Chapter 675: Each One's Cultivation: Lingqi Challenges the Deep Sea Demon Whale King

"Ding—"

In Gulei Imperial City, at the Taizi Donggong, ever since the two ladies Qian Renxue and Lv Lingqi returned to the Offering Hall and Sea God Island respectively for their own God Trials, the place has resonated daily with various melodies.

Feihuang sat cross-legged, the Dunjia Heavenly Book martial soul and the Sky Piercer martial soul floating before him simultaneously.

At this moment, Feihuang was carrying out a crucial step: condensing both martial souls into physical forms, just like the Sea God's Trident of the past or the Heaven-Lifting Divine Spear of Yun Ming in later generations, turning them into true divine artifacts.

This required an extremely high level of cultivation, and thus Xue Ke played a vital role.

Her mastery of music had reached the level of a grandmaster; she could infuse emotion into her melodies, elevating the state of mind of the listener.

In particular, her original composition, "Prayer," could calm the deepest anger within a person's heart.

As Feihuang listened to the music while condensing his soul, his soul power remained in a state of constant eruption, yet his mood was always at its most calm and peaceful; the help this provided for his cultivation was truly immense.

The two great martial souls gradually began to materialize, and the eighteen spirit rings merged into the martial souls one by one.

Once these two great martial souls transformed into divine artifacts, all of Feihuang's spirit rings would fuse with them; by then, those who did not know better would likely mistake Feihuang for a Soul Scholar below level ten who possessed not a single spirit ring.

In the Empress's palace, Lan Xue was doing the same thing as Feihuang; floating before her were the Mysterious Ice Halberd and the Absolute Zero Stone.

To personally comprehend the Laws of the Ice God and become a god, the first priority was to condense her own divine artifact; with the help of the Absolute Zero Stone, her efficiency might even be faster than Feihuang's.

Lan Xue was indeed a martial arts prodigy, not even inferior to Nan Feihuang by much; had she been born in some high-martial world, her achievements would surely have been a thousand times greater than they were on Douluo Continent.

In the Angel Temple, Qian Renxue had already reached the level of the Ninth Trial.

This trial was a test of the heart, requiring one to overcome their greatest inner demon in the depths of their soul to pass; in the original story, perhaps due to the Sea God's meddling, it had become somewhat bizarre.

But now, Qian Renxue and the Sea God Inheritor Lv Lingqi were not only not enemies, but had become family; naturally, the Sea God had no reason to target Qian Renxue anymore.

Her Seventh Trial had finally become normal as well.

And Qian Renxue's true inner demon was, naturally, Bibi Dong. Inside the illusion, Qian Renxue, holding the Angel Holy Sword, looked at Bibi Dong holding the Rakshasa Demon Sickle before her, her gaze fierce as she charged straight toward her.

Meanwhile, above the boundless ocean.

A beautiful young girl in black tight-fitting armor held a Trident, looking at the pitch-black deep sea.

After Lingqi returned to Sea God Island, the first thing she did was hunt Spirit Beasts to stack her second martial soul to eight rings. At this moment, her level had risen to the peak of level ninety-eight with the power of the spirit rings; unfortunately, this final level was not so easy to break through. Let alone a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, even a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring could not push a level ninety-eight Title Douluo to level ninety-nine.

But Lingqi knew that the Deep Sea Demon Whale King could.

"Golden Thirteen Halberd, Thousand Years of Emptiness!" Lv Lingqi used the Sea God Trident to stir the ocean, and countless golden specks of light erupted from the sea surface.

An incomparably massive body also floated to the surface; the blue-crystal-like body looked extremely terrifying in this pitch-black sea area, a single eye staring coldly at Lv Lingqi.

This was the overlord of the ocean, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King. Xiaobai, seeing this guy from afar, did not dare to come over; after all, this monster dared to offend even the Sea God, let alone her, a mere mount of the Sea God.

"Inheritor of the Sea God, what, are you like that Sea God, coming to punish evil and promote good, preparing to eliminate me?" the Deep Sea Demon Whale King mocked.

"Punish evil and promote good?" Lv Lingqi smiled and shook her head. "Of course not. Although both the Sea God and the people of Sea God Island say you are the most evil in the ocean, I understand that your struggle with the Sea God is merely the law of the jungle in the ocean. You lost, so you remain a Sea Spirit Beast; he won, so he is the Sea God."

"I came here only because I need to become stronger, need you to be the Ninth Spirit Ring for my second martial soul, and need to pass the God Trial. Just like how you constantly devour other lives in the ocean to become stronger, it has nothing to do with good or evil."

Hearing this, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King laughed loudly. "Haha, well said, truly a good temperament. You are indeed very different from that sanctimonious Sea God before. You are right; it is all killing for the sake of becoming stronger, so stop with all these flowery, righteous things. Little girl, come, kill me and you will be the new Sea God. But if you are killed by me, I will completely devour the Sea God's Godly Power within you and forcibly seize the Sea God Position."

"Come, I will not lose to you; the Sea God Position is mine," Lv Lingqi said, raising the Sea God Trident.

Although she did not fully approve of the Sea God's view—which was somewhat similar to Tang San's—that he himself was justice, it was a fact that the Sea God took great care of her. Moreover, the Sea God was extremely protective of his own; to ensure her trial went smoothly, he not only taught her the Golden Thirteen Halberd without holding anything back but also strengthened her compatibility with the Sea God Heart. From this point of view, the Sea God had been a benefactor to her, so she would not let this God Position be seized by the Sea God's enemy, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

"Hehe, then let's see your ability." The Deep Sea Demon Whale King's massive body suddenly thrashed in the ocean, its huge fish tail fanning out a blue-purple light.

Wherever the energy passed, space was torn apart; the power of this move was likely even greater than Bibi Dong's Abyss Slash of space tearing.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Counter-Battle Golden Body!" Lingqi immediately activated her Golden Body.

Using the one second of invincibility when the Golden Body was first activated, she blocked the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's attack.

Immediately after, all her attributes increased in tandem with the strength of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

At this moment, Lingqi, relying on the trait of becoming stronger when facing the strong, had a power comparable to a Limit Douluo even without holding a divine artifact; adding the power of the Sea God Trident, she could surpass a Limit Douluo, truly reaching the level to contend with this ocean overlord, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

"One Way Trip!" Lingqi immediately launched a counterattack. This powerful single-target attack skill among the Golden Thirteen Halberd had immense power; in the original story, a level eighty-five Tang San had used this move to severely injure the level ninety-nine Bibi Dong.

Now that the Sea God Trident and the Sea God Heart were fused, the power was even greater; even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's formidable physical body could not avoid being scarred by this move, but they were only scars; the Deep Sea Demon Whale King did not even shed a drop of blood.

(End of chapter)