Chapter 49 (2/2)

At this particular time, even Ye Yuanxue joined in the search for the object. Despite it all, what made Jiang Xiaofan speechless was that the girl had somehow found a small boat and calmly stood on top of it.

She waved at Jiang Xiaofan and suggested, “Perverted Wolf, come on aboard.”

Jiang Xiaofan violently shook his head. There’s no way that I will get up on there! The reason was that once he was up there, he would have to immediately lie down on the boat.

Puzzled, she snapped at him, “What’s up with you?! Even though soaking in the water feels very nice, soaking too long in it is not good for you! Besides, that’s deep water! You only get motion sickness from flying swords, right?”

Jiang Xiaofan continued to shake his head. I’m fine. As long as I don’t use the flying sword technique, I won’t get sick. I’ll just swim across there!

To be honest, what Jiang Xiaofan really wanted to say was that he also suffered from motion sickness on boats. Once he got aboard, he would lose all his strength. However, he didn’t have the courage to speak the truth. He was afraid that once he told her, Ye Yuanxue would then ask him why he didn’t get nauseous from walking instead.

There were at least eighty, if not a hundred, cultivators who had come to the Sea of the Setting Sun. Nearly everyone headed for the deep zone by maneuvering their flying swords in midair while scanning the waters with their spiritual awareness.

“What’s happening? Where is this smell of blood coming from?!”

A while later, Jiang Xiaofan also sensed that something wasn’t right. The scent of the seawater increasingly smelled like blood. He scooped some water in his hands and examined it. All of a sudden, his eyes bulged. Gods! This looks like red ink!

The discovery of the red water startled him, and chills ran down his spine. He then gazed up. The color of the waters in the Sea of the Setting Sun was nearly identical to that of the sunset. Yet, the water in his hands was blood-like. Most importantly, the stench of blood filled his nostrils.

“Retreat! Get out of there at once!”

He shouted to the people in front of him. His instinct told him that this place was full of danger, and an ominous feeling welled up inside of him. He had goosebumps, and his hair stood on end.

Looking at the cultivators who stared back at him with a dazed expression, he hollered again, “This area’s treacherous! Leave here immediately!”

After he had warned them, he ignored them and desperately pushed Ye Yuanxue’s boat with all his might towards the shore. Because his cultivation was based on the peerless, primordial Buddhist Sutra, his spiritual instinct was stronger than that of an average cultivator’s. He could feel a giant shadow beneath the waters about to swallow him up. His entire body trembled with fear.

Despite Jiang Xiaofan’s two warnings, the other cultivators paid no heed and merely laughed.

In their eyes, he was just a chump who couldn’t maneuver the flying sword and relied solely on swimming. Nobody was willing to believe his words. Ye Yuanxue, who accompanied him, was definitely beautiful, but they saw her as someone who also couldn’t maneuver the flying sword because she had to use a mortal boat as a means of transportation. They shook their heads at the two and moved on ahead into the deep zone.

Only Ye Yuanxue knew that Jiang Xiaofan would not say something without reason. She stood back up on the boat and released her powerful spiritual awareness. Even though her instinct wasn’t as strong as Jiang Xiaofan’s, she could sense a certain sort of change occurring in the water.

“Get out of there this instant! You guys, seriously….” Ye Yuanxue muttered. She wanted to warn them out loud, but before she could do so, an enormous tentacle rose above the water. Swift like lightning, it *pff* pierced a hole through the flying sword into the nearby body of a male cultivator. As his innards spilled out, the water below him was dyed crimson.

The scene erupted into chaos, and the cultivators lost their calm. At that moment, multicolored sword lights and saber qi filled the sky and ferociously attacked the tentacle from all angles. A vast number of them even raced towards the shore on their flying swords with horror in their expressions.

Just then, approximately a dozen large columns of water rose from the surface of the sea. Each water column was encircled by a tentacle with numerous, hideous suctions on it. What was even more terrifying was that, in the blink of an eye, the bodies of several cultivators had been pierced through. Blood further mingled within the seawater.

Not long after, the body of a huge monster emerged. It was as massive as a mountain and covered in small spikes. Its body above the water was at least thirty meters in height, and below it was countless tentacles. There were at least thousands of them. Its most noticeable feature was its pair of red eyes. Each was the size of two small houses combined, and its appearance terrorized the people down below.

“Wow! What a giant squid!”

Jiang Xiaofan’s eyes bulged so far that they nearly fell out of his sockets. He gulped loudly in nervousness.

Running for his dear life, he pushed Ye Yuanxue’s boat with every ounce of energy in his body but soon realized that tragedy had struck. His feet seemed to be entangled with something. He could not break free.

*Woosh*

He was abruptly hauled into the air. He then discovered that a disgusting tentacle had been wrapped around his left leg and nearly vomited at sight of it. Without a moment’s hesitation, he balled up his right hand into a fist and viciously punched at the tentacle.

He was soon overcome with helplessness. His current body strength was incredibly strong, and even a Phantom Saint cultivator would ball up in pain from his punch. Unexpectedly, his punch didn’t seem to have any effect on the squid-like monster. It was as if he was hitting a block of cotton.