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The Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark measured a full thirty meters in length. Its massive body was completely surrounded by a dense, suffocating aura of blood that churned like a crimson fog. Its eyes glowed with a piercing, bloody red light, and its terrifyingly large, gaping maw looked as though it possessed the sheer power to devour absolutely everything in existence.
The very first moment he laid his eyes upon it, Su Wen immediately knew that this Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark was anything but simple.
It was not just ordinarily strong.
Even though Su Wen had never actually witnessed other Spirit Beasts possessing this exact same age of cultivation, he could accurately and definitively judge that the raw, foundational strength of the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark before him belonged to the absolute top tier.
This particular Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark wasn't merely patiently accumulating its foundational strength prior to crossing the one hundred and ten thousand-year mark; it clearly harbored far, far greater ambitions!
The immense reserves of power it had painstakingly accumulated had already granted it a genuine, tangible opportunity to attempt to survive the catastrophic two hundred thousand-year heavenly tribulation!
Perhaps its current absolute strength had not yet genuinely reached the terrifying level of a bona fide two hundred thousand-year Savage Beast, but one had to remember that its current, actual cultivation base was still strictly hovering under one hundred and ten thousand years!
As long as it could successfully elevate its cultivation base to safely approach the two hundred thousand-year threshold, its raw combat power would inevitably take another massive, terrifying leap forward. And this meant that it would ultimately possess the overwhelming strength of those legendary Savage Beasts that had fully and successfully survived the two hundred thousand-year heavenly tribulation—or perhaps, it would be even stronger.
With this terrifying level of preparation, it absolutely possessed a genuine, realistic hope of successfully enduring its upcoming heavenly tribulation.
It was just that, currently, it was deliberately remaining perfectly stagnant just shy of the one hundred and ten thousand-year mark, actively attempting to accumulate even more latent power.
"This Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark has likely been actively consolidating and precipitating its own foundation since well before the one hundred thousand-year mark," Su Wen stated, his voice heavy and deep with contemplation.
Generally speaking, the foundational strength of a standard one hundred thousand-year Spirit Beast was roughly more powerful than an ordinary Titled Douluo. They were approximately equivalent in power to a Level 95 Super Douluo, but would inherently remain weaker than a Level 96 Super Douluo.
This was fundamentally because upon successfully reaching Level 95 and beyond, a Super Douluo's Martial Soul would actively undergo successive, profound metamorphoses. Consequently, right before reaching Level 97, they could essentially evolve their own Martial Soul to the absolute pinnacle of its potential.
Unique, heaven-defying anomalies and Super Spirit Beasts like the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Blue Bull Python might possess the monstrous capability to perfectly rival a Level 96 Super Douluo. They might even be fully capable of exchanging heavy blows with a Level 97 Super Douluo, but they would absolutely never be able to completely secure a total victory against one.
However, after successfully surviving the catastrophic Great Tribulation that occurred a thousand years later, and officially stepping onto the perilous, exalted path of a Savage Beast, a one hundred thousand-year Spirit Beast's overall strength would still undergo another minor stage of explosive growth. Yet, this growth wouldn't be excessively outrageous; it simply could not completely bridge the massive, terrifying gap in power brought about by a Super Douluo successfully advancing a single level.
But... the terrifying strength of the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark hovering right in front of them did not seem weak at all.
Not only was it undeniably not weak, but one could even go so far as to call its sheer presence utterly outrageous.
Clearly sensing the overwhelming, oppressive auras of two mighty Super Douluos—the Heaven-Battling Douluo and the Sea Dragon Douluo—it not only completely refused to flee, but its foul, bloodthirsty intent actually grew incredibly dense and suffocating. It violently threw open its massive, bloody maw, forcefully releasing a terrifying, rippling wave of destructive Soul Power.
"Seven Treasures spin out with Glazed Tile, Seven Treasures have a name..."
In a mere fraction of a second, Su Wen flawlessly buffed both the Heaven-Battling Douluo and the Sea Dragon Douluo with six massive, overlapping amplification Spirit Skills.
"Battle Soul Avatar!"
"Sea Dragon Avatar!"
Without a single moment's hesitation, the Heaven-Battling Douluo and the Sea Dragon Douluo successively erupted with power, fully entering the ultimate, terrifying state of their Martial Soul Avatars.
For an ordinary Spirit Sage, the Martial Soul Avatar was an absolute trump card, a desperate last resort hidden at the very bottom of the box. After every single full activation, they would inevitably suffer through a debilitating period of extreme physical weakness. They strictly required a considerable period of peaceful rest and recuperation before they could possess the necessary strength to deploy it once again.
This mandatory recovery time could be as short as half a month, or stretch as terribly long as a month and a half. In extreme scenarios, if their internal consumption had simply been far too massive, the recovery period could even extend to a grueling two to three months.
This severe, bodily restriction would be significantly mitigated to a certain degree once a cultivator successfully reached the rank of Spirit Douluo. At that elevated level, a mere few days of rest would be entirely sufficient to fully recover.
And once one ascended to the exalted, legendary realm of a Titled Douluo, this recovery window would become drastically shorter. They fundamentally possessed the profound capability to activate their Martial Soul Avatar twice within a single day without crippling themselves.
Super Douluos, however, had essentially and completely broken free from this specific type of restrictive limitation altogether. Their intrinsic degree of fusion with their Martial Souls had already reached an incredibly, unfathomably high state. To explicitly state that their very physical bodies were their Martial Souls would not be an exaggeration in the slightest. For them, deploying the Martial Soul Avatar was no longer a dangerous method of violently stimulating their own limits; instead, it felt far more like casually and naturally slipping into an optimal, heightened state of combat readiness.
A massive, terrifying quantity of crackling black lightning violently gathered within the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark's gaping maw, rapidly condensing into a densely packed, pitch-black sphere of pure, destructive lightning.
Standing securely upon Xiao Bai's broad back and carefully observing the battlefield from a safe distance, Su Wen could vividly feel the chaotic, rippling fluctuations radiating from this black lightning sphere. His heart pounded wildly with profound shock.
"Has it actually managed to seamlessly integrate its terrifying power of devouring straight into the volatile element of lightning?"
The innate talent possessed by this particular Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark was, quite honestly, terrifyingly high.
However, fully empowered by Su Wen's massive fifty percent amplification across all of his base attributes, the Heaven-Battling Douluo had now forcefully and temporarily reached the terrifying threshold of Level 97 in terms of raw, comprehensive combat qualities.
The Heaven-Battling Douluo violently collided head-on with the devastating black lightning sphere spewed out by the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark. The crackling black lightning seemed as though it wanted to devour absolutely everything in creation, completely and utterly submerging the Heaven-Battling Douluo's heroic figure within its chaotic depths.
"Wretched beast!" the Sea Dragon Douluo roared furiously. He instantly transformed into a majestic, terrifying Sea Dragon, soaring fiercely right above the churning surface of the sea. Behind his massive form, tens of thousands of feet of raging, torrential waves violently surged upward. With a deafening rumble, destructive bolts of lightning and violently swirling storms aggressively gathered in the darkened sky directly above.
Out here, high above the boundless expanse of the open ocean, the Sea Dragon Domain that he had only recently comprehended was also receiving an incredibly obvious, massive environmental amplification.
Naturally, the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark possessed a powerful Domain of its own. However, it entirely lacked the profound, acquired, rule-bending effects present within the Heaven-Battling Douluo's Heaven-Battling Domain. Consequently, it found itself severely and fundamentally countered by the Sea Dragon Douluo's Demon-Shattering Domain. Stripped of its effective power, the shark's Domain was brutally nullified, leading to a highly noticeable decline in its overall combat prowess.
After the two mighty men and the singular, monstrous shark had violently clashed for five or six explosive rounds, it became blatantly obvious that the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark was beginning to feel a deep sense of profound regret.
It possessed absolute, supreme confidence that it could forcefully suppress the Heaven-Battling Douluo, who inherently posed the greatest, most direct physical threat to it. Yet, its very own inherent Domain had unexpectedly and completely been shattered by that seemingly much weaker Sea Dragon.
Without the crucial, overarching amplification provided by its Domain, the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark no longer possessed even a shred of confidence in its ability to suppress the Heaven-Battling Douluo. In fact, it was highly likely that it would end up being heavily suppressed instead.
It had already begun entertaining the desperate thought of frantically searching for a viable escape route.
Unfortunately for the beast, the other two Demon Spirit Great White Sharks had already tactically scattered and dispersed throughout the surrounding waters. By perfectly coordinating with Xiao Bai, they had flawlessly formed an inescapable, triangular formation, completely and securely surrounding the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark.
Perhaps they were genuinely incapable of actively contending with the terrifying might of the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark head-on, but they were absolutely capable of immediately intercepting it at the very first sign of movement. They could significantly delay it and stall for precious time, thereby perfectly preventing it from executing any successful escape attempt.
"Two seniors, please absolutely do not hold back anymore! Strike to kill this Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark as quickly as humanly possible!" Su Wen warned in a deep, urgent voice.
His sharp, honed instincts were screaming at him that this Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark was far from simple. If they allowed this battle to drag out any longer, they might face genuine, life-threatening danger.
The Heaven-Battling Douluo and the Sea Dragon Douluo did not verbally respond. They immediately accelerated the frenetic frequency of their relentless attacks, yet the fundamental intensity and raw power behind those strikes remained completely unchanged.
It was blatantly obvious that from the very beginning of the battle, they had already been fighting with absolutely everything they had.
Roar!
The Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark unleashed a deafening, furious roar, and a violently explosive, suffocating wave of pure, bloodthirsty intent violently erupted outward.
Its Domain, which had originally been completely shattered and nullified by the Demon-Shattering Domain, was suddenly no longer entirely ineffective. It forcefully projected a terrifying, overwhelming illusion that it could violently devour absolutely everything in the known universe.
The boundless heaven and earth origin energy saturating the surrounding area began to violently and madly surge directly into the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark's massive body. In an instant, its effective cultivation base rapidly skyrocketed by several thousand years, forcefully breaching and fully reaching the terrifying standard of one hundred and ten thousand years.
And acting in perfect tandem with this sudden, temporary elevation in its raw cultivation base, the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark's absolute strength also experienced a highly noticeable, terrifying enhancement.
This seemingly minor, yet profoundly terrifying enhancement instantly forced both the Heaven-Battling Douluo and the Sea Dragon Douluo to feel a massive, suffocating wave of heavy pressure weighing down upon them.
"Damn it, this wretched beast actually possesses the ability to temporarily forcefully elevate its own cultivation base!"
This absurd capability to devour and convert energy was simply utterly outrageous.
"No, that's not quite right. It should be an immense reserve of energy that it painstakingly stored up well in advance, and it is only choosing to completely violently detonate it at this precise moment."
This particular Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark harbored far greater, infinitely grander ambitions. It desperately desired to painstakingly accumulate enough foundational strength while at the one hundred and ten thousand-year cultivation mark to successfully cope with its third and even fourth heavenly tribulations. However, it absolutely had to practically consider the fundamental issue of its own immediate survival in the present.
And this highly volatile, terrifying method of temporarily and forcefully elevating its own cultivation base was its ultimate, hidden trump card.
It was precisely this ingenious adaptation that stood as the single greatest, most profound difference between itself and every other ordinary Bloodthirsty Frenzied Shark in existence.
It had painstakingly developed its mastery over the terrifying power of devouring to an incredibly profound level—a level perfectly capable of safely storing the vast energy it had previously devoured, purely so it could trigger it to temporarily elevate its own cultivation base right in the heat of a deadly battle.
While this temporary elevation was fundamentally just a violently explosive burst of power, it undeniably dragged its permanent cultivation base upwards at a rapid pace as well.
For example, right at this exact moment, it had temporarily and forcefully boosted its cultivation by more than seven thousand years. Once this fierce battle inevitably concluded and it forcefully exited this heightened state, its raw cultivation base would certainly plummet back down. However, it absolutely would never regress all the way back to its original, starting state. At the absolute worst, it would only drop by four or five thousand years.
Right now, aggressively pushing its raw cultivation base straight to the one hundred and ten thousand-year mark served as a stark, terrifying warning to the Heaven-Battling Douluo and the others.
Don't force me!
(End of chapter)