Chapter Seventeen: Is There Still a Chance to Escape?

“Wuyuan, why didn’t you kill that injured Purple-Scaled Tiger Shark?” Qu Yi asked as soon as Wuyuan flew over.
Ugh!
Wuyuan expressed its dissatisfaction. With two more Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks coming to help, how was it supposed to drain the life from that injured one?
The six Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks lined up, staring fiercely at Qu Yi and his group, their menacing auras intensifying.
“I say, Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks, stop trying to scare us with your auras. If you have any spells, use them now,” Qu Yi stopped teasing Wuyuan and instead rebuked the sharks directly.
Seeing Qu Yi dismiss them once again, the six sharks trembled with rage, eager to crush him all at once.
“Human, don’t be so arrogant. You’ve invaded our ocean and killed our beasts, thus insulting the dignity of our marine monsters. If the Roaring Snake King, the ruler of this ocean, finds out, even if you return to land, you’ll never escape our pursuit,” one of the sharks snarled.
It turned out that this ocean had a monstrous ruler—the Roaring Snake King, who had reached the late Yuan Ying stage of cultivation. The entire ocean was the Roaring Snake King’s territory, divided into a hundred domains, with the six Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks controlling one of them.
Qu Yi certainly didn’t doubt the threat posed by these sharks, but what could they possibly do to him? With the Xianyun Sect destroyed, he no longer had to worry about these sea monsters attacking it. Any danger would now be the concern of the Fire Moon Sect, Xuan Yang Temple, and Jade宿 (宿) 译wei English wei：宿。 Sect.
“Heh, so what? Just because of the Roaring Snake King am I supposed to give up killing you?” Qu Yi replied indifferently.
Sure enough, the six sharks trembled again, clearly angered by his words.
“Since you insist on becoming enemies of us marine monsters, we six brothers certainly won’t fear you. Let’s fight again!” one of the sharks roared viciously.
Suddenly, the six sharks changed their positions to form a huge hexagonal space. Then, all six opened their mouths wide and emitted six golden orbs each.
“The 36 Golden Orb Net Killing Formation!”

The Purple-Scaled Tiger Shark had, through years of cultivation, independently devised such a group attack formation. Those golden orbs transformed into beams mid-air, forming a massive golden net aimed at trapping Qu Yi and his four companions completely. If successful, the energy from those thirty-six golden orbs would be transmitted through the net lines and poured into their bodies, leaving them severely injured if not killed outright.

“Heh, interesting!” Qing Wu Gui sensed the energy changes of this attack formation first before slowly drawing his black sword to defend himself.

“Black Yuan Net Prison!”

Qing Wu Gui unleashed the spell he had learned from the Thousand-Legged Spider, creating a large black net that immediately collided with the golden net.

Qu Yi, on the other hand, took out the Golden Thorn Formation Disc and handed it to the two Turtle Wyverns, then activated “Eight Clouds Converging into a Dragon” from the “Cloud Sword Eight Styles.” He released all the gold-colored true energy in his lungs, forming eight golden energy strands that quickly twisted into a dragon shape to confront the golden net.

The two Turtle Wyverns, having received the Golden Thorn Formation Disc, immediately used their own true energy to activate the formation, unleashing the full power of the Golden Thorn Formation. Countless golden spikes were sent at the golden net.

Wu Yuan was even more straightforward—he spat out a mouthful of his vital blood. That blood, as if possessed of life, formed a blood-red net to counter the golden net.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The golden net launched by the Purple-Scaled Tiger Shark encountered the black net, the golden dragon, the Golden Thorn Formation, and the blood-red net all at once, its advance completely blocked. As the various energies collided, violent explosions erupted, creating a vacuum zone in the entire seabed.

After activating “Eight Clouds Converging into a Dragon,” Qu Yi immediately took out a mid-stage Golden Pill of Water Element and swallowed it. Inside his body, he transformed the water element true energy into gold element true energy, restoring the amount of true energy in his lungs.

There were so many Golden Pills of Water Element that it far exceeded Qu Yi’s needs. Naturally, he didn’t have to absorb lower-grade spirit stones this time; instead, he directly consumed the pills to restore his true energy.

The six Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks, seeing that their most proud tactics had failed, felt despair. When they saw Qu Yi swallow a Golden Pill of Water Element right in front of them, they became furious and filled with fighting spirit.

“You brat can actually swallow pills directly? No wonder you came to the seabed to hunt monsters. Good, we’ll report this to the King of Serpents. Just wait to be hunted across the entire planet,” one of the Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks snarled viciously.

Hearing this, Qu Yi’s eyes turned icy as he declared, “Do you six Purple-Scaled Tiger Sharks still have a chance to escape?”

Upon hearing this, the six-headed purple-scaled tiger sharks burst into wild laughter. “Kid, though the six of us can’t defeat you, it’s also very difficult for you to beat us. If we leave, what can you do to stop us?”
Qu Yi didn’t even bother to reply. He sheathed his Red Nan Sword, and suddenly a transparent white jade long sword appeared in his hand.
A jade sword!
“You can die now,” Qu Yi snapped, before vanishing.
As soon as he took out the jade sword, he activated ‘Wan Li Cun Jin’, appearing right behind the six-headed purple-scaled tiger sharks and swinging the jade sword.
A dazzling beam of light pierced through one of the sharks. Compared to the stream of light emitted by Huai Qing when using his jade sword, this beam was much thinner. Yet, it was generated by Qu Yi using the mixed true energy from his dantian. That all-penetrating mixed true energy cut the shark’s body into hundreds of pieces the moment it entered.
Before the other five sharks could react, Qu Yi swung his sword again, sending another beam of light into one of them.
In an instant, he had killed two of the purple-scaled tiger sharks.
The remaining four sharks, sensing the sudden deaths of their brothers, were terrified. In despair, they rushed at Qu Yi, trying to tear him apart.
Qu Yi wouldn’t let them succeed. He vanished immediately. With his speed, which was close to the early Yuan Ying stage, those sharks couldn’t react in time. He reappeared behind them and sent out two more beams of light.
Two more sharks died in terror.
However, after firing four beams of light using the jade sword in a row, Qu Yi’s true energy was completely exhausted. This top-tier spiritual weapon was indeed beyond his current early Jin Dan cultivation level to use at will.
The remaining two sharks, seeing that Qu Yi’s true energy was gone, didn’t dare attack him either. They continued flying forward, intending to report the situation to the King of Snake Serpents.
But besides Qu Yi, there were also people like Qing Wu Gui.
Qing Wu Gui didn’t rush to check on Qu Yi either. He flew over directly and blocked the two purple-scaled tiger sharks. The two turtle dragons followed closely behind, cutting off their escape route.
As for Wu Yuan, he neither went to check on Qu Yi nor offered help against the sharks. Instead, he heartlessly devoured the essence and blood of the four sharks.
The two remaining sharks panicked. The situation had changed drastically—four of their six brothers were dead, and now they had to deal with Qing Wu Gui and the two turtle dragons. Their situation was extremely difficult.
“We must avenge our four brothers!”

Suddenly, the two purple-scaled tiger sharks quickly sent messages through their spiritual senses and decided to detonate their golden cores to kill Qu Yi. Qing Wu Gui saw the two purple-scaled tiger sharks and, desperately twisting his body, pushed aside the obstruction of the two turtle dragons before charging straight at Qu Yi, clearly intending to explode his golden core and perish together with him. “Asura Flying Kill!” Qing Wu Gui hurriedly used his ultimate move—the black sword flew out instantly, reaching the speed of the early Yuan Ying stage, and split one of the purple-scaled tiger sharks in two. However, the other purple-scaled tiger shark detonated its golden core the moment the black sword approached. Boom! With the explosion of its golden core, countless golden energy streams were released, most of which headed toward Qu Yi. At the moment the purple-scaled tiger shark detonated its golden core, Qu Yi smiled lightly, then disappeared in the shark’s last glance. Undoubtedly, Qu Yi had entered the Inch Realm Sphere. …… Above the Lu Nan Ocean, three figures were flying rapidly. These three were Ling Huo Shang Ren, Wan Chang, and Yong Shan. They had been searching since the coast for almost a month before finally arriving over this deep-sea area. “Hmm!” Ling Huo Shang Ren suddenly stopped in mid-air, his face showing signs of deep thought. “Lord, have you found anything?” Yong Shan asked eagerly. Over the past month, the three of them had been flying nonstop, finding it extremely boring, and they were all frustrated. At this moment, Ling Huo Shang Ren’s expression made Yong Shan realize that he might have detected Qu Yi’s whereabouts. “Wan Chang, Yong Shan, have you noticed this sea area? Monster beasts at the Golden Core stage seem very rare here. Unlike other sea areas where there’s at least one such beast within ten miles, here there’s only one within a hundred miles,” Ling Huo Shang Ren said with a smile. With his early stage of exiting his body, Ling Huo Shang Ren could use his spiritual senses to reach the seabed directly. “Lord, I understand what you mean. Qu Yi and the others must be in this sea area,” Wan Chang also smiled. Ling Huo Shang Ren nodded, waved his hand, and then entered the sea. Wan Chang and Yong Shan quickly followed suit, releasing their spiritual senses to search for Qu Yi and the others. …… At this time, Qu Yi, Bai Man, Qing Wu Gui, and Wu Yuan continued searching for monster beasts on the seabed. As for the two turtle dragons, they were put into spirit bags—there was no need for them until the time of battle.

“Qu Yi, there is a group of underwater volcanoes ahead. There, there’s a demonic beast in the later stage of the Golden Core phase—the Deep Sea Fire Dragon.” The voice of the Artifact God suddenly warned him.
In the oceans, there are very few demonic beasts that practice fire-based cultivation techniques. It had been several months since Qu Yi obtained a fire-type demonic pill, and he had only gotten one so far. Undoubtedly, after hearing the Artifact God’s warning, Qu Yi decided to go and kill that Deep Sea Fire Dragon.