Chapter 128

The goddess's divine sword in her hand tore through the void.

With a power beyond mortal imagination, she split the sea.

Fortunately, the sea Soul Beasts here had already been driven away by Ditian's dragon might; otherwise, who knows how many would have died unjustly from this strike.

As the divine sword fell, thick water mist rose within a radius of several kilometers on the sea surface, and the panicked Deep Sea Devil Whale King could not escape Qian Daoliu's full-force strike.

A painful roar echoed through heaven and earth.

「Courting death! 」

With that sound, the sea churned up countless waves, and even some weaker Title Douluo had blood trickle from their ears.

At this moment, the Deep Sea Devil Whale King's anger reached its peak.

He never expected that his mere probing strike would provoke the opponent to unleash full power without any regard for martial decency.

If not for the Deep Sea Devil Whale King diving quickly and using the sea to dissipate over half of that sword's energy, he would at least have been severely wounded.

But even so, he suffered not light up.

This made the Deep Sea Devil Whale King both furious and annoyed.

He remembered that the last time he was injured was by the Sea God, and he couldn't even recall how long it had been since he last suffered an injury; yet this time he was injured by humans again.

「Die for me! 」

「Boom——」

A blue light pillar only five meters in diameter burst out of the sea without warning; in an instant it pierced over a thousand meters and appeared beneath Qian Daoliu.

Although this strike's momentum was far less grand than before, it still made all the Title Douluo feel their hearts tighten and their scalps go numb.

Because only having reached the Title Douluo level could they truly appreciate how immense the energy contained in this attack was.

It was not a pure energy attack; it resembled the sea's roar, and within that blue light pillar, the Deep Sea Devil Whale King's own energy was scant, while most of it was the sea's power.

It was the power of heaven and earth that he borrowed.

The goddess wielding the divine sword swung it again.

And the power of this sword was obviously far less than that of the previous strike.

「Boom! 」

The power of the deep sea collided with the sun's energy!

Water and fire made contact.

Vast amounts of water vapor appeared between heaven and earth.

A violent burst of energy erupted.

It caused the Title Douluo on all sides to involuntarily retreat.

「Heh, it looks like that previous strike of yours consumed most of your soul power. 」 The Deep Sea Devil Whale King's massive form rose again from the sea, and he coldly chuckled.

However, anyone who isn't blind can see that a hundreds-of-meters-long scorched-black gash has appeared on the Deep Sea Devil Whale King's massive back.

Qian Daoliu said calmly: 「You're right, I have expended a great deal, and I am certainly no match for you now, but I am not the only one who has come here. 」

「Hah! 」

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King, with his single eye, swept a glance over the Title Douluo hovering in midair, coldly smiling: 「Do you think these wastes can oppose me? 」

But just as his words fell, Ditian's calm voice sounded: 「What if it's me? Do you think you have any hope of survival? 」

Ditian had not appeared earlier; he simply wanted to gauge the strength of the Soul Beast before him.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King's massive body trembled.

The anger in his heart was instantly suppressed, and he suddenly recalled that only a fleeting moment earlier had made him feel a terrifying pressure.

He had thought it was merely an illusion, but now it seemed to be the aura of an extremely terrifying powerhouse, enough to threaten him.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King hastily shifted his gaze.

What entered his view was a middle-aged man with golden pupils.

「Human? No! Your body carries an aura of age far older than mine; you are definitely not human! 」 The Deep Sea Devil Whale King was shocked, never imagining there existed a Soul Beast even more ancient than himself.

Ditian said: 「With nearly a million years of cultivation, you haven't lived that long, and your talent isn't exceptionally strong; this near‑million‑year cultivation must have come from devouring Soul Beasts, right? 」

His tone in the preceding sentences was quite flat, but Ditian's final words hinted at a hint of killing intent.

The world of Soul Beasts is one of the weak preyed upon by the strong.

Mutual predation seemed perfectly normal to Ditian, but relying on devouring large numbers of Soul Beasts to cultivate was something he utterly despised.

As for them devouring the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

Although it is called devouring, it is not the devouring of large numbers of Soul Beasts.

It is like taking a tonic.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King, however, is completely different.

His cultivation relies entirely on devouring.

This statement left all the Title Douluo shocked, their mouths agape.

A Soul Beast with nearly a million years of cultivation?

Isn't it true that a Soul Beast can live at most ten thousand years after reaching a hundred thousand years of cultivation?

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King ignored Ditian's words, merely saying: 「Since we are both Soul Beasts, why would you help humans hunt me? 」

Ditian said calmly: 「Helping humans hunt? I have no interest in that. I am here to find something that resides within you. 」

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King's heart gave a jolt.

Something resides within him?

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King felt nothing at all.

However, this is also normal; according to the original plot, the Abyssal Sage resides within Dong Qianqiu, wandering daily before the not‑yet‑peak‑recovered Gu Yue Na, yet she never noticed.

If the Deep Sea Devil Whale King could detect it, that would be truly ghostly.

Di Tian glanced at the Deep Sea Devil Whale King and said lightly, "You just need to cooperate well, then submit to me, and promise not to devour cultivation anymore; you will still be the overlord of the deep sea."

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King fell silent, and began to think.

Actually, at this moment he was really panicked.

He didn't even realize that an unknown existence had taken residence within him.

However, the Deep Sea Devil Whale King also worried that Di Tian was deceiving him.

He was tricking him into abandoning resistance, tricking him into checking cooperation.

Then, taking advantage of his lack of preparedness, he would launch a sudden attack, a fatal blow.

One could say that if the Deep Sea Devil Whale King blindly trusted Di Tian, it would be handing over his life to the other party.

Of course, the Deep Sea Devil Whale King could also pretend to cooperate, then seize the moment when Di Tian is off guard to ambush him, inflicting severe injury.

"How's the thinking going?" Di Tian's calm voice sounded.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King did not answer.

At this moment, he had fallen into a dilemma.

If he could detect his own abnormality, he would naturally be willing to cooperate, but he cannot detect it at all; are we to believe just a single mouth of a Soul Beast from our first meeting?

"What? Unwilling to cooperate?" Di Tian's draconic might erupted, and the boundless dark elements between heaven and earth gathered in his thoughts.

In just a few breaths, this sea area fell into darkness; such a scene was as if a single thought could overturn the sun and moon.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King's eyes sank as he said, "I admit you are strong; if we were on land, I would definitely not be your match, but now we are in the sea, my territory—are you sure you want to attack?"

At this moment, the air between heaven and earth seemed to solidify.

The Deep Sea Devil Whale King's mood, however, became extremely grave.

Because even when facing an unformed Sea God, he had never felt such immense pressure, such a lethal sense of crisis.

In the distance, Tang Chen quietly watched, bringing Bo Sai Xi with him.

He was like a fisherman idly watching the clam and snipe fight.

But in a place he could not perceive, Bai Yuan and Gu Yue Na, as well as his eldest and third disciples, were also silently watching them.

(End of chapter)