Douluo Amon: I am the Heavenly Venerable of the Dragon King

At this moment, a huge figure appeared deep in the Tianhai Sea.

The figure was humanoid, entirely black, and over eight meters tall. Three pairs of folded wings spread out on its back, and its entire body exuded a powerful aura. Flames spewed forth, and it moved with lightning speed.

This is a black-level mech!

At this moment, the black-level mech hovered steadily above the sea, its right hand outstretched, and on its right hand stood a figure—Nan Fusheng! However, this was not a clone, but the real Nan Fusheng.

"Main body, main body. Are you ready yet? Hasn't that guy arrived yet?" At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the black-level mecha. It was the voice of the tower master of the Spirit Pagoda in Tianhai City, the invincible Qian Gu.

The materials used to build this black-level mecha were personally forged by Duan Xuan, the president of the Tianhai City Forging Masters Association, who is also one of Nan Fusheng's clones.

Otherwise, even if Qian Gu Bubai was the tower master of the Tianhai City Spirit Transmission Tower, he wouldn't have been able to obtain enough soul forging materials to make a black-level mecha so easily.

“He’s here. I can already sense him,” Nan Fusheng replied casually.

Suddenly, a thick fog began to rise from the depths of the Tianhai Sea for some unknown reason.

As the thick fog rolled in, there were also intermittent singing sounds, but when you listened intently, you would find that the sound was more like a murmur than a song.

"Wow, boom, boom, boom..."

The sea in front of Nan Fusheng began to tilt, and the sunlight, which had been somewhat dim due to the thick fog, disappeared completely.

No, it should be said that it was obscured by the enormous object slowly emerging from the ocean right before our eyes.

Nan Fusheng looked at the giant object in front of him with a hint of regret. It was a creation that he was quite satisfied with, but why did it look so crooked?

The creature before them, though only its upper body had emerged from the ocean, was already a full two hundred meters tall.

Its body outline resembles a human, but it has a head with numerous tentacles like an octopus, and its body is like a gelatinous substance covered in scales.

The eight-meter-tall black-class mech piloted by the invincible warrior looked more like a figurine in front of this creature.

Looking at the giant monster in front of him, Nan Fusheng said, "It's been a long time, August. Your appearance seems to have changed slightly again."

Chapter 216 August and Leviathan

"Original form, you should give up on that idea. I can't become the mermaid princess or octopus girl you imagine," said the enormous creature—no, it should be August.

"Damn it, people need to have some imagination. You can't become a mermaid princess because you haven't tried hard enough. Go eat some more things in the ocean, and maybe you'll become one!"

Before Nan Fusheng could say anything, Qian Gu Bubai, sitting in the Black-level mecha, couldn't help but speak first.

"Shut up." Nan Fusheng turned around and glared at Qian Gu Bubai. Didn't he know what this guy was up to?

Then, turning to August, he said, "Whether you change or not doesn't matter. The main thing is that your appearance is just too disgusting. Just by looking at your appearance, I can tell that you are definitely not a good soul beast!"

August's appearance is indeed frightening; he's practically a classic Cthulhu-esque figure.

August said helplessly, "I can't do anything about it. After all, who knew that it would turn out like this while eating? And although its appearance is a bit ugly, this body is first-class in combat ability in the ocean."

August is one of Nan Fusheng's clones, and also a chimera spirit beast. Nan Fusheng even experiments with chimera spirit beasts at the Spirit Ascension Platform. How could he possibly overlook the ocean, a natural breeding ground for them?

Compared to land, the ocean covers 70 percent of the planet's surface, and despite countless years of development, even the Federation has been unable to explore the ocean due to insufficient technology.

Therefore, compared to the soul beasts on land, which are almost extinct due to human activity, the number of soul beasts in the sea remains quite intact.

Even in some deep-sea areas that humans cannot explore, there may be powerful and unknown ferocious beasts lurking.

August's original form was a hundred-year-old Tyrannosaurus Octopus. In terms of racial potential, this soul beast's bloodline was in no way inferior to that of the Deep Sea Demon Whale.

The so-called three ocean predators—the Great White Shark, the Orca, and the Deep-Sea Demon Whale—are ultimately just names given to them by humans. In this vast ocean, there are many creatures whose bloodline potential is no less than theirs, and in some cases even surpasses it.

Even in terms of sheer strength, the Demon Soul Great White Shark might not be worthy of being called one of the three overlords. It is known that it would take two Demon Soul Great White Sharks of the same age to contend with just one Demon Orca.

Needless to say, the Deep Sea Demon Whale is an enormous soul beast that, in the same year, is capable of contending with more than two Demonic Tiger Whales. This has been observed by members of the Spirit Pagoda.

A century-old giant octopus can be over twenty meters long, a rare behemoth even in the ocean. Those that are ten thousand years old can even reach a height of over a hundred meters.

It is non-toxic, possesses the water control ability commonly found among marine spirit beasts, and also has powerful spiritual attributes, followed by pure strength. Its massive size brings with it pure power suppression.

This kind of spirit beast, with its sheer size and power, is virtually invincible among spirit beasts of the same age. Fortunately, unless they need to hunt, they generally live in the deep sea, so humans rarely witness them.

August was also released into the ocean by Nan Fusheng three years ago. He remembered that he released more than ten Chimera Soul Beasts, but in the end, only two survived.

One is August, the other is Leviathan. These are the names these two incarnations gave themselves.

Even though Chimera Soul Beasts are extremely competitive and aggressive, they can only truly develop if they can quickly adapt to their environment and safely pass through the novice stage.

As for Nan Fusheng's clones, they either encountered powerful soul beasts, ran into schools of predating fish, or were attacked by other soul beasts, resulting in either death or escape.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Nan Fusheng did not specifically help them, after all, it's survival of the fittest.

Regarding how long it takes for a hundred-year-old soul beast to grow into a hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast, August can tell you definitively: three years! The growth path of the legendary soul beast, August.

Three years—a terrifying number that no soul beast dared to believe. What can you do in three years? For those powerful soul beasts, it's merely the time it takes to take a nap.

What can a human Soul Master do? It's enough for Xiao Yan to cultivate diligently and then fight Nalan Yanran (crossed out).

For young Soul Masters, it's just a short training period, at most increasing their Soul Power by ten or twenty levels. For Title Douluos, it's not even enough to increase their Soul Power by one level, and then it's over.

But for August, it was a precious amount of time, enough for it to grow into a 100,000-year-old soul beast. Even the legendary Dark Demon Evil God Tiger probably wouldn't dare to imagine such a cultivation speed.

But it did it, relying on the power of Nan Fusheng's own body and the ferocious, devouring instinct of the Chimera Soul Beast.

Two of the tentacle-like appendages on August's chin suddenly extended, burrowed into his mouth, and retrieved two items. One tentacle contained a small ball shimmering with white light, while the other held five or six soul bones!

That's right, it's the Soul Bone! Even now, with the advent of Battle Armor, the Soul Bone remains the most coveted treasure for Soul Masters.

After all, fusing with a soul bone not only grants an additional skill but also significantly enhances one's physical attributes. Most importantly, soul bones can be passed down through generations, which is why high-quality soul bones remain highly sought after.

The soul bones on August's tentacles were radiating strong soul power fluctuations, indicating that the quality of these soul bones was not low.

And that is indeed the case. Each of these soul bones is no less than 10,000 years old, and two of them are even over 50,000 years old.

These were all obtained by August over the past three years, either by searching for them in the ocean or by hunting spirit beasts.

After all, the ocean is so vast that countless soul beasts fight each other every day, and since soul bones cannot be absorbed by soul beasts, they are left behind in the depths of the ocean.

Nan Fusheng didn't look at the soul bones; instead, he reached out to catch the small white ball, which was the purpose of his trip.

This small ball contains abundant life energy, generated by the soul beasts that August hunted.

Chapter 217 Cthulhu, the Evil God of the Deep Sea

The life energy contained within the small ball was also the key to August's advancement to a 100,000-year-old soul beast in just three years.

"I absorbed a third of the life energy here. As for Leviathan, who knows where it has drifted off to now."

Nan Fusheng nodded. He didn't mind that August had absorbed one-third of the energy, since they were all his clones, and August did indeed need to be strengthened.

The life energy purified by the Time Worms is extremely pure and easily absorbed. August's race, the Tyrannosaurus Octopus, is also a race highly adept at absorbing energy.

There are only a few ways for a soul beast to advance: First, by cultivating on its own.

Second, they cultivate by hunting down soul beasts and then devouring their flesh and blood. Ten thousand years ago, ferocious beasts like Di Tian used a similar method to absorb the soul power of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm for cultivation.

Third, one can improve their cultivation by consuming rare and precious natural treasures.

The vast majority of soul beasts cultivate using the second method, but this method requires time to hone their skills, since most soul beasts, except for those powerful races, do not absorb energy very quickly.

P.S.: (In the novel "Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect", Huo Yuhao adopted two little Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears and raised them into thousand-year-old soul beasts in just a few years.)

August was able to rapidly advance to a 100,000-year-old soul beast by hunting, devouring, and absorbing the life energy purified by the Time Worm.

However, the opportunity that allowed it to evolve into this human-like form was when it unexpectedly encountered several mermaids during its transformation from a 90,000-year-old soul beast to a 100,000-year-old soul beast.

That's right, it's a mermaid!

Logically speaking, mermaids, as spirit beasts, should inhabit the inland sea near the far north.

But August did indeed encounter several mermaids deep within the Tianhai Sea. To be fair, the mermaid race was indeed filled with handsome men and beautiful women.

Therefore, when August devoured them, he showed no mercy and also used the Time Worm's power to find out why these mermaids had appeared in the depths of the Heavenly Sea.

Hundreds of years ago, a powerful and evil spirit beast stormed into the center of the far north inland sea and wreaked havoc. It devoured many sea spirit beasts, thus angering the then-chief of the mermaid clan, a super spirit beast with a cultivation level of nearly 700,000 years: the Sea Princess.

Then a great battle broke out. The details are unknown, but the final result was that the Sea Princess was killed and devoured by that soul beast.

The mermaid race suffered heavy losses as a result. The soul beast seemed to harbor an extraordinary hatred for the mermaid race who worshipped the sea god, and it directly killed or killed many of the mermaids.

These mermaids deep in the Tianhai Sea were among the few who escaped at the time. Their cultivation levels were roughly around ten thousand years. However, because mermaids possess spiritual attributes and are considered humanoid soul beasts, they are highly intelligent.

Even though August encountered these mermaids, whose cultivation was only ten thousand years, their intelligence was by no means inferior to that of humans.

Upon learning this information, Nan Fusheng immediately thought of the Demon Emperor. After all, there were only a handful of soul beasts on the entire Douluo Star that possessed the strength to kill the Sea Princess.

However, these are all things to be discussed later. For Nan Fusheng, the most important thing is that after August devoured those mermaids, his original octopus body began to subtly change.

After advancing to become a 100,000-year-old soul beast, it completely transformed into this neither-human-nor-fish appearance. It looked exactly like the 'Cthulhu the Sea God,' only missing a pair of wings on its back.

His own clone had truly suffered many misfortunes. Although Chimera Soul Beasts were hybrid creations, and it was normal for them to grow crooked, this was going too far. Of course, in exchange for losing his good looks, he gained absolute power.

If you really want to run away, unless you're a Limit Douluo who's good at controlling water elements, or someone like Yun Ming or Di Tian makes a move, running away shouldn't be a problem.

"Well, while it's not quite good for combat, it's a pretty good helper for hunting soul beasts in the ocean and obtaining life energy." This is Nan Fusheng's definition of August.

It's a good helper to help him obtain life energy. After all, it's impossible for him to control clones and attack the soul-guided trains all day long, right? And in the ocean, so many soul beasts die every day, so it doesn't matter if August kills a few more.

During this process, August also witnessed evil spirit masters hunting spirit beasts on the ocean. However, he did not intervene, but merely watched from afar in the deep sea.

After receiving the small ball, Nan Fusheng used the door to seal it into his body. This was pure natural energy that he would use to increase his cultivation speed later.

Then, turning his gaze to the few soul bones, he waved his hand, and several Time Worms clung to them. Visibly, the radiance on the soul bones grew dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared.