Tang San used spirit power to block the oncoming wind, and asked Xiao Bai:
“Can you sense the precise location of the evil spirit orca flock? Would they be constantly changing location?”
Xiao Bai said:
“Don’t worry, if I didn’t have even this ability, I wouldn’t be suited to leading the tribe. As long as we’re within fifty li of them, I can catch their scent. In terms of sense of smell, there are no spirit beasts in the ocean that can compare to us devil spirit great white sharks.”
Without being held back by her clansmen, Xiao Bai’s speed rose to the limit, even when Tang San used Boundless eye to sense the changes in the surroundings, he still couldn’t completely grasp the changes in the surrounding seawater. Such an absolute speed in the sea wasn’t any slower than the needle tailed swift flying in the sky.
In practically just a few breaths, Xiao Bai’s speed gradually dropped, her voice clearly lowered,
“We’re already less than twenty li or so away from them. I propose we don’t approach further. Even though that Evil Spirit Orca King is repulsive, he really is powerful. I’m afraid it might discover my spiritual fluctuations if we approach.”
Tang San nodded.
“Fine, then here is fine. Let’s dive.”
While speaking, he pointed to his forehead, and blue light quietly appeared, enveloping him and Xiao Bai, and they noiselessly entered the sea.
As Xiao Bai was truly enveloped in this Vast Sea Barrier light, her heart suddenly shuddered. That energy fluctuation was so familiar. After sensing this familiar aura, her originally hesitant heart no longer wavered, on the contrary becoming incomparably stable. She brought Tang San to swiftly dive into the ocean.
After the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud fused with Tang San’s mind condensing wisdom skull bone, Tang San had discovered that when he used this ability, it no longer restricted movement, and he wouldn’t be revealed even when in motion. But there were still limits, he couldn’t use any abilities, if he did, the hiding effect would immediately disappear.
Chapter 237: Assassinating Evil Spirit Orcas
However, with the Vast Sea Barrier, he basically didn’t need to worry about breathing underwater. The Vast Sea Barrier only enveloped his and Xiao Bai’s skin, and with his Boundless spiritual force control, it wouldn’t influence Xiao Bai’s movements in the slightest. In order to reduce the drag force, Tang San leaned against Xiao Bai’s back, using one hand on Xiao Bai’s dorsal fin to stabilize himself.
One man and one shark stealthily moved towards the formidable opponents in such a manner. Whether Tang San or Xiao Bai, right now their hearts were filled with nervousness. But besides nervousness, there was still some excitement.
Xiao Bai grew stealthier the deeper they went. Relying on the sharp senses of a hundred thousand year spirit best, she discovered that the Vast Sea Barrier Tang San released could not only hide them visually, but also completely suppressed their auras within the barrier, without leaking. But even so, she remained completely cautious.
The sea was very deep in this area. Gradually, Tang San began to feel a formidable pressure. However, with that year of cultivation in the Seagod’s Light, had long since given him a formidable resistance to pressure. His spirit power adjusted automatically under the pressure, and his vast spiritual force also subsequently fluctuated, adjusting the Vast Sea Barrier so it wouldn’t be so exhausting.
“We’re here.”
Xiao Bai’s voice was low. Slightly raising her head, she indicated the waters ahead.
By now, Xiao Bai had already brought Tang San at least five hundred meters deep, and the immense water pressure made the Vast Sea Barrier constantly ripple.
Closing his eyes and concentrating, gentle spiritual fluctuations quietly spread out. Xiao Bai was shocked to discover that when the spiritual energy Tang San released left his body, it instantly melded with the surrounding seawater, and even someone with her capabilities couldn’t feel anything. That spiritual fluctuations actually really became a part of the sea. This already exceeded Xiao Bai’s experience.
As far as she knew, any spiritual energy attack had a form that could be traced, and even spiritual force probes should have spiritual fluctuations. But when she concentrated her whole attention on the spiritual force Tang San released, she still ended up with nothing. The seawater above her head was still calm, without any movement.
Xiao Bai had forgotten one thing, her experience really was correct. Any spiritual force release would leave a trace that could be followed, but in order to track someone’s spiritual force, first of all the gap to your own spiritual force couldn’t be too large. Of course, this couldn’t be blamed on her. How could she knew that her spiritual power was actually at a lower level than that of Tang San?
Tang San lay prostrate on Xiao Bai’s back, one hand grabbing her dorsal fin, the other hand pushing on her back. A gentle spiritual fluctuation quietly transmitted. Xiao Bai was first distracted, but sensing that the fluctuation held no malice, she hesitantly used her own spiritual force to connect with it.
As the two spiritual energies touched, Xiao Bai only felt her spiritual world suddenly flash, countless clear scenes appearing in her mind.
This, this was? Spiritual scan transmission? Xiao Bai was gobsmacked. She realized what level Tang San’s spiritual force had reached. With her ability, of course she could also perceive everything in her surroundings with spiritual scanning, but right now she still didn’t dare do it. Because if she extended her spiritual force, she would definitely be discovered by the evil spirit orcas, and would immediately be besieged. But the information Tang San currently transmitted to her was not only clearer than her own, basically none of the evil spirit orcas in the sea area ahead reacted.
Xiao Bai finally understood. Being able to reach this level of scanning only meant one thing, that Tang San’s spiritual force had already surpassed all the evil spirit orcas, including the evil spirit orca king.
Tang San had no idea what Xiao Bai was thinking. He only transmitted his wholehearted spiritual force scan. Just as Xiao Bai felt, right now his spiritual force was already perfectly melded with the seawater. The seawater became the best concealment. Unless it was someone with as formidable spiritual force as Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi, they absolutely wouldn’t be able to find a single clue from the seawater. The evil spirit orcas above naturally wouldn’t be able to either.
Through the spiritual force scan, Tang San saw the appearance of the evil spirit orcas for the first time. They were consistently built more than twice as large as the devil spirit great white sharks, their bodies extremely robust, without the sleek aesthetic of the devil spirit great white sharks, but looking filled with power. Their whole bodies were grey and black. Their heads especially enormous. When they occasionally opened their mouths, they revealed frightening giant teeth like swords. Deep red eyes were filled with a violent aura. In this sea region, besides these evil spirit orcas, there unexpectedly were no other living creatures in the ocean. That showed of tyrannical they were.
It seemed that there were around two or three hundred of these evil spirit orcas, and the majority were adults. One especially enormous fellow, more than thirty meters long, floated in the center of the whole flock. Grey black skin glinted with metallic lustre. No need to ask, this was naturally the Evil Spirit Orca King. It was also the ultimate target of Tang San’s fourth trial.
These evil spirit orcas cruised within a range of more than then thousand meters square. No creatures in the sea would intrude into their area of influence. To hunt food they would have to go even further out. Right now these evil spirit orcas looked like they had already eaten their fill. There were some that floated motionless, seemingly resting.
“Let’s go. Move a bit slowly, don’t cause too much movement in the water.”
Tang San instructed Xiao Bai.
Xiao Bai felt very strange right now. With Tang San’s spiritual force probe, she basically didn’t need to see with her eyes, she coul
d move forward with the guidance of Tang San’s spiritual force. Even if the Vast Sea Barrier helped them hide, so much that it had the effect of nothingness, their volume still existed. If they moved quickly they would still cause movement in the water, therefore Tang San warned her in advance.
Xiao Bai was after all a hundred thousand year spirit beast. Clearly understanding Tang San’s intent, they slowly started moving forward with a soft sway of her body.
Very soon, they had already arrived at a depth of two hundred meters or so, and Tang San once again directed Xiao Bai to stop.
From the Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges, Tang San brushed out the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. Extracting its crossbow bolts one by one, he also took out a bottle from the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse the length of an arm and the thickness of a thigh. The material of the bottle was quite special, seemingly like jade, but with a faint white shimmer.
Tang San had gone through a lot of trouble to make this bottle. The jade bottle had two layers, the outermost was filled with the cold extreme yin spring, causing the appearance of the white shimmer, and also felt extremely icy to the touch. While the inner layer was filled with the red hot yang spring.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Blessed by the Heavens, two existences in one well, yin and yang mutually subduing each other, and thus the hottest and coldest thing under the heavens. Seizing the fortune of Heaven and earth, swallowing the best features of the sun and the moon. In terms of potency of attributes, there was nothing that could match. Tang San had practiced the cold and hot immunity within it.
In order to be able to bring the spring water out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he had gone through great trouble to find a block of warm jade, and purchased it for a high price. Then he had found a highly skilled craftsman to carve this double layered jade container. He had further filled it with both kinds of yin and yang spring water at the same time, causing its cold and heat to balance, and not corrode the warm jade. Then he was able to bring it out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Warm jade was innately moderate, and was the best utensil for holding both kinds of spring water together.
Cautiously uncorking it, Tang San raised one hand and absorbed, causing one drop of red hot yang liquid to fall into his palm, and then swiftly put the lid on the bottle. Winding the mechanism of the crossbow in his hand, he loaded the back half of a crossbow bolt into the machine, then pulled open the hollow interior of the bolt. Drawing a deep breath, Tang San’s movements instantly grew illusory. In practically half an eyeblink he had instantly completed several actions.
Pouring the red hot yang liquid into the arrowhead, swiftly closing it up, loading it into the crossbow, and immediately fired it.
It wasn’t by choice he moved fast, but the red hot yang liquid really was too terrifyingly hot. Even if the crossbow bolt was made from iron essence, it could still only hold up for a moment under the red hot yang liquid’s corrosion.
With the powerful propulsive force of the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, the crossbow bolt broke through the water. With Tang San’s Boundless level spiritual force guidance, it was naturally impossible to miss. With a pu sound, it hit the abdomen of an evil spirit orca.
Even though the Godly Zhuge Crossbow was fierce, the evil spirit orca’s skin was still even more durable. Under ordinary circumstances, let alone at a hundred meters distance, even firing the Godly Zhuge Crossbow’s sixteen bolts from just ten meters distance wouldn’t be enough to penetrate the evil spirit orca.
However, there are exceptions to everything. This crossbow bolt quietly pierced into that evil spirit orca’s abdomen.
Ever since Tang San’s spiritual force had risen, his calculation ability had also strengthened geometrically. It really was impossible for that crossbow bolt to pierce that evil spirit orca’s tough skin, but the instant the bolt made contact, was also the moment the red hot yang liquid melted the arrowhead. Incomparably hot yang liquid, propelled forward with the crossbow bolt, easily melted that evil spirit orca’s hide, directly stabbing into its body. There was no blood. With the intense heat of the yang liquid, just as the crossbow bolt entered the evil spirit orca’s body, the wound was already bound shut.
Being hit by the crossbow bolt, that evil spirit orca’s giant body first paused a moment. Then immediately after, it suddenly raged. That degree of madness made even Xiao Bai jump. Tang San’s spiritual force guided her to quickly dive, and moreover constantly transmitted into her mind the results of the spiritual force probe.
In Tang San’s spiritual force survey, that evil spirit orca hit by the crossbow bolt madly churned the seawater, the energy contained within its body constantly erupting uncontrollably. There were two evil spirit orcas who discovered something was unusual and came over to investigate, but were met by its maddened all out attack, and one of them even had half its head bit off by it, directly dying a violent death. A vast expanse of seawater was colored red by its blood, immediately drawing the attention of the whole flock of orcas. The atmosphere in the sea instantly grew nervous.
The evil spirit orca hit by the crossbow bolt didn’t struggle for too long. Very soon after biting its comrade to death, its struggle began to grow weaker, flipping belly up and floating towards the surface, its survival unknown. Strangely, from the moment it was hit by the crossbow bolt until it died, not a drop of blood left its body. The blood coloring the seawater red all came from the orca it bit to death.
The evil spirit orcas themselves were extremely bloodthirsty, and the scent of blood seemed to arouse their vicious instincts. For a moment, the energy fluctuations within the seawater instantly stirred. Until a deep voice passed through the water like a seismic wave, and these evil spirit orcas settled down.
The Evil Spirit Orca King moved, and reached the side of the evil spirit orca killed by the crossbow bolt with practically just a swing of its body. By now, that evil spirit orca was already floating on the sea surface.
Seeing all this, Xiao Bai was inwardly shocked to the extreme. She had of course seen Tang San shoot that crossbow bolt, but just that the crossbow bolt could pierce that evil spirit orca alone had astonished her. That tiny crossbow bolt and that evil spirit orca’s giant body basically weren’t on the same scale. But it was that one tiny crossbow bolt that not only took that evil spirit orca’s life, but even caused it to bite another to death.
Poison, she thought of this word. Feeling Tang San laying prostrate on her back, she couldn’t help her whole body shivering. Just what kind of extreme poison was this terrifying? She also couldn’t help secretly being happy that, when she was the second trial examiner, the trial had fortunately included not harming any sea spirit beast. Otherwise, if she was infected by such a poison, perhaps even…...
The red hot yang spring, was the most yang object under the sky. Sea spirit beasts were largely water attributed, many related to yin. Even though it was only a drop of red hot yang liquid that entered that evil spirit orca, that terrifying eruption of heat had instantly scorched that evil spirit orca’s internal organs. Its muscles and blood vessels had subsequently also turned to coal. That was the reason it didn’t bleed.
Before Xiao Bai could grow even more shocked, Tang San indicated she swim to the side. With the scene just now, Xiao Bai undoubtedly had an all new understanding of Tang San’s abilities, and hurriedly swam away according to his instructions. Since Tang San previously used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow instead of any abilities, he and Xiao Bai still weren’t revealed.
All the evil spirit orcas gathered at the sea surface, the Evil Spirit Orca King’s deep red eyes filled with a frightening aura. Suddenly gaping in a deep roar, several water blades with a deep red aura instantly shrieked out and hit hit that dead evil spirit orca.
The more than twenty meter giant body was instantly cut into several chunks, exposing its charred black insides.
Seeing this, the Evil Spirit Orca King’s pupils instantly contracted, the seawater around its body rushing up, wanting to find some clue from this evil spir
it orca’s corpse. However, the red hot yang liquid had not only melted the organs of the evil spirit orca, but simultaneously also most of the crossbow bolt. The remaining bit really was too small in comparison to the evil spirit orca’s giant body. Even if the Evil Spirit Orca King was even more powerful, it still might not find any clues.
But when the Evil Spirit Orca King’s fury burned, suddenly, there was another commotion among the gathered Evil Spirit Orcas, the same circumstances as before appearing once again. One especially large Evil Spirit Orca fiercely leapt out of the water, energy frantically erupting within its body, setting off an enormous energy wave. Due to all the evil spirit orcas being gathered together, its eruption immediately knocked against a few clan members next to it.
The Evil Spirit Orca King reacted extremely quickly, and moreover he absolutely wouldn’t be lenient. Using flexibility completely disproportional to its size it sharply turned, its giant whale tail slapping the surface of the water, causing an incomparably enormous deep red water blade to ruthlessly attack that evil spirit orca, instantly cutting it into two halves.
Its internal organs were equally charred black. Another evil spirit orca was eliminated.
Hou—— A wrathful great roar erupted from the Evil Spirit Orca King’s mouth, the surging soundwave making the ocean in a range of several ten thousand meters vibrate. Similar roars also issued from the mouths of the other evil spirit orcas. For a moment, intense energy fluctuations almost completely locked up the sea within range. The seawater grew thick almost like gelatin, intense spiritual fluctuations penetrating the sea directly to the seabed.
“The Evil Spirit Orca King is telling his clansmen to find the enemy with all their strength. It’s extremely angry. Already on the edge of madness. What do we do?”
Xiao Bai explained the meaning of the Evil Spirit Orca King’s roar to Tang San, her words filled with schadenfreude.
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