Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship
Chapter 151: The Power of Divine Techniques, the Death of the White Whale
The rain poured down in torrents as the wind howled!
Under the cover of the murky night.
A colossal sea beast weighing over a thousand tons was charging toward the Ghostly Flood Dragon at an astonishing speed!
The water displaced on either side of White Whale Moby Dick erupted into terrifying waves, dozens of feet high!
Fierce, towering, and unstoppable!
Even though it was severely wounded, the sense of danger White Whale Moby Dick gave Su Ye had only intensified!
A wounded beast is the most dangerous of all!
’As expected of a Tier 3 Demon King. Its life force is so tenacious...’
Su Ye’s eyes narrowed, a cold glint flashing within them.
’So...’
’I must go all out!’
BUZZ!
Inside Su Ye’s body.
A Divine Seed, somewhere between illusory and real and covered in countless flowing inscriptions, erupted with brilliant light!
A phantasm resembling a sea of blood, radiating a boundless, savage aura, materialized behind him!
The blood-sea phantasm solidified and took shape.
On Su Ye’s right hand, it formed a blood-red spear!
Slaughter, extermination, the end of all things!
Quasi-Technique [Soul-Chasing, Life-Taking]!
WHOOSH!
Su Ye gripped the blood-red spear.
The next moment.
In his eyes, time itself seemed to freeze!
Like a faded old photograph, everything turned to black and white!
’Is this... a soul’s-eye view?’
Almost instinctively, Su Ye understood his current state.
He could see an azure-blue spiritual glow emanating from his own body.
It was the only color on the entire Ghostly Flood Dragon.
As for the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s cursed crew, they were a dull black and white, like inanimate objects.
Due to an incomplete ’transformation,’ their souls had been devoured by the Ghostly Flood Dragon, making them no different from the dead.
Su Ye didn’t dwell on this point.
He turned his head and looked toward the most dazzling light within a radius of several miles!
It was the phantasm of a whale—much smaller than its physical form, but still radiating a pure white light!
The White Whale’s soul!
"Soul-chasing... life-taking!"
Su Ye’s expression was grim, his words chilling, like a god passing judgment over life and death!
At his will, the blood-red spear vanished in an instant!
CRACK.
He saw with perfect clarity.
The White Whale’s soul was pierced through by the blood-red spear!
Like a mirror, it shattered and disintegrated, turning into countless wisps of white smoke that vanished from the world!
’Is it dead?’
BUZZ!
The scene before Su Ye’s eyes returned to normal as the black and white receded like a tide.
The White Whale’s enormous body was stiff and unmoving, its forward momentum maintained only by inertia.
But its speed continued to decrease.
It came to a complete halt less than a hundred meters from the Ghostly Flood Dragon!
That distance of less than a hundred meters was like an insurmountable chasm it could never cross!
It was dead!
Killed by Su Ye’s Quasi-Technique [Soul-Chasing, Life-Taking]!
[Sea Monster Hunted. [Pastor of the Sea] EXP +4562]
[Class: Pastor of the Sea Lv. 2 (16094/20000)]
"Hiss..."
Su Ye’s eyes lit up.
Hunting the White Whale had given him over four thousand experience points!
It would have taken Su Ye at least two to three years of routine accumulation to gain this much EXP!
And aside from the huge amount of experience points...
...the rest of the loot was an even more pleasant surprise for Su Ye.
A pale gold, Tier 3 Demon Pill!
Several barrels of Tier 3 Whale Brain Oil, emitting a soul-calming fragrance!
And Sea Successor Remains the size of a suitcase!
In this stretch of sea, these three items were absolutely priceless and impossible to find on the market!
Treasures precious enough to drive Crystallization Realm cultivators like Zhaoxia and Sikong Xin mad with desire!
"And now, they’re all mine!"
A look of joyous harvest appeared on Su Ye’s face!
Beyond that,
there was also conventional loot like flesh, bones, and beast hide.
Due to the White Whale’s enormous body, even after some of it was incinerated by the blood flames, the amount of remaining loot was still immense!
By Su Ye’s estimation, the total value was no less than two hundred thousand Spirit Stones!
’The only shame is that the Ghostly Flood Dragon has limited space. I can’t take this much with me...’
Su Ye felt a slight sense of regret.
Suddenly, a thought struck him.
’Could the flesh and bones I can’t carry be devoured by the Ghostly Flood Dragon and used as resources for strengthening it?’
’It’s very likely!’
Su Ye steered the Ghostly Flood Dragon closer to the White Whale’s corpse to try it out.
...
SZZZ SZZZ SZZZ.
From the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s dark hull, scarlet tentacles extended, piercing into the White Whale’s body.
Like straws, they began siphoning the essence of its flesh and blood!
The White Whale’s bones were also extracted and placed on the deck, where they slowly melted into the hull.
’It works!’ Su Ye’s heart stirred.
He could sense the strength of the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s hull gradually increasing!
A few minutes later.
This enhancement led to a qualitative change!
Su Ye opened the ship’s status panel.
[Name: Ghostly Flood Dragon]
[Grade: Tier 2 High-Grade (Evolvable)]
[Cultivation Acceleration: 275%]
[Ghostly Flood Dragon: Tier 2 High-Grade Spirit Ship (250%)]
[Crew: 1/60 (0%)]
[Crew Morale: 99/60 (25%)]
A Tier 2 High-Grade Spirit Ship!
By devouring the White Whale’s flesh and bones, the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s grade had been upgraded!
This change was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Su Ye!
’It makes sense. It was a Tier 3 Demon King, a Sea Successor Mutant Species. Its flesh and bones are superior to most spirit woods and spirit metals.’
’Besides, my Ghostly Flood Dragon has the legendary ability [Soul Abyss Blood Prison], which grants it evolvability...’
Su Ye reasoned.
Moreover, this early promotion came with another benefit.
[Legendary Ability: Soul Abyss Blood Prison (210,000/500,000)]
’I still only need 500,000 living souls to upgrade the spirit ship’s grade and turn it into a Supreme-Grade Spirit Ship!’
Aside from that,
the biggest change from this promotion was the ram on the bow!
The Ghostly Flood Dragon’s dark ram now had a bone-like texture.
Indestructible and incomparably sharp!
’Perhaps the Ghostly Flood Dragon can destroy most Tier 2 spirit ships just by ramming them now?’
Su Ye couldn’t help but ponder.
An ultimate speed and an incredibly sturdy ram.
A collision with the Ghostly Flood Dragon was undoubtedly a nightmare for any other spirit ship!
After tallying his bountiful spoils, Su Ye quickly left the scene!
...
「Meanwhile, hundreds of nautical miles away.」
"HUFF... HUFF... HUFF..."
The sound of panting, like a bellows, rang out clearly.
Navasen stood on the surface of the sea, his chest heaving.
Blood gushed from his body like a spring, drenching his flesh. One of his eyes had even been gouged out!
But even more horrifying was that,
more than half of Navasen’s body was suffused with a five-colored radiance.
His flesh and bones were constantly dissolving and regenerating, an agonizing process!
This was a vicious injury inflicted by the Quasi-Technique that Zhaoxia had unleashed!
But even so,
the expression on Navasen’s face was a smile!
"Hahaha... I did it!"
The reason was simple.
In Navasen’s hand was none other than Zhaoxia’s head!
The cultivator’s expression was one of sheer terror and shock, as if he had never imagined he would die here!
"A pity I couldn’t kill the other one too..."
"Still, killing a Crystallization Realm Perfected One from the Cyan Profound Sect is a great victory!"
Navasen chuckled.
Then, his expression suddenly froze.
"Hm... Moby Dick’s aura has vanished?"
"It’s dead?!"