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"Does this Deep Sea Demon Whale King actually have the nature of a turtle? Should we rename him the 'Deep Sea Demon Whale King-Turtle'? Is he hibernating in some deep-sea crevice?"
Luo Nan sighed, feeling somewhat helpless.
Bo Saixi walked slowly to Luo Nan's side, holding her golden scepter as the sea breeze tousled her long, sea-blue hair.
Observing Luo Nan's slightly impatient expression, she offered a gentle word of comfort:
"Luo Nan, the vastness of the ocean far exceeds your imagination."
"It covers the overwhelming majority of the Douluo Continent's surface area, concealing countless abysses and ocean trenches."
"Even if the entire Demon-Soul Great White Shark clan were mobilized, finding a single Deep Sea Demon Whale King in such a massive expanse of water would be no easy task."
Luo Nan nodded in understanding. "You are right, Great High Priestess. The ocean is so vast; it's only natural that he'd be hard to find..."
Suddenly!
A thought struck Luo Nan: could that "Deep Sea Demon Whale King-Turtle" have wandered all the way over to the Sun-Moon Continent?
The Sun-Moon Continent was incredibly far from the Douluo Continent; if the whale had truly gone there, it would be virtually impossible for the Demon-Soul Great White Shark clan to track him down...
"In that case, I'll just take it slow. There's still half a year left, after all. I refuse to believe he can hold his breath and stay hidden forever without coming up for air." "
Luo Nan took a deep breath, steadying his emotions.
At his level of cultivation, patience was the one thing he had in abundance.
Time slipped away quietly, like sand through one's fingers.
Another two months passed.
One day, Luo Nan was sitting cross-legged on a massive boulder atop Sea God Mountain, deep in meditation.
Suddenly, the tranquility of Sea God Island was shattered by the sound of something cutting through the air at breakneck speed.
A massive Great White Demon Shark surged onto the beach like an arrow released from a bow, transforming mid-motion into a Sea Spirit Master—soaking wet and wearing a look of sheer terror.
Without even pausing to announce himself, he stumbled and sprinted wildly toward Sea God Mountain, screaming at the top of his lungs:
"Report! Grand High Priestess! Lord Luo Nan! We've found it! We've discovered the whereabouts of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King!"
*Whoosh!*
Luo Nan's figure flickered; in an instant, he traversed several kilometers to appear directly before the messenger.
Bo Saixi and several Guardians of the Sacred Pillars followed close behind, quickly arriving on the scene.
"Where is it?!" Luo Nan gripped the messenger's shoulders, his voice betraying unconcealable excitement and urgency.
After waiting painstakingly here for over half a year, the moment had finally arrived!
Trembling violently under the terrifying aura radiating from Luo Nan, the messenger stammered out his report:
"It's... it's about five thousand nautical miles northeast of Sea God Island!"
"That monster... that monster has gone mad!"
"It's whipping up a monstrous tsunami and charging straight toward a small coastal town called Lanbo City!"
"If it isn't stopped... given the scale of that tsunami, the town... it's going to be completely wiped out!"
"Lanbo City?" Bo Saixi's expression shifted.
"That's a major coastal town with a population of over a hundred thousand!"
"Why would the Deep Sea Demon Whale King suddenly go berserk and attack a human city?"
"It doesn't matter why it's gone mad. Now that it's shown itself, its days are numbered!" "
A murderous glint surged in Luo Nan's eyes; he was even more impatient than Bo Saixi and the others.
After all, this concerned the million-year spirit ring and the God-bestowed trial mission he had been longing for!
"You—come with me and show the way!"
Luo Nan didn't give the messenger a moment to react; he simply grabbed him by the collar.
*BOOM!*
With a deafening sonic boom, a pair of dark purple dragon wings spanning dozens of meters instantly unfurled from Luo Nan's back.
He pushed the extreme speed of the Dark Demon Dragon to its absolute limit.
Gales howled. Like a black meteor tearing through the firmament, Luo Nan—carrying the messenger—hurtled toward Lanbo City in the northeast at incredible speed!
A distance of five thousand nautical miles might take ordinary Spirit Masters months to traverse by sea, but for a peak Rank 98 Titled Douluo unleashing his full speed, it was a journey of merely a few hours.
Luo Nan was moving so fast that the messenger, held in his grasp, couldn't even open his eyes; he could only sense the space around him twisting violently.
Finally, while still less than five hundred nautical miles from Lanbo City, Luo Nan came to an abrupt halt.
On the horizon ahead, the once-azure sky had been completely swallowed by thick, dark clouds.
Gales roared, and thunder rumbled.
A terrifying tsunami, hundreds of meters high, resembled a black wall connecting heaven and earth; it was surging madly toward the mainland with overwhelming, cataclysmic force.
And at the heart of those monstrous waves, a terrifying, ferocious aura—powerful enough to make the very heavens pale—was being unleashed without restraint.
"We're here."
Luo Nan let go, dropping the messenger—who was pale with terror and had legs turned to jelly—onto a massive reef jutting out of the sea.
"Your mission is complete." "
"The battle ahead is not something you can participate in; find your own way back, and stay safe."
Luo Nan left these words behind in a calm tone, then fixed his gaze intently on the churning ocean ahead.
The messenger, as if granted a reprieve, scrambled to summon his Martial Soul and fled desperately away from the area.
Luo Nan took a deep breath and slowly rose into the air, hovering thousands of meters above the sea.
*Rumble—!*
The seawater below suddenly bulged violently upward, as if an undersea volcano were erupting.
Then, before Luo Nan's astonished eyes, a terrifying body—so massive it defied description—slowly emerged from the deep.
It was a giant whale, its entire body gleaming with the luster of a deep sapphire.
As it fully surfaced, Luo Nan was struck by an illusion:
This was no mere Spirit Beast; it was a colossal island moving across the ocean surface!
Its length was a staggering two hundred meters!
Its back, broad as a mountain range, was covered in ancient, mysterious magical runes.
Most striking of all was its massive head, dominated by a single eye that glowed with a sinister, eerie blue light.
In the place where the other eye should have been lay a terrifying, bottomless scar—a mark left by the Sea God long ago.
"This is... the Deep Sea Demon Whale King!"
Luo Nan looked down from above at this overlord of the ocean.
Sensing the unfathomable, ocean-like vastness of the energy surging within its body, he couldn't help but exclaim in genuine awe.
"Its size is truly immense... but the larger it is, the more magnificent the prize must be!" "
Although the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's true age was only a little over three hundred thousand years, its cultivation age was infinitely close to a million years!
Its body had withstood nine heavenly tribulations; it was merely a single step away from ascending to godhood!
Yet, it was precisely that final step where it remained hopelessly stuck.
There was no helping it—spirit beasts could not become gods; otherwise, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King would have already ascended.
At this moment, Luo Nan's peak Rank 98 spirit power erupted with explosive force, unleashed without reservation!
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