Chapter 745: Chapter 34 Going Out to Sea Chapter 745: Chapter 34 Going Out to Sea “Fuyue, do you yield?”

Li Yan’s short hair stood on end as the Disaster Water and Dragon Mist intertwined into black and white streams that spread from his spear along the spine of the giant whale, tightly encircling the Fuyue Giant Whale like a spiderweb.

A roaring bellow!

The Fuyue Giant Whale let out a sky-shattering roar. With a twist of Li Yan’s hand, the Dragon Son spear transformed the once half-black, half-white web into a thick milky white. The Dragon Mist, like chains capable of holding thousands of pounds, relentlessly washed over the giant whale’s flesh and soul. The more it struggled, the stronger the effect of the Dragon Mist became.

The Fuyue Giant Whale struggled fiercely for a moment. The more it struggled, the faster its magical power and spirit drained away, and before long, it lost the strength to resist.

Now that the outcome was decided, Li Yan looked up at the beautiful, multicolored coral atop the Fuyue Giant Whale’s head and noticed one coral branch was missing. Not concerned, he asked again, “Fuyue, do you yield?”

Unexpectedly, the Fuyue Giant Whale paid no attention and stopped moving, closing its eyes, obviously playing possum. The web under Li Yan’s spear instantly turned from white to a profound black. Corrosive sounds intensified as countless sharp, tiny tendrils emerged from the web, burrowing into the whale’s thick hide, grinding like serrated blades and leaving intercrossing scars and pocked wounds.

The Fuyue Giant Whale, in pain, struggled once more, but this time it lacked its initial ferocity. The Disaster Water web wrapped tighter, sinking more than half a meter deep into its flesh, making the wounds look even more horrifying.

Unable to bear the pain, the Fuyue Giant Whale let out two mournful cries that carried a hint of submission. It could speak human language, but Li Yan didn’t care. He exhaled, and the Disaster Water net enveloping the whale shrank back up his spear, and he released Fuyue.

Li Yan flourished his spear, and a mass of gold medicinal liquid the size of a truck’s head gathered from the sea and hovered above the shaft. This golden liquid was made by Li Yan from the herbs of the Heavenly Mother Ashram, using Soul-forgiving Water as a catalyst to create a potent medical bath–much more potent than the usual kind and truly capable of healing flesh back to the bone.

With a flick of his spear shaft, the golden liquid, like sweet dew, seeped evenly into the gaping wounds of the giant whale. The injuries visibly stopped bleeding and swelling, significantly restoring the whale’s spirit as well.

Behind Li Yan, a vast water vortex emerged, dark and profound. The Fuyue Giant Whale swam around the vortex twice, gave it a light sniff, and it was apparent from its swimming motion and lowing that it was not quite satisfied with its new home, but still dove in. This action stirred up a storm, sweeping numerous reef stones, corals, fry, and sea species along with it.

In the depths of Li Yan’s black pupils, a flash of blue lightning appeared, signaling the presence of the demon king Wu Zhiqi. Unlike the usual wild ape, Wu Zhiqi was now completely transformed. It wore Bronze Tiger Shoulder armor, a Silver Heart Protecting Mirror, a Snow Armor Battle Skirt with red satin brocaded robes underneath, and Patterned Dragon Dark Gold Boots on its feet.

The most eye-catching feature was the Big White Cloak on its back, embroidered with various fantastic creatures including toads, centipedes, and turtles, all vivid and fierce. A colossal coral-horned whale also glided up from the edge of the cloak, occupying one diagonal side before settling down.

“You have subdued a top-class exotic species: the Fuyue Giant Whale!”

“Travelers of Yan Fu, please note! Wu Zhiqi’s Calamity Faction power bonus has reached saturation. Please upgrade your Divine Court.”

Fuyue Giant Whale
Dao Practice: Three thousand five hundred years
An ancient whale with bloodlines nearly extinct, it bears forty-eight corals each half a zhang long atop its head, resembling the mythical trees in the Lunar Palace, mesmerizing and wondrous. Those who see it have their minds swayed, unable to extricate themselves from its beauty.

ps: Fuyue Coral comes in seven colors. Using half-trickery and half-coercion, the Jiudou Sect Master once cut off a less-than-three-foot piece of purple coral from the head of the Fuyue Giant Whale to serve as a seat, which was the essence of his accomplished illusion technique.

After subduing the Fuyue Giant Whale, Li Yan’s figure could not help but sway twice, and his face turned pale, obviously depleting a huge amount of energy.

The strength of the Fuyue Giant Whale is comfortably in the first tier among the host of demons, second only to the monstrous figures of Ma Ling and Yan Gong. Looking across the entire Heavenly Mother Ashram, there are but a few who could speak lightly of defeating it. Among the eighteen great demons that Li Yan had subdued, the Fuyue Giant Whale was truly the foremost in magical power without a doubt.

If it had been Li Yan who had just mistakenly entered the Heavenly Mother Ashram, unable to use his Qilian Swordsmanship that specialized in defeating humanoid figures, he would have at most ended up in a mutual defeat with the Fuyue Giant Whale, and it would have been impossible for him to subdue the great demon.

Therefore, Li Yan found a loophole.

His foundation as a water official came from the contributions of the Calamity Faction of Wu Zhiqi. Every time he subdued a powerful kind, the Calamity Faction would increase his divine power a little, enhancing his abilities to create and manipulate Disaster Water and Dragon Mist. Having already subdued twelve great demons including Tunjin Demon Toad, Omniscient Thousand-Foot Bodhisattva, and Dream Sea Dragon Turtle as his underlings, the bonuses from the Calamity Faction were nearly saturated. Whether in terms of the total volume of unusual water or the precision of control and output, both had increased by more than one level compared to before. After several days of contemplating Yan Gong’s tentacles, feeling he had benefited from it, he went to battle with the Fuyue Giant Whale.

Having dominated the ocean for nearly ten thousand years, Yan Gong’s mastery over water magic and her bravery in naval combat were unrivaled. Even with Ma Ling’s more powerful magic, she ultimately fell to Yan Gong’s watery tactics, which is telling.

Li Yan wove a three-mile-wide net of water, the “Great Sage Heaven Net,” using Disaster Water and Dragon Mist, a technique he devised through analogy after contemplating Yan Gong’s tentacles. It was infinitely adaptable, designed to capture great demons of the sea, and indeed, it was successful in one battle.

After a short rest, Li Yan finally had time to look at the other great demons waiting amidst the reef forest and noticed a faint scent of blood in the air. The place was in disarray, the Water Bear Lord was nowhere to be seen, and in his place stood a blue-faced boy.

Before Li Yan could speak, the boy took a step forward and made a bow: “The Water Bear Lord has been eaten by me. I am the little demon Cui Tuoyu, willing to go through fire and water for Water Lord Li Yan, without any hesitation.”

Li Yan was startled momentarily. He had not anticipated the competition among demons to be so ferociously direct. As he was about to speak, the recent calm in the ashram was disturbed once again, this time more violently and urgently than the fall of the Fuyue Giant Whale. Within sight of all the demons, countless demons were fleeing and trampling from the southwest, as if doomsday had descended.

“What has happened?”

Saint Watson stopped a fleeing clam demon.

Seeing that it was Saint Watson, the clam demon’s eyes widened: “You still dare to stand here? A little demon was discussing the joke you made up about Li Jiang with a companion, which was overheard by the Yaksha mother. Now that she knows everyone was laughing at her during the meeting, she’s furious and wants to tear you and Li Yan apart to vent her anger.”

Li Yan held his forehead with his hand. Now was not the time to argue with Li Jiang about “This has nothing to do with me.” He realized that he had delayed too long in the ashram and had done almost all he should, so he hurriedly gathered the remaining seventeen great demons into his Water Palace. Without a moment to care about the turmoil inside his Water Palace, he grabbed Saint Watson by the collar, “It’s time to go ashore!”

With that said, he rolled up a wave of water and fled towards the sea surface.

In the ashram, the demons fell into chaos, and those who ran too slowly, regardless of size, were shredded by the tentacles. Several powerful great demons, angered by Yan Gong and seeing her seriously injured and yet to recover, summoned a group of demons to charge at her, plunging the ashram into chaos instantaneously.

“Don’t forget what you promised me, Li Yan!”