Only the people of Sea God Island had a different view of Black Tortoise.
After all, Black Tortoise was heading toward Sea God Island.
Bo Saixi stared at Black Tortoise in the sky screen, moved to the island's edge, and looked out at the distant sea.
"What does it want with Sea God Island?"
"Could it be planning to attack Sea God Island?"
Bo Saixi was not nervous about this.
It was merely a two-hundred-thousand-year Black Tortoise.
She would not be afraid even if the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked.
Sea Dragon Douluo immediately wanted to gather the island's Sea Soul Masters.
But Bo Saixi stopped him.
"Don't act rashly."
"Black Tortoise isn't fast. It'll take a little while to get here."
"If it really is hostile, there's no need to panic with me here!"
With her strength, Bo Saixi had the right to say that.
Tang San was watching Black Tortoise too.
He kept feeling that this Black Tortoise was different from other Soul Beasts.
But he could not say exactly how.
Bo Saixi observed Black Tortoise for a while longer before adding:
"Its defenses are probably astonishing."
"If it were merely a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, it could never travel through the deep sea for this long."
"In other words, the rankings on the sky screen might really have some basis."
"Besides, he hasn't reached maturity yet. Two hundred thousand years, and he still hasn't reached maturity..."
As Bo Saixi watched Black Tortoise's increasingly indistinct figure in the sky screen, a trace of wariness entered her eyes.
Elsewhere.
The Black Tortoise avatar was advancing swiftly through the deep sea.
Naturally, Ye Yao could see the images on the sky screen clearly too.
He did not care how the continent's Soul Masters judged Black Tortoise.
The Black Tortoise avatar ranking above the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was bound to stir controversy.
Besides, from the moment he decided to head to Sea God Island, he had been prepared to be discovered by other powerful figures.
He eagerly anticipated finding out whose Soul Rings his avatars would ultimately become!
Moreover, the sky screen had not revealed his key information to the public.
All the Soul Masters could see was a two-hundred-thousand-year Black Tortoise swimming through the sea.
They knew nothing of the close connection between the Four Holy Beasts.
The Far North.
Outside a rather sparse forest, dozens of Soul Masters were advancing swiftly.
Bibi Dong charged at the very front of the group.
Behind her followed Chrysanthemum Douluo, Holy Dragon Douluo, and more than twenty Soul Douluos.
To hunt White Tiger this time, Spirit Hall had mobilized nearly all its high-ranking Soul Masters.
Except, of course, for the Worship Hall, which Bibi Dong could not command.
Not far away.
The groups from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived one after another as well.
The powerful figures from the two great empires stayed farther away.
The empires were relatively weaker, and upon seeing Spirit Hall and the two great sects, they all chose to wait and watch!
They had not expected even Pope Bibi Dong to come!
Everyone's gaze was fixed on the desolate valley ahead.
Only after arriving did they discover that the valley called White Tiger Canyon was far larger than any of them had imagined!
White Tiger was inside.
"According to the location on the sky screen, the target should be just ahead," a Soul Douluo said quietly.
Bibi Dong had already sensed an immensely powerful presence.
That presence was far more terrifying than an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's.
But she was not worried. After all, there were simply too many powerful Soul Masters present.
No matter how strong a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was, it could not withstand so many Titled Douluos working together.
"Even Sword Douluo and his companions are here. This battle will probably be exceptionally fierce."
"Who gets White Tiger's Soul Ring and Soul Bone will depend on whose methods are more ruthless!"
Most of the others were thinking much the same thing.
What they feared more were Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
As for White Tiger, nobody cared. Everyone had already assumed it was a lamb awaiting slaughter.
In their eyes, with such an immensely powerful force of Soul Masters, taking down White Tiger was as certain as a nail driven into a board!
"Roar!"
Just then.
A low roar suddenly came from the valley ahead.
It was not particularly loud.
Yet the instant the roar spread, the entire valley seemed to be pinned beneath an invisible hand.
Immediately afterward, huge rocks suddenly began tumbling down in the distant canyon.
A white figure slowly rose from within the valley.
The first thing everyone saw was its head, followed by its neck, shoulders, and chest.
White Tiger, which had looked only a dozen or so meters long in the sky screen.
Was actually as enormous as a snowy mountain rising from the ground.
When it finally walked all the way out of the canyon.
Everyone's expression changed.
White Tiger stood several hundred meters tall.
Its four limbs were as thick as four stone pillars holding up the heavens.
Merely lifting one foreleg cast a vast shadow over more than half the valley.
The Soul Masters below the rank of Titled Douluo all instinctively retreated several steps.
Chrysanthemum Douluo's eyes widened. "What... what kind of size is this?"
The White Tiger they had seen on the sky screen had looked only a dozen or so meters long.
It had merely been a slightly larger white tiger lying on a rock.
Yet a single leg of the White Tiger before them was already larger than an entire Titan Giant Ape!
It gave them the feeling that even a Titan Giant Ape could not withstand a single swipe of its paw.
Bibi Dong's expression turned utterly grim as well.
Only at this moment did she finally understand the problem.
The sky screen had not revealed White Tiger's true size.
Nor had it told them that the Four Holy Beasts and ordinary Soul Beasts were on entirely different scales in terms of size.
That gap in information alone was enough to prove fatal!
Soul Beasts were unlike humans. The larger they were, the greater their strength and other physical capabilities naturally became!
"Roar!" White Tiger roared again.
The cliffs surrounding the valley burst apart simultaneously.
Countless rocks shot into the sky and came crashing down toward the Soul Masters.
They were then destroyed by the powerful figures in each group.
Ye Yao's White Tiger avatar lowered his head.
Those pale golden eyes looked down upon the densely packed human Soul Masters below.
There was neither killing intent nor indifference in his eyes, only anticipation.
As though those who had appeared here were not Soul Masters who had come to hunt him down.
But a pack of prey that had ventured into his territory of their own accord.
"Who will become my future body?" Ye Yao was somewhat curious.
His gaze swept over Sword Douluo, the strongest among them, but he felt it probably would not be him.
After all, Sword Douluo had long since become a Super Douluo and had no slots left for absorbing Soul Rings.
After looking them over, Bibi Dong still seemed the most likely candidate.
She was strong enough, and her Second Martial Soul still had room for Soul Rings.
"This fellow..." Within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's group, Ning Fengzhi's face was somewhat pale.
As he spoke, he bestowed various support halos upon Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
Sword Douluo beside him was not particularly surprised, but the Seven Kill Sword was already in his hand, ready to fight at any moment.
Faced with the colossal creature before him, even he felt tremendous pressure.
"How can it be so huge?" Bone Douluo's voice was somewhat hoarse.
Yu Yuanzhen looked even graver.
He had originally thought that even if White Tiger was powerful, it would not surpass those two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts by much.
But now it seemed.
They had never truly understood what the top four Soul Beasts meant.
"Everyone, prepare for battle!"
Bibi Dong's voice came from among the Soul Masters, resounding in everyone's mind.
"Don't let its size frighten you!"
"No matter how strong it is, it's still just one beast!"
"As long as we restrict its movements, killing it may not be impossible!"
Bibi Dong's words helped everyone regain a little composure.
That was right! Although White Tiger's size was astonishing.
They had a large number of high-ranking Soul Masters on their side.
There were more than ten Titled Douluos alone, along with a Super Douluo like Sword Douluo.
With proper coordination, they might still have a chance of victory.
Besides, they had already surrounded this White Tiger.
Just then.
White Tiger slowly raised a paw.
Thick white claws extended from its paw pads.
Each claw resembled a gigantic curved blade. Then, it gently swatted the ground ahead.
Boom! The entire ice field shuddered violently.
A fissure thousands of meters long instantly spread outward from beneath White Tiger's paw.
Wherever the fissure passed, all the ice heaved upward.
A group of Soul Masters charging at the very front did not even have time to release their Martial Souls before the tremendous impact hurled them away.
Several Soul Kings coughed up blood on the spot.
Two Soul Emperors slammed straight into an iceberg, their fate unknown.
White Tiger had merely delivered a gentle swipe of its paw.
With nothing but physical strength, it had plunged the entire battlefield into chaos.
Bibi Dong's expression became hideous.
She finally understood.
Why a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast could rank above the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
What lay hidden beneath its age was far more terrifying.
White Tiger raised its head.
Its pale golden eyes turned toward Bibi Dong once more.
The next instant, a terrifying spiritual power descended with a thunderous crash.
A tiger's roar rang out in the minds of every Soul Master simultaneously.
"Roar!"
Within Spirit Hall's ranks, dozens of flying Soul Masters abruptly stiffened and fell straight out of the air.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support-type Soul Masters went even paler, finding even circulating their Soul Power difficult.
Only the Titled Douluos remained unaffected.
A cold gleam flashed through Bibi Dong's eyes. This cannot continue. She shouted, "Attack!"
Then she abruptly raised her scepter, and several Soul Rings lit up simultaneously.
All the Titled Douluos present also shot into the sky at the same time.
If they did not act now, they would lose more than half their people!
The White Tiger's strength had indeed exceeded everyone's expectations.
But it was precisely because of this.
The Soul Ring and Soul Bone it possessed were all the more worth risking their lives for!
Bibi Dong gazed at the White Tiger that blotted out the sky and sun and raised the scepter in her hand.
She said coldly, "Even if you truly have the strength to rank in the top four."
"You must still die here today!"
The White Tiger lowered its head to look at the charging Titled Douluo and advanced instead of retreating.
With a boom, it brought one foot down.
The entire White Tiger Canyon seemed to come alive at that moment.
In the distance, stretches of the canyon collapsed one after another, sending countless clouds of dust soaring into the sky.
And at that moment, Ye Yao's White Tiger clone faced all the powerhouses and let out a roar that shook heaven and earth.