Feeling A’Yuan’s eagerness to fight through their mental link, Bai Qiu gradually relaxed.
He had simply been worrying too much.
A’Yuan’s growth hadn’t been limited to its increasing size.
The advantages it gained in water couldn’t be summed up with a simple phrase like “a fish in water.”
Perhaps A’Yuan had sensed the approaching Transcendent creature long ago and simply hadn’t considered it worth worrying about…
Even so, Bai Qiu had no intention of lowering his guard.
He flew to the highest point of one of the rocky peaks, fixing his gaze on A’Yuan and the enormous shadow approaching from the distance.
Huang Hailing also flew over on her Wind Spirit Hoverboard, but the aura surrounding Bai Qiu was simply too overwhelming.
She stopped about forty meters away instead of approaching him directly.
Rather than immediately watching the battle below, she found herself staring at Bai Qiu in confusion.
She couldn’t see any weapon in his hands.
It looked as though he was gripping nothing more than a raging gust of wind.
But that was impossible.
When Bai Qiu had just drawn Dragonslayer Star Breath Spear, the overwhelming pressure it released had made Huang Hailing’s heartbeat skip.
At present, Dragonslayer Star Breath Spear was no longer ranked first on the Weapon Rankings.
It had fallen to third place.
First place now belonged to the Heaven-Earth Shattering Bow, while second place was the Spiral Sonic Bow.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Bai Qiu attached the Wind Concealment Barrier Pearl to the butt of his spear.
The effect was even better than he’d expected.
From the outside, the spear’s shape was almost completely invisible.
Even if someone tried sensing it through mana fluctuations, the wind barrier emitted by the pearl concealed everything.
As long as Bai Qiu didn’t activate his Noble Phantasm or Converging Piercing Star, no one would ever see the spear’s true form.
In truth, the Wind Concealment Barrier Pearl had a fairly niche range of uses.
When worn on the body, it granted invisibility.
When attached to a weapon, it could also render that weapon invisible.
However, this only worked well with melee weapons such as swords, sabers, spears, and halberds.
For ranged weapons like bows or staves, hiding the weapon itself was meaningless.
Whether it was drawing a bowstring or chanting a spell, anyone could immediately tell what kind of weapon was being used.
Since Bai Qiu’s Concealment Cloak already granted invisibility, the Wind Concealment Barrier Pearl naturally ended up being paired with Dragonslayer Star Breath Spear instead.
Looking down from the cliff, one could clearly make out the slender A’Yuan below, facing a gigantic creature covered in countless tentacles.
Bai Qiu was no stranger to the monster.
It was a Kraken.
However, unlike the Cthulhu-form Kraken he had encountered in the Tower to Heaven, this one hadn’t undergone any mutation.
Its body was dark crimson.
Including its tentacles, it stretched nearly three hundred meters in length.
Compared to it, A’Yuan looked like a child.
Kraken
Level 40 Monarch-Class Boss
Strength: B-
Magic: D
Endurance: B-
Agility: C
Skills:
Regeneration
Ink Spray
Constriction
Enlargement
Extension
…
There wasn’t much to explain about its abilities.
They were simply heavily enhanced versions of the biological traits it already possessed.
It was a monster with extremely high stats but relatively weak combat mechanics.
Perhaps it was Huang Hailing’s first time seeing such an absurd creature.
She stood frozen in place.
She had already thought A’Yuan’s size was outrageous.
Yet even A’Yuan wasn’t as long as one of the Kraken’s tentacles.
“Are you afraid?” Bai Qiu suddenly asked.
Huang Hailing didn’t understand why he would ask such a question.
After swallowing nervously, she nodded.
“Hydra Two-Headed Serpents are about the same size as this thing. But they have two additional skills, making their combat mechanics much more dangerous,” Bai Qiu said calmly.
Hearing that, Huang Hailing couldn’t help but shiver.
She understood what he meant.
As someone who had chosen to remain behind and defend the Safe Zone, she had to overcome her fear of colossal monsters.
She might never actually encounter a Hydra Two-Headed Serpent.
But if she was too frightened by giant creatures to even fight them, then there was no point in her staying behind to defend the Safe Zone.
Meanwhile, A’Yuan had already begun battling the Kraken.
It swam incredibly fast, darting about like an agile loach as it weaved effortlessly between the Kraken’s tentacles.
Nearly a minute had passed since the battle began.
Despite all that time, the Kraken hadn’t managed to touch A’Yuan even once.
Its tentacles had even become tangled together several times.
A’Yuan’s scales were similar in color to the ocean, though a slightly deeper blue.
Bai Qiu had to activate the Sevenfold Arcane Crystallization Eyes just to clearly follow the entire battle.
As for Huang Hailing…
She couldn’t make out what was happening beneath the water at all.
She could only judge the situation from Bai Qiu’s reactions.
From his calm demeanor, she guessed that the azure serpent wasn’t in any real danger.
Even so, the constant explosions of water and crashing waves erupting across the sea made her heart pound nervously.
She simply couldn’t believe that, with such an overwhelming difference in size, A’Yuan could possibly defeat the Kraken.
……………..
A’Yuan’s Water Cannon was practically instant-cast in the water, with virtually no cooldown.
Although it was slightly less powerful than a fully charged shot, the advantage was obvious—it bombarded the Kraken so relentlessly that the creature was beginning to question its entire existence.
Realizing that its Water Cannons couldn’t inflict significant large-scale damage on the Kraken, A’Yuan turned and swam toward the deep sea.
Using his ocular technique to calculate its speed, Bai Qiu discovered that A’Yuan’s top speed underwater was actually faster than his own normal maximum burst speed.
No wonder the Kraken couldn’t lay a single tentacle on it.
After reaching the deep waters, where the color of the sea closely matched its scales, tiny specks of glowing light began drifting from A’Yuan’s body like falling pollen.
It continued to toy with the Kraken, endlessly circling around it.
No matter how enraged the Kraken became, there was nothing it could do.
Despite using every trick at its disposal, it couldn’t touch A’Yuan even once.
If A’Yuan was comparable to a Caster on land…
Then in the ocean, it was capable of filling every combat role.
As the Rippling Light spread through the sea, A’Yuan’s swimming speed increased even further.
Its Water Arrows now pierced straight through the Kraken’s tentacles with ease.
Although the wounds regenerated almost immediately, the pain drove the Kraken into a complete frenzy.
It wildly lashed out with tentacles that had grown thicker and longer, churning the entire ocean into chaos.
What it failed to notice, however, was that the surrounding waters had already become saturated with countless tiny glowing particles.
Even Huang Hailing noticed.
“Why is that entire stretch of the ocean sparkling?” she asked in surprise.
Bai Qiu didn’t answer.
He had no obligation to reveal A’Yuan’s abilities to anyone else.
Instead, he silently looked on with anticipation.
Just how powerful could A’Yuan become under the enhancement of Rippling Light?
The Kraken rampaged for more than ten minutes before finally calming down.
Apparently, it had abandoned any thoughts of hunting A’Yuan and decided to retreat.
But A’Yuan had no intention of letting it escape.
Positioning itself at the very center of the Rippling Light, it began charging its Water Cannon.
Immediately, the entire sea started roiling once again.
A gigantic whirlpool rapidly formed.
The surrounding seawater collapsed inward as though the entire ocean were draining into an enormous abyss.
Yet at the center of that whirlpool, an enormous sphere of water expanded almost instantaneously.
Even Bai Qiu could clearly feel the terrifying power building within it.
The Kraken, which was inside the sea itself, sensed it even more acutely.
It had never imagined that the tiny creature it regarded as prey possessed such a devastating trump card.
It immediately spewed a massive cloud of black ink, intending to flee.
But A’Yuan’s perception in the water was even sharper than Bai Qiu’s.
How could it possibly allow the Kraken to come and go as it pleased?
The fully charged Water Cannon transformed into Origin Water Curtain.
A colossal sphere of water shot from A’Yuan’s mouth and surged toward the Kraken.
The thick cloud of ink it had released to obscure its escape was instantly blasted apart.
— The end of the Chapter–
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