Chapter 1689: Chapter 1689
Chapter 1689: Chapter 1689: Devouring
The hundreds of black shadows, like hundreds of sharp arrows, shot out from the sea with a piercing whistle, reaching a hundred feet high, even surpassing Fang Bai in the air.
Seeing the sudden appearance of hundreds of black shadows, Fang Bai couldn’t help but be taken aback.
Arrowfish are a unique species among sea beasts. Although they cannot fly, due to their special body shape, they can leap out of the sea, soar high into the sky, and stay aloft for a moment, having an impressive speed and power.
The hundreds of arrowfish, each having reached the Soul Severing Realm, did not attack Fang Bai but rather shot past him instead, weaving a dense “net” above him, descending towards Fang Bai from above.
The speed of the arrowfish was truly fast. By the time Fang Bai reacted, the “net” overhead was already closing in.
In a hurry, Fang Bai had no time to counterattack effectively. He could only plummet downward in an attempt to distance himself from the “net” before flying away horizontally.
As Fang Bai descended rapidly, the hundreds of arrowfish pressed down quickly as well, seemingly trying to force Fang Bai into the sea.
“I’m not playing with you anymore!”
When he was still fifty or sixty feet from the sea surface, Fang Bai realized that if this continued, he might be locked onto by the emerging Unihorn Dragon Whale, and it would be very difficult to escape. So, wielding the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade in hand, he swung it upward, slicing out a few blade beams.
The arrowfish did not dodge, and after a dozen were cut down by the blade beams, the other arrowfish quickly filled the gap, continuing to weave a tight net pressing towards Fang Bai.
At the same time, the Unihorn Dragon Whale opened its huge mouth, a vortex of air emerging from it, rushing into the sky and creating a powerful suction out of thin air.
Upon feeling the powerful suction, Fang Bai suddenly remembered this special skill of the Unihorn Dragon Whale.
Fang Bai’s cultivation level was only at the initial stage of the Soul Severing Realm, far inferior to the Unihorn Dragon Whale. Once enveloped by the air vortex, he was dragged steadily downward, bit by bit towards the giant open mouth of the Unihorn Dragon Whale.
Fang Bai felt as if he was trapped in a quagmire, all movements becoming sluggish, unable to break free from the vortex for the moment.
Seeing his body getting closer and closer to the blood-red gaping mouth below, Fang Bai became anxious. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he stopped struggling, letting his body sink.
Just as his body was about to be swallowed by the Unihorn Dragon Whale, Fang Bai summoned the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron, hiding his body within. The moment the cauldron lid closed, the entire Great Cauldron was swallowed into the belly of the Unihorn Dragon Whale.
After swallowing the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron, the Unihorn Dragon Whale leisurely descended to the depths of the seabed.
In its perspective, it merely swallowed a mere Spiritual Artifact, which would soon be dissolved by the corrosive acids in its stomach.
This attack on Immortal Stone City by tens of thousands of sea beasts was initiated by this Unihorn Dragon Whale.
The Unihorn Dragon Whale was at a crucial point in its advancement but had stagnated due to a lack of cultivation resources, turning its thoughts to the tens of thousands of human experts and a vast amount of resources within Immortal Stone City.
It drove tens of thousands of sea beasts to exhaust the power of the human experts in Immortal Stone City as much as possible. Once both sides were weakened after a fight, it planned to come ashore and devour the bodies of the human experts abundantly, easily acquiring the cultivation resources within the city.
With the assistance of human expert corpses and a vast number of cultivation resources, its hopes of advancing to the fifth level of the Heavenly Tribulation would greatly increase. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI-Fire.ɴet
However, it had not anticipated Fang Bai’s interference midway. Seeing Fang Bai use his howl to control the sea beasts, almost disrupting its plans, it emerged from the seabed, breaking Fang Bai’s control with its roar.
In the battle just now with Fang Bai, the Unihorn Dragon Whale was injured by the two clusters of Spiritual Fire shot from Fang Bai’s Houyi Bow, feeling infuriated. It submerged itself in the seabed, waiting for Fang Bai to let his guard down before launching a surprise attack with the arrowfish, catching Fang Bai off guard and then seizing the chance to swallow him.
Inside the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron, Fang Bai, after being swallowed, tumbled for a moment before finally landing inside the massive stomach of the Unihorn Dragon Whale.
The stomach acids of the Unihorn Dragon Whale were highly corrosive, capable of dissolving steel, but the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron was an ancient Divine Artifact. Its rigidity was incomparable to steel.
The Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron remained in the stomach of the Unihorn Dragon Whale for several hundred breaths’, without any damage, causing the Unihorn Dragon Whale to sense something amiss and continuously squirm its guts, attempting to expel it.
Fang Bai, understanding the Unihorn Dragon Whale’s intentions, murmured softly. With his voice, the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron rapidly expanded, instantly filling the whale’s stomach entirely, remaining unmoved despite any squirming and pressing.
The Unihorn Dragon Whale suddenly swallowed a large amount of seawater, attempting to drown Fang Bai, yet the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron was impervious to water and fire, leaving Fang Bai unaffected by this tactic.
It released its internal aura, trying to subdue Fang Bai with the pressure of a fourth-level Heavenly Tribulation sea beast, yet that pressure was blocked by the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron outside, unable to affect Fang Bai.
After a while, perhaps tired of trying multiple methods, the Unihorn Dragon Whale temporarily gave up the struggle, lying silently at the seabed.
If it were any other expert, they would already have perished within the Unihorn Dragon Whale’s belly, but encountering Fang Bai turned out to be its nemesis, bringing it great misfortune.
“You wish to rest, but I won’t let you be in peace!”
Sitting cross-legged inside the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron, Fang Bai opened his palms. The Red Silkworm Spirit Fire and the Nether Spirit Fire appeared on either side, igniting.
Rolling heat waves emanated from the small flames, spreading outward through the cauldron’s body.
The Unihorn Dragon Whale had a strong external defense, but its internal organs were much more fragile. The heat waves released by Fang Bai’s two flames could melt steel, spreading within its body, becoming unbearable.
The Unihorn Dragon Whale only felt as though ten thousand needles were piercing inside, unbearably painful. Its massive body shook violently, rolling at the seabed.
As a water system spirit beast, sea beasts fear fire the most. By swallowing Fang Bai, the Unihorn Dragon Whale made an irreversible mistake, but regret was too late.
Seeing the power of the two flames erupt, Fang Bai continuously urged the Spirit Fire Power, hoping to inflict more damage on the Unihorn Dragon Whale.
Struggling and roaring, the Unihorn Dragon Whale stirred the seawater in that area, eventually sinking exhaustedly back to the bottom.
Fang Bai maneuvered the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron to the Unihorn Dragon Whale’s head, opening the cauldron lid, summoning the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade, and swung it upward fiercely.
With two light sounds, as the blade beams of the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade passed by, a deep bloody hole was carved into the upper jaw of the Unihorn Dragon Whale, and a fist-sized black bead fell out.
The bead, round in shape, emitted a dazzling black light, releasing extremely dense Water Spirit Qi.
“A beast core of a fourth-level Heavenly Tribulation spirit beast, containing thousands of years of accumulated Water Spirit Qi…”
Fang Bai held the black bead in his hand, observing it closely, his eyes revealing a look of delight.