Purple Pearl's eyes flashed with deep astonishment, but her face was covered by a veil, so even Bibi Dong failed to notice the momentary change in her expression.
Jiang Chen, however, watched this pirate leader Purple Pearl with considerable interest.
The purple veil on her face could not block his eyes.
Purple Pearl's face looked like that of a woman in her late twenties, but her figure was not like that at all, it was like a ripe honey peach.
Judging by her figure alone, she was not far behind Bibi Dong; it would not be an exaggeration to say she was a mature woman in her thirties.
Her skin showed a healthy wheat color, and combined with that explosive, tight figure, she looked like a female leopard full of explosive power.
Her gaze lingered on Bibi Dong's face for only a moment before she withdrew it. She walked out slowly and stood at the very front of the pirates, still keeping her head lowered.
Bibi Dong looked at this female pirate leader and felt somewhat surprised.
Just a moment ago the other party had been arrogantly slapping her own buttocks, full of unbridled arrogance, yet now she was careful and cautious like a frightened little lamb.
"You are Purple Pearl, the leader of the Purple Pearl Pirate Group?" Bibi Dong asked, her gaze still scrutinizing Purple Pearl.
Purple Pearl nodded and answered in a soft voice, "Yes."
The hundred-plus pirates were all very surprised. When had their bold and straightforward leader ever spoken so gently?
Bibi Dong said, "What happened up ahead? Why is the Deep Sea Demon Whale King dead?"
Purple Pearl still kept her head lowered and answered, "The people of Sea God Island killed the Demon Whale King and took away its spirit ring and spirit bone."
"Then why did you appear there? And why were you being chased by the Demon Soul Great White Sharks?"
Purple Pearl was silent for a few seconds before saying, "The body of the Demon Whale King is a fine treasure. The people of Sea God Island looked down on it, so our pirate group planned to tow it back and sell it for a good price.
"But we never expected that a group of Demon Soul Great White Sharks would come out from Sea God Island and drive us away, while they themselves occupied the Demon Whale King's corpse and began to devour it."
Bibi Dong, Jiang Chen, and the others all nodded. What Purple Pearl said had no loopholes and was very reasonable.
The commander said, "Your Majesty, should we take a detour? The threat of dozens of Demon Soul Great White Sharks is no less than that of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King."
Bibi Dong said calmly, "No need. A mere few great white sharks, just kill them."
The hundred-plus pirates were instantly shocked beyond measure. Those were the guardian sacred beasts of Sea God Island! These people of the Spirit Empire actually wanted to kill them, and they were not afraid of Sea God Island's retaliation?
One must know that on this great sea, Sea God Island was invincible.
The Spirit Empire could show off its might on the continent, but daring to act wildly on the great sea was simply seeking death.
The lowered-headed Purple Pearl also showed an expression of shock, mixed with a trace of worry and urgency.
If the people of the Spirit Empire killed these Demon Soul Great White Sharks, they would certainly die!
Jiang Chen said lightly, "Full speed ahead. Leave those great white sharks to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, he soared into the air and flew extremely quickly toward the corpse of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
Just now he had already asked the Asura God in his mind. The Asura God's answer was that he was currently enemies with Sea God Island's inheritor Tang San, so killing these Demon Soul Great White Sharks did not count as indiscriminate slaughter and there was no need to worry.
"My lord, among those Demon Soul Great White Sharks there are several that have already reached the level of Titled Douluo," Purple Pearl finally could not help but remind him.
Her heart was full of worry. If Bibi Dong and the others killed these sharks, they would become mortal enemies with Sea God Island.
She admitted that on the continent the Spirit Empire was much stronger than Sea God Island.
But this was the great sea. If the Spirit Empire continued to be so arrogant and domineering, there was only one outcome, to endure the wrath of Sea God Island and be reduced to ashes.
She had been roaming the great sea for many years and knew full well how terrifying Sea God Island was.
Bibi Dong said indifferently, "No need to worry. They are merely a few sharks."
Purple Pearl raised her head and glanced. Jiang Chen had already flown far away.
Suddenly, an expression of disbelief shot from her eyes. That young man had not even released his martial soul yet could already fly through the air, could he already have reached the realm of a Titled Douluo?
Moreover, that flying speed far surpassed that of ordinary Titled Douluo.
"Could he be the Holy Son of the Spirit Empire?" Purple Pearl could not help but guess.
Her pirate group often robbed the rich to help the poor on the great sea and frequently came into contact with merchants who made a living at sea, so they were quite familiar with the situation on the continent.
She knew that the Bibi Dong of back then had now become the founding emperor of the Spirit Empire.
There was also a Holy Son named Jiang Chen whose reputation was not the least bit weaker than Bibi Dong's.
But according to legend, Holy Son Jiang Chen had not yet become a Titled Douluo.
Seeing that Jiang Chen was about to make contact with those great white sharks, Purple Pearl anxiously said, "My lord, those Demon Soul Great White Sharks must not be killed! If you kill them, Sea God Island will definitely come looking for trouble with you."
Bibi Dong stood with her back to Purple Pearl and did not even turn her head. She let out a cold laugh and said, "Sea God Island is nothing more than that. It will soon cease to exist."
Hearing Bibi Dong's arrogant words, Purple Pearl grew even more anxious and could not help saying, "My lord, do you not know how powerful Sea God Island is? On the sea they are invincible. Even a million-year Demon Whale King was killed by them."
Bibi Dong finally turned around. Her sharp gaze once again scrutinized this woman with the explosive figure.
Purple Pearl hurriedly lowered her head. Her heart began to beat faster. She felt that her secret had been seen through by Bibi Dong.
"She has actually become this strong." Purple Pearl felt a little panic.
"You seem very worried that we will become enemies with Sea God Island?" Bibi Dong fixed her gaze on Purple Pearl.
She felt that this woman dressed in purple was somewhat suspicious.
Purple Pearl hurriedly said, "Sea God Island is truly very powerful. I am only worried that we are on your ships and will be implicated."
Bibi Dong looked deeply at this woman once more, said nothing further, and turned to look at Jiang Chen in the distance.
At this moment Jiang Chen had already engaged those great white sharks.
There were more than twenty of those great white sharks. Among them, five had cultivation approaching one hundred thousand years and in the sea were comparable to human Titled Douluo.
The remaining twenty-odd also possessed the strength of human Spirit Douluo.
Jiang Chen held the Asura Sword. His footsteps stepped out with mysterious footwork as he weaved through the sharks' roars and the raging waves. Almost every swing of his sword cut a great white shark in two.
Even those five sharks that had approached for one hundred thousand years could not withstand the might of a single sword from him.
The Asura Sword trembled lightly in Jiang Chen's hand, emitting an extremely joyful emotion.
Jiang Chen could sense that with the slaughter, his compatibility with the Asura Sword grew higher and higher, and his control over the Asura Sword became more and more effortless.
Those wounded sharks' auras rapidly weakened. Large amounts of flesh essence flew out from their bodies and were absorbed by Jiang Chen's body.
The great white sharks continuously let out mournful cries. Those five somewhat stronger ones were extremely terrified and wanted to flee.
But it was already too late. Their speed in the sea was extremely fast, yet they had already been afflicted with deadly poison and could no longer escape.
By the time the three warships arrived, the more than twenty great white sharks had only empty skins left.
The essence within the more than ten-meter-long great white sharks had all been absorbed by Jiang Chen to strengthen his own zombie cultivation.
Looking at the more than twenty fish skins floating on the sea surface, those pirates' expressions were filled with extreme horror. Gasps rose one after another, and the gazes they directed at Jiang Chen were already full of fear.
This was a young man like a devil.
Hearing the terrified gasps of her subordinates, Purple Pearl curiously raised her head and took a glance. Her delicate body immediately trembled, and she likewise revealed an expression of incredulity.
"His Highness the Holy Son's strength has improved once again," an elder praised.
Hearing this, Purple Pearl finally confirmed her earlier guess. This young man was indeed the Holy Son of the Spirit Empire.
From boarding the ship until now, this was the first time she had carefully looked at Jiang Chen. That handsome appearance and somewhat demonic temperament made her eyes light up.
She had never seen a man with such an outstanding appearance. It made her heart beat fiercely for a moment.
"No, I like women," she secretly warned herself.
The mountain-like corpse of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King floated in front of the warships.
"I never thought a sea spirit beast's body would be so enormous," an elder could not help but exclaim.
Jiang Chen stood on the Demon Whale King's corpse, pinching his chin as he fell into thought.
Suddenly he opened his mouth and sucked. The bloody color on the sea surface within a radius of a thousand meters rapidly faded and converged toward the Demon Whale King.
Everyone was stunned by this strange sight.
Suddenly countless blood pillars broke through the sea and converged toward Jiang Chen's body. When they approached him, they were absorbed by a special energy emitted from within his body.
"He… he is absorbing the Demon Whale King's blood," a pirate could not help but say in horror.
"Could it be that those great white sharks were also drained of blood and died?"
Earlier the distance had been far and they had not seen clearly that Jiang Chen was absorbing the blood of those great white sharks. Seeing this scene now, their entire bodies went cold.
Feeding on blood, what an evil and terrifying person this was.
The Demon Whale King's body was a full two hundred meters long and still retained a large amount of blood inside. Jiang Chen's heart was extremely excited.
The reason he had not taken a detour, besides wanting to reach Sea God Island as quickly as possible, was that he had also set his sights on the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's blood.
He had never expected to pick up such a bargain as soon as he arrived.
The Demon Whale King had clearly died not long ago. The blood inside its body was still hot and the essence it contained had not yet dissipated.
This kind of essence could not be absorbed by others, but to Jiang Chen it was the best tonic.
Moreover, it was the blood of a million-year spirit beast, enough to rapidly raise his zombie cultivation.
Furthermore, this Demon Whale King's body was a full forty times larger than Qiongqi's. The amount of blood was staggering.
Originally, after zombie cultivation reached the ninth rank, the difficulty of raising it further increased greatly.
But at this moment his zombie cultivation was rapidly rising.
Just as Jiang Chen was about to absorb the Demon Whale King's flesh and bone essence as well and turn it into an empty fish skin, the system suddenly gave a prompt.
"The Demon Whale King's obsession has not dispersed. Its resentment soars to the heavens. It can be transformed into a zombie and taken as a battle pet."
Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment. He indeed sensed a large amount of resentment around him, but this Demon Whale King was already thoroughly dead. How could it still become a zombie?
He was very tempted by the system's prompt. A million-year spirit beast as a battle pet would absolutely be a great help to him.
Just as Jiang Chen was wondering how to do it, the system continued to prompt: "Master can drip your own essence blood onto the Demon Whale King's heart to help it gather its residual soul and regain new life."
Seeing Jiang Chen absorbing the Demon Whale King's blood, Bibi Dong signaled everyone to remain quiet and wait for Jiang Chen to finish.
Bibi Dong knew the secret that Jiang Chen grew stronger by absorbing blood, and the stronger the target he absorbed, the greater the boost to him.
There were more than ten wounds on the Demon Whale King's corpse. Blood pillars as thick as water buckets shot out from those more than ten wounds like blood-colored giant dragons, winding through the air before finally entering Jiang Chen's body.
Such a terrifying and eerie scene immediately made many people's hearts turn cold and involuntarily give rise to fear.
This scene lasted for more than ten minutes before the Demon Whale King's blood was completely drained.
Just as Bibi Dong thought Jiang Chen had finished, Jiang Chen suddenly said, "Teacher, wait a moment longer."
As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped straight into the Demon Whale King's wide-open mouth.
Jiang Chen released his soul power outward, isolating the surrounding seawater and the Demon Whale King's body fluids, and rapidly headed deeper inside.
After advancing nearly a hundred meters inside the Demon Whale King's body, he finally arrived at the area closest to the heart.
Holding the Asura Sword, he cut open the flesh without the slightest hesitation, opening a path through the flesh and blood toward the heart.
A moment later he finally arrived at the Demon Whale King's heart.
This heart was enormous, its diameter already exceeding ten meters.
Jiang Chen could not help but sigh. Only the great sea could give birth to such a colossal spirit beast.
He did not hesitate. Following the system's prompt, he cut his finger and then squeezed out a few drops of golden essence blood from the heart area, dripping them onto the Demon Whale King's heart.
The heart that had originally already dried up and fallen silent actually began to twitch after absorbing Jiang Chen's essence blood.
Jiang Chen could sense that the vast resentment all around began to converge toward this Demon Whale King's heart.
Only Jiang Chen could see the resentment, which was extremely dense. After converging it had already formed something substantial, transforming into black demonic qi that coiled around the heart.
Its obsession appeared, transforming into a palm-sized whale shadow that floated in front of Jiang Chen.
Then this shadow changed again, becoming a sinister middle-aged man with long blue hair and a hollow left eye without an eyeball.
As soon as he appeared he was somewhat dazed, then stared at Jiang Chen with a fierce light in his eyes.
This shadow let out a sharp cry and lunged fiercely at Jiang Chen, but before it could even touch Jiang Chen a terrifying fluctuation erupted from Jiang Chen's body and bounced the Demon Whale King's obsession back.
The Demon Whale King let out a miserable scream and nearly collapsed. It looked at Jiang Chen with extreme terror.
"You are the Demon Whale King?" Jiang Chen asked.
The Demon Whale King said with extreme hatred, "Damn humans, give me back my life!"
Jiang Chen said indifferently, "It was not I who killed you. It was the people of Sea God Island who killed you. If you want revenge, go find them."
The Demon Whale King was stunned for a moment. The light in its eyes dimmed. With Sea God Island's current strength it could not resist.
"I can let you revive and make you even stronger, giving you a chance for revenge. The price is that you must submit to me. Are you willing?" Jiang Chen asked.
"Are you telling the truth?" The Demon Whale King clearly did not quite believe it.
Anyone who could revive it was probably only a god, yet Jiang Chen was clearly not one.
"Just say whether you are willing or not." Jiang Chen's expression remained indifferent.
The Demon Whale King gritted its teeth and said, "As long as you can let me revive, I swear I will listen to whatever you say."
Jiang Chen revealed a smile. "That's right. You will soon obtain new power. Experience it well."
As his words fell, the Demon Whale King's obsession shadow was already sucked into his mind.
At this moment it once again sensed its own body. It had truly obtained new life.
Jiang Chen returned the way he had come. Suddenly some memories appeared in his mind, they were the Demon Whale King's memories.
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King possessed million-year cultivation. Although its lifespan had not reached a million years, it had still lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
There were two paths for a spirit beast to become a god. One was to take human form at one hundred thousand years and cultivate to godhood using human methods.
The other was to continue cultivating while maintaining the spirit beast form. After cultivating to a million years, breaking through further would allow it to become a god.
It had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years and finally obtained million-year cultivation, becoming the strongest spirit beast in the great sea. As long as it took one more step it could condense a god position and ascend to godhood.
But what filled it with despair was that the Sea God did not give it this chance and instead sent the inheritor to take its life, spirit ring, and spirit bone.
Hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation were wiped out in a single day. Towering resentment filled this stretch of sea, and its obsession refused to disperse.
Fortunately it had met Jiang Chen. Otherwise, after some time its obsession and resentment would also have dispersed.
After receiving the Demon Whale King's memories, Jiang Chen's soul also formed a kind of connection with the Demon Whale King.
Just like with Qiongqi, as long as he had a single thought he could make the zombie Demon Whale King turn to ash.
Jiang Chen flew out from the Demon Whale King's mouth and landed on the deck of the warship.
"Xiao Chen, what did you go into the Demon Whale King's belly to do just now?" Bibi Dong asked in puzzlement.
Jiang Chen smiled broadly and pointed at the Demon Whale King's enormous body. "Teacher, look."
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