During the process of the Thunder God's Spear being shot out, the residual thunder elements in the space rapidly turned into purple-golden specks of light that attached to it. It became solid and dazzling.
The sky seemed to be sliced apart by a purple-golden beam of light, reflected over the blood-red sea below. It was like a divine punishment descended by the Thunder God.
The Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai sensed the approaching crisis, and her body instinctively reacted. Gray-blue soul power surged out across her body surface.
It was at this moment that she came back to her senses, but her pair of gray-blue eyes was filled with sorrow and despair.
"Why?!"
Xiao Bai let out a final, shrill question.
"Why?! Why would the Sea God treat his people like this?!"
Watching this scene, the Demon Empress's lips curled up crazily, revealing a delighted yet somewhat sickly smile.
"Do you understand now?! The Sea God will never favor the subjects in his ocean. He will only pass on his inheritance to those despicable, shameless humans who know nothing but slaughter and destruction. To the Sea God, you are nothing more than his dog!"
Amid the mockery, the Demon Empress slowly raised her right hand and made a grasping gesture toward Xiao Bai from a distance.
Around her fair palm, all light was instantly devoured, plunging the area into darkness. A deep, abyss-like black hole formed.
Influenced by this black hole, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai's body was instantly immobilized in place. It seemed as though an unknown force was oppressing every part of her body.
Xiao Bai's eyes turned completely red as she let out an angry roar, reverting to her true form. Only in this state could she fully mobilize all her power.
But no matter how she struggled, she could not break free from the Demon Empress's control.
"Pfft—"
The Thunder God's Spear flashed past, piercing through the over-forty-meter-long body of the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, creating a hideous blood hole.
Xiao Bai's gaze began to blur. Like a final revolving lantern, her mind recalled memories from ten thousand years ago when she and that person fought together against the Evil Spirit Orca King and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
She still clearly remembered what that person had said to her: I have always regarded you as a friend.
Friend? Heh.
Thinking back now, how utterly ironic. Perhaps just as the Demon Empress said, she was nothing more than Tang San's dog. How could a lofty deity ever place her, a mere soul beast, on equal footing with himself?
She did not ask Tang San to remember this bond of friendship, but at the very least, the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan had served the Sea God diligently for tens of thousands of years. To end up like this was truly tragic.
In her final moments, filled with despair, the only thing the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai could not let go of was her own daughter.
Meanwhile, the Demon Empress burst into loud laughter.
"Hahahaha—"
She wanted to make this so-called Sea God messenger personally inflict severe wounds on the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai, to completely shatter her faith in the Sea God.
Once upon a time, she had also been an innocent young girl who only wanted to be with her husband. But from the moment that person took her husband's soul rings and soul bones for his own selfish desires, she harbored only hatred toward humans.
She hated that person and even extended her hatred to all humans.
But her resentment toward the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai, who had once devoured the energy from her husband, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, was even greater.
The Demon Empress reached out with her right hand, and Xiao Bai's massive body was drawn toward her by the black hole in her palm.
Her delicate, fair hand brutally plunged into Xiao Bai's enormous head. The next moment, a bead emitting a faint glow, entirely deep blue in color, was grasped in her palm.
This was the shark pearl.
Only a Demon Soul Great White Shark that had cultivated to the 100,000-year level would produce such a shark pearl upon death. Moreover, it had to be one possessing the royal bloodline of the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan.
This was the most important thing to the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, their object of inheritance.
A thick sorrow emerged deep in the Demon Empress's eyes. Beyond the sadness was a bone-deep hatred.
"Back then, you devoured my husband's flesh and cultivation. Today, I shall take your Demon Soul Great White Shark royal clan's inheritance shark pearl as the foundation for breaking through."
With the aid of this shark pearl, not only could she recover to her peak state, but there was a very high chance she could pass the 800,000-year heavenly tribulation in one go. With the noble bloodline of the Deep Sea Demon Whale clan, once that time came, no existence in the sea would be able to rival her.
The reason the Demon Empress had not brought true Limit Douluo-level pressure to Xu Zihuang was that the injury related to her second soul core had not fully healed, and she could not yet mobilize the power of her second soul core.
Otherwise, in her peak state, the Demon Empress could have suppressed and killed the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai with a single strike.
A ring of blood-red soul ring condensed above the corpse of the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai. Compared to ordinary 100,000-year soul rings, this blood-red soul ring carried even greater ferocity. Three strange golden patterns were etched upon it.
Blood-red light overflowed, causing the surrounding air to become extremely viscous for a time.
This was a genuine 300,000-year ferocious beast-level soul ring. But unfortunately, since the Demon Soul Great White Shark King had been personally killed by the Demon Empress, it could not be absorbed by anyone.
At that moment, another deep blue beam of light shot into the sky. At the center of this beam floated a crystal-clear, peculiar bone. The bone resembled a shrunken version of a human skull, yet it refracted a deep blue halo.
Two clusters of gray-blue flames leaped within its eye sockets, exceptionally divine and strange.
The instant this soul bone came into contact with the air, an area thousands of meters around was enveloped in deep blue radiance.
This was precisely the head soul bone that burst forth from the Demon Soul Great White Shark King after her death at 300,000 years of cultivation.
The space around the soul bone twisted, and in the next instant, it crossed thousands of meters to appear in Xu Zihuang's right hand.
The Demon Empress raised her head and looked over, letting out a mocking, cold laugh.
"Humans truly are the greediest creatures. But today, this seat is in a good mood, so for now, I shall spare your life. While this seat has not yet changed her mind, get lost."
Moreover, although the Demon Soul Great White Shark King's head soul bone was an extremely rare treasure for human soul masters, it held no value whatsoever for her as a soul beast.
Xu Zihuang fearlessly met the Demon Empress's gaze, his eyes ice-cold.
I hope that when we meet for the third time, you will still have the courage to say those words.
As he spoke, the purple-golden armor covering Xu Zihuang's body scattered into specks of light and dissipated into the air, revealing his true form. At the same time, his martial soul transformed into the Golden Pupils, with five black, one red, and one gold, seven soul rings rising, unleashing an unparalleled, terrifying pressure that swept outward.
In this encounter, he had already placed the Demon Empress on his must-kill list. With dual water and thunder attributes and cultivation approaching that of the Beast God Di Tian and the Evil Eyed Tyrant Ruler Evil Emperor, the Deep Sea Demon Whale was perfectly suited to become a soul ring for his second martial soul, the Purple Radiance Thunder Prison Dragon.
A massive golden pupil phantom materialized behind Xu Zihuang's figure.
"It's you?!" At this moment, the Demon Empress seemed to suddenly recall something, her expression changing drastically.
But she was destined to receive no response.
His figure flickered, appearing in front of Wang Qiu'er once more, gripping her wrist again. With another flash, the two of them vanished from this sea region.
Not long after Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er left this sea area, the space suddenly collapsed. A cold, furious snort exploded through the area.
Under this terrifying pressure, the Demon Empress instantly transformed into her true form, the shock and doubt in her eyes completely turning to horror.
"Who is it?!"
But soon, the space returned to calm. Only the Demon Empress's low, resonant whale cries echoed continuously for over a hundred kilometers. Countless sea soul beasts in the region fled in panic.
And in the sky above this sea area, Tang Wutong's figure had likewise disappeared.
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