485: The dragon's roar behind the space ripples

"Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect?"

Ku Li Pa uttered the Mandarin phrase with a twisted tongue. He wasn't in a hurry, even as the pursuers were about to reach him. His expression relaxed, and he asked curiously, "What does that mean?"

In the sky, Yang Dian, who had already stepped out of the spatial gate and arrived above the Eye of Gui Xu, was initially disappointed.

'The Eye of Gui Xu doesn't have a Dimension Channel either?'

'I've already visited all the locations marked by Zero, but why haven't I found a Dimension Channel?'

'It's not in these places?'

'That shouldn't be.'

'Could it be that the Dimension Channel only appears when the space-time of two worlds overlaps?'

As he muttered to himself, Yang Dian saw Ku Li Pa's relaxed expression after confirming the arrival of support, and he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

'This guy really has the qualities of a manga protagonist.'

'A small-time character striving to rise, harboring grand ambitions, persistent in Cultivating, easily trusted by others, but also easily trusting of others...'

Amidst his thoughts, Yang Dian saw merfolk, Janna, deep-sea frogs, shark-people, and other marine races surrounding Ku Li Pa.

"Ku Li Pa, let's see how you escape this time."

"I'm going to skin you alive, you despicable Human Race who has thrown the ocean into chaos! Your Soul will be imprisoned in Gui Xu and tormented for eternity!"

Ku Li Pa, with a greatsword on his back and his arms crossed, looked at the elder of the Sea Race who had spoken, and said calmly,

"Ugly octopus monster, what good are you besides ganging up on the weak and bullying the small?"

"If I had been born in the same era as you, my strength would have crushed you."

"Even if I was born thousands or tens of thousands of years later." He drew the Storm Greatsword from his back, its tip pointing directly at the 'octopus monster' with a pointed head, a pair of vertical pupils, and a ring of tentacles around its chin, but with a Human Race body, and said,

"In a one-on-one fight, I can still slice you into octopus balls!"

Seeing the octopus monster's furious expression, he laughed loudly and added,

"Don't mention it, your eldest grandson was quite delicious."

"You didn't hear how miserably he screamed when we cut off the tentacles from his neck, added some flour, and kneaded them into octopus balls."

The 'octopus monster' instantly flew into a rage, the ring of tentacles on its chin turning inky black.

"I am a Deep-Sea Squid!"

"Also, give me back my grandson's life!"

"I'm going to swallow you whole!"

Before he finished speaking, the Deep-Sea Squid had already lashed out with a sweet-smelling tentacle, accompanied by a 'sizzling' corrosive sound, directly at Ku Li Pa.

"Uncle Yao, when will our support arrive?" Ku Li Pa swung the greatsword in his hand, summoning hundreds of sharp wind blades to block the tentacle, then held the longsword in front of him.

Before support arrived, he had intended to engage in a war of words to buy time.

He hadn't expected the verbal assault to be so powerful that it directly enraged the Deep-Sea Squid into attacking.

Glancing at the other eager-to-move Sea Race powerhouses, Ku Li Pa's body began to spin in place again.

Whisps of breeze gathered around him from between heaven and earth, and a towering tornado began to rapidly form with him at its center.

"Uncle, this is my last bit of energy."

"If the Blade Storm ends before support arrives, we'll have to flee again."

As the storm formed, Avril also spoke, "The last spatial scroll was used by me three days ago."

"We have nowhere to run."

Ku Li Pa, who was rotating his greatsword with his body as the axis in the center of the Blade Storm, froze for a moment, then showed a determined expression.

"Since that's the case, I'll carve a path for you all!"

In the Dimension Gap.

Feeling Ku Li Pa's increasingly high spirits, Yang Dian, whose hands were idly empty, couldn't help but summon Mother Dragon Fina.

As he casually petted Mother Dragon Fina and watched Ku Li Pa's surging Aura and rapidly climbing strength, he couldn't help but exclaim in wonder,

"When the time is right, heaven and earth work together."

"To not be discouraged in a desperate situation, but instead to unleash one's inner Universe and Breakthrough his Realm in battle."

"Ku Li Pa, this guy is really becoming more and more like a manga protagonist."

"If it were a talent, it would be something like 'Bursting Potential'."

After all, even he had never tried to Breakthrough in battle.

Amidst his thoughts, Yang Dian sensed a Qi far exceeding that of an ordinary Star-Patrolling Realm Late Stage quietly approaching Ku Li Pa from beneath the sea.

'If I don't intervene, Ku Li Pa seems to be in trouble.'

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than the entire ocean began to glow with streaks of light.

Upon closer inspection, what was that light?

It was clearly countless densely interwoven lightning bolts.

Within the Blade Storm's range, the Deep-Sea Squid looked at the lightning bolts illuminating the sea surface and burst into wild laughter.

"Knowing that you, Human Race brat, have tricks, how could we not be fully prepared?"

"Human Race brat, just wait to die!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the lightning covering the entire sea surface converged into one, piercing through the Blade Storm and transforming into a towering beam of lightning that enveloped Ku Li Pa.

When the lightning dissipated, the Deep-Sea Squid nearly popped his eyes out of their sockets.

"How is this possible!"

"You only broke through to the Epic Realm Middle Stage not long ago, how could you be completely unharmed after a full-force attack from an Epic Realm Late Stage powerhouse!"

As his voice fell, he widened his already bulging eyes even further.

"Also, your strength has broken through?"

"How is this possible!"

Ku Li Pa, who had stopped the Blade Storm, held out a hand and said with some disbelief,

"Yes, even if I broke through, facing such a much stronger force, I should only be able to barely protect myself."

"How could I be completely unharmed?"

When that towering lightning bolt appeared, Ku Li Pa had already prepared himself for severe injury and near death.

But when the lightning struck him, he found that it passed directly through his body like an illusion, piercing the sky, causing him no harm at all.

Thinking this, he turned his head with some surprise and asked,

"Uncle Yao, has our support arrived?"

As Ku Li Pa's voice fell, the hearts of many Sea Race present immediately tightened.

Thunder Jiana, who had already left the ocean and appeared on the surface, with eight arms and a bright golden body, had her pupils shrink sharply.

They had heard Yao Xian say not to run, that support was coming.

But they hadn't paid attention before.

No matter how powerful Ku Li Pa and his companions' backing was, they were still just Human Race.

And while the Human Race was strong on the continent, this was the deep sea.

No matter how strong the Human Race was, they could only lie quietly in the sea.

But now, the facts seemed to be beyond their imagination.

'Without any energy fluctuations, he protected Ku Li Pa and helped him evade my long-prepared full-force attack.'

'What kind of strength is this?'

'How could these Human Race have such powerful backing?'

'If they had such powerful backing, why didn't they say so earlier?'

As Thunder Jiana wondered, she suddenly sensed something and abruptly looked up at the sky.

She didn't know when, but circles of spatial ripples had appeared there, gradually covering an area of ten thousand meters.

"Such powerful spatial power..."

Amidst Thunder Jiana's murmurs, a Dragon roar, as if from ancient times, boomed from behind the space-time ripples.

"Awoo~~~"

As the Dragon's roar spread, all the Sea Race froze in place.

"Dragon Clan?"