320: Overlord of the Sea

Though the sea beast was fast, it couldn’t outrun Xiao Shi at full burst.

Even though this was underwater and Xiao Shi’s speed was somewhat reduced, he still caught up to the fleeing sea beast.

He raised his hand and pressed it towards the sea beast.

A powerful Soul Force erupted.

A heaven-shaking Crimson Tiger’s Roar instantly exploded in the sea beast’s mind, causing the entire sea beast’s movements to pause.

Xiao Shi took the opportunity to grab another tentacle of the sea beast, quickly sealed it, and pulled it off the sea beast’s body.

"Roar!!!"

With two tentacles continuously sealed and pulled off by the opponent, the sea beast was filled with shock and rage, letting out a massive roar.

Its roar was also a soul attack similar to Crimson Tigers Roar.

However, when its roar impacted Xiao Shi, it was completely unable to shake Xiao Shi’s soul.

In response, the sea beast could only use its strongest tentacle.

Boom!!!

When this tentacle was extended, the entire seawater violently shook.

The surrounding seawater rapidly condensed into black ice, emitting a rich, bone-chilling cold aura.

This coldness not only affected the physical body but also the soul.

Even with Xiao Shi’s current strength and cultivation, a strong sense of crisis emerged in his heart under the coldness unleashed by the opponent’s tentacle.

"Sure enough, one cannot underestimate the Martial Demon Realm…"

Xiao Shi narrowed his eyes.

Now, with a deeper understanding of the Martial Demon Realm system, he realized that both Martial Demon Realm sea beasts and Martial Warriors might possess powerful strength beyond their current stage.

Just like the Martial Demon he first fought, once he activated all the demon patterns on his body, the power he could unleash completely exceeded the limit of the first stage of the Martial Demon Realm.

Of course, the use of such power often came with a certain price.

For instance, now that this Martial Demon Realm sea beast had used its strongest tentacle, the surrounding seawater immediately condensed into ice at a visible speed, rapidly spreading towards Xiao Shi.

And this tentacle, upon use, directly shattered and exploded!

Clearly, this tentacle possessed incredibly powerful strength, but it could only be used once!

This was its price!

This also made Xiao Shi feel regret.

He hadn't even had time to seal it yet.

This tentacle had already exploded.

Facing the rapidly sweeping ice layer at this moment, Xiao Shi knew that if he were touched by these ice layers, the situation would be very dangerous.

The power of these ice layers had reached a level comparable to the second stage of the Martial Demon Realm, which was no longer something he could directly contend with.

Immediately, Xiao Shi directly teleported behind the sea beast through the teleportation ability of the Kuihu Vajra Bloodline.

He avoided the spreading ice layers.

And the moment he teleported behind the sea beast, he raised his hand.

A uniquely shaped battle saber appeared in his hand.

He fiercely slashed the battle saber downwards.

Buzz!

The moment the battle saber was slashed, the entire battle saber transformed into a transparent, illusory form, and continuously trembled.

It directly flashed past the sea beast in front of him.

Its speed was so fast that the sea beast hadn't even reacted before it was slashed across the top of its head by the battle saber.

However, the sea beast’s body did not shatter, and in fact, not even a single external injury appeared on its body after being slashed by the battle saber.

But Xiao Shi could see… that after the sea beast was slashed by his battle saber, the souls existing within every piece of its flesh and blood all trembled.

And this was a tremor of extremely high frequency.

This tremor contained terrifying destructive power, and it was completely aimed at and acted upon the soul.

Crack!

Under this terrifying tremor, the sea beast’s soul immediately couldn’t hold on, shattering and annihilating under the tremor.

"Soul Tremor Blade… truly extraordinary!!!"

A strong light flickered in Xiao Shi’s eyes.

What he used this time was precisely the Soul Tremor Blade that had dropped earlier.

Even though he had anticipated that this Soul Tremor Blade would be very powerful, he hadn’t expected… that just one slash would annihilate the sea beast’s soul!

At this moment, the sea beast’s rigid body floated motionless in front of him; although its body remained intact, its entire soul had been completely annihilated.

It had already become a corpse.

Xiao Shi had originally thought that his slash would at most severely injure it.

He hadn’t expected such a result.

"No wonder this Soul Tremor Blade can only be used a maximum of three times a day; if there were no limit to the number of uses, then killing these Martial Soul Realm beings would be too simple."

Xiao Shi mused in his heart.

The destructive power this tremor brought to the soul was extremely terrifying.

Xiao Shi pondered that even with his own soul, once subjected to such a tremor, even if it wouldn't instantly shatter and annihilate, it would definitely suffer heavy damage.

This Soul Tremor Blade could completely serve as one of his powerful killing moves!

Due to the death of this sea beast, its other tentacles also lost their original abilities and could no longer be sealed.

To seal the power systems of these Martial Demons with the Demon Sealing Art, there were inherently many conditions.

First, it must be ensured that they are alive.

Once dead, the entire power system would dissipate and could no longer be sealed.

Secondly, the integrity of the power system must be ensured.

For example, if the sea beast's power system was composed of external tentacles, then the integrity of these tentacles must be ensured.

If Xiao Shi had directly blown up these tentacles during the battle, he certainly wouldn't have been able to seal them.

Although there were still many tentacles on this sea beast that had not been sealed, sealing two tentacles this time was also very good.

Next, Xiao Shi could verify whether he could extract the power from these two tentacles.

When he carefully examined the two tentacles in his hand, he could clearly feel the two external forces sealed within the tentacles.

One was gravity.

The other was corrosion of the soul.

Both of these powers, among the powers of the Martial Demon Realm, were considered relatively ordinary.

They couldn't be compared at all to the power that caused the seawater to freeze into ice, which the sea beast had just released.

Of course, the advantage of this type of power was that it could be used at any time.

Unlike that powerful force, which only had one chance to be used.

However, for Xiao Shi, what he wanted more was definitely that powerful force!

This ordinary power was not very practical for him.

"Or I can gradually condense these ordinary powers into powerful ones!"

Xiao Shi’s heart stirred.

The Crimson Tiger Lineage happened to have a method for condensing power.

After all, the Crimson Tiger Lineage’s system itself was about condensing many powers into a Crimson Tiger.

He could completely condense all these ordinary powers together, making them into a powerful force similar to the one the sea beast had previously released, which caused the seawater to freeze into ice.

Or this kind of power could be called ultimate power.

And this ultimate power, formed through condensation, would not have the restriction of only being usable once.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi immediately attempted to extract the two forces sealed in the tentacles.

As he had thought before, when he unsealed the tentacles, he successfully extracted the two forces within them.

Then, following the method of the Crimson Tiger Lineage, he condensed these two forces, aiming to condense them in the direction of a Crimson Tiger.

However, his ambition was grand.

He wanted to condense a powerful ultimate power.

Therefore, the condensation of these two powers merely formed a palm-sized piece of Crimson Tiger flesh and blood.

It was still very, very far from the formation of a Crimson Tiger… Xiao Shi was not in a hurry about this.

At least for now, he had successfully verified the feasibility of this method through experimentation.

Next, he only needed to continuously extract their power by sealing the abilities of these Martial Demon Realm sea beasts.

Even if a lot of power was needed, with the number of sea beasts in this sea area, Xiao Shi felt that there was still a good chance of completing this condensation.

Once the first Crimson Tiger was successfully condensed and formed, then he would have formed his first system in the Martial Demon Realm!

Possessing an ultimate power… As time passed, Xiao Shi and his Demonic Body Clone were located in two different directions of the sea, slaughtering their way through!

After four consecutive days of killing, the number of items Xiao Shi alone had harvested had already reached tens of millions!

This quantity of items far exceeded his previous harvests from kills.

Even when he was in the Entering Martial Realm and engaged in three years of slaughter, it was far from comparable to the harvest from these past few days.

On one hand, his strength was limited at the time, and he could only kill Martial Warriors of the Entrance to Martial Realm.

On the other hand, there weren't many Martial Warriors of the Entrance to Martial Realm for him to kill in Seven Stars Province where he was at that time.

Unlike this sea area, which was not only vast and enormous but also teeming with sea beasts.

Most importantly, Xiao Shi could kill as he pleased here, without any need for apprehension.

And under such massive slaughter, finally… Xiao Shi encountered a hegemon residing in this sea area!

This was a powerful sea beast at the second stage of the Martial Demon Realm.

It was a gigantic sea lizard!

Unlike other sea beasts, this sea lizard did not inhabit the deep sea; its spine was always exposed on the surface of the sea, thus forming an enormous island in this sea area.

Now, when this sea lizard appeared before Xiao Shi, Xiao Shi found that from his perspective, he couldn't see the entire body of this sea lizard, because this sea lizard… was simply too large!

Xiao Shi could only perceive the full extent of this sea lizard's body with his Soul Consciousness.

Its body was as if covered in a layer of treasured armor, which emanated a blue light, appearing incredibly tough while also releasing a powerful and terrifying pressure from its body.

Furthermore, numerous blue lightning bolts intertwined and spread across its body surface.

A pair of black vertical pupils completely locked onto Xiao Shi.

Its eyes glowed with intense fury and killing intent!

In fact, with Xiao Shi’s level of slaughter, under normal circumstances, he would have long attracted the attention of the overlords in this sea area.

However, the powerful luck he possessed ensured that he hadn't encountered any second-stage Martial Demon Realm sea beasts until now.

It was only at this moment that he was targeted by this sea area's overlord.

It must be said that the aura and pressure emanating from this sea beast were quite astonishing, exerting an immensely powerful suppression on Xiao Shi.

This suppression primarily stemmed from the cultivation realm.

After all, the opponent was at the second stage of the Martial Demon Realm, while he was merely at the first stage.

Under this suppression, Xiao Shi felt his body heavy, and all the power throughout his body felt as if it was being held down.

If he were to fight in this state, he could at most exert half of his strength.

However, when the martial emperor mask appeared on his face, under the effect of ignoring aura and pressure brought by the martial emperor mask, he directly became immune to the opponent's realm suppression.

This caused a strange glint to flash in the sea beast's eyes.

He hadn't expected this human… to actually be able to withstand his realm suppression.

It snorted coldly, opening its large mouth.

Roar!!!

A massive roar suddenly erupted from its mouth.

And as it unleashed its roar, an illusory figure emerged on its body surface, as if two sea lizards were overlapping.

This caused its roar to be not one, but two different roars, overlapping each other.

At this moment, Xiao Shi felt as if the surrounding seawater had solidified, and even the flow of time had slowed down.

Although it didn’t completely stop time, the overall flow of time became incredibly slow.

Furthermore, an intensely powerful sense of crisis permeated Xiao Shi’s mind.

Despite this, Xiao Shi showed no panic.

Instead, he curved his lips.

"Thank you for giving me a good revelation."

Whoosh!

A red bead, about the size of a fist, suddenly appeared in front of the sea beast.

At the same time, the pointer on the Soul Plate in Xiao Shi’s mind directly pointed to the usage area.

This caused the nature of the sea lizard's attack to change directly from an attack to the use of an item.

It just so happened to use the bead in front of it.

Buzz!

The blurry demonic face protruding from the surface of the entire bead, which was originally in an open-eyed state, now, under the sea lizard's use, directly closed its eyes.

In an instant, the sea lizard felt an incredibly strong wave of drowsiness sweep over it, and its eyelids became heavy.

Even with its strength and cultivation, it couldn't resist this drowsiness.

Its massive body swayed precariously.

It only lasted for two seconds before it could no longer hold on.

It directly fell into a deep sleep.

Its massive body then plunged into the deep sea, emitting deafening snores.

At the same time, this Sleeping Pearl also sank with the sea lizard, both submerging into the deep sea.

Boom!!!

Xiao Shi’s figure was sent flying hundreds of meters back.

His entire body was like porcelain pieced together, covered in cracks, and at the same time, a large amount of fresh blood seeped out from the cracks on his body, dyeing the seawater red.

Although he had changed the nature of the sea lizard's attack through the Soul Plate, the sea lizard's roar was not entirely without lethality; its destructive power was merely significantly weakened.

The remaining impact still sent Xiao Shi flying.

However, with Xiao Shi’s current body, the injuries on his body immediately began to heal at a visible speed.