Chapter 24: The Pitiful Sea Beasts

Nearly a thousand sea beasts spotted Qu Yi.
Wow—the fish-beasts let out eerie cries.
Roar—the sea dragons howled fiercely.
Moo—the manatees emitted angry sounds.
The sea beasts guarding the Sea Eye immediately rose, swam over, and let out deafening cries. Vicious undercurrents formed on the seabed, forming funnel-shaped currents that reached up to 20,000 meters deep.
Seeing the sea beasts enraged, Qu Yi smiled faintly and said, “Heartless, Wuyuan, Thunder Eye, Four-Armed Ape, Nine-Headed Snake, Crab—this is your perfect chance to fight. Begin.”
Qingwugui, Wuyuan, Thunder Eye Ice Crocodile, Four-Armed Water Ape, Nine-Headed Royal Snake, and Earth-Shaking Crab responded excitedly. They immediately drew out their divine weapons and charged at the enraged sea beasts.
Thunder Eye Ice Crocodile, Four-Armed Water Ape, Nine-Headed Royal Snake, and Earth-Shaking Crab were already divine beasts capable of transforming into humans. They all transformed at that moment, their massive sea beast forms turning into human bodies less than two meters tall. Armed with the divine weapons given by Qu Yi, they attacked the group of sea beasts together.
Qu Yi himself flew lightly to the side of the Sea Eye.
Qingwugui rushed ahead to where nearly 500 sea beasts had gathered. Each of these beasts possessed the strength of a cultivator with 70 million spiritual entities, capable of unleashing devastating spells with a single strike.
“Come on,” Qingwugui said with a faint smile as he charged into the sea beast herd.
These sea beasts were enormous, each at least 1,000 meters in size. Their bodies varied in structure—some sturdy, some ferocious, some soft, some elongated—making them seem like mere stones compared to Qingwugui.
As Qingwugui entered the sea beast herd, he faced their fierce attacks head-on.
Boom.
A platinum sea dragon opened its massive mouth, and a huge water sphere appeared beside Qingwugui. Inside the sphere were 70 million spiritual entities—a terrifying sight.
However, Qingwugui’s goal in fighting these sea beasts wasn’t to kill them immediately. Instead, he wanted to use this opportunity to hone his combat skills and strive to break through the final law of Earth. So, when the water sphere approached, he didn’t confront it but instead dodged his soul’s body, avoiding it and heading toward another sea beast.
Pop, doo, soo.
These sea beasts were violent and brutal. Upon seeing Qingwugui dodge, they immediately unleashed several world-destroying spells, all aimed at his body.
Dodge, keep dodging.
While avoiding the sea beasts’ spell attacks, Qingwugui kept his divine sense open, sensing the Earth law within each spell.

The sea beasts are ferocious and merciless, with spells that are extremely violent. Yet against Qing Wu Gui, all of them proved useless—none of the spells managed to hit him. Though the underwater scene appeared tumultuous and terrifying, neither fighter was injured, and this situation continued unabated. In such a dangerous environment, Qing Wu Gui’s skill in killing gradually improved.

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On the other side, Wu Yuan, wielding the Nine Heavens Rod, charged into a group of sea beasts—over four hundred of them in total. “I’ll kill you all,” Wu Yuan declared, his violent tendencies growing stronger as he rushed into the pack and shouted a defiant challenge. With each swing of the Nine Heavens Rod, the force equaled that of a hundred strikes combined, with nearly ninety million spiritual entities converging to form a massive rod that swept across the seabed, clearing out vast areas in one go.

Roar…

The sea beasts became enraged. Already angered by Wu Yuan’s threat to kill them, they were now further infuriated by his use of all ninety million spiritual entities to try and kill as many of them as possible at once—a thing they simply could not tolerate. Filled with rage, they took action, opening their mouths wide or twisting their bodies to create water balls, stone barriers, and earth walls in the direction the rod was coming, trying to block its attacks.

As spells collided, large areas of seabed were overturned and sand whipped up. Amidst the chaos and the beasts’ screams, Wu Yuan flew toward one of the tortoises with double shells. “Die!” he laughed as he landed on the turtle’s shell. The Nine Heavens Rod descended swiftly.

The tortoise’s back consisted of two layers of shell, giving it formidable defense but significantly reducing its speed. Thus, it couldn’t escape when Wu Yuan approached. At that moment, the ninety million spiritual entities formed a one-meter-long rod that struck the shell.

Crack!

The shell shattered, but only the upper layer cracked and slipped off, while the lower layer remained intact. Yet before the tortoise could recover from its shock, Wu Yuan swung the Nine Heavens Rod again, delivering another violent strike that shattered the lower layer of shell as well, completely destroying the turtle’s internal organs. “Tch, I still need to strike once more? How troublesome,” Wu Yuan complained about his performance.

In the outer regions of the sea, he could kill a sea beast with one strike. As he approached the central area, it took two strikes. Now, it took three to kill a tortoise with double shells—Wu Yuan was extremely dissatisfied.

Yet as soon as the words faded, the Nine Heavens Rod struck down like lightning, shattering the turtle’s head and killing it on the spot. The sand swirling on the seabed stopped, and all the sea beasts witnessed Wu Yuan killing the bivalve turtle just moments earlier, feeling a strange sense of fear. However, their ferocity quickly replaced fear, and with roars of anger, they launched another wave of collective spells at Wu Yuan. Wu Yuan’s speed was astonishingly fast; as the spells flew toward him, he had already darted in front of a 10,000-meter-long flat snake. This flat snake was pure white, with a soft body—its entire body was as thin as a palm yet stretched for 10,000 meters in length. The Nine Heavens Rod descended, followed by 90 million spiritual entities that formed a massive sword, aiming to cut the flat snake in half. At that moment, the flat snake’s speed became incredibly fast; its body bent sharply, forming a large arc in the middle, and when the spiritual sword struck, it instantly bounced back, splitting the spiritual sword into two. Wu Yuan was stunned—this flat snake had such incredible elasticity, and despite its seemingly soft body, it possessed abnormal defensive capabilities. “Interesting,” he thought quickly as he darted away. With agile movements, Wu Yuan reappeared in the center of the flat snake’s body and swung the rod again, delivering another powerful strike from top to bottom. This time, the flat snake couldn’t bend or deflect the rod—the seabed was too solid, and it was impossible for its 10,000-meter-long body to sink into the ground and form another arc. The rod struck the flat snake’s body with force. In an instant, the snake’s body split into two, and crystal-blue blood gushed out, filling the seabed with a dazzling blue light. Wu Yuan smiled, swung the Nine Heavens Rod once more, and the resulting spiritual rod struck the snake’s head, reducing it to fragments in a fatal blow.

“Hmph, you sea beasts only know how to lounge around this sea eye, enjoying comfort. Though you’re strong, you lack combat experience. Now let me give you a proper lesson.” Wu Yuan grew excited.
After killing two sea beasts in a row, Wu Yuan’s fighting spirit surged; a killing aura enveloped his entire body and spread outward—such was the might of a killing god.
Roar…
The sea beasts became enraged. Seeing Wu Yuan kill two of their kind in quick succession was an insult to all of them. They roared in fury, and soon spells began to fly toward him, aiming to reduce him to dust.
Wu Yuan’s body flashed. The more viciously the sea beasts attacked, the more excited he became. Intense battles—this was the way he wanted to cultivate.
Wu Yuan fought with growing courage.
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Meanwhile, the Thunder-Eyed Ice Crocodile, the Four-Armed Water Ape, the Nine-Headed Imperial Snake, and the Earth-Shaking Crab transformed into human form and joined the group of a hundred sea beasts.
“Divine beasts! These four sea beasts are already divine beasts!”
Upon seeing the four beasts turn into humans, the hundred sea beasts were terrified and tried to flee at once.
Divine beasts had an advantage over ordinary sea beasts—not only did they inherit the strength of humans, but they also possessed greater agility. Take the Earth-Shaking Crab, for example: its powerful offensive and defensive abilities from its beast form were retained in its human form, while its speed in the ocean was even greater and more agile than that of its beast form.
On top of that, each of the four beasts now wielded a divine artifact at the Divine General level, capable of unleashing devastating spells with a single strike.
Fearing for their lives, the sea beasts immediately chose to flee.
Seeing this, the Thunder-Eyed Ice Crocodile, the Four-Armed Water Ape, the Nine-Headed Imperial Snake, and the Earth-Shaking Crab smirked coldly before chasing after the fleeing sea beasts from four different directions.
Over the past ten thousand years, Qing Wu Gui and Wu Yuan had killed many sea beasts, which the four beasts had devoured. As a result, their strength now equaled that of a cultivator with eighty million spirit bodies.
The four beasts quickly caught up to the fleeing sea beasts, wielding their divine artifacts and firing spells that struck the sea beasts’ bodies, crippling them swiftly before delivering the final blow.
Of the battles taking place in three locations underwater, the fight involving the four beasts was by far the easiest, with a clear one-sided advantage.
By this time, Qu Yi had been at the edge of the sea eye for some time, his divine sense already probing deep into its depths, sensing around for a long while.
“Yin cold energy may be effective against Divine General-level cultivators, but it won’t be fatal to me. I’ll enter the sea eye and take back all the spirit body crystals,” Qu Yi suddenly said before leaping in.

It turns out that there is a very cold aura in the sea eye, which is why the thousand sea beasts can only absorb spiritual essence bubbles near the sea eye, but cannot enter the sea eye to absorb spiritual essence crystals directly.