120: Smash him with a slipper! (3rd update, please subscribe)
Chapter 119: Smashed to Death with a Slipper! (3rd update, please subscribe)
Lei San rode the Bilin Flying Fish and, in the blink of an eye, rushed out of Yingtian Island, then arrived in front of the Underwater Great Wall.
During non-war times, sections of the Underwater Great Wall would lower, forming a massive waterway to facilitate the entry and exit of people and ships.
Because the Southern Wasteland Sea's Four Great Allied Armies had just retreated, people were still apprehensive, so at this time, the waterway was sparsely populated, with few people around.
Lei San was clearly familiar with the Beast Tamer stationed at the waterway entrance; he handed over his identification and greeted him, then, with Jiang Chen, reactivated the Bilin Flying Fish, floored the accelerator, and sped towards a direction deep into the Barren Sea!
The journey was like a wide, empty highway; the Bilin Flying Fish had its accelerator pressed to the floor, speeding all the way!
A long trail of water sprayed up behind Jiang Chen, reaching seven or eight meters high.
Jiang Chen silently observed the speed of the Bilin Flying Fish, feeling that its current speed was comparable to a high-speed train from his previous life, full of speed and passion!
This aquatic vehicle, the flying fish, was truly convenient!
The Bilin Flying Fish was currently using Water Escape and gliding flight skills.
Water Escape is a mid-tier skill, and the Stealth Escape that Little Nine learned is also a mid-tier skill.
Stealth Escape focuses on the 'stealth' aspect, while Water Escape focuses on the 'escape' aspect.
For long-distance travel, Water Escape is naturally the fastest.
However, for short-distance maneuvering and close-quarters combat, Stealth Escape is naturally more potent, more elusive, and silent!
Moreover, after its proficiency increases, Stealth Escape can grant invisibility, which Water Escape cannot compare to.
The two men and one fish swiftly advanced across the water like a shuttle. Half an hour later, when a narrow black line suddenly appeared on the sea surface in front of Jiang Chen and Lei San, Lei San immediately patted the back of the Bilin Flying Fish.
The Bilin Flying Fish immediately slowed down, like a car letting off the accelerator, gliding towards that black line in the distance.
Jiang Chen stared intently at the black line on the emerald-blue sea ahead. As they approached, the black line gradually enlarged, turning into a thick, dark line.
The thick black line was extremely dark, as if it were the purest black in the world.
As the Bilin Flying Fish slowly approached, that patch of black immediately began to expand, occupying the entire sea surface!
It was as if the entire sea had turned into a black ocean!
Jiang Chen looked up at the 'blackness' below, and his muscles couldn't help but stiffen slightly.
It wasn't that the seawater had turned black; rather, a bottomless abyss had appeared in the seawater below!
This underwater abyss was extremely deep and extremely wide, and they were currently directly above this underwater abyss!
That's why there was an illusion of being in a black ocean.
For people with bathophobia, being above an underwater abyss is not a pleasant experience.
Although you clearly know you are floating on the water, your heart just has an illusion, fearing that the next moment you will be suddenly dragged into the black, bottomless abyss!
Or that some terrifying monster will suddenly emerge from the dark abyss and swallow you whole!
If this worry were in his previous life, Jiang Chen could comfort himself by believing in the power of science, not superstition or feudalism.
But in this extraordinary water world, Newton and Darwin would cry... Jiang Chen took a deep breath, raised his gaze, and avoided looking at the sea below to overcome this inexplicable fear.
Even the Bilin Flying Fish seemed to be afraid when they reached this point; it slowly stopped above the abyss, motionless!
Flying fish brother, what's wrong with you not moving... You're not scared to pee, are you? If you're scared to pee, turn around and go!
Jiang Chen glanced at Lei San, but saw him staring intently ahead, without any reaction.
Jiang Chen followed Lei San's gaze, and upon seeing it, his heart immediately trembled slightly!
He saw that about three or four thousand meters away from them, directly above the center of the underwater abyss beneath them, a yellow dinghy had appeared at some point!
On the dinghy, there was an old man.
His hair was messy and disheveled, like a bird's nest.
He wore old, brown linen clothes, just like the dinghy, and a pair of green flip-flops on his feet, looking like an old beggar.
The old man shook the wooden gourd in his hand, and when he heard a delightful sloshing sound inside, his face immediately lit up with joy.
He sat cross-legged on the dinghy, took a sip after pulling out the wooden stopper, and then cast the wooden fishing rod in his hand, throwing the hook into the sea.
Upon closer inspection, this fishing hook was actually made of wood, and it was a straight hook, with nothing on it.
The old man's eyes were half-closed with sleepiness, as if he didn't realize he hadn't put bait on the hook yet.
He seemed to be asleep, closing his eyes and sitting on the small boat as if in deep meditation.
Suddenly, a wave crashed, and the small boat swayed violently from side to side.
However, the old man remained motionless, like a nail driven into the wooden boat.
His old, unassuming wooden fishing rod also remained perfectly still, hanging quietly in the seawater.
Watching this scene, Jiang Chen's eyes gradually widened, and then his jaw dropped!
This... someone is actually fishing on an underwater abyss?
And what's with this straight fishing hook?
Learning from Jiang Taigong, waiting for those willing to be hooked?
This is too ridiculous... The next moment, suddenly!
As the old man's straight fishing hook was thrown into the ink-black abyss, Jiang Chen suddenly felt the entire world abruptly fall silent!
The slight ripples beneath the dinghy and the Bilin Flying Fish were forcefully flattened, and it was as if an invisible force held Jiang Chen's mouth, preventing him from speaking a single word!
Jiang Chen's heart trembled!
He was too familiar with this scene!
He had experienced this before when he first encountered the Commander Rank Unicorn Iron Whale and City Lord Gong!
This was due to an overwhelming disparity in strength; the moment the opponent slightly revealed their aura, you would lose the ability to move freely!
The world was silent, and even time seemed to stand still.
The scorching sun hung high above the heads of the three. Jiang Chen and Lei San were drenched in sweat in an instant, large beads of sweat slowly trickling down their cheeks, but neither could wipe it away.
The old man on the dinghy ignored Jiang Chen and Lei San, even silently pulling out a straw hat from his clothes and putting it on his head.
Jiang Chen: "..."
Lei San: "..."
Stinky old man, we're sunbathing with you, but you put on a hat yourself, shameless!
Time continued to flow slowly. At this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly noticed that the sea surface beneath the old man was stirring without wind; waves slowly began to roll, becoming increasingly violent and frightening!
The waves were one meter high, two meters high, three meters high!
No matter how violent the waves were, the old man remained as steady as a rock, and his fishing rod was as heavy as a thousand jun, unmovable by the pounding seawater!
When the waves surged to a height of seven or eight meters, like a raging storm, Jiang Chen and Lei San, who had been standing in the distance, immediately saw a black-red figure suddenly appear directly beneath the old man's dinghy!
The black-red figure gradually enlarged, like a red lantern being pulled from the bottom of the sea.
As it continued to emerge from the water, the red lantern became increasingly vivid and massive!
The next second, Jiang Chen and Lei San immediately held their breath tightly!
Even the Bilin Flying Fish beneath them stiffened completely, its hairs standing on end, unable to breathe!
The Bilin Flying Fish wanted to struggle violently, but it, like Jiang Chen and Lei San, was completely unable to move!
Looking at the sea surface ahead again, at this moment, a monster, over ten meters long, with fangs all over its mouth, covered in blood, like a skinned zombie fish, slowly emerged from the depths of the abyss!
That's right, this was precisely the Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish, which the entire Lingnan Province hated to the bone!
And judging by the aura it was emitting, it had actually reached the General Rank!
Above Commander Rank, General Rank!
A Level Five Sea Beast!
With this strength, many small cities in Lingnan Province would find it difficult to resist!
And at this moment, after this Level Five Sea Beast swam out of the dark abyss, it hesitated for a moment, then actually bit onto the old man's empty, straight fishing hook!
"Boom!!!"
The old man, who had been like an old monk in meditation, moved!
His right hand suddenly lifted upwards with a surge of immense power!
Instantly, this General Rank Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish formed a giant shadow, rapidly appearing from beneath the wooden boat!
The shadow's area grew larger and larger!
It was like ink dropped onto water, rapidly spreading outwards.
Finally, compared to this shadow, the wooden boat was like a leaf floating on its surface!
Big!
Too big!
The shadow's area was already the size of a house!
The next moment, boom!
Waves shot up to the sky!
A red fish, over ten meters long, suddenly burst out from under the water, leaping onto the sea surface!
"Roar!!"
The moment it emerged from the water, this General Rank Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish seemed to awaken. Its furious roar echoed across the entire sea.
The huge waves it stirred up caused a heavy downpour over the heads of Jiang Chen and Lei San!
As the Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish emerged from the water, the old man, who had been sitting cross-legged on the wooden boat, also lightly pushed off with his feet and leaped up.
This leap was dozens of meters high!
The old man took off the flip-flop from his right foot, and then, with one slipper, he flew it at the opponent's head!
"Slap!"
A crisp sound echoed through the heavens and earth!
Jiang Chen wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but when the old man's slipper struck, he seemed to see something injected into the slipper.
"Boom!"
The massive fish, at an even faster speed than it had burst from the sea, turned into an afterimage and plunged into the sea like a cannonball!
With this, the downpour near the small boat intensified!
The old man landed back on the small boat, pulled out his gourd flask from his embrace, took a sip, and grumbled discontentedly, "It's fine to come out of the water, but why stir up such big splashes?"
A moment later.
The fifteen-meter-long Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish resurfaced.
Looking at its dark red fish head, its scales and bones were shattered to pieces, and its white fish eyes stared wide open in death!
Because of its Undead Armor skill, the Red Skull Devil Fanged Fish's defense was among the best of its rank, yet in the hands of this old man, it couldn't even withstand a single slipper!
And looking at the slipper in the old man's hand, after finishing off a powerful General Rank sea beast, it was still perfectly intact, without the slightest damage!
It seemed that this was no ordinary flip-flop.
(Jiang Henian is a character I really liked in my previous book, so he's mixed in here. There should only be this one, and no others, so those who have read the previous book can rest assured, and those who haven't can rest even more assured...)
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