At this time, Bai Xiuxiu had actually already gained sentience. After all, she was a sixty-to-seventy-thousand-year-old sea spirit beast, so how could her sentience be too low? But even with sentience, it was useless; she was still at least thirty to forty thousand years away from transforming into human form. By the time she successfully transformed, Zhao Ling would probably have already ascended to who knew where.
Zhao Ling was a bit speechless about this. The system had given Wang Qiuer five thousand years of lifespan and helped her transform, so why didn't it give Bai Xiuxiu thirty to forty thousand years and help her transform too? It was truly unfair. Was this the difference between spirit beasts?
At that time, Bai Xiuxiu's mother, Xiao bai, and her father, upon learning that Zhao Ling was Bo Saixi's husband, respectfully bowed to him, showing absolute deference. This made Zhao Ling a bit awkward. Look how respectful other couples were to him; yet he, himself, wanted to pursue their daughter. He seemed a bit insane. If Bai Xiuxiu had reached one hundred thousand years and transformed into human form now, that would be one thing, but she was still far from transforming. He should just obediently cast his unhealthy thoughts aside.
Later, Zhao Ling did not visit the Demon Spirit Great White Shark gathering place again. However, Zhao Ling did help those Demon Spirit Great White Sharks solve a big problem. What problem, you ask? Of course, he helped them kill the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
Naturally, he didn't kill the Deep Sea Demon Whale King simply to eliminate a future threat for the Demon Spirit Great White Sharks. Zhao Ling knew that this task was the eighth trial of Bo Saixi's Sea God Nine Trials, so he wanted to help Bo Saixi complete this eighth trial. Of course, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's spirit ring and spirit bone couldn't be wasted. It just so happened that Bibi Dong had recently reached Rank 90 and needed a spirit ring. Zhao Ling thought about it, then directly took Bo Saixi and Bibi Dong overseas to send the Deep Sea Demon Whale King to its demise. Anyway, this Deep Sea Demon Whale King was going to die eventually. Rather than dying by Tang San's hand and becoming his spirit ring, it was better to become Bibi Dong's spirit ring and pave the way for Bo Saixi's ascension to godhood. Of course, the spirit bone dropped by the Deep Sea Demon Whale King couldn't be missed either; it was a million-year-level spirit bone. Zhao Ling also had Bibi Dong absorb it. Zhao Ling also didn't let the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's wife escape. After planting a mark on her head, he left with Bo Saixi and Bibi Dong.
When Xiao Wu advanced to Rank 90, Zhao Ling brought her here and also killed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's wife, letting Xiao Wu absorb all of her spirit rings and spirit bones. This couldn't be blamed on Zhao Ling's ruthlessness. The Deep Sea Demon Whale King and its wife were both formidable individuals. If Zhao Ling killed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King but not its wife, it might cause unnecessary trouble for his wives and descendants someday.
It must be said that the number of one hundred thousand-year-old spirit beasts in the deep sea was indeed several orders of magnitude greater than in the Star Dou Great Forest, roughly estimated to be at least hundreds, or even thousands. Anyway, whenever Zhao Ling's wives needed spirit rings, Zhao Ling would take them overseas to hunt spirit rings. As for the notion that land Spirit Masters couldn't use spirit rings produced by sea spirit beasts, Zhao Ling thought it was pure nonsense. Why have so many reservations? If they only hunted spirit rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, the Star Dou Great Forest would probably disappear sooner or later.
The ocean covers more than 70% of the entire Douluo planet's total area, and there are certainly many times more sea spirit beasts there than land spirit beasts. Therefore, the most suitable place for his wives to hunt spirit rings should be in the sea. However, it would be incredibly difficult for land Titled Douluo to defeat these one hundred thousand-year-old sea spirit beasts at sea. The original novel even mentioned that Titled Douluo from the Spirit Hall would suffer greatly when encountering Spirit Douluo-level sea Spirit Masters at sea. Therefore, those land Titled Douluo naturally spoke of these sea spirit beasts with great reverence. But Zhao Ling wasn't restricted in such a way; it was effortless for him to help his wives hunt these sea spirit beasts.
After Bibi Dong absorbed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's million-year spirit ring, she successfully advanced to the Titled Douluo realm. And because she absorbed a million-year spirit ring, her spirit power directly increased from Rank 90 to Rank 94. Her first Spirit, the Death Spider Emperor's ninth spirit ability, was still called "Immortality." However, it was several dimensions stronger than the "Immortality" in the original novel. The original "Immortality" had two characteristics: one was that even if her body was shattered, it could reassemble; the other was to transform her body into energy. Both of these skills had a common characteristic: as long as the opponent wasn't at the god level, they could never truly kill Bibi Dong in this state. This seemed very strong on the surface, but once she encountered a god-level powerhouse, there was a possibility of falling.
After absorbing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's spirit ring, which was infinitely close to a million years, Bibi Dong's "Immortality" gained a new characteristic. That was, she could condense three incarnations using her essence blood and spirit power. These incarnations would have the same aptitude as her main body and their strength would reach the Spirit Douluo level. These three incarnations would have no life characteristics or thoughts in normal times, appearing as mere corpses. However, only when her main body was in danger and fell, would her main body's soul immediately transfer to one of the incarnations, becoming a new main body and coming back to life.
However, this skill characteristic could only be used once, meaning Bibi Dong could only condense these three incarnations in her lifetime, essentially gaining three extra lives. So, Bibi Dong spent many days condensing these three incarnations and handed all of them to Zhao Ling. In her opinion, these three incarnations would be safest in her husband's hands, after all, her husband had that storage space. If she were ever to fall one day, she hoped to see her husband the moment she woke up.
Zhao Ling was deeply moved by this. Bibi Dong trusted him so much, how could he betray her trust? So Zhao Ling casually tried to put all three of her incarnations into his storage space. But Bibi Dong quickly called out to him, insisting on getting three sets of dresses to help her three unconscious incarnations dress up.
Zhao Ling was a bit displeased by this. Did his wife, Bibi Dong, not trust him that much? Did she, in her eyes, think he was the kind of insane beast who would do something improper to three unconscious incarnations?
Bibi Dong silently glanced at him and said coldly, "Husband, do I need to expose what kind of person you are? If I don't dress these three incarnations, who knows what insane things you'll do."
Uh... Zhao Ling was utterly embarrassed at that moment, but after thinking about it in his mind, he wondered if he could resist the temptation. He really wasn't sure. Finally, Zhao Ling put Bibi Dong's three dressed incarnations into his storage space. He naturally hoped that Bibi Dong would never have to use these three incarnations, because once she used one of them, it would mean her main body had fallen. Although her soul would randomly transfer to one of these three incarnations after falling, it meant that her strength would drop to the Spirit Douluo realm, and her future achievements might also be reduced.