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Immediately following this, the Golden Sacred Dragon let out a roar that shook the heavens.
"Ninth Spirit Ability: Sky-Shattering Firmament Strike!"
Meanwhile, on the right, Luo Nan personally controlled the Dark Demon Dragon's destructive power to launch an even deadlier surprise attack.
"Third Spirit Ability: Dark Thunder Dragon Claw!"
Five pitch-black spatial rifts, accompanied by violent dark-purple lightning, slashed viciously into the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's flank, tearing open several more gashes deep enough to expose bone.
"Fourth Spirit Ability: Dark True Dragon Break!"
Yet another black dragon claw descended from the sky, striking the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's tail with pinpoint accuracy and blasting its massive tail fin into a bloody, mangled mess.
On the left was the ultimate power of holiness; on the right was the ultimate darkness of devouring destruction.
Under this terrifying, relentless, and all-encompassing barrage of attacks from Luo Nan and the Golden Sacred Dragon, even a powerhouse like the Deep Sea Demon Whale King found it impossible to fend them off.
Its prized Ocean Domain was being torn apart repeatedly, and its colossal body had become a glaring, easy target.
Before long, its body was already riddled with terrifying wounds of all sizes.
Dark blue blood gushed out wildly like a bursting flood, staining the surrounding waters red for dozens of miles.
Its once-arrogant, ferocious might had been completely shattered, replaced by a deep, consuming fear.
It had begun to feel terror.
Back then, although the Sea God was powerful, he had merely blinded one of its eyes rather than finishing it off completely.
But the human before it—who resembled a demon god—struck with lethal intent in every move, his eyes revealing undisguised murderousness. This human was clearly out for its life!
Sensing its life force rapidly draining away, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King finally cast aside the dignity of a million-year-old overlord.
"Human! Stop!"
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King shouted, its tone filled with pleading:
"Spare me! If you let me live today, I will give you all the boundless treasures hidden in this ocean!"
"I will reward you handsomely in the future; I can even pledge my loyalty to you and help you dominate the entire Douluo Continent!"
Hearing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's plea, Luo Nan paused mid-air.
Yet, there was not a shred of pity in his deep eyes; instead, a trace of cold mockery flickered within them.
"Spare you? Reward me later?"
At that moment, Luo Nan suddenly asked, "Tell me: to me, are *you* more important, or are your spirit bone and spirit ring more important?"
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King was stunned; it hadn't expected the human before it to ask such a question.
It answered tentatively, "I... am important?"
Luo Nan shook his head.
"My spirit ring and spirit bone are important to you?"
Luo Nan shook his head again.
Now, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King was even more confused.
"Your *absence* is what matters most to me!"
As the words left his lips, a powerful aura erupted from Luo Nan's body!
One half was an ultimate darkness as deep as ink; the other, a violent, hellish dark-purple lightning! "Torso Bone Spirit Skill—Abyssal Thunder Devouring Divine Beam!"
This was the most powerful single-target burst skill Luo Nan had acquired after fusing with that supreme-grade, 300,000-year-old torso bone.
It perfectly fused the violent, destructive nature of the thunder element with the extreme, corrosive power of the darkness element.
"Hummm—!"
A terrifying beam of light—as thick as a water barrel and swirling with black and purple hues—erupted explosively from Luo Nan's chest.
The beam moved with extreme speed; it instantly pierced through space itself, leaving behind a pitch-black vacuum trail in its wake.
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King had no time to react at all before the Abyssal Thunder Devouring Divine Beam struck with pinpoint accuracy the massive scar atop its head—a wound inflicted by the Sea God ages ago!
"BOOM—!!!"
The massive, destructive attack surged unimpeded through that old scar and into the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's body.
The extreme darkness attribute clung tenaciously like a malignant parasite, frantically corroding the beast's flesh and meridians!
Meanwhile, the violent dark thunder rampaged within, destroying its last vestiges of vitality.
"Wuaaaah—!!!"
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King let out the most harrowing shriek of its entire existence.
It could clearly feel its immense vitality draining away at a terrifying speed.
That dark power was utterly disintegrating its body from the inside out.
It knew there was no escaping its doom today.
Intense agony and the fear of death ultimately transformed into boundless malice and madness.
The Deep Sea Demon Whale King's single remaining eye instantly turned blood-red, glaring fixedly at Luo Nan, who hovered in mid-air. "Good! Very good!"
"Since you—a despicable human—are determined to kill me, then even if I die, I will make sure you suffer! I will drag you down to the grave with me!!!"
For a super-level spirit beast on the verge of ascending to godhood, the power gained by burning its own life force was truly terrifying.
In an instant, the Demon Whale Domain—which had previously been shattered and suppressed by Luo Nan's darkness and lightning—surged with a sudden, desperate burst of renewed intensity, like the final flare of a dying flame.
Within mere seconds, the surrounding hundred-mile stretch of ocean was transformed into a hellscape of purple-blue lightning.
Fueled by the frenzied burning of its life force, the effects of the Demon Whale Domain were pushed to their absolute, maximum limit.
Seawater surged upwards, shooting straight into the clouds; the terrifying water pressure, combined with violent lightning, completely sealed off the area, threatening to grind every living thing within the domain into dust.
"Human, come to hell with me!"
Endless madness permeated the mental fluctuations of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
It poured every last drop of its remaining spirit power—along with the immense energy generated by burning its life force—into its single eye, holding nothing back.
High above, countless thick bolts of purple-blue lightning were drawn as if by a magnet, converging frantically toward the Demon Whale King's head.
The ultimate water attribute and the violent power of lightning fused perfectly; an aura of destruction, potent enough to make the very heavens pale, compressed rapidly before its single eye.
"Demon Whale Shockwave!"
BOOM—!!!
A terrifying beam of light, over a hundred meters in diameter, erupted explosively from the Demon Whale King's single eye!
The beam glowed with a chilling purple-black hue; wherever it passed, space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass, revealing vast, pitch-black turbulent voids.
This desperate, all-out combination attack was the swan song of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, a move that concentrated a million years of cultivation.
Locked in by the absolute targeting of the Demon Whale Domain and struck by this cataclysmic Demon Whale Shockwave—let alone a Super Douluo who had just broken through to Rank 98, even a true Rank 99 Peerless Douluo would... Taking this blow head-on while completely unprepared would undoubtedly result in certain death—there would be no chance of survival!
An ordinary person simply couldn't withstand it!
"You think this move will work on me?"
Just a thousandth of a second before that destructive beam of light could swallow Luo Nan whole, the blood-red God-Bestowed Spirit Ring beneath his feet—marked with five shimmering golden rings—suddenly erupted with a brilliance never seen before!
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