Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 330 Bai Xiuxiu

Ji Lin asked curiously, "You can really transform into a human? Aren't you only 80,000 years old? Besides speaking, you can also transform into human form? Are you that amazing?"

Princess Great White Shark chuckled and said, "Just kidding! I still have 20,000 years before I can transform into human form. I want to ask you, what do you think it would be like if I became human? Wouldn't that be fun? Like you say, reincarnating as a human."

Ji Lin shook his head and said, "Soul beasts can indeed transform into humans after cultivating to the 100,000-year level, and their growth rate will be very fast, but this will come with a long period of weakness. If you are killed during this growth process, you will truly die, and you will lose the long lifespan of a soul beast. Human lifespan is at most a few hundred years. Unless you can become a god, and you cannot reveal your soul beast identity, you will face the malice of humans. If a 100,000-year soul bone and soul ring are offered to you, no one will refuse."

"Oh! You humans are so mean. You just want to kill us," Princess Demon Soul Great White Shark said with some dissatisfaction.

Ji Lin shook his head and said, "It's just a matter of the strong preying on the weak. Besides, the human world is also changing. Now there is a way to obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts. It's possible that humans will really stop killing soul beasts in the future."

A hint of longing flashed in the Demon Soul Great White Shark Princess's eyes. "Your human world must be so much fun. I definitely want to visit it someday."

Ji Lin laughed and said, "If you really intend to become human, then you must hide your identity well, otherwise, your fate may not be so good."

Princess Demon Soul Great White Shark said discontentedly, "Hmph, you're just trying to scare me. I'm still young. It will take me another 20,000 years to truly reach 100,000 years of cultivation. By then, I might really become human. Will you be dead by then? I won't be able to play with you anymore."

Ji Lin smiled faintly and said, "That's not necessarily true."

Princess Demon Soul Great White Shark was like a curious child, full of wonder about many things. "What was that method you just mentioned where humans can obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts? Is it true?"

Ji Lin nodded and said, "It's true. That method is called a Sacred Mark. It's made using the genetic information of soul beasts, allowing humans to obtain soul rings without hunting them."

Ji Lin told Princess Demon Soul Great White Shark about the existence of the Holy Mark and the Perfect Holy Mark. He didn't save Bai Xiuxiu out of pure kindness. If he remembered correctly, although Bai Xiuxiu was from the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, she had mutated and possessed the ice attribute that the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan did not have.

If Bai Xiuxiu could become his sacred mark, he wouldn't need to go find the Sea Princess.

Although the sea princesses also possess ice attributes, their primary attribute is spirit, with ice being merely secondary. As for Bai Xiuxiu's cultivation level being less than 100,000 years, that's simple: Ji Lin still has a considerable amount of 10,000-year-old Xuanbing Marrow, enough to boost Bai Xiuxiu's cultivation level to 100,000 years.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm can consume Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to reach a million years, and Bai Xiuxiu is only 20,000 years away from reaching 100,000 years, so she won't need much Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

The Demon Soul Great White Shark is the top-tier sea spirit beast, ranking alongside the Demon Orca and the Deep Sea Demon Whale as one of the three great ocean overlords. Bai Xiuxiu is also the Demon Soul Great White Shark Princess, and she has mutated to have ice attributes, becoming Ji Lin's sacred mark. This must bring him more benefits than the Sea Princess.

Ji Lin also revealed his purpose: to find a 100,000-year-old ice-attribute soul beast to become his perfect holy mark.

Princess Great White Shark longed, "If I could become your Holy Mark, wouldn't I be able to go play in the human world? The human world must be so much fun, right?"

After saying that, she lowered her head and said, "But I only have 80,000 years of cultivation, and if I become your holy mark, my mother will definitely be angry. If I leave without telling her, she will worry."

Ji Lin frowned. He didn't want to come into contact with the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Xiao Bai. The Demon Soul Great White Shark King was the Sea God's mount and fought alongside Tang San ten thousand years ago. It should have a way to contact the Sea God in the God Realm. Although the plane was now blocked, and this method should be ineffective, Ji Lin was still afraid that the Sea God Tang San might have left a backup plan on the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Xiao Bai, just like the Clear Sky Sect and the Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

These are all places he doesn't want to get close to at this stage. Before he has a way to counter Tang Shenwang, Ji Lin doesn't want to have any contact with him. After all, the original Tang Shenwang is too disgusting, and no one knows what disgusting things he might do. The best way is to not appear in front of Tang Shenwang before he has grown up.

To take Bai Xiuxiu away, they must obtain the consent of Xiao Bai, the King of the Great White Shark of the Demon Soul. Otherwise, Bai Xiuxiu will not voluntarily become his Holy Mark. However, Ji Lin does not want to contact Xiao Bai, which puts them in a dead end.

In the end, Ji Lin shook his head, abandoning the idea of ​​making Bai Xiuxiu his Holy Mark. Choosing a top-tier Holy Mark might lead to encountering Tang Shenwang's backup plans. Given Tang Shenwang's habit of knowingly breaking the law and treating Douluo Continent as his backyard, no one knows how many backup plans he has left behind in Douluo Continent. In any case, Ji Lin didn't want to gamble. Although the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan was destroyed by the Demon Emperor in the original story, and the Demon Soul Great White Shark King also died at the Demon Emperor's hands, that was under the condition that the God Realm was swept away by the spacetime turbulence. Otherwise, would the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, as the Sea God's mount, really be so easily destroyed by the Demon Emperor?

Ji Lin wasn't sure whether Tang Shenwang didn't care about the life or death of the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan and hadn't left any backup plans, or whether he was truly powerless to act because the God Realm had been taken away. However, he didn't want to gamble for Bai Xiuxiu, so he had no choice but to give up.

The former is fine; there is no danger in contacting the Demon Soul Great White Shark King. But if it's the latter, he doesn't know if Tang Shenwang can sense the situation of the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan under the plane shield.

Ji Lin shook his head and said regretfully, "Alright, I should go now. You should also go back to your clan. Don't wander around anymore, or you won't be so lucky to run into me to save you next time."

Bai Xiuxiu said dejectedly, "Okay, then could you come visit me sometime? I still don't even know your name!"

Ji Lin comforted him, "My name is Ji Lin. I will come to find you if I have the chance."

Bai Xiuxiu giggled and said, "Okay, Ji Lin, I've also given myself a name, Bai Xiuxiu. Does it sound good?"

Ji Lin smiled and said, "Yes, it sounds very nice."

Bai Xiuxiu happily swam around Ji Lin and said, "My mom usually calls me Bai Paopao or Bai Xiuxiu, so I named myself Bai Xiuxiu."

Looking at the incredibly cheerful Bai Xiuxiu, Ji Lin smiled. This guy is already 80,000 years old, but he's still like a little kid.

Compared to the innocent and pure Bai Xiuxiu, Ji Lin felt that approaching her with ulterior motives seemed a bit too utilitarian.

Fortunately, he had given up on his idea and decided to just treat it as making friends with an 80,000-year-old kid!

(End of this chapter)