292: Blood Sea Ancestor was dumbfounded: My battle pet is acting cute?

A fishy wind blew against them, making one feel nauseous.

The sea below looked like boiling blood, churning with dark red foam.

Hundreds of red-robed, sinister-looking Cultivators rode blood pythons, surrounding a bone throne that had risen from the seabed like stars around the moon.

On the throne, a fleshy-faced, bald, bare-chested old man—Blood Sea Ancestor—was unscrupulously sizing up the five-colored warship in the sky with the greedy gaze of one seeing a fat sheep.

"Jie jie jie..."

Blood Sea Ancestor gave a strange laugh, fiddling with two skulls at his fingertips. His voice was hoarse and piercing. "Li Xiaoyao, after two hundred years, has your Dengxian Island regressed? Bringing such a flashy, broken ship—are you rushing to deliver gifts to Kunlun?"

At this, his gaze shifted, sticking firmly to Luo Tianfei who stood behind Lu Sheng, the lewdness in his eyes almost overflowing.

"However, this gift is quite unique."

"Since you're passing through the territory of my Giant Snake Gang, you know the rules, right?"

Blood Sea Ancestor stuck out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips, holding up two fingers. "First, leave behind all the Spirit Stones on the ship. Second, leave that little girl in purple to warm this Old Ancestor's bed."

"As long as these two conditions are met, this Old Ancestor will show mercy and let you stray dogs pass."

As his voice fell, the hundreds of gang members around him immediately let out strange cries and whistles in coordination. Hundreds of blood pythons roared simultaneously, creating a terrifying atmosphere.

On the bow's Deck.

Veins bulged on Elder Xing Tian's forehead. His fan-like hands had already reached for the giant axe on his back, killing intent boiling in his eyes.

"This is too much! A mere second-rate power dares to be so arrogant!"

"Grand Elder, let me go down and chop this old bastard!"

Li Xiaoyao's face was also as dark as water. The folding fan in his hand snapped shut with a "crack" as he was about to speak.

"Chomp."

A crisp chewing sound abruptly shattered the tense atmosphere.

Everyone subconsciously looked back.

They saw Lu Sheng still lying boldly on a recliner at the dragon's head, holding a half-eaten spirit fruit. His cheeks were bulging, and he didn't even lift an eyelid.

"A few incompletely evolved loaches—do they even deserve the Elders' personal attention?"

Lu Sheng swallowed the fruit, his tone lazy and oozing contempt from his very bones. "If word got out, people would think my Dengxian Island has no one left, needing to deploy a Spirit King just to kill a few fish."

As he spoke, he flicked his two fingers.

The fruit pit turned into a stream of light and shot into the sea with a "pfft," accurately hitting the forehead of a surfacing blood python, making a flower of blood explode.

Lu Sheng pulled out a tissue to wipe his hands and said to those behind him without looking back:

"Hey, Big Stupid Bird."

"You ate so much just now. Go and digest it a bit."

"Clear out this trash. Don't let them dirty my ship."

Luo Tianfei was staring at the lewd old man below with a face full of rage. Hearing this, her body suddenly stiffened.

Big Stupid Bird?

Was this bastard calling her?!

"Lu Sheng! I am of the Divine Phoenix Sequence, not your thug!" Luo Tianfei gritted her teeth, wishing she could blast Lu Sheng with a fireball first.

"Not going?"

Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow, his voice turning a bit colder. "Then should you spit out the Enlightenment Fruit and the treasury resources you just consumed?"

"You..."

Luo Tianfei was choked with anger, her chest heaving violently.

But she glanced at the trash below with their mouths full of filth, and the killing intent in her eyes eventually outweighed her annoyance with Lu Sheng.

"Humph! I'll settle this score with you later!"

Before her voice had even faded.

Boom!

A brilliant purple rainbow soared into the sky.

Luo Tianfei hovered in mid-air, her purple clothes fluttering. Nine Divine Phoenix phantoms behind her cried out in unison. Her originally beautiful face was now covered in frost, like a descending Valkyrie.

"A bunch of bugs from the gutter dare to covet the Divine Phoenix?"

"Die!"

With that shout, Purple Fire poured down like a meteor shower.

This was no ordinary flame; it was a high-temperature divine fire imbued with the laws of "Divine Phoenix Nirvana."

"Aaaah!!"

"Help!!"

Screams instantly merged into one.

These gang members, who were only at the early or mid-stages of Spirit Master, along with the blood pythons they rode, were evaporated into ashes the moment they touched the Purple Fire.

With just one strike.

The originally dense encirclement was instantly cleared of a large area.

On the warship, hundreds of Dengxian Island Core Disciples erupted in deafening cheers.

"Senior Sister Divine Phoenix is mighty!!"

"Burn these bastards to death!!"

Blood Sea Ancestor's expression on the throne changed drastically, his original contempt instantly turning into shock and rage.

He hadn't expected that a random young girl from this group of Dengxian Island outcasts would have terrifying combat power comparable to the early stage of a Spirit Ancestor!

"Good! Very good!"

Blood Sea Ancestor laughed out of extreme anger and slammed the armrest. "Refusing the toast only to drink the forfeit! Since you're looking for death, don't blame this Old Ancestor for being ruthless!"

"Blackwater, swallow her for me!!"

Rumble—!!

The sea surface exploded.

The massive shadow that had been cruising under the sea finally revealed its true form.

It was a Deep-sea Demonic Snake over three hundred meters long, covered in pitch-black scales, with a single horn on its head!

Level 35!

This was a genuine mid-stage Spirit Ancestor Demonic Beast, and fighting in its home ocean territory, its strength was comparable to a Level 37 human powerhouse!

"Roar————!!"

The demonic snake raised its massive head and opened its bloody maw, large enough to swallow a whole building, letting out a world-shaking roar at Luo Tianfei in the air.

A visible dark red soundwave, mixed with lethal poison and mental impact, blasted out like a heavy cannon.

Luo Tianfei's beautiful eyes narrowed. She formed hand seals, and the nine phoenixes merged into one to form a shield.

"Block it for me!"

Bang!!!

The soundwave slammed into the fire shield.

Originally, Luo Tianfei could have completely withstood this strike.

But at the moment of exerting force, a tearing pain suddenly came from deep within her lower abdomen.

The three ribs that Lu Sheng had kicked and broken in the treasury earlier—though they had been set—had their injuries flare up under this high-intensity collision of laws!

"Ugh!"

Luo Tianfei groaned, her face turning pale as the circulation of spirit source within her body stalled for a split second.

In a battle between experts, a single moment is the difference between life and death.

The fire shield instantly shattered.

The massive snake mouth, carrying a foul-smelling gale, rapidly enlarged in Luo Tianfei's shrinking pupils.

She couldn't dodge!

"Tianfei!!"

Li Xiaoyao cried out in alarm, his longsword about to unsheathe, but the aftershocks of the soundwave had sealed the space; rescue was simply too late.

Blood Sea Ancestor stood atop the snake's head, a cruel and wild laugh on his face. "Little girl, come into this Old Ancestor's belly!!"

The shadow of death enveloped her entire body.

Luo Tianfei closed her eyes in despair.

However.

Just as those fangs were only three meters away from her, and she could even smell the stench of rotting meat from the snake's mouth.

Time seemed to stand still.

On the warship's dragon head.

Lu Sheng finally moved.

He didn't stand up, didn't draw a gun, and didn't even put down the fruit in his hand.

He simply opened his eyes slowly.

In that instant.

His pitch-black pupils turned into a deathly, vast, and ashen grey that viewed all things as dust.

That was the Origin aura of the "Primordial Desolate Heaven Dragon."

It was the Imperial Power that stood at the very top of the myriad races' food chain.

Buzz——————!!!!

An invisible, non-lethal, yet Soul-freezing ancient dragon pressure—just a leak of it—smashed like a primordial divine mountain into the depths of the demonic snake's Sea of Consciousness.

A bizarre scene occurred.

The originally ferocious and violent Deep-sea Demonic Snake, about to swallow Luo Tianfei in one bite, had its massive vertical pupils shrink to the size of pinpricks in that instant.

It was extreme terror.

Like a newly hatched snake meeting its ancestor, meeting the god who established the rules.

Its iron-hard scales all stood on end with a "clatter."

"Awoo—?!!"

A terrified wail that didn't sound like a snake at all, but rather like a dog that had its tail stepped on, squeezed out of the demonic snake's throat.

Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze.

This three-hundred-meter-long behemoth performed a sudden brake in mid-air that defied physical inertia.

Because it stopped too abruptly, its massive body even twisted into a knot in the air.

Immediately after.

To show it had absolutely no intention of attacking, the demonic snake made a move that caused everyone's jaws to drop.

It violently shook its head.

As if shaking off a flea.

Blood Sea Ancestor, who was standing on its head ready to enjoy the fruits of victory, was caught completely off guard and sent flying hundreds of meters like a broken sack by the force of that shake, hitting the sea with a "plop."

And the demonic snake didn't even glance at its master.

It swam tremblingly to the side of the five-colored warship, pressing its originally hideous and terrifying massive head firmly against the sea's surface, not even daring to look up at the man on the dragon's head.

Its tail wagged cautiously, and it made pleasing "wuu wuu" sounds from its mouth.

Humble.

Utterly humble.

The whole place was dead silent.

The sea breeze blew, and the only sound was Li Xiaoyao's folding fan hitting the ground.

"This..."

Elder Xing Tian rubbed his eyes, looking at that Level 35 Demonic Beast that was as docile as a pug, feeling his worldview cracking.

Having narrowly escaped death, Luo Tianfei hovered blankly in the air, looking at the monster below that had almost eaten her, then at the man yawning on the recliner.

Lu Sheng... what exactly did he do?

He didn't even move a finger!

"Pah! Pah pah!"

On the distant sea surface, Blood Sea Ancestor emerged in a wretched state, spitting out seawater.

He looked at his battle pet, which usually possessed overwhelming ferocity but was now acting cute for survival, and was completely stunned.

"Blackwater!! Are you crazy?! Bite them to death for me!!"

Blood Sea Ancestor roared at the top of his lungs, his hands frantically forming beast-controlling seals.

But no matter how he urged it, the demonic snake remained motionless. To avoid suspicion, it even buried its head deeper into the water.

Atop the dragon's head.

The ashen grey in Lu Sheng's eyes slowly faded, returning to his usual annoying appearance.

He glanced at the exasperated Blood Sea Ancestor in the water, then at the trembling demonic snake.

"Too fishy."

Lu Sheng waved his hand with a look of disgust, as if shooing away flies:

"Something like this isn't even qualified to be my mount."

"Old man, let's go. Don't delay the Holy Land Grand Competition."

The five-colored warship roared, the dragon bellowed, and it instantly turned into a stream of light and sped away.

Leaving behind the demonic snake slumped on the sea as if granted a great pardon, and the dazed Blood Sea Ancestor still soaking in the water.

Until the warship completely disappeared over the horizon.

On Blood Sea Ancestor's fleshy face, terror faded, replaced by extreme malice.

He quietly pulled a pitch-black Jade Slip from his robe and crushed it.

An invisible ripple instantly transmitted into the distance.

"Dengxian Island..."

"Very well. Since you're so arrogant, then go and... have a good clash with our Young Lord!"