"Strangle!"
Gu La's thoughts stirred again, manipulating the peculiar domain born after breaking through to the Spirit Domain Realm.
Within the solidified seawater domain, the invisible telekinetic power transformed into billions of incredibly resilient "telekinetic threads," instantly wrapping around the bodies of every Demon Soul Great White Shark. Like the most precise cutting instruments, they tightened and sliced with ferocious intensity.
Sssss—!
The grating sound of cutting echoed through the water, muffled but chilling. The tough scales of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks were as fragile as paper before the Spirit Domain-level telekinetic power.
Blood spurted like fountains from every part of their bodies. Those ten-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Sharks couldn't even struggle, instantly being shredded into countless pieces.
Gu La's eyes flickered with a cold light as his psychic power drew the corpses of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, along with their soul rings, into the Forest Sea Space. Of course, all of this was done while concealing his actions of collecting their souls.
In just ten seconds, only the fifty-thousand-year-old silver Shark King remained from the massive shark pack.
It let out a roar of pain and fury, its body covered in a layer of silvery-white bone armor that erupted with blinding light.
A giant, ferocious shark head made of pure soul power and water elements condensed above its head!
The Shark King violently whipped its head, and the massive energy shark opened its jaws. A terrifying water blade, condensed to its peak and carrying spatial-tearing fluctuations, ignored the powerful restraint of the telekinetic field, slashing toward Gu La as if teleporting. This was its ultimate strike, fueled by burning its essence, with enough power to severely wound a Title Douluo.
"Not bad," Gu La's eyes narrowed slightly, but he neither dodged nor retreated.
"Confusion Barrier!"
His thoughts raced like lightning. The immense telekinetic power instantly layered and compressed itself in front of him, forming an intangible yet unyielding barrier stronger than spirit-forged metal.
Boom—!!!
The deep-sea cutting water blade struck the telekinetic barrier, unleashing a terrifying explosion of energy. The surrounding seawater was instantly displaced, forming a massive vacuum bubble.
Shockwaves swept across the area, churning up remnants of shark fragments and seabed sand into towering waves.
However, the ocean-splitting, mountain-cleaving power of the deep-sea cut slammed into the telekinetic barrier like it had hit an impenetrable wall. The barrier rippled violently on its surface but remained unshaken, failing to move Gu La even a fraction.
"It's over." Gu La's voice, icy and calm, traveled through the water into the terrified consciousness of the Shark King.
He extended his right hand, fingers splayed, and grasped at the now-exhausted Shark King whose aura had waned after releasing its ultimate technique.
"Confusion—Collapse!"
Bzzzz!
The space around the Shark King seemed to collapse inward instantly. An irresistible crushing force from all directions bore down on its massive body.
Crack! Crack!
The proud, mutated silvery-white bone armor groaned under the strain, cracking piece by piece. Its enormous body was forcibly compressed and twisted by an invisible giant hand!
"Roar—!!!"
The Shark King let out a desperate, blood-curdling scream filled with resentment and fear. But all its struggles were futile against the Spirit Domain-level telekinetic power.
Finally, amidst the heart-stopping sound of shattering bones, this five-hundred-year-old terror of the deep sea, the fifty-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark King, was brutally crushed into a sphere less than a meter in diameter, a mixture of flesh and bone shards. Only a faint trace of life remained, leaving it barely alive.
The battle ended, lasting only a few minutes. Dozens of fierce Demon Soul Great White Sharks, including the fifty-thousand-year leader, were annihilated. The seawater was saturated with a thick metallic stench of blood.
Gu La's expression remained calm, as if he had merely completed a trivial task. He raised his hand, and a struggling, roaring, miniature silver-white Shark King soul shadow was forcibly restrained and brought to him.
This soul was brimming with ferocity and resentment, making it excellent material for crafting a top-tier spirit soul. As for its hatred toward humans, the Spirit Pagoda had ways to subdue it.
"The soul of a fifty-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark King... Not bad."
Gu La nodded in satisfaction, sealing it within the Forest Sea Space. The slow passage of time within the space would allow him ample time to find someone to craft the spirit soul.
"A slightly mutated Demon Soul Great White Shark could serve as one of Bo Xi's options for breaking through to Soul King. Who knows what kind of ancestral trait might emerge?"
He glanced at the bloodstained waters below and the horrifying ball of flesh formed by compressing the Shark King, drawing them both into the Forest Sea Space to delay the dissipation of the Shark King's soul.
As Gu La prepared to leave, his Spirit Domain-level mental power habitually swept over the bloody mass.
Suddenly, he captured a faint yet remarkably resilient energy fluctuation deep within the core of the densely compressed, almost indistinguishable ball of flesh and bone. It glowed faintly like a dusty pearl, stubbornly radiating light.
"Hmm?" Gu La raised an eyebrow, his thoughts stirring slightly.
Shh!
A strand of telekinetic power, condensed to its peak, acted like an invisible blade, precisely cutting into the core of the ball, avoiding the filthy flesh and carefully extracting an object about half an arm's length, glowing with a deep silvery-blue hue.
It was a bone!
Its shape resembled a human forearm bone but was thicker, with a streamlined curvature. The surface was covered in fine, natural patterns resembling deep-sea vortices, exuding a dense, cold, and sharp water-attribute energy fluctuation, along with the ferocious aura of a top predator aged fifty thousand years.
"Soul bone, and a fifty-thousand-year right arm bone."
A flicker of surprise crossed Gu La's eyes. Soul bones were already precious, but those from a fifty-thousand-year-old deep-sea apex soul beast were exceedingly rare, their value incalculable. He hadn't expected this Shark King to yield such a treasure.
He gripped the cold, silvery-blue arm bone, his eyes glowing as the "Divine Appraisal Eye" activated instantly.
"Soul bone: Deep Sea Cutter's Right Arm Bone"
Age: Fifty-three thousand years
Origin: Demon Soul Great White Shark King (Deep Sea Variant)
Attribute: Water (containing traits of deep-sea high pressure and tearing)
Soul Skill: Deep Water Cut.
Activates the soul bone's power, instantly condensing and compressing surrounding water elements (or simulating soul power in waterless environments), forming a highly condensed, intangible blade imbued with extreme penetration and tearing rules.
Cutting power increases exponentially with infused soul power and environmental water pressure, reaching its peak in deep-sea conditions. Capable of easily tearing through defensive soul skills of the same level, it leaves a "Deep Sea Mark," making wounds extremely difficult to heal, continuously eroded by water pressure.
In Gu La's mind, the scene of the Shark King's ultimate attack replayed vividly—the terrifying water blade that tore through the seawater and ignored the constraints of the Confusion Domain was indeed the soul skill "Deep Water Cut" granted by this soul bone.
"So…" Gu La understood. He had personally experienced the power of this soul skill. In a deep-sea environment, it was indeed overwhelmingly tyrannical, capable of threatening a Title Douluo. The accompanying deep-sea erosion effect was insidiously vicious and difficult to deal with.
However, after the appraisal, Gu La's eyes did not show much excitement; instead, they carried a hint of… indifference.
"Deep Water Cut… decent power, but the attribute is too singular and heavily reliant on a water environment."
Gu La mentally evaluated, "For my main body, it's far inferior to the flexibility and versatility of telekinetic power or the grand control of the Forest Sea Domain. It doesn't match Bai Yuan's devouring ability, Mu Yi's defense, Liu Nian Dao's flying daggers, Qing Luli's psychic manipulation… or even the nascent water dragon power that Bo Xi is about to form."
Most importantly, the age was too low. He looked down on it.
The avatars and companions around him walked unique paths with deeper potential. Though powerful, this soul bone specialized too narrowly in water and cutting, clashing with their abilities.
Forcing a fusion might interfere with the purity of their own powers.
"Mediocre."
Gu La ultimately concluded. For him and his core team, this priceless fifty-thousand-year deep-sea right arm bone had become something of little use—neither appealing to keep nor satisfying to discard.
"However… in this era, it is undeniably a priceless treasure."
He weighed the cool, heavy arm bone in his hand, feeling the immense energy contained within. "Especially for the families of the Star Luo Empire with strong sea soul master legacies or certain experts in the Federation specializing in water-attribute martial souls, this would absolutely be a treasure worth bankrupting themselves for, potentially sparking bloody conflicts."
A vague plan began to form in his mind.
"Keeping it is useless; better to trade it."
Gu La's lips curled slightly. "Use it to exchange for something truly useful to me. For example… the special spirit souls and resources held by the Star Luo Imperial Family, or Tang Sect's harvests from small worlds…"
He carefully placed the deep silvery-blue right arm bone, glowing with profound brilliance, into a specially-made soul-guided box capable of isolating energy fluctuations. Intricate seal runes were engraved on the box to ensure its presence wouldn't leak.
After finishing, he didn't linger.
The Spirit Domain-level mental power swept over, confirming no other powerful sea soul beasts had been drawn by the scent of blood. His figure blurred into a faint water line, silently heading back toward the Star Luo ship.
This trip had been fruitful. He had thoroughly familiarized himself with the terrifying might of Spirit Domain-level telekinetic power, obtained precious materials for a fifty-thousand-year spirit soul, and acquired a soul bone.
More importantly, this battle gave him a more direct assessment of the strength and difficulty of hunting sea soul beasts.
"After slaughtering a Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, the hundred-thousand-year sea soul beasts should step forward for revenge."
A determined gleam flashed in Gu La's eyes. "Next time, you'll be my targets!"
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