Over two months later, a streak of azure pa.s.sed over a certain region of the ocean, flying along at low alt.i.tudes.
All of a sudden, the streak of azure light swerved around before flying toward another direction at several times faster than its original speed, covering a distance of over 100 feet in the blink of an eye.
As such, the monstrous fish that was trying to attack it chomped down onto empty air, but the fish whipped its tail through the turbulent waves to try and pounce toward it again.
Right at this moment, a loud cry rang out from within the azure light, and several tens of azure threads shot forth in a flash before revolving around the fish.
The ma.s.sive sea beast was instantly sliced into countless pieces, and its remains plummeted from the sky amid a rain of rank green blood that stained the entire area of the nearby ocean.
The streak of azure light then continued onward toward along its original route in an unhurried manner.
Within the azure light, a young man who appeared to be in his twenties was standing motionlessly atop a ma.s.sive azure sword with an indifferent expression on his face.
He was none other than Han Li, who had already been searching for the whale-like sea beast in this region for over 10 days.
Even though he hadn"t been searching for his target for a long time, he was still struck by the feeling that he was searching for a needle in a haystack.
During these past few days, he had slain several similar insolent sea beasts that had attempted to attack him, but he"d found no leads indicating the whereabouts of the sea beast he was searching for.
Thankfully, there were many tiny islands in this region, and they were separated by distances of several tens of kilometers at most. As such, Han Li wasn"t concerned about spiritual Qi expenditure. All he had to do was rest on one of those islands for a day or two every once in a while, and his magic power would be fully replenished.
Of course, during this time, Han Li wasn"t just solely searching for that sea beast. If one could look into his body, then they"d discover a golden and azure Nascent Soul that was several inches tall situated within his dantian, blasting forth a constant stream of nascent flames to refine the small crystalline s.h.i.+eld that it was holding.
Most of Han Li"s magic power had been dedicated to this purpose.
After dissecting the monstrous moth that he"d slain earlier, he"d procured over 100 scales from it, and refined that small crystalline s.h.i.+eld using those scales in conjunction with some other materials.
The refinement process wasn"t very complex, but the materials required were rather special. Not only was this s.h.i.+eld extremely hard and resolute, it had even inherited the monstrous moth"s ability to refract light-based attacks, and that was quite a pleasing development for Han Li.
After a brief hesitation, he decided to refine this treasure into his body as well.
Aside from that, Han Li had also refined 360 flying sabers from the ma.s.sive wings of the moth, each of which was around an inch in size. These flying sabers were all extremely sharp and could easily tear through normal armor and s.h.i.+elds.
Unfortunately, the moth"s beast core had been completely shattered. Otherwise, Han Li would"ve been interested in investigating the intricacies behind the monster"s peculiar roars.
After all, he still didn"t know how those soundwave attacks had managed to trigger such a reaction from the true spirit bloods within his body, and this presented quite an unsettling notion to him.
Who knew if his 12 Awakening Transformations possessed some kind of weakness that he was unaware of? What if he were to encounter an enemy with a similar ability in the future? Would the same occurrence repeat itself?
Han Li pondered these thoughts while aimlessly scouring the ocean down below with his eyes, as well as his spiritual sense.
According to Qing Xiao and her companion, this whale-like sea beast had been sighted many times in this area of the sea during the past century. As such, as long as he was willing to expend some time, there was a good chance that he"d encounter it sooner or later.
Most importantly, the sea beast possessed a type of extremely potent water movement technique that made it very difficult to kill.
However, during his search, he"d already devised some tactics to counteract this, so he was relatively confident in his ability to kill the sea beast after encountering it.
Han Li continued to sweep his gaze across the surface of the ocean, and his brows furrowed slightly.
There were some low-grade sea beasts in the nearby seabed, so the whale-like sea beast most likely wouldn"t be in this area.
With that in mind, the streak of azure light accelerated slightly as Han Li flew further into the distance.
Thus, days pa.s.sed by one after another.
Once every month or so, Han Li would rest on a small island for a few days to recover his magic power, then continued his search.
As a result, many of the slightly more powerful sea beasts were struck by ill-fortune.
Those who dared to attack Han Li were naturally all slain with ease, but those that were smart enough to avoid Han Li were left alone after he ascertained that they weren"t the target that he was searching for.
Han Li was still yet to find the sea beast that he was looking for, but he didn"t encounter a few signs that suggested that it had pa.s.sed through certain areas that he was searching through.
There was even an occasion where he"d found a ma.s.sive piece of beasthide that the sea beast had shed, and it was extremely st.u.r.dy and resolute, making it an exceptional tool refinement material.
However, Han Li didn"t use it to refine any suits of armor. This section of beasthide was indeed quite st.u.r.dy, but it definitely still couldn"t compare to his powerful body.
Instead, he refined a few talismans using the material, including a set of Nine Palaces Heavenly Talismans, as well as several Armor Origin Talismans and High Zenith Invisibility Talismans.
Among the talismans recorded on that half-page of the Golden Jade Tome, the Heavenly Halberd Talisman was the only one that he still couldn"t refine.
However, ever since Han Li had progressed to the Spatial Tempering Stage and gained superior control over the world"s origin Qi, a whole new world seemed to have been opened up to him, and he received some inspiration that took him closer to being able to refine the Heavenly Halberd Talisman.
Of course, he still didn"t know when he"d be able to refine the talisman, but he was at least making progress.
Time flew by in a flash, and before Han Li knew it, he"d ben roaming this region of the ocean for several years.
However, he wasn"t in any hurry. He"d only just recently progressed to the Spatial Tempering Stage, so there were still many things that he had to slowly learn over time. During these past few years, he was unable to cultivate his magic power much, but he"d made large strides in many of his cultivation arts and abilities.
On this day, Han Li was flying along at a leisurely rate while pondering a certain cultivation art as usual when he suddenly heard a strange cry erupt in the extremely far distance.
This was a cry that he"d never heard before, and he stirred as blue light flashed through his eyes.
Moments later, an elated look appeared on his face as he cast his gaze into the distance.
"I"ve finally found it! But what"s that thing battling it right now?" Han Li murmured to himself as he transformed into an azure thread before accelerating into the distance.
After just a few flashes, the azure thread had covered a distance of several thousand feet, and following one final flash, it disappeared from view.
Close to small island several hundred kilometers away, dark clouds obscured the entire sky and the ocean was raging with turbulent waves as two colossal creatures faced off against one another. One of them was a giant crimson prawn that was over 2,000 feet in length. It was half sprawled over a ma.s.sive rock and possessed a translucent and smooth hard exoskeleton.
In the ocean not far away from the rock, there was a whale-like sea beast that was about twice the size of the giant prawn.
The sea beast possessed an identical body and tail to those of a whale, but the only difference was that its entire head was covered in scales, and there were also golden horns and pair of long feelers protruding from its head, making it akin to the head of a wyrm.
The two giant beasts appraised one another with caution in their eyes, and the giant prawn was roaring incessantly. All of the dark clouds and turbulent waves in the nearby area had been conjured up by this ma.s.sive beast.
In contrast, the giant whale-like monster was merely floating along in a completely silent wraith-like manner. However, its eyes were fixed firmly on the giant crimson prawn, and there was a hint of greed flas.h.i.+ng through its eyes.
Even though the prawn was causing a ma.s.sive commotion while the giant whale was quite silent and subdued in comparison, one could sense that the prawn was a lot more uneasy and was merely kicking up a ruckus in a futile attempt to intimidate its opponent.
All of a sudden, the whale-like sea beast suddenly turned toward a certain direction with a hint of bewilderment in its eyes.
Moments later, spiritual light flashed in the distance in that direction, and a barely visible azure thread shot forth toward them at an incredible speed, making no effort to disguise or conceal itself in the process.
Even the crimson prawn couldn"t help but turn toward the azure thread with a wary look on its face.
The azure light receded, and Han Li appeared in the air directly in between the two giant beasts in a wraith-like manner, then looked down at them expressionlessly.
"There"s no mistaking it; this is the beast I"m searching for. Hmm? And there"s also a Bloodfire Prawn here as well; I"m in luck!" Han Li murmured to himself in an excited manner.
Immediately thereafter, he swept both sleeves through the air at once, and a clear cry rang out within one of his sleeves before several tens of small azure swords came flying out from within. The flying swords hurtled toward the whale-like sea beast, but suddenly disappeared into s.p.a.ce mid-flight. Meanwhile, a black shadow emerged from within his other sleeve, and it swelled drastically in size to form a ma.s.sive black mountain that came cras.h.i.+ng down toward the Bloodfire Prawn.
At the same time, Han Li made a hand seal, and brilliant golden light erupted from his body as he conjured up the golden projection with three heads and six arms. The projection"s six arms swept through the air, and six pillars of golden light shot forth, three of which were aimed toward the prawn while the other three flashed toward the whale-like sea beast.
Han Li had attacked both sea beasts at once, and he wasn"t holding back in the slightest.
After activating his Provenance True Devil Arts to its maximal extent, the speed at which the pillars of golden light was traveling through the air was downright incredible!
After just a single flash, they were upon the two sea beasts.
Both of the sea beasts" hearts jolted with shock, and the whale-like sea beast opened its mouth to expel a ball of blue light, while the giant prawn conjured up a layer of crimson light that encapsulated its entire body.
A string of dull thumps rang out, and as soon as the three pillars of golden light made contact with the blue light, the latter was instantly destroyed, leaving the pillars of light to strike the whale"s ma.s.sive body.
A sharp cry immediately escaped from the sea beast"s mouth as three gaping holes were blasted into its body. Blood gushed out like fountains from those puncture wounds, and the flow of blood simply refused to stop.