169: Ranked tenth
The Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo was very intelligent.
After discovering that Bai Ye was not easy to deal with, it did not rashly launch another attack.
It kept circling around Bai Ye, attempting to exhaust his energy with its movement techniques.
Bai Ye held his breath, stepped out of the membrane, and watched its performance with ease.
He turned his head and used Telepathy to say to Mela:
"You all retreat first, leave this guy to me."
"But Boss, it..."
"Rest assured."
Bai Ye interrupted her and waved his hand.
The Merfolk Clan dared not disobey and could only quickly retreat with Phantom Snow and Xiao Lan inside the membrane.
Seeing those weak Merfolk retreat, leaving only Bai Ye alone, the greed in the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo's eyes intensified.
Dark green venom shot out from its mouth, leaving a long trail in the water.
Bai Ye flicked out a Vine Whip, which straightened like a drawn sword, freezing everything it passed through into ice.
Once the venom turned into ice, it naturally lost the ability to enter a human body; besides obscuring vision to some extent, it had no other effect.
But even an ordinary squid could obscure vision; it couldn't stop Bai Ye at all.
Without waiting for it to react, Bai Ye swam toward it.
This was walking points; it would be a waste not to take them.
He kicked off the rocks on the seabed with his toes, and a large number of Vine Whips transformed into propellers, carrying him through the underwater depths at high speed.
Five Vine Whips knotted together, transforming into a long spear.
Today, underwater, he was going to use a Vine Whip Overlord Spear; hopefully, there was no Sea God in this world.
Seeing this, the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo was not afraid; instead, it was overjoyed and charged straight at him.
It lashed out violently in the water, its scale-covered tail whipping toward Bai Ye like a steel whip.
Bai Ye lifted the Vine Whip in his hand, accurately blocking the powerful tail whip.
A massive force traveled through the Vine Whip, making Bai Ye's arm slightly numb, but his body remained motionless.
Instead, it was the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo that was jolted stiff by the recoil force, feeling intense pain in its tail, inevitably falling into a stunned state.
"Not bad strength."
Bai Ye grinned, muscles bulging in his arms, and he twisted the Vine Whip spear.
The five Vine Whips instantly spread out, wrapping around the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo's tail, tightening further and further.
"Hiss!"
The Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo felt the pain and kept twisting its body, trying to break free from the Vine Whips.
But Bai Ye lacked nothing except the quantity of Vine Whips; this skill had already become the one with the highest proficiency among all his skills, stronger than ordinary high-level skills.
He had a premonition that the proficiency of this skill would likely soon undergo a transformation.
Vine Whips wrapped around it one after another; no matter how it struggled, it couldn't break free even a little.
"Get over here!"
Bai Ye roared inwardly, continuously exerting force from his waist.
Even a body as massive as the Mist Barrel could be pulled by Bai Ye, let alone a small Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo.
It was yanked up by force, its long, slender body losing its balance.
Bai Ye used the turbine to appear above the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo's head.
He raised his right leg high, and like a battle axe, he brought it crashing down, carrying a massive amount of seawater!
This kick landed solidly on the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo's scarlet single eye.
The diamond-hard eyeball shattered with a boom.
Dark green blood mixed with brain matter spewed out from the broken eye socket.
The Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo twitched all over, then went limp.
Bai Ye landed lightly on its corpse and shook the blood off his foot.
Dead... dead?
This thing's eye and brain were actually connected.
The Merfolk Clan in the distance opened their mouths wide, their beautiful eyes filled with horror.
Killed a Lord-level with bare hands?
Although they knew he had this strength after seeing him shatter the Seal with one punch, witnessing the process of him killing a Lord-level was still exceptionally shocking.
Fortunately, this man is our Boss, otherwise, it would be a disaster.
Forget it, dead is dead. The body of a dead Lord-level is also very precious; he could just sell it for money later.
He still needed to build a breeding base when he returned to Luoxue City, so naturally, the more money, the better.
"Don't just stand there."
Bai Ye's Telepathy awakened them from their shock.
"Come over and give me a hand; bring this guy's corpse along."
He pointed to the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo under his feet and said matter-of-factly:
"These are all points, they are money."
"Yes, Boss!"
Mela came to her senses, quickly brought her clansfolk over, lifted the corpse, and followed behind Bai Ye, swimming toward the sea surface.
With the Vine Whip turbine acceleration, he returned to the sea surface even faster than when he came.
...
When Bai Ye brought a group of Merfolk, dragging the corpse of a Lord-level Magical Beast, back from the seabed to the deck of the whale breaker, it had already been over half an hour.
Song San was still lying on the chair like a salted fish.
The fishing rod was thrown to the side, and he was chewing on a candy, staring at the sky in boredom.
"Back?"
Seeing Bai Ye, he greeted him listlessly.
"Yeah."
Bai Ye nodded, walked to his side, and shook his soaked hair, splashing water all over Song San's face.
The cloak on his body turned back into Xiao Hei, lying listlessly at Bai Ye's feet and yawning.
It had really been Body Integration for quite a while this time.
It must rest well for a while; hopefully, by the time it wakes up again, they will be on the return voyage.
"Damn!"
Song San was startled by the cold seawater and quickly got up.
"What are you doing!"
"You looked too idle, so I thought I'd refresh you."
Bai Ye spread his hands innocently.
Song San wiped his face, just about to complain, when the corner of his eye caught sight of the corpse dragged onto the ship by the Merfolk, as well as the conspicuous Lord-level aura.
He had guessed it; Brother Bai must have brought back some prey from diving this time.
It was actually another Lord-level.
He was almost becoming numb to it.
Meanwhile, the leaderboard on the Live Stream Room screen underwent a shocking change again.
【Participant: Bai Ye】
【Current Points: 98,000】
【Current Ranking: 10】
His points soared again by a large margin; even without entering the Storm Sea Eye, he had successfully entered the top ten.
This didn't even count the Merfolk Clan and their eggs that he dragged onto the ship.
If that King-level Aptitude egg were included, he could completely compete for first or second place.
It wasn't completely dead, wasn't there still hope of reviving it?
People in Blue-Eyed White Dragon City who were following this competition all flooded into the Live Stream Room again because of Bai Ye's soaring ranking.
"It rose again, and it's another Lord-level?!"
"Is he cheating? Where did so many Lord-levels come from in the Silent Windless Zone."
A large number of viewers had originally been lost because of Song San's boring live stream, but now, because he had rushed into the top ten, they flooded back in.
Even more than before.
Bai Ye didn't care whether the live stream was bloody or not and directly let the infinite get to work.
"infinite, start processing the prey."
The infinite extended several mechanical arms from the cockpit.
At the end of the thickest mechanical arm, an alloy scalpel shimmering with cold light popped out, precisely slicing open the Shadow Devouring Sea Tuo's skin.
Several other, thinner mechanical arms extended various tools such as tweezers, scrapers, and suction tubes.
Skinning, deboning, extracting meat, separating internal organs...
The entire process was smooth and flowing, precise and efficient, with no Materials wasted at all.
In less than ten minutes, the complete Lord-level Magical Beast corpse was decomposed into dozens of different parts of precious Materials, categorized and stacked neatly.