Xiao Bai snapped:
“You call me Xiao Baibai? That name is exclusively for the lord Seagod’s use. You human’s can’t use it. What are you looking for me for?”
Oscar said from the shore:
“Xiao Bai, don’t go asking questions when you know the answer. Don’t tell me you don’t know our fourth trial is related to you?”
Hearing the words ‘fourth trial’, Xiao Bai’s eyes clearly grew a bit more serious, and she replied:
“You’ve already finished preparing?”
Tang San and Ma Hongjun floated down, landing on the beach. Xiao Bai also flew out of the seawater, transforming into human form in front of everyone.
Tang San said:
“We only have one year to pass the rial. Even if we keep cultivating, it’ll still be very difficult for us to make any major breakthroughs in that time. So we plan to finish the mission a bit early.”
Xiao Bai’s elegant brows wrinkled. Under the sunshine, her body reflected a grey blue light,
“The Evil Spirit Orca’s aren’t that easy to deal with. They're not as well spoken as me, they’re all extremely savage fellows of the ocean. Besides the Deep Sea Demon Whale King who can awe them somewhat, those bastards have always been rampaging without fear in the sea.”
Dai Mubai said:
“Then what level of strength do these Evil Spirit Orcas have? Our mission must be completed. I assume the bastards you mention and your Devil Spirit Great White Shark clan don’t have a very good relationship.”
“Good? Of course it’s very good.”
Xiao Bai gnashed her teeth:
“My little brother died in the jaws of the Evil Spirit Orca King. If I had the strength, I would long ago have eradicated that stain on the ocean. There are levels among us sea spirit beasts too. Generally speaking, we Devil Spirit Great White Sharks, Deep Sea Demon Whales and Evil Spirit Orcas are all considered at the top of the marine food chain. But in fact, there’s also a certain gap between the three of us. The Deep Sea Demon Whales are undoubtedly the strongest, but this clan is also quite rare. Moreover, they all live alone. Moreover, the Deep Sea Demon Whales are completely lazy, ordinarily they’ll only open those idiotically giant mouths and wait for food to deliver itself. And besides the Deep Sea Demon Whales, the strongest would be the Evil Spirit Orcas. Even though I don’t want to admit it, those stains on the sea are a bit stronger than us.”
At this point, Xiao Bai’s eyes displayed an intense loathing,
“The Evil Spirit Orcas are a kind of sea spirit beasts extremely addicted to killing. Even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King won’t lightly provoke them. Because the Evil Spirit Orcas are flock spirit beasts, and because they have practically no natural predators, the have quite considerable numbers. These stains on the sea are absolutely unrestrained in the ocean, they’ll constantly kill even if they don’t need food, when they encounter any creatures they’ll tear them to pieces without a trace of politeness. Any sea spirit beast is brimming with hatred of them. Just that they’re so strong that nobody dares step up and challenge them. There’s an Evil Spirit Orca flock about five hundred li from here. They’re our old enemies. There’s a holy war between our two clans every few decades or centuries.”
Seeing that the subject of Evil Spirit Orcas was clearly a bit taboo to Xiao Bai, Zhu Zhuqing couldn’t help asking:
“You lost?”
Xiao Bai nodded unwillingly,
“We’re at a disadvantage each time. If it wasn’t because they don’t dare approach Seagod Island, for fear of drawing the lord Seagod’s wrath, even our clan might have already ceased to exist.”
Tang San said:
“Since we’ll have to confront them, Xiao Bai, give us a detailed description of the Evil Spirit Orcas.”
Xiao Bai said:
“Adult Evil Spirit Orcas are twenty to twenty five meters long. They have robust bodies, sharp teeth, as well as formidable abilities of all kinds. One Evil Spirit Orca is enough to fight two of our clansmen to a standstill. These savages never leave survivors. As long as they hold the advantage, they’re bound to tear the opponent to shreds. The Evil Spirit Orca flock has around three hundred overall, approximately two hundred adults. About the same as us. To us, the only thing worth being happy about might be that their fertility isn’t equal to ours. Otherwise, their numbers would be even scarier. One might say that, if we’re speaking about the area led by the Evil Spirit Orca King, then this clan is already qualified to challenge the Deep Sea Demon Whale King. Or course, that might also lead to their clan being exterminated, so they’ve never dared directly enter the Deep Sea Demon Whale King’s domain.”
The Shrek Seven Devils looked at each other, and Oscar swallowed:
“Then, that means our fourth task of helping you exterminate the Evil Spirit Orca flock, is equivalent to taking on half a Deep Sea Demon Whale attack?”
Xiao Bai snorted disdainfully:
“Why? Scared? If you’re scared you can not go.”
Little Ao imitated her appearance to snort as well,
“I actually want to not go, but if I don’t, my black level six tests trial will have my life. Besides, so what if it’s a hundred Evil Spirit Orcas? How do you know we won’t win?”
Xiao Bai’s expression seemed extraordinarily serious,
“I don’t care about whether you have courage or strength. I’m worried about my kin. It’s after decades of recovery that my clan has managed to reach its present state. Just in case you aren’t strong enough, and can’t exterminate the Evil Spirit Orca flock, then my kin will pay with our lives.”
Listening to Xiao Bai, the Shrek Seven devils all grew silent. When it involved the lives of Xiao Bai’s kin, they had no choice but to be careful. However, the trial was before them, could they really not go?
After a long time, it was still Tang San who spoke up,
“Xiao Bai, I can’t guarantee your kin won’t be harmed. But I can promise you, if this operation fails, then we will definitely die in front of you. Please believe me, we won’t treat our own lives as a joke. Even if you were our second trial examiner, you should understand that we regard you as a friend. Your kin are all naturally also our friends. I can only say, we will make all effort to reduce the casualties of your clan. If you really aren’t willing to participate in this fight, then we’ll trouble you to see us there, and we’ll confront them on our own.”
Xiao Bai was silent, watching Tang San with a burning gaze,
“Can we not go? This isn’t just your trial, it’s also the lord Seagod’s mission to us. Exterminate the Evil Spirit Orca flock for the peace of our home sea. As servants of the lord Seagod, we are duty bound. Since you say you’ve already prepared, we’ll set off.”
While speaking, Xiao Bai turned to the sea, gaped and issued a bizarre humming sound. Just at the start the sound was very weak, but as time passed, the sound gradually grew greater, so much that it even suppressed the sound of the waves.
The water in front of Seagod Island boiled, and strong white figures began to reveal their triangular fins on the surface, arrayed in a neat formation. A picture of two hundred devil spirit great white sharks in formation formed. These great white sharks were all more than fifteen meters long, and each emanated powerful energy fluctuations. Hidden under the seawater, they were like an army at the ready.
The sound Xiao Bai was making came to an end. Turning, she once again looked at Tang San,
“Tang San, I know you will experience the Seagod nine trials. Otherwise a trial like this absolutely wouldn’t appear. Before leaving, I have something I hope you can promise me.”
Tang San said without the slightest hesitation:
“Speak. As long as I can do it, I absolutely won’t decline.”
Xiao Bai’s expression grew a bit gentler, but her eyes were still completely serious,
“If I can’t return alive this time, then there are still more than a hundred of my clan’s juvenile devil spirit great white sharks in this a
rea, I hope you can help look after them. Can you?”
Tang San’s heart shook, not because of Xiao Bai’s conditions, but rather because of Xiao Bai’s lonely tone. Clearly, she wasn’t optimistic about the coming battle.
“Xiao Bai, don’t be pessimistic. We will definitely win, definitely return alive. Not just us, but you and your kin. Those juvenile devil spirit great white sharks will still wait for your protection. You might not know, but Rongrong’s fourth mission is to guarantee your survival. If you die, it would be the same as our missions failing.”
Xiao Bai was distracted, looking astonished at Ning Rongrong. Muttering to herself:
“So, the lord Seagod didn’t abandon his servants. Don’t tell me we really won’t need to die?”
Oscar gathered by Xiao Bai,
“It seems you’re quite afraid of that Evil Spirit Orca King, weren’t you always very arrogant? You’re both hundred thousand year spirit beasts, how can the gap be that big?”
“Bullshit, who’d be afraid of that bastard?”
Xiao Bai’s tone was angry, and with one slap she sent Oscar flying to one side, saying.
“Let’s go.”
Speaking, she leapt up, diving into the ocean and returning to her original form.
Oscar rolled to a stop on the ground. He pleasantly discovered that, even though Xiao Bai’s slap hadn’t used any force, there wasn’t any of the pain that still should have appeared. His bones and flesh had automatically unloaded the force when he was slapped. It might look like a miserable situation, but it actually didn’t even hurt.
The Shrek Seven Devils leapt up simultaneously, and under Xiao Bai’s directions they mounted seven especially large devil spirit great white sharks. Xiao Bai went first, fiercely leaping forwards. Two hundred devil spirit great white sharks followed closely behind, bringing the Shrek Seven Devils directly for the deep sea.
Tang San held Xiao Wu close as he stood on the back of a devil spirit great white shark. With his present strength, even though the sharks’ backs were extremely slippery, he still wouldn’t fall. Even though Oscar and Ning Rongrong were in difficult straits, relying on the Spriit Sage level body control as well as their strengthened physiques, even if they couldn’t stand on the sharks like Tang San did, they could still ride on their backs and keep stable by grabbing their dorsal fins.
In the true ocean, the Shrek Seven Devils directly experienced the powerful side of the devil spirit great white sharks. Braving the wind and the waves, their speed forward was something no boat could compare to. The whistling sea breeze cut at them like knives, and the surrounding seawater turned into a blue haze as it constantly swept past on either side. That kind of feeling could be called extremely provoking, and extremely thrilling.
Even Bai Chenxiang flying in the air, widely known for her speed, also had to use her second spirit ability to not fall behind.
This was the embodiment of the devil spirit great white sharks’ true strength. In the ring sea, because it was too small, Xiao Bai had never revealed her true strength. However, discovering it made even the Shrek Seven Devils alert. Such powerful devil spirit great white sharks still feared their targets, the evil spirit orcas, this clearly showed the difficulty of their fourth trial.
The devil spirit great white sharks moved forward, and Tang San didn’t stay idle either. With the devil spirit great white sharks for transportation, he could also wholeheartedly consider tactics.
Without a doubt, the Evil Spirit Orcas were extremely powerful, so much so that it was even double that of the devil spirit great white shark flock. Could the seven of them really deal with more than a hundred of the apex spirit beasts of the ocean? Xiao Bai clearly couldn’t defeat the Evil Spirit Orca King. Even the ordinary evil spirit orcas already made them overextended, let alone speaking of helping Xiao Bai.
With both sides’ strength in mind, even if Tang San was confident in himself, he absolutely wouldn’t go meet force with force.
Intelligence was also equally a part of strength. One could imagine, since the evil spirit orca flock was this powerful, then they would inevitably have traits of arrogance and overconfidence. Even if they ultimately won a frontal confrontation, the devil spirit great white shark flock would also take disastrous losses. That wasn’t something Tang San wished to see. Xiao Bai’s sorrowful expression was always deeply branded in his mind. Since that was the case, he wanted to think of some other way.
Five hundred li wasn’t close, but with the astonishingly fast devil spirit great white sharks way of travel, it still wouldn’t be more than a couple of hours. At Tang San’s request, Xiao Bai commanded her clan to stop when they were fifty li away.
Tang San let out the Dragon Abyss Boat, giving the Shrek Seven Devils somewhere to stand. He also called over Xiao Bai. Even always curious about new things as she was, right now she still didn’t have the heart to appreciate the boat, only quietly sitting there contemplating.
Tang San said:
“Xiao Bai, are you still worried?”
Xiao Bai rolled her eyes at him, as if saying, if your clan was about to be trapped in danger, don’t tell me you wouldn’t be worried?
Tang San smiled slightly:
“Right now I have a method that might minimize our losses. I don’t know if you’re willing to try it?”
Xiao Bai’s eyes brightened,
“Method? What method? Tell me. The devil spirit orcas have a kind of ripple scanning method. As long as creatures with energy appear within ten li, they won’t be able to hide, and will immediately suffer devastating attacks. If you want to use some little tricks to deal with them, give up on the idea immediately. If it was that easy, we would have gotten rid of them long ago.”
Light flashed in Tang San’s eyes:
“Scanning abilities are unrelated to my plan. I only ask you, do the evil spirit orcas fear poison?”
Xiao Bai looked distracted,
“Poison? Medical poison? That’s right, we sea spirit beasts have abilities to resist poison. But don’t forget how large our bodies are. Adding on formidable spirit power, even if we ate a large amount of poison we could rely on our natural immunity to resist it. The poison of poisonous serpents can be said to be the strongest in the sea. But both we and the evil spirit orcas can use them as food. What poison do you have that’s stronger than poisonous serpents? Besides, if you spread the poison in the sea, with the evil spirit orcas’ vigilance, they’d very quickly discover it, only making them even more savage.”
Tang San smiled calmly:
“Don’t mind that. I only ask you, do you dare go into danger with me, you and me?”
Xiao Bai frowned,
“You and me? You’re not planning on having us two go attack the evil spirit orcas?”
Tang San said:
“Of course it’s not attack, it’s to raid. Don’t tell me you don’t know about something called assassination?”
Xiao Bai looked at Tang San,
“I don’t understand, what way do you have to approach the evil spirit orca flock without being discovered.”
Tang San smiled slightly,
“Then watch.”
Pointing to his forehead, in an instant, he disappeared without warning right before Xiao Bai’s eyes.
Xiao Bai opened her eyes wide, her formidable spiritual force suddenly spreading out to examine the place Tang San was. But she was shocked to discover that Tang San seemed to actually have truly disappeared. Her spiritual force spread to an area several hundred meters in diameter without discovering a trace of Tang San. So much that she even raised her hand and waved it where Tang San stood before, but still didn’t touch anything substantial.
“Tang San is?”
Xiao Bai looked to Oscar.
Oscar spread his hands,
“How should I know? Didn’t you say he had no way to approach the evil spirit orcas without being discovered?”
Xiao Bai excitedly said:
“I believe it, how could I still not beli
eve it? Hurry up and come out, tell me your plan. As long as we can annihilate those stains on the sea, I’ll dare anything.”
Faint blue light flashed, and Tang San’s silhouette reappeared in sight, still standing where he was before, so much so that he hadn’t even changed his posture, as if he’d never moved.
“Tang San, how did you do it?”
Xiao Bai asked excitedly.
Tang San smiled:
“This is an ability of mine. Capable of hiding us. I’ll need you as my mount, that way I can come and go without leaving a trace. You’re right, I don’t have any certainty of being able to poison the evil spirit orcas, however, how can I understand the level of their immunity without trying? Besides, poison is only the first present I’ve prepared for them.”
Xiao Bai laughed out loud,
“Since that’s the case, what are we still waiting for?”
Tang San waved to Oscar, and simultaneously placed Xiao Wu into his Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.
Oscar got the meaning and threw over a length of sausages, all pink and dark green. As for Xiao Wu, that was something Tang San couldn’t help. If he was going to take risks, Xiao Wu had already threatened him via his soul that he had to take her along. Tang San had made a supreme effort to oppose, and finally the two had reached a compromise, Xiao Wu would be in the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, that could also be considered following at his side.
Dai Mubai said:
“Doesn’t the devil spirit orcas’ scanning ability only reach ten li? Then shouldn’t we move forward a bit, at least to twenty li away from them. That way we could support you better.”
Tang San and Xiao Bai shook their heads practically simultaneously, and Tang San said.
“Even if the evil spirit orcas’ sensing range is limited, we absolutely can’t be careless. Just in case we let them discover our main army and come to attack, forcing us into a frontal confrontation, we couldn’t bear the losses. You wait here for my signal. Hold back the troops unless I signal. Xiao Bai, let’s go.”
Xiao Bai couldn’t wait any longer, and with a leap dove into the ocean transforming into her original form. Tang San floated over, the tips of his toes poking her head. The immense white silhouette instantly accelerated, heading straight out.
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