Ring. She had already lost the possibility of collecting all Four Holy Beasts' Soul Rings.
The remaining Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird might even end up in Spirit Hall's hands as well.
If she obtained only Black Tortoise's Soul Ring, she still would not be able to become a god.
Bo Saixi stood on Sea God Island, her gaze resting on the distant Black Tortoise.
Her face was expressionless, and no one knew what she was thinking.
After seeing the battle between the Soul Masters and Black Tortoise begin, she withdrew her gaze.
She paid no further attention to the activity there.
This greatly disappointed Ye Yao. Bo Saixi had been his ideal candidate all along.
Although he could use his Four Holy Beasts avatars to become a god as long as they were absorbed by others...
The stronger his avatars were, the better.
As one of the three great Limit Douluo, Bo Saixi was undoubtedly the best candidate.
But if she refused to come at all, things would be rather difficult.
Ye Yao pondered this with something of a headache.
Meanwhile, countless Soul Skills had already landed on him.
Yet they had failed to harm him in the slightest.
Black Tortoise had the strongest defenses among the Four Holy Beasts.
Ordinary Soul Skills would struggle to injure him even when unleashed by a Titled Douluo.
If Vermilion Bird embodied rebirth through fire and Azure Dragon embodied boundless vitality, then Black Tortoise embodied supreme defense.
However, Black Tortoise's formidable defenses did not scare off the Sea Soul Masters.
They had expected this.
Accustomed to dealing with Sea Soul Beasts, none of them had expected Black Tortoise to be easily defeated.
Thus, rather than being frightened away, they began coordinating of their own accord, using the properties of their various Soul Skills to bombard Black Tortoise's serpent body in a steady rhythm.
After the chaotic battle had continued for a while, the Douluo from Sea God Island finally joined the fray.
The first to act was the strongest among them, Sea Dragon Douluo.
Several of the Douluo, including him, were enveloped in all sorts of halos.
They also carried quite a few oddly shaped foods.
These were the enhancements from Ning Rongrong's Glazed Tile Pagoda, along with Oscar's sausages and other foods.