Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 200: The Most Difficult S-Rank Awakening!?

Whaling doesn't require much preparation. The Salmon Dream has been preparing for today's event for a month now, and everything is already in place; all that's needed is the right timing.

Now, the time has come.

The Salmon Dream was sailing ahead, with the Dayun following a nautical mile behind.

Shi Ming stood before the rusty, menacing black steel spear, gazing at the setting sun in the distance.
The two ships, one after the other, headed towards the marked location of the white dragon whale. A month earlier, when Chris discovered the creature, he had attached his researched invisible sonar imprint to its massive body, allowing him to accurately detect its location within 30 nautical miles.

For the past month, Salmon's Dream has been tracking it almost constantly, without ever letting its guard down.

Now is the time to hunt.

……

On the vast, golden sea, everything was ready. Chris set up the super sonar device, turned the power up to the maximum, and the terminal attached to the white dragon whale's body began to resonate with the frequency.

"Captain! Mr. Shi Ming! Twelve nautical miles ahead, 1345 meters underwater!"

"it is good!"

When facing ordinary A-level sea beasts, Shi Ming can hunt them down using Ice Annihilation without switching states.

The Salmon's Dream sailed across the sea like an ordinary drifting boat, exuding an alluring scent to sea creatures. Barrels of beast blood were gushed into the depths, igniting the ferocity of the sea beasts lurking within!
Wow!

The golden water surged with angry waves as a ferocious whale, about half the size of a drifting boat and a full 65 meters long, burst out of the sea.

Its body surface is smooth, and its skin is hideous and dark!
Yet, under the sunlight, it reveals faint white scale patterns, looking as if it's covered with a layer of shimmering dragon scales! Neither black nor white, or rather, black and white in one color! If some designers could see this, it would surely bring them tremendous inspiration.

Wow! A golden epic!

[White Dragon Whale!]

The biggest advantage of upgrading the Eye of Intelligence to the Eye of the Mortal World is that it can occasionally provide relevant intelligence alerts without consuming any attempts!
Although its style can sometimes be unconventional, it must be said that the information it provides is truly timely and useful. As for this unconventional style, the Eye of the Mortal World once explained that it was an external reflection of Shi Ming's own personality. Shi Ming, however, did not believe it at all.

[An extremely peculiar creature! Legend has it that it evolved from a black whale that devoured a white dragon cub from the deep sea! It combines the characteristics of both dragons and whales, making it an extremely rare existence even among A-level sea beasts.]

Double the bloodline, double the ferocity; its temperament is extremely violent, beware!

Its heart, a concentrated essence of two bloodlines, could allow humans to evolve the skill of "whale fall"! But the world is always fair. Every gift comes with a price; the price of "whale fall" is a long period of 1024 days.

The easiest skills to acquire may be the most difficult...

Even a top-ten S-rank skill only requires a bit of killing, squeezing in, and soaking in the water—it might not even take you an hour. But acquiring it will require your digestive system to endure 1024 days!

Shi Ming blinked, and the writing disappeared.

Sure enough, it was a white dragon whale!
To acquire its S-rank skill, one needs to continuously consume it for nearly three years!

"Stone Mound, always be aware of the surrounding enemies! Fully activate the sea patrol radar to prevent any rats from coming to bother us."

"Yes!"

"Captain Chris, prepare for the harvest."

"it is good!"

A sudden chill appeared, adding a desolate and lonely touch to the golden sunset.

In Shi Ming's hand, a greatsword forged from ice materialized.

A gigantic, neither-black-nor-white sea monster lunged out, its gaping maw of flesh and blood revealing its saliva. The raging waves it unleashed overwhelmed even the Gold-class drifting ship's wave-stabilizing ability, causing it to sway like seaweed in the surf.

Shi Ming held the greatsword firmly, standing very steadily.

"Brother Shi, two-thirds of the way up to four meters above the surface is where the spine is closest to the surface of the body. There is a huge bulge under the fat there. If you can penetrate and hit it hard, you will definitely be able to reduce this sea monster's fighting power by more than half!"

"it is good!"

Chris had prepared many methods to deal with this sea monster, but now that an S-class expert is present, none of them will be needed.

The ship is already listing very badly!
Almost all of them need to stand upright.

found it!
Shi Ming gripped the ice sword, exerted his strength, and transmitted the power from his waist and abdomen to his spine and then leaped up. In the sky, accompanied by dusk and sunset, the ice sword in his hand suddenly grew larger and longer, reflecting a dazzling arc of light.

The chill solidified into a physical form, descending upon the world in an instant like divine punishment.

He has become increasingly adept at controlling his strength and precision.

Shi Ming did not use ten times the power. The White Dragon Whale was less than thirty meters away from the Salmon Dream and was about to collide with the Salmon Dream with its massive body when a chill descended from the sky and pierced straight into its huge body.

hiss……

The immense force caused the whale to freeze abruptly, and then its countless tons of body plummeted downwards.

The extremely high-frequency roar made every crew member uncomfortable, and the jets of water from the blowholes shot into the sky like high-pressure fountains.

This 65-meter-long giant whale arched its entire body violently and uncontrollably!

"it is good!"

"Precise and deadly!" Chris was quite excited when he saw the six-meter-long giant sword accurately pierce the spine of the white dragon whale. As expected of a young and promising S-class awakener, this attack hit the weak point right. The hunting plan was already more than half successful. Next, as long as he could withstand its counterattack, he would surely have a good harvest.

Roar!
The beluga whale originally intended to ram the drifting boat with its body as usual, and then swallow the food hidden inside. However, due to the intense pain, it instinctively swallowed a large amount of seawater and air, and its entire body began to swell rapidly!

The shimmering white scales swelled up, preparing for an ultimate strike!
Rank A skill, Whale Burst!

This skill is not the whale burst of nature, which does not require the cost of life. It simply uses the body to expand instantly, compressing all the power accumulated in the body and bursting it out to deliver a powerful blow to the enemy.

The larger the body and the longer the time it takes to accumulate energy, the more powerful the energy will be when it bursts forth.

However, it was a step too late in front of Shi Ming.

"burst!"

The whale hadn't exploded yet, but the ice sword had.

The greatsword, deeply embedded in the white dragon whale's body, doubled in size and exploded inside the whale's body!
This inside-out attack perfectly bypassed the white dragon whale's thick defenses and blubber layer. The massive attack that the sea monster was preparing came to an abrupt halt. Its body, tens of meters long, twitched and arched like an eel, creating waves tens of meters high.

It wanted to escape!
The twelve specially made, thick iron anchors of the Salmon Dream were launched at high speed, deeply embedded in the corresponding parts of this giant, ferocious sea beast, tightly wrapped around its bones, and, with the powerful wave-stabilizing ability of a gold-class drifting ship, consuming a large amount of dome crystals and high-grade sea crystals, tightly dragged it.

The Salmon Dream is 130 meters long, twice the size of this sea monster.

We could only barely hold it off.

Let it drag along, sailing the seas in an unbalanced manner. Its unique structure makes it difficult for it to sink, and the two are in a stalemate.

"Brother Shi, that's enough! Its power is slowly weakening."

"Now it's our turn."

The white dragon whale wanted to sink underwater, and Chris was worried that Shi Ming's underwater combat ability was average. Upon hearing this, Shi Ming did not need to reveal the power of the Ocean-Stabilizing Pearl. He stepped on the back of the giant whale and leaped back to the ship.

Having just fought a bloody battle, his right arm instantly came into contact with the power of the whale's blood. The white dragon whale was neither dead nor asleep, and its body was enormous. In an instant, the red markings on his right arm only absorbed a portion of that blood power.

[Successfully bathed in the blood of a white dragon whale.]

[Gained skill: Whale Blast.]

[Your stamina and endurance are both over 100. You may choose to absorb an A-level skill to gain additional physical stats. Do you wish to use the Titan's Descent skill to absorb the A-level skill Whale Explosion, gaining 8 attack power, 18 stamina, 7 endurance, 7 defense, and 12 spirit points?]

One A-level skill in exchange for 52 stat points?
Skills are valued for their quality, not their quantity.

Moreover, based on the experience gained from Captain Mel of the Golden Bodhi, the more skills one has, the greater the burden on the body. Shi Ming has high physical strength and endurance, and in principle, he can handle more than a dozen skills without any problem. However, he has lofty ambitions and is quite eager for the S-level skills of Twilight Whale and Formless Pure Ice.

They even hope to one day behead the Great Black Dragon!

A Saint-level skill! Who wouldn't crave that!

The blood of the Nameless Cocoon has an absorption threshold, and the same is true for the Great Black Dragon. Only by allowing the body to withstand the erosion of the blood can it obtain the power within.

Points are what he really needs!

It also has greater long-term value.

Yes! Devour!

Shi Ming was jolted awake!
He felt a tangible improvement in his body, and his right arm, gripping the Frost Greatsword, felt stronger!

"captain!"

"An unidentified vessel is approaching and has entered the ten-nautical-mile zone. It is suspected to be a drifting vessel belonging to an enemy force."

Chris snapped out of his tense command and turned to Shi Ming for help, "Brother Shi! This must be the Decapitation Blade! They're here to steal the spoils of victory!"

Shi Ming stood steadily on the deck, the greatsword in his hand exuding a chilling aura.

"rest assured."

“We have fulfilled the deal. Your experience is very useful to me. Most of the blood in this white dragon whale is mine, and the rest is yours. No one can take it away from me.”

White dragon whale...

Chris heard the name White Dragon Whale.

I was stunned for a moment, then felt ashamed, and then grateful.

……

A decapitation sword?

Even if the underworld were to come today, it wouldn't change anything.

Both the Sun-Shooting and the Great Luck have reached a bottleneck.

Regardless of which upgrade you choose, you'll need a crucial item.

(End of this chapter)