A massive ice blue great sword split the skies, descending swiftly upon the Deep Sea Blue Whale Tribe's territory.
Because of Flender's raid just two days prior, the whale tribe was still on high alert. The moment this overwhelming pressure descended, the entire tribe was thrown into chaos.
In an instant, the black seventh soul rings on both Flender and Zhao Wuji lit up, as the two unleashed their strongest soul skills immediately.
A Owl with a wingspan over ten meters and a massive bear over eight meters tall materialized, unleashing soul pressure so immense that it blanketed the entire Deep Sea Blue Whale Tribe with terror.
With a piercing eagle cry, Flender now transformed into a golden Owl unleashed a surge of golden feathers from his body. Each feather was like a blade, slashing toward the whales with deadly precision.
Meanwhile, Zhao Wuji, in the form of a giant bear, released a tremendous aura that pressed down heavily on the whales, drastically hindering their movements.
At the same time, Lu Qibin's sixth black soul ring lit up. He flung out a chessboard shaped matrix, which under the influence of his soul skill, instantly expanded to massive proportions. The matrix divided and isolated sections of the whale group into separate zones.
While Lu Qibin's control skill took effect, Gai Yue raised his Frost moon Sword, his fifth soul ring glowing cold black.
"Fifth Soul Skill: Frozen Sword Dance!"
With the release of his ability, Gai Yue slashed out several terrifying waves of ice sword energy. These strikes reinforced and froze Lu Qibin's matrix, forming a massive prison of glacial ice.
With the cage complete, Flender directly engaged the Deep Sea Blue Whale Tribe's 23,000yearold leader, while Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong each picked out a whale over 10,000 years in cultivation to duel.
Their assault was fast and devastating. Within just a few breaths, over a dozen 1,000yearclass whales were slaughtered by Flender and Zhao Wuji's opening barrage.
However, the massive bodies of these whales absorbed much of the initial force, allowing the surviving whales a moment to react.
The whale leader let out an earthshaking cry of rage, slamming its enormous tail into the ocean and sending a monstrous wave toward the attackers.
Before the wave could reach them, Gai Yue's sword struck again freezing the entire wave in an instant. The terrifying power of his fifth soul skill was on full display.
"End it quickly!" Gai Yue growled.
He brandished the Frost moon Sword again, releasing countless icy sword strikes that bombarded the remaining 1,000year whales.
From afar, Shao Xin, watching the battle, turned to Oscar and Ma Hongjun.
"Xiao Ao, Hongjun, take this lesson to heart: no matter who your opponent is, as long as they can fight back, you must go all out."
The two nodded seriously. "Understood!"
Watching the battlefield, Oscar came to a realization Flender and the others had clearly held back before. With someone like Gai Yue, who was monstrously powerful, even Flender alone could've likely subdued the entire tribe.
In less than fifteen minutes, the entire Deep Sea Blue Whale Tribe had been exterminated. Dozens of giant whale corpses floated on the sea, with soul rings yellow, purple, and black gradually rising above them.
Even Flender couldn't help but reevaluate Gai Yue. He had already thought highly of the man, but this outcome far exceeded expectations.
Truly, anyone who can kill a 70,000 year old soul beast solo with just an 80thlevel soul power is an absolute monster.
Yet now was no time to celebrate. Everyone silently took out preprepared sugar beans to recover their soul power.
Without hesitation, they began storing whale corpses in their soul tools. In just five minutes, the battlefield was cleaned up. They then returned to their ship.
Once aboard, the ship sailed away from the bloody scene to avoid attracting powerful soul beasts with the scent of blood.
After all, Oscar and Ma Hongjun while talented were still weak and required protection.
Back on the ship, the group tallied their gains:
4 whales above 10,000 years
15 whales above 5,000 years
22 whales between 1,000–5,000 years
4 whales below 1,000 years
An impressive harvest. However, Flender noted that half of their storage soul tools had already been filled.
Given that most whales were at least ten meters long and those over 10,000 years exceeded 15 meters they were running out of space fast.
There was no time to return and buy more storage. So they decided: keep only the whale glue (whale resin) from whales under 5,000 years, and discard their bodies.
As for whales above 5,000 years, they'd take the entire corpse back for both auction and culinary use.
While sailing toward their next destination, they dissected the whales and extracted:
4 pieces of 10,000year whale glue
15 pieces above 5,000 years
22 pieces below 5,000 years
Flender originally wanted to store them for later use. But Oscar suggested they consume them directlyto quickly enhance their physical foundations to the current limit. Once achieved, there'd be no need to keep hunting oceanic soul beasts.
After all, with someone like Gai Yue in the lead, as long as they picked targets wisely, results would always be favorable.
However, constantly slaughtering soul beasts just for rings would be wasteful. Ultimately, Flender agreed with Oscar's reasoning.
Oscar wasn't being altruistic he knew soul beasts were rapidly declining. Excessive slaughter might lead to extinction.
Their restraint wouldn't reverse the trend but intent mattered, and the choice offered peace of mind.
Final Allocation of Whale Glue:
Gai Yue: consumed the 23,000 year piece
Flender, Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin: each took one 10,000year piece
The 5,000+ year glue was distributed to Li Yusong, Shao Xin, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun
The process of consuming whale glue wasn't difficult. The real challenge lay in refining it but Oscar had already taught them how.
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