Douluo Continent: A Review of the Top Ten Martial Souls, Qian Renxue Breaks Through Defenses

Chapter 113 Qualitative Change
The Douluo Continent is surrounded by the sea, with the vast ocean covering more than 70% of its area.

Human knowledge of the ocean is limited to the nearshore areas; we know very little about the unfathomable open ocean and the legendary forbidden zones of the deep sea.

At this moment, deep in the ocean, the sky changed.

It wasn't the frozen emerald green of the far north, but a suffocating deep blue, almost black, that devoured all light!

"Rumble--"

It was not thunder, but a terrifying roar as billions of tons of seawater were forcibly pushed aside by an invisible force!
The sound traveled through the endless sea, as deep and muffled as the heartbeat of an ancient behemoth, shaking the souls of all coastal creatures.

Tens of thousands of miles away over the ocean, the sky was torn apart!
A pitch-black vortex with a diameter of over a hundred miles appeared out of thin air and began to spin wildly!
That wasn't a vortex formed by clouds, but rather the form that appeared after space itself was distorted and torn apart by some terrifying force!
At the edge of the vortex, streaks of deep blue lightning exploded, but the lightning had no sense of righteousness; instead, it was filled with a sinister aura of coldness, greed, and the ability to devour everything!

Wherever the lightning passed, it left behind long-lasting black cracks in space, as if even "existence" itself had been partially devoured.

The sea is roaring!
Centered on the sea surface beneath the dark vortex, a super eye with a diameter of over a thousand miles is forming!

The seawater didn't sink; instead, it was forcibly drawn into the sky by some irresistible force, forming billions of waterspouts connecting the sea and the sky!

Each waterspout is a kilometer in diameter, with water flowing so fast inside that it can shred fine steel. The surface of the waterspout is covered with a layer of constantly flowing dark blue runes, which writhe like living things and emit a darkness that devours light.

The temperature didn't drop suddenly, but the light was disappearing at an alarming rate!

Within the vortex's reach, daylight instantly turned into night—not just any night, but an absolute darkness that completely swallowed up even starlight and moonlight!

Only the constantly rotating deep blue, almost black light at the center of the vortex became the sole source of light in this area—a "dark light" that sent chills down one's spine.

"Woo-buzz-"

A deep, resonant hum, exceeding the limits of human hearing yet directly vibrating the very essence of life, came from the deepest part of the ocean.

That wasn't a roar; it was more like the life pulse generated by the simultaneous resonance of billions of cells within the body of some ancient behemoth as it awakens from its slumber!

At the center of the pitch-black vortex, seawater, water vapor, spatial fragments, and even the deep blue lightning were being frantically pulled, compressed, and condensed by an invisible devouring force!
A colossal, indescribable phantom of a beast slowly emerged from the center of the vortex.

That's a whale!
Its entire body is a streamlined deep blue. Its skin is not smooth, but covered with layers of thick stratum corneum, like the oldest rock strata. Each layer of stratum corneum is naturally engraved with complex and twisted dark gold patterns. Those patterns seem to have a life of their own, slowly writhing and constantly devouring the surrounding light and energy.

It is over 150 meters long!

The mere gaze of the phantom gives one a suffocating sense of oppression, like "a moving mountain"!

The most terrifying thing is its huge mouth—when the phantom slightly opens its mouth, what is revealed is not the baleen of an ordinary whale, but three rows on each side, with more than a hundred teeth in each row, each one as white and sharp as a giant scimitar!

Between the sharp teeth, deep blue devouring energy leaped like electric arcs, as if it could even bite and swallow space itself!
Its eyes—a pair of deep blue pupils over ten meters in diameter—are like two entrances to an endless abyss, cold, cruel, and filled with greed and indifference towards all life energy.

Deep within its pupils, countless tiny, dark golden vortexes could be faintly seen swirling. Anyone who met its gaze felt their soul, energy, and even their very existence being slowly stripped away and devoured. The phantom of the giant whale slowly swayed its tail fin; the mere movement of the phantom caused a destructive tsunami thousands of meters high to rise from the sea below. The tsunami carried with it the shredded remains of marine life, fragments of reefs, and even chaotic energy overflowing from spatial rifts—all torn apart by the devouring force!

A list with a border woven from churning deep blue seawater and dark gold devouring runes slowly unfolded before the phantom of a giant whale.

The text on the list is also directly imprinted on consciousness in the form of a flow of rules and information:
[Eleventh on the Goddess Ranking: Demon Emperor]

[Cultivation Level: 470,000-year-old ferocious beast (comparable to a level 99 Limit Douluo in humans)]

[True Form: Deep Sea Demon Whale (Mutant)]

[Territory: Deep in the far sea, the Demon Whale Sea, the Endless Abyss]

[Evaluation: The only surviving queen of the Deep Sea Demon Whale clan, and the wife of the deceased Deep Sea Demon Whale King.]

Born at the bottom of the darkest, most stressful abyss in the deep sea, it is born with an extremely rare 'Dark Devouring' attribute mutation.

He is cold-blooded and cruel, harboring deep hostility towards all living beings except his own kind, and especially hating human soul masters.

Their hatred and resentment, accumulated over tens of thousands of years, have transformed into a fanatical will to destroy.

Holding a partially intact deep-sea authority, he can command the vast majority of sea spirit beasts within the vast ocean.

Its devouring ability has reached the level of laws, capable of absorbing energy, matter, spirit, and even parts of the power of laws, and converting them for its own use.

[Reward 1: The Deep Sea Demon Whale bloodline undergoes an extreme mutation, evolving into the 'Abyss Devouring Demon Whale'. The purity of the bloodline breaks through the shackles, the essence of life leaps, and some 'Abyss' characteristics are gained.]

Its physical strength increased dramatically, and its epidermal keratin layer evolved into 'Abyssal Demon Armor', which can spontaneously absorb, deflect, and annihilate most physical and energy attacks below the god level.

The giant mouth and sharp teeth evolved into the 'Devouring Fangs', each tooth forming a miniature devouring vortex. When it bites, it carries a 'law stripping' effect, which can directly dismantle the target's defense, energy structure, and even the essence of its soul skills at the conceptual level.

The digestive system evolved into an 'Abyssal Furnace,' increasing its conversion efficiency by a hundredfold and ignoring most toxins, curses, and backlash effects.

[Reward 2: Obtain the 'Endless Devouring Domain'.]

Its normal coverage radius is eighty miles, and it can expand to four hundred miles when fully unleashed! Within the domain, all non-dark, non-water-attribute energy is frantically suppressed, stripped away, and devoured, transforming into pure abyssal magical energy to nourish the Demon Emperor. The light dims to near absolute darkness, gravity is abnormal (up to a hundred times stronger than outside), the spatial structure is unstable, and micro-spatial rifts and devouring vortexes are randomly generated.

Within its domain, the Demon Emperor can summon 'Phantoms of Deep Sea Demon Whales' at will to devour and assault them in a cluster; it can create 'Dark Water Pressure Cages' to imprison and slowly crush enemies; and it can deploy 'Projection of the Abyss Maw' to instantly devour over a massive area, swallowing mountains, fleets, and even small islands.

The ultimate ability of this domain, 'Return to the Void,' can briefly open a passage to the darkest abyss of the deep sea, releasing the terrifying pressure and resentment accumulated within the abyss over billions of years, annihilating all matter and spirit within its range.

(End of this chapter)