Chapter 226: Tragedy And Huo Zhanji
“Today is a good day~”
“I’ll pick a flower for Mother~”
“Mother, Mother, look, it’s a flower!”
In the Arctic Ocean of Douluo Star, a white little shark happily swam freely in the great sea. Her streamlined and elegant body allowed her to almost ignore the water’s resistance in the ocean, like an underwater motorcycle.
On Bai Xiuxiu’s dorsal fin was clamped a sea spirit flower. This flower only grew in the dark seabed canyon and was a water attribute heavenly material and earthly treasure.
She had finally snatched this flower from a ten thousand year giant octopus. That giant octopus’s tentacles were like a vertical flute, and the music it played was terribly unpleasant.
“Let me see if there’s anything good here. I’ll bring some back for the great benefactor later.”
“Deep sea pineapple? And a ten thousand year shaping sponge?”
“The great benefactor definitely won’t like it.”
“Let’s change to another one.”
On the seabed beach, next to a huge deep sea pineapple, a ten thousand year sponge and an ocean snail huddled tightly together, vigilantly watching the hungry shark above.
Bai Xiuxiu was not interested in them. No normal sea soul beast would be interested in a lump of sponge.
This kind of soul beast clearly had extremely weak combat power and bloodline, yet there were quite a few ten thousand year level soul beasts in the group. The main reason was that they were unpalatable.
This kind of soul beast was called deep sea poop by sea soul beasts. Eating them was no different from eating poop.
“Is that a Dragon Blood Tuna?”
“Good stuff! Catch it!”
“Split the belly in half, one half for Mother, one half for the great benefactor!”
Bai Xiuxiu’s eyes revealed surprise as she locked dead onto the deep blue soul beast charging ahead. Its body was densely covered in dragon scales, the dragon scales gleaming with silver light, demonstrating its extraordinary defense.
Accompanied by a “whoosh” sound, the ice thorn condensed by Bai Xiuxiu tore through the surrounding seawater and charged toward the speeding Dragon Blood Tuna as if it were nothing.
The ice thorn unsurprisingly pierced through the Dragon Blood Tuna’s abdomen. Crimson blood spread in the ocean, forming a cloud of blood mist.
“Hmph hmph.”
“I’m so awesome!”
“Hit it with the first shot!”
“Time to collect the fish.”
“Huh?”
Bai Xiuxiu had just wanted to dive down and bite the Dragon Blood Tuna, which theoretically should have lost mobility.
But she saw that Dragon Blood Tuna break through the blood mist, its face showing terror as it continued charging forward.
It completely ignored the natural enemy Bai Xiuxiu above its head and the penetrating wound on its body, as if there was some great terror behind it.
“It’s not dead?”
“Fire a few more!”
Another five extremely low-temperature ice thorns started from Bai Xiuxiu, splitting into five elegant trajectories as they shot toward the tuna charging below.
“Pfft~”
Five hair-raising sounds of flesh being pierced came from below. That Dragon Blood Tuna completely lost its life in the blood mist.
Bai Xiuxiu dove down excitedly, her shark mouth biting onto this delicious tuna. Cold breath immediately enveloped the tuna’s body for preservation.
This hungry shark, happy from capturing rare prey, did not notice that this tuna’s pale golden eyes had been staring behind it until death.
“Let’s go.”
Bai Xiuxiu carried this tuna and sped toward the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan’s territory.
She did not notice that the surrounding seawater was faintly starting to reveal purple-black hues.
As the mount of the first generation Sea God, the speed of the Demon Soul Great White Shark was also top-ranked among all sea soul beasts.
Countless years of evolution had given them the body most adapted for extreme speed in the sea and sharp teeth. These “weapons” made them the top predators in the great sea.
In the past, only the evil demon tiger orca clan could barely suppress them, and even then, the two sides went back and forth with each having victories and defeats.
Relying on this body perfectly adapted to the ocean, Bai Xiuxiu quickly entered into the Arctic Ocean. The water temperature here was slightly higher compared to the Ice Sea, exactly the temperature the Demon Soul Great White Sharks liked most.
Bai Xiuxiu now sensed something was wrong. It was too quiet around her.
“Strange.”
“Where are the fish?”
“Where did all the tuna in the Arctic Ocean go? I still wanted to bring some for the great benefactor.”
Bai Xiuxiu instinctively began to slow her speed, heighten her vigilance, and amplify her perception through spiritual power.
“Wait, wait!”
“How could this be?!”
Bai Xiuxiu let go of the Dragon Blood Tuna in her mouth, her eyes on the sides of her head revealing an incredulous expression.
She instantly accelerated, speeding towards a region of the sea on the left.
While shuttling through the water, a large amount of bloody smell entered Bai Xiuxiu’s nose along with the seawater, and the surrounding deep blue ocean surprisingly revealed blood red.
The Demon Soul Great White Shark’s powerful sense of smell and the ocean knowledge accumulated over ten thousand years allowed Bai Xiuxiu to almost immediately identify the owners of these mixed bloodstains.
That was the blood of countless Sea Soul Beasts living in the Arctic Ocean interwoven together.
Soon, a large number of Sea Soul Beast remains appeared before Bai Xiuxiu’s eyes, crimson blood almost filling her entire field of vision, and her originally sensitive sense of smell malfunctioned at this moment due to the variety of blood types.
Bai Xiuxiu froze in place, somewhat unable to believe what she had seen.
Countless Sea Soul Beast remains were rising or sinking.
The Sea Soul Beast remains were interwoven together, with fear revealed in the eyes of the heads of some Sea Soul Beasts that were all that remained.
Bai Xiuxiu could vaguely recognize that among these remains, some were Sea Soul Beasts she had seen before, with considerable strength.
But now she had no time to mourn them; she immediately turned around and headed towards the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan’s territory.
“What exactly happened to the ocean?!”
“Mother!”
“Mother! Where are you?!”
Bai Xiuxiu was extremely panicked inside. Although she knew the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan was very strong, even blessed by the Sea God, the tragic state of the Arctic Ocean made her heart involuntarily panic.
A familiar bloody smell made Bai Xiuxiu completely unable to control her tears and sobbing voice.
“No… no!”
“This is impossible!”
That bloody smell belonged to the Demon Soul Great White Shark; it was the blood of her fellow clansmen.
At this moment, she wanted to slow her speed to avoid that possibly existing reality, but her worry for her mother made her accelerate madly.
She was like a bullet shot from a chamber in the water right now, her speed already at its limit; if she carelessly collided with something at this moment, a bloody hole would immediately appear in her body.
“This isn’t real! Waaah!”
Bai Xiuxiu gradually came to a stop, with countless corpses surrounding her; those were fragments of her clansmen’s bodies, the seawater mixed with thick blood, and the bloody smell completely wrecked her sense of smell.
“Run…”
A faint voice entered Bai Xiuxiu’s ears. She controlled the seawater to part the surrounding remains and saw a Demon Soul Great White Shark who was cosplaying Gojo Satoru weakly warning her in a voice like a mosquito’s hum.
“Elder Ling!”
“How are you?”
“How could this be…”
Bai Xiuxiu, with tears streaming down her face, came to the side of this Demon Soul Great White Shark and anxiously controlled the seawater to freeze, trying to stabilize the other’s injuries.
“It’s no use.”
“Xiuxiu, run!”
“That thing is back!”
“Run!!!”
This huge Demon Soul Great White Shark completely stopped breathing after issuing the final warning, and a scarlet Soul Ring emerged around its body.
“Elder!”
“Mother!”
“Mother! Where are you?!”
Bai Xiuxiu frantically charged around madly, searching for her mother.
Thick blood obscured her eyes, and clansmen’s remains collided against her body, including even her playmates.
Just a few days ago, they had been playing together.
Finally, following the guidance of her bloodline, she arrived beside a bead that was deep blue and emitted faint light.
That was the Shark Pearl, the inherited treasure of the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan, and also something that only the king could possess.
For this thing to appear here, her mother’s fate was self-evident; she was already reduced to dust with no remains.
“Mother…”
“Why!!!”
“How could this be!!”
“Who exactly did this!”
“Where is the Sea God? The god who promised to protect us?!”
“Why didn’t he appear!! Why?!!”
“Mother, please, come back soon…”
Bai Xiuxiu painfully twisted her body, stirring up a large amount of seawater. With tears in her eyes, she injected her spiritual power into the Shark Pearl. Before she could even accept the information within, an aura of extreme terror spread throughout the entire sea region.
A crazy and twisted killing intent instantly locked onto Bai Xiuxiu.
Bai Xiuxiu’s thinking ability was momentarily scattered by the overwhelming madness and aura.
“Hehe, I didn’t expect there to be another little one.”
“I almost missed you.”
“Little one, come on, come into my belly and reunite with your clansmen!!!”
A crazy voice made the seawater in the entire sea region oscillate, and the surging ocean current nearly made Bai Xiuxiu faint.
She immediately realized that the owner of this voice was the existence that killed her entire clan.
The overwhelming hatred at this moment surprisingly overshadowed the fear and the body’s instinct; her eyes fiercely stared at the enormous black shadow ahead.
“It’s you!!”
“Bastard!!”
Bai Xiuxiu burned soul power regardless of everything; her white body was now covered in ice crystals, then she instantly accelerated to the limit and charged toward the black shadow.
“Not thinking of escaping, but charging toward me instead?”
“Cute little shark.”
A voice carrying sneering madness echoed in the sea region; a hundred-meter water flow long whip viciously lashed onto Bai Xiuxiu’s body, making her crash into the seabed rocks below at even faster speed.
“Ah!!!”
Pain transmitted from various parts of the body into Bai Xiuxiu’s brain; she endured the pain and issued commands to her body through her brain, but besides meaningless twisting, it was of no use.
Her spine was broken in this impact.
The Demon Emperor looked at Bai Xiuxiu’s reaction, found it boring, opened its mouth, and countless wails of vengeful spirits flowed out from its abyss-like huge mouth; those were the souls of sea soul beasts.
Terrifying suction surged from its mouth, and massive amounts of seawater wrapped around Bai Xiuxiu’s body as it advanced toward the abyss.
“Who can save me? I haven’t taken revenge yet! I can’t die!”
“Sea God, why don’t you show a miracle? Aren’t we your most loyal believers?”
“Mother…”
Tears flowed from the corners of Bai Xiuxiu’s eyes, mixing into the seawater and surging into the abyss behind.
“Sigh.”
A holy and ethereal voice rang beside Bai Xiuxiu’s ear; the eye mark on her tail fin bloomed with faint light.
Colored ripples emerged at the seabed; a slash of white waves tinged with colored tides burst out from the ripples.
The seawater touching the slash was instantly erased, leaving a vacuum in the deep sea!
The Demon Emperor’s eyes suddenly contracted; it closed its huge mouth, and massive purple-black soul power formed a purple-black energy ball in front of it; the seawater rapidly rotated under its compression, and the seabed rocks were crushed into powder merely by touching it under the immense pressure.
Soon, two completely different lights began to collide, but there was no intertwining of power or mutual tearing as the Demon Emperor had expected.
The white slash tinged with seven colors erased a section in the middle of the purple-black energy ball like an eraser; the energy ball instantly lost control, and terrifying power formed a large vortex at the seabed, obscuring all sight.
The colored ripples had already pulled Bai Xiuxiu into them; the Demon Emperor immediately transformed into humanoid form to dodge this strike, and in anger, she waved her palm, forcefully tearing apart the vortex.
Looking at the sea region that was already empty of any beasts, she roared madly.
“Who exactly is it?!”
“Hahahaha!”
“Good!”
“Hahahahaha!”
“All like to oppose me! I will slaughter this group of filthy Sea God believers!”
The Demon Emperor’s figure turned into a purple meteor streaking through the ocean, heading toward the West Sea Region.
In a hazy state, Bai Xiuxiu vaguely remembered being pulled into the colored ripples, realizing she had been saved by an unknown existence.
She arduously opened her eyes and saw a majestic figure above a bizarre space; white light surrounded its body, and merely gazing at it brought a massive information impact to her brain.
Finally, before fainting, a string of information remained in her mind.
“Great omniscient and omnipotent one, The Above All Things, Spirit Master.”
Bai Xiuxiu murmured:
“God…”
Huo Yuhao looked at the fainted Hungry Shark below in the dream space, casually tossed her into the Ice Sea, and said:
“This little one really dares to look at me.”
Because his mastery of the authority of Dream had deepened to 30%, in the dream space, he could slightly reveal the status of the lord of the Divine Kingdom.
“My fish, sleep for a while.”
“In the future, I’ll have to rely on you to take me to become the Sea Thief King.”
…………
Douluo Continent, forest near Star Luo City in the Star Luo Empire.
A black-haired, black-eyed child struggled to open his eyes, then got up, looking around at the surroundings in bewilderment.
“What’s going on here?”
“Is this the Douluo World?”
“But where’s my panel?”
“Can I force logout?”
“Where’s the guide voice?!”
Huo Zhanji stood up in a daze, supporting himself against a large tree. If anyone who knew Huo Yuhao saw his face, they would certainly be astonished, because it was at least eighty percent similar.
He vaguely remembered that he was entering the Douluo World for the third time. At the start, the task draw was abnormal, prompting him to go to the first scene of Peerless Tang Sect.
As a result, it crashed again. Now, he didn’t even know where he was, and the prompt sound that existed at the beginning had directly disappeared.
“Wasn’t the Douluo World created together by many great powers?”
“I heard there are no lack of deities.”
“How could errors keep occurring consecutively?”
“Where exactly is this place?”
Huo Zhanji: Son of Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong from the original timeline, inheriting his father’s surname.
Douluo World: A world of reality and illusion created by many God Kings from the great god circle.
The above is the setting for the Douluo Continent side story, Douluo World.
Note: Huo Zhanji is not Huo Yuhao’s child in this world.
