Rayne couldn't help but sigh at the difference in size between sea soul beasts and land soul beasts.
Even in his original life, sea has always been a place that hosted the largest of creatures seen by mankind.
Not to mention the douluo planet, which is almost a hundred times larger than the Earth of his past life.
It's kind of ridiculous how a planet that is almost hundred times that of earth has the same gravitational field, duration of day and night and other factors. Fantasy world logic.
In the first place, before Dragon God's arrival, this planet was an all water planet with almost no land, that hosted humongous creatures with a minimum average height of fifty feet.
The ocean creatures originally existed in this planet and were the rulers of this planet.
Only after Dragon God created land on this planet, was there different kinds of life form born, and the ruling hierarchy changed.
But even now, almost 85 percent of the planet is still covered by water, meaning that only 15 percent of the planet is land.
Originally it was 89 percent water and 11 percent land.
But after Rayne, as God of Contracts, created an additional continent, as per the contract with the soul beasts, the percentage of the land increased by four percent.
Truly, the total number of land soul beasts can't even compare to even one percent of the total sea soul beasts.
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The battle between the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish and the four Nether Poison Sea Snakes was devastating.
The sheer amount of dangerous shockwaves generated by their clash kept all other soul beasts away, and most of them had run for their lives.
The sizes of these five ocean soul beasts would make the biggest of land soul beast look small.
The four Nether Poison Sea Snakes didn't let up on their attack and kept on putting pressure on the archerfish soul beast.
They were determined to take advantage of the situation and hunt down this higher level soul beast with dragon bloodline.
In fact, with the cultivation and bloodline of the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish, it would never struggle much against soul beasts of this level.
But, it seems to be quite injured and also seems to be protecting something.
If one carefully observed, they would find a smaller golden fish, about two meters long, hidden under the massive fins of the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish. Different from the bigger one, it actually had some silver markings on some of it's scales.
It also gave off a mysterious feeling.
This is the offspring of the 500,000-year-old Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
As the battle was intensifying, an slashing attack came from nowhere, forcing both sides to seperate and put some distance between them.
"Who dares to meddle in our four brothers' business?!"
One of the snake soul beast snarled in rage.
The snake soul beasts and the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish looked upward towards a direction.
What appeared before their eyes was a young white haired boy floating in mid air, high above them.
His vibrant blue eyes were menacingly looking at them, sending chills down their spines.
This young man is Rayne.
His sudden appearance shocked the five Great Beasts.
The Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish, in particular, was quite shocked.
"This is... a human?! And a child on top of that! Why is a human child here, in a place so far away from the land?" The fish beast muttered in a female voice.
Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish is somewhat familiar with most of the lands in this sea region, and has come into contact with humans quite a few times.
'This human child... He looks somewhat familiar to that God from before... A descendant, perhaps? There is this possibility. A human child of this stage shouldn't have the ability to fly. But it would make sense if it is the descendant of a God.'
Such a thought appeared in her mind as she gazed at Rayne.
Although on guard, she wasn't too wary of this human child, who shared a similar appearance to the God who had helped their soul beast clan a lot.
Unlike the Archerfish soul beast, the four vicious snake beasts, although somewhat frightened, were infuriated by the sudden interruption.
But they stopped, because they felt a great desire from their blood to devour this intruder.
The four snake brothers had never felt such a desire before. The anger in their eyes disappeared, replacing with unconcealed greed.
Rayne saw this and frowned with a bit of unpleasantness.
He remembered a certain cocky snake beast that dared to have the thought of devouring him back then.
The same species, Nether Poison Sea Snake!
Back then, regardless of the bloodline suppression, this snake beast planned a sneak attack on him, intending to devour him for its advancement.
In the soul beast world, there are some unique soul beasts that disregard the suppression of superior bloodline, and would even fight back or even try to devour them and advance to a higher level.
There are quite a few soul beasts of this category. But even in this category, only this particular snake soul beast had dared to even attempt devouring Rayne, who was Ouroboros at that time.
Rayne looked at the four Nether Poison Sea Snakes and coldly said.
"I'll only say this once."
"You four snakes, get lost. I only have business with this archerfish."
The four Nether Poison Sea Snake soul beasts heard this, they laughed in a creepy slithering voice.
"Ohoho! No no no! How could we go away, ignoring a delicious meal like you?"
"Big brother, this human is so small! How do we divide him in four parts?"
"Yes! This human is so small! Damn it! Why can't he be bigger?!"
"My stupid otouto (little brother), what we need is his blood and origin! His size doesn't matter!"
"Big brother is right!"
The four Nether Poison Sea Snakes stared at Rayne with their vicious and dangerous eyes.
Their body gave off a dreadful aura of death, the black saliva that fell from their open mouths caused the surrounding sea water to sizzle, as if boiled in high temperature, and evaporate almost in seconds.
Rayne frowned in displeasure at being looked at as a prey.
"Who gave you the permission to look at me, you weak worms!"
"Trash like you should know your place!"
As he spoke, his Kāma markings spread throughout the right side of his body.
A horrifying aura spread out from him, terrifying the four snake soul beasts, as well as the parent child duo of Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
"Since you insist on dying, I'll fulfill your expectations!"
"Dismantle!"
With a word, Rayne swung his hand and an invisible slash swept out with unstoppable momentum and speed.
By the time the four snake brothers had reacted, the unprecedentedly power invisible slash attack had struck them.
They felt unprecedented fear and desperately wanted to move. But there seemed to be some sort of invisible power that imprisoned them in place.
Boom–
The slash attack cut through them and struck the sea behind them.
A massive line had appeared, dividing the sea into two, with a void gap in between.
The strange thing about this was that, the sea water seems to be unable to cover up this gap, as if resisted by some kind of power.
The four Nether Poison Sea Snakes were divided in two and fell to the surface of the sea with a heavy splash.
The dreadful corrosive black blood stained the ocean.
As Rayne's attacks all contained the traits of spiritual destruction and space slashing, the four Nether Poison Sea Snakes had no hope of survival from the moment they were struck by his dismantle.
The four Nether Poison Sea Snakes, each with a cultivation of more than 200,000-years.
Four great beasts, dead in an instant.
Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish, as a spectator along with its child, was shocked by this turn of events.
After this, Rayne turned and looked at the two Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
"You, the big one. I have a proposition for you."
The Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish was extremely wary and cautious at this moment. She really wanted to just leave, but her instincts warned her not to do so.
After thinking about the pros and cons, she hesitantly asked.
"What do you want from me, human?"
"Before that, let's talk about you a bit, shall we?" Rayne said as he came near the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
As he stepped on the surface of the sea water, a pale white-and-yellow light emanated from him, spreading through the sea water.
And as it spread, all the corrosive blood that polluted the sea water was purified, as if being burned away by the most sacred flame.
The Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish was stunned and confused by this. Although she was stunned by the extremely positive energy, she still didn't understand how it would benefit Rayne, a human, by purifying the seas.
"What are you..."
"Don't mind it. I'm just cleaning up my own mess."
Rayne spoke.
"Now then, how confident are you in surviving your next thunder tribulation? It should be arriving in a few years, right?"
"..." Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
"Not much confidence, eh? I can understand that. Although you seem to have survived your previous tribulation by condensing a second soul core, it seems that it wasn't perfect."
"Although you have passed that thunder tribulation, both of your soul cores have been damaged to a big degree. Even your origin has been damaged a lot. It's pretty much guaranteed that you'll die in your next thunder tribulation."
Rayne said lightly, as he briefly analyzed the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish's current state.
"Human, you want me to sacrifice to you?"
The Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish suddenly interrupted in a gloomy tone.
"Hoh? I guess I should say smart? Although I do mean for you to sacrifice, it's not for me."
Rayne replied in a carefree tone.
"Even if I die, I won't offer a sacrifice to humans! If that is your goal, you'd better kill me!!" The mother Archerfish shouted out in an angered voice.
"Hmm... I'm not asking you to do it for free. How about we do an exchange based on a contract?"
Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish: "..."
"Don't be so against it. Anyway, you'll die in the tribulation soon with the way you are now. How about giving something else a go?"
Rayne said with a smile.
He saw the smaller Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish staring at him with its big eyes, so he playfully winked at it.
This startled the small Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish, then it angrily glared at him.
Rayne could tell at a glance that this was a kind of auspicious soul beast. Although not to the degree of an Emperor auspicious beast like the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
It can be seen that despite just been barely 10,000-years-old in cultivation, this small Archerfish seems to have a considerable intelligence.
The mother Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish was in deep thought for a moment, then she caught sight of her child.
For a moment, there were complex emotions in her eyes.
After some thought, she came to a decision, which was the hardest she had to ever make.
"....Human, what kind of exchange do you propose?"
The Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish asked out in a heavy tone.
At the same time, her humongous body shone with brilliant golden light and shrunk down, gradually to the size of a human.
Soon, a very beautiful golden haired woman with blue eyes appeared in front of Rayne.
"As expected of a high level soul beast. Most of them have a beautiful human forms."
Although he said so, he didn't show much interest in her despite her high appearance.
After the appearance of Multiverse Group Chat, he isn't so eager to hook up with beautiful women of this world anymore.
At best, he'll only try to get together with the women he already had in his fourth life. And Gu Yuena. And Wang Qiu'er?
Well, anyway,
Seeing that the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish seems to have made a choice, Rayne nodded.
"The condition is that, you'll sacrifice to my mother, a full sacrifice of all of your cultivation and origin. And in return, I'll reincarnate both you and your child as a human, with your past memories intact. Of course, I'll also add in some bonus talents to you so that you can have a great chance at becoming a God."
Hearing Rayne's words, the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish became a bit excited.
Why? Because of the term 'God', and Rayne's claim of her being potentially able to attain godhood.
Anything related to God is of great temptation to any high level soul beasts and humans.
Suddenly she asked, "What is this reincarnation, you speak of?"
Rayne: "Basically, a new life after death. Normally, you'd be a completely new individual with little to do with your past self. But with my ability, I'll make it possible for you to retain your past self and memories."
Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish was surprised, but didn't give a definite answer about her choice.
She understood from the simple description of Rayne that, reincarnation is some kind of ultimate principle that applies on all life forms.
From her perspective, she didn't think Rayne could tamper with such a supreme principle.
Seeing her like this, Rayne took out his trump card.
A contract sheet with the power of contracts.
"This is..!!"
Seeing this colorful paper, the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish was shocked.
Most of the prominent soul beast in the Douluo planet knows of this contract paper, that represents the authority of God of Contracts.
Whether it is in human world or soul beast world, there is a saying that, if you make a promise or a contract under the name of God of Contracts, regardless of verbal promise or written contract. The promise or contract must be fulfilled.
Or else, the violator will be punished.
It is said that even the gods are no exception to this rule.
"Let's make a contract. I believe you know that no one can break the contract."
Rayne said as he presented the contract to the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish.
She looked through the content of the contract thoroughly.
After making sure that everything was exactly as Rayne had proposed, she hesitated for a moment, then signed it with her spiritual imprint.
Although she was unsure of this young man's methods, she still has a lot of trust in the contract that represents the God of Contracts.
Or rather, most of the high level intelligent soul beasts have a very favorable impression of the God of Contracts, except for a few unruly, evil, and unsociable soul beasts.
Rayne nodded, then took back the contract. He also felt the power of faith generated from the Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish, which was dedicated to his persona as God of Contracts.
Then, he turned his sight to the four dead Nether Poison Sea Snakes that was killed by him.
Four deep red soul rings with two golden lines had condensed above each of the dead bodies.
And from the observation of his 'Six Eyes', Rayne saw eight soul bones being condensed within the four dead bodies. Two each.
Two head soul bone, one torso soul bone, one right arm soul bone, one left arm soul bone, one right leg soul bone, one left leg soul bone, and one external soul bone - Nether Scale Snake Crown.
Eight soul bones, each of the quality of more than 200,000-year-old.
"Seriously? This golden rule is more absurd than I thought!"
Even Rayne was surprised by this ridiculous drop rate of soul bones.
Although there are possibilities of a hundred thousand year old soul beast dropping two soul bones. That itself is a one in a hundred or a one in a thousand scenario.
"What can I say, Golden rule for the win!"
"... Um... What golden rule?" Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish asked in doubt.
"No, nothing. Pack up your treasures and belongs. We'll leave soon."
"Okay. I hope I'm not making the wrong choice."
Rayne pointed his hand towards the four dead bodies, and eight rays of light shot out from the bodies. They reached Rayne and was suspended above him.
These were the eight soul bones.
Eight golden vortex appeared near the soul bones and took them in.
Then, Rayne threw out four Soul Ring Storage Soul Tools at the four soul rings.
The soul ring storage soul tools immediately absorbed the soul rings into them. After Rayne collected them and stored them in his Gate of Ashburn.
After this, he stored away the bodies, intending to use them as alchemy materials later.
He waited for a while, then prepared to return with the company of Holy Dragon-Scaled Archerfish and her child.
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